RunTheBall

Here's a quote from JS today " Around Buffalo, people have already given up on this team." Anyone think that is true? I'm not in the Buffalo area anymore and I don't think this board reflects the average fan. Even when the team was 3 - 13, when I went home I never got the feeling around town that people had given up on the team. Later on in the article, JS states "It's a little early to wring your hands and give up on them." This from the biggest friggin pessimist in Buffalo News history? One thing I do agree with him on is this " In the last two weeks, I saw some quit in the Bills". I unfortunately have to agree here. I also have gotten a sense of the team deflating in the face of adversity. Not just because we were giving up big play after big play, it just seems they wilt on both sides of the ball. The defense makes a big stop, the O then comes out and goes 3 and out. The O actually moves the ball or scores to make up some ground, the D comes out and $hits the bed allowing the opposing team to march. I dunno. I hope the turnaround starts today. I hope this team comes out pissed off and starts hitting people. I hope the O line comes out and blasts the other team off the line of scrimmage and pancackes them. It's time for this team to get down to basics and knock someone around. Anyone else get the feeling that this team has to man-up? RTB

Pennington was never, ever, an elite QB. He's the most overrated QB in the last 10 years. He's had more smoke blown up his ass than Tom Brady but at least Brady could back up the hype. He was hyped up the wazoo by the NYC market who seem to think the Jets will be in the SuperBowl every single year. The guy sat behind Vinne-freakin-Testaverde for 4 years and had ONE good year. Sorry you're hurt Chad, seeya. RTB

I dunno. An achilles tendon injury is worse than an ACL tear in my opinion. The ACL just provides stability, where the Achilles tendon attaches the calf to the foot and is instrumental in both stabilty and exetending the foot. TKO is a speed player who needs a powerful push off that foot. I think he'll be very hindered. Can anyone think of a player who has come back to his old form after suffering an achilles tendon injury? I can't. RTB

It would be a mistake to bench JP for Holcomb. Holcomb has proven numerous times that he can't consistantly lead a team to victory over the long hall. When we decided on JP as QB, the plan was "Just don't lose the game for us". Well, he hasn't. He isn't winning games for us yet, but he's not losing them either. The "almost" interceptions don't count. Where is the dominant running game? Non existent. Where is the dominant special teams? Non existent. Where is the dominant defense that opened their yappers and talked about being #1 in history. Non existent. Oh wait, they exist as LAST in the league in rushing defense. JP isn't where I'd hoped he'd be, but I'm not surprised at his lack of success as a first year QB. There is an argument to be made though that since the defense sucks and the special teams are average (except FG kicking so far) that we can't wait for a first year QB to develop this year. I say give JP more time. RTB

I'm sorry, but losing one of the best linebackers in the league, a proven playmaker, to a season ending injury is in no way addition by subtraction. This one is going to hurt. RTB

Why do people think a 1st year wideout who's never played a real down of NFL football but had a pretty good camp is the missing link to our offensive woes? Josh Reed looked pretty good in camp the last few years and he was the only wideout who showed up today. I don't think Roscoe would have made any difference in the outcome of this game. RTB

I don't have a problem with MM pulling JP for a series. In fact, I think it shows guts on the coach's part. At least he was trying something different to get the O rolling. First with the no-huddle, then with Holcombe. JP was not getting the job done, period. He came back with a fire under his ass and marched the team down the field. Granted, they were in prevent but still, his accuracy was better. If being benched for a series is going to crush our QB's confidence then he is not the right QB to lead this team and is definitely not the next coming of Jim Kelly. I don't think you guys give Losman enough credit, he's going to be fine. RTB

A defense that gets turnovers wins games. A team that depends on its defense to get turnovers to win games doesn't go far. We need to see if this offense can develop some consistancy in producing points without drive starts on the opposing team's 30 yard line. I think they will, but time will tell. This defense has looked dominant before and then given up game ending drives when we needed a stop. They allowed a backup running back and second string offense to knock them out of the playoffs. All I'm saying is lets se e a few more games before we start making reservations to the Superbowl. RTB

I'm sure there's some lawyer who would be willing to take a case where a guy threatened violence against an ANONYMOUS source. Just what we need, more frivilous lawsuits. RTB

Why do people think Everett is going to come back from an ACL injury this year and add a new dimension to the offense? He hasn't even practiced with the team and it took WM 2 years to get back to form. As for Roscoe, he had a plate put in his wrist because of a fracture. It'll likely be at least 8 weeks from the surgery until he can play. Wrists can be very finicky when healing, especially when catching hard thrown footballs soon after. RTB

What friggin game did you watch? I think you were too busy typing play-by-play in the chat room to pay attention to the O-line. To say they looked pretty bad in the first half is a ridiculous comment especially if you don't know who was even playing. The Texans run-blitzed regularly and when JP went to throw, he usually had time. Did they play great? No, but they played average to good against a defensive scheme designed to stop WM. It opened up in the second half because of the good play calling on MM and TC's part in the first half, not because the o-line all of a sudden became good. RTB

The Pats are an excellent franchise and I hate them along with their bandwagon fans. I wish we had 3 of the last 4 Superbowls. Tom Brady sucks sausage. That is all. RTB

We've got a lot of people on this thread who would make great politicians. You already know how to spend someone else's money on your own interests. Anyone think the families who lost people in this hurricane will see anywhere close to the amount of cash that families who lost someone in 9-11 saw? Nope. RTB

Shep Smith was standing on an elevated highway with a corpse in the background and his sad face on. His over-dramatization was pathetic and it was the lead in to Bill OReilly. OReilly started interviewing Smith and Smith just kept up the drama to the point where he wasn't even answering questions. He was talking about "armageddon in the streets" etc. At the end, OReilly says "Shep, I hope you get the best reporting award they have" in a very sarcastic tone and you could see Smith's face just fall. It was funny to see Fox's own reporter get called out by one of their own hosts. Reporters with an agenda are pathetic. RTB

If Price goes to NE I wouldn't be surprised if he has his best season since his Buffalo days. NE has a way of taking talented malcontents and turning them into team players. The trade of Price to Atlanta for a #1 when he was going to be a free agent has to go down as one of the most lopsided trades in NFL history. RTB

I don't know if I agree with your assessment of TD being cheap on the o-line given that we are paying Williams and exhorbitant sum to play average RT. I think its more a conseqence of no one being available at the right price. I don't think TD will have any problem paying premium $$ for a LT who TD thinks is worth the cash. The problem with that position, ala Jonas, is that average guys can end up getting paid ridiculous amounts of cash if they hit the market at the right time. RTB

Year in and year out, London Fletcher leads the team in this category by far. RTB

I agree that the o-line run blocking has been not very impressive. That being said, remember this is a new line using the preseason to get in sync. I think Gandy is playing as good or better than we could expect. Anderson is doing ok at L guard which is better than we had there all last year. The fact that he isn't a turnstile and isn't committing a lot of penalties is a definite plus. I'd like to see some blocking improvement and I think we will. I'm quietly satisfied that this line is not the disaster is had the potential to be. They are a better unit now than they were at the same time last year and I think has the potential to be above average. If they start opening holes, McGahee is going to be a monster when he doesn't have to do all the work himself. RTB

Peerless would not be worth the headaches that would come along with him. Do you really think he's going to come in here and say "Ya, I'm happy being the 3rd wideout". Remember, this was Mr. 1b when he was here when Moulds was opening up everything for PP and Josh Reed could still catch a football. Moulds was the real man there, not saying a word when PP was opening his yapper and spewing his crap. I hope he gets cut and goes down in history as one of the biggest trade busts in Falcons history. Thanks for that #1 guys, god you got robbed. RTB

I think it depends on where in the country you get married. I'm from Buffalo, got married right outside of NYC at $140.00 a plate. It would be ridiculous to think that my friends/relatives from Buffalo should cough up $280.00 a piece, not to mention the price of travel and hotel. I thought it was way over the top anyway but my wife is from that area so that's where we got married. I'd say anywhere between $100.00 and $200.00 depending on how close you are to the person is very generous. RTB

Ahh Todd, we hardly knew ya.... Todd Gettin Angry RTB

Well, its tough to be a homer when Mike's head is in Dallas because he's had it wedged so far up Parcell's ass that he can see out of Bill's mouth. Same old drivel day after day. RTB

I, for one, welcome another Coy Wire Sucks thread. There should be many this year because he won't be cut. Coy Sucks. That is all. RTB

What are you talking about? This defense is based on aggressiveness. Teams that have solid secondaries have the luxury of blitzing more often. This team blitzed up the wazoo last year and ended up #2 overall. The collapses they had were when they stopped being aggressive in my opinion. RTB

Sprains involve soft tissue such as muscle, ligaments, and tendons where fractures involve bones. It is possible to injure a joint seriously enough without breaking a bone (like a shoulder) where it takes longer to recover from the sprain than if the guy say, busted his collar bone. Serious sprains can also lead to chronic instability of a joint, like the ankle or shoulder whereas most bones usually heal well. There are always exceptions, of course. RTB