The Following Players Sucked Today;

by Middlesex on Sep 25, 2011 4:51 PM EDT

To name just a few;

Julian Edelman. Some nice returns, but horrible as a receiver and as a running-back. I wasn't impressed at all with his play-making ability.

Deion Branch was in preseason form tonight. A complete non-factor throughout the game.

Chad Ochocinco. He let himself get beat on one of those interceptions, and that dropped-pass was pretty aweful. Not really a factor throughout the game.

Sergio Brown an pass-interference. I forgave the one last game due to his interception off of Rivers, but it needs to stop.

Josh Barrett. Missed tackles more than one.

Tom Brady at times. Some of those interceptions were at least somewhat-flukes(tipped), but some are on him. He wasn't himself at times tonight, and those times were very costly.

Logan Mankins, penalties.

Devin McCourty. Love him, but he needs to prove he's not a rookie-year wonder.

I'd have to watch the game again to get a better feel for who else definitely played below expectations. Also, why does Belichick keep putting Fletcher out on offense?

Welker, Arrington, most of the o-line, and Gronkowski had great nights. Ridley looked good and able to gash right up the middle.

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My only hope is that a loss like this forces them to be honest

And make changes and adjustments that need to be made, and that the players that have underperformed so far realize that it’s on them to step up.

Deep in enemy territory

by JeffyB on Sep 25, 2011 6:02 PM EDT reply actions

Like with the run game.

Ridley should move up the depth chart and we need some flashes of Vereen. Ridley out-performed BJGE and would have had even more impressive numbers if he didn’t slip on that shitty field they had. Instead of trying out our rookies, drafted fairly high, we give it to Edelman?

Also, Shaun Ellis… is it me or has he been a non-factor? Kyle Love looked better at DE…

The one facet of the team which deserves the highest marks, excluding individual players like Welker/Gronk/Arrington, is our special-teams. Slater leads a very solid group,

It is what it is

by Middlesex on Sep 25, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Of all the veteran DL we brought it

Haynesworth has looked the best. And that says nothing good for the rest of them. They looked good in preseason and promptly began disappearing on us. Also, I agree on Ridley.

It’s so frustrating looking at this team and seeing all the same flaws we saw when we got sent home by the Jets in January.

Deep in enemy territory

by JeffyB on Sep 25, 2011 7:54 PM EDT up reply actions

The missed opportunities

disgust me. If we throw even one less interception, we win that game. We were given chance after chance to claim the 3-0 record we deserved, but each time they (mostly Brady) passed it up.

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by New Century Silver on Sep 25, 2011 6:08 PM EDT reply actions

haha

you obviously did not deserve…THE FREAKING BUFFALO BILLS DO!!!!!!!

by Jeremy Galton on Sep 25, 2011 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Borderline Trolling

but you are right

Taylor Price will be the starter by the end of the season (Said before Training Camp)

by Chris Kole on Sep 25, 2011 7:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Depends on how you define deserve..

You’ve had 3 second-half comebacks against three teams that have collapsed all of them but us being average-bad.

I’ll put it like this:

Total dominance win: 100 points
Win after being down during the first half: 60 points
Win against a team that beat themselves: 30 points
Win against a team with no talent and beat themselves: 10 points

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by New Century Silver on Sep 25, 2011 8:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Or like this

3 games 118 points. Thats good no matter who you playing. Just saying while the Bills might not be champions, they aint chumps no more.

The player I would like least at #9 would be my sister’s cat, Captain Creamsicle. She does have a great work ethic and agility, but I’m really concerned that at 9 lbs., she’s too small to play safety in the NFL. She also bites way too often on play action and is easily distracted by someone waving string in the crowd. Lastly, her wonderlic score was pretty awful, answering "meow meow meow" for most of the questions- Dr. Brackish Okun

by mob16151 on Sep 25, 2011 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Jury is still out on them

Only 3 games played and all of them by the skin of their teeth. We will see if you can keep coming back from 20+ points every single game to win

Taylor Price will be the starter by the end of the season (Said before Training Camp)

by Chris Kole on Sep 25, 2011 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions

41-7

is not “skin of the teeth”

WE ARE ONE TOGETHER IN SUNDAY === WARRIORS AND GLADIATORS TITANS AND HEROES ALL IN ONE . THE WAGON BLASTER BELONG TO THE FANS TO THE BUFFALO NATION ONCE YOU ENTER THERE IS NO TURNING BACK WE PROTECT AND LIVE FOR THE HONOR OF RIDING IN THE WAGON BLASTER- abayarde

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 1:52 AM EDT up reply actions

I agree they are no longer terrible, and should probably be classified

as average. Because of this, can you really say they deserve that perfect season of theirs?

I guess what I’m trying to say is the Bills have the best record in the AFC – and yet, we both agree they aren’t the best team in the AFC, right?

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by New Century Silver on Sep 25, 2011 11:57 PM EDT up reply actions

Define best.

I thought this morning that the Patriots were the best in the AFC. So, given the Bills beat the best, I’d be happy to say, yes they are now. Just like the Giants were the best team in the league in 07. Blame it on poor playcalling, bad reffing, bad luck, whatever, a win is a win is a win.

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 1:54 AM EDT up reply actions

Giants fans wouldn't say they were the best team in the league in 07.

Just played better on the day. It happens.

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by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 1:55 AM EDT up reply actions

It's a game of days.

Just so happened that day defined the season. Every Giants fan I know would be glad to argue that.

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 1:57 AM EDT up reply actions

Rational, reasonable Giants fans would say they were better only on the day.

"Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me." Mayor Adam West

by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 1:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Well

rings go to the best, not the second best. As a Bills fan, I knw this better than most. If there was an award for the “best” and not the champions, some could say we’d have 4.

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 2:03 AM EDT up reply actions

Better than the 90 Giants? Probably.

Same as the Pats were better than the Giants that year, but not in the game they give the trophy for.

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by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 9:53 AM EDT up reply actions

ROFL?

Wins don’t decide who’s best. You have to factor in how the win was gotten (blowout, shootout, defensive struggle, etc), and who the win was against.

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by New Century Silver on Sep 26, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Giants were the Super Bowl Champions in 2007, and the best team in the NFL

but they weren’t after Week 3. They were only 1-2.

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Sep 26, 2011 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions

half right

certainly not the best in the NFL…and it too 2 miracles on one play for them to win the SB

by DrewBled4U on Oct 1, 2011 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions

IMO

It’s harder to comeback after being down than to blow a team out. Total dominance happens all the time. 18+ point comebacks, not so much. Just about every win by any team that has ever won is because the other team made mistakes. What makes a team great is recovering from early mistakes and taking advantage of your opponents mistakes. And having a quarterback who makes a bee line to the locker room without shaking hands with the opposing quarterback is just a lack of class.

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 1:49 AM EDT up reply actions

I take it you were there in the tunnel after the game?

Maybe Fitzpatrick jumping around like he’d just won his tenth Super Bowl made it a little awkward?

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by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 1:53 AM EDT up reply actions

Hey

As long as he keeps winning he can do whatever he wants. Last year when the Pats blew out Buffalo, he shook Brady’s hand

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 1:55 AM EDT up reply actions

Probably because Brady wasn't jumping around in front of the crowd like he'd never won anything before, and actually looked for a handshake

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by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 1:56 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

You're grasping at straws

And Fitz hasn’t beaten a team like that before. So yes, for him it was winning something big. Can’t tell me Brady didn’t cheer after winning his first big challenge of a game.

by KPaup on Sep 26, 2011 2:01 AM EDT up reply actions

Maybe. We don't go throwing around accusations of a lack of class either.

Point is, just because we didn’t see a handshake doesn’t mean there wasn’t one.

Celebrate your win, Buffalo. Pretend this was as big as a Super Bowl, because as far as you know, this feels the same.

"Perhaps it was the Noid who should have avoided me." Mayor Adam West

by ISN on Sep 26, 2011 2:27 AM EDT up reply actions

But its not an accomplishment.

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by New Century Silver on Sep 26, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Dude, seriously?

Look at the Vikings – every week they’ve been ahead by 17+ points this year and went on to lose. 18+ point comebacks happen all the time.

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by New Century Silver on Sep 26, 2011 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Reminded me of 2009.

We had Moss and Welker and no one else that could catch.

Tonight we had Gronk and Welker and … // crickets chirping.

The one guy you can’t lay this on is Welker. He nearly replicated the first two game’s production in this one game.

A lot of guys dropping the ball – literally.

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by SlotMachinePlayer on Sep 25, 2011 11:12 PM EDT reply actions

Branch was supposedly double teamed

by prioris on Sep 25, 2011 11:23 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, right.

I’m gonna try and stomach re-watching it on NFL gamerewind, but I thoroughly doubt he was double covered more than a couple times, if at all. I could be wrong, but I don’t remember seeing 2 guys on him with any regularity.

Deep in enemy territory

by JeffyB on Sep 26, 2011 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions

Double teaming doesn't have to take the receiver out.

If it is more zone, where the CB passes him to the Safety, then there is an opportunity between zones.

If it is over/under, then there are opportunities laterally.

If it is just a safety that is leaning coverage his way, then it might take out the go route, but pretty much everything else is open.

Could be Branch just got beat.

by SlotMachinePlayer on Sep 26, 2011 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm thinking about flagging this article

…for unnecessary roughness:)

by frogfromthemud on Sep 26, 2011 11:28 AM EDT reply actions

and another one for a blow to the head

or to the stomach more likely, lol

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Sep 26, 2011 5:16 PM EDT up reply actions

I never knew Bills fans were such homers...

Best team in the NFL my ass… The Packers, Bears, Lions, Vikings, Patriots, Jets, Texans, Steelers, Colts, Ravens, Saints, Falcons, Eagles, Giants, Cowboys, Chargers, and maybe Raiders are better.

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- Toby Turner

by New Century Silver on Sep 26, 2011 2:44 PM EDT reply actions