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  1. Hello guys and gals.....put away your unrealistic expectations (I've already filed mine away) because this team is nowhere near ready to compete.

     

    The offensive line is nowhere near good enough from a pass protection standpoint and can only run the ball effectively against a 7 man front.

    Teague won't be signed this year, Villarrial should be cut as well,  he's 33 or so and gets paid too much for an overall average performance.  Mike Williams IS now officially a disappointment.  (Kudos to the guys that have been saying this the past two years).  Anderson is a big fat blob that can't get to the second level on any defense.  Gandy is our best lineman right now!!! He's a quality player, but should be a guard in this league.

     

    Our D line is fading fast.  Adams is slowing down, Kelsay and Schobel are marginal pass rushers and get bulldozed against the run.  Edwards is a back up.  Tim Anderson looks to be only a marginal starter at this point.

     

    The game of football is won in the trenches.  We haven't had a strong calibre Oline since the 1992 season. 

     

    We have aging safeties, a starting corner that will leave via free agency this year and Willis McGahee doesn't look happy in Buffalo at all.

     

    JP will take a season or two, but looks like he'll be a good NFL QB.

     

    3 years Bills fans before we can say playoffs!!!! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

     

    :devil:

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    A good GM can turn a mediocre team into a playoff team in one offseason. I don't buy this crap, that we are 3 years from being competitive.

  2. This team was supposed to win based on great defense and special teams, and an adequate offense that did not turn the ball over much, and let a pea green QB get his feet wet.  The offense is not great, but has turned the ball over only twice in three games and scored on the first three drives yesterday, and got 16 points.  This team is supposed to win 10-6, 13-7, 16-9, etc.  This defense is supposed to be great--16 points needs to be enough to win 95% of the time.

     

    What did the defense do?  It gave up touchdowns on the FIRST TWO possessions.  It allowed a ridiculous 60 yard run to permit a FG right before half-time when the other team had given up trying to score.  When the Bills closed to 17-16 early in the second-half, special teams covered the ensuing kickoff at the Atlanta 3.  A hold and the Bills are in scoring position for the lead likely off the PUNT Return.  What happens, a 60 yard drive.  The defense, except for the one pick, did absolutely nothing to help the O.  Nothing.

     

    There may be a very small gap between what we could reasonably expect and what we are getting on offense.  But there is a chasm between what we expected on defense and what we are getting.  If the defense is just decent yesterday, WE WIN.  People who think we are going to win by becoming an offensive juggernaut with Holcomb or otherwise are fools.  This team rises and falls on defense and special teams.  The prospects look dim right now, given the defense's play and now the huge loss of Spikes.  But bailing on JP is crazy, and shows how little patience people have, and how little they understand the game in general and the Bills in particular.  Good God... CD

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    Excellent post. The Bills defense which everyone expected to step up to the plate and hold teams down, has not been able to accomplish this the last two weeks. I find it funny that so many who said that the Bills will not miss PW because he only played 1/2 to 2/3's of the time are now using him as an excuse for the woes of the defense. Would I have given PW the money? No and I don't believe that losing one starter out of 11 ruins your defense. Especially when he is a DT on the wrong side of his career who only plays part time.

  3. Did you think that JP would give us a better chance to win than Bledsoe THIS season? Tell the truth.  :devil:

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    The truth...DB would have given us a chance to go 9-7 or 10-6. If the Bills had made the playoffs, they would have been clobbered. I stand by my opinion that DB could not take the Bills to the SB. Therefore, I was in favor of the decision to let DB go and take our lumps with JP in 2005.

  4. And it could haunt him his entire career. Which would make his career short. Hopefully he'll get over it. I Like the kid. But again, it's a coach's game. And mularkey has not impressed me yet. Like him, but I'm not impressed. If I could trade him right now for Saban, I would.

     

    Too negative for ya? Well, whatever. I'm sick of the same old story with minor edits.

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    WTF...Did you expect Losman to be an All-Pro right out of the gate. Go back and take a look at Eli Manning when he came in for Warner last year. 3 games and you are ready to write off his career. Did I expect that Losman through 3 games would show more signs than he has? Sure I did, but I'm not ready to write him off, because he hasn't.

  5. If he plays bad the rest of this year, how can you give him next year to prove himself too?? In three weeks he's regressed, of course he's also played against better defenses, but if he plays like he did yesterday in December that's not going to fly.

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    Like I said before, unless he continues like this for the remaining 13 games, showing no improvement, he more than likely will get another shot next year. He's going to have ups and downs this season. Can you give him at least a few more games before you get on the Leinhart bandwagon. :(

  6. One thing - and only one thing I disagree with here. He will have to show IMPROVEMENT over the 2nd half. Last year, Carson Palmer started to show brilliance in the SECOND HALF of the season. This year, Cinci's 3-0 and Palmer looks great. If Losman CANNOT show marked, radical growth between now and December, then it becomes the Todd Collins scenario. (That's a MUCH better analogy than any Rob analogy which people were tossing around carelessly yesterday, because the Bills cut their losses with Collins after ONE year as a starter.)

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    I'm making the assumption that he shows some progress throughout the course of this season. I agree that if at the end of December, he is still throwing for 100 yards a game, completing less than 50 percent of his passes and being inaccurate, it will not be pretty.

  7. It wasn't JP who gave up over 230 yards rushing. It wasn't JP who made the decision not to line up four receivers against a team that had 3 DB's out. It wasn't JP who decided that Jerman would be a better start at RT than Jason Peters. Coming back from Buffalo, Harv reminded me that last year ... after four games ... a lot of people in Cinci were screaming for Carson Palmer's head, too.

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    I agree. Losman has to be given a couple of years. He would have to play ridiculously bad for him not to get all of this year and next to show his abilities.

  8. Maybe if we had a playoff caliber team you could make the win now argument. But Holcomb is not going to come in and lead this team to the promise land. We might get some improved play but it would be at the expense of JP's future. We all want to win now, but we need to be patient, 3 games into a career is hardly enough to time judge a QB's future.

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    I agree. Putting in Holcomb is no better an option than bringing back DB for another year of mediocrity. Leave JP in for the forseeable future.

  9. Some nudnick out here will find some excuse as to why he sucks, but its so beyond that. This guy is clutch. Its not the offensive coordinator, its not the teams they play, its Brady.

    12 for 12 in the 4th quarter for 168 yards and yet another come from behind victory against a stout Pittsburgh D. I watched the game and could not get over some of the throws he made under pressure.

    Don't get me wrong, it pains me to admit this, but how people can still say he's an average quarterback is beyond me. :)

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    He's just a SYSTEM QB. Brady should get no credit for the Pats success. Their kicker was the SB MVP, their OC was a genius, their WR's are super quick and run great routes, the OL gives him 20 seconds to throw the ball, etc... :(

     

    :D

  10. I think Losman is the future for this team but.....I think this is the year (although with Spikes out it may be a mute point) that we have a chance to make the playoffs.  Next year we will be without Moulds, Clements and who knows who else.

     

    I say give Holcumb a shot.  Give him the reps in practice and lets see what he can do.  If we wait till after the Saints game it may be too late from both a record and morale standpoint.

     

    Throw Losman back in if Holcumb lays and egg. 

     

    Desperate times call for desparte measures.

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    It's not time to start the backup QB until people learn how to spell his name. Last night it was HolcombE, today it is HolcUmb.

     

    H-O-L-C-O-M-B

  11. I almost lost it when I saw Haggan  and Crowell at the 2 OLB spots and Posey in the middle.  At that point I knew we had lost.  :)

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    Maybe Posey is jealous of all the positions that Peters should play(per TSW) and he wants a piece of the action. :(

  12. It's a long season and we are only three games in, but after the last two disappointing performances, maybe it's time to look at the possibility that the players, coaches and front office staff are not as good as they look on paper. Maybe expectations for year 5 of the TD era were inflated by the fact that the Bills beat up on some of the NFL's lightweights during the 2nd half of the 2004 season.

     

    Let's hope they can turn things around.

  13. I think the plays you're talking about were after the long bombs.  It's not atypical for receivers t come out for a play or two after running 50-60 yards downfield.

     

    CW

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    Actually the long attempted bombs to Moulds were heading towards the tunnel endzone. The plays in question, were when the Bills were heading towards the scoreboard endzone.

  14. There were multiple plays where either Evans or Moulds were on the bench in the first half(could have happened in the 2nd half but I wasn't paying close attention). If Moulds isn't worthy of being out there on ALL offensive sets except for short yardage, then ship him and his huge salary out of here and bring in someone else next year.

     

     

    Also, one of the dumbest things I've seen the Bills do for two years running....After a change of possession with the Bills going on offense, they wait for the referee to start the play clock and then they run 4 guys into the huddle from the bench and 4 others go running off. Who the F*** do they think they are fooling with this "trickery"?

     

     

    I'm starting to wonder how much of the Bills offensive woes(including the OL) should be attributed to Tom Clements?

  15. I was at the game today and I stayed until the final gun.  Only once in my 25 years on this earth have I left a sporting event early.  Some panty waste of a guy I knew forced me and my friends to leave a Sabres game with seconds left on the clock because he had to call his girlfriend.  We missed a great fight featuring Rob Ray.  I haven't talked to that guy since.  I believe it is completely foolish to spend $50 for a ticket and then leave before the game is over.  Even if it's a blowout, you're bound to see some sort of entertaining thing happen.  Maybe the Bills will come back, maybe some drunk guys will get in a fight, maybe somebody will run out on the field, maybe a girl will take her top off.  Who knows what excitement might happen.  If you are more concerned with beating traffic then I say stay home because you're wasting your money.  Don't give me any BS about how you are a diehard fan even if you leave early.  Diehards stay with their team no matter what happens.

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    Thank you!

  16. soime fans left because they figured Atlanta would mismanage the time.

     

    When Duckett gained the first down with just over two minutes to play the game was over, but Atlanta screwed up.  Duckett steps out of bounds, the throw an incomplete pass, why are they throwing, the 2 minute warning and the last Bills time out.  Had Duckett fallen down in bounds, they could have taken the knee.

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    Didn't the Bills fans learn from the "comeback" game that it ain't over until the fat lady sings. <_<

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