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I forgot about Ngata being available, Bill. You may have nailed it. AND they were wearing those stupid uniforms.

Most here have been putting forth defensible statistics to back up their respective selections for "Worst Draft in Bills History". I won't. I'm going to stick with 2002, simply because it was early in the era of those god-awful Titan-esque clown uniforms that Gregg Williams brought over. Talk about futility. I wince when I think back to the early part of the last decade. A bunch of nobodies wearing clown suits, getting creamed by everyone from the Pats* to Mount Saint Mary's Sisters of the Blind. Painful.

The graphic that got me was during the Pittsburgh game a couple of weeks ago. It listed all of Buffalo's first-round picks. Not just the ones that Buffalo has picked (Dareus, McKelvin, Spiller, etc.), but all the first-rounders that they've picked up in Free Agency. People like Williams and Williams and Rivers and Hughes and Lawson. I mean, the list just went on and on and on. I never really realized how many top-round picks were on this roster. And eventually the light bulb HAS to go on and the team has to gel. I mean...right? I have to say...it REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth.

Please tell me I don't have to watch Archie Manning again.

Man, the interior of that O-Line showed me NOTHING today. NOTHING. CJ got outside on a few good plays (and so did Fred), so I'm not going to bark at the tackles, but holy underwear, Batman. There was NOTHING inside. Against F-ing Tampa? I'm usually floating along in a Kool-Aid Jacuzzi with this team, but this game took everything out of me. That was just god-awful. Someone is getting fired tomorrow morning, and he deserves it. I just hope this isn't a repeat of 2009.

I don't mean to be Bobby Buzzkill on this one, but I have daughters and nieces that age. They're good people, as is this young lady, and deserve to be treated better than that. What a turd-licking limp-wristed nancy-boy douche.

Was the bid in Loonies?

It just reinforces - in my mind - that there's all sorts of crap going on out there that I don't want to know.

He also said "Baseball is a game for louts". Sometimes "Less" isn't "More". Nicely done, Merriman.

The defense hasn't been this good in years. There are VERY few holes in the defense. Is it Super Bowl caliber? Come on! Who knows WHICH defense is Super Bowl caliber? Is it playoff caliber? I daresay "Yes". I'm actually not too worried on the defensive side of the ball. I'll leave that stressing to others on this board. Enjoy the ulcers. My ulcers go to (1) EJ stepping up; (2) The WR corps performing as good as it could (I personally think it gets a little tenuous after Williams-Watkins-Wood); (3) The O-Line gelling and not collectively blowing out knees or discs in training camp. It's this latter element that intrigues me. I don't mean to get intrigued by large, heavy men, but this could be the best O-Line that the Bills have fielded in 20 years. Do a mental rundown on the names...Trey Teague, Bennie Anderson, Langston Walker, Mike Williams, Colin Brown....I'm going to start weeping again. It was never a unit. Always something missing somewhere, dammit. But maybe not this year. That O-Line could be terrifying. And look who's running behind it. Damn.

There's a time and place for everything. Any Bills fan that hasn't gone apoplectic watching a Pats* running attack simply choke off the oxygen at the end of a game hasn't been around for the past 14 years. That having been said, if I have to watch another Hackett "Student Body Left" on 1st-and-10 midway through the second quarter, I'm going to hurt someone. Probably my TV again. At the end of it, I guess you have to ask yourself whether it bothers you to have one of the top one or two sets of running backs in the league. Trust me - if the Bills ever GET a lead in the 4th quarter, everyone on this board is going to get religion real f-ing fast. Running the ball will never have looked so good.

For a Foreign movie, I'd choose "Das Boot". Deal with the subtitles, because it would simply suck to hear Americans or Brits mouthing fake German accents for this film. Alternatively, "Breaker Morant". For Music..."That Thing You Do"...if Tom Hanks can do a small movie. For the smiles it gives me..."The Dish". Makes me miss Australia, and 1969.

But...that nice Mr. Trump fellow seemed so honest and sincere.

After watching the NFL Rewind of last week's game, I have visions of Williams-Williams-Williams-Robey whipping Marcia around like a vibrator with a new battery. But then reality sinks in. The REAL challenge for the Bills next week will be the requisite killer penalities at the WORST time of the game. We're talking the Pats* at Home in Foxboro. Kraft MUST have some pictures of someone with a goat. It's stupefying and mind-numbing to watch the way the calls break JUST right ALL the time. I mean....amazing. The Bills are going to have to play PERFECT ball. And if they play PERFECT ball, you know what? They'll pull it off. That Defense is just better. To quote Khan...."Better than anything".

I have a very good friend who is a Falcons fan (actually played a LITTLE bit for them in the early 70s). Trust me - the smack he was laying down back in August was ruthless. I kept my powder dry, particularly once I saw that the game was in Toronto. UGH!! A funny thing happened on the way to the bragging rights. Injuries. We spoke last week about the impending game, and he said "You know, I've listened to you complain about the injury bug's effect on the Bills in years past, and I used to think you were just whining. I don't think you were whining now". That Falcons team is BANGED UP. And I don't care about their stupid "mini-bye" - that team needs a whole off-season in order to be back to speed. The Bills, on the other hand, are FINALLY going to be fielding the team (to rip off another poster from another thread) that the Front Office and Coaching Staff envisioned back in April, May and June. This is the first time the entire starting team will be on the same field (and hopefully on the same page) since training camp. The Bills Haters on this board can hate away. I'm cool with it - I'm one of those people who stays off this board after a loss, because I figure the suicide hotlines are pretty much jammed. But I think that the Falcons won't have faced a defense like this one all friggin' year. Between Pettine's schemes, the FINALLY healthy secondary, Kiko-The-Monster and the Bills Front Four, Matt Ryan is not just going to be confused. I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves the stadium on a cart. The only thing the Bills have to watch is Ryan-To-Gonzales. Shut that down with Kiko, and bye bye. I can't WAIT for this game.

The kid's a hitter. I'm not ready to put him in the Ronnie Lott category, but Jesus that kid's going to break someone's ribs.

Who you jivin' with that cosmik debris? Phooey on ALL you Negative Nellies. Bills 27-14. Figure 14 points directly attributed to the Defense. "Needles and Pins" - The Searchers

Was it?! Now I'm going to have to Google it. A trip down memory lane. I saw that when it came out.

Jesus. I've been screaming for the screen pass at the top of my lungs for about three weeks. If that kid drops three good screens on target on Sunday, you people will be barking his name like poodles in heat.

With apologies to Matt, I thought that was really funny.

What a walk down Memory Lane. I don't miss a lot of them, to be honest. I mean...Shawne Merriman? Tyler Thigpen? Really?

I'm officially an old fart when I finish this note. An old song by George Harrison - slightly altered - comes to mind when I read the notes from the younger crowd. "And because of [the Iphone], their eyes can't hope to see the beauty that surrounds us. Isn't it a pity?" And if you have to ask me who George Harrison is....get off the damn board. By the way, I'll be at the game this weekend, and would love to have a beer with some of the veterans. Drop me a note as to where you're landing at the Ralph.

News flash from a co-worker/friend in Cleveland. It's PISSING down rain at 5:00 P.M. A quick glance at the weather shows...well...not a whole lot of improvement. Ground and Pound. Bring on the double tight end and fullback sets. Here we go...

Thanks for that. I'm just so excited. We've bought 10 tickets for a big family gig for the Cincinnati game. I'm thinking the Bills are 4-1 by that point. One of my daughters is friends with Kenny's kid, so I'm heading for my first Pinto reunion. If you guys are out there, I'd love to say hello in the flesh. Haven't been to a game since 2005. It's been a lot of pain. But, as you could see in that video, the big ship is finally turning.

That, actually, was one of the funniest things I've read on this board in years. Geysered the Shiraz,