DeeRay

My guess is that if your job performance was evaluated everyday, you'd probably complain about how unfair it was and quit... and rightfully so. We all have good days and we have bad ones... and the co-workers around us doing their jobs affect your own performace too. Well, it's not fair that many of you posters evaluate JP play in, play out, day in day out and then consider it a sign of things to come... good or bad. #1... he's a kid, basically a rookie... the equivalent of a red shirt freshman #2... it's preseason.... rehearsal... blanks, not live bullets. No game planning. #3... there are 10 other teamates that must execute for JP to be successful... and they'll have to do that against the NFL's #2 defense. The success of the Bills this season does not rest soley on JP. The O line has to step up. Reed and Parrish must step up. The d-line without Pat W. is nowhere near as formidable as it is with him... and Ron Edwards has had 3 seasons to prove he is the answer and hasn't. My take on JP is that he's got all the tools to be a great QB. he has great pocket presence, a great arm, great leadership ability, and great mobility. The only thing he doesn't have is great experience facing NFL defenses... and it's going to take him at least a season to digest that. Basically, he's a kid learning on the job...so, you can't expect a lot from him this season. Physically, we just don't know how well he can hold up over a full season because he's never done it, and Teflon Tom isn't sold either or he wouldn't have brought in Holcomb nor brought back Matthews. Also, JP will face extremely difficult defenses in at least six games this year from just the AFC East teams... then he still has to go against TB, Carolina, Wade Phillips Charger D, The Falcons and Raiders D will be a lot better, and so will the Bengals. So, if the Bills are fortunate to win half of those battles, then they've got a shot at winning 9 games again and maybe squeaking into the playoffs. My own thinking is that they need 10 games to get to the post season party... and it is probably going to come down to the last game of the season to deteremine whether they finish with 9 wins or 10. So, relax... let JP be JP. Don't get caught up in this "He lookks great" and then the next guy says he looked average, or worse. Take the media reports with a grain of salt and keep in mind that their jobs are to provoke and in doing so they garner attention and sell their stories... the accuracy doesn't matter.

Realistically, taking a look at Losman, Holcomb, and Matthews, none of those dudes have proven to be durable. If Losman goes down, Holcomb saves the day. But Holcomb has proven to be brittle and could not hold up for a long stretch. So, if it comes down to your third guy, given that the two in front of him are suspect in the durability category, who would you rather have in as a QB at a critical point in the season... Matthews or Woodbury. I think Matthews is the top vote getter here.

damn that's a lot to pay for something to a get a good fire started with... geez... what happened to plain old fashioned kindling?

dude... show me anywhere/anything where Teflon Tom or any coach had, or announced, a plan for Mike Williams to be moved to LT after a year or so. MW has enough to handle RT... and he hasn't mastered that, yet. Don't lose sleep over this LT thingy. I guarantee you, by opening day there will be a body there... and it will be the best body at LT that the bills have.

Like the oppostion won't pick that up on tape anyway.

good god... bledsoe's brain is what it is. Hasn't Parcells figured it out? Drew's performance has nothing to do with his physical skills. he's got the arm, and even his lack of mobility is not as big a deal as it is made out to be. His problem has always been his brain... it's like, real slow when it comes to making decisions on the field... and we all know that cliche'... "he who hesitates is lost". Bledsoe epitomizes that phrase.

sounds like he is well on his way to one day becoming some bad man's boyfriend. It might just be what he needs... a couple yrs. in a state pen. kids usually don't come with a set of instructions. you raise em the best you know how, set a good example for them, kick their arses when they need it, and hope it's enough. Some just turn out rotten to the core, others turn out sweet as grandma's apple pie. If a light doesn't go on in his head soon, it probably ain't gonna happen.

Thanks for the "heads up". I'm going to take a closer look at eastern Tenn. on your advice. You're pretty close on Delaware bing a suburb of Baltimore and Philly in General, but the center of the state like Dover and Smyrna ain't bad... and neither is Rehobeth Beach area. thanks again

Retiring in 9 yrs. As a lifelong NYS resident I can not wait to exit this cesspool of corrupt politicians and the highest taxed state in the USA, bar none. So, where do I go? I will still work some... either self employed or other. Mrs. Deeray hates snakes (can't figure out why she married me), so moving to a place where there are lots of snakes around is not going to work. Right now, I'm thinking Delaware, Tenessee, and Alabama, in that order. I'm basically looking for low taxes, much lower C.O.L than in NY, low crime rate, not too hot, and much less snow than in CNY. So, is there a "sweet spot"??? If so, where?

Simply put... Pennington is no McNair. Nuff said.

I find this on hard to believe. Must be a publicity stunt to keet the light shining on him. Who knows... he''l probably call a press conference to officially make the announcement. LINKY: Mr. Got Rocks

Dude... the earth is round. That's fact. Donahoe as Bills GM is <.500. That's fact. What's to judge and what's to argue???? FACT??? The bottom line is two rookie coaches and two rebuliding cycles... and no playoffs under Donahoe. No one knows what the circumstances were contractually between Pat Williams and the Bills... and we don't know if there was even an offer or if Pat would have stayed for considerably less than what he signed for with the Vikes... So, Pat has a general opinion of the Bills management based on his first hand experience. Tom Donahoe has done a great job of filling the stadium and creating a lovey dovey/touchy feely job of reaching out to the fans and community. But that's it. If you're happy with that, that's fine... I'm not. That's the difference between you and me... you accept losing, I don't. I'm neither a pessimist nor an optimist... I'm a "realist". I don't drink Donahoe Koolaid and I'm not a lemming like 95% of the posters on this board.

So what's the argument dude??? Was Pat Williams talking about management "last year" or during his service under this regime? If his talking about management and the initial post was that he slammed Donahoe, so he was, then let's take a look at Donahoe's record with the Bills... I did the math and it's under .500. So, again, what's to argue?

So what's the big deal? Pat speaks the truth. Bills management sucks!! I mean after 4 years of Donahoe, what do we have? Not even .500. What's to argue? So all you optimists tell me is the glass less than half empty or is the glass almost half full?

Uh, "PROMO"?

Damn... you mean you would have paid cash money for one? Schitt, I burned mine over a year ago.

What would JP (or any other Bills QB) have to do to pass Jim Kelly in my mind? God this is going to keep me up all night. Hmmmm... let me see.,,, uh, geez, perhaps break Kelly's records?

bills season's tix

No money in WNY. No money, no show.

I'm not "ceding" political office to the greedy and corrupt. I'm just telling it like it is. If you think that these political bastards run for office because the love God, country, and apple pie, then you are dillusional. These bastards do it only for $$$ and power (ego)... period. There is no other motive. Do think these bastards expose themself to public scrutiny because the want to "do good"??? Hell no, there has to be a payoff... and in this state, the more money flowing in and out, the more difficult it is to catch the bastards grabbing the loot... and there is plenty of $$$ incentive for law enforcement to not go after these bastards. Believe me, there are very few, if any (state level and higher), that are honorable... the rest are basically human excrement.

This would be sad if true. I always looked at Jimbo as a straight shooter and honest guy. If he throws his hat into the political ring... well, let me put it this way... He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of effecting any significant change... not in this state. So, his only other motive would be to get in on the "action".... and by that I mean "getting his piece of the pie"... the taxpayers $$$. Albany and NYC is a sesspool of worthless, corrupt politicians... and it sickens me to even think that Jimbo would want to get in bed with these bastards.

ain't happening. And the NFL will never allow another publically owned team. They actually would like GB to have a single owner and not be publically owned. When Ralph dies, a new owner will buy the team. The new owner will assess the profit potential if the team were to remain in WNY... and then make a wise decision on whether to keep it where it is (and hold the tax payers hostage) or follow the money... wherever that may lead. If I were a businessman and bought the Bills, why the hell would I want to keep it in WNY? This state is, without a doubt, the most fugged up state in the country. It's not business friendly and it's not resident friendly. The politicians are among the most corrupt in the world and you have a voting popualce that is divided 60-40 (NYC vs. upstate)... which means there is absolutely no point for an upstater to vote in race for governor, or even a US senator.

"70" that means I "did you" and you owe me one.

Well of course she's good looking... she comes from a good gene pool.

My daughter was in Buffalo last week to give presentations regarding Federal Benefits in the Fieldhouse at the Ralph. On her last day there, one of the bills brass gave her a VIP tour. Her tour included the media room at the Fieldhouse, M&T suite, Press box, coaching booths, Kelly and Maguire clubs. Ralph's suite. Got to go through the tunnel and out on the field and has photos of her on the logo at midfield and a few others. SHe got to go in a team meeting room, the training room, met Bud Carpenter, went into the players lounge, and a room with several pools with varying temperatures... one as low as 39 degree F. She toured the locker room and reports the following... Players displaying numnerous photos of family and friends around their lockers/stalls Sam Adams shoes in his stall are "huger" than a Billy Fucillo sale. The book "East of Eden" is laying at JP Losman's stall. Funniest one... she says Eric Moulds stall... Moulds has a Drew Bledsoe bobblehead in his stall and the face of it is marred with "pock marks". As she describes it, it looked like someone took a pen and jabbed the stojan out of it. Would Eric do that? Seems to me there was at least one player that did not care much for Bledsoe. Got me thinking back to Ruben Brown and the rifts he had with Kildrive and perhaps he even had an axe to grind with Bledsoe.