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all for it. woo hoo?

it's easy to think of troy and the fact that he hasn't been helping the team and cost us potential wins with his 'hit' of JP Losman, but the truth should lighten the burden. it was an accident, and more JP's fault than Troy's fault. And he's the Last guy that would want to suffer a knee injury. Schitt happens. Troy was a very good FA Pickup. He'll be back to show us why. Maybe then Drew will be on the bench helping JP read defenses. Drew can do that, but he sure as hell can't execute.

Obviously every team is aware of the concept of looking for tells. My point is that he's the BETTER at it than anyone else.

I have to wonder what "tells" Drew and Co. give off.... Belichick is so ahead of everyone else that it seems like a no contest situation http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-sunspec24...ports-headlines

Yup.

our punter. and choosing him completes the metaphor for the offense.

good points. It's time Donahoe was truly held to task, because that Bledsoe contract is insane. It's true that there was no competition, but hopefully Parcells will want him at the end of the season. 5th round draft pick.

meanwhile, watching this MNF game, does anyone else wonder what the Bills didn't like about Shayne Graham? I don't remember his performance here, but I know we signed him, and now he's making everything. Just made a 53 yarder. ANyone here confident that RIan Lindell could make a 53 yard FG? Just asking.

One play sums it up quite nicely. Fast forward to our first possession after the great sack by Schobel. It's 3rd and something. 9 I think. Possibly goal. Suggs makes a move inside and MWilliams picks it up nicely. Drew completely overreacts, even though a simple slide to his right would put him in the clear. Flustered by nothing (seriously no immediate threats), he begins to scramble, and fails to look left, where he would have seen TRavis Henry all alone for a certain guaranteed TD. It's a different game had we scored there. Drew just doesn't have good pocket awareness. He'll make a play now and then (nowhere near often enough) to make you think "he can do it". He' can't. He has no field vision. He constantly locks onto the receiver he's about to throw to, right at the snap. You can't do this and expect to win. He has no touch on the short passes. He's going to get one of our players killed the way he forces them to stretch out on simple passes that I could fuggin make. We're talking 5 yard dinks. He can't do it. Not consistently. Drew made ONE play vs. Miami where he dodged a blitzer and made a big play. That made many people briefly believe that "the real drew" finally emerged. No, the old drew, circa 1996, briefly emerged. Vs the Ravens, I counted *13* occasions where he could have bought himself more time to throw if he just moved or shuffled *1 or 2 yards*. to his right or left or forward. We lost this game because it's too easy to defend Drew. To beat the Bills, all you have to do is scheme to stop the run and force Drew to beat you. He can't, and therefore the Bills can't win. I'm frustrated that the Bills won't acknowledge that there's a real problem. I'm frustrated that they didn't see the writing on the wall a long time ago. I'm frustrated that we extended his contract and we're paying him as if he's a top 15 QB. There are QBs not playing that would give this team a better chance to win. Man, I wish it wasn't true. It's hard not to like Drew. I just wish he was someone else's quarterback. He's not going to take us anywhere but down. Watch the tape.

that's just not true. watch the tape. yes, they make mistakes. but not as many mistakes as drew. drew makes more mistakes than any other player on this team, including Josh Reed.

Drew is a 12 year veteran. I believe he's in denial about his abilities. I believe he thinks he's better than he is. I love the guy, I really do. I wish he was as good as he thinks he is. You can't deny the fact that he is simply not as accurate as he once was. The worst part is that he has ZERO touch on short passes. A 12 year veteran doesn't overthrow on screens HALF the time. (yes, it's true.) A 12 year veteran shouldn't throw into under-cut double coverage when his receiver is streaking to the endzone. Unless you toss a lob and your receiver is 8 feet tall, it'll be picked every time. I have believed for a long time that Bledsoe hamstrings the team. Even scrub NFL QBs are producing TWICE as much as bledsoe in yardage. Smart fans clutching to the Bledsoe myth need to wake up and walk away from the grand delusion. Bledsoe does not have the ability to take a team to the playoffs, let alone win a playoff game. I'm angry that he was extended this offseason because I don't believe he's worth what we paid him. I believe his value on a team is tantamount to the value of a player like Chris Chandler in St. Louis: He'll provide information and tutleage for reading defenses, but you don't want him to be your Answer at QB. Bledoe is worth 1.5 million per season, tops. I believe Belichick has proven that he's smart beyond anyone's reckoning. I believe he knew that Bledsoe would be easy to defend, which he clearly is. He's a trojan horse, and our team has been pathetic ever since he arrived. He looked great until WHEN? until Belichick showed the football world how to beat a Bledsoe-led offense. It has never been the same since. The sad part is, this defense is peaking NOW. You can't stay great for long. The success of teams is largely about TIMING. When you can get a GREAT defense at the same time that your offense is coming together (or vice versa), you're a playoff team. By the time Bledsoe is a sad footnote and Losman is leading this team, who knows what our defense will look like. It's enough to make a fan very discouraged. I'm glad I"m not a season ticket holder. THen I'd be LIVID.

that trade can't be valued now and it can't be valued at this time next season either. Give players at least 3 years in one system before you label them. Right now, I believe it's safe to say that M Williams was a bust PER HIS SPOT. He'd have been a Great 5th round find. But a #4 overall pick must be dominant at his position. I hope that Big Mike has a Big Character and gives a little back to this team. We have him long term, but he should recognize that he hasn't played up to that level. If he would agree to a cap savings re-structure with some incentives, he could a lotta trust. Can you imagine working in an environment where you're getting paid more than most of the other players on the team but you know and everyone else knows you're not playing nearly up to that level of compensation? Knowing that there are players earning 400,000 that are outplaying you? (Marcus Price) Man up, big guy. Josh Reed. We should all be disappointed. He looked SOOOo good in camp. That's what he is, a camp star. What does that tell you? Maybe he plays scared. Not good. I'd say Aiken is outplaying him, but Aiken hasn't done anything either.

It's no different than a zillion other "performances" by "artists" and "musicians" that are foisted upon young, clueless minds by the music industry's successful star machine.

Rudy, you give good criticism a bad name. You are the poster boy of idiotic, reactionary and sophomoric fan commentary.

I've always supported Donahoe and continue to believe that we have good scouts and good football minds in the front office. However there's something interesting that hasn't been addressed yet. Remember what TD said before the season started? "I'm out of patience" and "we expect to win now" Now he's saying that we should all be patient because we have a rookie HC. I have a problem with these mixed messages. Fans have every right to be out of patience.

about 4 years ago, todd sent me a hilarious email that asked: "hey, do you know if they make tiny, inconspicuous digital cameras? If so, do you know if they're available online?" that summed up the ad saturation at that time.

painful, isn't it? mike williams was a miss by donahoe and his scouting dept. No question about it. Not even Orlando Pace, Walter Jones and Jon Ogden were drafted that high. He's nowhere near their level. He's playing like a 5th round pick project. Any arguments? willis shouldn't have quit, but he had the worst possible angle on the play. He was directly behind the guy, who had two guys protecting him down the field. If he had run him down and torn a hammy, we'd be asking why he bothered. There's a lot of talk about that, but there are bigger fish to fry. The Line this front office assembled, and a QB who after 12 years in the league still makes throws that journeyman bench quarterbacks know you can't throw. Drew is a liability to this team, and if you're reading this and denying it, just look at his numbers since 2000. Look at all the data, including win/loss record, rating, TD/INT ratio, completion %, the whole lot.

Donahoe is a good GM. He doesn't make unilateral decisions about players and personnel. He asks his coaches and scouts who they like, and they collectively decide which players will make the team better. Sometimes they hit, sometimes they miss. I don't question the skill positions. I don't question the DLine and secondary Donahoe has built. I don't questions the LB corp he built. I do question the Offensive line he has built. They just don't seem to have the ability to get it done. they don't play consistently, and they're terrible in the run game. We're last in the league in rushing I believe. I also question the QB decision. Drew hasn't played consistent ball since Belichick tore the gilbride offense apart in week 9 of 2002. He has merely flashed since then. And has gone 9-20 since that point. The fans need to see Losman. I think our defense wants to see what their future holds too. But I also hope we don't put him in before he's ready. You have to treat him carefully and make it easy for him to have success. But you know JP is chomping at the bit.

The thing that is making many fans feel so angry is that we had come to believe that last year's coaching staff didn't know how to use our personnel correctly. Maybe this is still true, but many people are now concluding that this coaching staff is no better than last years. It IS better. But we're in a unique situation where we have the wrong QB for the OLine we have, or the wrong OLine for the QB we have. Whichever way you see it, it's essentially the same problem.

stupidity at its finest.

the only item i'll disagree with is #4. tom clements isn't calling bad plays. Bledsoe limits the variey of plays they can run. THat's part of the predictability. A big part.

The #1 reason we stink: The OLine doesn't win their battles. THe #2 reason: Drew Bledsoe The #3 reason: the performance of our WRs. Moulds can't do it all every week. It can't be all Drew when this little truth is staring us in the face: No rushing TDs in *37* quarters. This might be an NFL record, folks. It's unheard of. It's not because our backs aren't good. It's because the OLine isn't winning in el trencho. But they're not as bad as they seem to be. Lemme splain. Drew makes the line look worse than it is, in the same way Kyle Boller makes the great Ravens' Oline appear to be not as good as they really are. In the same way the Raiders OLine looks better with Gannon than it does with Collins. Boller and Bledsoe both lock onto receivers, they both make ill-advised throws, and they're both inaccurate too often. But Bledsoe takes these problems even deeper, because there are too many things that defenses don't have to worry about. This allows them to focus on fewer things, fewer reads, etc. They don't have to worry about Drew rolling left after drawing out a rush to execute a 20 yard out pass. It won't ever happen. Things like this make it easier for defenses to key on what they know he CAN do. Drew is simply too easy to defend. Defenses can pin their ears back and rush to a certain place on the field. Drew will be there. This makes our OLine look worse than it really is. But even with ample time to throw, Drew made many, many inaccurate throws today. Like the Raiders game, he also missed some open receivers because he didn't see them. He made two throws that any bench QB knows you can't make. Drew makes 3 or 4 great throws every game, but those throws only serve to seduce some people into believing that he can take a team the distance. He can't. Man, I wish he could...on some level you kinda think he deserves to be more talented than he is. That's Drew Bledsoe to me. If we see Losman, watch what happens. The entire offense will run more efficiently because the defense will have to defend more of the field. The Biggest mistake the Bills have made in this decade is Drew, and the continued belief that he has "It", which he has NEVER had. Or the continued belief that he has "Enough". He once did have enough. He doesn't anymore. If Sam Wyche can't turn this man around, nobody can. If the Bills don't start Losman within two weeks, Mularkey will have a lot of different questions to answer. I'm sure he's frustrated 10x more than all of us together. I'm curious to see where his frustration is *aimed*. HOpefully we'll know soon. Sing with me... There's always tomorrow....

anyone else mildly sad, in a football sorta way? damn, I wish Drew would/could be successful. Our D played EXCELLENT ball again. They must be so frustrated. Hello JP. Do something. Hopefully he'll be phased in. 5 conference losses = no playoffs. And it's only October. If it's not the coaching, doesn't it HAVE to be Drew? If it's not Drew, doesn't it HAVE to be coaching? We stink because of some bad luck with the schedule, many bad Ref calls, many mental errors, many dropped passes, and Drew Bledsoe mistakes and limitations. I don't think it's all Drew, I mean...Two picks off of balls our WRs should have had. But he's a BIG part of the problem. Even though he can make great throws, he makes AS MANY if not MORE boneheaded throws. That TD Moulds dropped was so badly behind him Moulds had no chance. Easy throw, too. But there's little point in listing all the instances...1 and fuggin 5, guys. And this one...ugh...Deion Sander's coming out party...it doesn't get any worse. That's like puking on a turd. If the Bills don't put in Losman, how are they going to keep the boos at bay? How will they sell out those Zona tickets?

Drew made him look really good...You DON'T make that throw.

You don't make that throw. You just don't. Ever.