Dan

No doubt Fitz is helping them look good. I'm not sure anyone is saying our line is looking great. But, with the "injury" to Green; Howard is looking decent along with the rest of the line. As I had been saying for quite some time, Trent was trying to take 4-5 seconds to scan the field and throw the ball. Our line just isn't that good. They need someone like Fitz that can throw the ball in 2-3 seconds and/or slide out just enough to create a lane to throw. The line is looking OK. Not great, but OK. Add in some good and quick decision-making by Fitz and the offense suddenly looks competent. At this point, I can only hope the line continues to play well together and improve such that it's no longer our most pressing need. And I'd say based on the score the last few games... they're well on their way to doing just that. That's a little more in line with what I saw.... quite a bit of blitzing (granted not the all out send everyone blitz). But, Jackson was doing a great job of picking up the blitzing LB or DB. Which gave Fitz just enough to complete the pass.

I'm guessing you were drinking a lot today? Way to go man.

My buddy, who's a Fin fan, was texting me throughout the game. He was flipping over to the Bills game. I flipped over to the Fin game just in time to see that the last of that series. Talk about a complete screw job! I told him at the time, the Refs would find a way to give it back to the Steelers because they're supposed to win. Sure enough we get the... we don't really know who got it so what the hey, let's give it to who's supposed to win anyway. Seriously, it's so hard not to believe the NFL is fixed sometimes when you see calls like that. It was blatantly obvious what the right call was, and there goes the Ref completely blowing it. Either he was on the take or he's completely incompetent. Either way he shouldn't be involved with another game.

It's easier to invent things like the tuck rule when no one can pull out a copy of the rule book and verify it. Hence, I'm pretty sure it's not online.

That's what I was thinking. It sucks to lose this game. They played more than well enough on offense to get the win. But, there are definitely a lot of positive things to take from the game. it should be the type of game the players can look at and build off of. They showed a lot today.

Agreed. Chan realized his mistake and benched Trent. Now he needs to accept that he made a mistake with Edwards. Fire the guy and promote anyone to be DC. It absolutely can't get worse. The players are out of position, the wrong defenses are being called, absolutely no adjustments. That's all bad coaching.

Green pulled his injury again getting some gatorade and is likely lost for the season. ...that's how Howard played.

If he's going out of bounds a yard or 2 short of the first down... I'd agree. But, in the cases today, he's already done his job and gotten a good gain. No sense fighting for an extra yard and risking an injury or turn over. So, I got no problem with it.

Success! I ordered a new LCD screen from etech.com; it arrived today. Spent a little time this evening youtubing similar phones again.. then dug in. The entire operation took about an hour and a half (with a 30 minute step to let the glue dry). Now it's all back together and working like a charm. Only slight problem is, like and idiot, I smudged the inside of the screen before putting it back together. Not super bad, but just enough ya know. Oh well. Taking it apart is definitely not for the faint of heart. To get the phone apart, you have to pull and pry to the point of near breakage. All the youtube vids warned of this step; but it's enough that I don't want to pull it back apart to clean the smudge. Once you do that... it's a pretty simple tear down, replace, and put back together. So, for $35 and some time I got my phone back to full functionality as opposed to nearly $200 (depending on the phone) to get a new one. Not half bad.

Not sure if they're rated or not... but a friend just introduced me to the Black Keys. (I guess my dyslexia always confused them with the black-eyed peas or something) But if you like crunchin blues with slammin drums....

I don't get it. He's still got a year of school left and he's pissed that that he doesn't have a job? Talk about a sense of entitlement.

Actually, I'd suggest that the slide started with TD. It was Marv's drafts that solidified the bottom feeder status for years to come. It would be nice to say there's light at the end of the tunnel, but 1 draft in... color me less than impressed. So either this ship gets righted in a couple of years... or 6-8. We'll see how some of these picks turn out in a year or so.

Cool. I've looked into several youtube vids with similar phones and it doesn't seem too difficult. Plus I figure what's the worst that can happen... I totally screw the phone and have to get a new one. So, I figure it's worth the $35 dollars and week's worth of waiting for the part. Either I get a new life out of the thing or I go get the LG phone Lana referenced.

Thanks. That's actually what I need/want... a phone that has great call quality/reception first and foremost. I use my phone primarily for work and nothing sucks more than dropping calls in the middle of some "important" call. And then the texting crap. I still don't like that much, but everyone texts now it seems. So, I find myself texting more and more. But all the web browsing and email and other fancy apps... I really have little desire to do on my phone. Maybe if I got a phone that did that well, I'd change my mind. But, I'm not at all convinced.

Because we're a bitter lot that traded our imagination for insults years ago.

Do you have any factual information to back that up? Or is a complete fabrication much like your interpretation of Nix's comments. And when you're talking about why Nix extended someone and then present that other players should have been extended, without mentioning another GM's name, yes, you're implying that Nix should have extended Fletcher. Or at the very least suggesting that the Bills had the same philosophy to building a team back then that they do now. And there's no evidence of that.

Maybe she's a war vet?

How was Buddy supposed to extend Fletcher? You're comparing apples to oranges trying to equate one FO's decision-making process with a previous one's.

Other than the disappearing keyboard, how do you like that phone? When looking the other day that's what I was leaning towards getting. Then I eyed the droid things, got frustrated, thought about the $60 fee and left.

Absolutely agree. This phone (a Samsung Finesse) is a pseudo smart phone and my first foray into the fancy phone genre. Prior to that I had the cheap Nokia (friends convinced me to go fancy). The cheap Nokia got much, much better reception. But, no email, web, picture taking stuff. So, I guess its a trade off. See that's what I was thinking. I really don't mind so much extending or getting a new contract. But, why charge $60 just because I'm getting a new phone? You'd think they'd want to encourage me to buy a new phone every couple of months.. not make me wait 2 years. Incidentally to my story.. the problem appears to be that the touch screen/LCD is going out. So, the texting and other "soft" buttons work when ever they feel like it. So, I just bought a new LCD for $35 and will try my hand at replacing it. Figure it's worth a shot.

With all seriousness... any poster that thinks the trick to turning the franchise around is to call Polian up and somehow convince him to come back is naive, at best. It's kinda like all the posters that say how great we'd be if we drafted their players each year and now we'd have all these great players - all the while forgetting that if you draft properly and begin improving, your draft position would change. So, we wouldn't have been drafting #8-11 that last 4 years. Let's talk reality. The Bills aren't swaying someone like Polian to leave the wonderful position he's in, in Indy to come back to Buffalo. So, start over with the rant, if you will...

I always suspected they had a number of agreements with several larger carriers. Because I typically get better coverage in PA (for example) than my buddies that have Verizon. Maybe it was just my phone had a better antennae though... who knows.

Thanks It's a small regional carrier... Cellular South. They actually have great coverage nationwide, which I very much need. I would argue their nationwide coverage is better than any of the nationwide carriers, based on the fact that friends and co-workers with Verizon, ATT, Sprint, whatever, routinely loose signal far more often than I do. But, they have the added advantage of great local coverage in many of the small, backwards towns I also have to visit in the AR/MS Delta. Try to get an ATT phone to work in Dumas, AR or Leland, MS... good luck. I'd love to get a larger carrier and Verizon may be my best bet. But, I still feel Cellular South is by far the best nationwide/local carrier for me. I guess their plans just suck balls. I don't really know how verizon or att would handle a situation like I described above. I assume by your response... more favorably.

Not necessarily the case. Although I wouldn't consider my post whining, I certainly think the article is deserved of criticism. Yet I, at no time in the off season, thought we would be a good team with a winning record this season; I've not bashed Tim or any other articles saying the Bills suck; and I really have no internet muscles whatsoever to flex. I just feel this article was poorly timed and ill-conceived. When the Bills are 0-10 or 0-12 and the UFL team is looking like a well-polished team of start athletes; then write the article, then have the discussion. But, to come out after a bye week when the Bills didn't even play and long before any UFL team has shown such a stellar level of play and dredge up this discussion supported with gambling lines, is well.. premature at best. Could we not have had this same discussion after the Titans were winless and had gotten blown out to the Pats* last year... was that 59-0? We didn't. Why? Because it would have been nonsensical, just as it is now at this point in both team's seasons.

By Windows.. do you mean Droid? My phone is acting up and I was looking to get a new one the other day. [Rant: I have to sign a 2 year contract to get a phone. But, 1.5 years in my phone craps out. Can I just get a new phone? NO. I have to pay $60 for the privilege of "breaking" my contract so I can buy a new phone AND get a new 2 year contract! Stupid!!] So at any rate, I looked at a new Droid phone. It took me about 2 or 3 minutes just to figure out how to dial a new phone call. It seemed entirely too clunky and piss poor. So, I put it down and walked out. Still using my old phone.