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As Teflon Tom would say, "well we have had a 1000 yd rusher 3 of the last 4 years, so the offensive line must be doing something right."
Bad logic Tom. A RB who averages 62.5 yds per game over 16 games will gain a 1000 yds. Whoopee! Where does that get you?
A cozy seat by the fire watching the playoffs on TV. Way to go Tom. The non-playoff streak continues!
What the Bills really need is some clear thinking.
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Sure I'm mad at Holcomb for throwing short to Moulds on our last offensive play, but what kind of call is that? How could they possbily call a play which is designed to have your #1 receiver run a two yard route?
I'm sure Holcomb looked downfield, and he knows he can't take a sack there, but to expect Moulds to pickup 5,6,7 yards on his own is rediculous. Left a real bad taste in my mouth.
Good coaching and play calling will be the difference.
I remember when Bills head coach John Rauch wanted to use OJ Simpson as a decoy!!!
Maybe by running all your best receivers 2 yards downfield on a 4th and 7 you will confuse the defense? "Take what the defense gives you" BRILLIANT COACHING!
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First, I have to say that this was the best performance in a loss that I've seen the Bills play in a long time. They had a good game plan and executed it well, keeping Brady off the field and using Willis to control the game and break their will. I believe we did that effectively for about 3 quarters.
Mixed in with the overall smart playcalling were about 4 or 5 unfathomably stupid "cute" calls. The worst, IMO, was that 3rd and 2 call at their 40.
POUND WILLIS.
But they come out in shotgun with Shaud Williams.
Even when we were up two scores, I knew it was just a matter of time before they made a key play that would change the game. Up till that point, Mike Gandy had played a helluva game. But Colvin got through and the game changed on a dime.
That play broke the Bills. And you had to see it coming.
The announcers were unforgivably horrid. Like I predicted, McGuire said "You talk about..." more times than I could count. Why they pay him is beyond me.
But everyone on the Patriots roster has empty balls, cuz those announcers fellated them all repeatedly throughout the game. It was disgusting to listen to.
Why Mularkey challenged that first pass is beyond me. There isn't a soul on the planet other than him and maybe a few other Bills coaches who saw that for what it was - a clear and easy catch.
The second challenge should have been overturned.
But the refs gave the Pats a gift with that curiously timed and marginal at best offensive pass interference call on Moulds.
I through my cup across the room when I saw it. The Bills came into as tough a situation as you'll find in the NFL and outplayed them up to that point, and that's the reward they got. Thanks for playing, Bills.
When I first noticed that we were starting an undrafted free agent tight end at right tackle, I figured the Pats would have about 13 sacks today. The kid impressed me.
Moulds has a lotta game. Lee Evans was a royal goat in this game. That kid needs to pick up his game and watch his blocking technique. Reed dropping that key 3rd and 2 I mentioned earlier gives him a couple horns and cloved hooves, too.
I know that we have tight ends, but I'm not sure where they are.
Why Parrish let that ball bounce is beyond me. In that situation, you don't put your last shot at scoring in the hands of physics. You just don't. Catch it, run.
Boy, what an opportunity lost. But I went into the game expecting a world of hurt and ugly, so I'm not feeling as badly as I did after the Saints or Raiders games.
If the team that played today had played any of our other games, this would have been our first loss.
Once again, the Pats do what the Pats always seem to do: They make ONE play at the right moment to flip the game and win.
We did NOT get outcoached. This was relieving for me. I have new confidence in these coaches, despite the fact that we lost. If Gandy maintains that block, it's probably a different game.
We did NOT get outmuscled.
We did NOT get outplayed at any point.
We just lost the game.
Disappointed, but not pissed.
The Bills DID get OUTCOACHED in the 4th quarter by a large margin.
However, it was only with the game on the line so no big deal. Right?
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It's about time someone pointed the finger at Clements. What a horrible job of play calling in the 4th quarter. Humiliating.
Bad coaching cost the Bills the game. Hands down. Amateur stuff.
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The Bills won't re-sign Nate.
The franchise tag will give them another year to find his replacement. No way the Bills cough up top dollar to keep him.
It really isn't much different than Antoine Winfield or Jonas Jennings. Both were smart moves by the Bills.
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Yikes! You must be kidding. Posey makes virtually NO plays for an entire series of games. What would be so wrong with a starting linebacker making something happen? Tackle somebody, force fumbles or INT's, sack the Qb. He does nothing like that. You can watch the Bills game after game and never know he was suited up. UGH! Did Posey play today? How can a starter on defense never get mentioned for 60 minutes when the opponents RB's are picking up 150+ yards a game?
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I'd stop the nonsense and put J.P. Losman back in as the starting quarterback.
They were dominated in every phase of the game by an average Raiders team. The defense was abominable. The safeties, Lawyer Milloy and Troy Vincent, are getting older by the minute.
"We saw their (defensive) front," said offensive coordinator Tom Clements, "we thought we could sneak him through. It didn't work, but then the defense held them. We got the ball back and scored a field goal, anyway. So it didn't hurt us."
Sure, Tom.
What does it say for a coaching staff when they don't trust their franchise running back on the most crucial play of the game? It says you lack a genuine belief in what you're doing. You don't trust your offensive line, so you have to resort to surprise.
The defense showed a lot of quit. The coaches wouldn't give the ball to their workhorse at the goal-line. We're supposed to believe they're a playoff team?
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The Bills are no playoff team - get Losman some experience.
The Bills are getting old in some key areas on defense. The lack of speed shows.
The Bills should look at the Eagles for the blueprint. Remember the Eagles dumped both high paid starting corners Troy Vincent and Bobby Taylor and decided to rebuild the entire secondary in basically one year? Their secondary is now awesome even though at the time everybody said they were crazy.
Nate Clements is not worth a $15 million dollar bonus and huge salary. Milloy and Vincent have lost a step or two- ouch!. McGee is a keeper.
The comment by Tom Clements that the Bills failure to score a TD at the one yard line "didn't hurt us" is so ridiculous. He should be fired instantly. I mean it. He is making me long for the good old days of Kevin Gilbride.
Lastly, the Bills are woefully deficient on the line of scrimmage. Trey Teague is the Jeff Posey of the offense. Weak and invisible.
What about all those "high motor" - low talent guys on the DL? Weak.
Donahoe has built a real non-contender for sure.
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Yes, he is wrong for this team! Everybody plays a part in this atrocity.
Try this sometime if you are looking for a BIG laugh: look at the game replays when the defense is on the field. Then try to spot Posey anywhere near the ball when the play unfolds. He is like David Copperfield- he vanishes into thin air.
When, and if, you do spot him it is usually when the offense is heading back to their huddle after the play. Where does he go? The invisible man.
I did an analysis of his play last year and what I found horrified me. He is really a substandard linebacker. I posted this observation during pre-season and nobody wanted to believe my reaearch.
Maybe now the cloak of invisibility will be removed from an obvious weak link.
So what to do about it? Get faster linebackers who know how to find the ball and get involved.
With the game tied 10-10 and Lamont Jordan about to score on a running play, the Bills put in Josh Stamer. Have you ever seen a linebacker try to stop a play with his eyes closed? Watch the replay of this TD run. Hilarious watching Stamer on that play. He had no clue how to tackle or what to do to stop Jordan. Brutal. Maybe why Posey still starts.
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If only Jerry Sullivan were writing for New England the Bills would be the two time defending Super Bowl Champs and New England would be struggling.
Oh that Sullivan guy is a one man wrecking crew destroying the Bills. The media is clearly holding back the Bills from reaching their goals.
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Nothing like a little off the field minor controversy to help Bills fans forget how badly they played last week.
Which Bills players can stand up and say they played great last week?
Why are they so sensitive?
Did Willis get his tender feelings hurt? Whaaaaaa! Whaaaa!
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Jerry Sullivan is just a whinger.
McGahee actually showed a lot of restraint in his comments. It could have gotten really ugly. He did not back bite with MM or point fingers in other directions.
McGahee should be praised for his restraint.
Anyone could see that the Bucs' game plan was to stop him and dare us to pass. It was only because our passing offense was pathetic that we were not able to run the ball.
When our passing offense is effective, it will cause opposing defenses to not crowd the line of scrimmage and everything will open up.
Excellent article by Jerry Sullivan.
You want to talk about whiners? You don't have to look very far.
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"Everybody's got their own opinion," McGahee said. "I'm not going to worry about it. I'm not going to correct my running style or nothing like that. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing."
I am sorry, but I don't care for this type of attitude. I hope Willis is more concerned about listening to constructive criticism rather than rebelling against it.
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From my point of view, the games are won and lost in the trenches. They set the foundation for everything else.
The defensive line and offensive line would be my top priorities.
Sam Adams isn't getting any younger and Ron Edwards is mediocre.
The OL could use help too.
P.S. Posey's position in desperate need of an upgrade also.
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Lee Iacocca, who led Ford in the 1970s and is credited with saving Chrysler from extinction in the 1980s, summed up the grim mood in Detroit when he visited his adopted hometown last week and chided its automakers for lagging the Japanese in developing fuel-sipping hybrids.
"They should get off their asses and build more hybrids," he told The Detroit News.
"Something's got to happen in this town to turn it around, or we're all going down the tubes," Iacocca said.
Well said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050919/bs_nm/...mmit_preview_dc
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I thought the game was very predictable. Don't underestimate the heat. It is brutal for northern teams to play in Florida in September.
Furthermore, the game vs. Texans showed that the Bills couldn't score TD's against a weak defense at home. It was unrealistic to think they would score them against a very good defense on the road.
It was a step back today, but hopefully it was a beneficial learning experience.
It will take about 8 games for JP to starts to feel comfortable. Before then the unbridled optimism around here may diminish to more realistic levels.
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The scary good thing here is that though some valued TSW posters rag on Posey as not being a good player, in know as I have looked at the Bills zone blitz and tried to understand what they are doing I have really grown to repsect his talent and play a lot.
Bertainly Spikes and Fletcher are better players, but there is a good argument that the key to our run blitz working as well as it does is actually seen in some very good play by Posey.
As best as I can tell though Posey has show great advanatages over his back-up Stamer in that the far more veteran Posey makes good reads as to whether players are lined up and the down and distance have led to a play call of a run or pass. He uses these reads and the play calls of Fletcher to back-up the DL at the POA on run plays or fall back into a zone or pick up a potential receiver in man-to-man correctly on most plays.
No one is perfect and neither is Posey, but one of the reasons the Bills proved to be statistically successful last year was some good consistent play by Posey at the other OLB slot.
I think the Bills really do have the best LB corps in the NFL
It is incredibly entertaining to watch our D perform.
Maybe it is a lttle clearer why people rag on Posey. The invisible man. You can watch many games and never know he even suited up.
After watching the Bills D shut down Tampa, I think your words are truly prophetic.
"I think the Bills really do have the best LB corps in the NFL
It is incredibly entertaining to watch our D perform." Cadillac Williams agrees with you.
Buffalo's defensive ranking
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Last year the Bills defense ranked 21st in the more significant category of "Pts Allowed per Yards allowed".
This category had NEngland and Philadelphia (Super Bowl opponents last year) ranked 1st and 2nd last year.
Buffalo, which ranked 2nd in the very unreliable and inaccurate "Yds Allowed" category for the last two years, missed the playoffs the last 2 years.
At the halfway point this year it is time to examine the true contenders.
In the AFC, the top 2 teams in "Pts Allowed per Yards allowed" are:
1. Indianapolis
2. Cincinnati
In the NFC, the top 2 teams in "Pts Allowed per Yards allowed" are:
1. Chicago Bears
2. NY Giants
Other top contenders include: Pittsburgh, Denver and Cleveland (Cleve. can be eliminated as a top contender, but their defense is tougher)
In the NFC only Atlanta looks real.
Where do the Bills rank?
The Bills rank 17th in the league. This compares with their 21st rank last year.
Basically a very mediocre defense. A non-contender to say the least.
Don't blame the messenger, look to the geniuses at One Bills Drive.