At 11:59 PM 1/4/2004 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote:
>I used to hate the Bills (sorry John!), back from around the Giants-Bills
>superbowl days.
I forgive you.... I used to hate the Denver Broncos for always going to the
Super Bowl and losing for the AFC - because I *hated* an idea that was
gaining currency at the time of abolishing the Conferences, since the AFC
was regularly getting blown out in the Super Bowl. I was pretty young at
the time though and didn't know better.... and come 1998 I was rooting
really, really, hard for John Elway and the Broncos.
I'm a big Drew Bledsoe fan (he's a total class act),
>though, so once they traded Bledsoe to Buffalo, I started routing for the
>Bills a bit. I'd really like to see him succeed. (John - any thoughts on
>Bledsoe? A lot of fans in Boston loved him, but many hated him. I'm
>curious if Buffalo fans are thinking the same thing now, with his recent
>not-so-great season.)
Drew Bledsoe is on very thin ice in Buffalo. I don't think that there
are words to describe how incredibly horrible he was this year. I watch
an awful lot of football, and I have rarely seen such a disastrous
performance from a QB. Basically, despite playing with a horrible
offensive line, throwing to subpar WR's, and getting plays from a pretty
horrible offensive coordinator, Drew Bledsoe nevertheless showed almost
zero pocket presence, ability to avoid the rush, precision throwing
ability, gamemanship/leadership, and decision making. A classic example
of his lack of awareness of the game was when he was driving down the field
late in the 4th quarter, down by 10 points..... he somewhat miraculously
dodged a rushing lineman, and even more incredibly, actually threw the ball
away to avoid the sack... all things he did very little of this year,
except.... it was 4th down. Bledsoe had lost track of the downs and the
game was over. Argh...
Anyhow, the Bills will almost certainly select a QB on the first day of the
draft, and if the Bills decide to keep Bledsoe for next year, he really has
a small window of opportunity to become a competent NFL QB again.
>Overall, it kind of leaves me pretty conflicted, since there's no teams in
>my division that I can freely despise. :-)
Buffalo has it easy. We *hate* the Dolphins, and will always hate the
Dolphins.
JDG - Buffalo is the only city in America where they sell dolphin-tuna mix.
;-)
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