RJ (not THAT RJ)

Good idea... I will keep that in mind for the future. Did I mention, by the way that I have never watched Lost or Entourage, nor do I think Scarlett Johanson is fat, that Tom Donahoe is neither genius nor demon, and that Kirk could kick Picard's butt from Vulcan to Wrigley's Pleasure Planet without even having to adjust his toupee...? I think that about covers things, and will now return to the shadows....

Thanks... after about five years of semi-lurking, I am proud of my very first LAMP.

Ahh.... that's better.

Thanks.... and it almost got me to 300... almost....

I whas? Oh heck, I whanted so badly to be one of the in-crowd....

I deserved that.

Geez.... I wrote that earlier today and got not a single response or reference to it... What does a guy gotta do to become visible around here?

Amen to that Promo. Sully has an opinion, like everyone, but he also has a column... and he is also under no compulsion to be consistent. Very much like the weather man, he relies on people to have no memories or willingness to check back on his assertions and predictions. I bet he already has a draft column ready to excoriate TD for being cheap just in case Clements signs somewhere else....

I'm with you. The whole discussion of DUI came from the earlier comment that what happened was somehow an "accident." I never did think of it as an accident anyway, but a premeditated act. The result was perhaps not intended, but it was too closely related to the act to be accidental. What Bertuzzi did should cost him his license to play hockey (so to speak). If the NHL ever wanted to end gooning, this was their chance. Now we know where they stand.

If you are being sarcastic, Dan, I apologize in advance for taking you seriously... I was wondering the same thing, but then I thought: a. perhaps the drill calls for JP only to stand in the pocket for a certain count, in order to approximate game conditions. b. perhaps the team thinks it is not a bad thing for the receivers and QB to practice what it means to break off their routes and come back to the QB when he has to scramble. Am I over-analyzing?

Gosh thanks so much Mr. Blanket! Or should we call you Wet? Why bother sending further reports, it sounds like the season is over... By the way, who is this "Jonus" person?

Kelly, This is a very sensible post. As much as we want the Bills to win it all every year, I think that we all need to remember how much good fortune is required to win it all, no matter how good your GM, your coach, or your players are. Whether it is the good fortune that a couple of low-draft choices or FAs turn out to be solid O-linemen, or the good fortune that your conference is a bit weak, or the occasional lucky bounce in a game (say, off of an unconscious player's leg) or even an iffy official's call going your way (forget the tuck rule, do we all remember that Don Beebe stepped out of bounds before catching Reich's bomb in the comeback game that cut the lead to 35-17? If the official had been on it, who knows what would have happened...?). When all is said and done, it is also worth remembering that 39 Super Bowls have been won by only 20 franchises, and of those 20 winners, most of them have won more than once, and only three have been there only once. [Those numbers are a rough estimate, I wanted to save you all an FFS-length post...] Winning the Super Bowl does not mean you are perfect; it means you won the Super Bowl that year. Not winning the Super Bowl, or not getting there, on the other hand, does not mean you suck. It means you need to try again next year. That is the fun of following a sports team--the hope, the excitement of game day. To reduce it to "if we don't win it all we suck" is to (for want of a better word) suck all of the joy of being a fan. End of rant. Go Bills! RJ

Maybe the Whammy Weenie?

OK... now who is going to clean this coffee off of my screen?

Nice research!

Oh, you mean like Mike Williams, Marcus Price, Jonas Jennings....? Not to be picky, Bills Brother, but it is flat wrong to assert that there has been no effort to draft o-linemen in the Donohoe era. Without the full drafts in front of me, I would guess that the Bills have drafted at least one lineman every year, and signed several others various ways. Not all have worked out, but that is true of all positions everywhere. There is always a certain luck of the draw factor, especially in the offensive line. Go Bills!

The Horror, the Horror!

Actually, it happened in Miami, in 1975. The Bills fell behind 21-0 at the half, when Don Strock, making his first NFL start (!) completed something like 11 passes in a row. In the second half the Bills pulled to 24-21, and Mercury Morris fumbled in Dolphin territory. Bills recovered, the officials said Morris was down, then flagged Pat Toomay for bumping an official in the debate. Next play, Don Nottingham rumbles ca. 50 yards to the 1. Bulaich scores on the next play. Bills lose 31-21, fall to 7-5, and are out of the playoffs. 1975 was such a crucial year for the Bills. They started 4-0, were rolling over teams. Then they lost 17-14 to the Giants on MNF (I could go on about how they never should have lost that one, but will save it for later), and the wheels came off. The defense fell apart (at one point blowing a 28-7 lead at home to Baltimore, another time on MNF in Cincinnati allowing the Bengals to go the whole game without a punt), Lou Saban began the meltdown that would lead him to up and quit five games into the 1976 season, and OJ, playing in the last year of his original contract, decided at the end of the season that he did not want to play in Buffalo anymore. After that season, they gutted the team, signed OJ at the last minute to huge money, which alienated most of his teammates, then Fergy got hurt ca. game 6 of the 1976 season, Gary Marangi sucked a$$, and the Bills went 2-12. They did not have another winning season until 1980. Ah, and there are people out there who want to back Tom Donahoe? Kids today....

All true enough, though Bills fans may remember that Sunday in 1969 when Hank called time out with five seconds left in the game and the Chiefs near the Buffalo goal line so that he could send in one more play and run up the score.... Nobody's perfect, I guess.

Doooomeedd.... We're billsfanone! I have been here a while, but post infrequently, so I guess that makes me a newbie. Hi.

I understand your point, Joe, but I do not share that point of view. It sounds so self-defeating to be depressed before you need to be. The pain of losing is awful, I know, even out of proportion to the investment in time and money. But the emotional pain is monopoly money compared to real concerns, don't you think? The dollars one spends, well, that's our choice, and it's a lot more exhilirating to attend a Bills game than to go to the movies five times. I do not want to belittle anyone's fan-ness, especially someone as passionate as you obviously are. I just want to encourage you and all of the other pre-emptive depressives to lighten up. Why be afraid of being disappointed about a football team? To choose to be depressed now (and encourage others to be depressed) so that one will not be depressed later because one does not like being depressed seems awfully convoluted to me. Go Bills!

Yessss... another thread killed... Mwahahahaha! I must report to Master Whitey that The Plan is continuing....

Amen Coach. Where did you get that great quote?