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I have a teenage daughter who is nuts about them. I know your pain. Back to the 'Boys, their dance is worse than the Icky Shuffle (takes you cak to '88).

It's 42-9 and at least the 'Hawks are hanging in there. I just wish teh refs would flag that stupid sack dance the 'Boys are using. If anything, it' sbad dancin'.

Anybody sick of that stupid turkey flappin' sack dance the Cowboys are doing. The Comboys are good, and Seattle is having an awful year, but is it really necessary to act like juvenile misfits on every sack? A fist pump is fine, but these guys should act like they meant to sack the QB. On top of that, it looks like a bad rendition of the Chicken Dance (a wedding tradition only because it has a captive audience).

It was 270+, but like you said, they lost. Then again, Barry Sanders had several Thanksgiving Day and other great rushing games and he went to the playoffs only once. I think that was with Wayne Fontes as coach. He had one big year and the Lions org stuck with him longer than they should've. Chris Berman likened him to Rasputin for lasting so many years after he should've been canned.

Kelly was still QB'ing. The Bills contained Barry Sanders pretty well, but in doing so let themselves get picked apart. The first play by the Lions was a flea flicker with Sanders taking a hand off, took 2 steps and pitched back to teh QB who throw a long TD to a wide open receiver after which 11 Buffalo Bills jock straps laid over the field. I think we still made the playoffs that year so all was not lost.

Won't argue. Though I might say it starts upfront. They have a O-line that can run block and pass protect. The Bills pass protection is OK, but against better teams, this line gets beat.

Now if they can get NBC to dump that dog show. C'mon! It's Thanksgiving! Once the Macy's Parade it should be nothin' but football baby!

Cassel has a running game and weapons (aka Randy Moss) at his disposal. It makes winning and coming up to speed a lot easier.

There must be a standing rule in that family (I've heard Nick and Lou are distant cousins) that no one can coach in the pros for more than 4 years. At least Lou brought home 2 championships.

Could he get RW to pardon Lou Saban?

This makes us all appreciate Marv Levy. He knew when buttons needed to be pushed and how to push them. Everything he did, he did with class. What Singletary did was his style. He could never motivate players in Marv Levy's fashion, and Marv certainly wouldn't use his. However, Singletary's antics can only have an effect once, and the players become immune. Some coaches have a simple motivational tool, the bench or the cut list.

When you have to write an analysis this long assessing our playoff chances, they got to be low and too far out of our control. The Bills key was winning 2 of 3 over our division opponents, and the team tanked. Losing those 3 puts a 11-5 record in peril of missing the playoffs, let alone 10-6. Until we get a coach that can manage a game and not get outcoached against division opponents, there will be no Bills football in January.

With our O-line two years ago he would have been sacked a lot and had no running game. We'd still be trying to rebuild other areas. Give Trent a chance. He's doing all right. Peyton Manning wasn't made in a year either.

I agree, though up until the last 2 years, it was insignificant in western new york and I'd bet on-campus as well. While I agree UB does not appear on the national NCAAF screen, UB is not an insignificant university in terms of enrollment and should have resources, and now the desire, to transform themselves into a BCS conference school. It may be up to the state university heads to set the ball in motion. Although I believe, some of the help would have to come from Albany, which, if its anything like the state legislature, aid will get stifled by power-brobering politicos. It was Albany that killed UB football in the late 60's when they refused to allow athletic scholarships.

True, but the Rusty Jones era had fewer injuries than today. Also, the team, as a whole, was more fit. Flab, like the Jason Peters' bouncing belly when he runs, was not tolerated. Heavy, "flabby" linemen will be runover by most DT's and LB's. Nor can they pull well.

I agree 100%. Jones was the best in teh business and Donahoe/Williams let him get away. Part of the patronage of NFL coaches and GM's. RW should have told them Jones stays. Poor decision.

We'll get UB up there first, then Miami(OH). Perhaps Buffalo (Bills or Bulls) could play 3 Miami's in one year. After the Bills lost to the Dolphins, I took some idiolic comfort when UB beat Miami(OH) so I could still claim to my Fish fans at work that Buffalo beat Miami. They didn't buy into it much.

I only heard the radio broadcast, but it sounded TE was in his September form. In his favor was a running game, Josh Reed's return, and a weak opponent. The absence of those makes all QB's suffer. I don't think any QB will consistently look good without a running working (JK would admit that). I still think the concussion from week 5 had lingering effects (that confused look, or scared as the Board's been calling it). Let's hope this carrys over to next week.

What would have happened if he played for McGee against Miami? Not putting Leodis in in favor of a guy not yet recovered from a knee sprain further makes me question the staff's competence.

Here's a little trivia. Two UB grads from the 60's played in the AFL (possibly into the NFL). John Stofa (backup QB for the Dolphins) and Gerry Philbin (DT? for the Jets). Besides the current alum on NFL rosters, having a filled stadium and wild fans (like we saw this year) will help recruiting. In the past, the prospect of playing in front of empty seats must not have been thrilling. Glad to see the seats filling up now.

My hope is UB starts (unless it has already) a program to move ionto a BCS conference someday. Heck, the school is large enough to support it. If not, UB will be on a never-ending 3 year cycle with coaches. The good ones will move up, and the lesser ones get canned. That's what mid-major basketball is like at Siena College near me.

You must be from Buff State.

HEY!! UB WON!!! And they have been in Buffalo longer than the Bills or the Sabres! They are WNY's only source of pride since Halloween.

No question Joe M would succeed today. My problem lie more with our receivers ability to get open or into the seam of a zone on a consistent basis. Other than Evans and Reed, TE has few consistent options.

Would you have written this post after the San Diego game. C'mon guys, this guy played terrific 4 straight games, showing the accuracy and check downs we didn't see with JP, then got a concussion in game 5 which is a serious injury, had a fair game against SD, then had problems. Ever think that maybe he's still injured? The Bills staff has shown that they will play players who haven't fully recovered from injury (McGee against the Fish) even when it hurts the team. The problems TE is having sound just like what happens to someone still recovering from a concussion. I have a neighbor who had a serious concussion and she took months to recover, and decision making under stress was difficult for her. Sound familiar? I think there's more to this than just a young QB struggling. You don't just regress like that on your own.