stuckincincy

Thanks for stopping in! TEN is quite a surprise...7 and 7. Like you say, here's to a good game! HC Fisher has done a good job with a club most gave up for dead...

Can I quote you?

Yup. The Bills have had a blessing this year. Facing not too many high-powered offenses, and not too many powerful blitzing teams. Luck and parity go only so far. To go on, you need to be a big deal within ten yards of the LOS, be it defense or offense. Get into 3rd and 2 on offense, or keep the opposition in 3rd and 7...playoffs. You can and will get beat by good individual effort, but if you can get in enough favorable down situations throughout the season, you will be in the hunt. And must have a good punter. Field position means a lot. Mooreman is the MVP of the Bills IMO.

The ignoring of covering an historically zero big-play TE, and 2 spiffy completions over a dull game in snotty weather that a stellar, exciting performance make, to the rest of the football-watching nation, including the grade-assigning fellow you mention. The folks in the stands must have been miserable for most of the first half. Cold. Wet. Punt after punt. TEN got plastered in the stats, but provided 3 very big exciting defensive plays. They were underdogs according to the betting interests. Hence, the "B". Personally, I would have given them an "A"...

Well, the Bills did well in a snotty weather game, albeit with their mostly season-long big plays getting a win, and TEN despite an awful offensive performance, turned some very big defensive plays into an improbable victory. What's the problem, then? I give both teams a for gettin' it done - if not in a dominant fashion... I mentioned a while back during the moaning about sell-outs and weather and more games in December...playing 4 of the last six at home is a nice plus...especially for a club and fan base that touts inclement-weather performance.

Drink more coffee...so far, so good! You're a good fan, SB12...we need more like you!

That's not a bad idea, Tenny. Partly because of injuries to starting SS Dexter Jackson, CIN has been using Kevin Kaesviharn a fair amount, including duty as a 3rd safety for the reasons you put forth. Kaesviharn is (improbably) tied for the int lead at six - three being end-zone drive stoppers.

Very nice performance by BUF, NYJ, and MIA after the 1st 7 games... BUF, 1st 7 games: 2 - 5, 2nd 7 games: 5 - 2. MIA, 1 - 6 then 5 - 2 NYJ, 4 - 3 then 4 - 3 14 and 7 for those three AFC East clubs in the second half of the season, to date. Remarkable job by TEN, too... 2 - 5 followed by 5 - 2. Wild game for them against JAX yesterday...JAX pounded them - 23 fd's to 5, 396 total yards to 98, 44:12 TOP vs. 15:38. But, two ints for td's, and a fumble return for a td did the trick. OK, Titans have done a good thing for us. Too bad they lose next week...

The idea of Reed doing some RB duty goes back a long time...

Great news !!!!!

Should Dolphin be broiled or baked?

Do you mean that he would rather pass into the wind?

If you describe every play, you will have a 150 posts before the end of the game...

Use nfl.com's more-or-less real time Game center. Go to nfl.com, then Scores and click on Live Game Stats for the BUF game. A lot better that a FF site.

Go Bills!

Happy Birthday!

The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 heavily damaged the regions' importance as a grain milling and steel processing giant, and as a major rail center. The long-standing political machine of the area did little to react to the inevitable changes in the local economy, choosing to maintain their power with unions and ethnic majorities with patronage and the like. As Bethlehem, Republic, Mobil, Pillsbury, Western Electric, Bell, etc. left town, the political response was increased taxation and public sector hiring.

Not surprising.... Ginn Jr., Gonzales, Pittman, and RT Kirk Barton... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16228080/

He didn't sound like he was joking to me. I wonder how his relationship was with the recent owner (2002), Arthur Blank (co-founder of Home Depot)? After getting to the 2nd round of playoffs in '02, Blank fired HC Reeves in '03, with Wade Phillips coaching for the last 3 games or so that year. IIRC, ATL was without a GM for a couple of years - a position that Reeves wanted.

None of them. They all smack of "1984", "Blade Runner", and "Brave New World".

Once again ESPN kisses its own gonads to get a rise out of viewers. The Bills have no one else on deck - nor should they. They certainly aren't going to draft a Troy Smith or a Brady Quinn - nor need they. Of course JP will be the starter...

Don't be an angry vegetarian. I have no truck with vegetarians. I applaud those that take a vegetarian diet, as long as they have more sense that the vegan crowd and realize the omnivore aspect of our species and find other ways ways to get the amino acids/proteins that are necessary. I honestly enjoy my one per day soy burger. I like the Boca brand, with an imitation cheese (surprisingly a tasty adjunct), on a store brand cheap-o whole wheat roll. I certainly don't haunt the eateries or buy meat for every meal. And I also know that too much soy can cause problems. I also know about China. That they are stellar purchasers of soy product to feed them. That their chief supplier is South America, that is ripping up forest to plant soy. I will not, do not buy any of their products. And I'm sure you have taken notice of incident after incident of mine disaster. They want energy, they will burn the most miserable of coal. Your greenhouse de jour. You may or not may read my posts. If you do, you know I'm not a "buy foreign" guy. For more than one reason... Till our next snot fling... stuck.

Yep...

Nobody can get 40 sacks. Unless you let me play and arm me with a revolver... The thing is, while sacks are surely nice, a DE who may not rack up those numbers and doesn't get his name up on lights may well be the player who stretches out this or that run, ties up this or that OT letting a LB put pressure for a qb hurry or a 1 yard stop on a RB. And shame on a team that doesn't get the best LB's they can afford. Great if they are pass defense or rush mavens, but it's a 10 yard world you need to control for much of any game. LB's and DT's are always in the picture around the LOS. When you see an S or a DE who shows up consistently in that same picture moments after an offense gets its play underway, you are seeing a player with a nose for the action, a player who beat out his offensive watchdog if only by a step, even if they don't get the tackle or the assist. The ball carrier does good, squirts through, and then - kayo. 6 yard gai n becomes 5. 11 yard pass becomes 9. It's a 60 minute game, and little things add up. There are 3 field generals - Qb's - and they come and go. And Centers and MLB's. Your club is unlikely to go far - IMO - in the NFL unless you acquire that smart pair. They may or may not be exceptional physical specimens. But what you want to purchase is grey matter.