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QB Losman Holcomb Matthews RB McGahee Williams Lee Gates FB Shelton WR Moulds Evans Parrish Aiken Smith Brown TE Campbell Euhus Everett (possibly IR; if so, Trafford makes the roster) OL Gandy Anderson Teague Villarial Williams Peters McFarland Tucker Preston Smith DL Schobel Kelsay Adams Edwards Anderson Denney Gause Bannan Sape LB Spikes Fletcher Posey Stamer Crowell Haggan CB Clements McGee Thomas Greer King S Milloy Vincent Baker Wire ST Moorman Lindell

He should know. The turnstiles the Bills management put at RT after Ballard left had a large contribution to the end of Kelly's career.

I'll buy it, but mainly because I didn't buy last year's version and want the roster updates. $40 is otherwise a lot for basically the same game I bought in 2000.

Not only do I think he'll have more TDs than Moulds, I also believe he'll have more yardage and possibly more receptions as well.

Jets 11-5 Pats 9-7 Bills 9-7 Dolphins 4-12 Right now, I think the Jets will probably end up winning the division. They don't have a roster of 22 all-pro starters, but its a solid group that is certainly capable of a strong showing, especially with a healthy Pennington. The hideous schedule as well as the losses of both coordinators will hurt the Pats, but if they can make the playoffs, they'll be a major threat in spite of a subpar regular season record. The Dolphins... are floating belly up at the top of the fish bowl. As for the Bills, if the lightbulb were to go on and Losman 'gets it' early this year, there is more than enough talent on the roster for them to be in the hunt for a division championship. That said, I expect it to take him about half the season to get settled in to the point where he becomes something resembling reliable. Much like the Pats, if they can find a way to make the playoffs, they'll probably be a serious threat as the weak point of the team, Losman, should be much more comfortable in the offense by this time. Still, I think '06 is probably the year they really begin to make some noise.

I think the question for Josh Reed is whether or not he even makes the final roster. Moulds, Evans and Parrish are locks. Smith will probably be retained based upon his return skills, though he'll probably actually be the #5 WR. That leaves one or possibly two spots open. Aiken has more potential than Reed and outplayed him a year ago, too. Reed could still win that spot from him, but its going to be an uphill fight. If he loses, he has to hope the Bills keep a 6th WR, and even then, they'd probably just be protecting a promising developmental player like Tony Brown (lets face it, the 6th WR isn't going to see hardly any playing time unless a major injury bug hits).

He's a good coach, but he's not a miracle worker. His final year with the Giants was awful. Was that his fault? No. He had nothing to work with. Unless someone like Jason Peters steps up and suprises, most likely the LT position will be manned by someone who is adequate at best and a turnstile at worst. I've heard this crap about good coaching before and I'm not buying it. The players are the ones who take the field and if they've got no talent, no amount of coaching is going to change that. This team has been cutting corners on the OL for the last 10 years with pitiful results. Donahoe has done a little better than Butler, but we're still relying upon other teams to do the dirty work for us. How many Bills draft picks are starting on this OL for '05? One. This team has done a pathetic job of developing OL talent in-house, and its largely because they don't even try. Odds are, we'll be debating next April which LT we need to pick in R1. Of course, you can bet the Bills won't actually do it, no matter how bad the situation gets this year.

I don't think they'll be anywhere near as conservative with Losman as the Steelers were with Roethlisberger. They really can't afford to be. The Steelers had the luxury of having three solid RBs that had 500 carries amongst them and Roethlisberger amazingly threw only 295 passes all year. McGahee is a going to be a great RB, if he isn't already, but he can't run anywhere close to that many times in a season. Unfortunately, the dropoff to the backups is a big one. Clearly, the passing game is going to have to take up the slack. That doesn't mean that its going to be a wide open offense by any stretch, but I do think its going to have to be a lot more balanced than a lot of people think. And if McGahee were to miss a few games this year, the Bills might indeed have to call upon Losman to win those games with his arm.

BTW, if that 79 overall proves true for Losman, after a quick glance through the ratings, I believe it'll be the worst overall score for a starting QB in the game.

They always release the ratings before the game. Heck, ALL of the ratings (not just the overall rating) for each player have already been released and are on the internet. http://pc.ign.com/objects/698/698633.html Of course, the AFC East is last on their list and hasn't been updated yet.

He struggled at times, but overall I thought McGee had good first season as a starter and I saw nothing to indicate that he can't become a very good NFL CB. I think the problem is that many people put too much emphasis on where a guy was drafted and consider that as the measure of his potential and ability.

We're just in a stretch where RBs are in good supply and their values are reflecting that. If we go through another stretch of poor RB drafts similar to those of '91-'97, their value will go back up.

I don't know, but I'm more concerned about the environmental damage that its caused to this asteroid. We've screwed up this planet, do we have to go around screwing up everything in space as well. And yes, I'm being sarcastic.

My mom and her dad (my grandfather) have both have each had at least two surgeries to repair ruptured discs. Granted, his was in the early 80s and hers in the early 90s, but both have had serious complications (mostly frequent pain and headaches) and both wish that they'd never had it done. Best of luck to you and hopefully medical science has advanced enough that you won't have the problems my family members have had.

You paid money to see it, didn't you? That's how they can put bad movies in theaters. They know people will show up to watch regardless of the quality of the movie (and in the last 10 years, its been like TV...nonstop crap).

More proof that people will buy ANYTHING. http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/80443.php

I always thought he was badly overrated going into that draft and that he'd be a flop. They put too much emphasis on talent and not enough on production and experience. I don't care how good of an athlete he was or that he had a strong arm, he had only about half a season in college where he really played well.

That IS good news. I've been worried about Everett's ability to recover from his injury and its great to hear that it may not have been quite as serious as believed.

This guy is a dork. The team is obviously named after the legend of the Jersey Devil.

At least Robby is backing it up on the track. He's currently running about 35th of 43 drivers in the Coca Cola 600. Hey Robby...

Yep, she drove as well as anyone today. She definitely proved that she belonged on that race track. Had it not been for running low on fuel, she might very well have proved that she belonged in victory lane.

Danica Patrick just passed Wheldon to move back in front.

No, she didn't pit. However, her earlier incident put her out of sequence with the rest of the field. It was close without the caution, but with it, she should make the finish and may be able to turn the fuel mixture up enough that she'll have the speed to overtake Wheldon for the lead with about 10 to go.

Guess who's leading with 25 laps to go.

I think that *may* have been the cause as well. Usually, that happens when someone gets on the gas too hard, but you could clearly hear that she was not hitting the throttle when it happened. It appears someone checked up and she got suprised by it. At any rate, she is still showing in 9th.