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"Don't just do something, stand there" he told Ike. I have faith in TD and company because I have to- lets face it he doesnt read this board and I would be very worried if he did- so his relative inactivity has to be good. Since there are no really great free agents there is no sense in overpaying as usually occurs early in FA. Wait until the screw turns and pick up values. Is the dt from OSU ready? Is McFarlane ok for depth? Is Teague the answer at LT and is Tucker tha answer at center? Will Bannon and Peters provide options on the line? Seems to me those questions are the key to activity in FA as far as O-L[ne signings

If rumor is true that Pat Williams wants $5 mil he is certainly history. About the most he can hope for at 32 as a run stopper and not a sacker is one of those phony contracts back loaded with money he will never see. I think he is worth $2 mil - cash-per annum to the Bills. The cap is everything today. The NFL is subject to the most important decision in fishing; when to know when to continue fishing and when to cut bait. Answer: about $2 million.

You overlook Denney whose value is enormous. Should either Euhus or Campbell not return Denney is a dependable alternative. It further allows us flexibility to draft other needs. Draftniks say this draft is TE poor

Right. I hope I am right in that TD follows the Warren Buffet mantra of value investing. Phat Pat is good but he never deserved 5 mil at any time and certainly not now. He is good but hardly irreplacable. Takeo, Lee evans, Willis and JP and Clement are worthy of high compensation. The rest have to keep an eye on the draft and free agent list. Is my list too short?

Precisely. His- Peter's- intellect is limited to the few things he can be preeped for. But this guy is incredible mix him in - keep them guessing and Peters interested. That Denney is a good DE reserve should not stop us from using him as insurance of Euhus and Campbell return or not return. Would it be wise to use a low draft choice on a TE who would be interchangeable with Euhus/Campbell? Bannon as a guard is the situation that taxes my argument and I agree his salary is getting steep for the fifth DT position. His only chance is to become versatile. And anyway what the hell do I or any other poster really know? It is Feb and I am bored so I ruminate.

nDenney has good speed and hands and has been inserted at tight end already. he is also insurance if Euhus and/ or Campbell come back. The use of Denney at te saves us a roster spot. Bannon is a decided fifth dt as it is. This is a reach of sorts. I have documented Peter's deficiencies but there is no doubting his talent. His wonderlic score brings into question whether he can ever play offensive line or manage the variables of tight end which involves reading a defense. He may not be able to read the paper! Put him in reaction type situations that do not require high intellect

Denney would be a very good tight end. Bannon is a dirt dog scrapper tailor made for guard or even blocking back. Peters is so talented it is scary. I think he should continue on special teams and fill a role each week as dictated by opposition. He could be a pass rushing dt. Imagine putting him in motion and crushing de's as a split end?(. i recall tasker making de's take notice.) Peters is our slash player. I also believe if his wonderlic score of nine- out of fifty I think- is indicative it might be best to allow him to be as free to exercise his enormous talent as possible. Give him jobs on offense and defense that are not unlike his mentally-non-taxing wedge destroyer role on special teams

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Flutie would wear #11 and ACHEIVE at a greater amount than any of its last two possessors

DB made interesting observation that he and JP could not run the same stlye offense. If JP is going to be a mobile QB who better than Flutie to back him up? He has grown accustom to the clip board and the coaching staff is brand new. Are there second acts as QB ? Or did Doug burn his bridges? I always liked him. He is a winner. Can he suck up an oversized ego and contribute knowing that he won't be the starter and that the investment in JP will out last him even considering his seemingly eternal youth? Whatever we might think Flutie was in large measure the salvation of the Bills franchise a few years back.

talent is not everything and A-Rod is proof. His team- every one knows it is Jeter's- has never won it all.Poor guy had Griffey, edgar Martinez boone et al and couldnt win. The Red Sox are in his head and the only one who can control that is A-Troll

Joe Dorsey liked me so much I spent many hours in his office- I tell my grand children I was #1 on Dean Dorseys list. I liked Fisher so much I spent six years there during the sixties. In my initial freshman year there were no dorms. Fisher provided a great education of which I am proud and my moderate success has much to do with Fisher and St. Joe's of Buffalo. When I visit either I marvel as one would expect at the buildings and stuff but the schools remain the same. "Nailing" in those days appropriately occurred up the road though it happened more in our fantasies. My wife of thirty-five years did not enact my hammer prematurely which is consoling in my dotage that none of my friends used their toolbox in my house.

Big Ben gets an education. NE squeezes out a win.............Vick is contained and Iggles get to lose the big win next week

as Marv said "once you say you are going to retire , you have retired". . i unlike most posters was not even a star in pop warner so the athletic "end " for me was not a shock. if I were to be a qb as gifted as Drew Bledsoe is or perhaps was I would not welcome the end and thus be one of the last to know the end is nigh. the day will come but Drew probably will have to be told. In the interim he remains one of the class acts in life and for that I excuse his lack of objective insight.

the red sox can compete so can a few very few others. the red sox win will last me a lifrtime. the choke job the most glaring in history will keep yankee fans at bay for years . 2004 trumps 1918. you miss the point or more likely you avoid the point that baseball should not be like the stock exchange, investment houses, broadway etc. it is true the red sox have resources (220 mil in revenue) and yankees boast 315 mil or to put it in terms of strength 70 mil in salaries to RJ, DJ, A-Rod and Moose and still!!! have a 25 mil cushion. My family moved to buffalo in 1960 from massachusetts so i am since age 16 a bills fan. the red sox part is part of my being; the bills i chose. by the way try to be more specific than way higher if only because if you looked at the statistics you would change your mind

Abysmally ignorant argument. no other team comes even close to the Yankee financial advantage. It is especially ignorant for a bills fan whose team can only compete due to salary cap regulations. The yankees have a multi-million dollar radio/tv revenue. the red sox are a distant ,distant second Ny starting pitching, starters only are over 100,000,000!!!! ny's payroll will top 200,000,000! The next is the Red Sox @ 120,000,000, The Mets, Dodgers and Angeyls ( gee you think that LA and NYC matter)are all slightly above 100,000,000. If the Bills were a baseball team how would they fare. Ergo it impossible to be a Bills fan AND a Yankee fan-

yes yes yes there is always yankee news. Rumor has it they have bought the padres team. Their minor leagues are bone dry of prospects, you understand. They also have an option on the devil rays . I mean, after all, why should cameron and baldelli languish in that cultural wasteland. They deserve the Big Apple and the Big Apple demands them. The other d-rays will be used as trade bait for other cash strapped franchises to off load contracts and super stars to be thart they know they can not afford. The yankee dream is to field a team of superstars and win always. The beloved Red Sox and other valorous defenders of truth and justice have only the consolation that it now requires the WS Champion to win three series. By the by, who did win the WS?

Why? 1)A seamless transfer of qb IN 2006. Drew is a class act and JP the Littler would be wise to watch how to become worthy of the appelation PRO. The true greatness of DB will be evident though probably unappreciated. 2)A 320 lb slash! JP the Larger adds a dimension that may even tax the inventive, creative mind of MM. 3)Jim Mcnally. Tim Krumrie. They "can beat theirs with yours or yours with theirs". Of all the hackneyed cliches in football none is more on the mark than" the game is won in the trenches". 4) Donahoe and Modrak et al. I will not do an in depth study of any other teams street free agent signings but this years crop Greer, JP the Larger. Ritzmann and Rashad Baker are pure gold. They( TD & TM) had and have a plan. The most important commodity in the era of free agency is the General Manager. Coaches as Parcells and Gibbs are proving are not as important. 5) I had originally thought that WM's injury would unravel this whole "greatness" scenario. There is no doubt in my mind that WM would if healthy rival OJ and Thurman in Bills lore but even if he doesn"t recover this team is destined for greatness. The team has acheived the realization that they are special. They can beat teams with mediocre performances from DB and WM and still win by comfotable margins.

see you already have improved. thank me for taking an interest inyou

why do some feel the need to gratuitously use hackneyed vulgarities on a site where children ( my grandaughter ) go? Perhaps a xmas gift of a Thesarus would improve the barbarians language.

I read a lot of comments about JP and next years "lost first round pick". Of course it is not lost . We "spent" it last year. The cost was last years second round pick not next years first round pick which is JP. Paranthetically, last years first round is a proven success, viz: Lee Evans. Back to JP. He will benefit greatly from Drew's renasence. It puts him in line for 2006. He can spend 2005 being worked into the line-up in significantly incresing doses by the inventiveness of Mularkey. If they actually dreamt up running the option with Fast Freddy and Willis I can not imagine what Mularkey has in store for the mobile JP. This team is on the verge of greatness. JP, Mr. Lee ( why not play the old "Mr Lee, Mr. Lee song at the Ralph) and Willis is quite a triumvirate.

Gee really. DB is not as mobile as most?

I think we have to consider that the mental part of the game is daunting for most rookies. few are going to take on a project in sept from another team with different terminology and routines and expectations. it just might be that pro football is hard

Do you really believe that JP is even close to ready? The league is such that defense and special team excellence can win out as Long as the off does not beat themselves. JP should be given the reins for good in 2006. in the meantime DB for better or worse

The reports of Drews death are greatly exaggerated. Playoff bound, I doubt but the only team the Bills have left on the schedule who overmatch them are the Steelers who , so 9-7 is not impossible. In the meantime will the boo-birds and boycotters take a breath