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There's a lot to this list I don't like. Jason Campbell and Matt Cassell ahead of Byron Leftwich? Don't think so. Cassell should be last on this list. Edwards may not be too much higher than Clayton has him slated, but I don't see him being way down at 31. For the time being at least, he should certainly be ahead of Kevin Kolb who still hasn't played enough to give a thumbs up or down.

I thought I was the only person in the world who didn't have a problem with our new uniforms.

It would be so great if we won the division this year. Everyone is talking about a three team race amongst the Pats, Fins, and Jets so it would be so funny if we surprised everyone. I said not a chance, but that's only because there's no option stating "barely miss out" or "close, but no"

I'm not a fan of expanding the playoffs because I think it would cheapen what it means to win in the regular season but adding the extra bye week sounds like a good idea and so does playing games on another day during the week (like Friday or Tuesday). However, I really don't think this stuff needs to be done because it seems like the NFL is not in as bad of a financial position as we might believe.

There's an insider link on espn.com that reads "FBO: How Lee Evans trumps Miles Austin". Does anyone here have insider? I would love to know what this article says.

The first thing that came to mind when they punted on that 4th and inches was Jauron. A preseason game, already getting whooped and we still have not guts. Sounds just like the last few years. Also, I don't know if anyone noticed on the previous play but I rewound it slowed and it down at the end of the play and it looked like Johnson got the first down on the 3rd down play. When he got tackled, he was pulled back and should have gotten forward progress beyond the first down marker but they didn't give it to him.

Ha, watching haynesworth get air over Steve Johnson made this game worth it.

Did Joe Theisman just say "well we have another interception" on a punt return?

I'm from MD and I meet with a BB group at a place called Nottingham's. It is in Columbia in a set of University of Phoenix buildings which are on a sidestreet off Snowden River Parkway. That's probably the closest BB place to Ellicot City. Let me know if you need directions. As for tomorrow night's game, I believe a lot of the backers are going to the game so you may not find much of a crowd if any at all at the bar.

If Trent starts, weeks 4-5 will tell us whether or not he has improved (especially if Revis is playing by week 4 when we have the Jets). Edwards looked good in weeks 1 and 2 last year and week 1 was nationally televised. But then the trentativeness kicked in and he sputtered from then on. He also looked good in the first few weeks of 08 but then after the concussion he got sloppy. I hope he starts and I would like to think that his struggles were based on a poorly run offense that the new regime will fix but time will tell.

My thoughts exactly

A friend of mine (a Bears fan) told me that the fact that Kelly is in the HOF is a travesty since he benefited from the no-huddle offense. Unfortunately, a lot of people see it the same way and make the same argument against Reed getting in. While I think that is the dumbest reason to keep someone out (especially to say it's a "travesty") in the grand scheme of things both Monk and Carter were probably better. However, I don't think it would be ridiculous if Reed got in over Carter though both should get in at some point in spite of the offenses they were in.

That's what I would have thought, but I checked some other places like stubhub and buffalobills.com but I didn't see good prices for individual tickets to that game. That may be the problem though, since I'm just looking for an individual ticket as opposed to a group of 2 or more.

Keep in mind though, they had Parcells, we don't. Gotta admit, the man's a genius at turning teams around.

Thank you all for the information. I didn't realize they supported TBD, that's awesome.

Has anyone ever been to this site or do you know anything about it? I have seen some good ticket prices for the Jacksonville @ Buffalo game that I didn't find anywhere else almost to the point to where they could be too good to be true. I just want to make sure they are a legit site before I buy anything from them. I'm not an experienced online shopper so I'm not as familiar with the warning signs of fraud. Thanks for any info you can provide.

I enjoy reading optomistic posts. I honestly believe that the doom and gloom predictions that many people have for us (such as we finish 1-15 or 3-13) are more far-fetched than the loftier 11-5/12-4 picks. I don't think we are in as bad of shape as other people think we are. That said, I don't know that we'll finish 12-4 but I would love to see it. I'm going to go ahead and pick 9-7 just barely out of the playoffs. Perhaps in 2011 we'll finally get over the hump (assuming there's a season in 2011).

A lot of people seem to have forgotten that game but I sure haven't and I'm glad to see that someone else remembered it. I always wondered the same thing, who calls PI on a hailmary. If we win that game, then we would have finished at 11-5 putting our playoff game against the Dolphins in Buffalo instead of Miami.

In all seriousness, the counter or counter trap

The checkdown

Wow, really? I seem to remember the Cleveland game last year when no one else seemed to care whether we won or not and he was out there trying to rally the troops.

It was a few years ago againts the Jets. They had just beaten the Patriots and were in a position to potentially surprise New England and win the division. As sick of the Patriots as I was at the time I really wanted to see them lose the division whether it be to us, the Jets, or even the Fins. We then went into New York and whooped the Jets. I enjoyed the win because we still had slim playoff hopes and it's not like I rooted against us but it kind of stunk knowing that the Jets' chances to catch the Patriots had been all but ruined.

I don't know what was sweeter, the blowout win over the Raiders or outgunning Marino and the Dolphins the week before

I would add we just had to suffer through a decade of watching a team in our division dominate football with 3 championships and a perfect regular season.

Given the fact that the Titans were 13-3 that regular season, a record, which in many other years, would have won them home field advantage (they were only a wild card team because Jacksonville was 14-2) I think we would have stood a very good chance to knock off Indy and Jax to get to the superbowl. I feel that, because of the Titans record, they were a wild card team on the same level as a first round bye team so if we could have gotten past them who knows what could have happened. However, winning three straight road games against that calibur of competition then beating St Louis in the superbowl I think would have required better stability at the QB position. As much as I like Flutie I don't even think keeping him in would have done it. But like many have mentioned on this thread, I have also spent numerous moments in the last 10 years wondering what could have been.