SwampD

You make a good point, but I don't really think the small market/big market thing has anything to do with it.

I thought it was pretty funny. "Does anybody remember laughter?"

The longer this goes on, the more I hate Jason Peters. He signed a contract. End of story. When I sign a contract to do work for someone, if I do a really good job, one that I could have probably gotten twice as much for, I don't say,"You know what?...this work is really good and I really should have charged you more...so I'm going to keep it until you pay me more." That is REDICULIOUS. I suck it up, and on my next job, I know my work will be worth more and that is what I ask for. In fact, if my work is what I think is substandard for what I've been paid, I would probably consider some sort of discount on the next job just to make good(of course my work is never substandard ) And I don't want to hear that he can't just go down to the local Football Shoppe and sell his skills somewhere else. That argument is crap. I serve a very niche market as well and I still manage to do the right thing. Again, the longer this goes on, the more I hate Jason Peters.

You wrote this right when people have to show up for work and at least pretend to do something when the workday starts. Got that out of the way...now...football. I'm very excited about this year and this team. I think they are going to be good, with or without Peters. Man...this week is already lasting forever.

A little more than that. It wasn't until the Wolford deal in '97 that most folks were made aware of the importance of the LT. At least from a paycheck point of view. And even then it wasn't talked about all that much until more recently(sorry if ten years is recent to me, maybe I'm old). Whatever it was, it wasn't since time immemorial as Max thinks.

It was a really good read. I hope Max reads it. Then he would know that if NFL teams weren't even differentiating between the LT and other linemen until '93, then the general public wasn't talking about it until well after that.

Hey Max, why so angry? And the LT blocks the best pass rusher because the defense usually puts the best pass rusher on the QB's blind side, which in the case of a lefty QB is over the RT. But knowing so much about football, you already knew that.

There's no way it has been talked about for twenty years. At least not to the level it is these days. And why would the LT be important to a lefty QB?

We've read and heard a lot over the past month or so of the importance of the Left Tackle. Some have even said that it is the second most important position in football. That seems a little silly to me, but if I remember correctly, it wasn't even until a few years ago that people started talking of the [so called] importance of the left tackle. And now it seems as if it is all I hear about. Maybe it makes people feel like they know something about the game of football when they say things like,"you have to protect the quarterback's blind side." I don't know. I always thought that an Offensive line is best when it plays as a unit. I would think that it would only be important to have a great LT,as compared to the rest of the line, if that line as a whole kinda sucked. The reasoning being;if the QB's going to get hit anyway it would be best if it wasn't from the blind side. Every week we see highlights where QB's get hit straight on from the right side, and you say to yourself "how did he not see that guy." I'm just wondering if all this LT talk is more just a function of it being the current darling topic(possibly created by the agents of LT's) than of the actual importance of the position. Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't think the LT isn't an important position, just not that much more than any other on the line. I don't know what the next most important position in football is, but if I had to choose only one, I'm pretty sure I would take an All-Pro center over an All-Pro LT any day.

I wonder, though, what % of the yards and points came in the fourth quarter, due to the offense not doing anything and our D just petering out.

Yes...um(head bowed down)...I just got that. sorry...doin 2 things at once and didn't realize that nfl.com is really stupid for ranking them upside-down.(walking backwards, slowly out the door...head still down)

What am I lookin at then? http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats;jse...mp;d-447263-n=1

sorry wrong year. 15th in points and 2nd in yards. Still pretty good.

Why was that D comment off? Last year we were ranked 8th in points, 7th in yards defensively. That's pretty darn good.

If you ask me, not signing lee evans yet might actually help him in the long run. I personally don't think he's that great that we have to make sure that we keep him. Don't get me wrong, he's good, I just don't think he's irreplacable. If he has a great year he might even make more than he would have if he signs now. In another scenerio, say we sign him this week to a four year deal...then he has a lights-out, Pro Bowl year..then thinks his contract isn't good and decides to hold out with three years left on his contract. Hey, it's happened before. All that aside, I see a Bills team right now that looks better on both sides of the ball than they did last year. I'm excited for the season to start. Aaahh, "Hope Springs Eternal"

I heard that since he is being paid like one anyway, Peters is going to finally come in and only play Tight End.

I would bet that most if not all "on the bubble" NFL linemen already do that to make themselves more valuable. And I don't look at it as wasting a roster spot. By making sure that the exchange is good when punting or kicking, the long snapper contributes way more to the amount of yards and points our team gets in a game than some third string O-lineman(who may be a better blocker) that gets in for four plays a game.

Stay?

Probably figured they couldn't charge for a three play highlight video.

I say keep him.

I think it depends on the yardage as well. I had a bunch of people over watching the game last night and didn't see the number, but who scored that short TD. It reminded me of Kenny Davis, who always got that one yard(or less) to get the first by jumping over the pile, replacing Thurman.

With our luck Peters would report, then Walker would hold out.

Maybe it would be easier if we just got a left-handed quarterback.

Here we go again. Go get'm Mickey

AMEN!