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Talking about money in the middle of the season is really pointless. There's nine months of offseason to deal with those issues, and if Moulds is hogging cap space they'll address it. For the Bills to continue to improve, though, they need Moulds. Bledsoe's tendency to lock onto him isn't doing the offense any favors, but Bledsoe won't be the starting QB next season. The more the other WRs get looks, the better they get. Hopefully the coaching staff will be able to include them more as the season goes on.

So Moulds is the whipping boy this week? Oh well, you're not a Bills fan if you don't have something to B word about. To throw in, I noticed that Moulds didn't show enough enthusiastic support for Campbell after his TDs. He must have been jealous, not a quality you want in a leader. I think we should cut him this offseason and draft a rookie WR who will take 3 years to develop.

The D-line was especially good today. The Rams had 35 yards rushing, mostly due to the line. Shoebel blew up Faulk on the goaline. Adams was a maniac, and had an int. Denney and Kelsay got hits on Bulger that contributed to his inaccuracy late in the game. It was good to see them get back on track so quickly.

5 of the remaining 6 games are winnable, even for a team that has problems on the road. I'm just glad that the coaching staff hasn't adopted the loser mentality that some of the fans have, and turned the rest of the season into a series of exhibition games.

I'm pretty sure Smith was flagged for offsides on that play. That's why people thought it was a cheapshot.

So Donahoe makes it mandatory that Bledsoe must be the starting QB, but then trades a bunch of high picks for Losman in the draft? Doesn't make sense. Sounds like more Oprah-speculation to me. So Fassel would refuse to work with Bledsoe, but then turn around and take an assistant's assistant job trying to salvage Boller, an obvious scrub? Again, it doesn't make sense. The decision Donahoe made wasn't Bledsoe over Losman. It obvious that Losman is the QB of the future. The decision he made was Bledsoe over Garcia, Brunnell, Warner, and Collins to be the guy filling in until Losman was ready. And it's hard to argue, after watching those guys play this year, that he made the wrong decision.

Yeah it sucks that he built a top 5 defense here. That blows. It sucks that he's built one of the best special teams units in the league. Again, how can we watch this crap? I can't stand that he nabbed the Bills a franchise back at the bottom of the first round. The nerve of that idiot. Signing a DT like Sam Adams, horrible. Takeo Spikes, awful. Lawyer Milloy, what a joke. Using high picks and free agents to fill the Oline. Idiotic. The Pats don't have any of those on their offensive line, and they won the SB. Trading for a QB that set the franchise passing record. Moron. Know who else sucks? Jim Kelly. The Bills had two losing seasons his first two years as QB. I can't believe we didn't run that bum out of town!

Donahoe has replaced 51 of the 53 players on the team over those last 3.5 years. So, yeah, there are still some holes in the roster. This isn't a minor or cosmetic job Donahoe is doing. This is a major overhaul, similar to the rebuilding the Bills did in the 80s or the Rams and Bucs did in the 90s. Those rebuilding efforts took 6 years, not 3.5. You focus on the negatives, but he's built a top 5 defense out of nothing. The Bills have one of the best special teams units in the league. McGahee can carry a game. I've been a Bills fan for life. Jim Kelly first two seasons as starter were losing seasons. But when he turned it around, all hell broke loose. Despite the recent loss (to the SB champions on the road), the team is starting to turn things around.

Johnson played in the playoffs, he didn't get the team there. Huge difference.

Buffalo plays in Cincy. Mike Brown and Cincy won't be visiting Buffalo, unless they want to see the beautiful regional sites.

Wyche is saying that if the Bills are leading a team 38-6 and are looking to run out the clock, Tucker plays. If they're down 29-6 and need to throw the ball, Smith plays. When the game is close, they stick with the starter, Tucker. I know we're all frustrated, but let's give these guys some benefit of doubt. Not every setback makes these guys drooling idiots, like some would have us believe.

He did set the franchise record for passing yards and threw 24 TDs in 2002. The defense was so bad that year, that without the offense covering for them, the Bills would have been lucky to win 2 games. This trade comes nowhere near the Johnson trade in terms of sucking.

Despite this announcement, Bledsoe's days are numbered. He's on borrowed time. Spend the next couple of weeks focusing on other Bills players and before you know it, No. 7 will be starting. Or Bledsoe will perform the most remarkable turnaround in franchise history and lead the Bills back into the playoff race. Have patience. Losman will be the starter soon enough.

C'mon, he looked plenty confident throwing that long interception into double coverage. Just chucked it right down there without a second look. That's confidence. I actually believe that the offense will change. The Oline knows right now that if they make one mistake, the play is blown up, because Bledsoe can't get out of his own way. That's the reason for max protect. With a more mobile QB, the offense might be freed a bit to move away from max protect scheme. Mularkey and Clemments did all kinds of things with K. Stewart at QB. Hopefully JP will be a better overall player than Stewart, but he does have good mobility like Kordell.

You could be right. While it's a crap shoot on how Losman's going to perform in a game, the coaching staff is grading him out in practice right now. So they do have an idea on how prepared he is heading into the game. No doubt Bledsoe has set a low bar. If JP has made progress coming off of his injury, this is a difficult decision for the coaching staff.

Best laid plans, yadda, yadda.

Why are you still fishing for Drew apologists? Bledsoe's finished, end of story.

That's cold, man!

Bledsoe just doesn't do the "progression-read" thing. Which would be that bad if he made good pre-read snaps. But he doesn't do that either. People want to beat on the Oline, but I thought Bledsoe had good time in the pocket yesterday, he just didn't use it wisely.

Conversely, if Bledsoe doesn't see players who aren't wearing 80, does that explain all the sacks? When was the last time a DE wore 80? We might be onto something here.

Obviously, with all of Warner's mistakes, Coughlin believes that Manning gives the Giants a better chance to win. Unlike Manning, a Heismann finalist, Henson has spent the past few years playing baseball. It's easy to see how Manning would be more prepared to help his team at this point than Henson.

I seriously think that's a legit question. Will a rookie QB give the Bills a better chance to win on the road than Bledsoe. If Losman didn't miss all that practice time with his broken leg, this would be a no-brainer. But where I disagree is that once Losman starts, you can't pull him. It's his team, and you have to ride it out with him. If things go bad, you don't want the vets to politick against him for the veteran QB, so the team needs to know that they have to make him successful, there's no other choice.

I believe that Bledsoe is done, and the less he does in the game the better off the team is. But, at the same time, it's unfair to say that he has never won big games for the team. In 2002 he played a great game in Minny, coming from behind and winning the game in OT. The same season he won an OT game vs Chicago, played great in Miami, and countered a 200 yard rushing game by R. Williams in Buffalo with a 300 yard passing game, in a near-blizzard. I know that seems like a long time ago, but Bledsoe has played more than a few good games for the Bills. The guy has had his moments, but not any more.

Yeah, it really is a lesser of two evils. It's not a question of who can win the game for us, it's who won't cost us the game.

In weak defense of the coaches, Moorman and the defense has been playing great lately, and they turned a similar situation against the Jets into a safety. Of course, it was early in the game and they didn't realize that Jerry Gray would again play the prison B word to Charlie Weiss. I would have rather seen them go for it, although watching how horrible Bledsoe played, I don't think it would have mattered the rest of the game if they got it.