That's No Moon

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

I have watched very experienced NFL return men suck at fielding kicks in Buffalo when it's sleeting and windy. In case you were wondering, Hardman has 9 career fumbles in 204 touches.

Just from him or in general?

Perfect weather game to have a new returner.

While I'm at it, why on Earth is anyone even contemplating giving Alex Tuch 10 million dollars a year for any kind of term? That's the stupid kind of fanboy crap that put them in this sort of hole to start with. Trading him at the deadline? Why wait? Do it right now. If those are the options, 10M x 8 or trade him? He's got to go in that scenario. No, what they'll do instead is wait for all the other moves to be made and they'll then move him for a 2nd round pick two years from now and whine about how there weren't that many buyers. Either that or Team USA will take him and he'll pick up an injury in Italy that makes him untradeable. I'm very much looking forward to 12/3 when I can go lose my voice booing this turd factory. Fat lot of good it will do me but catharsis is all that's left to hope for.

Wild. It's almost like that regression was totally predictable to any average person who has watched hockey a couple times. Nope. It's not that Lyon is an established journeyman, it's that they are more clever than everyone else and made a solid value acquisition.

This will never change until Pegula sells the team. He took a once proud franchise and ran it into the ground. He could have hired any of us, ANY OF US, to be the GM of this team for the last 15 years and done no worse. In fact, he'd have saved some money. At this point, what the hell? Why not? Make a fan the GM, make it a reality show on Netflix. It cannot be any worse. The taint on this franchise right now is so bad that there is no way to remove it with current ownership. There is no person or group of people they can hire that could restore the credibility that has been lost and if there were Terry wouldn't hire them anyway. They have botched and destroyed so many relationships in hockey that it is not recoverable. If Lindy retires, so what? They'll just elevate the disaster that is Seth Appert. Great. Grand. Wonderful.

This isn't Lindy Ruff. This is the old, neutered, put out to pasture version of Lindy Ruff. The Lindy Ruff I remember sat Brian Campbell because he didn't play the game properly and kept sitting him until he changed. The Lindy Ruff I remember sent an entire line out to kick the crap out of Ottawa. The Lindy Ruff I remember went after Terry Murray himself. The Lindy Ruff I remember would have never tolerated this sad-sack, half-assed, garbage that they have been putting out on the ice night after night after night. This isn't Lindy Ruff. Lindy Ruff is dead.

6 unanswered 3rd period goals in 2 days. That's gotta be some kinda record. I'm so proud.

I'll take some of what you're having. On a cold, wet, crappy day? 3 for 37 and a fumble.

Gee whiz, I was a -2 in 13 minutes of play in a game where we allowed 4 unanswered 3rd period goals. Why don't the people cheer me all the time? I'm not angry with the hockey team just for my own entertainment. Give us something to be happy about you dolt.

Yeah, good for him taking a victory lap after the last game he will ever coach against Buffalo. FTR if they hire that choad ever, for anything, I'm out until he's gone.