Dr. K

Just had a look at the Chiefs remaining schedule. vs. Rams, at Bengals at Broncos at Texans vs. Seahawks vs. Broncos at Raiders I don't see any losses for them there except maybe against Cincinnati. The situation sucks, but that's just the way it is. The Bills probably have to win out just to have a chance at home field, and the Chiefs will have to lose in an upset.

Looks like the Vikings are done pulling horseshoes out of their butts.

I suspect your seat is always hot. Or your head.

I hope you are right. The Bills do seem to play it conservatively with injured players, so that suggests that Allen is not seriously hurt.

I don’t say this because I think it’s a good idea. If Allen is injured (and I think he is) he should be inactive. I don’t really understand what they are doing.

Start Keenum. Play Allen only if you have to.

I wore the wrong shirt.

There are a lot of bitter and angry Bills fans. It makes it hard to read this board sometimes. But I guess the country is full of bitter and angry people right now.

If Allen is out the other guys will get a chance to show that the team is not Josh and 52 JAGs.

It certainly seems that as long as Josh stays healthy the Bills will have a good shot. But I think of the career of Dan Marino, who made (and lost) the Super Bowl very early in his career. Given that and the history of success of the Dolphins under Don Shula, everybody expected Marino to be in the Super Bowl regularly and to win a couple of Lombardi trophies. Never happened. I think the Bills have every opportunity to avoid that fate, but you never know.

Not surprising. Daboll knows him. I expect he'll see the field a lot more in NY.

Yeah, they do! And nobody in the NFL has written a better play than Marlowe’s DR. FAUSTUS. Plus, he’s a great private eye.

If the Bills also traded to Dean Marlowe, I'm much more pleased by that.

I really don't see this trade as improving the running game. He'll be no help whatsoever with the short yardage difficulties. Singletary is much better than he is, and we haven't seen enough of Cook to know whether he could do what Hines does. I'm with those who think Moss is going to show much better than Hines for the rest of their careers. As others have said, this leaves the Bills with zero power running option (not that Moss was tearing it up in that area).

I hope this satisfies those fans who want the Bills to acquire somebody just to acquire somebody. I'm sick of that kvetching and I was not convinced they needed to do this. Or if they did need to, I was more worried about safety and backup o-line than running back, frankly. I don't see how this is going to help the Bills with their biggest problem in running, short yardage situations, at which they have been terrible. But certainly Beane knows more about what they need and who fills the bill than I do.

The ball absolutely hit the ground.

I remember that Falcons game, and yes, he looked really bad, inexplicably, in that game. Especially since it came late in the season right after they had beaten the Pats in New England and he was playing his best ball. I think even a freak like Allen will have those bad stretches. I expect he will get it out of his system against the Jets.

Very ugly second half. Reminds me of the Atlanta game last season. Allen can hope that’s his worst of the season.

The new stadium is on the other side of Abbott Road. So it would be a very long tunnel.

Exactly. Take those routes away and force Tua to throw outside the numbers, and he will collapse like a cheap tent.

Watch out for Cincinnati. They are going to be hard to beat for the rest of the season.

Take away passes between the hash marks and Tua will be useless.

Not so much these days.

No relation to Dwight Gooden (if you remember him). I am a college professor/writer, the kind of Ph.D. doctor who can't cure anything but your bad grammar but can tell you all about Herman Melville, and my last name starts with a "K."