That's No Moon

Maybe play some 6 OL with Anderson? You know, like they did a ton last year? I wouldn't say put Van Demark in. He's decent at LT but a turnstile on the right.

Except when we blitz. When we blitz we telegraph it so badly we almost never just a free runner at the QB.

My 8th grade girls basketball team looks tougher than us most of the time.

He'd fit right in on the defense, he's late to the party just like they are.

Yeah, I'm sure he and Sean have never discussed the archetype he wants. Beane just goes out and picks guys all willy-nilly like.

Because when you actively select undersized players over and over and over again you can't wonder why they get beaten up and broken.

It's better to be the hammer than the nail and this is a defense full of nails. This is why is gets beaten to hell like this every single year. They accept hits rather than deliver them.

Brown and Dawkins are both getting dogwalked and the interior is getting shoved into Allen's face also. I never want to hear about this line being elite again. Above average. Maybe even good. Not close to elite.

Then you need to get more than 3 on first and second down combined. The line is getting owned tonight aside 2 good runs, one of which was Cook doing something that wasn't blocked.

Can I call them overrated now? Can't sustain the running game and Allen is under siege.

Gaza. Too soon? Are there actually many Canadians?

When you live outside Philadelphia for 30 years it's pretty much inevitable.

Do they play better against good teams or do good teams lose their focus and/or play their backup goalie when they play the Sabres?

I thought I read a while back that McDermott gets a lot of input on early round selections.

The oline has been banged up and there has been discussion about hurts not being the guy for a couple years now. I got into a pretty lengthy discussion with some people at an event this past summer where I cautioned then about getting rid of hurts without having a solution in place first. While he's not great you can do a lot worse. Now put yourself in the position of an eagles fan looking at Buffalo who has often looked sloppy, soft and disinterested this year. What do you think they say?

Look me in the eye and tell me you weren't super pissed with him after the first one. Fortunately he pulled his head out of his ass.

Because they are also a team at the bottom of the standings that isn't very good? Where does anyone get the expectation that this team should beat anyone? The games they win the other team is saying to themselves, "How did we lose to the Sabres?"

This has been a more consistent issue of late and that's often because of preparation. Is he unprepared because of him or are the people in charge of getting him prepared doing a poor job of preparing him? I don't know the answer to that question. I do know they and he looked really good against Kansas City in ways that they and he often haven't looked against other, often lesser, competition. And yet, if they'd handed Thomas the ball more than 15 times they'd have probably won that game. He was killing them. 9 yards per carry.

Are they aware that the game is 3 periods long? It's our fault that we boo though.

It depends. How does one do against the other? That was the point of my post. If the line can't open holes and Josh is under a lot of pressure against a really good front then that probably means our line isn't of the same caliber. This is the sort of game that if you actually have a top notch line you need them to show it. They didn't run well last week but they pass blocked pretty well after the first two series. Against Miami they didn't have great success running and Allen was sacked 3 times and hit 7 more times. Against Atlanta Cook ran for 4, 2, 2, 0, 2, 6, 14, 2, 8, 7, 3, 12, 7, 9, 1, 6, 0, 4 and Allen was sacked 4 times and hit 6 more times. Lots of failed runs with a couple long ones to make the average look better but they struggled to move the ball that night. They also struggled to move the ball against New England with a lot of short runs and a bunch of hits on Allen. The way people talk about the line sometimes you'd think they were the mid 90's Cowboys. Sure, they've dominated some teams and ran over Carolina, etc. but they've not been very good several other times this season. Maybe I'm a strict grader but for me to consider a line to be that top notch level they are more consistent than that. If they can't open holes or block for Allen this week I don't really want hear "Gee whiz, Beav. Houston has a really strong defense." it just give more evidence to them being overrated.

I'm getting a bit tired of hearing how great the offensive line is. Houston is a really good defensive front. Fast and physical. Handle them and you can tell me they are great again. Run the ball effectively. Reset the line of scrimmage consistently. Keep Allen clean, not running for his life. No excuses, if you can't deal with a great defensive line you aren't a great offensive line.

Carolina stopped giving Rico Dowdle the ball and insisted on forcing a timeshare with Chuba Hubbard. That helped a lot.

And now he's hurt. It's been real Mecole.

Make that 10.

I agree with the bottom two but my order would be White throwbacks - with black shoes if possible Blue throwbacks Blue on White White on white Red on White Red on red union suit look Blue on Blue White blizzard crap