Dan Gross

A team that averages 25 points per game (the "best team in the NFC," nonetheless) is held to 13 and they "exposed" our defense....

Oh, and you forgot that you were also rooting for the Pats to win, T-Bone.

Unlike other people here, I'm a Bills fan, which means I will never, under any circumstances, root against the Bills. Though the outcome will be horrid: Carolina: 172 Bills: -7 (on the rare "7 point penalty for pulling the same bone-headed trick play for the umpteenth time" penalty). Seriously, I don't do predictions, but I wouldn't count the Bills out....

Yeah, I was going to say that the Bills would be riding a five-game winning streak too if you automatically awarded them 15 yards on offense for every gadget play and a sack for every blitz... Going to see the Sabres Friday, seats in 106. I usually don't even bother watching hockey before the Super Bowl...

Oh, Scott, you're such an ethnic-cleansing, torturing, oppressive, burgeois tyrant. How dare you trample on his God-given right to "open his mouth and remove all doubt" as Twain would say. Kool-Aid Drinker! Sorry, guess I'm just frustrated because I bet the house on his "dead solid lock" that he'd make it through the holiday weekend. Yet another thing to be thankful for this holiday.

I didn't bother reading this thread until just now, and have so far resisted the temptation to move this thread to "customer service." Or pin it. Can't decide. Maybe I'll just go to bed.

So, when the union fires someone for questionable reasons, can that person take the case to arbitration?

True dat!

Amen, brother.

Would that be one of those "super groups" formed from former members of both Faster Pussycat and The Goo Goo Dolls (or maybe the New York Dolls)?

It certainly was a correct fact, when this list was first published on the USENET back in 1998...

5 of the 6 wins in that streak are 5 (GB,AZ,DET,MIN, NYJ) of the 8-10 teams that are undeniably worse than we are right now...not saying we will win, but don't think of them as unstoppable either...

We used to riff on that theme in gigs. I remember playing that in 6th grade band...oh, the things that stick with ya....Many people here would only recognize it as the music behind the "Spy Hunter" video game... BTW, Microwave ovens were first introduced in '52 for only $1295!, and chrome has been around for ages. Second WKRP, moreso the "outro" theme than the "intro." And lyric-free, there's always the previously-mentioned Barney Miller theme. And, of course CTM was referring to the Jeopardy theme.

Weren't they the ones that colorized the old black and white music videos?

Good idea! But first we need to practice...hmmmm, hey, how about you start by boycotting Bills message boards first?!

Well, if you get too frustrated with it you can always send it to me...

Coulda swore I saw a big #68 in a huddle shot, but got distracted and didn't see where he ended up on the line...Just checked the gamebook. The only active player not to play was Matthews (and, of course, emergency QB Holcomb), and they have Williams listed as subbing in at OT.

Do you mean why don't we list "Mike Williams: Probable (ankle)" like the Pats have listed "Tom Brady: Probable (shoulder)" for the past three years? I would guess it's that the injury report lists the probability that an injury would cause a player to not play. While Mike is "dinged up" he's suiting up every week, it's just this weekend he suited up as the backup LG rather than the backup/starting RT...if that makes sense...

Oh, yeah, Mike wants to continue playing his trained position, and certainly money plays into that desire. And certainly TD may look at it as a negotiating ploy to reduce his contract come spring. But Mike is playing along with what the coaches are asking, which seems to run contrary to those who say he's a lazy malcontent...

But I believe we were run blitzing when most of their passing TD's came...am I wrong?

The way I've seen it, when Mike is in there at right tackle, he doesn't show the mobility he showed last year when he was playing well. It also seems, in those rare occasions that we can put drives together, he limps back to the huddle. Not that cute hobble-like waddle that Sam Adams has done just about every day since he arrived, but put-as-little-weight-as-possible-on-the-ankle limp-step. It seems that .75 of MW > 1.00 of Jerman (pointless after Jerman got injured too). With both MW and Jerman injured, they needed to play Peters at tackle for the New England game. It had seemed, after the NE game, that .75 MW < 1.00 Peters, but it was likely more the level of the player across from Peters than a great performance by Peters. My conjecture, not having talked with anyone in the Bills organization (unlike many of you that seem to have "inside knowledge" as to what the players and coaches think), is that during the bye week they started the MW as guard experiment thinking that .75MW would likely be > 1.00Anderson (who was clearly a waste of $$), and that the contained movement of the guard position would reduce the amount of "flare-up" in the ankle, and allow MW to contribute (and also allow Mouse to play MW at the position he openly lobbied to have him at last year). It hasn't worked...yet, and not surprising, as a player who has played one position his whole career is not going to immediately be able to pick up a new position, especially moving from outside to inside the line. I have seen him out there obviously hobbling yet putting forth an effort to get on the field and stay on the field. I can't believe how people can see that yet insist to call him "lazy" and "unmotivated..." But I guess that makes me a Kool-Aid drinker...

Wow, so 2005 is an extended pre-season for Saban? What, does he think his "name" will help him "recruit" some good "freshmen" to solidify the team next year?

Not only to set up the display, but to put together the video linked here. (Click on the read link to see the video).

Coming out of that clown car of his made it more absurd, I bet...

Quick, somebody call Bill Polian and tell him the reason why the Bills didn't win any Super Bowls and why the Colts fail to get there is that he doesn't call out players and tell them they stink. If he changes now, there's still a chance the Colts will make it...And of course the Bills downfall began when Butler started calling players "fine young men." Hopefully AJ Smith has learned from this mistake and will start calling out players this week.