Peaceful Autumn Reflections
A pleasure to finally see some positive things come out of a Bills game this season. Now, let's keep in perspective its Miami; 0-6 and feeding far below the NFL's bottom-feeders. On the other hand, Miami has a very strong defense and Buffalo has one of the league's worst statistical offenses. Yet, coming into yesterday's matchup, Miami's pass-defense was ranked, take note of this ... 1st in the league. Opponents had squeezed out only a miserable 106 yds per game. Drew, on the other hand, emerged with 212 yards, a TD, and a 90+ passer rating. And the best part was - it wasn't entirely Drew's play. No, it was a combination of an offense that looked, for once, halfway decent! The line gave Drew time - this is by far the most significant development, by the way. But for the first time in like ten seasons a Bills QB had some time to consider his options before throwing the ball. And Drew showed what he can do when given the time - he was throwing into furious wind, as the announcers pointed out several times (and I know because I was fucking working in the goddamn hurricane), and yet his throws were bullets. On target. He's washed up, Buffalo says? Haha, no. Not by a long shot. Though Buffalo itself is, as a city that is. But in all seriousness, lets not get too excited about the O-Line's performance Sunday. Good? Yes. But Miami's defensive line is not exactly a monster of viciousness. They've been soft on the run all year. Miami's strength as a defense comes from its secondary (all the more credit to Drew for finding his receivers). All I'm saying is hats off to our O-line for a good performance ... lets see more of it!! But don't be surprised if we don't. I'm not predicting either way, I'm just saying don't be overly optimistic after one game.
McGahee. Can we just cut the shit and start him already? Henry's a fucking idiot. He's a mutant, a sex-offender, and he's sucked all season. "Well, he's a smash mouth football player, but when you're line is so bad that the whole defense is tackling him, what do you expect?" I expect his ass to get injured, many times, limp off the field, and sit there looking like a sad fucking orangutan who slipped on a bananna peel. Anyone notice McGahee playing finesse, high speed, hit the hole's offense yesterday? No. That was smashmouth football, alright. In fact, almost ALL of his 100+ yards came AFTER CONTACT. He's a fast, finesse player when you get right down to it, but the truly good players can play the style the game calls for. Our line and Miami's linebackers called for a back who can pound out the yardage, and that is exactly what McGahee did. And why? The kid has heart. They said he'd never play football again, let alone at the NFL level. Remember that? I do, because I was in fucking Florida when I read the newspaper article that said it. But he fights his way back, against all odds, gets drafted by a team willing to take a chance on him, and now he's out there. Anyone whose played sports before at a competitive level (i'm not talking about little loop baseball here - try travel hockey or varsity football type shit) knows that it truly is possible to give 110%. Sometimes you want something so bad - so fucking unbelievably bad that you find yourself throwing your body around, willing yourself, pushing yourself, grinding your teeth, and moving and reacting in ways you never had before ... indeed, never thought possible. That's what McGahee was doing yesterday. Thats why you saw him disappear into a pile of fifty guys, but just as you got up to go take a piss cause the play was over suddenly saw McGahee move the entire pile for four or five yards. Or break through and fall forward for five or six. Its called desperation. Its called will. Its called "playing on sheer adreneline." Thats why he could stiff arm a guy so hard that the guy limped off the field and tried to get his thoughts together while McGahee ran on for another fifteen or twenty. People say Henry's tough and he's got heart. Why? Because he comes back from a lot of minor injuries? How about the fact that he GETS A LOT OF MINOR INJURIES? Why else? Because he plays while he's hurt? That's nothing new. Football players play through sprained ankles, damaged knees, and broken arms all the time. Does Travis have heart and toughness? Yes he does. But that alone does not make him a great player. Am I saying bench Henry? No. But they better find a way to work McGahee into the game plan much more significantly when Henry comes back, or they are going to have a lot of unhappy fans in Buffalo, and worse - an unhappy McGahee. Rightfully so.
They benched fat Sam Adams for the second half. God, do I respect that. And why did they do it? They tried to call him off the field at one point to get Edwards in there and Adams refused. He defied his coaches. He thought he was too big a name, too important a player and that he had the ability, therefore, to ignore them. So he didn't get to play the entire second half. I love it. Fuck his fat ass. Fuck his fat, ugly, lumbering, overrated ass. Fuck his fat, flimsy, slob-in-the-guise-of-an-athlete, "I'll let fucking Sammy Morris pillage me for a career day" ass. That's right. Sammy "Fucking" Morris raped Sam Adams and the rest of the Buffalo "top five" defense for some 80+ yards in the first half alone. Excuse me? Morris did that? How is it that we allow this nothing-running-back to smoke our supposedly stud defense? Stupifying. Edwards wound up with 2 sacks. Morris had only about 10 yards in the second half. I say keep Adams' fat, jiggly-puff, Cheese-it resovoir, chicken-skin smelling ass on the bench until he has a serious change of attitude, gets his Jabba-the-Hutt physique in shape, and plays like we pay him to play.
Some quick statistics:
Bledsoe on pace to throw for 3,200+ yards, 19tds, 10ints, with a passer rating of 87.
Moulds - on pace for 1200+ yards.
Evans - on pace for 800 yards on only 32 catches.
Who says our passing attack is awful?
Some fun statistics:
Reed - on pace for 16 catches and 195 yards. Wow!
Peerless Price - on pace for 717 yds and 0tds. By the way, he had 838yds last year and 3tds. He had 1,252 yds in 2002 with Buffalo, and 9tds. Yah, but Vick's great.
Speaking of which:
Michael Vick - on pace for 2,717 yds, with 11 TD's and 11 INTS. Wow. He's the face of modern football. He's the greatest athlete in the game. He's fucking amazing!!!
Enough football.
Politics? Eh, not in the mood. Maybe a little:
First, just remember that you saw it here. Bush will win this election (you actually saw it several blogs ago when I talked about why Edwards will cost Kerry the election, but I'm repeating it here and making it pompous and overblown). Not speaking out of hope or preference. Its just that Kerry, despite making gains after the debates, is slipping again according to several polls. And I think Guiliani said it best when he said "people will be surprised how handedly Bush wins this election." I agree - Bush will get EVERY Republican's vote, and he will also take a small amount of Democrats. Meanwhile, Kerry capitalizes only on the anti-Bush movement; a strong movement, but certainly not strong enough to win the big one. That is why Kerry should have taken a stronger VP. Clarke, as I have previoiusly argued. But he picked the weiner, and the weiner will cost him the White House. Not by losing votes, but simply through not gaining any. So get used to four more years of Bush if you happen to be one of those who hates him so passionately. Cause its coming.
Its been said Bush may again lose the popular vote and win the white house. Honestly, I hope it does happen. I said in a previous blog how fucking ridiculous it was for Puff Daddy and Bruce Springstein and John Fogarty and Christina Aguilera to keep pushing their bullshit "Rock the Vote" and "Just Vote" movements. All its gonna do is rally thousands and thousands of extra New York City and California kids to turn out in droves to vote for Kerry. But guess what. New York and California will already go Kerry's way! The extra votes accomplish nothing! What matters is the electoral college. So if Kerry pulls in a few hundred thousand extra votes and squeaks out a victory over Bush because New York and California youths cast the extra ballots, nothing changes. So why do I hope it happens? It would be the appropriate end result - a slap in the face to unpolitical "celebrities" encouraging mass amounts of uninformed sloths who would otherwise be loathe to vote. Voting is a right, and we should make use of that right - but we also have to be careful to use our rights responsibly. If you don't know the issues, don't know the stakes, and can't state clearly and logically why you're voting for your candidate - DONT FUCKING VOTE!
John Fogarty is awesome, by the way, don't take his name being mentioned above the wrong way. He's written and sang some of the greatest music I've ever listened to. Though Bruce Springstein is free to go to hell and burn along with all his shitty music at any time.
In a recent poll, 12 percent of people responded that they had a favorable impression of Theresa Heinz Kerry. 84 percent responded that she is a "life-bloated, baffled, long-suffering hag." The remaining 4% fled to the hills screaming horribly and bleeding from the ears when her name was mentioned.
End politics
Looking for a book to read? Try Grendel, by John Gardner. I put off reading this one for years, thinking "how could anything related to Beowulf be remotely interesting?" But this 1971 contemporary novel is a delightfully pessimistic book told from the perspective of Beowulf's nemesis - the creature Grendel. It is, in short, a cynic's Bible. And its a quick read. Only 170 pages, and it flies by. Seriously, you could read this one in a matter of several hours. And if you're like me, you'll underline something on every page and run up to total strangers screaming maniacally - "LOOK AT THIS SHIT! ITS FUCKING BRILLIANT, YOU WHORE!"
A suggestion - as long as the NHL is on lockout and hockey fans are forced against our will to lead miserable, substance-deprived lives in the meantime, why not try to commit some good? I'm waiting for the happy day I open up the paper to read the headline ... ALL NHL REFEREES HAVE BEEN RUN SCREAMING LIKE SISSIES INTO THE SEA WHERE THEY QUICKLY PERISHED.
While we're at it, lets do something about NFL refferees as well. It seems like they are far too involved in the game this season. Not only during Bills games, either. I watch other games and I'm completely baffled and frustrated with the frequency with which flags are being thrown. Especially on big plays! Every time I see a big play this year I automatically say "flag" and wait to see it appear on the screen. Now the old response to this was always - "Well, the big play probably wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the penalty." Yah, but this year it seems like the penalties have little or nothing to do with the play. And besides, big plays happen without penalties too. Just cause something big happened doesn't mean a reff has to assume a penalty occured. Take the Bills game Sunday, for instance. Drew Bledsoe stumbles, lumbers, and otherwise barrells like a crippled donkey for ... ELEVEN YARDS! Bledsoe "dashed" for the first down! This is amazing! This is Twilight Zone shit! Of course there was a flag. Campbell for holding. Yet the replay tells a different story. Campbell tries to throw a block and is utterly humiliated by the rushing Miami player, who bowls him over like he was a little girl and continues on his merry way, unhindered. Yet somehow in the "dark-fantasy" world that is a referee's terrible mind, this becomes holding somehow. I think the announcer said it best when he said "that call just adds insult to injury," as Campbell sits on the ground looking dejected and miserable.
Baseball is so fucking boring it makes me want to open my veins and contemplate eternity ... or lack thereof, as it were. But then again ... a televised baseball game is a good argument IN FAVOR of eternity, if you catch my drift. I can't wait til the season is finally over.
Okay, enough's enough as far as I'm concerned. Leave a message, please. There is nothing more frustrating then spending over an hour on this fucking thing and not getting comments. Simply - if you take the time to read it, please take the additional thirty seconds to sign it!
Since my usual "A Presto" was questioned, I'll foresake it this time around.
End Transmission
McGahee. Can we just cut the shit and start him already? Henry's a fucking idiot. He's a mutant, a sex-offender, and he's sucked all season. "Well, he's a smash mouth football player, but when you're line is so bad that the whole defense is tackling him, what do you expect?" I expect his ass to get injured, many times, limp off the field, and sit there looking like a sad fucking orangutan who slipped on a bananna peel. Anyone notice McGahee playing finesse, high speed, hit the hole's offense yesterday? No. That was smashmouth football, alright. In fact, almost ALL of his 100+ yards came AFTER CONTACT. He's a fast, finesse player when you get right down to it, but the truly good players can play the style the game calls for. Our line and Miami's linebackers called for a back who can pound out the yardage, and that is exactly what McGahee did. And why? The kid has heart. They said he'd never play football again, let alone at the NFL level. Remember that? I do, because I was in fucking Florida when I read the newspaper article that said it. But he fights his way back, against all odds, gets drafted by a team willing to take a chance on him, and now he's out there. Anyone whose played sports before at a competitive level (i'm not talking about little loop baseball here - try travel hockey or varsity football type shit) knows that it truly is possible to give 110%. Sometimes you want something so bad - so fucking unbelievably bad that you find yourself throwing your body around, willing yourself, pushing yourself, grinding your teeth, and moving and reacting in ways you never had before ... indeed, never thought possible. That's what McGahee was doing yesterday. Thats why you saw him disappear into a pile of fifty guys, but just as you got up to go take a piss cause the play was over suddenly saw McGahee move the entire pile for four or five yards. Or break through and fall forward for five or six. Its called desperation. Its called will. Its called "playing on sheer adreneline." Thats why he could stiff arm a guy so hard that the guy limped off the field and tried to get his thoughts together while McGahee ran on for another fifteen or twenty. People say Henry's tough and he's got heart. Why? Because he comes back from a lot of minor injuries? How about the fact that he GETS A LOT OF MINOR INJURIES? Why else? Because he plays while he's hurt? That's nothing new. Football players play through sprained ankles, damaged knees, and broken arms all the time. Does Travis have heart and toughness? Yes he does. But that alone does not make him a great player. Am I saying bench Henry? No. But they better find a way to work McGahee into the game plan much more significantly when Henry comes back, or they are going to have a lot of unhappy fans in Buffalo, and worse - an unhappy McGahee. Rightfully so.
They benched fat Sam Adams for the second half. God, do I respect that. And why did they do it? They tried to call him off the field at one point to get Edwards in there and Adams refused. He defied his coaches. He thought he was too big a name, too important a player and that he had the ability, therefore, to ignore them. So he didn't get to play the entire second half. I love it. Fuck his fat ass. Fuck his fat, ugly, lumbering, overrated ass. Fuck his fat, flimsy, slob-in-the-guise-of-an-athlete, "I'll let fucking Sammy Morris pillage me for a career day" ass. That's right. Sammy "Fucking" Morris raped Sam Adams and the rest of the Buffalo "top five" defense for some 80+ yards in the first half alone. Excuse me? Morris did that? How is it that we allow this nothing-running-back to smoke our supposedly stud defense? Stupifying. Edwards wound up with 2 sacks. Morris had only about 10 yards in the second half. I say keep Adams' fat, jiggly-puff, Cheese-it resovoir, chicken-skin smelling ass on the bench until he has a serious change of attitude, gets his Jabba-the-Hutt physique in shape, and plays like we pay him to play.
Some quick statistics:
Bledsoe on pace to throw for 3,200+ yards, 19tds, 10ints, with a passer rating of 87.
Moulds - on pace for 1200+ yards.
Evans - on pace for 800 yards on only 32 catches.
Who says our passing attack is awful?
Some fun statistics:
Reed - on pace for 16 catches and 195 yards. Wow!
Peerless Price - on pace for 717 yds and 0tds. By the way, he had 838yds last year and 3tds. He had 1,252 yds in 2002 with Buffalo, and 9tds. Yah, but Vick's great.
Speaking of which:
Michael Vick - on pace for 2,717 yds, with 11 TD's and 11 INTS. Wow. He's the face of modern football. He's the greatest athlete in the game. He's fucking amazing!!!
Enough football.
Politics? Eh, not in the mood. Maybe a little:
First, just remember that you saw it here. Bush will win this election (you actually saw it several blogs ago when I talked about why Edwards will cost Kerry the election, but I'm repeating it here and making it pompous and overblown). Not speaking out of hope or preference. Its just that Kerry, despite making gains after the debates, is slipping again according to several polls. And I think Guiliani said it best when he said "people will be surprised how handedly Bush wins this election." I agree - Bush will get EVERY Republican's vote, and he will also take a small amount of Democrats. Meanwhile, Kerry capitalizes only on the anti-Bush movement; a strong movement, but certainly not strong enough to win the big one. That is why Kerry should have taken a stronger VP. Clarke, as I have previoiusly argued. But he picked the weiner, and the weiner will cost him the White House. Not by losing votes, but simply through not gaining any. So get used to four more years of Bush if you happen to be one of those who hates him so passionately. Cause its coming.
Its been said Bush may again lose the popular vote and win the white house. Honestly, I hope it does happen. I said in a previous blog how fucking ridiculous it was for Puff Daddy and Bruce Springstein and John Fogarty and Christina Aguilera to keep pushing their bullshit "Rock the Vote" and "Just Vote" movements. All its gonna do is rally thousands and thousands of extra New York City and California kids to turn out in droves to vote for Kerry. But guess what. New York and California will already go Kerry's way! The extra votes accomplish nothing! What matters is the electoral college. So if Kerry pulls in a few hundred thousand extra votes and squeaks out a victory over Bush because New York and California youths cast the extra ballots, nothing changes. So why do I hope it happens? It would be the appropriate end result - a slap in the face to unpolitical "celebrities" encouraging mass amounts of uninformed sloths who would otherwise be loathe to vote. Voting is a right, and we should make use of that right - but we also have to be careful to use our rights responsibly. If you don't know the issues, don't know the stakes, and can't state clearly and logically why you're voting for your candidate - DONT FUCKING VOTE!
John Fogarty is awesome, by the way, don't take his name being mentioned above the wrong way. He's written and sang some of the greatest music I've ever listened to. Though Bruce Springstein is free to go to hell and burn along with all his shitty music at any time.
In a recent poll, 12 percent of people responded that they had a favorable impression of Theresa Heinz Kerry. 84 percent responded that she is a "life-bloated, baffled, long-suffering hag." The remaining 4% fled to the hills screaming horribly and bleeding from the ears when her name was mentioned.
End politics
Looking for a book to read? Try Grendel, by John Gardner. I put off reading this one for years, thinking "how could anything related to Beowulf be remotely interesting?" But this 1971 contemporary novel is a delightfully pessimistic book told from the perspective of Beowulf's nemesis - the creature Grendel. It is, in short, a cynic's Bible. And its a quick read. Only 170 pages, and it flies by. Seriously, you could read this one in a matter of several hours. And if you're like me, you'll underline something on every page and run up to total strangers screaming maniacally - "LOOK AT THIS SHIT! ITS FUCKING BRILLIANT, YOU WHORE!"
A suggestion - as long as the NHL is on lockout and hockey fans are forced against our will to lead miserable, substance-deprived lives in the meantime, why not try to commit some good? I'm waiting for the happy day I open up the paper to read the headline ... ALL NHL REFEREES HAVE BEEN RUN SCREAMING LIKE SISSIES INTO THE SEA WHERE THEY QUICKLY PERISHED.
While we're at it, lets do something about NFL refferees as well. It seems like they are far too involved in the game this season. Not only during Bills games, either. I watch other games and I'm completely baffled and frustrated with the frequency with which flags are being thrown. Especially on big plays! Every time I see a big play this year I automatically say "flag" and wait to see it appear on the screen. Now the old response to this was always - "Well, the big play probably wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the penalty." Yah, but this year it seems like the penalties have little or nothing to do with the play. And besides, big plays happen without penalties too. Just cause something big happened doesn't mean a reff has to assume a penalty occured. Take the Bills game Sunday, for instance. Drew Bledsoe stumbles, lumbers, and otherwise barrells like a crippled donkey for ... ELEVEN YARDS! Bledsoe "dashed" for the first down! This is amazing! This is Twilight Zone shit! Of course there was a flag. Campbell for holding. Yet the replay tells a different story. Campbell tries to throw a block and is utterly humiliated by the rushing Miami player, who bowls him over like he was a little girl and continues on his merry way, unhindered. Yet somehow in the "dark-fantasy" world that is a referee's terrible mind, this becomes holding somehow. I think the announcer said it best when he said "that call just adds insult to injury," as Campbell sits on the ground looking dejected and miserable.
Baseball is so fucking boring it makes me want to open my veins and contemplate eternity ... or lack thereof, as it were. But then again ... a televised baseball game is a good argument IN FAVOR of eternity, if you catch my drift. I can't wait til the season is finally over.
Okay, enough's enough as far as I'm concerned. Leave a message, please. There is nothing more frustrating then spending over an hour on this fucking thing and not getting comments. Simply - if you take the time to read it, please take the additional thirty seconds to sign it!
Since my usual "A Presto" was questioned, I'll foresake it this time around.
End Transmission
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