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You'll get negative reaction if he turns the ball over 4 times and costs the team a chance to win. Mularkey should have two lines of thoughts about Losman right now. --He's good enough to gameplan around so that he won't make mistakes --He's going to have to make a bunch of mistakes before he turns things around If it's the first case, start him now. If it's the second, wait a few weeks, and give the team a chance to fight their way back.

Parcells has coached his 10-6 team from last year into a top-five pick team itself, mainly because he has no running game. He could have had the best running back in the draft, Steven Jackson, but he traded his first round pick to the Bills. Parcells probably sacrificed this season to make that trade. Genius? Hardly.

Drew didn't write the book, his father did. If you want to criticize Bledsoe, stick to what he's doing on the field, there's more than enough fodder there. "Snort coke of the back of a stripper." It's a good thing we're avoiding personal attacks here.

I agree with you. Playing time has never retarded the development of a good QB. And if Losman does get injured and gives off a RJ vibe, that something you want to know right away. At the same time though, the coaches are watching him in practice and are grading him out. They should have a pretty good idea on whether he's ready to go or not. They should have some indication that Losman is ready to play mistake-free football, or if he's going to need to make a bunch of mistakes before he starts to get it (like Elway).

He'll probably congratulate you for finding the time to write the message in crayon while riding the short bus!

If I ever hear a Bills owner, GM, or coach admit the season is over when the team is still technically alive, I'm done with them. Wade Phillips remains on my personal stevestojan list until the end of time for this reason. I know it's a cliche, but anything is possible in sports. Frank Reich, the Red Sox, The Homerun Throwback, the Marlins from last year are just a few examples of players and teams overcoming the odds to do great things. That what makes sports great. So let's can the cynical "We are DONE" stevestojan. All last night we had to listed to how the Pats (and Red Sox) believe in the concept of team. You don't develop that feeling by admitting to your team, "We're DONE" before the season is actually done. Now if Mularkey believes that the Bills can win with Losman in there, START HIM NEXT WEEK. Same with Matthews. However, if he believes we'll get more of the same from Losman as last night, hold off a few weeks.

Read what I said. The coaches should play the guys that they believe will give the team the best chance to win. Period. When they're eliminated, then start playing for jobs next year. If the coaching staff believes they can win the Rams game with Losman at QB, by all means start him. If they believe that they need to get JP starts so he can start learning the position, hold off a couple of weeks. I know we all believe the Bills are done this year, but I remember telling my fiance at a playoff game in 1993 that nobody has ever comeback from a 28-3 score in the history of the NFL. And when the backup QB threw an INT-for-a-TD, I said to her, "let's get the hell out of here." Anything is possible in sports, and the good coaches encourage that belief in their players. Treating the season as practice games when your team is still technically alive is not the way build team character. So if the Mularkey makes the shift now, it better be because he believes that Losman can win games for the team.

Until the Bills are mathmatically eliminated from the playoffs, the coaches should play the guy that gives them the best chance to win, whether it's Losman, Mathews or Bledsoe. The team is definitely on the ropes right now, but I want to see them land some punches before they go down. The coaching staff and players still need to prove that they can overcome adversity. Rattling off a two or three game win streak would do wonders to for maturity of the team, which will pay off next year. It would suck to lose that opportunity do to rookie mistakes. Unfortunatley, my problem is that, right now, I can't tell you which QB gives the Bills the best opportunity to win.

1. Who cares. Everyone knows the Bills played poorly, having Wilson reaffirm that is needless. 2. Not ready to give up on Donahoe yet. The guy has replaced 51 of 53 players on the roster. We, as fans might not like it, but those rebuilding efforts usually take longer than 4 years to happen. 3. If Vincent ever recovers from his injury this is a good idea, but there's no guarantee that Vincent is going to be a great, or even good safety. 4. Bledsoe is on his way out, no doubt, this has been apparent since the Ravens game. But until the Bills are mathmatically eliminated from the hunt, I only want them to make moves that give them the best chance to win, not to give a guy reps. If Mularkey believes JP or Mathews give the Bills the best chance to win, great. After they're eliminated, they can start making moves for the future. 5. I don't know if I'd cut him, but Tucker should be starting. 6. McGahee should never be a regular starter at FB. It's a complete waste of talent. Henry is done as the starter. I would like to see the Bills run the ball 40 times a game, though, giving McGahee 25 carries and Henry 15. But, at the same time, Henry has shown nothing this year.

So a guy who's been screaming that JP should be be starting ASAP is bitching because JP wasn't ready last night? Boo-freakin'-hoo! Hey ICE, when it comes to gaining experience, it's all good. Losman needs to realize that every minute on the field he should be learning something new. Last night, prepared or not, Losman was introduced to the speed of the game. It was a good lesson. We don't need to play Oprah-mind-reader or conspiracy theorist to figure out this move. As long as the Bills are still (technically) alive in the playoff race, Bledsoe starts. When they're mathmatically eliminated, Losman starts. Unfortunately for Mathews fans, right or wrong, their boy doesn't figure into the equation.

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I don't know if "remedial" education is prevalent, like you claim. However, since I tutored "remedial" kids in college I know that the programs are there. I also know that the majority of kids who take these classes wind up graduating. And while, there are a minority of kids who try to game and cheat their way through college, the majority of kids there do the the work needed to improve themselves. I didn't paint you as an ogre, just paranoid. And if you consider advice about trying an act of kindness to be stiffling you, so be it. You're the one claiming "Blade Runner" and "Brave New World," and yet you won't even take the risk of returning an item to a person for fear of retribution. If all society felt the same as you, we would be in trouble. I think hate laws are BS, which at best, give us a way to tack on a couple of extra years to a scumbag's sentence, and at worst are fodder for politicians to cry wolf. Violent and purile lyrics in music are merely entertainment. In the 1950s, the moralists had problem with Elvis Preseley. In the 60's, it was with the Beatles and hippies; in the 70s it was with satanic rock. Somehow, as a nation, we've survived. People who listen to the music still got married, still love their families, still work hard, still pay their taxes, still obey the laws, and still go to church. You claim that high schoolers have a vocabulary of only 1,000 words, can't communicate with out saying suck or f*ck, are poor college students because they take remedial classes, and are more interested in promotion than work. And I'm the one who's arrogant and elitist? Look I believe that as a People, Americans have incredibly strong values; religious or atheist, Republican or Democrat, black or white. I also believe that seeing a naked breast for 3 seconds, or hearing a soldier say !@#$, or listening to the Roots will not shake a person's core values. I don't believe that we have to protect those values by building society that is scrubbed and sanitzed, like Mayberry, for their protection. And by the way, the Democratic party received more votes than it ever has before in this past election. It didn't win, but it's not wanning. There are 10s of millions of people out there (including many Republicans), who believe that the unfettered commerce of ideas and expression make this country stronger, not weaker.

High schoolers only know 1,000 words? I doubt it, Coco the sign-language gorilla knows almost that many. I don't have any stats on how many words a high schooler uses, but since college enrollment for high schoolers is at an all time high, I doubt the situation of our young people is as dire as you make it. And from my personal experience, the many times I've returned a dropped item to its owner I've gotten a thank you, not an accusation. Maybe you should try it sometime, it's a good feeling. Personal expression leads to blade runner? Yeah, right. This country thrives on the exchange of opinions and ideas. Any attempt to stiffle this exchange weakens the country, it doesn't protect it. I find it ironic that many stations that didn't show Private Ryan showed 'Return to Mayberry' instead. Unfortunately too many of us don't realize that Mayberry was a fictional place.

That's how I feel about the 'values' issues that were debated during the last campaign.

Somewhere there's a queer eye with a tear in it.

Just like those who complain about the Howard Stern show?

In Track Betting. It's the game's version of OTB. It's a good place to build up a massive reserve of cash, since the two long-shot horses (purple and green) hit every 4th or 5th race. It's marked by the horse head on the map that comes with the game.

The Bills will have a chance to draft a player like Clark or Steinbach in every draft. They opportunity to draft a top talent like McGahee comes around every 10 or 12 years. The last time the Bills grabbed a guy who had fallen in the draft due to an injury, he had a hall of fame career and became the franchise's leading rusher. If you had the choice to draft the next Rueben Brown or the next Thurman Thomas, who would you take? I'd take the next Thomas, every time.

Are you Dan Marino?

Of course, everyone here is missing the freakin' point. Jennings, when healthy, is better than both Williams and McKinnie. So if McKinnie was a Bill, he'd be a RT, just like Williams. And if you don't like drafting a right tackle that high, the Bills could have drafted a different position, which would cause people to whine that the Bills don't pay enough attention to the OL. And while the LT is supposed to protect the QBs blindside, preventing sacks and turnovers from the blind side, remember that Culpepper fumbles more than any other QB in the history of the league, averaging more than 1 fumble a game. How many of those record-setting fumbles come from the blind side? Maybe the point here is that tackle is a position that requires a few years to master. Guys that pick it up quickly are more the exception than the rule.

For Pats fans, the Red Sox are that shiny thing that distracts them from being true football fans. 'What you guys think about this week's game, wait a minute, this guy's got a Red Sox avatar. GET OFF THE BANDWAGON blah, blah, blah.' The Bills have improved since the last Pat Sox game. This game will be a good test for them.

The most interesting thing that happened last night was the coming of age of the evangelical vote. The religious right can make the argument that they have given the republicans the mandate to legislate morality issues. This is going to cause waves for moderate republicans as well as democrats. As for the democrats, there'll be a time where the country will be forced to seriously examine policy issues such as the deficit and health care. Yesterday wasn't the day.

Funny, when she was the wife of a republican senator, the neocons had no problem with her.

I voted. Even wrote in my buddy's name in an unopposed race. Democracy's a beautiful thing.

We've been discussing moves like these for the last 5 weeks. Where the hell have you been?