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SJ has a career in TV post a long successful playing career..from the brief video snips on the web and summaries I have read Johnson seems to make big plays, take leadership roles and work very, very hard. What's not to love. He and Lynch's personalities are really similar -- both very outgoing and engaging...must have been quite a pair growing up together.

Any chance Peters wants a new deal? Hope he gives it at least one more year....

Why do I have this feeling that you didn't have to tell crayonz that? As Fort Wayne goes -- so goes the rest of Indiana. Astro...another great perspective from the TBD draft guru. There was at least some consensus around the Bills needs when they began the off-season.. 1) Tall WR 2) Defensive Interior Line 3) Weakside LB 4) TE 5) Secondary help-particularly corner 6) Pass rush 7) FB The Bills filled some needs in FA and got quality in the draft. Main worries still are OL depth - but who really has this in the NFL Ability to stop the run (Chargers, Jags and Steelers are the benchmark running games here) - Still have to prove it Red Zone O- Bills have to prove they can score Slow the Pats and Brows passing attack - have to prove the teams' corner depth can play Pass rush--not sure the Bills have done enough here--but the interior push from Stroud and Johnson will help I am excited and hopeful about who the Bills have obtained in FA and the draft and their ability to address these issues...The Bills have to start being competitive in big games and not get blown out -- those five blowouts -- 2 to the Pats, 1 to the Jags, 1 to Steelers , 1 to Giants showed they were not ready -- I expect the team to be competitive against the upper tier this year. I can't see a name on you list that I would rather have than those the Bills drafted

I guess the road to recovery starts with recognition that there is a problem......He does also say that the O can be very good later in the story and has positive things to say about Hardy... I take heart in the fact that maybe part of the reason the reins were seemingly on the O last year was to protect the depleted D and to let Trent get his feet wet. There were flashes against some really good defenses...the last quarter against the Skins; the first two drives against the Giants... The off-season when hope springs eternal...

Geno has a point. I don't know what it is, but he has a point...... I guess McNally could have turned down the call -- but it was clearly an old friend who just got fired. Mouse probably was offering moral support and telling him to enjoy getting paid for doing nothing the rest of the year. Defensive formations probably just came up in the conversation. Its tough for a Pats fan to understand this since Belichick's only friends are: 1) Folks who graduated from his cheating academy and even they hate him mostly like Man-Genius in New York 2) Dick Jauron and Tom Coughlin - two guys who aren't exactly on the list of "top 10 exciting coaches I would love to be friends with" list. Nothing against our beloved Coach Jauron - but I get the sense that fun is probably a round of golf with no alcohol and then going home and re-reading War and Peace for the 45th time.

Perfect definition Hops. Good lord I unknowingly quoted a bad game show host....excuse me while I shower...

She is sneaky hot...Tina Fey hot

I still think signing Moss would have been the best. He already is a great receiver and probably will be for a couple more years at least. Then in the middle of the season next year, I could have posted how brilliant I was for thinking of it. Of course if he sucked next year I could have then just posted nothing.

dib--Silence, I killllllll yooouuuuuuuu Appropriate avatar for this thread. He can hate on his parents all he wants for his past,. I know I can't even imagine what his life as a child was like...but he's got to get beyond it. He's a pro football player now and set to be a millionaire. The Bills need to intervene and get him help with some obvious anger issues before he ends up killing someone. There is a whole litany of things the Panthers regret about Rae Carruth - the posse he hung with, small indiscretions and then he plans and executes a murder...Hardy is his own man and responsible for his own actions but he is affiliated with the Bills now and the team needs to intervene.

Buffalo Police spokesperson, Mike DeGeorge says the people in the car are a couple from Florida. He believes they are involved in a domestic dispute. Willis and one of his Buffalo baby mommas?

Derek Fine is #85--receiver is Aqib Talib (who played O for KU at times). Fine had one of the top 3 20 and shuttle times of any TE's at the combine. Shows some good speed here--and man what a block 55 yards downfield.... Had not seen this posted..sorry if I missed it..

Mullet category is a done deal for #1...... http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_P...773488_2626.jpg

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He's been a starter for the last 4 and a half years...someone mentioned he was an average to below average MLB with the Chiefs for 3 and a half years as a starter--but then blossomed toward the middle and end of last year at WLB. Think about it this way--we got him for the same price we got London Fletcher in 2002--and the cap has risen by about 50% (mid 70's to about 110M) or so since then....bargain basement.

Friggin brilliant judge....

The guy has been cited more times than Michael Beschloff or Doris Kearns Goodwin --- no thanks...he's a friggin walking crime spree. The economic developers in Buffalo would have a sh-- fit due to the rise in the crime rate he would cause. The last thing the city needs, another economic kick in the teeth.

Its like flunking recess....

You never get a second chance to make a first impression ;-)

...and then you woke up....

From Pro Football Talk and Mike Florio....wow... http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/05/01/...been-a-jailman/ In the weeks preceding the NFL draft, we heard rumors involving former NBA star Karl Malone, a son who would be entering the NFL, and a timeline suggesting that the child’s mother might have been a child herself at the time of conception. But since we continue to place not getting sued slightly above informing the readership on the list of PFT priorities, we left it alone. Now, however, the stories are gurgling to the surface regarding Bills rookie tackle Demetrius Bell. Writes Allen Wilson of the Buffalo News: “His mother, Gloria Bell, reportedly was only 13 years old and Malone a college sophomore at Louisiana Tech when Demetrius was born. Malone might have served jail time had her family asked the district attorney to file criminal charges.” Malone had no involvement in the rearing of the child. They first met when Demetrius Bell was 18, and Malone reportedly said to him that it was too late to be his father, and that Bell would have to “earn his money on his own.” Though we’re not quite sure why the decision of the family to not press charges kept Malone from spending what would have been his early years with the Utah Jazz doing the Jailhouse Rock, it appears that the man who wanted no involvement in the life of his son could have had a life that turned out extremely differently if the age-of-consent laws that routinely get applied to so many others had been applied to him.

God Damn You....you have to spoil the collective irrational exuberance every time my friend. Here, have a cold one. Relax...think about Hardy kicking the first CB that tries to bump him at the line in the groin...

Suck in that gut when you say that...

I think I had a nightmare like this on Saturday night...its Mel McShay

You nailed it BBB..... Addressing needs was just too pedestrian for an intellectually superior being like TD. Even Modrak looks happier these days -- kind of like Bill Richardson after ridding himself of the Clintons...

Very few of us on this forum can relate to being abandoned, having a parent incarcerated, living somewhat on the street. I know I can't. His past cost him probably 20-25 spots in the draft and a couple of million. He appears to have learned from his mistakes and appears to love his little boy a lot. You can't fake what I saw on that video with the interaction between father and toddler son. I mean he kissed him on the lips when the kid had a mouth full of food--that defines love.... I think he has all the motivation he needs to be a great one. Great video--thanks for posting KGUN