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I agree. Gillislee should have got at least 20 carries in this one. The line did a good job blocking for the most part (minus Wood on holding calls I couldn't spot from the 200 level), and continues to be our strength. I am not sure Reggie Bush should be on the field much except in obvious passing situations, so more carries could have went J Williams

Gilmore was abused a bit today, some of it unfairly as he was held on the Brady run and pushed off by Gronk and again on the holding call. But how does 7-11 get that open? The play calling was awful in the first half as the receivers couldn't catch a cold in an elementary school nurse's office, and Gillislee was pretty damn unstoppable. However, we kept calling on Tyrod to miss his read, scramble, and then get his receivers killed. Another bright spot was the defense being more stout against the run with MD in the middle. The officiating did not do many favors for the Bills today either. This was most evident when J. Williams scored the touchdown on the first run. There was no booth review despite the replays in the stadium showing that it should be reviewed, and then they incorrectly give Rex a 15 yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, then rescind it. I could go on about the zebras, but I'm sure someone else has bitched ad nauseum about it by now. Overall, the Bills were who we thought they were.

Seriously, Gisele over Tannehill in a heartbeat. Tannehill looks like Smeagol from certain angles.

The phantom call on Hughes while the OL had a hold of the back of his jersey was the one concerningly bad call I saw. The reality is that the Bills got beat in the trenches and the offensive skill players, save Tyrod, couldn't make enough plays. The biggest questions I have coming out of the game are how is that Landry targeting not an ejectable offense (rule change for next year, I assume), and how did Rex not dress Johnathan Williams over Reggie Bush for today's game?

Practice Squad. He can be moved up if someone gets released or IR'ed

I think it is some of both, but I see him as a casualty to the Harbaugh situation where ownership let him lame duck out his contract.

I gave him credit as the trade prevented Faulk from destroying Indy on the cap. They got Mike Peterson (a solid LB) as part of the trade, and enabled them to draft Edge. By trading Faulk, they were able to retain Manning Faulk and Harrison down the line. Faulk and James were the top 2 RBs in the league for the next 3 years, and without Manning, Harrison, James, and Glenn they would have been the same sad franchise that was a cream puff joke in the early 90's. Sometimes, you have to get value for a stud before you lose him in free agency, like Belichek does routinely.

Not quite championship team. They made it to the conference championship game but did not win and make the Superb Owl in year 2.

Keep in mind that Al was probably not impressed that Megatron was not able to run a 4.2 40.

He did have the balls to trade Marshall Faulk who was asking for too much $ and drafting Edgerrin James (over the "sure thing" of Ricky Williams) after year 1. At Indy, he did draft Freeny, Mathis, Sanders, Wayne, Dallas to continue his cycle of drafting in the 20's every year, by supplying just enough for Peyton Gump to succeed, just like amassing enough talent to keep the Bills deep enough to make 4 SB's in a row. There is too much coincidence for it to be luck. Polian was a genius.

They are, I'd bet. The problem is two fold. If the returner misses, it is a live ball. secondly, if he goes out and touches it first while in field of play, it is illegal touching

I agree with the takes here. I find myself numb to the game. Here are some of my reasons: ESPN and NFL Network don't report the games and highlights like they used to. Too much pieces on stories I don't care about and not enough keys to each game for pre-game, and highlights of each game in post game. The personalities that litter the booths and studios lack intelligence and proficiency in the articulation of the English language. I want to vomit when I hear words like "trickeration" or other made up non-sense when proper words like "trickery" already exist. The fact that the NFL has done a terrible job taking care of its alumni with regards to health care. The league would be nothing without them, and the NFL should at least ensure that they have enough of a pension and medical expenses covered. They used these guys and spit them out on society as broken men. The changing of the rules to favor pass has made it tougher to watch. There is more incompletions, which stop the game, thus making it last longer. By having more plays, this leads to a higher injury rate as well, which also lengthens the game. As someone who suffered multiple concussions from playing as a kid, I find the gross negligence of denying the science and sweeping it under the rug for so long reprehensible. By forcing changes to equipment and rules earlier, less people would have gone through summers of being sensitive of light even on cloudy days, like I did, or worse. The commercials are redundant. Do we really need them after a PAT and again after the following kickoff? This is more time wasted. The way discipline has been handled is a freaking mess. There is a lack of consistency that is abhorrent. If anything, the NFL needs to follow the NCAA in being strict and predictable against colleges/franchises. The cheaters get games won removed from records, meaning the Pats* win no Super Bowls. Athletes get punished hard for criminal infractions, and for the most part booted off the team/out of school in college. This also means that the scumbags of the league are facing harsher punishments, meaning more incentive to not screw up. The drug policy is pretty screwed where the locker rooms push opiates to treat pain, and ban weed. I'd rather see a policy where weed is treated like alcohol (meaning DUI's matter and not testing positive for it) The officiating and rules interpretations are so mindnumbingly bad. A catch should be common sense: 3 steps with possession or 2 feet down and possession to ground. Instant replay could be simpler: A replay official (sitting in a control room) talking to the ref via headset, instead of ref running across field to a booth and wasting 5 minutes of time to still get the call wrong. I used to love the game, but I watch less and less each year, as it isn't what I grew up watching. A 3 hour game is now a 4 hour drama factory with crappy stories like Butt Fumble and Tebow running shirtless in the rain taking precedence to the game. /rant

He is an upstate boy who coached Syracuse and RIT (back when they had a program). That said, I can't see him doing the grind anymore.

to be fair, when Marino was knocked out for the season, Scott Mitchell looked serviceable enough to earn a big contract to be the Lions next disappointment at QB.

Really? this much fuss about a stinker of a performance. Even great QB's can lay stinkers in Super Bowl seasons, such as 11/33 184 1TD 2 picks http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199211290clt.htm or 5/20 35 4 picks http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/201511150den.htm or 14/28 124 4 picks while knowing the signals the other team was sending in http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200309070buf.htm Point is some people need to RELAX.

Sorry, filled up the last spot earlier today. I think next year, I'll run A PPR 2QB $ league with TBDers

12 team non-PPR

Yahoo league H2H standard positions scoring. Non-money. http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/425648 First reply back gets the spot.

Good for Troy to speak about about Skip Worthless. The man is a hack.

Excellent journalism piece that very few of the TBN in recent memory are capable of. Sullivan would have wrote about how Sammy was injury prone and deserves to be back in his rough neighborhood.

I'd actually read if it said Sully is optimistic. The guy probably is pessimistic about his kids' chances of being accepted by ECC.

I have coached quite a few teams at the middle and high school levels with varying levels of success, winless teams to state champions. I preach to the kids, that I want them to have fun, and the I'd rather lose with a team that I love to coach than win with a bunch of (depending on age range) kids I can't stand, idiots, or jackasses.

ESPN lost me about a decade ago. I loved the simple objectivity of recapping the games, giving a few highlights and moving on to the next one, with the occasional 30 second blurb about a player getting a DWI. This applies to all news outlets, too much blowhards with opinions talking and less reporting has left me jaded with TV news.

lol i was on a roll