Let's Go Bills, Let's Go Bills, Let's Go Bills, Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba Bills

-Coast

8-8 Baby. The Buffalo Bills are on a roll. Ryan Fitzpatrick might be on his way to the most productive season a Bills quarterback has ever had. You may be thinking, that is ridiculous. Well, Jim Kelly's career best for touchdown passes in a season is 33. Fitzpatrick has 18 through 8 starts. You know I love stats, so project that out for a full season...14 games for Fitz. He is on pace for 31.5 touchdown passes this season. Imagine if he played in weeks 1 and 2...he would be on pace for 36 touchdown passes...more than Jim Kelly has ever thrown. Oh, and by the way, the 2nd most touchdown passes of Jim Kelly's career is 24. Fitz might have that next week.

I am also so sick and tired of the "Fitzpatrick isn't good, he has limited talent" card. Give me a break. We haven't seen quarterback play like this since Doug Flutie. After all these years of Losman, Holcombe, Losman, Edwards, Losman, Edwards, etc. it is awesome watching a quarterback who seems to know how to play the position. Does Fitz have a laser arm? No, but neither does Drew Brees. Does Fitz throw the occasional interception? Of course, Brett Favre made a career of that. Ryan Fitzpatrick just led the Bills back from a 28-7 deficit, threw for over 300 yards and 4 touchdown passes, led his offense to a ridiclous 35-0 onslaught in the 2nd half and after the game, people still want to comment on how we HAVE to draft a quarterback with our first round pick and how it is disappointing that the Bills are winning football games. Why can't we win with Fitzpatrick? Answer me that. And don't give me the "he is limited" comment because I don't know what that means.

The Bills 49-31 dismantling of the Bungals was beautiful to watch. First of all, it was the biggest lock ever, which I said all last week...and whenever I am right, I am excited, because I am never right. Second of all, T.O. thought he could run his mouth all over Leodis McKelvin...and yes, he did own him on back to back plays...but after that, was he even playing? Third, Gus Johnson had maybe his greatest quote of all time..."The Bills have exploded all over the Cincinnati Bengals!" Fourth, the Bills extended their win streak over the Bengals to 22 seasons and 10 games...and actually increased their 14 point average margin of victory. Seriously, how bad of a franchise do you have to be to have an 0-6 record against the Bills since 2002? Half of these games were home games vs. Cincinnati. I don't know if the Bills have won 3 games on the road against any other opponent in the league since then. They might not have 3 combined road wins in the AFC East since then. Yet, every time they play the Bungals, they house them.

I hate people that are pissed the Bills are winning. Every single season, it is all about playing for a draft pick. When was the last time we used a draft pick and actually drafted someone good? I wish we could have won about 10 more games in 2008 so that Aaron Maybin could have been OFF the board by the time we picked. Unfortunately for us, we were probably the only team that would have drafted him in the first round. I also can't stand the argument that the Bills are beating teams because our players are playing for their jobs while other teams are mailing it in. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Did the Bengals mail it in? Maybe, but not until we took the lead. Did the Lions mail it in? No chance. What about the Ravens, Bears and Chiefs, who the Bills should have beaten? Did they all mail it in even though they are all in first place? Seems doubtful to me. The fact of the matter is, the Bills aren't that bad of a football team. They screwed up by starting Edwards and were on the wrong side of a few bad losses. It is not crazy to think about how easily this team could be 5-5.

Steve Johnson is another Bill looking to set team records. 9 touchdown passes through 10 games...the record is 11 by Billy Brooks. Not even the great Andre Reed could score more than 11 in a season. His career high was 10 in 1991 also. I don't know what it is with Steve Johnson. He doesn't seem that fast, he isn't that tall at 6'2" but does have above average size, he drops a few balls here and there...but somehow, he is just producing. He has 52 catches for 728 yards on the season. He is on pace for 83 catches and 1,165 yards and 14 touchdowns. He also had a pretty awesome touchdown celebration if you are a Dark Knight fan...I give him props. The guy is a stud and has to be the number one receiver on this football team.

The Bills defense is still horrible. It seemed like Cedric Benson was going to run for 200 yards until he left the game with "vision problems." They did make some huge plays however. Obviously, the fumble return for the touchdown by Florence was a huge turning point in the game. The biggest play in the game however had to be the George Wilson interception in the end zone. This play happened with the Bills trailing 31-28. Wilson read a crossing route intended for Owens, intercepted the pass and returned it 56 yards into Bengal territory. The Bills scored on a TD pass to Donald Jones on the ensuing drive and never looked back. Gotta love dudes like Donald Jones having 5 for 70 and a touchdown.

One interesting fact is that right now, 4 Bills offensive players are owned in fantasy leagues. In looking on YAHOO, Fitz is owned in 52% of leagues, Steve Johnson 87%, Fred Jackson 68%, and Lee Evans 60%. Donald Jones is currently owned in 0% of leagues...with the way this offense is clicking, I would jump on this guy ASAP. Seriously though, who would have thought that 4 Bills offensive players would be viable fantasy options this season...and of those 4, who would have thought that Lee Evans would be the 4th best? Crazy. Chan Gailey ladies and gentlemen.

Finally, to wrap up this post, I am going to spend time complaining about Ed Hoculi. How can you possibly blow that play dead when Benson fumbled in the first half? He was hit and it instantly seemed like the play was blown dead. Shawn Nelson was held up in the air for about 5 seconds in Baltimore and the play wasn't blown dead. Terrible call. Secondly, the end of the first half was extemely questionable. The Bengals ran a running play with 5 seconds left, didn't score and the clock ran out. Somehow, Hoculi made the arbitrary decision that there should be 1 second left. He really might be the worst official in the league.

The Bills will continue their battle to 8-8 Sunday in Orchard Park in front of at least 35,000 idiots waiving the terrible towel. Bills 27 Steelers 16.