KnightRider

Crate training is the best way to go. It establishes "their space", and believe it or not, but dogs are really pretty clean and won't want to soil their area. If you got a big dog (and a big crate), you might want to fill the crate with a box to make it more puppy sized. When they come out of the crate, they go right outside. Also, at that age, set the stove timer for 30 min (+/- based on how long you have observed she can go) when they are out with you. Also, you might notice that she has a specific location she goes. If she ventures to that area, pick her up and take her out. When she is outside, don't do anything "fun" until she has done her business...

Didn't Manning make around $20M a season or two ago? Even adjusting for inflation, that blows the doors off anything Marino, Bledsoe and certainly Dilfer ever made... If I'm the QB, that's what I'm looking for. Even if Marino had made more money, I'd never want his career. He may be a future HOFer, but he lost every big game against another QB who graduated the same year as him. I'm trying to think of a comparison, but I can't think of one. Two HOFers, where one always beat the other...

I think you have to throw McNabb into a class that includes Manning. Neither are in Farve's league, at least not yet. That said, I'd rather go out like Kelly than Marino. In all of Kelly's years as QB, he was never awful. What does Farve have to play for? He's rich, got the rings, and his team is mediocre. He's not going to win another SB...

JJ is involved with the Patsies now?

We have one of the best defenses in the league! Posey is fine. I don't think we need a top shelf CB, but I with the nickel and dime packages were stronger. If Pat leaves, I'd say DT, too. On the offense, another guard would be nice. Our second round pick might take care of that. If Jennings is gone, a center would likely become a need if Teague returned to LT. As for TE, the injury bug bit'em. As long as they heal, we're OK. My prioritized list: 1. KICKER!!! I still think TD's biggest blunder was letting Christie go... 2. Guard or Center 3. CB 4. A really smart QB with limited skills aka Reich aka Van Pelt who can help Losman the way Reich helped Kelly. 5. DT If Pat is gone, Tim Anderson might replace him, but who would have thought Pat and Sam could go the whole season without getting hurt? 6. RB High if Henry is gone, but somehow I think Travis will be a Bill in September 7. WR This goes to #2 if Moulds gets let go, and a FA signing would be better than another mid round rookie...

I started again this week, although I would prefer to talk about how much I need to lose in dBLbs... (A little EE humor for ya)

You wouldn't know it these days, but there is a difference between being a journalist and being a columnist. And while I thought he had gone off the deep end and pretty much stopped reading his column in the late 90's, for the most part, he was right.

I was in the endzone watching oline putting a clinic on how to block in the counter trey. One of the goalposts was carried over the upper deck... The next game they dumped the horses and replaced them with Rotties and GSDs...

Remind me not to let you do my taxes... 3 AFC championships more than Marino, & Simms, 4 over Fouts..

Jim Kelly played in a lot of big games against Payton Manning quality QB's. What gets him into the HOF IHMO is his record against other HOF or near HOF Quality QB's. In the playoffs, he lost to Esiason, Kozar, Hostetler, Rypien, Aikman (twice), O'Donnell, and Brunell. Of that bunch, the only one that will ever get a bust in Canton is probably Aikman and possibly Esiason. The QB's sent home, with JK at the helm, to the to the best of my recollection, were Moon, Marino (three times), Jay Shrader?, O'Donnell (might have been Reich), Montana, and Elway. Of that bunch, only Shrader and O'Donnell are not likely to be debated by the HOF voters. (Personally, I think if Moon had been white he never would have had to put up all those CFL numbers and that should be kept in mind with him.) Throw in the 49ers classic puntless game with 1000+ yards of offense against Steve Young. Except for Aikman, he always found a way to look better than the other big name QB. Actually, one of the reasons why I liked Bledsoe coming here was he was one of the few QBs that outperformed JK when Kelly. I think it was in Kelly's last year in my mind that happened.

First off, the wildcard games rake in a ton of extra cash. Also, if it hadn't been for the wildcards, the last few weeks would have been pretty boring and not just for Bills fans. Most of the division titles were won very early. The only interesting games in the last 2 weeks would have been the SD/Indy game and I guess the Cards/Seahawks. It is actually harder to make the playoffs now than in the 80's. 12 of 28 used to make it. Its still 12 that make it, but, there are 32 trying. Personally, I think the dilusion of talent caused by adding the 4 teams coupled with the Salary Cap changed the game to the point where the calls the officials make become the decisive factor in the game outcome. I believe Shula got those calls in the seventies, but the Steelers could overcome that. New England gets those calls now, and they made two Superbowls by suspect officiating. From the Jets in the late 90's that cost us a division title, to "Just give it to them", to Home Run Throwup, to the play that put the Pats in the playoffs on their first SB run, to trash calls like TH's non-TD in the Oakland game, I am starting to wonder if the NFL is the NFL or the WWF...

No, I am saying that in spite of being a SB team, when we played on the road at night, we had little success. When we were at home (or playing the Jets) we were awesome at night...

No, not really. We stunk it up even then when we were on the road. A 33-6 thrashing in Arrowhead in '91 come to mind... We haven't had a Monday night home game since something like 1994...

We are notoriously horrible because it has been years since we have had a night game at home. In the late eighties and early nineties we were actually a pretty good on MNF...

Actually, I was driving a pickup and the other guy was driving a Reliant (an all Chrysler Rosen)... The other guy made a left hand turn in front of me and if he had had a passenger they would have been toast. The Reliant's engine was sitting in the passenger seat.

Add me to the list of those who have had trouble with Chryslers. I will never buy one again... I never thought I would have a smile on my face after being in a head-on collision, but that was the only way I was able to get rid of my Dakota... I would recommend an Audi A6 if you are looking for a nice sedan. Bought a 2001 with the 2.7T engine in it in September. Really nice...

I think he looked at the rosters of the Bills and the Raiders and figured he'd have a better chance of getting a ring with the Raiders. I can't blame him. While he has more impact than any other player, there were too many other holes in that defense

Not really. I thought he was OC... I remember hearing he went there and thinking we had the best swap of coaches I'd ever seen in Gilbride for McNally... He was OC for Coughlin in Jax and figured he be doing at least the same for him again....

Sorry, he isn't. He is the QB coach though... Link

Brady was the guy I was thinking of. The system Weis used with Brady was designed to hide his inexperience and take advantage of his strengths. The same can be said for the Steelers offense and Big Ben. He will be an excellent QB because of the way he has not been asked to shoulder the whole offense. I would say that our own coaching staff has done a pretty good job this year of hiding Bledsoe's blemishes. By this point last year I just felt bad for the guy because his had no confidence (rightly so). I'm not sure he has yet mentally recovered from the pounding he received last year and the second half of the year before. Manning, on the other hand, is coached by our favorite offensive coordinator, who has a fetish for the arms of QBs and only runs the ball when no one cares. Eli should have run screaming from NY when he heard Gilbride was calling the plays...

The only other free agent signings I can think of that had as much impact as Sam was Ted and maybe Bryce Paup. TD has had a lot of good signings, but Sam has indeed done very well for us...

While the exchange rate has improved, your income/sales/property taxes still drive players to the States. That said, the best regular season hockey I've ever seen was the Owen Sound Attack vs. the Plymouth Whalers (in Owen Sound.) At least the young guys put forth effort. Took my Brother-in-Law (a life long Leafs fan) to the Fleet in March a couple years ago to see the Leafs and the B's and even at that point in the season there was no intensity... If only hockey players played with the intensity that football players did...

I learned her name when I saw her in Lady Beware... That was 17 years ago... (ouch)

Erroll Tucker returned kickoffs circa 1988... Shayne "prime time players making prime time plays" Graham seems appropriate this week... Will Grant was a decent center...