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This is where you need a little perspective. In other games in Detroit, Green Bay scored 7 points, and they were held to 223 yards (Rogers had 147 yards passing); eli manning was held to 144 yards passing at home, and 14 total points. They are one damn good D, and Orton threw for over 300 yards running Hackett's Offense.

I don't mean to be critical of Pettine, and it was a fun D to watch, but the old adage in football is true: run and stop the run. Marrone is an old school guy who believes in that, and I am sure he was very happy to help Pettine move into the HC ranks...

I loved the team's reaction to the Schwartz announcement and Marrone's embrace. Great stuff!fortunately I have a very short commute to work so I only get a few snippets of GR on the drive.

Yep. He was a really raw player coming out of Canada, so it will be interesting see him reach his potential, hopefully sooner rather than later.

http://www.buffalobi...5d-702f1049d758 "He is the king of Detroit today!"

They can win any of those games, but because of parity, they won't win them all. You need a lot of luck. The Bills got it yesterday in the form of the soon to be late Lions kicker Henery... If they can beat the Pats, their confidence will take off, and the division will be had... IF....

That's how he gets hurt. They need him so teams respect his outside speed. Since we ditched Graham, there's no one else to put opposite of Watkins with that track star speed after Goodwin. Keep him out of the middle.

They are also #1 in 3rd down conversions, which is a direct result of their success with the run D. Are you really Mike Pettine?

Man, I certainly wouldn't use your kind of math...For a guy who says don't focus on totals, why in hades would you rank them on total yards, not yards per game? they are 8th in yards given up PER GAME.

So it was the much predictable run to Freddie that wins it, but at least the second thing eventually happened.

what are you basing the "overall D ranking" on? I'm not seeing 14 or 15. I think the #1 ranking should be ppg. Again, my point is that I think Schwartz's Defensive philosophy is significantly better than Pettine's, and his results are better. Schwartz has them focusing on stopping the run and making them one-dimensional.

That's a point I tried to make, especially regarding criticism of Hackett--the Bills have played some very tough Ds.

We saw his potential last year on several TD bombs, but he couldn't stay healthy. KO said in his interview that he told Goodwin to keep running those flies and he would hit him when it was available. It's possible that Hackett is doing the right thing and having Goodwin stay out of traffic, utilizing him as the deep-coy. That should keep him healthy too...

It's obvious what I looked at. There's no agenda. I took a quick scan of the stats, and thought it was impressive that they have the lowest total. I take that back, the agenda is that I'll take Schwartz over Pettine as D coordinator any year.

That's a little different than Pettine's D.... The Bills have also played 3 of the top 5 defenses in the league--SD, Houston, and Lions. They averaged 14.7 ppg against those Ds, and 26 against the other two. I'd give Hackett a few games with Orton before condemning him too much.

don't you know, we didn't win, the lions lost it.

I wonder how many games the Bills won because of Fred during this era of mediocrity? On a good team he'd be an HOF player no questions.

he just keeps making plays. Had he been ok and playing that second-to-last drive, I have no doubt they would've scored then.Amazing player. Respect.

Hand off to FJ is odds on bet, but would like to see play action, pump fake to Watkins, then bomb to Goodwin down the right sideline..

right, as if the Austrians are the only ones to incorporate debt into analysis. The influence of credit on crises goes back to Marx and Mill. As I told you years ago, I have some sympathy for the Austrians because they do incorporate debt. The problem is their ideas on money. They think modern money is equivalent to when gold was used as money, hence their absurd view that inflation is an increase in the money supply. Guys like schiff keep beating the dead horse and have to resort to conspiracy theories that government is lying. And the conspiracy nuts are alive and well here...

Sorry, HM got it from Keynes and Fisher.

The fact that corps are generating significant CF to be able to "hoard" is not a bad thing...

No, it's very post keynesian a la minsky.

It puts them into an excellent position to expand as the economy grows, though I am leery about the underlying strength...

Gatorman, you are slacking.... The Obamanomics miracle!