Offside Number 76

But he'd first have to make it into a 30-page slideshow.

Thankfully, we also get Filly at Rams. I mean, who would want to see a potentially good matchup like Atlanta and Chicago? F***, I hate NFL marketing.

#1: I am the biggest "NO GOAL" guy out there, but I just don't see that pitch as a forward pass. I didn't at the time, and I don't now. The smart play would have been to kick OOB and rely on the D that had carried the day (and the season). It's close at best, but I cannot see it as a crappy call (unlike, for example, the "just give it to 'em" call). #6: Who won that game? Yeah, great throw, great catch; I'll take the win over the highlight any day. #8: Shouldn't even have been included. Great run, sure, but top ten of all time? Really? (Same might go for no. 6.) And even if it is considered in the top ten of all time, well, it's the only damned thing he did at Seattle so far. I'm not missing him at all yet. And this, THIS was my 1000th post? Geez.

It's a very winnable game. Not sayin' the Bills will do it, but it certainly is winnable. The Chiefs were a playoff team because they play in a crap division. And even during that playoff year, they scraped past the Bills on the very last play of OT--also at Arrowhead. That was after a Succop miss and a Lindell miss (on a wienie timeout), and narrowly avoided a tie. The Bills have become slightly better since then, but I'm not sure the Chiefs can say the same.

Hey, I hope you're right--I really do--but it's still Brad Smith. (Yes, I did pick Smith late in my fantasy league just in case this comes to something. No, I don't consider a blogger's failure to mention it to be monumental.)

Huh? I'd take anything that does NOT mention the wildcat more seriously than anything that does. It was novel when Miami did it a couple of years ago. It's worn, gimmicky, and predictable now (how often does the Q actually throw out of the wildcat--10% of the time?). I'd greatly prefer direct snaps to the RB (with the Q in the shotgun or pistol), or anyone lining up in the RB spot (even if Smith) to some sort of "hey! we're all 2008 now!" wildcat gimmicks. EDIT: The article has more obvious flaws, too. Cassel is more of a proven leader than Fitz? Just how? A tie on special teams? Praise of the Bills' DBs followed by dismissal of the same said group? And you focused on the lack of respect for the wildcat?

Byrd will return to his first-year form.

They don't play soccer in snow, and in fact "wet pitch" and "frozen pitch" are sometimes given as a reasons for a postponed game in England (it has to be more than a normal rain, but it doesn't have to be more than "Buffalo cold"). I don't know about rugby. I think B!W! is right; American/Canadian football are pretty unique.

I don't really care about injuries. Would any of you have thought anything less of SB XXV had the Bills WON over a backup? No.

Anyone watch OU-Tulsa in the first half tonight? That was absolutely the K-Gun. Not some mere "no-huddle," (it was no-huddle, and so much more) but the K-Gun that we saw 20 years ago. Running backs peeling out for the short pass, stud receivers going deep, tight ends blocking and breaking out; it was that offense. OU was Buffalo circa 1990. It was like watching Jimbo, Thurman, Reed, Lofton, McKellar, and Metz in different colors. It really was that similar. (And to think I was rooting against OU.)

And after a very protracted "lightning break," ND loses to a directional school. FFS, when will ND pull it together? We're looking at almost 20 years of irrelevance. Wait--we're Bills fans--wait--what?

There's an article in every NFL city newspaper about this every preseason.

Every sport has its ESPN "columnist" who, instead of exercising independent thought, just goes with the conventional and runs with it. John Clayton : NFL :: Barry Melrose : NHL. Fitz is not in the bottom five. But he's somewhere around 20/32. And it's interesting to note that Clayton addresses non-offense aspects of other teams, e.g. Schaub ("He needs some help from his defensive friends") but not this one. Is Matt Schaub really better than Fitz? No. But Clayton needed a fluff piece, and here it is. Let it go at that. If the guy were good at football, well, he'd be coaching or playing. Instead, like Melrose, he's writing crap and appearing in 1-minute pieces for ESPN.

The Bills are good enough to beat a team like Jax sometimes and to lose to a team like Jax sometimes. They'll win some, lose some against similar quality opponents (Miami, Denver, KC, Oakland, etc.).

Every other decade.

I'm not the guy saying Fitz is the future, but the only way that pass gets completed, and probably the only way it doesn't get picked, is to go too high. Fitz was smart and took the 50/50; Easley brought it in.

Always a favorite of mine.

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Which is it? Frankly, I've never viewed the homerun throwback as a solid bad call by the refs. But it was a solid bad call by the Bills to not kick that out of bounds, the way the D was playing lights-out. And yeah, hindsight is 20-20.

This is all I have, and I'm still proud of it: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/36607-mike-mularkey-general-knowledge-test/

The year before last. I'm still pissed at McKelvin. No, I'm not one of the guys who vandalized his lawn.

You're right; the Ain'ts (I always will call them that) and Raiders are playing on it right now.

Australian media.

Don't bother giving his blog any additional traffic. It's senseless and not worth the read.

"Lindell's three-pointer in overtime came after team-mate Josh Scobee has earlier missed a 53-yard attempt to win the contest."