leh-nerd skin-erd

you know, they could probably pick this year's bill's team up for a couple blankets and a box full o' beads. the ultimate irony? build the stadium on grand island.

well, like many who defer to the lowest common denominator in a sports or political discussion, you've made a compelling argument that the only possible answer is racism.

i honestly think it's presumptuous of you to assume that everyone who likes kyle williams likes him because he's a white guy. i honestly think it's presumptuous of you to assume other people are not honest because they have an opinion that might conflict with yours. i honestly think it's a mistake to try and sound like you're the voice of reason when you toss in a self-serving and unverifiable statement like "there is less than a 10% chance...". i honestly think the poster who pointed out that Wang wasn't born in China was honestly correct. and i honestly am not sure if the girl scale you're using is based on a 5 or a 10 and honestly that makes a big difference. oh, and i honestly think you make some decent points otherwise.

I had pretty good seats for the Miami game and the line looked bad throughout the game. When they weren't blitzing and molesting Trent, they were pushing the line back into his face. Whether Fitzie might have brought enough to the table to make a difference in that regard, tough to say. One can assume he would have made a difference, I suppose. Maybe he turns that from an L to a W.

obviously i'm hoping for the best, but that's a reasonable question. the jets are on fire tonight.

thank you. now--i know it's probably been beaten to death in other posts---and I acknowledge not seeing the penalty for excessive celebration, but how it the minuteman thing an excessive celebration and a player doing the lambeau leap not? i have no beef with the leap, but i'm struggling here.

i've been hanging around waiting for CG to get Edwards one more shot at being decent. Obviously, I was like the last passenger standing on the Titanic, wondering why my mai tai kept sliding off the table to the left. Now, had CG announced the Fitz or Brohm was the guy at the start of the season, so be it. Anyways....all that said... Team defensive stats showed Miami and Green Bay in the top 5, and New England behind Buffalo at 26. Recognizing that maybe Trent helped get 'em in the top 5, there's till a whole lotta real estate between 3 and 26. Fitz is our guy, that's ok with me, and it would appear he has much better pocket presence.

the man is entitled to his opinion, and certainly parts of what he has written can be debated. where he lost me was his assertion that there was no open competition for the qb spot. gailey, like every other coach, has a thought process for how he wants to run his team. he's looking for the right mix of players to get it done, and pretty clearly figured TE had the most upside for his offensive scheme. there is little doubt two weeks into the season that the offense isn't working. on the other side of the coin is his desire to win some football games. more than anything, it's the personal attacks on the guy that turn me off to his style of writing. but, i suppose, he pimps what he pimps and gets people talking.

you're on it. what's the trade-off for avoiding the ridicule, btw? charlie rangle? alan hevesi? eliot spitzer? i think paladino is unelectable, and i think andrew cuomo ascends from prince to king of new york. more of the same is on the way---expand the infrastructure of government, more taxation, less benefit to working new yorkers, escalation of the class warfare rhetoric. paladino has some things to explain to potential voters and he'll be savaged by the media (in some cases rightly so for some stupid things done by a man who wants to be governor)---but he's 100% correct in stating that our infrastructure needs a baseball bat taken to it.

yeah, that was odd. i'm a conspiracy buff, kinda sorta, but that was just idiotic. time out! no time out! no one called a time out! meanwhile, seems like 2 minutes went by.

well to be fair, they had little respect for edwards, little respect for the receivers he was throwing too, and apparently little respect for the line that was supposed to pass protect for the un-respected qb throing to the un-respected receivers. turns out they were apparently on to something.

in most cases, football retards run in packs. there's good-natured ribbing, there's not-so-goo-d natured ribbing, and i don't think most people have an issue with that. i wore my bills stuff to new england and took the commensurate ration of crap, and responded in kind. however, some guys are total d-bags who seem unable to handle alcohol and football. they tend to think it's hysterical to trash talk some guy walking along with his kid (i was at the game with a buddy and his son, both wearing dolphins gear). some of the comments were out of line. course, they've got 17 beers in their snout and typically have 5 drunk buddies with them. it's cowardly, in my humble opinion.

i was at the game, honestly wondering how we were going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. i mean, i figured it could happen, eventually would happen, but as i sat there thinking how we had a different line with a different offensive coordinator literally an hour earlier--i figured something had to give. turns out it was mckelvin, and honestly i was surprised it played out like that. i figured we'd get a hold, a stumble and a fumble--but no. the best part was the many, many suicidal pats fans around me just prior to that happened. calling for brady's head, screamining belichick had lost it------well, none of had me fooled. it's easy to win in the nfl.

yeah i figured, just messing around. the picture was really small when it loaded here. i did some quick research and see you had a great opening night. also saw you won quite a few more before hanging it up in '95. good stuff.

the picture is pretty small...yet....is that tony danza?

other than the fact that your entire premise is based on conjecture and a false comparison, i can come to no other conclusion than raping a dog is worse than killing a human.

'67--great stuff there, sorry to see you go. i certainly wouldn't post my real name one way or the other, and especially if i played for the team. What good would it serve? I read alot of these posts and like everyone else enjoy reading certain posters more than others, especially those who seem to have a good grasp of the schemes and 'real' football. I for one don't have that type of experience, so it's helpful at times to read something outside the traditional channels. the other side of it, though, the darker side of the board always puts me on edge. it's easy to type in something very derogatory and insulting about a player, i just don't really get what someone gets out of that. caveat--now---a guy like vince wilfork comes in and tries to blow out a knee, like many belevie he did with Losman, well, I thought that was a pretty dangerous thing to do. i reserve the right to mutter obscenities all day long. i reached out to a guy who used to play qb for the Bills, he works for the same company I do--and you couldn't meet a nicer guy. we never met personally but he was kind enough to send my then 8 year old son an autographed picture that hangs on his wall to this day, and my son is 15. i also had the opportunity to meet al bemiller many times back in the day when he was a ref for high school wrestling. seemed like a good guy, and as kids we all looked up to him. anyway, i think everyone wants to see the bills get back on the winning side of things, and passionate for the team brings out the ebst (and worst) in people.

hence the argument re: the risk owner's take from a financial perspective. i'd think it's a major part of the thought process a team goes through when evaluating a player like jason peters.

that piece on sanchez was just soft. no discussion on pros/cons from last year, no discussion on inconsistencies in his game, nothing about per-season year to date. the leadership angle is fine, but that's about all he's got. and the dolphins doing everything well? even couched the way he did, it's pure fluff. in truth, the dolphins tanked last year after winning the division the year before. the jets certainly weren't world beater most of last year, though they went on a pretty nice run last year. oh--and the part about 0-16 is absurd. tough to build it back up when you suck that awful bad.

all of this is very true. buffalo has been a qb graveyard these past few years. of course, that doesn't mean we ride this pony until it's dead if it doesn't work out, but let Chan make the call and see where we end up. and while the initial poster referenced the defensive alignments, it was also the first pre-season game. they seem to have improved offensively each game from a timing and flow perspective, which seems to be the whole point. at a minimum, the first game is NOT a road game against one of the dominant teams of the past decade days after the OC was fired and the line blown up.

Some things aren't worth being insulted over. His "analysis" is that SD wants to teach him a lesson? Soap opera journalism minus the journalism.

i think chan didn't go far wnough with these dickwads...he and trent should go down to where these guys work and knock them garbage cans outta their hands.

not really. i think you're confusing them with "flag", where there is less contact. kurt warner was in a touch football league just before he got back to the nfl and his career exploded. touch leagues are the new D-1's.

where does the part about the coach (a man with some qb developmental pedigree by all accounts) has the guy who hit the easy 49.3 (good stuff, btw SJBF) yard pass play pencilled in ahead of Brohm? Don't get me wrong, it's great to know that play's like the one Trent made aren't nearly as difficult as they seem when you watch 'em on the telly--but I'd have thought by now Chan would have seen through all the easy stuff Trent can do and gone to option #2. it seems to me at this point in the season---non-contact practice, training camp, and two pre-season games, CG has Edwards at the top of the charts. Is it a chart similar to the kids in 16 Candles---"I'm king of the dipshit..."? Maybe, but it is what it is. Oh, and it was a beautifully placed ball, and I'd like to see more of that this year. No need to minimize the play. i remain firmly in the "figure it out Chan" camp. Develop Edwards, develop Brohm, whatever. Just field and offense and win some games. I've waited this long, I can wait one more year to be competitive.

word. what he said was 100% true, and you have to be working pretty hard to assume that what CG said enables Trent in some way (as was pointed out a few threads back). and honestly, absent the context provided by knowing the discussions CG is having with TE privately, in a professional setting----reading anything more into this is pretty hard to do. perhaps he's lighting TE up for his performance last week, privately. perhaps he threatened to take away the number one spot, or maybe he thinks it's a work in progress. oh, and i loved this part of his statement: And I have to give him enough opportunities' yes, 100%, yes.