Uncle Monkeyhead

They already have a cure. This is a pink money train that the passengers will never want to come to a stop.

Yes that tackle was huge. He killed 2 Balt TD's. Too often you see DB's in that situation run the entire time and follow the guy into the end zone while I scream "JUMP AT HIS ANKLES!!" Well Aaron heard me. Great tackle

Agreed.....and I took a ton of heat for taking that stance after that game. But even Wood thinks they could have slowed things down and changed the outcome of the game. “Different situations are going to present different tempos,” Bills center Eric Wood said. “In the past, we haven’t necessarily had those types of situations – I guess minus New England, when we felt like we wanted to get another score.

Penalties are obviously a huge problem for this team. However, a good chunk of the penalties on plays where a first down is negated, were penalties that directly helped the positive yardage. Some of the big plays would not be had the foul not occurred. But I agree that this area of the game needs to be cleaned up.

Actually they are correct on the Chargers. Double meaning. Check out the old shield logo

It's funny how pieces like this upset some Bills fans. If all you want to read about is the feel-good moral victories and "upside" of this team, go straight to a Chris Brown article on BB.com. It amazes me when people on this board pout about ANY media piece that doesn't praise the team for playing "good enough" not to get blown out. The Gleason article validates itself with every hurt feeling it produces. There is a loser mentality when fans are ok with the moral victory acheived by losing a two point home opener to your biggest rival.

So with that logic, a team that has had dropped passes, etc all game long shouldn't go for a very makeable 4th and one when giving your opponent the ball back late in the game is your only other option? With all the drops, penalties, and turnovers, they were still winning at the point and time of this coaching decision. A QB sneak seems like a better option to me....less chance for three of the negative things you mention above from happening. Look at the result of the coaching decision made...Brady, 4th qtr, possession...and a loss for the home team. Same old results. No one said it would take those things away. They already happened and they still had the lead. No one said huddling up. But you can change the timing up when everyone on D is lined up thinking the quick snap is coming.....you might get them to jump....or at least keep them off balance at a critical time. The hurry up can be used in many ways, including deception. I hope the Bills can master the up tempo approach to keep teams guessing on snap count.

Easy. You get that first down so you can extend your drive, score more points, and take time off the clock. Taking more time off the clock WHILE advancing and SCORING. Who said anything about "milking the clock" and hoping to win by one point??? No one did.

I never said 26 seconds lost us the game....read my original post... i included it, i didn't say it was the main reason. You say that putting the offense in the most opportune position to extend the drive is using the quick play clock..... The same hurry up all game long resulted in 5 three-and-outs before the last one!!! What was so opportune about that? If your offense showed that many of the same result, shouldn't that clue you in on the your chances on this one? The defense barely sat down before they had to go out again. Without a defensive TD, we don't have the lead. but you act like we had the lead thanks to the up tempo O. With all the penalties they had, maybe that the up tempo was more of a problem for our offense than a success. If we didn't execute it well, what makes you think they would with a one point lead??? You'll find a way to ignore that as well, I'm sure. That offense that was living on the hurry up was also dying by it more often. Brady used the hurry up as well, but they slowed it down as well and still had success...with arguably less talent at RB & WR than the Bills. They definitely ran more plays against us, for more yards, and more points. They won the ball game running a good mix of plays too. And I'm sure a tired Bills D (thanks to the hurry up failures) had a lot to do with Vereen looking like an all-star and a hurt WR dominating us when it counted. But you'd rather keep getting the same results (yes, another quick 3 and out). So you seem to be the one ignoring what "actually happened"

Whose whining? Hurry up offense works....but so does a change up in pace. And taking time off the clock is not a bad thing. The facts are we gave them all that time to get a FG and leave us with 5 seconds. Period. You can cry and name call all you want.

Complaining? Sounds like you are complaining. Settle down. Even if we converted, we still should have taken more time off the clock. Once the defense already gave up on substitutions thinking hurry-up, you can still stand there and take some time off the clock. What was the hurry? And guess what? Part of coaching and calling plays is figuring on the possibility that you have a drop or no yards on any particular play. Play calling takes into account the next possible play(s). You can scream and capitalize your words all you want. The FACTS are they lost the game with your "not even debatable" philosophy. And by the way, we still ended up with ONLY the hope of a rare block or missed FG.

Maybe....But they could have accomplished the scoring with slower snap count, and even if they didn't, Brady has less time to get them in FG position. To your point of hoping the defense will do its job.....that D spent way too much time on the field. We want our Offense on the field, not the defense against a proven late game drive manager like Brady. Haven't we done all this and allowed him to do this too many times in the past? I think expecting to make a yard is better than hoping the D stops them, and that's after hoping they don't return the punt for good field position. A lot of hope vs. getting a yard.

I disagree. We were up by a point in the fourth despite all the penalties and turnovers...they still could have won. It was the three and outs (especially the last one where we took no extra time off the clock) that lost the game ultimately.

Not one reply about the decisions to punt and the quick snaps when we needed to kill some clock??? That was a bigger factor in the loss, because they still had a chance to win despite all the penalties, SK drop, and lack of CJ yards.

You can say the penalties, CJ contained, Stevie's drop, or no Gilmore....or a number of other things lost the Bills the game this past Sunday. I say they still could have won despite those setbacks. To me, it was the decisions in game that handed the Patriots* the win. The 4th and shorts in NE territory that Marrone opted to punt.....these were huge. The second thing....not managing the clock when it was most needed. The hurry up is fine but it needs to be used wisely, not "all the time". This is your first game as HC for a team that needed its first game against the organizations biggest rival. They had a thin set of receivers and their biggest hope at WR was playing with a very noticeable injury. You have them on the ropes....no one, except maybe your young team, expected much out of you in this game much less the entire season. You are rebuilding...and in a sense had "nothing to lose". You go for it on 4th and 1. You send an instant message to your troops and to your nemesis, that there truly is change....this time things are gonna be different, and it all starts Week 1, against the favorite in the division. You take that opportunity and the cushion of low expectations, and you have your rookie 1st Round QB - the face of the franchise and symbol of your first step in the league as HC, all 6'-5" 240 lbs of him - and you grab that first down. Boost your team's confidence, make the loud statement that this is how things are gonna be done around here now. Spare me the whiny "what if he doesn't make it?"......you don't ask that....because you make it and there's no reason you shouldn't be able to at home with momentum already in your favor....with your banged up opponent gasping for air against the ropes. Hopefully this coach doesn't continue to make the same chicken sh*t decisions that we have become accustomed to seeing in Buffalo. Hopefully, he's smart enough to learn from this and also realize that the clock needs some work when you are up in the fourth against a guy like Tom Brady. Doug let a huge opportunity go by this past Sunday....a defining moment just waiting for him to grab.

Credit Kiko with that fumble. Totally forced Ridley to stop and slip

Finally made the call....30 minutes and two reps later (the second being a cancellation rep) and I got 35 bucks off my monthly bill and.......... Sunday Ticket for free! The second rep's uncle is OLine coach for the Niners, or at least that's what he told me.

If anyone thinks 30 is harsh, you must be delusional. If you weren't a Bills fan and you looked at this team...mostly young and unproven, new coaches, new system, new gm, all the injuries, etc....you would probably place them at 31 or 32.....this team has a lot to prove.

I hope EJ walks through doorways after someone else....don't want an anvil falling on his head

We all would love to see that. But I didn't know Brady played Safety or Corner. If he starts and the Bills win it won't be him that beats Brady or New England. It would only come because his supporting staff came up big. Jackson providing extra effort to chip a pass rusher, the line bottling things up in front of the pocket, receivers coming back, or a TE sustaining a block more than he usually would....and the D would have to step up big and hold NE to under 30 points....and some luck like ST turnovers putting the offense in excellent field position. A QB never beats another QB. Why do people say its QB vs QB? That's always been something that drives me up the wall. Then we'd have ourselves an early season QB controversy! Which might not be a bad problem to have.

Well it's not like a concussion from a knee to the head was anything Kolb could have prevented by training harder. Unless you mean they should have known he had bad luck....I really don't see how this injury could have been foreseen by any talent evaluator

KRT....my deepest sympathies to you and your family. Same story for me with that Houston game.....'cept it was my big brother who kept saying at halftime: "we are gonna do to them in the second half what they did to us in the first. Lets stay.....we are coming back to win this!"

I like ham sandwiches too. So I like you. By the way, sandwich is supposed to be spelled "sandwitch", but I tink you knowed that and are trying to troll every time you post. Why the stick? (again, you is plying the foolhearty on us, keeping true with your play on the "h" being placed where it not needed.... Look in the Webster book....stick is spelled like I do it. Why can't I play with y'all? After all, we should all as a group have a nickname. Because a bunch of us might have one common letter in our names. And we can have another group name us before we even get a chance to prove ourselves. I has been a member of this board since the 90's. went by the name of ByTor2112. I ain't no troll. I live down the steer from the bridge, not under it. Why the uggly accusation?

How about Special Teams? Lets mickname them Special Olympics because Goodwynn runs like an Olympic track star. Come on now. You know you like it