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he meant the Sunday Countdown folks BTW, Jackson must have changed his mind and decided to back the Bills, because on Friday his pick was the Jaguars.

I thoroughly enjoyed this game and hats off to the whole team! but we could have clobbered the Jags if we didn't miss so many tackles, jeez. Was it that the D was worn out from the heat or what?

you're looking spiffy in your new troll clothes

ya is shorthand for 'you', also can mean 'yes' or 'yeah'

Often incorrectly attributed to the contraction of "you + all," the word actually originated from the fusing of "ya + all." from the Urban Dictionary

damn, ya'll did exactly what I asked you not to do parachuted, walked, ran, rolled in on skateboards... choose any NATO country, what should we do if the Russians crossed the border?

this brings up an interesting question... The USA will put anti missile bases in Poland to defend NATO from a missile attack by Iran, or whomever, ya? this next part is totally hypothetical... Something goes wrong and a Russian plane is brought down by a Patriot battery or some other wack event. The Russians retaliate by sending special forces over to Poland, blow up the Patriot site and take it over. Then they tell us to pound sand, they're staying "just to prevent anything like that from happening again"and bring enough troops and equipment for a nice, long, drawn out vacation. What does the USA and the vaunted NATO do in the 21st century? Do we go to war with with a suddenly defiant Russian military machine if diplomacy doesn't work? Please try not to focus on the hypothetical military event, why it would never happen, and how we'd never have to encounter that, but rather on what would the response be if there was anything involving a Georgia-style invasion of a NATO member country.

yes, I didn't mean to insinuate that he did. It was just weird the way it went down with Rich Eisen starting out by saying "I'm told that you have some issues as to whether or not this play is legal" then he says, of course it was a legal play, but I wanna make sure everyone understands... about lingering

that certainly makes sense, except I didn't get the feeling that they told him to have surgery, but that's a total perception on my part.

You could be right, but maybe it's the other way around. Lee Evans, for reasons that have been widely discussed, is coming off a down year. He's motivated and is playing like a man possessed. He knows the new offense and some of the changes around him will elevate his play this year, and lesser WRs like Bernard Berrian signing for big bucks. That can only mean more money for him as the season goes on. The Bills on the other hand, have an incentive to sign him earlier, because it's likely that the longer this plays out, the more they will have to pay him. Having said all that, it's probably just one of those tough negotiations that neither side is in a hurry to complete, because they don't have to. The people on this board are impatient, not the FO nor Lee Evans. Yeah, what a smoke screen that was about the pressure for Peters to report. I have to believe this is all about missing a game check when the Bills didn't blink or fall on their face in the preseason with their makeshift OL. Peter Parker must have realized their bluff had been called, Parker started talking to the FO, and it was clear that he had to report or lose a game check, with their so called leverage fading quickly by the day. Who knows what really happened, but what you said was true - late assurances that the contract was going to be discussed is just bullcrap and totally about you better get your butt to camp before you lose another $191,000.

I was surprised how negatively he was viewed by this board. I always liked his level of play, definitely a very good lb and very versatile. He's been hurt a lot in the past couple years and maybe that's why he hasn't been offered an extension.

a couple of noteworthy articles about recent changes to follow terrorists across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border... NYT writes about Special Forces WaPo reports more aggressive use of unmanned Predators in Pakistan to hunt down Bin Laden and company.

tool or troll, pick 1...

NFL Total Access segment on officiating with Mike Pereira, VP of NFL Officiating. Strange way to describe the legality of the play... it could have been illegal, but it wasn't

my understanding was that they restructured his existing deal and he lost about $2M, but has the ability to make most, if not all of that back in incentives

but that's a double-edged sword. we also have almost no debt because of it...

I read 2 articles today that said the NFL changed the stats from the Seahawks game, and Stroud went from .5 to 2 sacks. Does anyone have details?

good post!

ya, I was being a wiseazz, they're totally different

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you're right, I was just looking at #1 draft overall vs #4 and lots of QBs never make it. But there's always Robert Gallery...

49ers put Smith on IR

well, I assume you were being sarcastic, but factor in Spencer Johnson, Stroud tying up multiple blockers, which frees up our DEs, Mitchell and Poz, improved secondary and we have a much mo betta D

It seems like it was a rare combo of TE being rusty (actual game conditions) and the bad weather in the 1st half. He improved as he got his timing back and the weather got better around the same time. Hard to say how much each contributed. It's going to be interesting to see how he plays in bad weather as the season goes on. and welcome back...

I just love Vic Carucci's comments