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Carson Palmer wasn't "Carson Palmer" last year after 3 games either. Hell, very few QBs come out of the gate looking good; it doesn't mean they won't eventually be quality players. If every coach gave up on QBs as quickly as the people on this board there would be very few QBs who started more than 3 games in their entire career.

It doesn't matter if the point is made or not? So you're willing to throw away multiple points a game because "it doesn't matter" at "that point"? I'd rather not have wins and losses come down to a "crap shoot". You take every single point you can get at any given point in the game, period.

Maybe not, but I really don't think our schedule is as difficult as many have made it out to be. Carolina, while good, is not (at this time) a legitimate SB threat like people predicted. Denver isn't that great. The Jets suck ass. The Raiders are winless. San Diego is better than their record, but they don't strike me as an elite team either. Cinci, Kansas City and our 2 Pats games are really the only games which I look at and say, "that's a definite L"...and that's saying something considering how badly the Bills are capable of playing.

If the only NFL football I got to see was the Niners against the Cardinals I might be upset enough to throw crap on the field too. The NFL is trying to gain popularity in other countries by exporting this game as an example of the product?

Actually its even worse than you say. The Falcons 2nd and 3rd stringer CBs didn't even suit up. Neither did their 4th. They had to sign players last week just to have the needed bodies. So when Hall went down the Falcons were missing their 1-4th string CBs and had a bunch of street free agents on the field covering Moulds and Evans. As for the 2 point conversion matter, you are absolutely incorrect. A team should never go for 2 unless it is late in the game. Why go for 2, so you have a nice neat number early in the game? There are so many different scoring scenerios that can play out between then and the end of the game its not in your team's best interest to not take every single free point they can get. Unless you can accurately predict the future and know that a 2 point conversion at that very moment will be the difference between winning and losing, its a bad idea to go for 2 that early.

Bledsoe didn't take us to the playoffs the past 3 years and that was with the D playing very good/great during the majority of those years. Somehow Bledsoe is going to lead us to the playoffs this year when the D is playing like sh-- when he didn't do it before? I just don't get the reasoning here.

You drop back and play zone against them on 3rd and long. Rush 4, maybe even 3, making sure they stay in their lanes. If Vick takes off you have a much better shot at containing him with this D than you do with 6+ rushers running up-field. In the later scenario all Vick has to do is get by the initial rush and the first down is pretty much guaranteed (as we saw). I don't blame JG for trying something different against Vick, but once he saw it wasn't working he should have taken the more conventional approach.

If Jerry Gray stops all out blitzing Vick on 3rd downs and makes him pass to beat us this game might have turned out differently. They played right into Atlanta's strength by blitzing the way they did.

The only thing that is really worrying me about Losman right now is his accuracy. The game moving too fast for him, his hesitancy, his reads...all that comes in time. The accuracy thing has me scratching my head. I didn't see him play much in college but I have to believe that he is a more accurate passer than he's shown thus far. The guy wouldn't have been drafted at all if this was how accurate he was at Tulane. So I'm just hoping he's pressing too much or a little tight (or some other psychological explanation for it) because otherwise its inexplicable how he can't even come close to many of his targets when he’s been doing this most of his life.

Freddy Smith was returning punts today.

My real preferance is to not have the board filled with speculation on how posters think the Bills would be doing with Bledsoe at the helm...

Or there are many posters on the board who can sit back and see both the good moves and bad moves that TD has made. The world (and football) isn't as black and white as most here make it sound.

Exactly.

You keep repeating this line as if you believe it makes you sound intelligent...

Good thing you can make the determination that he's the next Kyle Boller after 3 starts. What an amazing eye you must have.

We don't NEED to see what Bledsoe does with another team. We saw him here for 3 years. Did he play well enough in his 3 years here to warrant staying? That's what matters, not whether or not he plays well/poorly with Dallas.

This "run-on-us-at-will" defense is ready to win now? I'll admit, I thought the same thing a month ago, but not now. They have to show me something first, which will be even more difficult without Spikes around.

Exactly.

Pure speculation, which is why doing this kind of prognosticating is worthless as there's no way of proving/disproving it. Who knows if Drew throws 3INTs 1 returned for a TD, Gets sacked 5 times and fumbles twice, or lights it up with 4TD passes. It’s an entirely different game once you start changing players. I have no clue why people even bother looking at the Cowboys and saying "SEE!" or coming up with brilliant statements like "we would have won/lost today with Drew".

One has nothing to do with the other.

That brightens my mood about as much as watching the CBS world premier of Cybil Shepard in "Martha Behind Bars" ...

McGee was directly responsible for one of the TDs. The Bills are in a zone D, the LB passes the WR off to McGee's zone...but he's not there as he bit and moved forward thinking Vick was going to run with the ball. I'll have to look at my tivo to make sure I'm correct on this, but I'm pretty sure I am.

This offensive line is a fine run blocking line. It's not great, but they get the job done. It's far from "good enough" in pass protection, however. I don't know how you can say they don't get the job done in the running game given what we've seen so far this year.

Accurate passes? For the Bills?

We don't need a shutout. We need a D that can get off the field instead of giving up 3rd down conversions over and over again. We need a D that can hold opposing Os to less than 180 yards rushing. We need a D that can force some FGs instread of allowing TDs over and over again. The Bills passing attack sucks, nobody is disputing this. But to defend the D after back to back pathetic weeks just isn't going to fly.