BiggieScooby

I thought the Bills missed London Fletcher, Nate Clements, Antoine Winfield & Donte Whitner today.

You are a voice of reason Bill, love your takeaways.

We play in Buffalo. Get a damn good offensive line and young nobody bruising backs and slam some heads. We need a grass field and a real defensive leader a la Ray Lewis.

Jaws obviously hasn't watched the film. Fitz has been better than Cassel, Weeden, Romo, Sanchez, Kolb, Palmer, Russell, Tannehill, Locker, Newton, Stafford. No doubt he has been out performed by the likes of Brady, Big Ben, Eli, Peyton, Cutler, Rodgers, Rivers, Dalton, Smith, Ponder, RG3, Luck. I'd rank Fitz in the top 20 around 19. He'd be even higher if not for his 2 late game picks against New England in garbage time.

And to correlate my stats I posted on Tom Brady comparing his numbers on grass & on artificial turf. Mario has played on turf 18 games and has recorded sacks in 5 of those games. He had 4 1 sack games, and 1 2 sack game. I understand road games are typically tougher and since Mario played on grass at home he technically has played only 2 home games on grass. Not surprisingly though he has 0 sacks in 2 career home games. Mario has played 1 game on grass as a Bill. The result? In Cleveland Mario registered 1.5 sacks. On grass Mario has 48.5 sacks in 63 career games. I made the argument that Brady is worse on grass. Judging these numbers it is clear that Mario is better on grass. Maybe Russ Brandon & Co. at 1 Bills Drive should switch to grass.

When we beat SF our season outlook will change.

Brady's road record on grass Miami 5-5 Denver 2-3 Pittsburgh 2-2 NY Jets 2-0 (Meadowlands was grass 2000-2002) Tennessee 2-1 Washington 1-1 San Diego 1-1 Houston 1-1 Green Bay 1-0 Carolina 1-1 Oakland 1-1 Kansas City 1-1 Philadelphia 2-0 Arizona 1-0 Chicago 1-0 Cleveland 1-1 Jacksonville 1-0 Tampa Bay 1-0 (played in Wembley Stadium England)

We can bury the last 12 seasons under some nice bluegrass. Brady has proven grass is his lone weakness at 27-18 on the road on grass - 18.4% less winning percentage. Is this grasping at straws? Yes. Has turf worked? No. Will grass work? Maybe.

We've made them our measuring stick, why not go to grass where we up our chances by 18.4%?

Giddy up!

Cleveland has bluegrass. They have 40 miles of heat coils underground and they are at lake elevation!

What amazed me was when Gillete stadium was grass before mid 2006 & playing at Foxboro on grass Brady lost more frequently than on turf. Mind you this is at a time when they won Super Bowls in 3 of 5-1/2 of those seasons. Is it the turf or the man? I say their offense is built for turf. The Bills have beat the Patriots twice at home or 25% of all of Tom Brady's road losses on turf! I'm telling you it's time for the Bills to go with Kentucky Blue! Let Labatt's name the stadium and call it Labatt Blue Kentucky Blue Stadium.

Could it be chicken wings? While yummy they will prematurely clog your arteries. No Wings Policy.

Didn't Wannstedt have Darren Woodson laying the "wood" on his powerful Cowboys defense. Is it possible that the only guys we see making plays is Scott & Byrd? That's all I see. George Wilson & Mario have been non factors so far.

My favorite Donte hit was the absolute leveling of Ochocinco that knocked him out till the following Sunday. Remember Donte couldn't guard 6'6 tight ends. Neither can Bryan Scott, or George Wilson. At least the opposing team feared Whitner. I posted after the Jets game that LaRon Landry was a dirty player. Well at least people fear Landry. This fear factor is real. I could run off a list of wood layers but don't feel it necessary to do so. Like Paul Hamilton said, the Bills as a whole are a bunch of nice guys. My take is we need an edge, a Brian Dawkins / Rodney Harrison / Troy Polumalu type X Factor who plays on the border of legal and illegal.

Road record on Grass is 27 wins & 18 losses a 60.0% winning percentage. Road record on Turf is 29 wins & 8 losses 78.4% winning percentage. These numbers don't lie.

Brady is weaker on grass that's all I'm saying the numbers back it up.

Tom Brady’s Achilles Heel….Revealed In His Senior Yearbook Quote? Why the Buffalo Bills need a grass field After losing much sleep last night I tried to understand what makes Tom Brady so damn good. There’s no doubt he’s one of the top QBs if not best QB in NFL history. That said Brady is not infallible and even is human if put into the “right” conditions. Being the statistical guru I am I went with a blank spreadsheet and I hypothesized who, what, when, where, and why does Tom Brady lose? The answer I came up with led me to scour every box score of his 165 games played trying to find “holes” in his game. Here is what I found: Tom Brady has been virtually unbeatable on artificial turf fields, winning 64 games while losing only 10 for an astonishing 86.5% winning percentage. On November 14th 2006 after an enduring a sloppy day and defeat to the Jets in Foxboro the Patriots decided to replace their all grass field with FieldTurf. The result? Since November 26th 2006 Brady has won an ungodly 35 wins to only 2 losses at home. In 37 career road games on artificial turf Brady has rolled up an impressive 29 wins to 8 losses. If Tom Brady has a kryptonite it is grass. Grass may be Brady’s greatest weakness. It is ironic that Tom Brady is quoted in his senior yearbook mentioning the very subject "If you want to play with the big boys, you gotta learn how to play in the tall grass." At home before November 12th 2006, Brady won 34 games to 11 losses, solid but hardly his artificial turf “Superman” self. On the road playing on grass Brady “struggles” by his standards, 27 wins to 18 losses a 60% winning percentage. The only conclusion one can draw is if the Bills are serious about beating New England they’ll get rid of the “track meet” artificial turf and grow some Kentucky bluegrass like their neighbors down in Cleveland. Not surprisingly the last blowout loss the Patriots endured was in 2010 in Cleveland at the mighty hands of Colt McCoy & Eric Mangini & the crazy Ryan brother as the defensive coordinator. I am posting the stats linked to Google Docs. https://docs.google....NUtIQktpXzBrVHc So there you go Russ Brandon, it's time to switch to grass, perhaps this can be negotiated in our next stadium lease. And this is by no means is an insult to the local Buffalo company who invented and installed A Turf Titan.

"49er football is physical, tough, old school football." On Leadership Rome asked Whitner why he bought 90 copies of the book, "The Law of Attraction" and handed out to teammates, trainers, and coaching staff. Didn't hear what Mario Williams brought to this team with his $50 million check.

CJ & Fred will be 7 days healthier & Sheppard & Moats will be back on the field. Hopefully we can contain the run and make it our goal to keep them under 100 yards. Garbage game by Bills - time to move forward.

2 things that bother me: 500+ yards yielded, 6 turnovers. This game was similar to Super Bowl 27 with the way the 4th quarter went.

Calm the Fuch down all. 12 games!

Promo, it's the tale of 2 halfs - we didn't close. Couldn't stop the run couldn't run it.

12 more games. I don't think our defense is playing with intensity. 100 points yielded against first 2 division opponents.....ouch! This team needs to have amnesia.

Between Gronkowski (Buffalo) & Jones (Rochester) the Patriots have found gold in WNY.