Enough is Enough

About to boycott this team until they just cut everyone. EVERYONE is dead weight. EVERYONE. Our starting left tackle, is a backup right tackle from the 0-16 Lions, who got cut, and we picked up on free agent waivers to be our back up right tackle, moved him to right tackle for half a game, and now he is left tackle!

Lee Evans...we are paying you 9 Million a Year. Do something.
Lynch..overrated. Oh he runs hard. Well Lynch you suck. Fred Jackson is the man
Trent...you are average at best. You are Terrrrrible
Defense is so bad.

In all seriousness the Bills problem is that they don't have a good team and they refuse to flat out rebuild. They always try to put a decent product on the field, but one that will truly never contend. They need to say to their fans and themselves. Okay guys were starting over...we will be horrible the next 2-3 years...like really bad, but bear with us because its the only chance we are better in the future.

The only players I would take heading into next year are...
Terrence Mcgee, McKelvin, Whitner, Poz, Maybin , Bell, Wood, Levitre, Evans, Steve Johnson, James Hardy, Fred Jackson, Marshawn Lynch.

Everyone else is CUT. They are cast offs from other teams or backups. Bring in a legit GM, not promote a Marketing clown Russ Brandon to GM. Have someone in the front office who can truly evaluate talent. No coach such of Cowher or Shannahan dares come to this pathetic organization so you probably will have to hire an upstart head coach which is fine, just dont hire a tossed aside corpse like Jauron. Young guys are doing okay so far (Caldwell is 4-0 in Indy, Singletary 3-1, McDaniels 4-0).

Just do it. Ralph Wilson. Grow some balls because saying you aren't going to take mediocrity, but making no moves and accepting it is lying. You are lifeless puppet. Enjoy.

Weekend Roundup/We All Need Somebody to Leaaaan On

Not a whole lot to talk about as far as college football this weekend. Texas took care of business against Texas Tech. Tennessee was plenty competitive enough to prove Florida is not in fact the 07 Patriots reincarnate. The biggest thing to happen, of course, was USC being beaten by Washington. Amazing what a little coaching can do. A year ago Washington was completely hopeless, now they grab the USC offensive coordintaor and a year later beat arguably the most talented team in the nation. Guess Pete Carroll really needs somebody to lean on right now.

I'm going to try to cover the baseball playoff races tomorrow...for now, from the NFL....

I had to help move my cousin's stuff and after being promised we'd be done by 1, I of course, didn't get home until about 3. That said, from the bits and pieces of the Jets/Pats game that I saw the Pats continue to look pretty bland. Brady is missing open targets and looks a little uncomfortable preparing to take a hit. Underrated in the whole thing was that Wes Welker was out so Brady was missing his safety valve. Against a fierce pass-rush with a true lockdown #1 CB (Darrelle Revis), that is a tough thing to not have. Credit due to Rex Ryan and the Jets though. They got in Brady's face and shut them down. The first have they pounded the football and were very patient before opening it up for Sanchez a bit in the second half. Brilliant gameplan and execution, the Jets have now placed themselves in the driver's seat in the AFC East.

Oakland won in come-from-behind fashion? When is the last time that happened? Looked like a painful game to watch, but I could be wrong.

New Orleans has an offense.

Frank Gore and Chris Johnson went wild. Gore had over 200 rushing yards on under 20 carries. Meanwhile I don't even want to write out Chris Johnson's stats as he went for 50 points against me in my fantasy league dropping me to 0-2. By the way, the Niners are 2-0.

Buffalo beat Tampa in one of the most boring games I have ever almost watched. I actually stopped flipping over to it during commercials in the Pitt/Chicago game (and this was when it was a 6 point game). It just was so boring. Brought me back to being in Fredonia and seeing all the exciting looking scores at 1 o'clock as the only game on was the Boring Bills. Nice rebound off the heart-breaker, looked for a second like they might repeat the floppage.

Speaking of Pitt/Chicago, that was a pretty boring close game as well. I don't even know if I have a true comment to make about the game. Jeff Reed cost the Steelers the win missing some easy ones.

CBS switched over to the Baltimore/SD game after that. Philip Rivers carved up the Baltimore defense with a steady mix of dump-offs to Darren Sproles and deep balls to Vincent Jackson. Problem for the Chargers was that they missed Tomlinson's nose for the end zone when they got down there. They settled for 5 field goals inside thirty yards. On top of that, they decided to get into a power formation and run the ball with Darren Sproles on 4th and 2 at the end of the game deep in Baltimore territory. An absolutely terrible play-call after Rivers carved up the Baltimore defense to run the speedy but weak Sproles in a power set. That worked right into Baltimore's strength and Ray Lewis dropped Sproles about 14 yards behind the line of scrimmage. to ice the game.

How does it feel to usher your Hey Technology stadium in with a loss, Cowgirls fans? In all seriousness, my thoughts are this: the Giants were mighty fortunate to win last night. There was the interception off Jason Witten's foot. The Manningham bobbled TD after (though to be fair, despite fortune the said Philips interception should have been a TD, so maybe that was just karma). And at the end, the Ratliff deflected ball Eli threw to pick up the first down that resulted in eventually kicking the game-winning field goal. Hell, there was even the Felix Jones fumble that went right into Sinorice Moss's hands which he then fumbled just for the Giants to recover again.
The Cowboys absolutely carved the Giants defense up on the ground after Flozell Adams tripped Justin Tuck and had him sidelined awaiting a MRI. Obviously, Tony Romo is the reason the Giants won. He made a couple terrible passes that resulted in interceptions. The Cowboys secondary was as bad as the Giants run defense though. Giants wideouts were running wide open all day and Eli dissected them with relative ease.
All and all it was an even game that could have went either way and I expect no different when Dallas comes to New York later in the year.

Indy-Miami tonight has the potential to be pretty good. The Colts are missing #2 WR Anthony Gonzalez. The Dolphins got off to a poor start in Atlanta last week as Indy barely held off Jacksonville. Miami should try to get Ronnie Brown going a bit more this week but ultimately you have to expect Peyton Manning to find a way to get the win.

Overrated:
New Orleans Saints: They beat the Detroit Lions and the Kevin Kolb-led Philadelphia Eagles. From all accounts they seem to be the exact same team as the past couple years, explosive offense, no defense. Why are they suddenly considered the class of the AFC?
New York Jets: Like this team, I honestly do. Well-coached, for real defense. Great young quarterback. Going to need them to prove it against a team that can handle the blitz a bit though. Schaub was a statue and Brady looked scared. When it's all said and done the Jets are likely an 8-8 team.
Baltimore Ravens: The defense isn't what it used to be. Flacco has been playing better and a healthy Heap / Ray Rice getting more touches has the offense on the rise. I'm still not convinced they're very good and if the Chargers didn't settle for field goals numerous times inside the 15-yard line they would have beaten them.
Green Bay Packers: They are who we thought they were.

Underrated:
Jacksonville: Couldn't beat the Colts and has some misfortune with fumbles and a blocked kick returned for a TD that put them in a big hole vs the Cards yesterday. Long a quirky team, I feel strongly that this team is not dead at 0-2.
San Diego: Offense is a beast...if they can ever get Merriman to get back to beast status this team is going to be insanely tough.
Indy Colts: I'll say it before tonight..a) I think this is a game Indy could lose...b) No matter what happens tonight I think the Colts are probably the class of the AFC considering how poor New England looks.

One final note, not sure if anyone else caught the Money Mayweather-Manuel Marquez fight Saturday night. Couple things: Mayweather remains the greatest boxer I've ever had the joy of watching. He is far and away the most technically superior pound-for-pound boxer of our generation. He is a ghost. You can't hit him. When you do hit him, it's always as he's hitting you. Marquez is a hall of fame boxer and Mayweather made him look foolish - he didn't lose a single round in my eyes. Mayweather connected on nearly 60% of his punches, Marquez on something like 7%. Ridiculous. After the fight Sugar Shane Mosley bum-rushed a Max Kellerman/Floyd Mayweather Jr. interview calling out Mayweather saying they should fight. Things got quite heated and almost came to blows. Kellerman tried to continue the interview and switched topics, asking a question about why Mayweather chose to fight Marquez to which Mayweahter starting talking about something else..Kellerman asked him to answer the question again and Mayweather grabbed the mic saying "I'm going to talk about what I want to talk about because first off all, you talk too much." Kellerman refused to swallow his pride and ended the interview. After, he gave a speech about how Mayweather hurts himself acting like that. I disagree. Either way, Kellerman could rip it up on the mic, in case some of you are unaware check the video.

B-B-B-B-B-Blew It

Well the Millman is obviously too heart-broken to post his thoughts. But someone should be touching on the choke-job that was another Buffalonian start for the Orchard Park Bills.

First, let me say that as much as I was ragging on the Bills and as much hatred as I have harbored for the Bills in my past five years of living out the football season in the area of Buffalo, PA, an All-America city...I actually felt a little bad for the true Bills fans out there. And there are some true Bills fans out there, some good football fans that know the sport and know their team - that go into every season with hope and hold onto that hope until every single mathematical equation they can run on the wild card contenders proves the Bills to be dead in the water.

However, I must say that knowing the Buffalo fan-base pretty closely I sense that it is one which aligns itself closely to the fan-base of the team that ripped its heart out last night actually...only baseball...That's right, I'm talking about the Boston Red Sox. And not today's Boston Red Sox. But the Red Sox fan-base pre-2002 championship season. The Bills are a fan-base that prides themselves on misfortune. They love to wallow in their own pity. The like to carry out their misery on their faces. They like to whine and complain. They like to hope, almost only so that they can feel more crushed when it all inevitably goes wrong. I wonder what would happen if the Bills actually won the Super Bowl before the team gets moved to T-Dot. Fans wouldn't know how to react. They would be lost. They would need to re-create their entire persona. I dare say it might ruin them. That day seems far off however.

Let's face it. If the Bills won last night they probably would go 5-11 instead of 4-12. The Patriots came out with an odd, vanilla game-plan that left Bill Bellichik showing nothing in way of complex defensive alignments and blitzing schemes...and a rare heavy dosage of ineffective running and a refusal to let Tom Brady even think about throwing the football down-field. I don't know whether the Patriots a) didn't take the Bills seriously, b) don't feel confident that Brady is ready yet, c) are finally feeling the losses of all of their coordinators or d) simply aren't that good this year. Either way, the Bills somehow managed to put on a pretty effective blocking display despite an inexperienced, mix-matched offensive line. Defensively, they were probably more fortunate with Brady showing some rare fits of inaccuracy, Bellichik with some bizarre play-calling and overall missed opportunities for the Pats.

But make no mistake about it, the Bills should have won that football game. And as the Millman told me yesterday "I'd gladly take a 1-15 season, if it means taking out the Patriots tonight." And that is what makes it so painful I'm sure. Therein lies the problem, however. Bills fans have taken on an incredible hatred for the Patriots - as all other fans of this division's also-rans have taken on as well...and with such a limited roster, Bills fans really don't have much to hope for outside of beating the Patriots in a "well, if we are going down, then we want to take you with us" approach. My step-dad is a huge Jets fan and has tickets to the game against the Pats at the Meadowlands this Sunday. I have heard him say, "hopefully we don't get crushed." The Bills squandered a golden opportunity last night to take the Patriots back down to the level of the rest of these teams. Instead, they do nothing but add to the mystique of the Patriots. To the invincibility of this team..the magic that makes all the other team's feel that somehow, someway, despite score, down, distance and time - that the Patriots and Tom Brady will somehow find a way to win. In just two minutes last night the Bills missed an opportunity to strip that from them in 2009. Instead, if I were feeling more cruel, I would have posted the top-5 prospects in the 2010 NFL Draft...and in the mean time we are all forced to believe that the Patriots will against get it together and win the AFC East.

A couple other things from the game: Tirico, Hodge and anyone else who thinks Leodis McKelvin shouldn't have taken that ball out of the end-zone: you're an idiot. Of course he should have taken it out of the end-zone and spoiled the two minute warning. The problem wasn't that he took it out, but that he prioritized gaining yards ahead of what should have been his two main goals: getting to the 2 minute mark and holding onto the football. And while I'm ragging on Tirico, nice comment he made right after they showed the stat that was something like, TO: targeted twice, one catch for 26 yards. Randy Moss: targeted 12 times for 10 catches and 126 yards. "Terrence McGee has done an outstanding job covering Randy Moss tonight." I don't even know how much McGee covered Moss, but I do know that Moss was a one-man wrecking crew and the only thing that really kept the Patriots offense moving the chains all night.

I already mentioned that I thought the Pats looked vanilla. Their defense looked remarkably slow and I'm really not sure what to make of that. Bellichik might need to really show off his genius by getting this unit to be productive this year. I think the offense is obviously going to get better as Brady gains his confidence back, but the defense looms a large question mark. With the Dolphins already losing, is this division open for the Jets? I liked them before the season and don't want to be another one jumping all over this team after just one game (against a constantly overrated Texans team no less)..but their defense right now may be the best in the division. They can block and they have a couple play-makers. Interesting division if New England doesn't take off.

Ron Mexico to Buffalo???

There are reports that Mike Vick is in Buffalo. NFL.com, adam schefter, profootballtalk, espn, etc all are reporting that Buffalo is a potential landing spot.

I am pretty shocked. Several weeks ago GM Russ Brandon came out and said the bills have no interest in Vick. He did throw out the very sneaky "at this time" caveat.

Would I be interested...absolutely. Give me a chance to get an absolute stud athlete and confirmed criminal on my beloved team and I would be ecstatic. From a football standpoint its got to be unnerving for Trent Edwards. Granted Vick probably isnt ready to play and is not in football shape, let alone he has a suspension to at least week 6 likely looming, but Trent Edwards has not secured anything in Buffalo. Sure, they are trying to make him the franchise QB, but the bottom line is he is in year 3 and hasn't won anything. Once they start losing some games and if they had Vick on the bench you would bet TO will be barking up a storm.

Donte Whitner also tweeted yesterday that he would love for Vick to be on the Bills and that everyone deserves a second chance. Not sure if that was a general statement or was made because he may have heard some inside knowledge.....

Stay tuned....Buffalo Bills...the home of the new Dawg Pound??

6/19/2009: The Saddest day of millman's life.

After a fellow pewch revolution member tipped me off, and I was later able to confirm the news online. As the headline reads, today Friday June 19th marks the end of an era. It is all but official. My favorite Quarterback of all time, John Paul Losman appears to be headed out of the league and to the UFL to reunite with Jim Fassel (talk about a couple rejects flocking together).

I have touched on this earlier so won't pain you with my thoughts on JP other than the fact that this man is a NFL caliber backup quarterback at the very least. Extremely shocked he cannot find a roster spot on ANYONE's bench. I only hope to got he leads the Las Vegas squad to some serious UFL titles, comes back and takes the NFL by storm and finally hits his potential as a35 year old man.

Huck it. Chuck it. JP. Touchdown!!!(Best play ever added by the fact we had the MAN Gus Johnson calling the play)

Mulldog edit* Was anyone else watching / listening to Mike and Mike this morning? Mike Golic and Chad Ocho Cinco got into a bit of a twitter battle after Golic made a comment about how Ocho is always a problem like the rest of the Bungles. Well Chad tweeted him to shreds, I don't have an exact transcript but I think he challenged him to a fight; said he was going to go to the station and steal his (expletive) show; claimed Golic put back all the weight he lost (Nutrisystem commercial anyone?)...and then claimed he was going to bristol after camp, "they gettin disrespectful out there, child please." 8-5.

**Additional edit, Twitter is pewch. The day the Milldog and Mulldog start tweeting I hope you all boycott our blog.

Pope John Paul

With my disgust in the Nuggets 4th Quarter meltdown, and our focus thus far on only NBA basketball I wanted to touch on another subject. Why in the world does J.P. Losman (Bills former savior) not have a job? He did fairly admirable filling in for the injured Trent Edwards (Bills new anointed savior) last year.....right?


I think J.P may have sealed his fate to Rob Johnson status (another West coast QB with a dream bod, golden arm, and a peanut brain) with his terrible fumble last year vs the jets. I mean, dropping back to pass and fumbling the ball with under two to play, in your own zone, and with the lead is as much Coach Dick "the human cadaver" Jauron's fault as JP's.

Regardless, even with his career TDs (33) hovering right below career INTs (34) doesn't Bobby Boucher deserve a spot on someones bench as a number 2/3?

With the likes of Joey Harrington, John David Booty and Ms. Cleo "call me now" Lemon still on active rosters, doesn't this guy deserve a shot to hold a clipboard in a new system.