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Antwain Smith gets his shot in NO too now that Duece is down for the year. So the question is who will have more yards rushing at the end of the year, A. Smith or T. Henry? I'll put my money on Smith.

He was just pretending to talk on the cell phone in the hopes that it would make Willis look like a more desirable client.

Sure, we can speak accurately about his limitations (to put it nicely) as a OC and HC. But we're not talking about him as an OC or a HC. We're speaking about him as a QB coach, which is a "teaching" position. My point being that nobody here can speak to how effective (or ineffective) he is in this position. Don’t get my wrong, I loathe Gilbride, LOATH him. That being said I’m not going to rip the job he’s done in NY when there’s no way to know other than the results (and the results are good thus far).

I think it's too easy to say that Gilbride isn't helping Eli. Honestly, most of us have no clue how good of a coach the guy is. All we know is his offensive schemes and his play-calling suck. The guy might be a great teacher for all we know.

This isn't college football. If a team doesn't show up ready to play on Sunday they'll get beaten no matter who the opponent is. The “easy” schedule thing just doesn’t fly in the NFL. Bad teams don’t win consistently, even against other bad teams.

That's because he's supposed to be on at 7pm on Thursday.

The most amusing part of this is that he obviously frequents this message board. I guess the guy doesn't have a high opinion of himself.

Gotcha, you make a vaild point.

Even if that is true Favre's first four starts would see the Packers put up 17, 10, 6, 10. That's 10.75 ppg.

How is not giving the fans and media information about who is starting at QB treating them like "mentally inferior lemmings"?

I don't even know why it would piss off the media. By Mularky not telling them anything he's giving them something to write about all week. How many articles could they get out of "Holcomb named the starter"?

There are two ways of being really successful at the goal line. The over-the-top play or the RB that gets so low there’s no way the D can stop him (Tomlinson is a master at this). WM doesn't do either, he runs upright at the goal line which is a recipe for disaster.

That's right, no pass rush. They blitz non-stop and generally don't get much pressure. That, of course, makes it even harder for the secondary. My biggest beef about the secondary this year is Milloy's tackling, which has been atrocious. Granted, the guy is playing with a cast on so he gets a flyer, but it still annoys me.

I'll never forget seeing footage of the "protest" outside the Astrodome the day the Oilers left town. There were like 10 people with signs pleading for the team not to leave. As for the LA market, the last thing the NFL needs to do is expand again and further water down their product. As much as I hate seeing a community lose their franchise I'd hate it even more to see the NFL expand so soon.

"Overrated" is not a term I'd use to describe our secondary; it's the strength of this D. With virtually no pass rush to speak of the Bills D is allowing a paltry 5.04 yards per pass attempt, which is 3rd best in the league. The Bills are also tied for 5th in the league in INTs, again with little to no pressure on the QB. Finally, opposing QBs have a QB rating of 63.8, which is good enough for 3rd best in the league. This D isn't playing very good football overall, but that's mostly do to our front seven not being able to stop the run.

Batch could probably do a decent job in relief here and there but if he's counted on for any length of time that would severely hinder Pittsburgh's offense. The way Pittsburgh plays they need a guy that is careful with the ball, which is one of Batch's biggest flaws.

The Steelers should be fine with Maddox leading the team if Ben is gone for any length of time. Big Ben has never been asked to do that much.

This is the best you could come up with to slam me? The fact that I'm not Nostradamus? For somebody that contributes absolutely nothing to TSW other than insults perhaps you should hang 'em up if that's the best you can do. Perhaps I should rephrase that and not use the word “nothing”, otherwise you might provide links to your goldmine of "worthwhile" posts that you made last season....

Wow, the insights you give into the game of football. Simply listing random observations doesn’t make one knowledgeable…I makes them Peter King. Nice job, perhaps you can include some field hockey and coffee nerdness into your next post. The posts gave the impression you put a lot of time into them, which makes them all the more pathetic. For somebody that believes himself to be so intelligent you should really work on your writing skills. But you know what, in this age of delicate self-esteem I don’t want to hurt your feelings, at least you tried. If this was the Special Olympics you might even get a medal. As for “not telling me apart”, I guess I should work on slinging mud at anybody and everybody or making LAMP posts with such prophetic titles as “Dear Morons”. You’re the TBD version of Jerry Sullivan; the nicest thing anybody can say about you is they recognize your name.

Your posts always seem to head in this direction. What, you can't make a football based argument? Actually, come to think of it, you don't talk about football very often. So keep on slinging mud because maybe it will distract everybody and no one will realize that you don't have an f'in clue when it comes to the NFL.

This was an interesting part of the article:

Antwain Smith will probably run for 1000 yards in 11 starts and people on the board will start posting how we "let him go too soon."

That's a clever way of saying, "I hate the Bills and have a secret agenda to push by speaking critically of their play." Well, that's what I've read anyway.

I love the idea that if someone disagrees with you they're "more concerned with some sort of stupid self-validating agenda than they are being a Bills fan." Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

Yeah, that was my point. I was, sarcastically, throwing out the excuse that people have given them for weeks.