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Good game Buckeye Mike, looks like this thing is coming down to a chip shot FG. Nice prevent Michigan Edit: Ohio State just scored a TD, nevermind

Na lived 20 minutes from Ann Arbor most my life. I'm basically just an obsessed Bills fans, but college football is much more entertaining to me then any game outside the Bills. When it comes down to Michigan/Ohio State it's a battle of state pride as much as football.

GO BLUE!!! Signed, Stuck in Ohio

Check out the Patriots depth chart........... Both Tackles Out Center Out 3 out of 4 RB's out, including Dillon Troy Brown, Bethal Johnson, David Givens, Tim Dwight, all banged up, some out Graham Banged up, Watson Banged up 3 CB's out, SS out The Patriots offense has carried them all year, now they sustained even more injuries last week losing Koppen, a very good C. The Patriots are without three starters on the offensive line, several at WR, and is starting a FB at RB this week. If the Saints don't implode they will be in this game for 60 minutes.

I thought for awhile that the Patriots would turn it around but it's now apparent they're no longer the same team. They should have lost to us, and just last week needed a last second victory to beat Miami. The Patriots used to just overcome injuries, and everything else, but not anymore. They play run defense almost as bad as us, and are starting street FA in the secondary. Also can anybody tell me who their starting RB is? This team is extremely vulnerable, and is ripe for an upset by a team that comes to play. Enter the much maligned New Orleans Saints off the bye. This is a team that we all know can play well, but just lacks consistency. The schedule they've had to deal with due to Katrina was really hurting them prior to the bye, and it was clear they needed the extra week off. Joe Horn is healthy, Daunte Stallworth will play, and Antowain Smith will be taking on his former team (we all know a motivated Antowain is a solid player). The Patriots get Seymour back but will that be a cure all for the run defense? Either way I bet the Saints give them a game, and might just pull the upset of the weekend.

Levi Jones was picked 10th, Dwight Freeney at 11th, and Ed Reed 24th. At the time most thought Jones and Freeney would go much later then those picks, and not one NFL team took Reed all the way until the 24th pick. TD doesn't have the luxury of waiting 3 years to see what the true value of the players turned out to be, The Bills, and the rest of the league must place value on selections before they see them play in the NFL. It just so happens that TD, and the rest of the league valued Jones, Freeney, and Reed at those slots based on what they had to go with. Using value based on hindsight is an easy game, but it just doesn’t work like that, if it did we would see no busts, and Tom Brady would have been pick #1 in 2000 instead of pick #199.

Exactly, this place would of lost it

I give us a much better shot against Carolina at home then this week. They have the lowest yards per carry average in the NFL, and Nate should be able to match up against Steve Smith. It should however be the normal struggle for the offense to get going.

Point is none of those players had the value of a top 5 pick at the time, and had TD traded down what guarantee did we have three years ago with any of the players mentioned? It's easy to use hindsight and say he made a mistake because we know how the draft paned out, but back then nobody looked at it as a mistake, not even a critic like Jerry Sullivan.

The Native American translation of Cold Pizza is The View.

That has an effect from say November on but I bet Buffalo still ranks in the top 5 during the warm months, especially since the warm months signal the start of football. The Bills just have an obsessed fan base

For those in favor of Hali let me make a case against drafting a DE end this year. Right now we have Kelsey, and Schobel, two serviceable DE that will get you around a dozen sacks per year. I'm not saying these guys are all world, but they're not getting us beat like DT has. The FA DT market is not overflowing with talent either, but we might be able to get 1 DT that way. Currently we need 1 offensive line eating DT, and a motivated Sam Adams to have any chance against the run. While under contract next season, Sam's future is not clear in Buffalo, and even if he plays next year he's not getting any younger. The fact is we might need 2 new DT's as early as next season, and will certainly need them by 2007. Hard not to like Tamba Hali, but I just see more pressing needs. I've been a big advocate of Haloti Ngata for over a month, for those that haven't seen my bazillion posts on him he's Oregon’s standout DT. He goes about 365, and his known for being double and triple teamed threwout his college career. He also runs a 4.8, and blocks kicks better then any DT in the nation. I just see Ngata becoming the offensive lineman eating DT in the run game, and that interior pass rusher we haven't had in years. That would have an immediate impact on our entire defense, and if the offense meshes as 2005 winds down we might just have a legit chance at the East next year.

I'm pissed we wasted the highest pick in a long time on Mike Williams, and subsequently TD should get graded down for this selection, but it's laughable that he should be hanged because of this one draft pick. At the time TD had 3 options, Williams, McKinnie, or a trade down. Now I enjoy the armchair GM role, and obviously about half the wall does also, but of those three options two of them wouldn't have met the Walls talent to cost ratio, and a trade down held no guarantees. I criticize TD all the time, but unlike Jerry Sullivan I try not to do it in hindsight because TD doesn't have that luxury. TD deserves blame for plenty of decisions that seemed questionable at the time, let's stick to those instead of blasting him for a move 90% of the GM's would have made given the circumstances.

It's about 150$ or so, but I'm sure you get a better deal on the early bird special. I agree that the ticket more then makes up for it's cost in entertainment value. I'd pay 500$ to watch every Bills game as opposed to 2 or 3 games broadcasted in Ohio.

To bad they don't play football on a track, that's why Indianpolis is a much better indication of speed as it relates to football.

Stones Rock!! Last year my girlfriend got me a photo signed by the entire band, best gift of the year. This is funny; the post I spent the least time thinking about in my wall history got more posts then any others. I blame TD.

Your original claim was Moorman could run a 4.2 or 4.3, so by that standard we know only one player in Deon Sanders running as fast as your conservative number for Moorman. So lets even go with 4.4 or lower, now your still only talking about 4 to 5 guys per draft class, if that. The point is your original claim that he could run that fast based on his track performance is wrong. Only 4 or 5 of the fastest players in the draft, many of which are conference champions in the 100M, run under a 4.4. Truth is he probably runs between 4.4 and 4.5, which is just about what I said he did in the post that started this in the first place Edit: That speed would still make Moorman the fastest kicker in the NFL hands down. (cant hate on Moorman to much)

Your using your 40 time as a comparison to Brian Moorman, so you must ask the question, How am I supposed to know the conditions in which you ran your time? Was it electronically/manually timed, wind/no wind, outdoor/indoor, fast/slow surface? All those variables can add tenths of a second on and off your 40, and with a 4.2 and 4.5 being the difference between somebody who is lighting fast and has average NFL speed I would say those variables matter. I would imagine 90% of the football/ track athletes in high school claim a 4.5 or lower. Hell I ran several sub 4.5's a few years back timed by my x football coach, then when I went to Nike’s football camp, who hosted similar conditions as the NFL combine and my best time was a blazing 4.74. You see college players run under 4.2 at their local pro day only to run 4.4 or worse at the combine, and this isn't an exception to the rule, it's what happened about 95% of the time. It's all about the conditions in which the 40 was run, and still to this day out of the 1000's of players to run at the combine Deon Sanders run of 4.28 is still the standard. You’re trying to tell me that Moorman can run with Deon Sanders, in his prime? If that’s the case you can site every track accomplishment Moorman has 1000 times over, I'll still risk 1000$ to your 1$ that Deon kills Moorman in a rcae and walk away with an easy buck every time. Moorman is fast but anybody coming in under a 4.4 at the combine would beat him by several steps. EDIT: Ben Johnson's 50m time, and 60m time in his world record 100M run would have also set the world record in those respective events.

Ben Johnson set the record in 100M, at the time he was using steroids heavily. The record was later stricken from the books, but that didn’t stop timing officials from breaking down the fastest 100 in the history of man. He ran the first 50M in 5.52 seconds, 60M in 6.37, how fast did he run the first 40 yards of that race? 4.38 seconds. This tells us two things, one is that the NFL 40 times we hear so loosely thrown around are not accurate, and two, Brian Moorman doesn't sniff a 4.2 driving in a race car. As I said, he probably runs the NFL version of a 4.5, in reality probably more like a 4.7.

I would be willing to bet my life he doesn't run a 4.2 or 4.3, that's as fast as Nate and Terrance, and after watching him run on a couple broken plays he is not as fast as those two. Fast for a punter yes, as fast as two CB's that competed in the NFL's fastest man challenge? No way.

(Assuming an unhealthy Big Ben) 1. Colts 2. Denver 3. Carolina 4. Chargers 5. Atlanta (Assuming a healthy Big Ben) 1. Colts 2. Denver 3. Pittsburgh 4 Carolina 5. Chargers NFC Sleeper: Dallas AFC Sleeper: Jaguars

Thats the way I read it

Good post Kelly, I was going to bring this up in a post later. I spent all last week posting about how we should start JP because I thought we had no chance at the playoffs. In reality I still don't think we have much of a shot, but if, and this is a huge if, JP can carry over his play against KC into the rest of the year, we very well could be in this thing down the stretch. For now I'm not worried about tiebreakers, because to have any chance we need to keep winning to keep up with the Patriots soft schedule. This week is huge, but the Chargers are at times capable of giving away games, with a lot of luck and solid play from JP against a weak secondary we might just get lucky. The Chargers are a big peace of the puzzle so we need to get it down this Sunday. Past that we still have to take on some powerhouses, but most of which are at home, and the Ralph in December is brutal on away teams. Also keep in mind that when we play the Bengal’s late in the year they might be resting some starters. As Kelly points out, if we did pull the miracle we would be assured of hosting a first round game. Would any Wild Card team want to come to Buffalo that time of year for the playoffs? How about a warm climate Florida team like Jacksonville? The point is that the Bills would probably have a legit shot in the first round. Let's hope for a miracle, it must start Sunday.

Not sure but he excelled at track in college, and probably runs about a 4.5 or so. Not blazing by NFL standards but most likely the NFL's fastest punter by a large margin. I agree with John, at least once this season we should run a fake with Moorman. He did a great job improvising last year, and on a planed call might even find more room to work with.

Damn Note to self, don't smoke, listen to free bird, and spontaneously post on the wall at the same time.