Rat-boy

I have a magic amulet that protects me from moose attacks. Here in the big city I’ve never once been attacked by a moose. The amulet must be working.

Shoulda drafted Donovan-People’s Jones

I was a child, but I do miss the snow! India has changed a lot in 25 years. I wonder how much upstate and western NY has.

Bengaluru, India. Expat from upstate New York and fan since 1974. 13,349 km to the Ralph

No need for any discussion here. Solve all our injury problems by firing the whole coaching staff. If we lose to the Patsies next week, fire the new staff, too.

10 years or more since I've posted. It's like I never left, particularly after a loss. Wow. Are Hogboy, RINGS, or crayonz still around? Or lennie in sloan?

It's late on the west coast, so cue the 900 more posts on how EJ sucks, Hackett sucks, Matrone sucks, to this thread by 9am EST (yawn).

Since 1997ish, I've been coming here for entertainment as well as information. It's fun to listen to certain individuals get on their personal soapboxes and beat the same horse to death every chance they get. There's a personality in every generation, but I really miss Hogboy, crayonz, and stevestojan among others. On the other side, Alaska Darin, PTR, CBF, Rockpile, and other long timers were (and some still are) always a good voice of reason. Back to fly-on-the-wall mode.

Yawn. We won. Game over. Next week?

Why does anyone on this board bother responding to this idiot? (DeLuca, that is)

DeLuca, you're awesome. You know so much about football it makes me want to put you in place of Tony Kornheiser on the ESPN broadcasts. I bow to your superior football intellect, and your ability to spend so much of your free time posting about how you'd make a better GM than most of the current employees in the NFL. Come back with some of your snappy wit. I will stay awake waiting for your response. Oh, BTW, JP sucks. Draft Quinn!

Right...because the relative draft point is always a perfect prognositicator of how successful a player ultimately will be in the NFL relative to other players at his position.

I forgot that late-round linemen and rookies, despite their good play over the last four games, are, in reality, doing well only because of smoke and mirrors. They actually suck, while if 1st round linemen are playing like stevestojan, they're "coming up to speed".

JP sucks. My grandmother could have made that first pass to Evans. The second touchdown to Evans was a total fluke due to blown coverage. Only JP would have thrown that pass deep in his own end for 6 the other way. Peyton Manning never has any picks returned for TDs due to bad decisions. The D sucks. Clements was lucky to get that first INT. Any competent NFL receiver would have taken the ball away and run it in for a TD. We have no running game. Anthony Thomas shouldn't be in the NFL. Our O-line sucks. JP had less than 10 seconds to throw every down he dropped back today. The posters on TBD know more than every NFL coach. We should take their recommendations for play calling on every play. Everything Jauron and his staff call, no matter what the down, is terrible for its down and distance. I'm going to go root for another team. /sarcasm off

OK, after reviewing the DVR tape, here's what I saw (generalizations)... - An offense that moved the ball at will in the 1st half but couldn't finish the drives with points, and that gained nearly 500 total yards but made a couple of big mistakes - A play here and a play there (fake FG, bootleg, blitz pickup, or lack thereof, by Willis) that had big impacts on the final score. - About 6 sub-par plays by JP in terms of accuracy; 3 of these were on the last drive in the rain. - A very good game plan by the Jests to get the ball out quickly to defuse our pass rush. - A defense that played, in general, very well, other than 2 big plays and a couple of stupid penalties. My verdict? This was a game the Bills should have put away in the first half. As it was, we shot ourselves in the foot a few too many times. I'm willing to give the coaching staff the benefit of the doubt. As I saw it, the "questionable" fake FG was a sure first down if it were properly executed; the bootleg fooled 10 Jets, but not the 11th, who made a good play; JP played pretty well, with the exception of one bad decision on the first fumble and a very bad pass on the interception. Looking forward to more improvement vs. the Vikings. Go Bills!

People have been underestimating how good the SeaSquawks are all year. They can score on anyone and their D is, if I recall correctly, 6th in total points allowed. If Alexander can play, I think they'll win by at least 10 points. If not...toss up.

As long as he doesn't grow a Ted Washington-type gut that prevents him from playing every down.

Of course not. The franchise should wear that black mark for all-time. Never forgive them! Ignore the fact that the entire organization is completely different from 1917.

And that's the key, isn't it? Good QBs can be made great by solid blocking up front. BledSloe looks pretty good with guys in front of him and a scheme to protect him. The Balls have been deficient in this respect for many a year. Or maybe our OCs are trying to get too cute.

See this thread started by Kelso's Helmet and tell me how deep the Balls still are. Injury-riddled Donahoe's a terrible GM. Any quality GM would have built a team that has three-deep starter quality at every position. The Balls shouldn't be suffering from these injuries. And don't give me crap excuses using "facts" like the existence of a limited 53-man roster, a salary cap, and limited pool of top-caliber talent due to 31 other teams competing for players. Donahoe clearly sucks. Let the trolling begin. I'm ready to be entertained during this upcoming boring afternoon at work.

Not to mention the obligatory Patsies J-bar stroking in recent times. I suppose you have to forgive him for that -- just like Thurman's Helmet and Hollywood Donahue he's a Boston homer these days. Does that doesn't forgive his season-to-season lubing of whatever team happens to be good?

I feel so honored to live in a world in which journalists earn a wage by writing articles that viciously denigrate 24-year olds with limited experience for their subpar performance in a high-pressure environment. oh, wait...JP's being paid millions of dollars, so that gives people the right to crap all over him in a national paper. oh, wait...it's the author's first amendment right.

King is an idiot and a typical media bandwagoner, which has manifested itself in recent years as much sucking at the collective Patsies teat. It says something when you get the impression that even Jerry Sullivan's horrible analyses of the Balls have more substance than PK's. This is probably because JS actually watched the game and Peter King watched NFL PrimeTime and saw one or two highlights and the box score

It's a good thing we have you armchair GMs out there who know the personnel, cap issues, and what's best for the team better than the Balls' front office.

You're showing way too much patience. You should demand such changes WEEKLY at least.