[Eary predictions for next year.]

Certaily we all should feel free to make predictions and I'm glad to see that like me you realize they are way out on a limb and totally baseless right now, but the prediction seems to say more about the predictor than the team you are predicting on.

 

I think right now the predictions actually say whether the predictor is a:

 

Mindless optimist- 16-0

Hopeful optimist- 12-4

Careful optimist- 10-6 but we make the playoffs

Whiner- 8-8

Brutal pessimist- Losing record

 

Its way before the season so everyone is 0-0.  Quite frankly I think the brutal pessimist has a lot more to say for their views than the whiners.

 

I generally tend to be an optimist amd I'm somewhere between hopeful and careful right now.

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Ouch! Now that hurt, Tolstoy.

 

Whiner?

 

Realist.

[Bills would have won vs. SD and Pitt]

Even moreso on grass.

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I was speaking of magnitude of kick, but, whatever.

[Anyone feel like goading the Jets fans?]

What can we say..."Ha ha...you went into Pittsburgh and lost a close game to their starters, while we couldn't beat their second stringers in our own house."  Ha ha.  Boy, we sure got them.

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I'm feeling better already. Someone else who "gets it"

 

It was all a fraud that winning streak. Beating up on the weak sisters of the poor.

 

When we played ANY semblance of real Competition, the team looked terrible.

[Anyone who doesn't want to draft Nugent]

We need somebody to replace Josh Reed next year.  We also need to draft a CB for when we don't resign Clements. (he'll be asking for Winfield type money)  Then you look at our mess of an O-line.  Figure in that we already used our 1st round pick on Losman.  Bottom line, we need more draft picks.

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And a GM that knows what to do with them.

[Anyone who doesn't want to draft Nugent]

war dogs.

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I couldn't agree more. Start with the incendiary pigs. When they run, sic the War Dogs on em!

 

Gods be praised!!

[Eary predictions for next year.]

I'd wait and see how our schedule shakes out.  If we open with some cupcakes, catch some good teams at midseason in Buffalo, and close with some average-to-weak teams that are just playing out the string, it could go really well for us.

 

We've seen that Bledsoe's level of play, like a kicker's, tends to vary widely depending on his confidence.

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So what was his excuse in that final game? He should have been feeling like Joe Montana out there.

[Anyone who doesn't want to draft Nugent]

Agreed, Harv.  Nugent would be a good gamble for Round 2. That early game showed how important a clutch kicker is.

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But NOOO....we'll draft A WR or CB, I'm sure of it.

[I hate this.]

Since acquiring that cap/roster nightmare, TD/Modrak have acquired Vilarial, Jennings, BigMike, Campbell, Price, Euhus, DMoore, etc. It's not like they're blowing off the trench, they've arguably paid more attention to it than any other unit on the team. And you know waht? It's gotten better every year, making it's biggest stride in its most recent incarnation.

They're building it . And it's comin, mac ........ 

 

Cya

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Well, Until we end up with a Faneca on the line, I'll never believe it.

 

He's been trying, I'll give him that, just not doing that good of a job.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

They already went 9-7, we're not goiung backwards-Gregg is no longer head coach.

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Mind if I quote you on that, with some minor spelling changes?

[Anyone feel like goading the Jets fans?]

Nah.

 

Thats dick.

We also got humilated by 2nd and 3rd stringers in the last game of the season against Pittsburgh.

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Exactly. Despite our mind-boggling win over them, the Jets are a much better and much more complete team than the Bills.

 

Period.

[Anyone who doesn't want to draft Nugent]

I have a couple questions about this Nugent.

 

How is he on kickoffs?

 

Any info on how many touchbacks he had?

 

Is he like a sabastian janikowski type who can hit from anywhere and puts kickoffs in the endzone most of the time?

 

Thanks in advance.

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HEY! I was begging for the Polish toe.

[I don't know who I hate more...]

Bledsoe isn't the only problem with the team and inserting a mobile QB won't be the cure-all people are thinking it will be.  The Bills need a better O-line, a new kicker, and even a defense that can close the deal.  Until then they can easily be a 10 win team, just not a championship one.

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Which is ridiculous. Winning the LOmbardi is what it's alla bout and this team is LIGHT-YEARS from the top of the league.

 

Give them 100 games vs. the Colts, Squeelers, Paytoilets. I suspect they'd lose 95 of them.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

Getting rid of TW was a mistake.  Blame GW for that one.  As for Bledsoe, who should they have gotten instead last off-season?  And McKinnie isn't better than MW.  I think we've beaten THAT dead horse.

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hell they could have had Jeff Blake and drafted a better QB the year they got Bledsoe> So I should ahve said GETTING Bledsoe was *the* mistake.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

Not that I necessarily disagree, but it seems as though I heard this same thing before the last 4 years started.

 

The Bills since the Bledsoe era started have been schizophrenic.  2003 and 2004 saw us be called both offensive juggernauts (with SB possibilities), and "the worst offensive team in the league".  2002 never saw us reach either of those plateaus, but was still a tale of two halves.

 

There has never been a season in which the offense hasn't had at least 6 bad games...Tough to imagine us winning 12 unless something changes.

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Egggggggg-sactly.

 

Until MAJOR changes are made on O, this team is going to struggle to sniff 10 wins let alone 12.

[I hate this.]

Ummmm 5/6 of the strength of the Stillers team (their OLine) was acquired by Donahoe. Not to mention most of their Front7 and their best corner.

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So where's the f*cking help on our OL?

 

Mike Williams?

 

[Eary predictions for next year.]

This team isn't going to do nothing over the off-season.

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Yes, well, you can do something and have it be the wrong thing.

 

See: getting rid of Ted Washington...Keeping Drew Bledsoe....Not taking McKinnie....etc...

[I hate this.]

Hmm.... I saw a Jets Kicker miss 2 opportunities to win a game. The Steelers did little to impresss me. They won a game NOBODY wanted to win.

 

Steelers almost choked in the post season again, which is standard for them during the Cowher era . I'll believe it  when the hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

 

That was a terrible game.

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All around horrible for me.

 

I'm depressed tonight. Now I get to hear another week of Squeeler and Iggle sh---talk.

[I don't know who I hate more...]

Not as long as it's going to burn me up.

 

So long as his concreteness is back there, this team will not see 10 wins.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

You must have finished your second six pack by now to think we'll be no better than 8-8 next year.  When you sober up you'll see 12-4 or better.

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That's rich. Tell me how this team, without a real QB, witha horrible kicker, with an OL that is barely passable and a head coach who'd rather throw a pass THREE YARDS BEHIND THE LOS than run one yard to pick up the first is going to go 12-4.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

You don't even know what our roster is going to be yet you make predictions about the record? Yeah, reallllll credible.

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I said it was EARLY.

[This just in...]

Yup! I guarantee you we won't bother to draft Nugent. I also guarantee you that we will be stuck with Lindell next year... and Drew + Rian = 6 straight seasons with no playoffs.

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Exactly. The morons running this team will leave the league's most ineffective QB behind center, not get any help on the OL, NOT replace the kicker, etc...

 

Buncha stiffs, I tell you.

[I hate this.]

How is Big Ben better than Drew? That was the worst playoff performance I've seen in a long time. Yes, he's a rook, but that was pathetic. His team won in spite of him.

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A team featuring many players NOT drafted by TD.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

When you think how close we were to a 11-5 season (Jax and Oak games), that's a pretty pessimistic outlook.  Hopefully JP will be ready to play next year.

 

PTR

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Why should I expect anything else? This team does NOTHING but choke.

 

It's infuriating.

[Eary predictions for next year.]

Why?

We beat the Jets this year without a quarterback next year, we will have one.

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Meh, I'm just fuming at their choking still.

 

There's NO WAY they should have lost that last week of the year. NO WAY.

 

Oh, wait, DB and inept offensive playcalling killed them.

 

*grumbles obscenities about Drew Bledsoe's mother*

[I hate this.]

You do realize that Whisenhunt's playcalling, which relied on Big Ben airing it out is the one thing that kept the Jets in the game, right?

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Well, that and the inability to tackle on special teams by Shittsburgh.

 

This was a lose-lose game for me. Jets win, I hate it. Squeelers win, I hate it. My only hope is that the Colts win and come in to Shittsburgh and kick the living hell out of them.