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I wore no Bills gear on Sundays. Bills win games when I don't wear the colors. That being said, I watched this game from start to finish and I'm exhausted.

Curry should never have been at OLB. Coming out of WF, his skill set was suited solely for ILB. Play him there and he's better.

Merriman isn't doing less than what he did in San Diego. Really, he's not. San Diego's defense during Merriman's tenure wasn't all about sending the house, including Merriman to get to the quarterback because you didn't need to all the time. Sometimes you needed to stop the run like we have had to in the first two games. You don't blitz to stop the run. This week, you may see some more "house sending" but not all the time. A key game to watch or research if you have access is the 2006 AFC Divisional Playoff game between NE and SD. They got to Brady a lot and also intercepted him three times, but it wasn't wall to wall blitz. Half the problem was that NE had no idea when or where the blitz was coming from. You also have to remember that NE mocked his Lights Out dance at the end of that playoff game. I'm pretty sure he hasn't forgotten that.

The Patriots are not unbeatable for many reasons already discussed, but I'd throw in one more, just for fun. Uniform Change Theory. It's clearly at work in Buffalo. If you are a failure, do a wholesale change to your uniform, and success follows. See mid 90s Patriots, late 90s Denver Broncos, mid 90s Tampa Bay Buccaneers, late 90s Titans, 00s Seattle Seahawks, current Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions. If you are a success, change your uniform, and misfortune follows. See early 00s Rams when they switched from the LA colors to the maize and navy. See the Seattle Seahawks significantly altering their uniforms for the 2008 and 2009 seasons with lime jerseys. There are many examples around the league, including the Bills. You do not mess with the cosmic forces of the uniform (and not the conspiracy of the NFL to sell jerseys and merch, don't be silly) when you are successful. You do not change the jerseys you wear to numerous AFC Championships and Super Bowl appearances. You do change the jerseys if you miss the playoffs for over a decade. It's going to be a weird season. It'll get even more weird on Sunday when the Bills beat the Patriots, due in part, to these forces in action.

False flag operations in football...interesting. Not saying Chan isn't a bright coach, but to really execute an operation like this...where you keep Merriman and scheme in reserve because of a specific game, is a lot of risk most coaches would hate to take in games that count.

I like Rome's show. I'm a sucker for the well-placed movie soundbite and the Jay Mohr Caruso and Walken impressions.

Maguire probably hasn't called an NFL game in at least five years. He's still alive though and in broadcasting...just not NFL games.

Gailey thought TO had hit the wall back when he was hired. He and Nix chose not to sign him to another contract. I can't imagine, two years forward, he's changed his mind. I like TO, and I think he's going to be valuable for a team this year. It just won't be the Bills, although it'd be very cool to see.

...could make some money being a Samuel L. Jackson impersonator.

You know damn well that this is all a huge setup. We'll demolish the Raiders and the networks won't be able to help themselves and it'll be Bills/Patriots on national television. That always seems to end so well for us.

Ironically, we're talking about parking problems in Orchard Park for a Bills game. You know, the area of the United States where it's impossible to support an NFL franchise and that it's a foregone conclusion that it's on the move because fans never come out to games.

Music City Miracle hurt BAD. That causes me more pain than the Super Bowl losses. Truly shocking. Was with me for days. I don't take fandom so seriously, but that loss put me in a depression for a week.

Only 60mg? I needed steroids, IVIG and the rejection drugs that would kill an elephant to take out both. I'd get infusions of everything for hours on end. For whatever reason, both just sorta burnt out two years ago. I got progressively better after the initial ass kicking with relapses here and there, but saw a dramatic improvement at almost ten years removed. I was amazed (to say the least) that food poisoning not only took my ability to walk away, but nearly killed me. Bad chicken usually is from campylobacter, and is usually associated with GBS, and I put the two and two together.

I got both conditions from campy from eating improperly cooked chicken wings. Within a week, I was paralyzed nearly head to toe, with my joints on fire, especially the hips and ridiculously close to being on a ventilator as the inflammation started taking hold of my lungs. That monster attacked wherever it could until it was stopped with IVIG and organ donor rejection drugs. Barely survived it ten years ago. Spent six months learning to walk again and eating with a fork. Spent five years regaining everything. So yeah, it's possible.

I'm going to go with campylobacter food poisoning, with either a wicked acute case of Guillain-Barré Syndrome or reactive arthritis. Both illnesses would easily put you on injured reserve and both hit hard and fast after the bacteria is in your system. Both take months to treat.

To beat the Raiders, the Bills must shut down the run like they did at KC and force Campbell to beat them. I like those odds. I don't think these Dolphins are built for Florida weather. They were gassed pretty quick last night in the heat and humidity and their player rotation strategy backfired. That, above anything else, allowed Brady to do what he did.

"Everett isn't leading the life he envisioned, but he seems to have found a rewarding purpose in his life.." True of nearly everyone on the planet. Informative article but I *hate* the tone of despair and woulda coulda instead of appreciating huge second chances and the family around you. Some men would kill to be able to walk and run again. Some men would kill to be around their children that much.

I wouldn't be so quick to put the Philly game as a "win" for Philadelphia. They will ride high on the hype wagon. Yesterday's game may have had a far different outcome if Steven Jackson hadn't gotten injured. He was a hot knife through butter of the Eagles defense. The Rams run defense kept McCoy and Vick at bay until halftime. Vick was sloppy and got sacked three times by a very inexperienced offensive line. You can get to him.

You should only look at the statistics from the 1st and 2nd quarter. I'd even argue just the 1st quarter only matters. KC had to abandon the run game early because of the lead. The Bills shut down the Kansas City Chiefs on the road at Arrowhead. That is an achievement. The Chiefs are a run first team, and they could not run when it mattered most. The end.

I didn't wear the colors today. No Bills hat, not even a Bills t-shirt. The SO pointed out that the weekends I didn't wear the colors last year due to having to be elsewhere or doing something else besides watching the Bills in the red, white and blue....they won. It worked today.

He's a pretty big DB. Yet another guy who buys a Glock because they are "cool" and so "gangster" and whoops, managed to put a round in his leg because he's had little training and carries it around chambered in his sweatpants. If idiocy was punishable under state law, looks like it's about a two year sentence.

Three things lead me to the belief that the Colts will probably pull off a 1997 San Antonio maneuver here and land Luck. 1. You need somebody to get the ball to those receivers. Collins hit a wall last year. Couple that the offensive line is used to Manning taking the majority of snaps from shotgun and Collins rarely did in Ten. 2. Addai needs holes to run through. People complain about the Bills line. Indy's isn't all that hot either. It's a combination of aging players and stopgaps with no depth. At all. 3. The defense is alright, but injury plagued. Outside of Mathis, Freeney and perhaps Brackett, it's an average defense that's injury prone.

I'd say yes they are. There isn't much to the Colts after you take away Manning. Indy has a mediocre *team* with aging stars that's in cap hell, especially if Manning can't play anymore. That's a team that's primed to crash and burn.

I thought the Forbes article was lousy. Didn't just give you a list. No, it had to be a list in pictures. I don't buy these numbers. There are teams with debt to their eyeballs, and that's why they played hardball with this most recent contract. So what that the team is worth X. If you want to buy the team, you really want to take on all of the existing debt too? To me, a mountain of debt degrades a team's "worth" to a buyer. Debt is the 800lb gorilla that Forbes and the NFL doesn't want to talk about.

I wouldn't want a coach that doesn't want to and expect to win. What's the purpose of playing the game or following it for that matter without that specific expectation?