The_Real Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 The Colts beat the Patriots. All the Brady/Bruschi love the national media has didn't help them. P. Manning and the Colts got over on the beloved Patriots and for that I know that there is a god. My hopes and prayers are that the Patriots begin to slowly fade back to the bottom of the league, where they rightfully belong. Let us all take a moment and realize 18 points up in the first half, the Pats collapsed. They could not get a stop on the Colts and no matter how many scoring drives in the second half, they simply could not stop Peyton's boys. For this tremendous feat I am going to have a really really good day. Happy Patriots lose day everyone. T_R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordio Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Ive said this all year that the patriots have a real problem @ LB. Vrabel & Bruschi are just too slow. Bruschi's skills have diminished greatly from prestroke, & Im calling it now, I would not be surprised one bit if they cut him in the offseason. I really think this might be the beginning of the end for the patriots run of supremacy in the AFC East. They have way more cracks in the armor then they have ever had before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Again, I asked this question 150 times last night and got no good answers to it: What the hell does this have to do with the Bills? Does it somehow validate the team that choked the chicken 4 years in a row? Does it make this current team that hasn't made the PLAYOFFS in seven seasons any better? Before we start gloating, howsabout we MAKE IT to the playoffs for a change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Watching the Patriots lose is a consolation prize, thats all. Doesn't make the Bills any better, just makes me feel a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loadofmularkey Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Again, I asked this question 150 times last night and got no good answers to it: What the hell does this have to do with the Bills? Does it somehow validate the team that choked the chicken 4 years in a row? Does it make this current team that hasn't made the PLAYOFFS in seven seasons any better? Before we start gloating, howsabout we MAKE IT to the playoffs for a change? JSP, I think it's pretty comparable to the 2004 ALCS. Yankee haters everywhere--even if they weren't Red Sox fans--were feeling the love the morning after because the big, bad Yanks finally crashed and burned like they never had before. And to make it even sweeter, it happened at the hands of their annual whipping boys. Just like yesterday. What should we, as Bills fans, be feeling today? Constant misery and reflection because our team didn't make the playoffs? Why can't we participate in another team's schadenfreude for a few days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Watching the Patriots lose is a consolation prize, thats all. Doesn't make the Bills any better, just makes me feel a bit better. Exactly. It means nothing. All it means is that THEY made the AFC championships after beating the Chargers in SD. It doesn't make the Bills any better. Until Buffalo beats NE, all this whining and half-gloating is moot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Exactly. It means nothing. All it means is that THEY made the AFC championships after beating the Chargers in SD. It doesn't make the Bills any better. Until Buffalo beats NE, all this whining and half-gloating is moot. I means we're talking about the teams that are still playing. What's the problem? I like football....I keep watching even after the Bills are out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taterhill Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Again, I asked this question 150 times last night and got no good answers to it: What the hell does this have to do with the Bills? Does it somehow validate the team that choked the chicken 4 years in a row? Does it make this current team that hasn't made the PLAYOFFS in seven seasons any better? Before we start gloating, howsabout we MAKE IT to the playoffs for a change? shut the F up will you..our hated rival choked away a chance for another SUper Bowl..we enjoy these things..if you do not...that is your problem...my god you have me such a headache... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 I means we're talking about the teams that are still playing. What's the problem? I like football....I keep watching even after the Bills are out of it. I do too, but I don't obsess about others' successes or failures. I've changed my thinking on this radically. Much like the American car manufacturers should be emulating Toyota, the Bills should emulate the Patriots. Just MO, but winning as many games as they have over the past 6 or 7 years kind of makes it common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Real Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 I do too, but I don't obsess about others' successes or failures. I've changed my thinking on this radically. Much like the American car manufacturers should be emulating Toyota, the Bills should emulate the Patriots. Just MO, but winning as many games as they have over the past 6 or 7 years kind of makes it common sense. If you like seeing the Patriots win or are unaffected when they win, don't respond to this post because I'm happy they didn't. I hate the Patriots. As a fan of an AFC east team who has been forced to listen how Brady is 'the next' or how Belechick is the 'best mind in football' or the Patriots are 'the best franchise in football', I'm elated. They blew an 18 point lead. Their star quarterback threw the deciding interception. How it affects the Bills doesn't really matter. It's not about the Bills. It's about the Patriots losing and the national media having to talk about how Brady blew it. How Belechick got beat. If you want to hate on the Bills because I post how happy I am that the pats lost, you're just looking to be negative. They lost, I'm rejoicing. That shouldn't bother you, the Bills or anyone else who isn't affected. I'm affected, they lost.. Nah nah. : P T_R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 shut the F up will you..our hated rival choked away a chance for another SUper Bowl..we enjoy these things..if you do not...that is your problem...my god you have me such a headache... Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tcali Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Again, I asked this question 150 times last night and got no good answers to it: What the hell does this have to do with the Bills? Does it somehow validate the team that choked the chicken 4 years in a row? Does it make this current team that hasn't made the PLAYOFFS in seven seasons any better? Before we start gloating, howsabout we MAKE IT to the playoffs for a change? Very simply--this Pats situation is more than about Pats football. Its about there being a God--which i know now there IS!!! Because the satanic duo of belicheck and Brady has been defeated. Glory to God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I do too, but I don't obsess about others' successes or failures. I've changed my thinking on this radically. Much like the American car manufacturers should be emulating Toyota, the Bills should emulate the Patriots. Just MO, but winning as many games as they have over the past 6 or 7 years kind of makes it common sense. We DO emulate the Patriots. I don't see how that means we don't hate them, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 We DO emulate the Patriots. I don't see how that means we don't hate them, though. We do? I don't have a problem hating them. In fact, I don't like them all that much myself. That being said, I WISH the Bills had been so successful. I WANT the Bills to finally beat them, and beat them good. I just don't think it's going to happen for some time. What's Brady? 26 or 27? It's insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I don't have a problem hating them. In fact, I don't like them all that much myself. That being said, I WISH the Bills had been so successful. I WANT the Bills to finally beat them, and beat them good. I just don't think it's going to happen for some time. What's Brady? 26 or 27? It's insane. 30 at the end of August. Still, certainly should have some decent years in him. That said, whomever is calling him the next Montana should bear in mind that Walsh didn't even think Montana was the best QB on his team. Young was probably one of the best and better than JM, by extension better than Brady, in an era in which the Cowboys presented far more of a challenge than any team has presented NE in their dominant time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 30 at the end of August. Still, certainly should have some decent years in him. That said, whomever is calling him the next Montana should bear in mind that Walsh didn't even think Montana was the best QB on his team. Young was probably one of the best and better than JM, by extension better than Brady, in an era in which the Cowboys presented far more of a challenge than any team has presented NE in their dominant time. What's his W/L record against the Bills? He sees Buffalo on the schedule and sees two wins. Until that changes, I'll continue to think of him as the best QB the Bills have ever had to face, including Marino... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuntheDamnBall Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 What's his W/L record against the Bills? He sees Buffalo on the schedule and sees two wins. Until that changes, I'll continue to think of him as the best QB the Bills have ever had to face, including Marino... Bull. Marino on that team, playing their scheme correctly, would carve the Bills to pieces with regularity. It's probably the best scheme the Bills have had to face in-division. But you're measuring a Marino that never had a running game and faced the best Bills team of all time with a Brady that has faced a Bills squad perpetually in the doldrums or just on the cusp of getting out. It's a team game. The Pats have been winners because they've exemplified that to a T. And what they've been able to do is somehow maintain their cool when it seems they are always losing the guys who brought them there; Milloy, Branch, Law, etc etc etc, now Samuel. Good front office, great scheme, smart staff. Bill Walsh did the same thing. Brady is very good, no doubt. But he is not a better individual QB than Manning, Young, or Marino. He may be a better 'team QB.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWings Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Bruschi's skills have diminished greatly from prestroke, & Im calling it now, I would not be surprised one bit if they cut him in the offseason. There has actually been talk that he is considering retirement. Given his health situation, I wouldn't be surprised if he did. In fact, I would almost encourage it...he's won 3 rings and is one of the more respected players in the game. He has nothing left to prove, in my opinion. I really think this might be the beginning of the end for the patriots run of supremacy in the AFC East. They have way more cracks in the armor then they have ever had before. I think this goes to the coaching. Belichick aside, they kept losing their assistants (Weis, Crennel, Mangini) and losing players because those assistants are gone. I wonder how much the coordinators were a buffer between the players and BB - if the players are now interacting directly with Belichick more than in the past (and we know what a sunny disposition he has), there could be some more tension in the locker room than we're lead to believe. I have no evidence to back this up, but it's just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Wheels Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Joe Six Pack doesn't want us to PICK on the Patriots until the Bills beat them? I'm fine with that. Right now we have TO PUT OUR FINGER on our own problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 What's his W/L record against the Bills? He sees Buffalo on the schedule and sees two wins. Until that changes, I'll continue to think of him as the best QB the Bills have ever had to face, including Marino... We split games with the Pats next year. Mark it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizell Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Exactly. It means nothing. All it means is that THEY made the AFC championships after beating the Chargers in SD. It doesn't make the Bills any better. Until Buffalo beats NE, all this whining and half-gloating is moot. you're right, it doesn't make buffalo any better. but it sure does feel good. so what the hell is your problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 you're right, it doesn't make buffalo any better. but it sure does feel good. so what the hell is your problem? You know what they say; feeling good is easy, Lord, when Joey sings the blues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 We split games with the Pats next year. Mark it down. That would be a good start....We need to beat the Pats in our own backyard....The last 3-4 times we have played them close in NE....however we have been pasted by them at home... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 That would be a good start....We need to beat the Pats in our own backyard....The last 3-4 times we have played them close in NE....however we have been pasted by them at home... So many things go into beating another team that typically dominates you. But as the year progressed, I don't think anyone would argue that our team clearly got better. As a result, I would most certainly have liked to have played NE after the bye week when we made adjustments to the OL. Suddenly we are better at protecting the quarterback, better at second-half adjustments, better at gameplanning and we both know if you stick it in the endzone on fourth-and-1 in our first meeting (the revamped team would have a better success rate on a play like that), it would have gone a long way to changing the outcome of that game. But of course, even if we beat them once next year, people will still cry that it doesn't matter until you do it consistently. You can't please people who refuse to be pleased for any amount of time. Some people are just happier when they're bitching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungee Jumper Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Again, I asked this question 150 times last night and got no good answers to it: What the hell does this have to do with the Bills? Does it somehow validate the team that choked the chicken 4 years in a row? Does it make this current team that hasn't made the PLAYOFFS in seven seasons any better? Before we start gloating, howsabout we MAKE IT to the playoffs for a change? Let me try to explain it to you in haiku: I hate New England. God, do I hate New England. I hate New England. The Bills don't have to do well for me to hate the Patriots. The only prerequisite is that the Patriots exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 You know what they say; feeling good is easy, Lord, when Joey sings the blues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 We split games with the Pats next year. Mark it down. I take it that'll be part of your dinner's on me suite of picks? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Hansen Forever Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 That prick bellyache wouldn't even shake Peyton's hand when he left the field. All he did was push him away. Bellyache didn't even bother shaking or congratulating Tony Dungy. What a prick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prognastic Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 None of this erases the last 7 years or so of football futility in Buffalo however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 That prick bellyache wouldn't even shake Peyton's hand when he left the field. All he did was push him away. Bellyache didn't even bother shaking or congratulating Tony Dungy. What a prick! He actually did congratulate and hug Dungy, but I look forward to the day he blows off our quarterback at midfield because JP knocked them out of the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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