ThurmasThoman

exactly. give a 2 time afc championship game participant 2 weeks to prepare for a divisional opponent? surprised we held them to 27, to be honest.

2 weeks to prepare for a divisional game. of course the jets were going to manhandle us. cowboys are terrible. bills will beat them, will easily handle miami, and could beat the jets again in 3 weeks. only 2 teams in the conference have less losses than us. no clearly dominant team in the afc. gonna be a great second half of the season.

look. i've never been one on this board to blindly trumpet the buffalo bills, and defend them in the face of all criticism. i've never told someone they shouldn't post here, or shouldn't watch the games, or should cheer for a different team, or anything along those lines. they have sucked for a long time. i get that. but man. f*ck off. are you even following the team this season? we're in second place in the conference. the steelers are ahead of us. they got rocked by the ravens, who have been rocked by the jags. we've beaten the patriots already. we just absolutely f*cked washington up the sh*t shoot, in a completely dominating performance the likes of which the bills havent had since... well, week 1 i guess. THE SEASON IS HALFWAY OVER! WE ARE FOR REAL! i don't care if we have weaknesses. watch a football game or 2. every team in the league has weaknesses and can be beat. the other side of that coin is - any of the "good teams" can win the super bowl. INCLUDING US. this is what parity is. we're in the middle of it. just enjoy it man, jesus christ almighty.

i'm nervous already. what a huge game this weekend. last bills game i went to: week 9, 2008. bills, 5-2, tied atop the afc east, hosted the new york jets.

this. i don't want to sound like dick jauron but... "it's hard to play defense in the NFL." for some perspective, we currently sit 24th in total defense - the patriots are below us at 26, and the packers are 30. with the way the league works now, if you get to the QB, it's 50/50 you'll get flagged for roughing him. or, he can just kill the ball into the dirt. or better yet, throw up a hail mary to a wide out who will 50/50 draw a pass interference call. it is much much much more important to have a potent offense in the NFL. if we get the ball, these days, we can score. every single time - against anyone. not every team can say that. THATS why were 4-2. not "in spite" of our defense, but "because" of our offense. so watch the young guys on d, root for them, follow their development, call for george edwards head. all that. but in the end, just remember to enjoy this season, because we're 4-2, and have lost our 2 games by a field goal each on the road, to 4-2 teams. we're for real, were going to smoke the skins, and we will certainly get a wild card this year.

well. if we can get someone to come in and record 9 tackles by the time we play the titans in week 13, he will have equaled merriman's production. anyone (other than merriman's immediate family) that has a reaction any stronger than "meh" to this news, is clearly sad about what could have been, , rather than what we actually lost. any practice squad player or unsigned free agent will do just fine as a replacement. guy had no power to get through the line to the qb this year. none. *edit* just saw we resigned coleman. significant improvement. can't WAIT til sunday. bring on the skins and 5-2 baby.

voluntarily, mind you. from the absolute bottom of my heart, i could care less what they do to their bodies. if someone wants to voluntarily play in the nfl, and voluntarily take steroids, i will voluntarily not give a f*ck about the consequences to their body.

these guys are gladiators, warriors. i don't care about concussions, injuries, or how they feel after their careers. let them pump themselves full of the craziest sh*t on the planet if they want. it is voluntary, they are handsomely compensated, and they are free to walk away at any time. hgh testing, steroid testing, methamphetamine testing? if i wanted to watch a sport that banned that, i would watch baseball.

every team in the afc has questions at huge places on their team. baltimores wideouts/offense new englands defense the entire steelers team the jets with sanchez welcome to parity. everyone is beatable.

look. i grew up in new england, i've lived here my entire life. i've seen more patriots games than anyone on this board, and probably any 3 people combined. there is this... "line of thinking" on this message board, and other bills message boards across the internet, that unless we are playing absolutely 100% perfect football for every week of the preseason, regular season, playoffs, and super bowl - we are terrible. why did i bring up living in new england? the first super bowl the pats won, waaay back in 02, that team was average. they won so many ridiculously close games, it was infuriating. but NOTHING, NOTHING was more infuriating than watching the 04 and 05 squads win super bowls. they were the epitome of "lucky." every single break would go their way. do i personally think it was because of video taping? no, i don't. i think they had/have a great qb, a great coach, and, hey, just caught a few lucky breaks. what i think everyone on this board and every other board needs to realize is that, there hasn't been a team that has won the super bowl - ever - that hasn't been the beneficiary of hundreds of little lucky breaks throughout the season. so stop thinking the sky is falling because we lost to the bengals. we're 3-1. i listen to new england sports radio every day on the way to and from work. everyone up here has no faith in this patriots team, and thinks that the defense will keep them in the 9 to 10 win range. in buffalo, every game we play is winnable, as we proved 2 weekends ago against new england. just enjoy the season. the packers won the super bowl last year after going 10-6. it's a long, long year, and we could potentially get into the playoffs, then it's anyone's game. but this notion that because we're not playing perfectly, or that because the bengals beat us, or that because we're 3-1 and not 4-0 were doomed.. it's gotta stop. we're CLEARLY in the top half of the AFC, which means we'll be in the wild card hunt come december. even if you cede the division to new england, that leaves us battling the jets, titans, and steelers if they can turn it around for 2.. TWO.. wild card spots. if you can't have faith in this team, this season... just watch hockey.

popped out of bed like it's christmas morning 94 and i know there's a super nintendo waiting under the tree for me.

i live in new england. you have no idea how terrible the fans here are. in fact, you can't even begin to imagine. there was ZERO buzz for the patriots before bledsoe went down, during that season, during their playoff run, or even until the week of the super bowl. it's like when the leaves come out in the spring time.. at first, no ones wearing pats shirts, then one or 2 people, then 1 out of every 5, then everyone you pass on the street, including baby girls with pink patriots shirts. the celtics? i couldn't go to a bar and watch an nba game up here unless it was game 7 of the nba finals. after the summer where they acquired garnett and ray allen, every sports bar, every night, every celtics game. front and ceneter on every big screen. hockey? lol. i don't think i ever heard the sport mentioned. until last spring. when everyone suddenly owned a bruins tee shirt. baseball is the only thing i'll give these fans credit for. there was a SMALL percentage of people i hung around that were die hard red sox fans before ESPN started marketing the rights to their band wagon. but christ almighty if it isn't a religion up here now, with ever man woman and child forced into pedroia teeshirts as soon as they come out of the womb. don't get me wrong, it's a small sample size, and i'm mostly talking people in their late 20s and early 30s, but hands down terrible sports fans. the interest in the teams up here while we were kids and last decade was zilch. but now, it's from one band wagon to another as the seasons change. i love seeing the teams from that city melt down, and take even more joy in knowing that their run of prosperity is due to end soon, and another decade of irrelevance awaits.

1998/99 buffalo bills started 0-3 and made the playoffs. someone wearing jeans died once. i am wearing jeans today. someone who drank a glass of water when they got home from work, once died of a heart attack while sleeping that night. today, i had a glass of water when i got home from work. and on.

maybe all the cuts and trades to clear cap space will end up serving a purpose in the end?

the last interview i read with fitzpatrick, we was making analogies to sim city 2000. he is my favorite professional athlete since tiger woods in his prime/pre auto crash, and would be if he was the qb of another team. i like that he wears his wedding band on the field, i like that he doesn't mind being smart, i like that the first thing that comes to his mind when answering questions is video games. he's the man. and he happens to be the starting qb of my favorite sports franchise. i'm just going to enjoy the ride. i hope we win, i hope we extend him, i hope he wins us a ring, i hope he makes our wall of fame. he's the man.

i would drive the 10 hours, watch the game from the parking lot, hop the fence, heisman the security guards, storm the field myself, rip the goal posts from the ground, carry them out the ambulance tunnel, and run all the way back home barefoot if we beat the pats in buffalo to win the afc championship my friend. storming the field then would be the thing that makes announcers say "and these fans have waited so long. *silence* a well deserved moment in buffalo new york." storming the field this weekend would result in a "OH THE HUMANITY" type radio broadcast.

i live in new england. for the love of god, please DONT storm the field if we win. you think i want to go to work on monday and hear about how you jabronis got liqoured up and ran on the field to celebrate our THRIRD win of the season. it's a different day and age. everyone on every network has a take on everything that happens in every game on every day. bills players would have to answer questions about it for the rest of the season. not to mention how PC this country is. it could literally lead to sweeping NFL rule changes - see the palace at auburn hills brawl. imagine if someone threw a bottle at brady at field level. best case scenario - we win, storm the field, and look like complete tools on a nation wide scale for tearing down goal posts after our 3rd win. worst case scenario - we win, storm the field, and NFL tightens security league wide, alcohol is banned at the stadium for a year or god only knows what in this day and age. maybe if we win the afc championship, but christ almighty. talk about embarassing. pats win the division every year. if you guys rip out goal posts because we beat them at home, it would just be pathetic. browns beat them last year at home, their more down trodden than us. didn't see them ripping out goal posts.

it's funny how desperate we are for national media attention... i mean. it's not like buffalo is IGNORED. by any stretch of the imagination. would ya look at that? beat 2 bad teams in a row, to start the season 2-0, and the national media no longer hates us. it's amazing how playing bad football for over a DECADE causes the national media to not pay us much attention. 2 wins, in the span of 7 days, and now - ralph's not cheap anymore - we're not moving to LA - the national media doesn't hate us imagine what a super bowl win would do for this fan base?

lol.

has allowed more points than us. personally, i think we're going to lose this weekend, but i don't really care. i'm happy with 2-0, and we're clearly a team that can compete for the 6 seed in the afc, which is all i ever wanted this year. if we win this weekend, it's just icing on the cake. but give us some credit as a team before talking about how this years pats team could go undefeated because of their machine like offense - our O is better, for the time being!

tell me about it. called them up and they said that they would get that bills game on for me. woman that owns the joint is a bucs fan, so her game is gonna be on... and the pats play at 4, so thats when all the locals will show up. 2 dollar pbrs, and a road to 2-0? can't go wrong!

you, my friend, are amazing.

currently in rockland/camden maine. willing to travel to belfast or augusta!

i'm traveling with my wife this weekend, and had counted on the applebees right next to our hotel having sunday ticket. she's in a seminar all day today and tomorrow, so i was really looking forward to tipping some back and watching us go to 2-0. well... i called them to double check today, and turns out they dont even have sunday ticket :-( i'm on a wild goose chase calling every bar in a 100 mile radius to see if they have nfl sunday ticket, but there must be a more efficient way to do this? anyone know of any way to figure this out? i'm in the midcoast maine area right now, for what it's worth...

texted my uncle, brother in law and friend at halftime that we were going to lose, and responses were, in no particular order "probably" "yup" and "obviously" ^ those 3 are different people, btw. lol.