Brandon
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What do you expect? As is the case year after year, the Bills OL is getting its ass kicked.
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At least someone showed up to play tonight.
Nice punt return.
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If he's healthy, I see no reason not to start JP Losman next week. The season is over and its time to begin preparing for '05 and beyond.
Should Losman play tonight? I don't know. I'm afraid he'll come under very heavy fire from the Pats D. That said, it would not suprise me to see him later in this game.
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The mistake Bledsoe is making is the same one he's made all season long: he locks onto Eric Moulds come hell or high water. On that deep INT, he had a WR wide open over the middle (not sure who it was). I've defended Bledsoe, but he's got to spread the ball around more. Its worked against weak defenses, but the Pats are too good for the BS. Its too predictable.
I think we're going to see JP Losman pretty soon guys, possibly even tonight.
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72%, 30 miles.
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Normally, I'd say that under these circumstances a player should not be deemed a bust. Travis Henry is a perfect example of a good player who has lost his starting job simply because the guy who took his place is even better.
That *may* be partially the case here. Kelsay has shown enough promise to lead me to believe he can be a pretty good NFL DE. If that proves true, Denney was simply beaten out by a better player. However, in this case, I think this demotion says almost as much about Denney's ability level as it does Kelsay's. Denney simply has not proven to be the type of player that you give up a 2nd and 4th round draft pick for.
Is he a bust? In absolute terms, no. At worst, Denney is a capable 3rd DE in the lineup who generally does not embarass himself when he plays. Then again, based upon the expectations of a 2nd round draft choice, you have to consider the guy to be a disappointment, if not a bust. On his best day, he's an average starter who very rarely, if ever, makes the big play. That's not the type of player you expect for the investment the Bills made.
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96% 5 miles, 328s.
Utah was my first state and I missed it by about 50 miles to the west.
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I think he's playing as well as can be expected, given his background and the fact that he's only got about a month of starting experience behind him. He gets picked on by the opposing QB, which isn't suprising. I suspect that we haven't seen the last of it this year. Most young CBs go through their struggles for a while and he's no different. If the Bills will just show some patience with him, coach him and allow him to develop, I think this team will be rewarded with a very good CB by the end of next season.
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While I don't think its a problem in the course of a two or three game stretch, the Bills need to make sure they moderate his carries as the season goes on. I'd like to see him average 20-25 the rest of the way, which, in reality, is still a lot of carries.
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Who cares about his lack of playing time? Teams will want to acquire Henry not for him being benched for a better RB in McGahee (and I'm saying that as a huge Henry fan), but for his almost 1,400 yard 12 TD back-to-back seasons the previous 2 years, despite playing with a bad line, scheme, and hurt.
Exactly. Playing time does not matter. All that matters is that he's young, very productive, and has no history of major injuries as a pro. There's absolutely no reason that he can't return to being a 1400 yard rusher.
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Actually, the fact that Travis is sitting on the bench may be the biggest reason why we get a first from trading him. Everyone has seen the last two years that he can play. He's got little to prove. By sitting on the bench, he avoids wear and tear and will have relatively little mileage on him when he hits the trade block.
In the end, I suspect the Bills will indeed recieve a #1 for him. I think the real question is whether or not someone will make that trade straight up, or if the Bills will give up a bit extra, such as a 3rd-5th round pick.
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I agree to a point, but his teams in Miami have regularly underachieved. He's been dealt a bad hand this season, but at some point, there has to be accountability for the poor performance in Miami under his tenure.
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I don't know if it has as much to do with McGahee as it does that the Bills probably needed time to adjust to the new systems in place. That said, although I'm a big Travis Henry fan, McGahee has proven to me that he is indeed a better player. My only fear with McGahee is that the Bills are overworking him.
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But he's not contributing to the worsening of US-European relations. Its all Bush's fault
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I honestly don't think anyone can say that whether the country is divided or not. There's still a huge number of Americans who choose not to vote and we really have no idea what their political leanings are. A perfect example? Just look at this election. Most of the 'experts' just assumed that a high voter turnout would greatly benefit Kerry. In fact, it seems to have helped Bush quite a bit.
The point is, there are simply a lot of people out there who's vote and political leanings can't be accurately determined, and they might actually lean fairly strongly one way or the other.
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The problem with that explanation is that Bush was hardly a strong candidate himself. In 2000, he was basically branded as a fool by the media. His first term was a very difficult one both for him politically and for the country. But yet he won a fairly decisive popular vote victory.
I think this attitude by the Democrats that they have the issues on their side is actually their number one problem. The party is losing increasingly large sections of the middle of this country. I saw something Tuesday night that I thought would never happen in my lifetime; a Republican presidential candidate won the local vote in my county of Arkansas. Overwhelmingly, I might add. This is an area where local Republican candidates are completely unelectable just because they have an ® beside their name on the ballot. You either run here as a Democrat or Independent, because you won't win as a Republican. Yet Bush took over 60% of the vote. Why? Its because although this is a traditional Democratic area, its conservative in its beliefs. BTW, the local Dems won very easily.
There are areas like this all over this country. The Democratic party's hard left turn during these last 20-30 years where the issues are supposedly on their side is what has caused them to lose these areas. The voters in these areas feel as though the national Democratic party is abandoning them, and that's why the Democratic party is getting its butt kicked everywhere except the Northeast and West Coast.
The point is, the Democrats would be very, very wise to take a long look at their own positions instead of just blaming another loss on a poor candidate. Bush was far from unbeatable. As I stated in another post yesterday, had the Democrats nominated a more moderate candidate, Bush would be out of a job at the end of January.
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Myself, I think the real mistake was the choice of Kerry at the top of the ticket to begin with. I still believe that Lieberman could have beaten Bush pretty decisively had he made it out of the primaries. He could have offered voters an alternative to Bush on the domestic agenda, particularly the economy, while still laying a much more legitimate claim to being strong on foreign policy and national defense issues than Kerry.
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The problem with THAT argument, Brandon, is that you're saying that certain people's beliefs are more important than others.
Some people think gay marriage is a "sin". NOT EVERYONE believes that. Some people are tolerant!
Of course, if we decide to let the religious right rule our lives, all gay people would have to die (it's in the same book that the same people quote when arguing against gay marriage). Also, anyone that's ever had sex with their wife when she was on her period would have to die, according to the Bible.
In time, we will look back upon this period and shake our heads in embarassment and wonder why some people tried so hard to prevent people from loving each other.
I'm not arguing the whether their views are correct or not. I am simply explaining why many voters consider this to be a very important issue and one that Democrats should not take lightly.
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They don't say it isn't an issue, they say that is shouldn't be a major issue because it doesn't adversely affect their own marriages. They've just been told that it does. We have a 50% divorce rate already. There's a group of people who want to get married, and they're the ones who are being denied.
The problem with that whole argument is that you can't tell people what should and should not be important to them. Many conservatives, particularly religious conservatives, view it as conflicting with (or an outright attack against) their traditional beliefs and way of life. They already believe the erosion of these and other traditional beliefs and values has been contributing to the decline of our society. Whether anyone likes it or not, that makes it a very big issue with these voters.
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Don't be so naive! It was the Republicans who made an issue of this, as a (sucessful) attempt at dividing people on emotional (and in this case trivial) issues, and scare their core supporters to get out and vote. Why was gay marriage an issue in this election at all? Because the Republican party made it one....
Yes, they are the ones who brought up the amendment, but that is not my point. The point I'm making is that the Democratic party in turn keeps insisting that this isn't a real issue to voters. In fact, for many, it is.
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Actually, I'd guess that most conservatives just want the government to leave their paychecks alone. Most of them probably assume that either party is pretty much going to keep its nose out of their personal lives.
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You can spin it any way you want, but at the end of the day, the Republicans re-elected Bush and extended their Congressional majorities. That's all that really matters.
McGee
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Nope. He's basically a rookie and he's made some rookie mistakes. Then again, every now and then he makes a great play like he did in the end zone on that last drive.
I like what I've seen of him. I just hope the Bills have enough patience to let him work through his adjustment to the NFL.