Dr. K

1) When the Bills won the AFL title in 1964, everybody was talking about them and I got interested. I lived in Orchard Park. I was 14 years old. 2) In my mind the Bills are like the city of Buffalo--a hard luck, blue-collar team the reminds me of the family and people I grew up with. 3) Maybe my favorite memory was riding my bike to the MIlestrip Inn in the mid-1960s to watch the Bills practice in training camp. It was so low-rent and primitive. They had a scruffy football field behind this ordinary motel right next to the Thruway. The players walked out the back of the motel, across the parking lot, to the field to practice. I remember Harry Jacobs (a linebacker) wearing a golf hat as he came out carrying his helmet, joking with the six to ten fans who were there to watch. No bleachers, no amenities, just standing there by the field. The players seemed so much older than me, but they were probably only in their twenties or early thirties. They were half as big as the players today.

Better than Rex's comedy routines. Rex's entertainment value did not keep him from being a terrible coach.

If we March Peterman out there again...I will... . . . I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall—I will do such things— What they are yet I know not, but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I’ll weep? No, I’ll not weep. King Lear, Act II, Scene IV

Pegulas Pegulas Pegulas Pegulas Pegulas Pegulas Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills Bills NOT "Pegula's" NOT "Bill's" NO APOSTROPHES!!!!! THESE ARE SIMPLE FREAKING PLURAL NOUNS, NOT POSSESSIVES OR CONTRACTIONS, YOU MORONS!!!!! (Takes deep breath) Hi. My name is John Kessel, I am a writer and an English professor.

Try 54 years.

Peterman really needs to be cut, I think. But I am not confident that Allen is going to pan out. I guess it's early yet, but as a passer he looks terrible.

I know this season is all about Allen's development, but he ain't developing. At what point do we begin to conclude that Allen is not and will never be an NFL QB?

Sure. Sounds reasonable. But if he's REALLY REALLY bad (Peterman at Chargers bad) for, say , five games in a row it will be hard for people to refrain, I think.

Nope. I like the contrast far more than the all-whites.

I saw Reservoir Dogs. I thought it sucked. Pulp Fiction was much better.

After I read #4 I stopped reading. You are an ass.

There is no solution that can happen this season for the holes in the roster, which is the essential problem. At a minimum I would play the young players and see whether they have any ability to compete at the NFL level. I might ship out the one or two decent older players in order to get some draft choices. The only way this team wins any games this season is if the young players they have on the roster begin to play better.

This is the thing that bothers me. McBeane created this talentless roster on purpose so they could draft Allen and Edmonds. If Allen flops, they will have set the team back at least three seasons and probably more--if he doesn't end up a franchise QB, the team is in the bottom third of the league for the forseeable future.

Why are people still even mentioning Peterman? Peterman has nothing do to with the miserable play that we saw against the Chargers and Packers. He has nothing to do with the gaping holes in the roster that Beane and McDermott deliberately created in order to draft Allen and Edmonds. He has nothing to do with the fact that the receivers on this team are terrible and the offensive line is spotty at best, and two of their three running backs are 30 years old. At this point I am just hoping to see some improvement form the younger players, in particular Allen, though whether he is going to pan out or not is a question I don't think anybody can answer. They might win a few games if the defense improves and they create turnovers. But I'm not seeing more than five wins tops. The tale will be told in the off season when Beane and McDermott try to improve this roster through free agency and the draft. Everything depends on them making good personnel choices, and based on their track record that's also a dicey proposition.

If you're talking about Stevie's egregious endzone drop in OT against the Steelers, the Bills were 2-8 at that point and as far from the playoffs as you could possibly imagine.

Good comments. It was fun to watch this game. I do wish Foster would catch one of those bombs. It was right there for him.

I thought it would be a close game but that the Bills would lose by 3. Happy to be proven way wrong.

That was fun. I've been a Bills fan since the mid-1960s and this is the reason I still follow the team after all the disappointment and heartaches, to experience this moment. What a pleasure. This could be the start of something big. Tomorrow is my birthday--nice present, Bills!

I do have a feeling that this game is going to be a lot closer than people think.

Six punts in the first quarter. Four of them three-and-outs.

24-20 Vikings

Of course a better running game, and fewer penalties, and a defense that did not leave them 20 points behind at halftime, would help. That's freakin' obvious. My point was that DESPITE all those failings, Allen had the opportunity to make a lot of plays that he did not make. To me this is an optimistic situation, assuming he has the ability to improve and does so. If, as I expect, those other areas (defense, penalties, run blocking, etc.-) of the game also improve--and they don't have to improve a huge amount to have significant results--the Bills will be a good team even with the personnel issues we've all complained about this season.

Repost from another thread: After watching the replay of the Bill-Chargers game, my conclusion is that the key to scoring points is better quarterback play, and that's pretty much it. Even with a o-line being shaky at times, and the receivers having nobody considered a real star, there were lots of plays left on the field in both the first and second halves. Receivers were open, and Allen had time to throw, especially if he recognizes the blitzes coming and adjusts to that. This is not meant to be an attack on Allen, who was starting his first NFL game, but if he learns to see the field better, analyze the defense pre-snap, and throw more accurately (a lot of things to improve, admittedly), the Bills will win quite a few games. Add in the possibility that the defense could play as well as it did in the second half, and this is a decent team.

After watching the replay of the Bill-Chargers game, my conclusion is that the key to scoring points is better quarterback play, and that's pretty much it. Even with a o-line being shaky at times, and the receivers having nobody considered a real star, there were lots of plays left on the field in both the first and second halves. Receivers were open, and Allen had time to throw, especially if he recognizes the blitzes coming and adjusts to that. This is not meant to be an attack on Allen, who was starting his first NFL game, but if he learns to see the field better, analyze the defense pre-snap, and throw more accurately (a lot of things to improve, admittedly), the Bills will win quite a few games. Add in the possibility that the defense could play as well as it did in the second half, and this is a decent team.

Allen had a lot of time on many plays. He held the ball a long time.