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I keep seeing people call Brandon a "bean-counter" or "glorified salesman" and asking what credentials he has for running an organization. The guy is a business man and those ARE the people who run organizations. Football men are great as GMs and coaches but nobody is putting a football guy in charge of a company - which is what the Bills are. So as long as he hires the appropriate football men for the right spots and then steps back and let's them do their jobs I'll be fine with him.

Can you list the recent Super Bowl winning QBs the Bills have a chance at acquiring? What, there are none? I can't believe it! Now, let's move on to the next options, which Rivers might be one. I wouldn't give up the farm for him but if he can be acquired for something reasonable I don't have a problem with the move.

So the re-re-re-re-re building begins. I'm not sure how many times it's going to take until the building is actually built.

This is what we've come to now? Calling the cops on the next door neighbors teens who've broken a window? Personally, I'd talk to the parents in a friendly, non-confrontational manner, and if they were unresponsive then I'd call the cops. Calling the cops right off the bat for something this minor is a bit much, just go have a talk. If you told me the story you originally posted and it was my kid I'd foot the bill no questions asked and then punish my son in addition to making him pay for it. Give your neighbors the chance to do it the right way too. Doing it your way might accomplish the same thing but it's a longer, harder road and you're bound to piss off people you have to live next to. Always try the friendly neighbor thing first - it's the smart move in the long run.

Even if it is the coaching - who hired the coach?

What's going on here, page 2 and nobody has mentioned that Edwards was not "Captain Checkdown." Kelly Holcomb was "Captain Checkdown." Edwards wasn't any better but that moniker belonged to Holcomb.

No, sometimes it's filled with cyanide.

Dude was just trying to watch the game and the phone keeps ringing and a baby keeps crying. Going to a bar was his only option.

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.

If there is I'm sure they have Cheech and Chong to thank for it.

This. People who think the NFL is doing this because they genuinely care about this idea of "player safety" are fooling themselves. The NFL is making changes to the game to protect themselves from liability. It's already started with past players suing the league. The NFL is making these changes to prevent injury to prevent litigation. And if litigation does come they can point to all they did to make the sport as safe as possible. So stop blaming Goodell. He's doing what he thinks needs to be done to save the future of the sport. Without these types of changes the NFL would have been sued into oblivion.

I don't mind this idea. As it is now we go to commercial, see a kicker kick the ball out of the endzone and then go back to commercial. My guess is it's just you. The NFL wouldn't be instituting these rule changes if they didn't have data that suggests there's a much higher rate of injury on kickoffs. Do you really think they're changing things just to change them? I do agree with you about teams getting first downs via penalties in this situation. They could always implement a rule saying the team has to gain 15 yards on the play to get the 1st down. Any penalty simply moves the ball up field but it's still 4th and 15 (i.e. there are no automatic 1st downs on this play.)

What's worse: People getting upset at a stupid party photo or people getting upset with the people getting upset at the stupid party photo? I can't decide...

You're the one making statements that Batch is better - you go do the ground work and prove your statement instead of telling others you'll need more details. People are beyond rational with this Fitz hate but it's to be expected. The mob has their pitchforks and they need to string somebody up.

I just happened to be cutting up some onions as I read that article.

Some of you guys kill me. CJ wasn't consistant today. You want to run CJ no matter what but other than the long TD run he was getting stuffed all day. You can't keep giving him the ball when he's getting shut down or you'll end up in 2nd and 3rd and long and then we'll have to hear people B word about how Fitz sucks and why is he throwing the ball but when you're put into those situations they dictate throwing the ball. FJ was getting consistant yards today, turning out run after run and keeping drives going and putting them in 3rd and manageable situations and people STILL B word? It's his ability to keep turning out yardage and putting them in good down and distance situations that enabled them to run the ball so much. Really, I think people just want to preach their agenda and that's it. The Bills put up 34 points today and ran the ball all over the Jags - what does it matter who got the yards?

So you can't give any details because it's a "waste of time" but you can post 10 times in the same thread arguing about reading the book?

Trust in public institutions? People still do that? And a better question: The institutions still give them reason to? I don't know if these people live in better countries or if they're just blind to the corruption that takes place.

Apparently in 1958 the US had a plan to detonate a nuclear device on the moon... http://security.blog...moon/?hpt=hp_c1 Which immediately made me think of this Mr. Show bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI

If they get to 7 or 8 wins it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Yeah, this is what I thought as well and I actually started to type it out so I looked it up to double check. He only averaged 8 yards per punt return and had 1 TD. Somehow I remember him being more prolific as a returner.

I just looked it up and Woodson is the only pure defensive player to ever win it.

The Bills rank 30th in the NFL at picking up the first down on 3rd and short. They're successful a paltry 32.1% of the time (compare that to the Titans who are successful 65% of the time.) That is not a good run blocking line my friends. There's a reason they pass and there's a reason they run half the time out of the shotgun - it's because they can't line up and drive defenders back. They are not a physical line.

They've won their division 6 times since the millenium and had only one losing season since then (they also won their conference in 2004.) Contrast that with the Bills who are the exact opposite - they've finished last in their division 6 times (including 4 seasons in a row) and had only one winning season in that period. So yeah, if we want to go back decades and decades they've been worse, but it's not even close in recent times.

I don't even mind that penalty on it's own. Gilmore was grabbing some jersey there. However, given that they didn't call the blatant hold on Dareus while Luck was standing in the endzone a few snaps before (which would have resulted in a safety) I had thought that the refs were taking "let them play" mentality. I guess that only went in one direction.