RealityCheck

The Bills will be 3-1 after the Pats game.

Threads like this make me happy to be a simpleton. The preseason has not dampened my enthusiasm at all. When the Steelers resorted to heavy blitzing when the starters were in I took that as a good sign. September 9th will be a big day for Bills fans. Call it a hunch.

Exactly! Go Bills!

I could not agree more. Most teams in the NFL have superb running games as a result.

This thread is absolutely hysterical. The people generally against steroid use ASSUME that todays game is predominantly played by clean athletes. All I can say to that is ignorance is most definitely bliss. The speed at which athletes come back from ACL tears alone should waive a red flag but of course it does not. But hey, not so long ago the Earth was flat. The destructive force of denial far outweighs the side effects of steroid use. Eventually everyone is worm food as it is. By the way, how about a discussion on the LEGAL anti-inflamatories used throughout the league and their long term effects on athletes and their offspring.

Should and shouldn't are irrelevant. The reality is what the team has responded to and hopefully the gamble works in the regular season. The key to this move is scoring points.

This game, although obviously not identical, is quite relative to the Broncos/Bills preseason game last year. I saw the Bills play vanilla with few audibles, no blocking help for the O-line, absolutely no blitzing, and the D playing mostly man coverage out of the same base 4-3 look with no LB movement pre-snap, over and over again against a team that was blitzing, stunting, mixing up coverages, and using most of the tricks out of an NFL playbook. Big deal. If this was a regular season game I would be pretty p****d off but it isn't so I am not. The team is one day healthier and that's all I care about this time of year. Go Bills!

An ex-girlfriend of mine went through the same thing when she sat on my face too long during the local 4th of July fireworks. She didn't sue me, but I did have to buy her dinner.

Let me know when you do and it's a date!

Speaking of pictures, your head looks like it wore out 2 bodies.

I could not agree more. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game. We definitely have some young talent on this team. For those fans that are emotionally crushed at no running plays for our starters I say thank God. The last time we played the Redskins in the first preseason game I distinctly recall losing Fred and Marshawn for a while at a time when the plan was to enter the season utilizing them both simultaneously. All I wanted out of this game was to see the youth movement and a healthy team after 4 quarters. In my opinion mission accomplished.

Troup will be Woopi Goldberg's backup in the near future.

I guess I am used to Buddy's candidness by now. It seemed like a typical Buddy Nix interview to me, honest and direct. The big picture that he stuck to in his interview was the importance of winning football games now.

What's that language that prevents injuries?

I wish Welker's hairline well.

Thank you for the response. I understand how your mind works now.

Astute deduction considering only 14% of labor is done by unions anymore, and that number is projected to be in the single digits by the end of this decade. Where do you stand on material costs since that is typically in the range of 2-4 times adjusted labor costs for major commercial construction? Are you one of the many that thinks the 200 million renovation estimate is simply labor costs? What about the bloated rental costs on heavy equipment, cranes, and man lifts? What about the fuel costs alone? How about the cost for architectural drawings that are typically engineering swiss cheese on a job sight. I see China as a good country to emulate. When you look at what you get for the price and then what the workers earn it is a win win for a guy like me. The quality of life for the average Chinese worker is excellent. American workers, union or typically otherwise, want way to much money no matter how you cut it. For example, how much would you want to get paid per hour to be an ironworker for 30 years? What ever that number is, it's way to much when I can use an illegal that I don't even have to insure properly. My view of prevailing wage is that it should be what ever a day laborer on the street corner will charge for the day. If that is not good enough for you then that is yet another job that an American won't do. I love how that works.

Someone apparently stepped on a duck.

He must be her pimp.

We vote everyday with how we spend our money, and NFL fans have voted to give franchises billions of dollars of revenue to continue on their current trajectory. The fact that Brees got this deal done proves that the Saints believe he is worth it. The NFL is not a game, it is serious business with casualties strewn everywhere. I, like you, say congratulations to Brees. The economy mixed with people's short-sighted politics seems to betray envy in people's thinking. I just can't hate on a guy that did what he had to do and got paid serious money for their tenacity.

Wilson and Byrd playing zone behind a good pass rush is a recipe for takeaways.

Taking what Josh Reed has to say seriously seems odd to me. His allegation of people being unfriendly is common in most urban areas and has mostly to do with being wary of strangers. I can't judge people too harshly on that. As I recall he and Shaw dropped more 3rd down passes then I can recall any other tandem doing. I'll soon forget this article, but those drops are etched in my mind forever. Good luck in Louisiana Josh.

McKelvin looks good for one reason only. He's playing against the slot receivers. His ball skills on the outside will never just miraculously appear, contract year or not. At least inside he is likely to be a playmaker.

I hope Cory stays with the team and gets on the field. He was under utilized last year.

Chad Johnson is a football personality, not a football player. The fact that his decline in the NFL is not really for physical reasons speaks volumes. He had every opportunity to be at least a #5 receiver with a future hall of fame QB and couldn't get on the field. Think about it this way. If Fitz played for the Patriots and had a Brady like season Chad Johnson would not see the field. How could Buffalo's zip code possibly provide Chad with his next logical career which is sideline reporter. I bet Joe Namath would even get to 3rd base with him on the first date.