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What some Bills fans are sayin'...


"Thru 3 games, we have seen the opponent carry the ball 99 times for 522 yards. That is 5.3 YPC, and 174 YPG. Compared to last season, where we were tied for 5th in YPC defense (3.6 YPC) and finished 7th in total rushing defense (100 YPG). And before you point to our opponents thus far (Atlanta led the league in rushing a year ago), let me point out that even the lowly Texans averaged over 4 yards per carry and nearly reached the century mark themselves - so one of the worst offenses in the entire NFL did to us - on our field - what the average team did to us last season. As much as JP has looked bad, and as much as McGahee didn't do his share against the Falcons, I think we should be looking at both sides of the ball. Right now it is pretty clear our DTs neet to step it up a few notches."

"I was very upset at the Offensive Line play after last weeks game, but after this week I am firmly on the fire Tom Donahoe bandwagon. It’s for one reason and one reason only. The Offensive line is a JOKE. Now I’ve given Tom the befit of the doubt, and have been his biggest supporter, since he’s been with the team, because he’s a great team President... one of the best in the NFL, but as a GM Tom has worts. The biggest of these worts is his flat out refusal to draft/sign ATHLETIC Offensive Linemen. It’s a joke. It’s worst then Jim Haslett’s refusal to draft Corners... For many years everyone in the Country knew the Saint had a playoff caliber team, they have an above average QB, they have above average Receivers, they have GREAT Defensive Linemen, and an above average Offensive Line. Even with all this talent the Saint would get beat in shoot-outs because they started shoddy Corners."

"Achilles tendon injuries are never good, and pending the severity he could be gone for more than jsut this year. Theses injuries nag a player for the rest of their career, just look at Sam Cowart he never fully returned to his All-Pro status. Ladies and gentlemen, not to look too far into the future (negative), but we may have seen the the last days of a great Takeo Spikes... "

"New Orleans is a mediocre football team which means we have a chance to win. "

"The answer for jp is the same as it is for everything else. ALCOHOL. "



There ya go...

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Even with all that, the Bills have one of the better defenses in the league, one that will capitalize on mistakes. Losing Spikes was BIG though. But with that being said, the blueprint for beating the Saints is set, stop the run at all costs, and make AB beat you. On obvious passing downs, put pressure in his face. Until AB steps up and beats down this strategy, it's the one teams will use over and over and over. The NFL is a copycat league. It will help ENORMOUSLY should we not fumble the opening kickoff, but even after that, you are just down 7-0. If you are out of your gameplan cause you are down 7-0, it's a crap gameplan to begin with. I am gonna be at this game, so I will see firsthand if we can beat this strategy. If we get the same pressure on Losman that we got on Culpepper, we should force him into some key mistakes and win. But McGahee must be licking his chops right about now to get at us. We need to use the same strategy on them they will prob use on us, stop the run at all costs and force Losman to beat us.

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ROFL... I got a kick out of that.

We have an above average everything yet we still stink it up. Pathetic.

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I don't know if even gonna watch the game this week.......The Bills are gonna kill our offense..
I can't stand to watch...

Woeful Bills defense is running on empty

9/26/2005 Jerry Sullivan-Buffalo News

Jerry Gray was one of the first people out of the locker room after Sunday's 24-16 loss. The Bills' defensive coordinator was moving so quickly, he might have been mistaken for Michael Vick. Gray was in no mood for talking. He stopped only long enough to tell a reporter, "Go talk to the referees. They have all the answers."

Oh, yes. Those accursed NFL officials. There they go, spoiling the Buffalo defense's run at greatness. It must have been the officials who gave up 236 yards rushing to Atlanta, who allowed Warrick Dunn to bust a 59-yard run just before halftime and who devised an overzealous game plan that failed to contain Vick in the pocket.

Blame the officials. It's a lot easier than swallowing the hard, objective truth - which is that Gray's celebrated defense might be the most overrated unit in the NFL, one that talks about making history when it should be worried about making tackles.

Coming off the Tampa debacle, the defense had a chance to redeem itself against Vick, one of the most dynamic athletes in sports. It failed miserably. It allowed Atlanta to average 6.6 yards per rush. It was dominated for the second week in a row.

One bad performance is an aberration. Twice is a trend, a crisis. The only history that came to mind was the horrid memory of the 2001-02 defenses under Gregg Williams. This year's "D" was supposed to carry the team. It's the worst run defense in the NFL after three weeks. It's getting shredded for 174 yards a game.

"We're better than that," said head coach Mike Mularkey, "and our players know we're better than that. We pride ourselves on stopping the run."

Mularkey said the defense has been effective against the run, except for the occasional lapse that results in a big gain. It sounded like the worst of the Williams era, when coaches and players insisted that the run defense was actually OK - if you took out the long plays.

Granted, the offense had a big share in this loss. J.P. Losman was terrible again. The Falcons played without their top three cornerbacks for half the game, and the Bills couldn't take advantage. Eric Moulds said he hated to second-guess the coaches. Then he did it, anyway. He said you have to exploit backup corners. You have to make teams pay.

Moulds is right. He has eight catches for 66 yards on the season. He's on the verge of blowing his stack. The Bills are coaching scared. They're afraid to let Losman throw the intermediate passes. They went deep a few times, but otherwise it's a lot of dink and dunk. They're averaging under 9 yards a completion, the lowest in the league.


Story continues...

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...26/1073426.asp


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Angelo Crowell will replace Spikes at LB.

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Stats and profile...
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From SI.com...

"The Bills have to address their quarterback situation immediately, since they can't be a bona fide playoff contender with J.P. Losman. There are too many talented veterans on the defense to already give up on this season and commit to the future by sticking with Losman. The second-year QB's production is headed steadily downward -- he threw for 170 yards in Week 1, 113 yards in Week 2 and 75 yards on Sunday. At this rate, he'll be throwing for negative yards by Week 5. Buffalo has to commit to veteran Kelly Holcomb right now or the season is over."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...udments/1.html

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Great - the Saints are exactly what they need. The Bills can get healthy on both sides of the ball this week.

Wait, what happened to the other WhoDat? I was just getting used to that guy. lol

From The Buffalo News...

GRADING THE BILLS (Falcons)

9/26/2005

Running game
(B+)
Willis bounced back and brought the hammer. He ran hard. Bills ran ball against Atlanta's seven-man fronts.

Passing Game
(F)
J.P. missed opportunities to exploit hobbled DBs. He only threw for 23 yards in second half. Evans, Moulds didn't get ball enough.

Run defense
(F)
Bills are missing old No. 93. Bills got gashed too often up middle. Leaving too many gaps on slants. Now Spikes is out. Ugh.

Pass defense
(D)
Instead of keeping Vick in pocket, Bills blitzed him out of pocket. He converted 7 of 12 third downs. Kelsay got key interception.

Special teams
(B+)
Forced a turnover on punt return to keep hopes alive. Pinned them at the 3 on a punt. Lindell made three more FGs.

Coaching
(D)
Gray's blitzing didn't contain No. 7. Couldn't exploit suspect secondary. Margin for error slim with a young QB.


http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...26/1069747.asp


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Gotta agree with WHODAT....if you gotta problem...play the Saints....
it's an instant fix..........
I still think that our team is better than we are playing...I'm just wondering when pure embarrasment sets in.....
Minny sucks and we looked worse.......
"oh bartender...make that a triple"

game plan for this week should be to run the ball to open up the passing game, which may be able to be carried out with the loss of takeo spikes, and pressure losman, who is a 2nd stringer at best at this point in his career.... you think the nfl would recognize tulane qb's by now as just not very good... king, ramsey, losman, and i'm guaranteeing ricard won't be very good either... anyway, the saints should be able to sneak by on a field goal, if they can keep the penalties/turnovers low and apply pressure to losman and limit mcgahee (let's be honest, we can't stop him for sure)

Losman 297 yrds, 3TD's, 1Int
McGahee 145 yrds....1Td
Saints fumble the opening kickoff...
want more?

Buffalo will take a page from the Minnesota 'cure for offensive woes' playbook. They'll hammer Willis, which will succeed because the Saints are not stout up the middle (DT's and MLB). When the safeties cheat up in the box, they'll run play-action, giving a struggling QB just what he needs to get better: one-on-one looks on the outside. While Mackenzie can be beaten due to his risk-taking, he can also make a great play, so Losman will look to the other side, where every WR's dream, aka Jason Craft, will be. Craft solo on Moulds or Lee Evans? Good-freakin' night.

PS- this is pretty much what the Vikings have done the past three times they've played the Saints. Why did it take so long for Venturi to bring corner and safety blitzes? How is it that we can be out-coached by Mike Tice -Mike FREAKIN' Tice- every time we play the Vikings?

Saints game plan vs Bills...if we win the coin toss, kick the damn ball!!!!

AMEN TO THAT!

another opening kickoff fumble and i say carlos marcello is still alive n kickin

BILLS NOTEBOOK: Red zone TDs continue to be a problem

Allen Wilson - Buffalo News - Sept. 27

The Buffalo Bills were 29th in the NFL in touchdown scoring percentage in the red zone last season. Not much has changed this year. The red zone continues to be the place where touchdowns go to die for the Bills, who have scored just two TDs in nine possessions inside the
opponents' 20-yard line after three games.

The Bills are coming away with some points as they've gotten six red-zone field goals from place-kicker Rian Lindell. But seven points is a lot better than three. The Bills' offense has only two touchdowns in 12 quarters of football, so the unit has to do more with the few red zone opportunities it gets.

"It's very frustrating," quarterback J.P. Losman said. "It's good that we're not having penalties to back ourselves out. We're not turning the ball over and not taking a lot of lost-yardage plays. We're still getting just three points, which is going to catch up with you at times and it's catching up with us now. It's definitely an area we need to focus on."


Story continues...

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial...27/1064910.asp


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Despite ranking last in the NFL in rushing yards allowed, the Bills are still No. 7 in total defense because they have given up the fewest passing yards in the league (106.3 per game). Offensively, the Bills are next to last in the league in passing (100 yards per game) and total yards (223.7) and 28th in scoring (13.7 ppg.).



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More from Bill's fans...


"I think that the Saints are at a distinct disadvantage. This is not even a home game for them. This is an AWAY-home game."

Saints Defense: 24th in the league
Pass Defense: 18th in the league
Run Defense: 26th in the league

Saints Offense: 11th in the league
Pass Offense:11th
Run Offense: 20th

Edit: I think that if our run defense can step it up and shut McAllister down that we definitely have a shot at winning this game. I am not scared of N.O.'s pass offense because we are pretty good at pass defense.

Our offense should have a pretty good game. McGahee should run for around 120 yds and hopefully, Losman will throw for about 200.

All in all.....

Bills 21
Saints 10




"I think this is the game we need to see some of JP's talent. I think he's gonna make some of those throws he hasn't and hitting the open guys when they are there. I don't care if he struggles, I expected it,but he has to show the talent,he's gotta show some of the reasons why we drafted him. Eli was horrible last year but showed enough flashes that you knew he'd be alright,I'm not seeing that from JP yet. This week is gonna be that game. Bills get back to .500 winning 26-17"




" The Saints will be up for this game. First game in San Antonio. The Bills can't get much lower after losing TKO. They'll be dominated once again."

Bills 13
Saints 24




"If the Bills don't win this game they are done! Horn may not be playing and the Bills have the #1 pass D. NO D is not good. So I think overall the Bills should have the edge. But I'm not going to predict this game but I will predict they are done if they don't win this game. And unfortunately if Losman does not play well Kelly will be in the next game and it will be bring on the NHL!!! "




"I want some of the crack everyone is smoking, who think that the Bills can score more then 3tds."

Saints 21
Bills 13




"Saints are still PO'd about the Giants game and take out all their frustration on us. Again Losman looks rocky bu defense keeps it close! But again all Lindell!"

Saints 17
Bills 9





"Let them be PO'ed. They don't have the team to beat us. They don't have a lot on defense. Their offense has some weapons, but unless Brooks can get them the ball, they're useless. We will win this game. The Bills we thought we were going to see are going to emerge. Losman is going to have a career day. We will win the turnover battle. That will help us win this one. "



There ya go....


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I want to watch this game to seeif saints can put some pressure on this kid JP... if we dontn have aleast 6 sacks then its just not gunna work out we wont win. If Deuce dosent get 2 TDs and 100Yrds were gunna lose if brooks throws for 400 yrds and 5 ints were gunna lose... um if we giv eup more than 150 rushing yrds on defence were gunna lose. We get to the 50 40 times and dont score we will lose. If we have 10 penatlies worth 115 yrds we will lose. so i mean we really need to win this game... really bad... really really really bad. oh yeah if we turnover the ball 6 times we will lose.....

- This game will be played at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas due to the hurricane Katrina disaster.

- The road team has won five of the seven all-time meetings. Buffalo has won its last three road games vs. the Saints.

- The Bills have lost their last four road games in October by a combined score of 104-28.

- The Bills are the only team in the NFL that has not scored a second half touchdown this season.

- Bills' kicker Rian Lindell is 9-for-9 on field goal attempts this season, and has scored 29 of the team's 41 points.

- After a stern talk with head coach Mike Mularkey, Buffalo RB Willis McGahee rushed for a career-high 140 yards last week. Five of McGahee's nine career 100-yard games have been against NFC opponents.

- The Saints haven't had a winning record vs. the AFC since going 4-0 in 1995.

- New Orleans has committed the most penalties in the NFL (36, tied w/Oakland), including 27 in the past two games.

- Joe Horn has 46 touchdown receptions with the Saints, which is two shy of Eric Martin's team record of 48.

- Saints' RB Deuce McAllister has rushed for 100-plus yards in nine of his 11 career October starts, scoring 12 total touchdowns in those 11 contests.


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