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I prefer the Pats to win. Jets lose, 0-2 and the sky continues to fall. Yeeaahhhhh!!

Not sure I know exactly what your trying to say here, but I believe you are saying you have lost respect for the Bills. If so, why waste time to question another person's eternal optimism. Generally when I have little to no respect for something, I tune them/it out of my life.

I am overly positive concerning Bill's issues, but stuff like this, if true, makes me upset on a number of levels. It reeks of the staus quo. I choose not to always buy into these rumors, but this is an instance where our front office is either a) thinking they are too smart and overestimating his value (and three back set will work) b) being hamstringed by Ralph who doesn't want to admit to another 1st round misfire (despite it helping the team in the long run) or c) they are completely out of touch with the current dynamics of the NFL where there is a certain level of give and take in negotiations where compromises are met. Also, it appears the Bills are not the least bit proactive in trying to deal Lynch which makes me think we will have three good backs that are not utilized effectively. C’est la vie!

Ahhhhh, yes. But they would still hear the bitching and moaning.

+1. The Ownership part was the best news I've heard all week. Thanks!!

Well, the show began in the early 60s, as Kennedy was killed during last season and they're in season 4 already. I wasn't around then, but the early sixties are more closely aligned with the conservatism/conformity of the 50s. I think the show conveys that image very well, despite the tendency (as you point out) to stereotype certain elements of the time period. I couldn’t disagree more with your assessment of the writing for the show, and the Emmy’s the show won last week would seemingly agree with me. Also, Jon Hamm won an Emmy too for Don Draper.

Ha. That's actually pretty funny. He just "pops-up" out of nowhere.

Yeah...not even close.

Yup. He looks solid against a good UCLA team. He's a much better athlete than I thought, too.

NOTE TO SELF: skip posts that needlessly drop words like asinine

Green Bay, week one.

"...Okay, well maybe we should tell that to Rain Man, because he practically bankrupted a casino..."

He'll beat Jake Long cleanly on a counter-move in the first quarter, leading to a thread that debates whether or not he can get to 14 this year.

If he stays healthy, I can't see why he can't do almost 3000 (14 games about 210yds a game). Thats reasonable and nothing special if we indeed are a running team. 16-18 tds?

Cheers to that!

Yup, that's why he rocks during March Madness. I actually like Dierdorf(sp) because he's good at analyzing the O-lines, and I think Tirico is the smoothest lead out there. Also, on a different note, ESPN's tennis coverage has been suberb as well.

His dad is real, he shows pictures of him in his columns, now about that Sports Gal... My thing is that Simmons uses his dad as figure in his columns to show the pulse, often reactionary, of a given sports team fan base. Generalizations, yes, but they’re usually during a game or right after it that exhibit pure emotion. JS, who I don’t hate either, is a columnist that has days, weeks to craft his columns.

Yeah that's the general concensus of me and my friends as well. We don't actively root for players to be injured, but we accept it as part of a ultra-violent game. Players for one, as an earlier poster mentioned, are hell-bent on destroying one another, too. Let us not forget Kellen Winslow's comments years back at Miami. "It's war...they're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them. We don't care about anybody but this U. They're going after my legs. I'm going to come right back at them. I'm a ... soldier." I remember the outcry was more for his insensitive comments concerning the ongoing war, not the validity of his words which explicitly infer players trying to injure one another.

In the spirit of yesterdays week 1 haiku here's one for Jerry. Opinionated Repetitive, no new thoughts Year in and year out.

This. Drew was slinging the ball around despite the weather and Ricky had like two 60yd tds which was weirdly enjoyable because Moulds and Peerless were unstoppable that day. That was a fun game to be part of.

That's what I'm thinking, plus, it's not like we beat them when he wasn't.

Uhhhhh, no?

I think it will be for the first few games as well, especially if we have to run blitz a lot out of the 34 to stop the run. Edwards, Williams, Troup, and Stroud would be solid against the run but would provide little off the edge in the rush department. Not that we get anything off the edge in the rush department anyways...

True, I actually think he's a better 4th quarter grinder than Lynch. However, respect and talent are two different things and its nice for once that our FO is saying talent trumps hard work and "being a good guy." This probably isn't a popular opinion, but I always thought Jauron went this route and morever, felt he needed to ease rookies into the lineup. Its quite simple, Spiller is better so he starts. Lynch and Freddy are both good backs in their own right, but could either of them have pulled off that Indy run? Not to worry, I see all three playing a lot.