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Sounds like we are using our "punt catcher" today. Have they decided not to risk Roscoe or McGee or Clements back there on punts?
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Mood (ring) swings across the NFL
BLACK: Beaten, defeated• J.P. Losman: After Losman led the Bills on a last-minute drive to defeat the Texans, Houston cornerback Dunta Robinson had this to say: "If that had been Peyton Manning, you'd expect it. But it was J.P. Losman. That's embarrassing. I hope he doesn't feel too good, because we just shot ourselves in the foot." Yeah, Losman, you shouldn't feel too good. You had to resort to a last-minute drive to beat Dunta Robinson and the Texans. Most teams usually put them away long before the fourth quarter. You should be embarrassed. You're so pathetic I'm surprised you're not a Houston Texan.
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Stat of the Week No. 6: J.P. Losman was sacked once every four times he dropped back, and Buffalo won.
Stat of the Week No. 7: Buffalo and San Francisco combined for 317 offensive yards, and both won.
Sour Play of the Week No. 3: Game tied at 10 in the fourth, Buffalo faced a second-and-20 on the Green Bay 43. Lee Evans went deep against Packers corner Al Harris -- who made no attempt at all to cover his man, but rather stood there committing the high school mistake of "looking into the backfield" to guess the play. Evans caught the touchdown pass that proved to be the game's winning points. This play was double sour because not only was Harris taking the lazy man's way out by looking into the backfield, Buffalo quarterback J. P. Losman was staring at Evans the entire time.
GO BILLS!
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It's likely the Penningtons will also be at Busby's to see their son's first start.
fyi ... article linked on TBD front page indicates that Pennington's folks will be at the Ralph to see their son's first NFL start. Hope he does them proud!
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In other football news, man, what great games this weekend! Kansas City-Seattle, Atlanta-Cincinnati, Indianapolis-Denver, Jacksonville-Philadelphia, Baltimore-New Orleans and New England-Minnesota were all strong matchups. Why so many strong pairings? The four bye teams -- Buffalo, Detroit, Miami and Washington -- had a combined record of 6-22. Most of the cupcakes took the weekend off, and the result was the games played were tremendous. TMQ's suggestion to improve NFL play: Let these four teams take the rest of the season off.
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I know. It's all wrong. By rights they shouldn't have lost to the Lions. But they did. It's like in the great stories, friends. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Bills fans, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something: the thought of beating the Patriots the next week.
Is this Sam's speech (Samwise) near the end of the 3rd book in the "LOrd of the RIngs" trilogy? Sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it .....
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ESPN article about Mets/Cardinals
NEW YORK -- What Michael Jordan was to the Cleveland Cavaliers ...What Troy Aikman was to the Buffalo Bills ...
What Tiger Woods was, and is, to the golf-course architects of the entire universe ...
That's what Carlos Beltran is to the St. Louis Cardinals.
... although I think it was more the Dallas Defense, or maybe Emmit Smith, who seemed to be the bigger "Bill-killers" than Troy. He was one of those QBs who never seemed to put up extraordinary numbers, but did just enough to "manage the game".
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"He was untruthful with me, untruthful with his head coach, about where he was and what he was doing. So we started off on the wrong page there, and that did not sit well with me," Fisher said.
Fisher wouldn't say what the lie was.
Heard Mort on ESPN radio this morning, and he said that at one point during the off-season, during one of the "optional" sessions when the quarterbacks were supposed to come in, Volek was a no-show. He (Volek) called and left a message to the effect that he was out of town ... and later it came out that he had been in Nashville all along, and just made up the "out of town" story.
... but at this point, who cares???
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I can't remember a game that had this big a difference in hidden yardage.
-Moorman downs 5 inside the 20
-Miami loses 60 yards in sacks
-Roscoe averages almost 14.4 on 5 punt returns.
-Wire blocks a punt
Counting it all and we probably had about 150 yard difference in field position. When you only gain 171 total yards that can make a big difference in the outcome of the game. We should be very strong in hidden yardage this year, but an advantage this big is way above the norm. More reason to stay level headed with expectations.
.... not to mention the 50-yard gain on the pass interference call that set up the Bills on Miami's 4 yard line for the game's only touchdown. It's really a shame that PI penalty yardage doesn't count in the "official" stats for the QBs and the receivers.
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... but, doesn't he play RG for the Fins? and wasn't he pulled out of the game due to ineptness today???
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No wonder his best move in pass blocking is the "ole'" ! ;-)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-091...0,6491569.story
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1. Win the toss. Elect to kick. Therefore we get the ball at half to start off the end, and you DO NOT want the Patriots to be on Defense while the crowd is blowing up after kick-off.
I have a question about the rules concerning this issue ... is this really the way it works? I thought that the team that won the toss just got to CHOOSE whether they wanted to receive or kick-off AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST HALF .... and then the other team gets to choose whether it wants to receive or kick-off at the beginning of the 2nd half?
If that is true, then CHOOSING to kick-off to start the game does NOT guarantee you will automatically get to receive the ball in the 2nd half ... the other team could just as easily (and most likely would) choose to receive again in the 2nd half.
I seem to remember this coming up a few years ago during a particularly bad weather game down south somewhere ... maybe one of the Florida teams? There were near hurricane-force winds to start the game, and so the team that won the toss elected to kick-off, so they would start with the wind at their backs. By the 2nd half, the winds had died down considerably, but the same team who received the kick-off to begin the game elected to receive it again. I remember because it was talked about as the first time in NFL history the same team received the ball to start both halves ... anyone else remember this? Or maybe the rules have been changed since then?
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Here's my prediction of the teams that will wind up with worse records than the Bills this year (saving us from getting the #1 overall pick in the draft next year). In no particular order:
1. San Francisco
2. Detroit
3. Cleveland
4. New York Jets
5. Tennessee
6. Arizona
7. New Orleans
8. Houston
9. Green Bay
I think we are about "equal", talent-wise, with the following:
1. Miami
2. Minnesota
3. Oakland
4. Kansas City
5. St Louis
6. Baltimore
7. Jacksonville
8. Dallas
9. Atlanta
It's not TOO much of a stretch to think of us finishing at about the "middle of the pack" this year (somewhere between 14 and 20).
Hopefully we won't even be TEMPTED with picking Brady Quinn with our 1st pick ... he'll either be long gone ... or will have dropped out of the 1st round all together! ;-)
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I didn't see Martin Nance's name mentioned ... did I miss something earlier? Had he already been cut?
I hope they can keep him on the PS as well. Here's what I'm hoping for on the PS:
Lenohard
Wilson
Nance
Gates
Geisinger or Jerman
Cielak
Baker or King
Sape
(assuming all these guys are still eligible?)
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I chalk some of that up to the fact that it is pre-season ... esp. the 12 men on the field one. All the "new guys" are getting rotated in and out on special teams as they evaluate them, so that stuff is bound to happen. Don't know the details of the illegal formation penalty. That one would worry me more if all the 1st stringers were still in there.
I really wasn't all that impressed with the running game against Cleveland ... not the 1st unit, anyway. McGahee didn't do much, but I don't think they were opening many holes for him.
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The AFC would appear to be wide open this season.
NE lost some pretty important players and coaches as of late. Big Ben is a question mark, and they lost people too. If Palmer is healthy, Cincy would look to be the favorite, but that is a big if. Denver is solid yet unspectacular. The Chiefs are going down the toilet imo, and it looks like a reach for Rivers to step in and take SD to the superbowl. Jax? Not quite enough talent imo.
While I do not pick Miami to get to the superbowl, I don't think that doing so is taking a huge risk.
You didn't mention the Colts ... though their running game without Edge hasn't been very spectacular so far in the preseason, Manning is still Manning. But I really think Cinci is going to be right back at the top this year as well.
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I also agree, with one caveat ... they all have to remain healthy! The only backup I have any confidence in whatsoever at this point is Preston (I actually think he may wind up winning the starting RG spot over CV before the year is out ... sooner if CV gets nicked up at all). If any of the other 4 starting OL go down, it won't be pretty ....
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Yeah, I have a nephew who plays high school football. He's a 2nd-string linebacker, but is the irst-string punter AND place-kicker (and does their kick-offs). My brother has been working with him, and also has sent him to a couple of "kicking camps", to strenghthen his leg and technique for BOTH duties. He thinks it might be his ticket to college. He consistently punts 40+ yards with good hang time, and is reliable on field goals up to about 40 yards as well - made one of 47 yards last year (though it JUST snuck over the cross bar ...). He just started his senior year (Fayetteville, Arkansas).
Maybe we'll see him in a Bills uni in about 5 years! ;-)
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This week's TMQ
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted
TMQ - Gregg Easterbrook
I didn't know about that rule ... good thing the officials on Sunday didn't either!