Dr. K

Great post--you know there WILL be a new whipping boy, at the earliest possible moment. Too bad Travis Henry's likely to be gone, because he's the next obvious scapegoat. Reed has already been in the crosshairs, but I expect him to take a lot more fire. Mike Williams could be it. Certainly Tom Donahoe will be a high profile target whenever anything at all goes wrong--if, for instance, McGahee has a serious injury or Losman flounders. I give Losman about three bad games before the screams become deafeniing. I hope he doesn't have any bad games, but that's wishful thinking.

I'm a big Keaton fan too. Our Hospitality is my favorite. Turner Classic Videons just released The Cameraman on DVD--his last silent--and his first two sound movies. The sound films aren't as good, but The Cameraman is fine.

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1946) The Big Sleep (1946) Paths of Glory (1958?) Touch of Evil (1959) The Third Man (1949) Bringing Up Baby (1938) The Awful Truth (1937) The Shop Around the Corner (1941) Vertigo (1956) The Lady Eve (1940) All black & white (expect for Vertigo). I could go on....

If so, what team is he on? Did he throw any passes this season? Okay, I know this is the invitation for dozens of joke posts, but seriously ... .... I'm just curious.

Despite the Patriots' recent success, I could never hate them the way I hate to Fins. Absolutely no comparison. Ask me again after the Pats have beaten us 20 times in a row.

Please please please--I don't WANT Randy Moss on the Bills. He has great God-given talents, but he's the kind of athlete that makes me hate athletes. And I don't think there's much chance that he will end up with them.

Acknowledging that the Patriots are the best team in the league right now and that Brady has consistently played great is not giving the Pats a knob job. I am sick of the stupid partisanship of Bills fans who can't give credit where it is due. I have been a Bills fan since 1964, and am as frustrated by our recent troubles as anyone, and would love to see us beat the crap out of the Patsies the next time we play. I cheered like crazy when we beat them 31-0 at the start of last season and I felt sick as a dog when we got skunked by them at the end of that season. I am as annoyed as anyone at obnoxious Pats fans. But I also can see reality, and those on this board who can't see past their own prejudices are fools. The Patriots won't always be better than the Bills, but they've just gone 33-3 in their last 36 games, under every sort of circumstance. If you can't admit they have proved themselves to be a great team, then I seriously doubt you have much that is worthwhile to say about pro football. I don't LIKE the Pats, but I respect them. I can only hope for the day we are as good, and I hope that day is soon.

Tom Brady turned me into a newt .......................... ....................................................... ....................................................... ..........................It got better. But seriously, he's been one of the smartest and most accurate QB's in the league for the last three years. He doesn't lock onto receivers, makes few dumb choices, and plays within himself. Right now he's on the JoeMontana career track.

I'm an old guy--54.

I thought the Pats would beat the Colts today, and i pick them to win the Bowl. Hope that jinxes them.

New England will wipe the field with Pittsbugh.

Marty taught him everything he knows.

Before this game started I was thinking, "The Jets are going to win this one, probably because Rothliesberger will stink up the joint." Pats will beat the Colts, and Jets lose to the Pats, giving the Pats another Super Bowl.

Why do so many of you assume Henry will not play well elsewhere? I do not want us playing him twice a year. He's a punishing runner and would have all the more incentive to make us pay if he ends up in out division. This dump-on-Henry movement is classic Bills fan behavior. Either you are the savior of the world or you are dogcrap. No in-between allowed. Remember how many TD's Antowain Smith scored against us while he was with the Pats? The long game breaking runs late in the games? He played better against us than he did against any other team in the league. It didn't make him a great runner, but he was good enough to hurt us.

The inability of modern college basketball players to make free throws is one of the most frustrating things about the game today. There are dozens of otherwise fine players who can't make better than 60% of their charity shots. Many games are lost every week on this. They just don't care to learn of spend the time to practice. Nobldy gets on Sports Center's highlights for making free throws when somebody else is throwing down slam dunks or hitting threes. NC State lost a game to Miami the other night (by one point) in which they hit a higher percentage of their three pointers than of their free throws.

I know he's been a head case at Seattle, but at NC State university he was outstanding, following in the footsteps of Torry Holt.

The Byrds version of Dylan's "My Back Pages" Chrissie Hynde/Jeff Beck's cover of Elvis' "Mystery Train" Elvis Presley's cover of Wynonie Harris's "Good Rockin' Tonight" The Beatles' cover of Barrett Strong's "Money" U2's cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" Seems like I'm going in circles.

The Hummer Every time I see one I want to murder the driver, the manufacturer, the car dealer, the finance company, and the ad agency.

In Seattle game: Fake QB sneak on 4th down, tossback to Willis who runs for 30-yeard TD.

Getting Bledsoe was a credible move that did not work out. It involved some risk, with some possibility of upside. We've seen more negative from it than positive, but TD did not necessarily make a mistake in taking the chance on Bledsoe. I don't blame him for this one even though I was not crazy about bringing him in when it happened. Hindsight is always 20-20. But now it's time to move on. There's enough of a record over the last three seasons to decide the acquisition did not work and does not promise to work in the future.

...is that the Bills know (if they had any illusions to the eontrary) that they still have work to do and changes to make if they want to compete at the highest level. They made strides and I would have liked to see them in a playoff game, but this slap-in-the-face loss will make everyone, players and management, work that much harder for next season. I don' think they are that far away, the biggest question being QB.

I agree--I actually think McMahon might have an upside. But I'd rather see the Bills work hard on getting Losman up to speed in the off season and training camp. After all, that's why they drafted him. Wyche is a good teacher, and Clements and Mularkey even made Maddox into a pro bowler a couple of years back, and had Kordell Stewart playing the best QB of his career. Please, no Todd Collins! If he were any good the Chiefs would have played him some time in the last eight years. He's a permanent benchwarmer.

Everything you say is true except that Warner, at this point in his career, is a WORSE QB than Bledsoe. I don't want to cut Bledsoe to replace him with Warner, and I would bet my pension plan that in no way would Danahoe or Mularkey jump from the Bledsoe frying pan to the Warner fire.

Very rational analysis. I agree with most of it, but I think we may have our TE on the squad already, among all the injured guys. Campbell was coming on when he got hurt, and Euhus and Peters show promise. I also agree that the O-line is coming around. Maybe draft a guard. Try to resign Jennings or else draft or otherwise pick up a tackle. I expect another year under McNally and this O-line will be strong. As you say, need to get some young guys backing up the aging talent. Are the backup safeties we have good enough?

I second that strongly. I think we've got the right coach now.