BillnutinHouston

Let's face it, Royal's an idiot. He has a knack for the stupid.

What is happening with this guy? No speed, no moves, no cuts, no elusiveness whatsoever. Is he thinking too much? Or just being overcoached?

Please, slowly back away from the keyboard.

Bill, Do you take notes during the game thinking that we are just waiting for your "thoughts"? Get over yourself. And yes, Robert Royal is a "barometer" for this team - as long as he's the starter we know how good we are going to be.

OK, here's what I would like to know. How does a cap, any cap, emerge scrunched up from a 24-pack and look even remotely wearable? Explain please.

Agree. I'll be watching the Ravens then keeping my eye on the Pats* during commercial breaks.

I have always believed, and still do, that JP can play in the NFL. During his career with the Bills I would have liked to see him perform in a competently-designed (and called) offense like Turk's, and also given the ability to audible. Having said this, there is no longer a question in my mind that the coaches' judgement in starting Trent over JP was the right one. Trent's learning curve is much steeper than JP's was, Trent's temperment inspires confidence, and his game management is superior to JP's. Trent is the right QB for this team.

Agree about the Edward Jones dome. Another venue that shows up poorly on TV is the Superdome in New Orleans. The only indoor venues I've actually been in to watch foorball are the Carrier Dome and the Alamodome when the Bills played the Saints a few years ago. That one also looked dim from the inside. I'll take an open air venue anyday.

How do you measure toughness? It's easy to lay the lumber when you're a big dude. Stepping on the field when you're Roscoe's size takes some serious (mental) toughness. My props go to Roscoe.

Elaborate please - what happened?

Just sent you a PM - any help you can provide will make this hurricane responder's day a bit better!!

Were you at the game? The weather was not the best - raining quite hard at times. You have to take that into account.

I say Peters will be full-go on Sunday.

Royal makes too many glaring, dumb mistakes for me to be comfortable with him (taking huge gorilla steps in the endzone a year or 2 ago when tiptoeing would have easily gotten us 7, and Sunday's failure to get out of bounds). But I will say that his play in the preseason has been good, and he was effective on Sunday. He's apparently in the best shape of his career and motivated so that is a good sign.

I could care less.

BS and more BS. IT TAKES TWO TO COMMUNICATE.

Downtown at the moment (at work), live next door to you, in Cypress.

You're right, it couldn't be. If that were the case, Crowell's decision would not have caught the team by surprise as it did.

Actually, I give Jauron a lot of credit for being as restrained as he was. He looked to me like he was about ready to jump out of his skin with anger, yet restrained himself enough to make a pretty bland statement about the matter.

You may be onto something there - in fact its possible that after being backed into a corner by Crowell they decided to use the situation to their advantage to gain leverage with Peters. Use the opportunity to show their bigger fish (Peters) that they ain't playin'.

Agree. The message is, if you are not team first, don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya. The Pats* FO has played heartless hardball for years with their players and have a few SB trophies to show for it. It CAN work.

Who is Peters?

Absolutely correct. This theory is the only way to really explain how this is, as Jauron says, "coming out of the blue". Team is a nice concept but when livelihoods are on the line, team comes second to looking out for number one apparently.

Jason Peters should MOST DEFINITELY read this!!

The National Weather Service is now predicting Sunday to be 74 degrees and sunny. Perfect!