Bob in STL

The bold part is most hilarious. Almost made a catch and he is a beast.

Ted was hated for awhile too ... until he let Kelly call the plays.

Francis.

Barkley was not good but he was playing with 2's and 3's and the OL was real bad with Bates at LT. If we find a batter backup so be it. A few 2's played well. Duke looks like he adds more than Foster. Foster gunner status has helped him a lot. Yeldon adds more than Sunroise (or whatever his name is). Is McDermott willing to reduce our ST performance for better back ups? Bates looked bad as a OT. Kroft is playing below Sweeney right now and did himself no favors. Gase and Greggo are very hate worthy - I hope they stay with the Jets for awhile. They suck. No one talks about the rain. It was hard for either offense to do anything today. Let's get ready for Houston.

... so you can play defense on that terrible pass.

Ruff ruff Barkley

Well. Let’s add a chapter to the legend of Duke Williams.

It is fantastic that this game does not mean a thing. Back in the Levy era we had a game like this every year for 5 or 6 years. love it. It means we are one if the better teams in the league. Relax.

I think our defense needs to score.

Someone has to play. You dress 8 or 9 OL and 5 have to play.

And Greggggo will be blitzing with reckless abandon, so a quick hitter could go for big yards.

It is hard to run routes on a wet field in heavy rain. You need even more time, which he isn’t getting.

I want 11 wins and I want to do it with backups. Would love to pile up points on Gregggggo in the 2nd half.

The officials are really bad today. Other than that it’s raining and we are playing backups.

He was a Joe Ferguson ankle injury (or a fallen free safety) away from a playoff win and a home AFC championship game versus Oakland.

I remember him. His NFL career did not live up to the potential Tampa Bay bestowed upon him on draft day. He had a brief stint in Buffalo and I lost track of him. It’s sad to read these stories. 15 years and no parole.

Knox was an excellent coach but I rate Saban and Levy ahead of him for what they did as "Bills" coaches. Saban was a flake but he won. Levy was a teacher and he was consistent. Knox had a great rebuild in Buffalo, combining vets and young talent to bring us to contention for a short time.

Lombardi was conservative for the times. Compared to George Allen or Tom Landry anyway. Chuck Knox was very conservative - Ground Chuck. Bud Grant (70's Vikings) was conservative Levy was conservative quite often. Same can be said for Bellicheat, he prefers to be conservative but is not. McD is mostly conservative - I think he tries to match the experience of the team to what he asked them to do. Ditka has conservative offenses and crazy aggressive defenses.

Beating a division rival and establishing dominance is nice, especially for the home crowd. But I sure hope #17 is on the bench after a series or two. Remember we are playing a Gregg Williams defense.

Must you be insulting? So you think looking at football film, without the coaches there who have the benefit of actually knowing the play call and assignments, is like reading a history book? Oh, by the way, History books are written by people with a perspective. Just like we both have. Sometimes our perspectives differ. Some history books on the same subject actually disagree with others. I know, truly shocking. Sorry Wayne. I’m not discussing things here for W’s and L’s. I enjoy hearing others perspectives. Don’t care much for the name calling from those that don’t agree. One of the issues with forums though.

No nonsense Mr Buscaglia and thanks for your support.

Read my first post. I don’t think you will find anywhere that I said it was irrelevant or not. Now that you mention it, Joe’s analysis, like mine and yours, is somewhat irrelevant. Unless you think NFL coaches and GMs read them and make decisions based on them. He was raw out of college and he certainly has high potential. I hope he works with Allen this off season and they accelerate their development together.

I mean his “film breakdown” is from the point of a journalist, not a coach. Sorry if that does not pass your criteria of adding to the discussion. To you it’s real football insight to me it’s not.

Did they have bad games? I think Josh missed on several throws that could have changed the outcome. He also made some big plays that put us in the lead and within one score. The entire offenses talked about how the Pats disguise their defense. They do it better than anyone. Mixed bag fir Allen. Allen, Daboll, the entire offense need to be better. Edmunds was targeted by the Pats*. They put on blocker on him every run down, no matter where he lined up, no matter the play, they had someone responsible for blocking him. When Bellichek game plans for you then you must be playing pretty good. Basically saying just block 49 and we will get yards. Did the Bills did adjust? No. Does every loss constitute a regression by young players still developing? Or is it safe to say they are still developing? The later has less less journalistic impact. The NFL is over analyzed and over hyped. You Come on. Pick the two youngest guys on the team, playing the toughest positions, and point out their mistakes as if that is the reason for the loss. Sure, they didn’t make every play they needed to. No one else did either. Bellichek and his staff totally beat McD again. It was a TEAM loss.

Because he is tall. Certain fans here believe that you throw the ball up in the air and he out jumps everybody and catches it every time. They see him as Julio Jones of the CFL. The coaches apparently are not as gifted as these fans, they see a guy that has marginal speed and can’t get open, or something like that.