Dr. K

The Cooler

For pity's sake, take a deep breath and get out of the house.

Why are so many in love with Isabella for that matter? I’ve seen him make exactly ONE play in his two preseason games. He may be fast but he’s not that fast, and he has zero moves. He’s a terrible kickoff returner, too.

Positive outcomes: 1) Kyle Allen looked better. 2) Gabe Davis 3) Dalton Kincaid. 4) They can't commit that many penalties regularly, can they? 5) They've got a couple of weeks to work on things. 6) I got nothing else.

Lots of work to be done.

"He was a significant part of the Bills' early run game success. He moves people at the point of attack and while tougher tests will lie ahead in pass protection this was a really impressive first outing."

You’re kidding, right? Gunner wrote a whole evaluation of him.

Shavers dropped two of the five passes that were thrown to him. One, I’ll admit was the lousy Allen pass that got intercepted, but the other was right to him.

How do you judge these wide receivers when they are as erratic as Shavers and Shakir, making some great catches and then dropping easy ones? Tommy Doyle sure has bad luck. I hope his knee is not destroyed again.

Barkley > >> K. Allen

I'm an old guy, a fan of the Bills since the mid-1960s. I was here from the start, and even before on the Hyperbills site run by the Rochester Demagogue and Comical. When that folded, SDS saved our bacon by starting this venue for our madness. Thanks to all involved! Here's a photo from back in the 1990s.

It looks great.

I think if they stay healthy they win the Super Bowl. They may not win as many regular season games as last season, but I think the tough losses they've taken in the last two years will make them ready for whatever the post-season brings. Of course this is just a hunch. Nobody knows how things will really go, and a key injury or two, or a bad bounce of the ball or a terrible call, can derail a game or a season.

Good. More of this, please. I want everybody to be discounting the Bills. I'd like to see them get into the playoffs healthy and with a chip the size of Mt. Everest on their shoulders.

Does Hopkins really have that much left in the tank? I suppose we'll find out, but I'm against paying for a player's reputation when he's on the downward side of his career.

I can't help but like Mahomes even if I hate him on game days. As The Frankish Reich says, if he were on the Bills and Allen on the Chiefs, our opinions of them would reverse. The "Put the shoe on the other foot" test is always a good way of defusing your prejudice and judging the reality of a situation.

The point of picking these three QBs was to have one (Mahomes) who is a superstar, maybe the best ever, one (Cousins) who has been successful but is in no way historically exceptional, and one (Mariotta) who has been a journeyman trying to hang on as he goes from team to team.

Calm down.

You are making a straw man argument. How could I be demanding that others all agree with me if you don't even know what my specific opinions are? Of course people are welcome to have different opinions. My comment is about what seems to me to be a relentless and repetitive negativity that rears its head in just about every discussion on this board. That doesn't mean that I want everybody to pretend the team has no problems. But the tone of this place (IMHO) has deteriorated to the point where I find it draining to even visit the board. I'm just expressing my opinion that it's becoming a total drag. Maybe that's to be expected given the many times we've been disappointed. But from a certain point of view it's actually pretty funny, like that Monty Python skit where the old dudes are sitting around complaining how bad their childhoods were.

For pity's sake, this place has become unreadable. Remember when you were a kid and sports were fun? IN THE DESERT by Stephen Crane In the desert I saw a Buffalo Bills fan, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered; “But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”

Good. I'd much rather have the Bills counted as an also ran than be the favorite as they were last season. It will be that much more satisfying when they win.

I would have preferred that they simply promote Jim Schwartz. At least the defense would have stayed the same.

I thought Ryan was a mistake from the day they hired him, and said so at the time.

This is how the media got totally sucked into reporting that the U.S. had proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the run up to the Iraq War. Dick Cheney's minions leaked this assertion to the NY Times reporter Judith Miller on condition of anonymity, the Times put it on the front page in repeated stories trumpeting these "proofs," every other paper in the country jumped on the bandwagon, and then Cheney and Rumsfeld cited all these new reports as evidence that Iraq had WMD. Recycle and repeat and suddenly we're fighting a war over nothing.

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