DeeRay

That's fine that you're an optimist. My question is this.... (and don't take this personal, because this could be said of at least 2/3 of the board's posters) why does every thing discussed about the Bills have to be "graded" as "positve" or "negative"??? Why do many of the posters think that, if the message ain't positive, it's automatically negative? and if the message is negative, so what, as long as it's true? Is there a reason why we can't just take things for what they really are, postive or negative? Of course there's a reason... it's called "myopic homieism". So good... we got the "W" yesterday... how does that stack up in the grand scheme of things and what does yesterday's "W" mean... and how will the team perform on Sunday against the Jets? We don't know. we know that the "W" came against a 2-5 team that played on the road under weather consitions they've rarely seen... and we also know there's a reason less than 66,000 fans moved the turnstiles... at least a few of us won't tolerate bad fish. Bill Cowher made a profund statement after the Steelers victory yesterday... and it good teams have to think this way. He said... after his team thoroughly trounced the Pats..."we haven't accomplished anything. All we've done is put ourselves in a pretty good situation". That's the difference in 6-1 and 2-5.

Hey Paco, my bad. I didn't mean to piss in your cornflakes. The Bills are 5 and 1 and Bledsoe leads the league passing. Bledsoe is going to shred the Cardinals this week... you just watch. This positive Karma is working already.

"What you do is you try to breed an environment of positives," said Bills quarterback Drew Bledsoe. "You try to go forward with a very positive attitude: "OK, this is what we have to do to win.' We're not focused on the negative is what I'm saying. We're focused on the positive going forward." Don't know about you all, but my stomach is churning, I'm getting that bad bile taste in my mouth... I'm about to blow lunch and I haven't even digested my breakfast yet.

First: Pats Win SB 2nd: Bosox win WS 3rd: ??? Kerry??? to complete the M!@#$ Trifecta???

Maybe... but the coach won't say so... that would make the players mad... Callahan made that exact statement last year and the Raiders players jumped ship on him.

nothing like indicting the offensive line. That must really make them want to block all that much harder for him. But more important... he indicted himself. "I don't know what more I can do". Bingo!!! That says it all. He's given the Bills everything he's got...alas, it aint enough to add up to a win. So, he doesn't know what else he can do? Well, a QB has to WIN... and you can't do that if you don't have the will to WIN.

I'd go for a 2nd opinion... for one thing, mechanics prey on women because they think they're not that knowledgeable when it comes to mechanical issues so they feel they can say and do anything they want and you'll believe it. But... a longer term issue... and i hate to say it, but, American cars are junk. Every Jap car I've bought... Nissan, Honda, Toyota... just runs and runs and runs... 2 years a go I sold a Nissan Sentra that I bought brand new in 91... I sold it with 172K miles on it and I still see the thing running around town. I still have my 93 Mazda 626 ES (produced just as Ford took it over) that my daughter drives and that has 175K on it... unbelieveable. I've got a 2000 Altima with 68K on it... I've done nothing but put tires on it. If it were me, after I get this Focus thing resolved, I'd go looking for a different vehicle and steer clear of an American made one.

This is true re: the 11 guys executing... the problem here is that at least one of the 11 has no "grit" or "will to win"... the proverbial "fire in the belly"... to make an analogy to basketball... Drew Bledsoe is to the Bills what Allan Houston is to the Knicks... meaning that... these guys are content to lose and basically play the game for a paycheck and, to some degree they like competition... but they just don't want to be bothered or, at least have what it takes to win. They play the game at a particular level and rarely make a play that takes their team over the top. They never reach down and get that little extra that we all have inside.

Damnit!! Did you really need to remind us??? You bastard. Stop that!

panic button? Nah, things can't get worse... they'll just stay the same...but, that's bad enough... I'm thinking 3-13... and that's as positive as I can dram right now.

Let not your heart be troubled. This kid is the real deal... and yes, DeeRay has a knack for identifying QB busts. I exposed "Golden Child" Collins, Rojo, and Bledsoe as cowshit long before most fans acknowledged it. JP has "it". What is "it"? Damned if I know, but he has "it". The swagger, the bounce, the passion, the will to win... all the stuff that simply can't be measured, like arm strength, speed, size, testing scores. If I were to describe JP or compare him to another NFL QB, the closest description would be Brett Favre or Flutie with size and arm strength. Now, hypothetically, what happens if he's a bust? Well, what would you do if you were the owner. Your GM just gave up a number 1 and a number 4 for the pleasure of paying out a huge bonus of which not only can't be recovered, it handcuffs the team salary cap wise. So, the logical thing would be to look at what your GM has done overall... and what type of players has he drafted and how to these players stack up now. If I look at that, my GM has failed miserably, and then to add to a bust QB... this GM is soooooooo fired!!! JP, Evans, and McGahee may be the only players that save "Old Whitey's " ass from Ralph's wrath in the end, cuz I don't see any player that he's drafted that's worth a damn... except for, perhaps Schobel. "Old Whitey" would be wise to tell his scouts to simply look for mean and nasty, not warm and fuzzy.

If you see TD, tell him to stop scamming us.

Rudy... really... we are that bad!!! this is the 2nd coming of 1984.

well... none of his heirs want the team... so it has been said. that leaves one option... the team will be sold. Once the team is sold, it is going to move out of Buffalo. There's not too many businessmen that would be happy in a venue that has no potential for generating revenue. Right now, the NFL is prepared to bank roll a new stadium in LA. They desparately want a team back in that market... where Jack Nicholson and the rest of the hollywooders can piss away $1M on a luxury box which is non shared revenue for an owner. Just imagine a cutting edge stadium in LA... 30, 000 seats for the owner to share revenue and 5,000 luxury suites non shared revenue....

If Drew coughs up the Cardinals game??? That is pretty much a given. Best D in the redzone vs. the worst offense in the redzone?

I'll say this about Matthews.... he sure has an affinity for seeking out and playing for teams that suck...Bears, Panthers, Redskins, and now the Bills. Every team he's played for has sucked at the time he was on their roster. I guess the moral of the story is that the bills suck and they needed an extra QB on their roster that was a compliment to their losing ways... apparently Bledsoe wasn't enough.

can he lead us to about a 3-13 record?... which is about as good as Bledsoe will do.

Moorman is clearly the team MVP.

AH, a moment of clarity. My epiphany came a year ago in September.

The better question to ask (now that he's Skins DC) " If you were scheduled to play the Bills, how many sleepless nights would you have knowing that you're going to be facing Bledsoe? I mean... how does one defend a Bledsoe"?

Jeff George's career QB rating is about 4 points hire than Drew's? (80.4 vs. 76.6) Most football fans will call Jeff George one of the biggest head cases, waste of talent, and overrated QB of all time... yet, because he's a nice guy, Drew gets a free pass?

hey... someone had to take Jeff George's place as the most overrated QB.

A GM with emotion!!! Butler, and certainly Polian, showed way more emotion than Ole Whitey. Just once wouldn't you like to see the GM go on a tirade? This team doesn't show much emotion either... maybe they've taken on the GMs personality.

Fezmid, my dear friend. you still don't get it. Take Bledsoe out and defenses can't "pin their ears back".

Donahoe... period. You don't hire a rookie head coach after having just experimented for 3 years with that. And no, all of the decades of experience that his assistants have doesn't overcome Mularkey's inexperience... and more important, his ability to be a head coach.