The Big Cat

"I want Graham to play. I want the Bills to beat them straight up," said no Bills fan ever. Wonder why the same didn't apply to NE* week one?

hahaha

do you punch yourself in the face AFTER you see the winning lotto numbers? Um...are you just making stuff up? I count 135 yards before that drive...

1-3 with a win over the Jets is the ONLY sub-2-2 scenario that lets us sniff a shot...at anything scenarios in order of worst to best: 0-4 1-3 with a loss to the Jets 1-3 with a in over the Jets 2-2 with a loss to the Jets 3-1 with a loss to the jets 2-2 with a win over the jets 3-1 with a win over the jets 4-0 that seem right?

oh, you're one of those?

rewind: it's never okay to punch a person in the face. if a chick--like the pats* fan in the video--bull rushes a guy after the fight has been broken up, then sorry, but her gender does not make her impervious to what happens next and what a punch it was...loved the "hero" who came in with a big ole windup that never really delivered.

You suppose he has a dialing wand?

And let it not go unnoiticed that he would have scored with it...if he could. If he hadn't whiffed the first time round.

...and "pulling" for the bills, like he promised

...because "the defence was playing well...

translation: we gotta get better on first and second down

right, with AWilliams pick, there were two strong drives for the dolphins. here were the other ones: two plays: pick six three plays: punt three plays: punt --PICK DRIVE-- --TD DRIVE-- three plays: punt three plays: punt three plays: punt so they had two "good" drives sandwiched between three and outs. how is it that you'd calculate the odds of them marching down the field without needing any time outs from this body of evidence? giving up a touchdown was worst case scenario. as a fan, you never hope that to be the case, and your expectations don't matter for diddly. as a coach: coaching expecting worst case scenario is coaching very very conservatively, especially when you consider the entirety of what miami had done TO THAT POINT. But to answer your question: i actually did expect them to have one more shot at it after we held them to three and out...again. i remember thinking: wow this going to be like four possessions inside of three minutes. this'll be the longest end to a half ever!

Pumpkin carving and warm bourbon cider this Saturday. Pandora Halloween station will be playing, as will a variety of "scary" movies. I can't believe I married a woman who can't handle scary movies.

it's a shame you didn't keep reading this thread to know that AT THAT POINT in the game, there was virtually no reason to doubt the Bills defense.

you took the Mario quote completely out of context. "it's about time" as in--he's been right there, and hasn't gotten any luck/bounces to go his way yet. "it's about time" as in he was finally on the right side of things. having said that: he did then take a swipe at thad lewis...big time. recounted having to tell him to relax, focus and calm down then said thad assured him he was focussed and his reponse (as he told the media) was "good, then it's time to go out there and start executing better." that one actually made me LOL when i was walking home from the grocery store listening to the wgr ap last night.

but they weren't playing opportunistically up to that point. we can call them opportunistic in hind sight only because they scored to end the first half and start the second. they were "acting" terribly at that point in the game, as i said: three straight three and outs.

i think you're unfairly evaluating "risk" with the benefit of hindsight. the "risk" is dependent fully on marrone's faith in the defense...which had held them to 3 and out in the three prior possessions, and had held them to a whole lot of nothing in all drives prior to that with the exception of the lone TD drive. now, add in the benefit of hindsight, and remove their TD drive to start the second half, that was pretty much the case all day. the dolphins moved the ball opportunistically, but not consistently, far from it. so in that respect, the risk was relatively low.

running the ball to end the first half would have made zero difference.

Hahaha...4-0 (a five game winning streak) would be THE national story!

Okay, but let's look at the reality of the situation: running the ball/clock would have made NO DIFFERENCE. Miami drove the ball and used...get this...ZERO timeouts. If we would have forced them to burn them on defense, the outcome WOULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME.

I don't disagree. But that's not to say there's no benefit in squelching your division opponent's momentum, on the road, when you know you get the ball back to start the second half. I only disagree with the premise that the aggression was wrong. Both options have upside/downside. And in both cases, failure to execute produces the downside.

We have four games until the bye week, then a pretty favorable schedule after that. If we can split these next four (NO, KC, PITT, NYJ), that would put us in a great position. I definitely think we can, but I can also see us going win less. A week 12 bye week is no fun, but going into ours 5-6 (or better, but i'm not holding my breath) would be HUGE.

And I hate that I have to shamlessly wave this flag again: but comparing this team to Jauron's because they were in games too is foolish. Why? Because the fact that Jauron's teams WERE in games was a testament his abilities as a coach. Yep. I said it then, and I'll say it again and again and again: Jauron's coaching was NOT the problem when he was in Buffalo. Are we forgetting about a roster awash with such talented players as John DiGorgio, Ko Simpson, Ashton Youboty, Anthony Cromwell, Ryan Denney, Chris Villarial, Robert Royal...JP LOSMAN!?

Being aggressive when you have a lead is not inherently wrong, and that's the point a lot of people keep missing.

But who seriously expected this team to go 11-5 or 12-4? With 50% of the 2012 roster gutted and with a coaching staff and roster awash with rookies, we knew there would be ups and downs. So far the ups haven't been that high and the downs haven't been too low. Is that good or bad? Probably good. We've been in every game, and after we expected most games to be a toss up, that's precisely what we've gotten, down to the inch.