Mark Long Beach

I hadn't noticed how mCkelvin got on the field, but I DID notice how well he played. I definitely agree it was the best that I've seen him cover.

Nice work. Although it wasn't any more fun to read it than watch it.

The Dolphins are an excellent running team. They were last year and dominated time-of-possession and still lost most of their games. They dominated TOP in this game and won by less than a TD. If our offense could have scored another TD we also could have won this game. Our O looked poor, especially our QB and oline. Their D looked much better than I expected. I don't blame the D much. They kept the Dolphins offense to 13 points and gave us a chance to win. Yes they dominated TOP. That's their strength, but they couldn't score much even with that TOP advantage.

Regardless of what you feel would be the most successful choice for our situation at 4th & 10 from our own 1 inch line, success was not very likely. At that point we had three options. Go for it, punt or take a safety (without a play). Which longshot was going to work? shrug, it'd be a miracle either way. We'd essentially already lost the game by being at the 1" line and not being able to move off of it in the previous 3 plays. What I'm glad is that of the three options to try we did not do the one option which was significantly worse than the other two which was punt. Punting was Jauron's favorite. Arguing over which (other) longshot to take is like arguing over betting on 7 instead of 11 on the roulette table.

Totally agree. This is the way that I interpret it as well. Especially since this is his first year here in Buffalo, so he's stating Chan's abilities on past performance. Nothing to do with our guys. I wonder if we'll run a wildcat at all vs the Dolphins. (Or more than one play) They practice against it more than any other team in the league. They _know_ how to defend against it and will pounce on any mistake we would make. I suspect that we're not that good at it yet, so why run it against the very experienced players of it?

I think this is an important question. I personally think that even if he somehow manages to hit 9 full sacks this season he'll still have many, many detractors. (think back to the amount of complaints about Schoebel)

oh my. oops.

He still needs work in both pass protection and run blocking... but he sure has potential. I agree with you on the hope that when the end of the season rolls around a LT is not on our wish list.

There's some similarities, same with Barry Sanders. We'll need to see more of him to really see what his style will be. But I sure hope that after several games we'll still be having an argument as which of these to hall-of-fame runningbacks he resembles.

True. Preseason is only part of the story. But it's difficult to compare a veteran team of two decades ago to a young team with a new coach. We LOOK so much better than we've looked in the last few years. We run a balance of good plays, they work. We seem dangerous on the ground with what Spiller is doing, and we've even shown some good air strikes. (even a couple deep) pretty good sign, since we've done so little of either before.

Good one sentence summary. Although I would be even a little more positive. Last year's Cincy team had a very good defense and it's been very good so far this preseason. And we've essentially walked all over it.

He really has to learn to not hit late. He could have been flagged for late hit on QB on the sack. He was waaaaaaay late.

I lost my stream, what happened? How'd we get down to the 5 yardline? What did Cin do on it's previous pos? Last I saw Andre Davis creamed somebody in the backfield.

My God, it looked like we have a real offense on that drive.

yup. They don't show the score. I really enjoyed rewind since I don't have the day free due to baby and house remodeling, but I DO have the evenings free when wifey and baby are sleeping. It was great to be able to relax and watch the games. With DTV I'd have recorded it anyways and had to watch it at basically the same time. Of course it IS easier here on the west coast...

I agree that the ratings didn't seem too far out of line, with the exception of Moorman who is top 3 in his position setting both team and NFL caliber records during his stint here.

Well most of us HOPE he makes the roster. But so far our RB corp sure looks impressive. I'd like to see some big runs in the next preseason game. (and better yet, during the season!)

Agreed, all kinds of win. Thanks Beerball!

Chan Gailey. Team was ready to play and it looks like we may have some offense! I think we're still a little behind on the talent curve, especially at OT. But I think He'll do a MUCH better job of utilizing our talent than old Dickie-J. playcalling appears significantly better in preseason game 2 than it did most of last season.

Jackson has great vision. He finds a way through. But he doesn't have the speed to break away from NFL defenders to be a homerun threat. I like him, I root for him, and he's a good runningback. But he's still a little limited.

Not sure how they keep Joique, but I hope they do. Simpson sure didn't look good this game. He was alternating series with JB and JB ended up w/ 11 carries for 81 yds and a TD while Simpson carried 8 times for 8 yards...

man, my computer froze. What happened??

Agreed. It was a good toss. Foot further ahead would have made it a little more difficult (and obvious) to interfere with. But it was definitely dead square with the receiver. And it was definitely PI.

nice punt by moorman to the 4 in the corner. course our coverage wasn't so great so they got it back to the 17. But it was still "better" than it's been in this game...

sweet! nice out to Parrish. using the run to set up the pass. who'd a thunk