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That will just make it all the more painful when we find a way to lose to them.

I didn't get mine.

Actually, I think it would be better if he married Dennis Rodman.

Wow, you're right. I never thought of it that way. Might as well not vote now....

My bad!

So why is it OT then?

I must now wipe the solitary tear from my eye. Bravo!!!

I have to admit I'm encouraged by Drew's description of Tucker as basically another coach.....

I have a better idea...since we can't get any sacks, why rush the passer at all? I think we should drop all 11 guys back in coverage. Think about it......

And we have a severely banged up secondary. I'm expecting a lot of three, four, even five receiver sets. And plenty of Curtis Martin in those situations, too.

*sigh*

That reminds me of Bernard Ford. Man, I had such high hopes for that guy.

Almost like saying you flipped a coin 10 times and it came up heads all ten times, so the next flip it's bound to be tails just to balance things out, right? Wrong.

They were definitely looking for something all right........

Wow...so no more overloads?

Classic!!

Dude, I can tell you this right now: as a guy who went to Cornell, I am saddened to see that Wells college is going co-ed. I had a couple of extremely memorable nights at that place. Without being too sexist, there is really nothing like an all-girls school. Mmmm.

I sincerely doubt it, because Seymour would have popped Drew just as easily as Brewski. And I think it would take more than a chip by Travis to take him out of the play, especially when it's Drew running the ball. Regardless, I still can't tell where the screw up was. Was it Henry, who ran left instead of take on the blitzer? Was it Villarial, who pulled to the right, going nowhere? Was it Price, who didn't even breathe on Seymour much less delay his progress into the backfield? Was it Drew, who might have thought the play was a bad idea in the face of that defensive front? Who knows. I just happen to think that thinking Travis clipping Bruschi is all it might have taken to allow Drew to bootleg for a first down is right up there with all of the other Drew-related head-in-the-sand stuff.

Mularkey said it in his post-game press conference.

Oh my, DC, that was quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen on this board. In fact, this thread might be the greatest ever.

I don't know about you, but I had enough of watching them try to run left during the Jax game. A guy can beat his head against a brick wall only so many times....

Sorry guys...I respect the opinions and all, but I just can't say I'm with it. I mean, this is Bledsoe we're talking about here. Manning, Bono, Krieg, whoever...these guys may be slow but they just aren't in Drew's league here. Drew can't get out of his own way for crying out loud. Maybe...MAYBE...if it was 4th and 1 and there was a chance he might be able to dive for the first, or trip over his own feet and fall forward for the 1st...but 3 yards? The other thing to consider, of course, is not just if the defense is expecting it (which they weren't, and for good reason), but what do we think the defense is going to do on the play? Anybody think the Pats weren't planning on sending a few guys on a blitz on that play? Anyone? What's the best way to mess with this offense? Send a bunch of guys and confuse the hell out of them. The Pats were sending guys, left and right. A naked bootleg could, COULD work if the QB is really good at selling the fake and getting outside. But this is Drew, who is neither fast nor good at selling fakes, and this is the Pats, who have extremely good, extremely fast outside LBs who could run ten yards into the backfield, turn around, and snag Drew before he could even smell the first down marker. There may be a time for this team to consider a naked bootleg (I'll only believe it when I see it), but 4th down and 3 with a blitz-happy defense may not have been the best time. And I'm not even going to start into the whole argument about this team being well-prepared enough to even run a play like that against the world champs.

I don't know, but we would find that out if we played Atlanta this year.

...what was their first reaction when they heard that Buffalo chose to try a naked bootleg with Drew Bledsoe on 4th and 3 with the game (season?) on the line, what do you think the responses would be? I see it as: 10 immediately busted out in a chuckle 3 immediately busted out in a chuckle with projection of food out of the mouth 1 immediately busted out in a chuckle with projection of liquid out of the nose 6 winced with pain in a show of commiseration as they harkened back to their own first prodigious blunder 4 rolled their eyes and shook their heads, wondering how it is that this person has the same job title as them 4 expressed enough disbelief to ask to have the question stated again 2 expressed enough disbelief to question the accuracy of the question's content 1 shrugged his shoulders and thought it was an interesting idea* * until he thought about the question for a second and finally realized he wasn't paying attention