Bruce

Let's see: 1.) Super Mario, 2.) Kelsay, 3.) Anderson, 4.) K. Williams, 5.) Dareus, 6.) Kyle Moore, 7.) Johnson, 8.) can't believe I'm saying this- Dwan Edwards- though his contract may see him cut for youth 9.) Merriman, and 10.) Heard I'm thinking the cut group is Dwan Edwards, Troupe, and Carrington. 1 of these 3 stays, the other 2 are gone. Dwan Edwards has NFL experience, but seldom makes a difference and has a nasty contract, for a back-up, IMO. Troupe and Carrington are developmental, but have not shown anything as Troupe has been nothing but injured and Carrington is improving but at a snails pace. Prediction: Dwan Edwards and Troupe are cut, Carrington stays for 1 more year to see if he finally can play.

It's a gimmick. Bottom line. What I don't get, is- with the exception of the Fred Jackson TD throw 2 seasons ago- if you come out every time and run the same type of play (QB runs with ball), then that sort of defeats the whole purpose of running the gimmick in the first place. If its purpose is to confuse a defense, then there has got to be some versatility built into it. Brad Smith can't just keep running it.

"Dude" (if that is your real name), you can't seriously believe this. The old hag that spills coffee on herself...she had no responsibility, no prior knowledge that coffee was hot? She needs a label to tell her that? This dumb chick doesn't know that the color black attracts the suns rays? What, she was absent in science class the day this was being covered? You think that a label is going to prevent stupidity? This is gold digging at its ugliest. The good thing: it's in Texas, where common sense values still reside. If this was in NY or CA, oh boy. The bad news: although this should be thrown out, and her joke of an attorney should be laughed right out of court with her, it probably will not. Where do we draw the line as a society? When does a person become responsible for their actions? How are the Cowboys and Jerry Jones negligent? To be considered negligent you need to have a 1.) Duty Owed, 2.) Duty breached, 3.) Proximate cause, and 4.) Damages. The Cowboys have a duty to inform people that sitting on a black bench in 100+ heat could be hot? REALLY?!?!? Even if you were a complete Alien idiot from another planet, you should have felt the discomfort as soon as you sit down. If it was that hot, wouldn't the proper response would have been to quickly exit said chair? IF she sat there longer than 2 seconds she bears responsibility for not mitigating her "damages".

WAITAMMINIT!! Swedish...female...HANDBALL...team?!?!?!? Man, yet another reason why I would like to visit Sweden! I can agree with what you are saying in an overall sense; any athletic event or participation can cause injury. Heck, simple jogging causes injuries to alot of people (weight pounding on joints like knees, hips, ankles, etc), so logically if you up the ante (speed, intensity), and frequency (repeated practice) it stands to reason that one can get hurt easier. But you've got admit, however, that running full-speed into Ray Lewis and Haloti Ngata is not a one-and-done type of thing. You get up to do it again. And then again. And again. Sometimes, 20 times in a single game. For 16 weeks. Practices. Games. Pre-season. Not mentioning possible playoffs, when stakes are raised even higher. I do think it foolish to believe only football and hockey qualify as injury-producing sports and therefore the only ones worthy of praise; but I also deem it foolish to think that other sports carry the same risk of injury as playing football.

The good thing is, Big Jas' can now go back to eating for 4, and as mentioned previously get back on the grain scale...

Yeah, like perhaps keeping a kicker just for kickoffs, and a QB just for 'wildcat'?

Sitting at my computer...looking for kleenex to wipe away my tears that we won't have the reincarnation of The Fridge, after all...

I'm bummed about Easley not panning out, as I was really hoping that he would be the anti- Hardly. Granted, nothing has happened yet. But last years scare with some sort of heart ailment (these guys are so loaded with anabolic agents maybe he couldn't tolerate them- strange we never got more details) that kept him out for an entire season, I was expecting him to come back firing on all cylinders- because he DID look good before he was not cleared to play last year. Ah, well.

I have to admit to being one in the 'GET R' DONE' camp for Zach Miller. I'm now happy to see that we did not move in that direction. On a separate matter, could you imagine thinking a couple of years ago, the Seahawks having both Miller AND Winslow at TE?!?!? Based on how good these guys should be, you would have been goin' nuts over the potential! Amazing how college hoopla and family lineage don't add up to much if you can't play on Sunday.

Tackle Light retired, and now I hear there starting Guard retired, too. With Pioli at GM, they always had a stable of able-bodied replacements. Not so, anymore. Mario Williams will make Giselle cry.

We can certainly hope. I'm done predicting anything in any sport anymore, as anything can happen. But I will say, that starting with the snide comments coming out of the Jets locker room about Sanchez possibly returning as the starting QB this year, I thought that they were in big trouble. A fight is nothing in the scheme of things, but I'm not sure Ryan has a good handle on these guys anymore. The swag has limits, and I think Ryan may have crossed them with the antics he actively promotes.

Great. Now we're gonna have to wonder, if the reason we get bad calls is because of a certain time of the....wait for it...wait for it....

This from the same coach that a few years ago, while on a long West Coast trip, took the team on a walk around Seattle and had Cheeseburgers together. What a weally, weally, cool guy, that coach!

I loved his mad charges at his teammates after he helped plow open a hole for our RB to run a TD through. Those were cool. Loved that passion.

Dotson looked ok in his limited exposure last year. But after that Nix interview, about rebuilding the team...I gotta billieve that Ferguson is an improvement over Dotson and injuries were not that big of a factor.

Is this guy related to Whitner in any way?

Yeah, that would make more sense now. Certainly, Kelsay has been a dependable- if nothing else- grinder of an ok defensive end. A (very) poor man's Phil Hansen. So, play on the field did not warrant the amount of the extension that he received. But, if signing him was the figurehead move of an entire franchise- i.e., sign those grinders and workers to build from as examples of what TO DO- then this makes great sense. I'm even more encouraged that the franchise is now in capable hands. Exactly. He was starting to get high in miles too, as evidenced in Baltimore, with injuries becoming all too frequent. If he was part of the locker room cancer, then I am 100% glad that he's long gone. "Telling players to pack up and leave". Which coach(es) do you suppose that was? I'm a high school football coach, and the staff all talked about it this year, that last years coaching staff said that exact same thing, and it only served as a negative reinforcement and created a great divide between player and coach. Players need positive reinforcement. I wonder if Gregg Williams was the one saying this? Given his recent past, I can certainly see that...

Damn. Beat me to it.

I'm worried for him. With his penchant of dropping balls, I don't know how long he'll be able to hang on....

Whew! I'm so glad. I was waiting for either a.) He died or b.) He was arrested for some drug/ weapon or drug and weapons charge. Nice to know another class act is doing well for himself.

Juice, anyone?

I could not help but confirm the same. Simply stated, the Bills were on fire and 5-2 until the injuries started impacting performance and outcome of games. We finally beat the Pats in a slugfest. Blow for blow we traded, and came out victorious. We came back to beat the Raiders, destroyed the Chiefs...dismantled the Redskins...it was awesome to watch. Nobody could keep up with Fitz and the 'O'. it didn't matter about our defense. Now you have the same guys returning from injuries, with experience together, and a FULL offseason (which they did not have last season, either) of training, AND add the passrush and DB's and more favorable defensive philosophy and coordinator, and we should blow teams up on offense and shut them down on 'D'. Barring injuries, the Bills should be in the playoffs and advance.

I wouldn't say that Berman sucks. That's a bit harsh. Too crude to be true. He needs to polish up his schtick, but I like him. Methinks that if you want a group that really sucks, you should look no further than the abomination that CBS puts on the air every Sunday during football season. "Boomer" the wimp Esiason, Dan crybaby Marino (can this guy let his hatred of the Bills go already?), "The Chin" Cowher, and the worst violator, the mouth from the south, the one who I'm surprised doesn't need a bib for how much he slobbers when he talks...none other than Shannon Sharpe. With most Bills games being on CBS, I turn on FOX or ESPN to AVOID these baffoons. I don't know what James Brown was thinking, but the CBS pregame show has ALWAYS sucked, he's the only class on CBS. But it is horrible with Marino, Esiason, Cowher, and Sharpe. A complete group of unwatchable morons that laugh at each others unfunny jokes. The ESPN pregame show is my favorite, and I think that Berman, Ditka, and Tom Jackson (LOVE this guy!) rule. Keyshawn is OK, and Cris Carter always annoys me for some reason- he strikes me as arrogant- otherwise they are bang up. Insightful, nice graphics, interviews, etc. FOX is 2nd to me, and they have a great group (except for the guy expected to fill in for the great James Brown). Howie Long is one cool hombre, IMO, Strahan is engaging and entertaining, Bradshaw is biased but fun, and as much as I hate Jimmy Johnson I respect the man and can listen to his knowledge and experience much more than I can get over my disdain for anything Marino. My second football broadcasting peeve: why can't any of the networks hire a smokin' hot girl to do reporting? One that's actually watchable? The ones they have now are either too old, too heavy, or just plain boring. And all of the networks are guilty. Lesley Visser? The one on FOX? The old, blonde one on CBS? Suze Kolber is cute and likeable, but cute is not HOT! Jenn Sterger is smokin', but she reeks of total dirt-bag after the Favre fiasco. Jillian Reynolds/ Barberie is extremely easy on the eyes...but she seems like she'd get annoying after listening to her talk for too long. Give me Jenn Sterger without the desperate cry for career grab and I'm sold!

I'd say Dwan Edwards in a second. Johnson actually has some skills, and Kelsay I like (I just think that he's paid too much).

It's a tough question, and at first glance I was going to say Mario Williams because if he does not come in and upgrade our pitiful pass rush of the pass few years we are doomed to maybe 8-8 and scrapping through games. We have got to have a pass rush. But if we're talking about injuries to players from last year- I had a really hard time deciding between Kyle Williams and Fred Jackson. I chose Williams, but Jackson is right there, too.