Ohiostyle

At this point I've officially gone anti-Hackett

HOLY F#%^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not expect this today. We have miles to go as a team.

This game is vomit inducing! Just a bunch of nothingness.

When does the luck come on our side? I mean all things being equal we dominated today, but every break went KC's way.

Can't be reversed. If called a catch it would stand, since it's called incomplete, that'll have to stand to! F#@k!

No excuses, winners make this happen!

Time to buckle in against the run D! Now, Charles is going to go off!

I thought Tuel's best asset was his deep ball

Classic case of beating yourselves!

Need this third down!

Ugh.. can one week not be like this! Can we just cruise to victory once!

Gotta love Freddie!

Win or lose, I hope we play well. The NO/NE game really was well played with both teams making plays on both sides of the ball. I'd really like for the Bills not to lay down and die after a little adversity. Although I wouldn't mind if the Saints did. My Cleveland Indians did this all season, beat the bad to mediocre teams all day, but when Detroit or Boston came to town, they just rolled over like a beaten dog.

I can't help but think incessantly about beating the Saints and Chiefs back to back, and the momentum that would give us. I convince myself of this during the week, and leads to my meltdown on Sunday's. My poor wife and kids.

Before he was always the guy who had that terrific season in 98 then to have all marred by the missed FG in the NFC championship game. Now I really dislike him, and I'm oddly satisfied by that miss.

Ah, I'm assuming the same for Ernie Davis, and Daryle Lamonica?

Wow, just noticed we drafted Gary Anderson, then cut him to go to the Steelers and be part of the all 80's and all 90's teams. Also we drafted Marty Shottenheimer, stupid Al Cowlings (could only have been at OJ's request). And interestingly enough Paul Warfield except even his Wikipedia page doesn't explain how he went from us to the Browns. Can anyone here shed some light on that?

Breakin one off on the Saints and Chiefs back to back wouldn't hurt.

Isn't usually when fans complain about play calling, its just that the play wasn't splashy enough for them. No coach is really trying for touchdowns on every play, but people who grew up playing madden think that's how works. So much of play calling is seeing how a defense reacts a formation, or to repeated 'looks', from them when you know you need a play you take the guesswork out of the equation, and its simply execution at that point. This seems to be the kind of coaches we have, its almost its own new philosophy and who knows where it will take us, but I do know that at critical times this year the play that's been called has been there, and it simply came down to execution (wk 1 SJ drop, wk2 EJ 2 SJ). Both those plays were built off stuff we'd run earlier in the game and the defense reacted exactly as they had before. Their are holes in this philosophy, like games are almost always close due to very little risk taken. But I'm willing to wait and see how this all works out.

Could be that the coaching staff knows that EJ is still a project and knows better than to throw him to the wolves early in the season, preseason play aside, regular season football is altogether different than what EJ's seen. Perhaps to keep his confidence up, they'll set the bar really low for 4-5 weeks then let EJ mature at a more natural pace. Expectations are through the roof here and everywhere else in Bills nation, and it would be nearly impossible to live up to them.

Tin foil hat time.... Perhaps everything that comes from this regimes mouths should be taken with a grain of salt. From the start of camp Marrone has said that at best he was competing for the back end of the receiving corps. Why limit him with so little having been seen? I have little doubt that physically he is far more gifted than probably any of the other receivers, the sprinters included. Marrone is savvy enough that he won't take that for granted. I'm a firm believer that its the "Jimmy's and Joes" not the "x's and o's". Every football mind that I respect has felt the same way.