Dan Gross

We need to get rid of that coach...you know, Biggus...?

He sounds a notowious cwiminal. (BTW, it would be Wodewick! ).

Even after they buy GM?

old fart.

Do I detect an echo in here?

Monday is film review day every week, but usually review is done in seperate groups, with the positional coaches leading the review. What's different is that the whole team was in the same room reviewing the same film.

...and obviously the Bills are taking copious notes, right...?

Yeah, Butler left the Bills in great shape. They were 8-8, but he tanked his last draft with the Bills and IIRC we had a roster that had numbers that were slightly over the salary cap number. You give the impression that Donahoe gutted a perfectly good team for no reason. He had to rebuild a team from scratch just like Butler did, regardless of the record. When you look at the Chargers last year you can look at it one of two ways: --They achieved their record by beating non-playoff teams while losing whenever they faced playoff-caliber teams, which is the same charge being labelled against last year's Bills. --They did a great job in getting 12-4 and making the playoffs. How did they do that? Oh, they stuck with their coach even after going 8-8/4-12 and they stuck with their previous "QB of the future" (Brees) after two hum-drum seasons, even if it was by default (because Rivers didn't sign in time). So they won (and are winning) because they were patient and "let" their key talents develop, and stuck with their coach despite the unruly mob waiting outside to lynch him. So Smith is a genius for doing this and TD is stupid for not insisting JP be benched after 4 games and firing Mularkey for two poor starts... It's pretty safe to figure on 10-6 based on their schedule and performance last year. Because not only do they have continuity, they only have 4 "playoff likely" teams left on their schedule (pending how the teams in their own division pan out...they've already lost to Denver once, tough to tell which KC is going to show up week-to-week). If they follow on from last year's performance, then yeah, I agree that 10-6 is likely. Then they'll lose in the first round of the playoffs....again. They've stumbled onto their "magic formula" (and there's no knowing how things would have turned out last year if Rivers hadn't held out...)...good for them, if that's what they want, but I personally do not consider their performance as stellar by any means...

So you're saying we're picking the wrong AFC North team to pluck cast-offs from? Makes sense, Cincy's had plenty of top ten draft picks too...

You've got 'em. Just remember, our prayers saved jzmack! Seriously, good luck.

and BENCH TRAVIS HENRY while you're at it.

Are you ticked off because somebody went over $1 on the inflatable Rob Johnson?

Still, as I said, discounting those they beat as many "true" playoff teams last year as we did (and if you say the Jets don't qualify as a "playoff team" then you're damning the Chargers as they lost to the Jets in their first playoff game)...their record last year was based on a bigger joke of a schedule than ours. Yeah, you see it as trade bait, I see it as a wasted top 5 pick (would have probably been a wasted #1 if Manning wasn't such a baby about it...so they will trade two QB's out of the same draft...brilliant!). You really think the team is so solid that they can afford to have a top 5 pick warming the "pine?" And people whine about the performance we get out of our only top ten pick of the Donahoe era... I wouldn't exactly call it brutal, their AFC division after all is the East. And they play the division winners from last year because they were the division winner last year. Reaping the benefits of being a "champion." And it's a big "if," and if so, it will start next week... Never said that. I said that the Chargers have not done significantly better in the last four years + 4 games. In fact it is in part because they have done worse (and picked up several top 5 draft picks in the process) that they have been able to build this team. If they do succeed this year, it will be because they stuck with a coach after going from 8-8 to 4-12, and stuck with a young QB despite a shaky first two years starting (and despite drafting his apparent successor...or trade bait, if that's how you want to look at it ).

It is an odd-numbered year, which you can usually count on Moulds slacking. Unfortunately he didn't exactly have an "even-numbered year" last year...

Which of course rounds up to the 60% pass/run ratio that you're quoting. I checked the first three games. By my count (and I may not be exactly right). Game 1: 25/23 (not counting the 5 straight runs in the last drive to seal the victory) Game 2: 15/12 Game 3: 26/23. I may have mistakenly credited Losman with a run play instead of a pass play or two, but I still don't see how it would swing to 62%, per your numbers....

I did a count, and it was tough to do a "true" count as in at least one case a false start added yards (rationalizing the "need" for pass v. run, and regardless impossible to tell what was called before the false start), but I counted 16 run plays (including three QB runs) vs. 13 pass plays on 1st and 2nd down when Losman was in. I know at least two were called draws (obvious when it was run), but not sure about the third. Run/Pass ratios Drive 1: 5/3 (Losman run on this drive) Drive 2: 1/1 Drive 3: 1/1 Drive 4: 0/1 (interception) Drive 5: 3/6 (two were trying to make up for a holding call...and I counted the holding call as a snap to the "passing" side even though it was "not a play."). There was a Losman run on this drive. Drive 6: 2/1 (Losman run on this drive) Drive 7: 4/0 Total :16/13

Better yet....you skipped classes causing you to flunk out of school costing you millions in future income.

The team hasn't won since the last time we had a plate. We're gonna have to get one to help the team get off the schnide. Roll Call!

As long as you don't have the same dr. as jzmack. He might tell you that your arm will have to be amputated...

Nothing like a nihilistic doctor....even too incompetent to string you out with "treatments." A lesson in getting second opinions. Glad to hear things are all right. You should sue for that scare ("Well, because I was going to die I quit my job and spent all my money...").

Yeah, maybe we should have tanked more seasons so we too could have had three top picks to play with...then we could have spent them all on QB too... One whiff of the playoffs after teasing the folks with fast starts (remember 2001?)...that's significantly better than where we're at? Last year they went to the playoffs by beating one playoff team (they split with Denver). We beat 3 (split with Jets, beat St. Louis and Seattle). Effectively, we did the same when it came to battling with "true" playoff teams (except they lost their first playoff game to, of all teams, the Jets!).

Games like that leave you with a B word of a hangover don't they?

Wow, cool. Where'd you find that web site? All sorts of stuff there. Hey, Scott, do you know they're linking to this site? There's also this, but it would cost you $0.02.

Did he say "Pleased to meet you. Hope you guessed my name."?

Did you really, honestly think that at the end of the first quarter of the season last year?