Dr. K

Please, save me from the freakin' cowbell. I would like never to see that moronic image again.

We're gonna have to butter your ears for you to get through the doorway.

That Kelly is one fair and balanced dog! He's smarter than most canines and other Bills fans.

...I don't think this is as big a deal as we fear. Williams is past his prime. I respect what he's done for the Bills, but in drafting Anderson last year TD was already anticipating this move, seems to me. At 5 million per year he is not worth it. Jennings is harder to lose, but I have confidence the Bills will have other options,, whether it's moving Teague or M. Williams, or moving M. Price to start, or picking up some free agent, or trading, or even drafting. None of these alternatives is ideal, but good teams often have to do such shuffling, and the best ones deal with it an prosper. I feel a lot better about the situation with McNally at O-line coach than I would otherwise. If teams like San Francisco want to pay Jennings upwards of 5 million per, let them. I think the Bills can survive these loses without necessarily diminishing the play of the offense or defense. Some people thought losing Ted Washington or Sam Cowart or even Ruben Brown was the fatal. I remember the screams when the Bills let Andre Reed, Bruce Smith, and Thurman go all at once. Unless they start losing more talent than this, I'm willing to see what happens before I panic.

...if no good trade opportunity arises. Don't let him go for nothing. I hate to hear all this "Henry is a cancer" "He's lazy" "He's always injured" talk. It really is just more of the "god or devil" attitude of so many fans: for too many of us either a player walks on water (and his image is at the top of the Two Bills Drive site) or he is comeplete horse puckey (and his picture comes down and his name is never spoken without invective). I'm with Kelly the Dog on this one--Henry has done nothing wrong. The guy played with a fractured leg a year ago, and gained 1400 yards. I am aware of his limitations, but at this point the dissing of Henry has gone way beyond the rational. We were going to have to find a backup runner to McGahee anyway. Well, we've already got Henry on the roster. Maybe he'll chafe at being the backup, but he's a better runner than most of the alternatives, and he comes with a manageable contract. And maybe he'll buckle down and prove himself a professional if and when he gets the chance. Which he may easily get, I hope you will remind yourselves. McGahee is one good hit to the knee from losing another season (as is any back in the NFL). He almost got wiped out on a bad screen pass from Bledsoe late in the season; it could happen on any play. I say keep Henry as insurance if a good deal is not there.

That coin toss story is telling. I'm surprised we never heard about it until now. I was wasting time today and looked up Bledsoe's stats for the two New England, the Baltimore, and the Pittsburgh games this season. Here are his cumulative stats for those games: Attempts: 116 Completions: 62 Comp. %: 53% Yards/game: 186 TD passes: 1 Interceptions: 9 QB fumbles: 4 QB fumbles lost: 3 Bye-bye, Drew. You are a man of some quality, but this record is fatal.

I posted this yesterday: I have a feeling the Bills are going to give Josh Reed one more chance to prove himself. I think they will probably give themselves other options--I don't know what this means for the draft--but I also think they haven't given up on him yet. He showed well enough in his rookie season that he might still develop. This last season was a waste for him, in part because he lost so much time to injury. Remember that Moulds was considered a bust by many Bills fans until his third season with the team. I will be surprised if they draft a wide receiver in the second or third rounds (assuming they don't retrived a first rounder).

I have a feeling the Bills are going to give Josh Reed one more chance to prove himself. I think they will probably give themselves other options--I don't know what this means for the draft--but I also think they haven't given up on him yet. He showed well enough in his rookie season that he might still develop. This last season was a waste for him, in part because he lost so much time to injury. Remember that Moulds was considered a bust by many Bills fans until his third season with the team. I will be surprised if they draft a wide receiver in the second or third rounds (assuming they don't retrived a first rounder).

This paragraph jumped out at me from Leo Roth's column today: "Bledsoe's 53.7 percent completion percentage (36 of 67) on throws behind the line of scrimmage was alarming. Brady and Indianapolis' Peyton Manning hit more than 76 percent of their screen tosses." Like a lot of us, I have felt that Bledsoe had no touch on short passes, but I did not realize it was this bad. Barely completing 50% of screen passes? That alone is like going swimming with rocks tied to your ankles. We'll see what the holes in Losman's game are. We know what Bledsoe's limitations are, and they won't change.

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.