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I just got through watching the 1st 3 series on Offense and I gotta say I'm very happy with how JP played. He got rid of the ball ontime, made plays on 3rd down, used his feet to get out of trouble, and threw the ball well for the most part. As someone else already stated somewhere I can see 2 facets of QB play that didn't even exist here since since Flutie (sans the weak arm). Play design is going to be so much more wide open now and defenses are really going to have to stay honest because JP can break contain. To those who could somehow rate his scrimmage performance as a negative overall, I'm not so sure you were watching the same game.

Excellent!

So...... I'd be eternally grateful to anyone willing to FTP host the scrimmage on the web.

Thanks for the excellent report Kelly! I was unable to watch the scrimmage (thanks Time Warner) but I value your opinion on things like this...

You definitely don't visit here often if you're using that as proof.

Thanks for the input Philly Girl. I agree that some here have the "grass is greener" outlook on Simon.

This would be his incentive: Yikes!

He lived well beyond expectations and made it possible for all others with the disease to have hope. Here's to Hunter and the Kellys.

It's true. The Eagles organization at different times throughout his career have been publicly quite unsatisfied with his play. He does have great talent and flashes great play on the field at times as well. I'd still be pretty happy if we got him , mostly because it would be really tough for a player on the Bills D-line not to give their all under Krumrie

Simon is a Pro Bowl CALIBER player and it would certainly be interesting and helpful acquiring him. I disagree however that he is as good as PW was though, mainly from a consistency standpoint.

Points taken....

This debate would be a hell of a lot more relevant in 1995 than it is in 2005. I always get flack on this but the placement of DE's in today's NFL has changed. Nearly as many of the best are now lining up at LDE, or switching sides during the course of games. The "strong side" TE formation is also a in flux compared to what it was 10 years ago. There is a lot more motion, double TE sets, etc. being used. This all minimizes the general assumption that LT's are significantly more important than RT's in today's game. Fire away....

IF we get to the point where Gandy doesn't cut it at LT, you will likely see more of such discussion. We haven't gotten to that point as of right now.

Thanks Rock!

I was merely trying to explain to VA why it appeared that JP was leaving early when it was mostly all by design of the coaches. So basically, I agree with you.

Schoop hates the Bills, thinks everything they do is some sort of conspiracy, and seems indifferent to football as a whole. Good recipe for a boring show for a football fanatic.

Oh, and thanks much Astro!

According to local reports the coaches are having him proceed as follows: Read 1, read 2, read 3, take off... I was a little surprised by it at first as well but now it makes sense to me. I noticed a little skiddishness though myself, but moreso early on in the sessions I saw.

The un-named WR was Aiken, no?

Doomed!!!

Unfortunately I'm a slave to corporate America today

His upper body work was quite good from what I saw. He was able to maintain blocks well as long as his man didn't beat him outside for the most part. His positioning and knee bend seemed good as well in those instances. Sometimes the defense does know what's coming, and vise versa for the offense, say when they're working on blitz packages or short yardage running plays.

Sorry AKC, I had heard a few good things about him and meant to pay him some attention but that didn't end up happening... If/When I go again I'll be sure to.

Great stuff Mike. I love the reports as well....