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I couldn't agree more with this post. There are some COMPLETE IDIOTS on this board that constantly harp about the doom and gloom with JP. The guy is in his second year and he is still learning. The Bills had a couple of options at the QB position this off-season: 1) Keep Drew and go into another season knowing that the QB position is going to be the weakest and least creative on the team. DB sucked (missed passes, crucial turnovers, NO mobility and inability to win a big game) for the last 2 years here and signs were pointing that he wasn't going to get any better or any younger. 2) Waive DB and pursue a veteran QB in free-agency that might only be here a year until they feel that JP has developed enough sitting on the bench and watching while still earning 1st round pick money. Doing this might scar the mentality of JP though and he might never recover. OR 3) Waive DB and give JP every opportunity to learn and earn the job of the QB and future of this franchise. People on this board need to realize that JP is the quarterback, regardless if he throws one or two bad passes in a controlled scrimmage or if he throws 2 during the first game. He is going to be the QB. By every play that I watched Friday night, he looks confident and prepared to handle that job. Sure, he's going to make mistakes but who doesn't. Kelly blew a few games himself as the Bills QB, especially the 2nd SB but he was still considered the QB with only idiots calling for his head. Most teams in the NFL would love to be in Buffalo's shoes right now knowing who their QB will be for the next 5 years or more. I guarantee, all of you naysayers will be jumping on the JP bandwagon before the end of the season. He has the tools, mental capacity and all the athletic ability to be a type of QB in Buffalo that we have NEVER seen before. Sorry for the FFS type post but people really need to look at the options of what the Bills have. They went the right direction, just give it time to materialize. We still haven't even played a pre-season game yet!!!

I should have clarified my post by saying that adding a veteran player that the team isn't built around never hurts. A solid veteran on a young team only helps the team get stronger both in the locker room and on the ice.

I couldn't agree more with this. The Sabres are going to be a young and hungry team with a lot of players that didn't take a year off but actually either played in Europe or in Rochester. As I said in another post, the "new" NHL is somewhat geared toward younger, faster, skilled players which the Sabres actually have an abundance of in their system. They might not get 100 points this year but they should be closer to the 90 to mid 90 range and solidly make the playoffs as about a 5 or 6 seed.

I might sound like a homer here but I actually think that Darcy is doing the right thing. Letting the "older" players get overpaid by teams such a Philly while the Sabres sit back and watch a large portion of the league overspend is not necessarily saying they are cheap. They are letting the market play itself out. The Sabres have decided to build from within and stick to the youth theory while other teams invest a lot of money for older players that might not be able to play the "new" style of hockey. The Sabres have a lot of young, aggresive and most of all, quick talent on their roster and in the system. They are a team that is built for the "new" style and doesn't necessarily have to go after the older, veteran players that might not be able to keep up as the season progresses. I say stay away from all the elderly big name players and scoop up any young ones that might slip through the cracks.

Thanks for the heads up steve, much appreciated.

It's pretty impressive that the whole defensive unit is in the NFL. Says a lot for that program, almost along the lines of Miami.

Thanks for all the reports Rock. They aren't long at all and I wish they were longer. I, along with all the other out-of-towners will take what we can get though. Keep up the great work and don't fall asleep and miss a practice like Mike, j/k. Thanks for all the reports guys.

This would be one hell of a story even if he makes the practice squad, which I think is very possible.

My guess here is that Wade probably overheard the "give it to em" call on the sidelines and was so pissed that he just wasn't thinking clearly. It's a tough position for a coach to be in, knowing that you are being bent over and given the "moon river" on national TV. If he had it to do again, I'm sure he would probably keep them on the field.

Thanks for the reports for all of us from out of town that can't be there to see all this in person. You are doing great. Thank you!

gantrules really likes Rueben Gant and think Ron Gant is a sissy!

Southwest recently had a pretty good deal for $49 each way to Buffalo from Orlando, probably the other way around too. I had booked a flight in May for the home opener from Orl to Buf for $89 and was able to change it to the $49 each way price and received a future flight credit through Southwest. They always run those deals, so keep watching the Southwest website.

If the Bills adapted to their QB last year and max protected, every team that we faced would know what they were going to do. You can't just say they should have done everything to protect DB and give the ball to Moulds or Evans, that's just idiotic. Every team would be able to defense that in a heartbeat and completly shut down the already limited passing game, (see the New England games)!!!!!!!!!!! If you're going to make statements like that, think about the logic behind them. Of course there is always a learning curve for every coach, but isn't there a learning curve for even the veteran coaches and players on every play of every game every year?

I've actually been hit by a dog. I was driving down the street near my house, heading to work and this dumb dog runs out from his yard and right into the passenger door of my truck. I stopped, got out and went to check on the dog when the owner came out. The dog was dazed and the owner said it's the second time he's done that. There wasn't any damage to the door so I went on my way but the dog must have had one hell of a head ache. I also have hit an armadillo, which make one horendous sound when you drive over it, all you hear is this loud crunching sound. I looked back and it was all over the road behind me. I didn't stop then but when I got to the next exit on the highway, I stopped to fill up and checked for any dillo remains, which thankfully there weren't any. They sound cool running over though. Kinda of like opening a walnut.

There isn't anything that can top that in the movie, except for maybe when the chick shows her rack, that's about it. For the movies I have never seen: ET, though I do have the video but just can't be bothered to watch it. Lord of the Rings or any of the sequels. Casablanca, though I did see a little of Assablanca on a Family Guy episode.

This couldn't be any more of an indication why the Bills felt they could let him go!!

I had the opportunity once to stand a couple of feet from Jennie Finch as she warmed up. This girl can bring it. I wouldn't mind standing in the box against her to see what it's like. Wouldn't mind a lot of things with her but this isn't penthouse forum. Besides the fact that she is an awesome pitcher, she is a beautiful woman. She is really down to earth too. While at the exhibition where I saw her, there were hundreds of young girls (ages 5-18) that were following her around everywhere. The team was on a strict schedule that night but JF asked the coach if she could sign some autographs for the crowd and she ended up standing there for about an hour and a half, even after it started raining, to sign something for anyone that asked. She is quite the icon for young girls. And older men for that matter!!

OK, good point, I should have clarified that out of 30 teams in the NBA, 90% of them play streetball while the other 10% plays the game with finess and defense. Sorry for generalizing but for the sake of ranting, the NBA is a game run by players, for the most part.

Tom Condon = RJ If this guy thinks that some team will shell out $35 million for an adequet, aging, often injured rapist, he is sadly mistaken. The league, for the most part excluding Snyder and Jones, has frowned upon shelling out large amounts of money to guys with character issues. He is going to get a one or two year deal at the most and nowhere near $35 million, IMO.

This statement is exactly what the NBA has become. The players march to the beat of their own drum, for the most part and the coaches are afraid to tell the players what to do. How many coaches have been axed over the last 10 years because his players didn't like playing for him because he told them what to do? The NBA is made up of criminals with enough talent to get paid. On another note, it's almost sickening to watch an NBA game because of the amount of whistles that are blown. The flow of the game can't last more the 30 seconds without one of the refs blowing the whistle on something, though not blowing it on the "star" players because they don't like being told that they did something wrong. The game has gotten into the pathetic stage and that's a shame for a game that used to be fun to watch. Sorry for the F-F-S type rant.

That is too funny!!!

Did anyone notice that the NFC has only one team that plays a schedule that is .500. Also, the top 15 teams are in the AFC and only the Titans play a below .500 (.492) schedule. It kind of shows who is the dominant conference. Even back in the late 80's and early 90's, the NFC wasn't nearly as dominant as the AFC is today. Funny too that the Super Bowl runner-up plays a .453 schedule. Goes to show that when the Bills play the NFC south (probably the best NFC conference) this year, no one is going to terribly worried. The Falcons aren't nearly as good as their record showed last year.

I'm not one to flame but you have to remember, the cops are there to enforce the laws that we live by. Without the cops, crime and criminals would be running rampant in this country. Crime is out of control for the most part as it is and police departments are understaffed to handle the criminals. If this cops turns a blind eye to a lady doing 16mph over the speed limit, what would prevent her from possibly doing that in a school zone and wiping out a couple of kids. The cop in the video was just doing his job enforcing the laws in which we all live by. He did nothing wrong handling the situation that she put herself in. She swung at the other officer and the cops have certain procedures they have to follow in those situations. I saw a video in a class about an officer, in Georgia I think, asking someone he pulled over to please step to the rear of his vehicle. The officer asked the guy over 20 times to comply and he didn't. Next thing you know, the guy pulls out a rifle from the back seat of his truck and starts shooting the officer. He shot the officer 4 times, went back and reloaded, shot him several more times and then put the gun to the officers head and finished him off and drove away. He was stopped down the road without incident and when asked why he did that, he said the officer didn't show him respect. The officer had a wife and 3 kids with a 4th on the way. That video is shown in training for most police officers around the country. The officer should have tazered the guy earlier but didn't. Just goes to show that they never know how a situation will escalate unless they control it from the beginning. This is why the officer in this video treated the lady like he did, it's part of his training.

Now that is just funny. I picked JP only because he is one that might be around for a while. I wouldn't mind getting a throwback Kemp or Kelly jersey though.

I couldn't have said it any better myself.