PolishDave

Your scenario would not be a positive either. What is so good about a QB playing bad in any part of the game? I think common sense applies here. Ideally I would rather have EJ play great the whole game. If I can't have that then I would want him to play good at first and great at the end. If I can't have that then I would want him to just play good the whole game. His play doesn't resemble any of those yet. So, no, I don't think you can call his rollercoaster game play a positive.

That would only be an asset of his if he started out playing decent early in the game and then got better. Unfortunately, it is more like he plays like chit for a while and then starts playing better. Playing like chit early in the game is not an asset. It is a drawback. So far the biggest positive I can see in him is that he is tall. His second biggest positive is he seems like a nice guy. I will reserve saying great things about his other skills until I see them in him consistently. Hopefully that starts in game one against the Bears.

You think he really wants to start? Couldn't it be that he likes this situation because he can get paid a handsome NFL salary to sit the bench? LIke Kolb did? I would think if he was so gung ho to start for a team, he wouldn't have retired. He would have kept his hat in the ring and wound up somebody's number 2. I'm not saying I think you are necessarily wrong. I just wouldn't assume he is coming here because he thinks he has a good chance of starting. He might just prefer a veteran NFL QB salary to the other paycheck alternatives he has available to him, which I am sure is substantially less lucrative.

Sometimes you guys crack me up. Thanks for the laugh. Good one....

Dude you have a serious ax for Jeff Tuel. Did he fart next to you in church or something? Beyond the number 2 QB who really cares.

Are you for real or did you just make that up?

I think the talent scouts are very good right now. If they stay with this organization long enough, I think they will eventually (reasonably near future) assemble a perennial playoff team. Maybe a championship and maybe not, but a high caliber playoff team nonetheless. I think the real problem is the constant turnover in coaches and general managers. It takes a coach a couple of years to learn enough about the AFC East to be highly effective in my opinion. And just about the time our coach learns how to win in the AFC East, we run them out of town. Dick Jauron would have been a great coach if only someone else made in game decisions like whether to go for it or punt. Otherwise I felt he was excellent. Chan Gailey learned how to beat the Patriots and we ran him out of town. Marv Levy took us to 4 Superbowls and we ran him out of town shortly thereafter. All stupid decisions in my opinion. All decisions that led to rebooting and rebuilding and more rebooting and more rebuilding. Stupid.

I thought I smelled something fishy here too......hmm......... Nothing pisses me off more than going out on lake Erie fishing for Walleye and catching a bunch of Sheephead.. Killem' and feedem' to the seagulls.

I wouldn't call his play in the Detroit game mediocre. I would call it below average for an NFL caliber starting quarterback. And no it is not enough. If any quarterback played an entire year like EJ played last night, their team would not win any games at all. they would go 0-16. The Bills offense never made it to the red zone. No that is not acceptable. No that is not okay. Sorry. It just isn't. He has to play better than that.

Yes I have. I know he has not played well. But it is like every other starting position on the team in some respects. You have to find someone better to replace him with. Like I said, they tried to just cut him and replace him last year. It failed miserably. The guy they signed to replace him ended up being even worse. Then they were screwed. That could easily happen again. Once they have someone better that they have confidence in, then they will move on from Moorman. They already showed they are ready to move on from him. They just have not found a better player. Seems pretty simple to me.

Lions defense was mixed. They rested Suh.

The last time the Bills tried to make a snap decision on a punter they cut Moorman from the team. Then part way into the season they realize they had effed up bigtime. And they had to get Moorman back. Luckily they did. Do you want them to repeat that mistake again? I sure don't. You replace a guy when you are reasonably certain you have a better one. They made that same mistake at other positions. Usually you can't get a player back.

Aye....there lies the rub...... As last year proved, Moorman is much tougher to replace than you would logically expect. There really aren't that many talented punters out there. We were spoiled for years with his above average punting skills. He should have been retired last year. But he hangs on because we simply can't find a better replacement. As long as we don't have a lot of 3 and outs, hopefully this won't be too big of an issue.

It definitely is imaginable. If EJ shows up hot and plays a great game then I think the Bills will be able to easily pass and run against the Bears. Of course we have to be able to get a pass rush too in order to negate Cutler and crew. I know that it is possible and that is what I am hoping will happen. It is exciting to think about. And then there is a devil on my other shoulder telling me that I am nuts for trying to hold onto my optimism. The devil says this whole thing could blow up and become unimaginably bad. And he insists that he is going to do his best to make sure that it plays out his way.

Does anyone remember how much fun the fans had making fun of Tebow when he was here on the opposing team? The fans openly mocked him. They chanted his name. They laughed at him. They made signs referencing Bible verses and how Tebow would fail. No GM with any drop of sanity is going to bring that guy into an environment like that. Geeze man. Get over it. Shut up about it already.

He grabs his shiny Colt revolver. Kissing the single bullet in his finger tips before loading the gun. He closes the cylinder and gives it a full spin. Gun barrrel to head. Pulls trigger. Click. Dammit! Somebody make these friggin Tebow threads end. Please. for the love of god almighty.

You can't walk away. You know it. You can tell yourself that to feel better about yourself, but you will be back. Once the Bills are in your blood, they are in your blood. You will bleed red white and blue right along with the rest of us. You're not fooling anyone you know.....

I like most of your take. I disagree with those three things though. Defense pass rush - I will wait till the Chicago game to make that decision - Something tells me the passrush is going to drop off a whole lot with Pettine gone. Run stop better. Pass rush- susbantially worse. Really can't tell till we see how aggressive Swartz is going to be. I doubt he will be anywhere near as aggressive as Pettine. Redzone - I will believe it when I see it. I don't think the Bills ever entered the red zone at all in the last preseason game. Like not even close. I wonder how many times they got the other side of the 50? Seriously? AFC East Competitive - No. This is my firmest belief. I think the Patriots steam roll over all AFC East teams this year. I think they are going to be much better this year than last. And I think we might be looking at a Denver vs Patriots AFC Championship game. That is my prediction as of right now barring any injuries. I think Brady has a near record year with the new additional emphasis on pass interference/holding. Even though neither Manning nor Brady is on our team, this is a special time to be watching two of the greatest quarterbacks of all time compete. Love that aspect of this game. Go Manning!

I have to admit, one of the things that people ragged on Fitzpatrick about was his inaccuracy. He could find open guys too. He just couldn't deliver a pass that was easily catchable. Hence, he ended up throwing too many picks. And the natives hung him for it.

In EJ's defense, I think that the coaches were really focusing on trying to get him to make the right "reads". And on that note alone, he did do a good job. I think that maybe that is what he was referring to when he said he thought he did a good job. I just wish he would have voluntarily admitted that he effed up when he missed a couple connections that would have sustained drives. The one pass could have been a touchdown. It really sucks to miss those opportunities. But his reads were good. He was seeing the open guy in my opinion. At least he had that part right.

Not bad.. For the first play, I would be more inclined to go shotgun 4 wide though and force single coverage on Watkins or Goodwin. Then throw the bomb. Come out chuckin the ball deep right away. Let Chicago know that they will need to respect it. If and when Chicago does respect it, then I run the football down their throats.

The main reason I was surprised they played Watkins is because we went through a major injury to a high draft pick in preseason before when Gilmore got hurt. Then Gilmore was out for weeks. And everyone was questioning why Gilmore was even in there in that preseason game. You would think that they would have learned their lesson from that Gilmore situation. Obviously they weren't using history as a guide for this decision on whether to play Sammy or not. Fans will revolt if they see their favorite draft pick get hurt in a nearly worthless preseason situation.

I just assumed that they sat Gilmore to avoid the embarrassment of him potentially getting injured and missing the first 4-6 weeks. You know....then part way through the season he comes back in with a club fist cast on his arm.....been there...done that......If that happened again, someone would hang this staff.

If I am the Bears, I try to take away the run. Stack the box. I blitz EJ every single time it is an obvious passing situation. I make him try to beat me with his arm. I would do my best to make sure he has very little time to throw in those obvious passing situations. I have my db's play physical with Bills receivers in that first five yards (buffer zone) from scrimmage. I think this will be the plan going forward for every team playing the Bills until the Bills prove they will beat teams who do this with deep passes. I wonder if this is why the coaching staff has had EJ practicing getting rid of the ball right away. Seems to me that this is exactly what EJ is going to need to learn to do well in order to have consistent success. Your opinion?

Dammit! I thought I was onto something. Dammit!