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All of the specualtion about whether the team is considering releasing Drew can come to an end... They ARE....Tom Donahoe has SPOKEN..... On the "Mike & Mike" show on ESPN radio just mintes ago Tom Donahoe Spoke about Bledsoe and Henry.. When Mike asked about a decision at Qb TD replied: "We will make a decision on the quarterback position within 2 weeks". He went on to say that Drew is a "great guy" but they took Losman very high because of his ability. He again said they will make a decision about the QB position. Then Mike asked about how the veterans would respond to a QB (JP) starting who has never started an NFL game. TD said "The Vets were behind Travis Henry too until they saw what Mcgahee could do". -MY feelings: After hearing Donahoe and these comments, I am just shy of CONVINCED that Bledsoe will be released. There was NOTHING said that gives any nod towards keeping Drew and NOT starting Jp Losman. The whole Henry/Mcgahee comparison really makes it look like they are looking to Losman. Regarding Henry: TD said that they are open for teams to submit their trade offers for Henry. He said he is a quality strarting back in the NFL. My Feelings: Nothing new here...This has already been reported..

It's now 6:13am central time....They just announced he is coming up.....

I think that Bledsoe NOT coming out right away and saying, Yes, this is my team and I will do whatever is needed to make it better, Shows he is thinking of leaving. Remember, last year when the issue came up he was quick to say no problem and it was done... Not the case this year... That is why It seems to me that the longer this goes with silence the more likley Bledsoe will NOT take the pay cut and will leave for another team... Does anybody agree??

Someone told me today that Sports Radio Weei 850 AM in Boston has reported: Source close to Bledsoe's agent said "Bledsoe refused a pay cut and expects to be released from the Bills any day now.... Has ANYONE heard this or can verify it???

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3309726 The way the Bills finished the season muddled their quarterback situation. The team won eight of its last 10 games, leading many fans in Buffalo to believe the team should be competitive next season. But QB Drew Bledsoe's performance was average at best. Will the team cut Bledsoe and entrust the starting position to 2003 first-round pick J.P. Losman, who threw only five passes as a rookie? Chances are good Bledsoe either will take a pay cut or be cut. As it stands, his contract calls for him to take up $6.5 million of the team's cap space next season. The Bills can cut him before Bledsoe is owed a $1.05 million roster bonus at the beginning of March and reduce that cap hit to $4.33 million

Don't forget the Moulds interview on wgr55am 2 weeks ago. Eric came out and said that he did not think Bledsoe wanted to be in buffalo this year... IF that is true, now throw in the "paycut" issue and it might be enough for Drew to demand a trade or release... Soemthing to think about....

I hope Bledsoe does NOT re-negotiate and takes the roster cut on 3/1... Then he can go start for another team (Dallas looks REALLY good right now) and play where they can use his rocket arm and not this dink and dunk offense... DON'T TAKE THE PAY CUT DREW!!! YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO TAKE IT!!!

Pete Carroll Coached Bledsoe in New England for3 seasons...I could see Bledsoe starting in San Fran next year..... What do you think??? SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The San Francisco 49ers have contacted two-time national championship coach Pete Carroll of USC as a possible successor to fired Dennis Erickson, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday. Carroll and the Trojans routed Oklahoma 55-19 in the Orange Bowl, a.k.a. the BCS Championship Game, on Tuesday to win their second straight national title. The Chronicle said other candidates include New England Patriots defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel, Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Brad Childress and Seattle Seahawks coach and San Francisco native Mike Holmgren, if he is fired. Asked if Carroll would be considered, 49ers owner John York said, "I think we all watched the (national championship) game (Tuesday night). ... They were very dominant and he's a great coach." Carroll is a native of Marin County, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the 49ers' defensive coordinator in 1995-96. Erickson and general manager Terry Donahue presided over some of the darkest days in the proud history of the 49ers, who lost games, good players and incalculable respect in recent years. They insisted they had a plan to restore the franchise to glory, but owner York decided it’s time for a whole new plan. York fired Erickson and dismissed Donahue on Wednesday, just three days after the 49ers finished with the NFL’s worst record. York made a rare public appearance to announce the dramatic changes to his team, which went 2-14 to match the worst season in San Francisco history. “Sometimes, even when everyone works very hard, the formula for winning just isn’t there,” York said. “We’re going to use the extreme disappointment that we all have felt as our turning point. “We know how much passion 49ers fans have, and we understand that this is unacceptable to our fans. We need our fans to know that it is equally unacceptable to us. We take our responsibility as owners seriously.” Erickson went 9-23 in two seasons as Steve Mariucci’s successor, never reaching the postseason. He won two national championships at the University of Miami during a successful college coaching career, but is 40-56 in six seasons as an NFL coach in San Francisco and Seattle. Erickson got the news in a meeting with York on Wednesday morning. “There really wasn’t much more than that, other than I thanked him for the opportunity,” Erickson said. “They wanted to go their direction, I’ve got to go my direction. It’s a divorce. It’s final now.” Erickson had three years and $7.5 million remaining on the contract he signed in 2003. The hefty financial package was thought to be the biggest obstacle to York’s desire to make changes, but the owner decided to shoulder the expense — in total, paying Erickson about $1.39 million for every victory with the 49ers. The new coach and general manager will get to use the first overall pick in the draft, but the 49ers’ reputation has declined steadily since York and his wife took over in 1999. York believes he can fix things and boost the 49ers’ attempts to raise support for a new stadium by hiring new people who can quickly transform his club. York said he plans to hire a winning head coach with NFL experience before replacing his general manager, though he doesn’t expect one man to hold both jobs. He has a list of fewer than 10 candidates, including a few coaches still working for playoff teams. York didn’t deny an interest in speaking to former Patriots and Jets coach Pete Carroll, who wrapped up his second straight national championship with Southern California on Tuesday night. “I think we all watched the game last night. That was a tremendous game,” York said. “They were very dominant, and he’s a great coach.” Donahue, the longtime UCLA coach, was the hand-picked successor to Bill Walsh, who led the team’s rebuilding from a similar salary cap-induced funk five years ago. Just four months after Donahue signed a four-year contract extension reportedly worth about $5 million, he reached a financial settlement with York. “I am very disappointed that I do not have the opportunity to remain with the 49ers,” Donahue said in a statement. “There is absolutely no doubt in my mind with the improvement in the salary cap situation, the return of a lot of injured players along with a good draft, that we would have experienced a great deal of success in the future.” Since 2001, Donahue has been criticized for mediocre drafts and unorthodox strategies, from his difficult salary cap relief plan to his reliance on unusual player evaluation methods. After last Sunday’s 21-7 loss to New England, York spent two days interviewing Erickson and Donahue while he mulled his decision. The 49ers won five championships from 1981-94, but on York’s watch they’ve had just two winning seasons and won just one playoff game. Last month, York said he was extremely disappointed with the 49ers’ season, and he expected to make big changes to the organization. Erickson is the second coach fired by York in slightly less than two years, following his abrupt dismissal of Mariucci days after a second-round playoff loss at Tampa Bay. While Erickson took much of the heat for the 49ers’ record, many of their shortcomings were due to a stripped-down roster assembled by Donahue, who waived several veterans and pared the payroll last summer to rid the 49ers of “dead money” being paid to players no longer with the team. San Francisco had nearly $29 million in dead money this season despite the departures of Terrell Owens, Jeff Garcia, Garrison Hearst and Derrick Deese and Ron Stone. The 49ers knew they would struggle this season with that young, inexpensive roster. “Nobody thought we’d be sitting here at 2-14,” York said. “Absolutely nobody.” Many of San Francisco’s best players missed much of the year with injuries, including linebacker Julian Peterson, center Jeremy Newberry and quarterback Tim Rattay, who started just nine games. Eleven players finished the season on injured reserve. Erickson, the 14th coach in San Francisco history, is 144-57-1 as a head coach at five universities, but never had a winning season in six years in the NFL. Erickson said this season was the toughest of his life, and though he expressed his desire to return, he probably isn’t heartbroken to be leaving an organization that seemed to get more dysfunctional with each loss. Last month, Erickson even met with Mississippi officials about their vacant head coaching position. Erickson said he doesn’t want to get out of coaching. Syracuse has the only remaining Division I-A vacancy. © 2005 NBC Sports.com

Looks like several Cowboy fans would be happy to have Bledsoe back with Parcells... Link http://cowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16907

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-b...ov=ap&type=lgns Bills ready to stick with Bledsoe as starter By JOHN WAWROW, AP Sports Writer January 4, 2005 AP - Jan 3, 1:18 pm EST More Photos ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) -- Sub-par numbers aside, quarterback Drew Bledsoe is confident he's earned the right to remain the Buffalo Bills' starter heading into next season. ``It's my team,'' Bledsoe said this week after the Bills missed the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year despite a strong finish. The Bills -- from coach Mike Mularkey to team owner Ralph Wilson -- agree with Bledsoe. ``It wasn't all Drew,'' Wilson said, following Buffalo's season-ending loss Sunday to Pittsburgh, when Bledsoe struggled. Mularkey shrugged off questions of Bledsoe's so-so passing numbers, saying the only figure that counted was the nine games his quarterback helped win this season. ``It's do you win or lose? That's the stat that comes out most,'' Mularkey said. ``I don't know what the rest has to do with performance to be honest with you.'' The Bills (9-7) enjoyed their first winning season since 1999, and first in three years since acquiring Bledsoe in from New England in 2002. ADVERTISEMENT Yet Buffalo's strong finish, in which the Bills overcame an 0-4 start, hasn't prevented Bledsoe detractors from urging the team to bench or release the 12-year veteran in favor of J.P. Losman, the rookie first-round pick who had very limited playing time this season. Critics point to Bledsoe's poor performance in the season finale, a 29-24 loss to the Steelers that eliminated the Bills from playoff contention. Bledsoe went 16-of-30 for 189 yards and threw one interception. He also had a costly fourth-quarter fumble, which linebacker James Harrison returned 18 yards for what proved to be the decisive touchdown. Bledsoe finished 18th in the league with 2,932 yards passing, the second consecutive season in which he's failed to break the 3,000-yard mark. He had 20 touchdown passes, 16 interceptions, and his efficiency rating of 76.6 ranked 13th in the AFC and 25th overall. It's better than where Bledsoe finished in 2003, when he had a career-low 2,860 yards passing, with 11 TDs and 12 interceptions. But it's a far cry from Bledsoe's first season in Buffalo, when he had 4,359 yards passing, set 10 franchise records and earned his fourth Pro Bowl selection. Bledsoe hasn't had a 300-yard passing performance in 30 games, going back to Week 2 of the 2003 season. In comparison, 31 quarterbacks had at least one 300-yard game this season. Bledsoe is buoyed by how he found his rhythm in coach new coach Mularkey's, helping the team win six straight and nine of 11 before the loss to Pittsburgh. ``Obviously, you go back and there are definitely plays that I want back,'' Bledsoe said. ``But overall, I am proud that I was able to stay the course and keep going forward as a leader on this team and through some very hard times.'' The calls for Bledsoe's benching grew loudest nine games into the season, after he went 8-of-19 for 76 yards and three interceptions in a 29-6 loss at New England. He and the Bills rebounded by winning six in a row, a stretch in which Bledsoe was at his most efficient. That included his 185 yards and three touchdown passes in a 37-17 win against St. Louis on Nov. 21. Two weeks later, he had a season-best 277 yards passing and four touchdowns in a 42-32 win at Miami. Bledsoe has two years left on a contract he restructured. ``I'm very proud to be a part of this team,'' he said. ``I anticipate great things for this team going forward. And I'm excited about what the future holds for me and this team and this organization.''

Well...Time to start thinking about free agency and the draft now...

We MUST score some points ASAP!!

Bledsoe Dominated his personal performance!! AWESOME job!!!

Get a life spiked lemonade, I mean, Blackbear, Oops I mean ICE... Heard it all before....post something oreiginal for a change.... The Bledsoe bashers HATE it when Drew has success....

You Bledsoe bashers make me sick....You CANNOT give the guy credit when he does well.....

Great Post!!!

Bledsoe looked like "Vintage Bledsoe" tonight! Was great to see his confidence and accuracy!! That flea flicker play demonstrated once again that he is STILL one the best downfield passers in all of football. This was a GREAT game and for All of the Bledsoe supporters, This is a week to enjoy!! I do not want to hear ANY "Start JP" (who is now THIRD string) or ANY Bledsoe bashing this week... Bledsoe bashers can take this game and shove it down their PIE HOLE!!!! Go Bills!!!

unless Bledsoe is playing O-line and Wr at the same time, Then NO, Bledsoe is not the only problem....He needs some help from 10 other players...

Bledsoe WILL start...

Anyway to get it online?? IF you can hear it.....What is Howard Simon saying this morning????

J.P. back on the bench next week where he belongs at this point....

Bledsoe the starter next week...NO question....

Bledsoe played SOLID! How about that 16 yard run for a first down!! All of the statue heads can keep their lids shut this week!! Awesome win!!!

YEP! I saw the sign too!

Who Will Bledsoe be starting for in 2005...There is NO WAY he will be the #2 QB here... TOO much talent left in his arm and with an NFL caliber O-line (one that does not need DT's to help it make plays) he still has another 5 years of starter in him.... Unless Losman is held back on the bench for another year, I see Bledsoe requesting a trade or release at the seasons end. At this point I see the following teams as REALLY good places. Mark my words, At least two of these teams will offer him the starting job. He's got a star quality name and STILL one of the best Deep Passers in football. Predict what team and why!!! 1.Oakland 2.Dallas 3.Arizona 4.San Fran 5.Chicago 6.Mia 7.Washington (redskins) 8.Bills 9. Other team