Dr. K

I'm glad he said this if he did, but I hope he has it burned permanently into his brain. He did the same stupid thing against the Patriots last year when the Bills pulled to within 8 points on his touchdown catch in the fourth quarter. Because of the fifteen yard penalty, on the ensuing kickoff the Pats started their drive on the Buffalo side of the 50. Then he got fined by the league for the "Why So Serious" celebration in the Bengals game later that season. So this is the third time he's pulled the same endzone celebration stunt, and in all three of these games the Bills were struggling to beat a tough opponent, or to break a long losing streak. He needs to have his head completely in the game. Score the touchdown, flip the ball to the official, go back to the sidelines and get ready for the next time you are on the field. Be a man, not a child.

No playoffs this season, but I want to see this sort of effort, and fewer bonehead mistakes, in the rest of their games. I also will be watching to see how the young players and rookies who are playing--and there are a lot of them--work out. I want to see them improve. I would think the game experience is going to stand them in good stead for next season. I want another good draft (in my opinion this year's draft has some good players and potential to get better as the rookies improve), some smart free agent acquisitions and above all A PASS RUSH. If most of the injured are able to return in good shape, the team will be better next year than this, and should make a serious run at the post season. The Bills would have won at least two more games this season if they could get some heat on the opposing quarterbacks. Sanchez played a completely erratic game, but had little pressure. Put some heat on him and he would have thrown four interceptions, not four touchdowns. I don't care how they get it--next season I want to see them in the face of every quarterback they play. Oh yes--I want Chan Gailey to tattoo on the inside of Stevie Johnson's eyelids that if Stevie ever commits a penalty for excessive celebration again, he will drown him in a trash barrel full of gatorade.

I haven't been as disgusted with a Bills player in years. It was A PERFECTLY IDIOTIC MOVE. He's already been penalized in a crucial moment for this **** in teh past, against the patriots last year. He was penalized for it against the Benglas last year. Stevie is Stupid and undisciplined. That second Jets touchdown is entirely on him. He changed the entire complexion of the game. Every other player on the team should be in his face about this, not to say the coaches.

You are absolutely right on this.

What a loser.

Me too. Odds are the Bills get mashed into the turf by the Jets once again, but I don't know, maybe Spiller breaks loose at last (he's had about one game's worth of touches the whole season so far, and if they had all come in one game, it would have been a pretty good game). And maybe Kamar Aiken gets in. He seemed like a big guy with decent speed and good hands in camp, but what do I know. He can't be worse than Ruvell Martin, can he? And maybe some of these first and second-year defenders start playing better. There have been small flashes of ability, like Sheppard's tackle for the safety last week. Will there be a Moats sighting? Will the Bills do better than 0-12 on third down? It could happen. Or if not, I could turn the sound off and read a book. It's all good.

That's the spirit.

I hope the players don't take this attitude.

I completely agree. I hope he proves to be as good as I thought him to be in pre-season.

This about sums up how I feel. I think there's been some progress, but I also think they have some key weaknesses that require new players and development of the ones they have. Injuries haven't helped, but they don't explain all the problems. I'm still hoping for 9-7 or 8-8, and that would be a step forward.

Yep, that's it exactly--Gailey is afraid to call that play again. That must be it exactly. Explains everything. What a coward. Some of you guys are hilarious.

I don't get the Jasper love so many people on the board seem to have. He can't play. Maybe he will eventually but I have my doubts.

Murray on a tremendous tear; Bills run D shaky, Kelsay and Kyle Williams out Boys at home Stevie sick, Jones with a bad ankle Bills playing a kicker off the street with a 73% record on field goals Bills with backup at LT, just returning from injury, against league's leading sack artist Romo with time to throw can carve you up; Bills pass rush spotty I'd say if the Bills manage to win this it's a major step.

I had them for 9-7 before the season, and I think they still have a good shot at that. But There's still time for either a total collapse or a run at the playoffs. This team is still very much a work in progress, and I can't really tell how good they are. I figured they were far better than a bottom-feeder, but what's the top end right now? I think 9-7 is still pretty optimistic even if that means they only need to go 4-4 the rest of the season.

This is another idiotic post. Yes. If I had to choose between Christie & Lindell I would choose Christie. Christie was the best kicker the Bills have ever had. That has nothing to do with the fact that the Bills are going to be in a much more vulnerable position using any of the substitutes that are available for the time Lindell will be out. And anyone who thinks that they'll be better off, and should put Lindell on IR, is, IMHO, a fool.

Half the comments on here degrading Lindell are idiotic. He has the highest percentage of made field goals in the history of Bills kickers. Thye complain that he can't kick it out of the end zone when the Bills deliberately kick it high and short to the corner to make the return men take it out, and this season following this strategy they have tackled the return man inside the 20 repeatedly. The guy thy are replacing him with has made only 73% of his field goals in his career, these fans want the Bills to put Lindell on IR? I just hope we don't get in situations depending on this guy to win games for us.

I agree with this. Yes, Freddie has been great, but I have been afraid they are riding him into the ground. I know it must be hard to take him out when he has made so many significant, clutch plays, but I fear that if they keep this up he won't make it to game 10. Plus, Spiller has shown steady improvement and could be a huge change of pace.

+1

I had a dream last night where the Bills won 53-28. All I remember is the score, not the game. 53 is an odd score. It's hard to do without kicking a lot of field goals or missing some extra points.

Absolutely not. It's a curse.

+1

I had them at 9-7 before the season started.

Moby Dick was all white, and he kicked a$$.

I agree. A simple way to cut through the distractions on this is to ask the question, "Who is the audience for this display of piety?" Is the prayer simply a prayer, or is it in some part, to a greater or lesser degree, a performance? For the Pharisee, the display is the object--his prayer is in public because he WANTS others (people who don't believe as he does) to see it and be chastened. The audience isn't God, the audience is human beings he wants to influence. That's, I think, why Jesus admonished people to pray in private, so they would not get a communication with God confused with a performance for other people. In that context, who does Tebow think he is performing for when he prays on field? (I've never seen him play, so I am taking others' word for it that he does this) I guess some Christians think that God wants this performance (it's "testifying") but I'm not sure Jesus would agree. But I think a lot of things Christians do in his name would appall Jesus, and since I'm not a Christian of that sort, my opinion is probably out of bounds.

The Pharisees were the "fundamentalists" of Judaism at the time; they saw the temple priests as corrupt and wanted the religion to get back to the purity of the past. Jesus, the Jew, saw the most vocal and public of them as hypocrites. We're undoubtedly going to never agree about this (and it probably doesn't belong on this page), but I see most public politicians and TV preachers as Pharisees. I don't know what's in Tim Tebow's heart, but on the field he's a football player, not a preacher. He can be a Christian football player (when I played basketball in high school in West Seneca, guys would cross themselves before shooting free throws) but I wish he would pray in his closet, as Jesus suggested.