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Ah, I see. We have some of those over on the BBMB. Thanks for the tip.

What was he responsible for then? Blocking air?

I don't know. Maybe that Bell isn't a 5th year NFL player who has been starting for 3-1/2 years and been selected to multiple Pro Bowls? Basically he needs more experience. By playing. And that's a problem I have with Jauron and co. They are too cautious when it comes to playing younger players.

Apparently it is. No one said Ralph "deserves soem of JJ's luxury box money??" What's your problem here?

Peters struggled with blitz pickups last year. Remember the Jets game?

It goes into the best practice facilities and expensive coaches and such, but as has been mentioned, his team hasn't won a playoff game since 1996. And no one would call Wade Phillips one of the best coaches. Yet he still kept him around, like people vilified Ralph for doing with Jauron.

Why should he? He created it. First with that CBA and now with this debacle.

Not selling naming rights (ever, in his 20 years as an owner), after villifying Ralph for not doing it, is the funniest part. And things will turn around, but not back to the degree that Jones was expecting how things would be when he first envisioned his mausoleum.

He's going to be "pilloried here mercilessly?" Nope. I think it's safe to say that most of us (here and on the other MB's as well) realize it's not the ideal move for him and that he's doing it for the team. Maybe your average Bills fan will boo him at games or slam him on call-in shows, but anyone who knows anything realizes the deal.

Or Ngata.

Then again, Bell might be starting before Peters did, time-in-the-league-wise.

What Leinart has has gotten him no further than JP. Another 2 years and Leinart's probably in the UFL as well.

Yep, although 9 of them were at RT (the other was at TE).

If you want to read a thread on tonight's training camp practice, it's here: http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2009/8/4/9...ing-camp-day-11

Well then, shouldn't the Panthers have known better than to draft a guy with heat problems?

Word from training camp tonight is that Bell is starting at RT and looking really good. The Bell era might already be starting.

Wait, don't think that I agree with Burress getting 3-1/2 years for what he did. At best, I'd give him what Stallworth got, i.e. 30 days (while Stallworth should have gotten at least 3-1/2 years). But that's the bias in the laws. Gun crime is considered "black" crime while DUI is considered "white" crime (regardless of who commits it). It's not dissimilar to how the punishment for crack is worse than powder cocaine. And to analogize one to the other, what happened to Lynch WRT the gun is like him getting caught DUI. Potentially harmful but wasn't (and in reality DUI is a lot more potentially harmful than having a gun, even if it's loaded, locked in a box in the trunk of your car). Burress' case was like DUI where he crashed into a pole and injured himself. Both would be misdemeanors. But since they involved guns, they're felonies (at least in Lynch's case, the DA had the good sense to knock it down to one misdemeanor, which makes it legally like a DUI). I think Goodell got it right with Stallworth. I think the Marshall and Vick cases, when compared to Lynch's, are inexcusable.

If anyone is looking at Levi Jones to play LT for them, yes, they are desperate. His play has been poor the past couple years, he's been injury-prone on top of that, and he's missed all off-season, probably hasn't kept in-shape, and doesn't know any team's playbook/scheme (except for the Bengals').

Shouldn't the Panthers have known better than to draft a guy with heart problems?

Oh. I vaguely remember Salmon.

Mike Salmon? He didn't play for the Eagles.

Apparently yesterday, Peters "had a rough day" and had to be pulled aside twice by the Eagles' O-line coach because he couldn't get the proper positioning for screen passes down.

Well this part reveals that he's white.

I don't know. Most people thought the Bills were crazy to start Peters back in 2005. If Bell were some nobody, I wouldn't be talking him up. But his father is an NBA HOF'er, so he's got the bloodlines (although if he were an NBA player, I'd give him less of a chance to succeed there than in the NFL). He's also got the agility for basketball, which is what he played until he got to college. He's raw and admittedly needed to add strength. Personally I'd rather put him in there and get him going now because you can only molly-coddle players so long before you find out whether they have it or not. Just like with Peters.

What would you be willing to be that he doesn't bench just 9 reps of 225# anymore?