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Undisciplined Bills lose. Disciplined Bills win. It's that simple this year. Bench anyone with a PF in any game going forward. Screw the pushups.

Making the helmets heavier with more padding and protection just means less concussions and more spinal injuries. Much like exploring improvements to modern combat helmets, you must address linear force impacts to the head AND neck.

Dan Carpenter isn't getting cut. Cundiff is here until the leg is 100% healthy. A kicker who's kicking with a bad leg is never going to get healthy. With the absolutely terrible kicking situation league wide this year, Cundiff gets a great opportunity to show what he's got for other teams.

I don't know - the 49ers are a weird tire fire from top to bottom. Could be a case of crap coaching like in Denver. "Peyton, you're a good quarterback from the shotgun but my plan doesn't have shotgun in it, so...."

Bernard Pollard time.

Somebody stated in another post that you can't help but feel there are "higher powers" at play in the modern day NFL. I couldn't agree more and I've had the following conspiracy theory for years. I don't think it's organized crime or the casinos. They've been effectively shut out of this money tree. I think it's the owners and they are ALL in on it and have been since the dawn of free agency. They've been betting on their own games for years and now have an apparatus where they now can do that legally and reap incredible profits to the tune of billions of dollars off legalized gambling. The "it's not gambling" fantasy football is huge business to the tune of over a billion dollars just in it's infancy. I think the owners laid the groundwork for it twenty years ago and for it to make money, the "house" (owners) have to have consistent results. This requires very good teams and very good players and not so good teams and not so good players. Having something like a Cinderella team or a system where very wealthy owners can't buy assets (free agency) is bad for business. Since the owners all make money, and stand to make even more money collectively, they organize themselves into slots - you want to be a great team, you pay X price, a good team, Y price. Want to make money on the cheap, be a crap team. It's like an auction. The trophy goes to the highest bidder. So, for example, not only is it in the best interest of the owners to keep Russell Wilson and the Seahawks putting up fantastic fantasy numbers, it's also that Paul Allen probably paid a lot of money to be a top 5 team. And since we're talking insane amounts of cash, since it's an off the books, non-corporate, untraceable transaction, not every owner is going to be in the conversation. Some owners have enough for a bid or two. That's why Robert Kraft is never sorry for the actions of his team. In his eyes, he's paid for that trophy fair and square. The owners let the coaches coach and the players play. However, the referees, the rules and regulations and even the CBA are designed like bumpers in a bowling alley - to gently nudge to the desired outcome while hiding in plain sight. The same rules keep the offenses pumping out points and the defenses to defend just enough to make it look good. All in all, the NFL is now two private entertainment enterprises - the game on the field and the gambling but don't think for a second the general outcome of the season hasn't already been purchased. So buy your jerseys and enjoy the entertainment, but the real game is a bunch of middle aged men with cash to burn and egos to satisfy.

What bothers me most is that four weeks into the season, the coaching staff has utterly failed to teach and instill discipline into their players. I'm real tired of Jerry Hughes and his personal fouls.

Yay for some action. I don't quite understand black James Bond yet with the boat. I know that the show has to escalate the end of societal order but the way the show portrays both the police and military as a bunch of weak, scared, incompetent individuals bothers me.

Glenn is too heavy and slow IMO for the requirements of a LT. I'm done with the Eric Wood experience. I think an upgrade at Center would do wonders for the performance of the line.

What happened to all the good kickers in the NFL? I wouldn't cut Dan Carpenter but I would give him the time he needs to get the leg healthy. As someone said - he's a great kicker *when* healthy.

The penalties are going to doom this season. It's as simple as that. When the Bills play a clean game, they win. When they don't, they lose.

I like Doug. I think he's good at his job. Wish he handled the FJ situation a lot better than he did. Hope he learns from it.

Jeff Fisher. Big expectations in St. Louis this year and a DESIRE to play in a new stadium. If the season goes down the tubes or it's another 6-10 season, he'll be a Dead Man Walking like Pagano.

"Rest Shady for as long as it takes until he's healthy. If it's one week or 8 weeks, get the guy HEALTHY." +1 I'd shelve him until November 12 against the Jets if need be. I'm not underestimating the defenses of October but I don't think they are so formidable that the other guys couldn't handle them.

I agree 100%. It's weird to ban Rose in perpetuity yet allow McGwire and Bonds to continue to have active roles in the game post-retirement.

Kiko, with his injuries, will not have a long career. You can only repair knees so many times before they become painfully arthritic to the point the shots won't touch it anymore. I'm sure those knees have been injured more than what was reported at Oregon, Buffalo and Philadelphia. I see the trade as an even swap - you get the last good years of McCoy and the bright few years of Alonso.

Penalties - especially ones on 3rd and long. Stupid kills.

If I'm the Patriots, I would have just had Brady serve the four game suspension at the beginning of the year and get on with life. I think they ultimately may win many battles but lose the war. I'd take my chances with the first four games of the season versus the uncertainty of when a suspension will hit.

FTWD has way too many scenes of people sitting or standing in a house...talking. The show has next to no action. They took Herschel's Farm and turned it into a cramped kitchen in suburban Los Angeles. I don't think it's as good as the Walking Dead. While the Walking Dead has years of great material to write a show around, FTWD is writing its universe on the fly - and it shows.

I feel terrible for wanting the Jets to win that game last night - largely because of Fitz and Gailey. I think the Colts are terrible - Johnson and Gore are past their primes and their lines are full of nobodys. I do think last night's game was instructional - you have to attack the quarterback ALL THE TIME. Non stop. A casual pass rush and your corners playing 5 yards off the line loses football games. As Sal Paolantonio said this morning on the radio, the quarterbacks are too good and the rules prevent the secondary from really playing defense - so it's won/lost on the frequency and effectiveness of your pass rush.

I like Rex showing emotion during the game. I hated how Jauron and Marrone especially would stand there stoic when something great happened. What I think is over the top is all of the time and energy spent on the bluster before games. I think it only helps to make the very young players even less focused on the mission at hand. What you get is a rabid like frenzy that's all emotion and no logic. Sloppy, overly aggressive tunnel vision. Ryan isn't just a coach. He's a leader of men - the majority of whom are still in their 20s. He needs to remember that.

Of all the things that went wrong yesterday - this was by far the biggest blinking red light on the screen. I felt this game was in trouble when the Bills morphed into the 1986 Miami Hurricanes by mid-week for no reason whatsoever. Those emotions cost us dearly yesterday in penalties and the sloppiest play I've seen in years. And that's saying something considering. "Keep cool and you will command everyone."

While we're at it, the train horn should go too. It's ok once in a while, but I feel at times there is a Norfolk Southern at-grade crossing at the 50.

Every year since 2003 without fail, I've had a meal paid for at a restaurant by another patron. I pay it forward immediately because I'm afraid to break the streak. Happens in all sorts of restaurants from chains to diners to sub shops.

I'd relax. You could argue that Sammy took Vontae Davis out of that game completely. Taylor's play calling was conservative - due to the fact this was the first game that counted for everybody and you had to see how everything gelled and worked. (Or didn't.) This isn't new phenomena. Jerry Rice would be doubled and that opened up things for John Taylor who had Pro Bowl career years because of Rice drawing double teams. Teams would double Michael Irvin which provided Alvin Harper his career years in 1993 and 1994. Reed and Lofton is another example. Harrison and Wayne in Indy. Moss and Carter in Minnesota, especially in 1998. Point being - Sammy will get his catches but he provides an opportunity to Harvin, Woods or Clay to really shine.