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Sure glad we developed some LB depth from the past couple of drafts or UFA. Oh. Wait. But we've got DBs!! And look how great they did tonight! Oh. Wait.

I don't think the Pats* were ever really scared tonight. They know what they can do... pull it out the hat. Especially against Jauron-ball. Brady was picking the D apart in the 2nd half once he shook off some rust. Even with all of our shiny DBs that Jauron loves so much. Where were these DBs that were supposed to stop us from getting picked apart? We came into this season needing LB depth (and, some would argue, a starting WLB) in the worst way and we got... more DBs!! Well, now POZ is out for stretch. Whaddo we do?

I don't want to pin tonight all on him, either. But, yeah, making the decision to put Bell in there burned the team pretty badly. That said, when this team has games like this time and time and time and time again... There comes a point where you've gotta realize that the symptoms you're having are indications of a bigger disease.

Well, Ralph was exactly right when he re-signed Jauron. He said we'd get "continuity." To wit, tonight we got continued dumb penalties, game mismanagement (time-outs), general "keep it close" small-ball, continued to play our CBs 10 yards off the LOS, and continued to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory." The offensive play-calling seemed to improve under AVP... but we'll see how quickly that changes now that teams get some tape. I don't think DJ had much of anything to do with any success the offense had tonight. An offense works in spite of DJ's guidance. You wanted continuity Ralph. You got it.

* sigh * I hate that I love this team.

We all knew it was coming....

WOLVERINES!! RIP.

Some of us don't have cable.... The sh-- of it is, the game is on locally on the Boston ABC affiliate, WCVB. Used to get it as my strongest station before the transition. Then, a station out Hartford was assigned the same channel frequency (called co-channeling), which results in interference and the inability to get either station in ~20-mile swath where the coverage areas intersect. There are two other stations that do this as well. Does the FCC give a sh--? Nope. F--- THE FCC!!!

Link Am I the only one who thinks this is !@#$ stupid? Especially given that this happened on the legislative floor where there is an absolute right to free speech. You can't be brought to bear for anything you say there, be it libel, defamation, etc. Everything is protected speech. Sh--, IIRC, one songressman once almost beat another to death with his cane on the floor of the congress and couldn't be prosecuted for it. Look at what goes on in England when the PM speaks in front of their houses. This is nothing. Grow some thicker skin.

Don't know if this has been mentioned in the 17 pages... but how does this make UFAs view the Bills now? Buffalo has a difficult time as it is to sign guys in UFA (state of the team, NY taxes, etc.). Now we add in a bit of a reputation as signing guys in UFA that we keep on for 2 years maximum and then dump them. Not so enticing to lay contract numbers out backloaded when guys know they'll probably just be a stopgap. I mean, this is something that players and agents are well aware of in the business side of things, but still....

And then there's that axiom, "You can't take it with you..."

Well, with 46 million uninsured, that puts a chunk into the deficit. People making under $250K will pay less in taxes under Obama, yeah? Oh, wait. This isn't a 'tax' this is a 'fine.' Totally different.

Reeks of an excuse for him to say that this season's results were with a young team, he didn't have much to work with and wait until next year --- just one more year! This is a sorry excuse and would be a miserable reason to keep DJ on, but Ralph has made worse decisions.... In fact, he made one last year. And again, DJ is holding a three-year contract. Thing for me is, if we're essentially going to blow it up this year, why on earth didn't/doesn't the FO blow everything up? This team is in such a state of disarray. It's gone on too long to not be able to say that the reason for this starts at the very top. Can only hope that Ralph sees that he doesn't have it in him to do this anymore.

I think you just nailed it. The Buffalo Bills are about the NFL's equivalent to the KC Royals, at this point. The cutting isn't to any purpose. It's just cutting.

As posted in previous seasons.... This link provides a week-to-week listing through the season of what game is being carried in your local market. Convenient site to bookmark. This info is especially useful to those of us who are over-the-air-only. (OTA also provides the best picture on HDTVs b/c it's uncompressed).

The reason for the booth is to have that over-arching vantage point. It works for some OCs, it's a dreadful thing for others. I hear quite a bit that players want the OC to be on the sideline... that being in a booth disconnects him from everything happening on the field. All comes down to personal preference. Don't know what he did while at Frankfurt, but my gut tells me that AVP is a sideline kind of guy.

In terms of "could come back to hurt" the Bills, I'm thinking more along the lines of the time when Jim McNally said that a former Arizona coach called him before a game a few years ago and spilled the beans. We owned them that day... knew what they were doing before they did. I hope the parting of ways with Schonert was at least civil. Have serious doubts about that, tho. Does Turk seem to be the vindictive type? I only hope that his regard for/Stanford linkage with Trent Edwards might hold his tongue.

I've always liked Katherine McPhee. (Not for her singing.) I'm a hair and face man, myself. Love long curls/wavy hair. 1 2 3 (Slightly NSFW)

Edison got all the press. Tesla was the real deal. But he was a foreigner, and quite eccentric. Didn't like having to explain things as he knew them to be. As we enter an age where energy is all-important, maybe people will come to realize how far ahead of his time Tesla was.

Just, right now, there aren't very many of them. Didn't know Reid was facing those kind of poll numbers. Similar to Dodd. Perhaps the pendulum starts swinging back earlier than the usual 6-8 year cycle.

Karma is a bee-yotch! Want it to end, Bell-y-check? Cut Vince Wilfork. At the very least, especially how he kept flexing and rotating his shoulder, it's a pretty bad bruise. Not to say that he won't still be ready for the opener or just play through it. 'Right shoulder - probable' was the listing every week two years ago in his record season.

Sight-seeing in Bangor is "Well, there's Wal-Mart!" But, really, there are some nice little places to drop in. There was a Greek diner in Newport last time we were up visiting there that had excellent gyros. I forget the name. Maine, like a lot of places, is nice for a couple of days and then you want to get back home (with your live lobsters).

Well, to get this back on track a little.... 1) I don't think D.C. ever was or will be in the cards for Rudy. He is best as a more localized pol -- akin to mid-level management rather than CEO. He just doesn't have a national support network, and surely not among the base of the GOP in the key 'red' states. Regional politics are what they are --- a New England Republican will have a hard go winning the South or the West GOP; likewise a Western Democrat would probably have a hard sell here in the northeast. At most, Rudy's considered for a cabinet post if an as yet unidentified Republican wins in 2012. 2) Rudy is a fighter, especially when he's got an opponent he is almost diametrically opposed from on policy (fiscal much more than social)... and dislikes. Part of the problem, besides playing late-to-supper in the primaries was that he didn't have someone to totally disagree with (even when he tried with Romney it just elicited a shrug from me), and there was an air of holding back so as not to smear an eventual nominee too badly ahead of the general. And hey, the primary strategy was probably the best he could do with what polling suggested and with the resources his campaign had to work with; he was hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and he caught a lightning bug. Guaranteed that Rudy does not have similar problems raising $ inside NY.

NYT link I think this would be a great fit for Rudy and for NY. He shares a lot of the NY sensibilities and if anyone can reign in Albany, it would be Rudy. I just don't believe Paterson or Cuomo could b/c of their constituencies. For the GOP, too, as they need someone to get them to back away from the crazy Baptist minister types that took over. They need to get back to making fiscal discipline their party's #1 trait. Then they need to actually exercise fiscal discipline after elections. That's the hard part. But Rudy has done it before. Judging by the first 8 months of the current presidency and congress, this path would seem to be the way to go in '12; they need someone to lead the way out of the darkness. One might argue that Rudy helped the Republican brand in this regard and set the stage for '94.

The "reality," governor, is that people are judging these leaders based on their performance. Because so far, they either haven't done much of anything or further bungled bad situations. Gov. Patterson, don't proclaim MLK's dream dead when people are judging you based on the content of your character / your actions. It cheapens the sacrifice of the civil rights movement when you play the race card after you've been given fair chance by the (voting) public, and so far all they've seen from you is more deficit spending and trying to earn cachet from the 'Miracle on the Hudson.' Plenty of white pols are finding themselves in hot water as well b/c they've done nothing or made bad situations worse (see: Dodd, Chris). Skin color has nothing to do with this. Your failing plans for the state of NY have put you where you are.