Rivermont Mike

Correct. Cancel the meeting.

Congrats, all. Have fun weighing in on traffic flow, the brand of mustard to use for concessions, and what 2014 home game will be the white-out.

Amen.

Well, if he could take care of the inequities in our passing game, that would be nice too.

I do, too. That will make it a great winter. But what about the Bills?

Agree. If Tuel/Flynn manages the game, O protects the football and minimizes the 3-and-outs, and the D plays out of their minds, we edge KC. Other than that, everything is peachy.

Same here. Is that John Leypoldt (sp?) in your profile photo?

The Dolphin's daddy? Kiko Suave, Miami Orange and teal mess.

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And then blame Ralph Wilson for the FO (and the weather, the economy, and global warming).

He's playing off-the-hook great, and I have a feeling he's pulling up the LB corps with him. Fun to watch. The dive over the line was classic. If he'd have hit the runner square, he would have crushed the guy.

Beer and bourbon. So, a pain-killer and an anti-inflammatory. Which doesn't work because I end up yelling at the TV anyway.

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/week-5/bills-notebook-byrd-ready-to-go-but-marrone-puts-up-stop-sign-20131004 All along, Byrd has said (paraphrasing), "I'll get out there when I'm 100%." Marrone has seemed to take the position that there's really an injury and never suggested otherwise. Then, Byrd says that he is ready, and Marrone holds him out citing a "short week." This at the same time that he's got two banged-up RBs and others at <100% in the game. Is it because Byrd wasn't ready? Was he really more hurt than he claimed to be and Marrone's staff said to hold him out (there's something to be said for playing in front of a national audience)? Is there something else going on? I'm just wondering why the hell Byrd wasn't on that field last night.

ReCharged! Talkin' Proud! Wooooo! Go Bills!

With all due respect to analytics and mathematical models, e.g from PFF....: "The very first PFF Sig Stat, it is a number that tells you who got the most pressure relative to the opportunities they had to get it. It goes beyond using the sack as the be all and end all when it comes to judging the effectiveness of a pass rusher, measuring their total pressure (sacks weighted more heavily than hits or hurries) against how often they rushed the passer. For the mathematically inclined it’s: Sacks + (0.75 x Hits) + (0.75 x Hurries)/ Pass Rushing Snaps x 100 = PRR" ...what this model doesn't take into account is the effectiveness of the O-line guy playing across from Williams on any given play. I think that Mario should be producing a lot more, too, but if you're going to hang your hat on analytics be sure that they are looking at the whole picture. Go Bills!

You're Nate Hackett: How do you use Freddie and CJ vs. Cleveland on a short week with a knee and an ankle ?

I'm done with "grades" for performances of different offensive and defensive units. If you want to write intelligently about how one unit or another influenced the outcome, that's fine because you're acknowledging that the team plays as a single unit. Assigning grades is misplaced journalistic self-importance at its worst. Do I need some hack to tell me that the O line played badly? No. You want a grading system? Try this: When you lose, the team gets an F. When you win, the team gets an A. Great teams win because one unit compensates for the weak play of another, but they are all too interconnected to single out one unit versus another. I understand that they all have their own coaches, but on game day, all that sitting in separate meeting rooms goes right out the window. Go Bills!

Let them generate alllllll the bulletin board material they want. I have a feeling that Marrone and the emerging leaders among the players will use it to their advantage. Go Bills!

This is what happens when you eat steak for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And a late snack. With butter. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Ohhhhhhh, so *that's* what they call landing strips in KC? Tire tracks? Nice.

Maybe Marrone's Bills are going to be one of those teams where you don't hear a lot about individual players (other than EJ, Stevie, Mario, and CJ) and the others just do their jobs. Like Easley blowing up that guy on the kick return.

You couldn't hear us, but about 70 Charlottesville VA Bill Backers were yelling and pounding on tables at the Lazy Parror Grill. The 12th Man is alive and well all over the US and the world. Go Bills!

Agreed. I apologize in advance for not following Kolb's career before Buffalo, but has he ever demonstrated the ability to run this kind of offense?

Pettine wanted this D to have a personality. Now it does. A little smashmouth football sounds good to me.

After two games, the Bills are averaging about 20 more plays per game than last season (source: Chris Brown blog). This raises questions for me: 1. Does an up-tempo attack favor run or pass, given the Bills personnel likely to start? 2. Is Kolb's slower pace due to rust? Will H and M demand that he pick it up? 3. Can a quarterback with a propensity for checking down run an up-tempo offense? Feel free to add other questions or issues that the new pace raises for the Bills. IMO, this is long overdue, but I recognize that we had deficiencies in personnel and coaching. (Actually, I'm trying to get the discussion off of EJ's knee? ; ) )

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