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Re: The 2009 NFL Season Thread
Good. The city of Buffalo desperately wants these games in Canada to fail, as do I.
Re: The 2009 NFL Season Thread
I imagine it's pretty hard to get excited for Bills/Jets in Canada tonight on the NFL Network. But it might be fun, you never know, the first meeting was truly hilarious. If Perry Fewell can get a winning record in games he coaches he could have a real shot at that job.
The march to 7-9 continues tonight!
Is Fitzpatrick the (long-term) answer here? They've been pretty competitive since Jauron has been fired. Maybe all they needed was a little fire from the head coach. I think almost all of their problems on offense stem from the OL (or lack of one). I think Tasker on last week's game said that their pass options were limited because they had to keep an extra TE to max protect all the time. Fred Jackson is a very underated player.
FWIW, for truly hilarious and awful football, I think the Browns-Raiders in Week 15 or 16 might take the cake here. Both teams are awful in the passing game. Oakland's run game is very disappointing. They've pretty much missed on 3 straight Top 10 picks (Russell, McFadden, Heyward-Bey).
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Fitz is not the long term answer, Fewell is just playing him because right now he plays better. Fewell will either get the head coaching job or not have a job in the organization next year, so in his mind, to hell with development, we just need to scrape some wins together now. Bills will probably spend a 2nd or 3rd round pick on a QB and build around him. No QB will be the answer until the line is fixed. Losman and Edwards will both be out of the league in a few years simply because this O-line is terrible year in and year out.
Fred Jackson is the man. A great story for the NFL too, he wasn't anybody you'd expect to see in the NFL. Bills could really use a good TE. Derek Fine is alright but he's hurt a lot.
Re: The 2009 NFL Season Thread
Fitz was 9-23 for 98 yards and an INT.
The thing that gets me about TO slagging Edwards and his support for "his guy" Fitz, is that when he threw his tantrum about Edwards missing his curl route against the Titans at the end of that game, no one went up to TO and asked him about all the big passes Trent's thrown him that he's dropped.
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I don't think that would've helped anything. For the record, I don't know any Bills fans that had a problem with TO's behavior in that game. It's how we all felt.
Great job last night Bills. Pretty sure Toronto doesn't want this team, so we can keep them!
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I love TO. But he is a bitch. You're not helping your QB when you're dropping passes (he even had a drop with his boy Fitzy) and your O-line is letting him get killed and kept forcing him in 3rd and 15's and 3rd and 20's with ridiculous penalites.
I watched that game. They were totally in it until the second half. I'm not laying blame at the QB's feet because of the last minute of the 4th quarter. I saw it as a continuation of throwing your QB under the bus.
Another thing I find funny... Mike Singletary was mad because they didn't run the ball more in the game they just won... Because the offensive coordinator put Alex Smith in a spread offense, which is what he's awesome at. The same offense that made him a #1 draft pick... But even though that's what your QB fantastic at, you don't want him to do it... Because you're "old school"... Okay... And people are saying he's a good coach?
Re: The 2009 NFL Season Thread
vikings get screwed today by the redskins blowing the game against the saints, several times.
and then screwed themselves by only suiting 3 players against the cardinals.
the cardinals did the obvious thing and took those three players out of the game .
1 - percy harvin - they did not kick off to him.
response/adjustment from from vikings offense - nothing.
apparently starting off at your 35 yard line each drive isn't an advantage for the vikings since the cardinals willingly kicked it there each time.
2 - adrian peterson - almost zero yards rushing due to coverage.
response/adjustment from childress and coaching staff - nothing
apparently the cardinals guessed right when they decided to bring the whole defense in to the box and stop the run and the vikings were content to stick with the same plays they had scripted.
3 - jared allen - no sacks due to being double teamed all night and what was pathetic about that was that noone else got any sacks either.
response/adjustment from childress and coaching staff - nothing.
I apologize - They did do something here - they panicked and blitzed and got burned as expected. Note to Kevin Williams: You were the sack leader on the team before Jared Allen came to MN and were double teamed regularily every game. Feel free to make a play or two when you are suddenly given single coverage all game.
vikings/childress and coaching staff THOROUGHLY OUTCOACHED!
THOROUGHLY.
it turns out the vikings would've been better off not taking the field seeing as how, at no point in the game, did they look interested in even making a contest out of the game but more importantly:
they are now without pro bowl middle linebacker ej henderson for the rest of the year.
that's 2 pro bowlers now - GONE.
and both in the secondary.
along with several other injuries.
what a cruel twist of fate.
at 3pm it was looking like the vikes would gain home field against the saints in the nfc championship, atleast for the time being.
less than 7 hours later, it is gone and most likely gone for good and yet it is no longer of any concern. they won't be able to beat the saints even if they have home field the way things are looking now.
their supposed immunity to injury (which was exagerrated in the first place) has been taken away in extreme fashion and at a terrible time and coach childress's inability to make adjustments at any other point then half time has been RE-exposed.
im pissed obviously.
Re: The 2009 NFL Season Thread
Apparently the Pats just can't win on the road. They have to win their 2 remaining home games (Carolina, Jacksonville) and they should be able to win @Bufallo but the way they're playing on the road who knows. And even though Houston probably won't have anything to play for in week 17, they'll probably lose that game @Houston. So 10-6 is looking likely. They should win the AFC East and get a wild card home game. There's an outside chance they could host the Steelers and if that happened they'd probably lose. Their defense is so bad Big Ben would rip them to shreds. Regardless, even if they won a playoff game at home they ain't winning any on the road.
I had hopes when they were minutes away from beating Indy. Maybe that loss has been more damaging than I could've ever imagined. The defense bounced back the next week AT HOME against the Jets but the last 2 games on the road they have been AWFUL. And Bill doesn't know what to do on offense anymore. He goes for it on 4th down sometimes, kicks it other times. Seems like he's flipping a coin. He's usually quite assertive, but he doesn't know what to do with this team. They're a mystery. They have ZERO pass rushers, which I was worried about heading into the season. But I think it's been even worse than I thought it'd be. Opposing QB's have all day back there to find the open man. They made Chad Henne look like a Pro Bowler yesterday and he actually should've done even better. He missed a bunch of wide open receivers. With all that being said, Miami only scored 22 points, despite getting all those yards. The vaunted New England offense should be able to put up more than 22 points against the Dolphins, and they didn't. They opted to go for it on 4th and 1 from the 6 instead of kicking a field goal, that's 3 points right there (though I didn't disagree with the call). Brady through a INT in the endzone (AGAIN) on 2nd and goal, that's 7 points there. They are just leaving too many points on the field. Plain and simple.
One last thing, Randy Moss has been a non factor for the last 3 games. He had a 58 yard TD catch to start off the game yesterday and then caught ONE ball the rest of the day. He failed to make a block in the first half that could've given the Pats a first down on a screen play to Kevin Faulk. I mean, his effort level to block was about 5%, just awful. If he isn't getting the ball 10 times a game he gets disinterested. He's a dynamic player who takes many plays off.
