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. ;-) _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l