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The team will score more than that, though I'm not sure it will be all O. I expect some Brooks mistakes this week, we'll see if our D takes it to the house or just sets up the O.

This might be the dumbest post I've read in months.

Then you'll get your first real exposure to watching Holcomb play and realize he's not that good. I watched the guy play plenty in Cleveland, he was barely better than Couch. But keep on pinning your hopes on a career backup that barely beat out one of the all time 1st round busts.

Cowhar has also lost 4 championship games at home. Obviously he's got to get there first, but let's not act like he's the end all be it of coaches in this league. He's the new Shottenheimer. Does anybody doubt that if Pittsburgh gets home field advantage again this year that they'll choke in the playoffs yet again? I don't.

You mean we could have had RJ, DF and DB out of here sooner if we'd just started a thread about how they were the best Bills QBs ever? Damn it, why didn't you say something then!?

Since when is holding somebody accountable "thriving on misery"? I'll agree with that take on Sullivan, but the article linked in this thread by DiCesare was simply asking, "at what point is Donahoe going to be held accountable?"...and I agree, at some point we have to see wins and a playoff appearance. Donahoe has had some built in excuses along the way. Salary cap jail, Rob Johnson, Bad first hire for a head coach, Mularky's first season, breaking in a new QB in JPL. At what point are the excuses put aside and the man judged on the overall job that's been done? Wins and losses are how people are judged in this league and based on that criteria TD hasn’t done a great job. How many more years of no playoffs before you think it's time to change directions? And no, I'm not advocating getting rid of TD right now, but I don't think it’s out of the question to ask for results after all this time. Personally I give TD until after next season. If we don’t see the playoffs at that point it’s time to move on. That’s plenty of time for him to have molded this team into his “baby” and for us to judge him on how successful he’s been and where the team appears to be headed.

I don't really care how many yards he throws for, I'd like to see him complete 55% of his passes and have a YPA in the 6.5 range.

At the time of the WM pick I wan't a big fan of it either, but arguing against it at this point is kind of idiotic. You say wins are what matter? Bills record with Henry as the starting HB: 16-28 Bills record with McGahee as the starting HB: 10-4 You say that Henry was more productive than McGahee? 100 yard games is an arbitrary number but its as good as any to illustrate production. Henry: 13/49 (13 100yrd games in 49 starts for the Bills) McGahee: 9/14 (9 100yrd games in 14 starts for the Bills) Sure you can always argue the "you never know" arguement in terms of what would happen if the Bills had picked someone different, but why play guessing games when you can look at the cold hard facts in terms of wins and production?

The only way we throw away this season is if we start Holcomb. The club will get absolutely nothing out of it, short term or long.

He's also heard that all he has to do is "not lose games" a million times. That probably isn't helping him pull the trigger either.

Two bad games by the D and suddenly Gray can't coach.

This D has played about as poorly as it's capable of in the past two games. It has been a combination of the Bills playing, perhaps, the two best rushing offenses in the league and the D being out of position on several long runs. It goes without saying that this D will not perform as badly in future games as they have in the past two (if they did they'd go down as one of the worst Ds in league history). They will definitely pick it up a notch or two. That being said, when the D does get this thing turned around it's not going to be because of "addition by subtraction". It will be because they've finally gotten their heads out of their asses. This D will never be as good without Takeo as they are with him. If this D ends up being a top 10 D by the end of the year you can rest assured that they would have been top 5 had TKO still been in the lineup. This post almost looks like a setup post so when the D stops being run over someone can say, "see, I told you they'd be better without Takeo!"

I would have liked to have seen some play-action deep passes in the 4th quarter too. Even if JP wasn’t accurate with his throws there was a solid chance of a PI call with the CBs the Falcon’s had on the field.

Hell, Marino couldn't even walk without a major limp. He looked like he should have been on crutches out there.

The line wasn't great, but a lot of that is on JP (and some is on the RBs). He has to recognize when and where the blitz is coming from and get rid of the ball. This is the same problem Bledsoe had. A QB that makes quick decisions and gets rid of the ball quickly makes his line look much better. Just look at Brady, I don't know how many times I've seen defensive players come at him totally unblocked only for him to make a throw and hit his WR for a first down. Sometimes a QB has a split second to make a decision, know where his WR is going to be and throw the ball. No, I'm not expecting JP to be able to do this just yet, but its not always the OL's fault. It’s a numbers game. The line can only block 5 guys at any one point. After that its up to the backs and QB to make the read and do what needs to be done.

I hope that comes to pass but I've never heard of any player ever coming back from an Achilles injury and being successful. People forget how good Cowart was before this injury. I'll go on record and say I think he was better than TKO. His days of domination ended with this same injury. I hope you're right John, but I'm guessing Takeo's Pro Bowl days are over. This is probably the worst injury a football player can get.

No, the guys Atlanta had on the field the other day (with the exception of Hall) weren't even on Atlanta's team when they played Philly.

I can't speak for every game but I re-watched the first half of the Tampa game. This was the game where Losman supposedly had 4 dropped INTs. Well, 3 of those came in the first half. Only one of those really qualified as such. The other 2 were defenders who leaped and got a single hand on the ball then acted as if they almost had it. A LB getting a leaping hand on the ball doesn't qualify as a "dropped interception" in my book.

I don't think having Willis sit on obvious passing 3rd downs is dumb at all. His blitz pickup isn't very good and he hasn't really shown to be an amazing back coming out of the backfield to catch passes. I will say that I'm upset when I see him come out of the game on 3rd and 4 or less, as it'd be nice to give the defense something else to think about. And all you guys sitting there making fun of a guy getting a breather, there is not a single back in the NFL that stays in for every single offensive snap. E. James comes the closest, but even he comes out here and there.

He doesn'tt have the INTs needed to be considered Rian Leaf bad. But yeah, he's been putrid. JP is a bright kid who has a solid work ethic and fantastic physical skills. The odds of his career being Rian Leaf bad are pretty slim. Leaf only had one of those things going for him.

It would appear that Willis was the primary receiver on that play, which is why he let the guy go. It was another of those designed rollouts where JP dumps the ball off to a guy 5 yards in front of him (I've seen enough of this play to last me a lifetime). Of course, a LB picked him up so JP had no place to go with it and instead of throwing the ball away (like he should have) he decided to try and make the DE miss. Bad decision. Willis hasn't been great on blitz pickup, but I tag that sack on JP, not Willis.

Damn, I didn't know RJ could be used on D to shore up our run D. That guy was a talent!

There so many permutations that you should always take every single point you can get. If you don't know how the game is going to turn out you take every single point for you may need it later. Also, if a single point doesn't matter, then why bother going for 2? It's only going to give you 1 more point than if you didn't go for it... I can't even believe I'm bothering with this. If you don't understand it now you never will.

You're not seeing the big picture here. It's not about how many games end only 1 point apart, its how you play the rest of the game. Missing the PAT could put you back 4 points instead of 3 at the end of the game. You need a TD to win instead of a FG to tie. Do you have the stats for how many times that's happened at the end of a game? It could put you down 9 instead of 8, meaning you need two possessions. Do you have the stats for how many times that's happened? Those are only two examples, there are so many ways it can effect the game you can't simply say give a flat stat and say, "see, it's not that big of a deal." Well, you can say it, but you'd be wrong.

That is pure BS. They'd look better because the Pats have a QB that makes them look better. All the whining on this board about the Pats "cheating" or getting "breaks" is just sour grapes.