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In one of my leagues I was offered andre johnson/Curtis Martin for Priest Holmes/Coles. Normally I wouldn't even consider this but I don't feel highly about coles especially if brunell starts, and curtis martin this season has been on a tear, and his 2nd half of their season schedule after the next few weeks anyway look favorable imo, and well priest holmes is priest holmes. Just looking for someone elses opinion... k.... thx

Yes #11 on the vikings is so good he committed 3 turnovers, much better than the 1 turnover on a droped pass that #11 on buffalo committed Lets not kid ourselves about Daunte Culpepper he's a mobile quarterback but a turnover machine. I know it's the norm for people to hate on players that leave the team but Winfield is a damn good corner with hands of stone. Owens was held 4 catches for 79 yards and a td, thats not exactaly Owens owning winfield, And as usual Antoine was all over the field making tackles. Another thing Maybe the reason people were impressed with culpepper and mcnabb throwing to their tes is because the vikings and eagles have te's that can actually catch Novel concept eh? I'll take Chad Lewis LJ Smith And Jim Kleinsasser(I know he didn't play tonight) and jermaine wiggins over Mark Cambell and Ryan Nuefield and any other te on our roster or practice squad.

Yes it's a novel concept when you have rbs who don't slip and fall and can make multiple defenders miss and can catch passes out of the backfield. Have tes who can catch. I love this LJ Smith. I wish buffalo had a te half as good as him. Also our offensive line is nowhere near the level of the vikings or eagles. Obviousily culpepper and moss are mobile qb's but history has shown us Mcnabbs choked in 3 nfc championship games and culpepper is a turnover machine, plus how hard is it to lob it up to randy moss, hell when culpepper got hurt last year Gus Frerotte looked like the best qb in the nfl.

Ok forget Drew Bledsoe here for a second. Now is our offensive line good? Mike Williams- 1st rd draft pick #4 overall. Slow footwork, which leads to getting burnt by people with average speed. Good in run blocking, stevestojantty in pass protection (would probably best be suited as a guard) Chris Villarial- is he really an upgrade over ruben brown? Yeah he's cheaper, but what has he done here to be considered better? Is suppouse to be a good run blocker, gets no push Trey Teague- Still can't handle blitzes up the middle and is in general too small and didn't even want to play center. Geets no push in run blocking, bad pass blocker. No mean streak Lawrence Smith- Haven't seen much of him to really gather an opinion. So far he's below average from what I've seen. decent pass blocking, no push off run blocking Jonas Jennings- Average tackle at best like mike williams would probably be better suited at guard. Good run blocker average pass blocker. Now once again forget drew bledsoe and the pass protection(I know thats hard for a lot of people who just want to hate drew bledsoe but try) Our offensive line is well offensive. They get no push at all in run blocking. None!! You can't win in this lequge or be a power running team when 2 weeks in a row you have the ball at the other teams 1 yard line and can't punch it in. We wanted to be a power running team. Ever since last year. Everyone said we need to run more we gotta give the rock to henry. Well guess what? 2 weeks in and we've proved we don't have the offensive line to be a power running team. That in itself is a problem to what we wanted to do. We don't have the offensive line to be a passing team either. We have players in the wrong positions (Williams,Jennings) an average guard. a stevestojantty center and a big ? mark at lg. If The Bills are gonna be the team they want to be and have preached to the fans they're going to be. Forget the save Drew Bledsoe experiment. The front office needs to suck it up admit their mistakes and draft offensive lineman go after some free agents. Jim Mcnally is a good oline coach, but he's not christ he can't turn blood into wine, or walk on water. As long as the buffalo bills continue going after stevestojantty offensive lineman we will not be a power running team. We'll be a team with skilled offensive players who never reach their potential. Anyone who's ever played football can tell you. You Win starting up front.

I still have faith in bledsoe so yeah I'll come out and say it. I'll continue to support #11 till we make a change. For better or worse. I still support Drew Bledsoe and it's a long season yet. so we shall see. If I'm wrong I'll eat crow.

As much as I would love for this team to finish 10-6 and as possible as I think it is. It's not out of the realm of possibility, but with a rookie head coach, offensive coordinator basically a whole new coaching staff having to implement a new system and make the players forget about the old one. I think we're asking a little to much. I think our end of the season record will be 7-9 or 8-8 where we'll show considerable improvement come around the middle to end of the season and give reason for true optomism come 2005. I still haven't given up hope for this season. Hell if we can make a run for 10-6 or better I'll be right on the wagon I just think it's asking too much of this coaching staff.

Panthers lose Davis to knee injury By JENNA FRYER, AP Sports Writer September 17, 2004 CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Carolina Panthers have not had a very good week: Running back Stephen Davis was lost Friday with a knee injury, just days after star receiver Steve Smith broke his leg. Davis and Smith are the defending NFC champions' top two offensive threats. Davis, who ran for a career-best 1,444 yards last season, began having problems with his knee after practice Thursday, and an MRI showed ``a small cartilage problem,'' coach John Fox said Friday. He had arthroscopic surgery Friday, and will miss Sunday's game at Kansas City. The Panthers said he would be out two to five weeks. Smith, who led Carolina in receptions (88) and yards receiving (1,110), is out indefinitely after breaking his left leg in Monday night's loss to Green Bay. DeShaun Foster will replace Davis at running back, and rookie Keary Colbert is expected to start at receiver. Chris Gamble, another rookie, could replace Smith on punt returns. ``As I told the team, we have got 53 men out here we think we can start and win for us. They have got to step up,'' Fox said. ``It is part of the game. Kansas City is going to play without some starters. These guys understand that. It is not the first time it has happened.'' Foster was a solid backup to Davis last year, and started two games in place of him while Davis nursed an ankle injury. He ran for 429 yards on 113 carries, and had 26 receptions for 207 yards and two touchdowns. Foster was also solid in the postseason, running for 196 yards and two touchdowns in four games. He first proved his worth in a regular-season game at Indianapolis, filling in for Davis when he left in the second half with a bruised arm. Foster came in and carried 16 times for 85 yards to help the Panthers to an overtime victory. But that was behind a drastically different offensive line than Carolina has this year. Three starters are gone from that unit, and the Panthers struggled to run behind the new line on Monday night. They had just 38 yards on the ground, and Davis had 26 on nine carries. Davis, who set career marks last season for rushing touchdowns (eight), rushing attempts (318) and 100-yard rushing games (seven), said last week that staying healthy was the only goal he set for himself this season. He's completed a 16-game schedule just once in his career, in 2001. ``Being a running back in the NFL, you will get the wear and tear,'' he said. ``You have to be durable to go through it. But that's a goal, to play the whole season injury free, although anything can happen. I'm just going to take it one game at a time and roll on.'' http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-p...ov=ap&type=lgns

I don't know who's watching this, but it really puts things in perspective and makes you realize whats important in life. Being there for others to help them pull through the hard times. 3 years later didn't lose anyone THANK GOD, but I still get choked up thinking about 9/11. I'm not a yankee or even a baseball fan, but how New York pulled together behind one team to help them at least for the time forget about the dreadful events on September 11,2001 is a special moment in this countrys history. Just wanted to take this time to post never forget what happened. Sorry to all those who lost someone on 9/11 and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

"The surveys predict that about 300,000 of the 1.6 million people living in the metropolitan area would risk staying. " The survey predicts that out of the 1.6 million people living in the metropolitan area 300,000 of them are morons

OK OK OK WE GET IT ALREADY. BRADY IS A GOOD QB.For the love of god End the Nausea You can only say this so many times. We know. He makes good decisions< Exclduing the int that was thrown right to a colts defender and the fumble> two things that could've cost the pats the game. Perspective people. Brady is one person he's not a god or a deity of any kind. He's a human being a good qb like all others who can make mistakes he just happens to have a good coaching staff who puts their players in the best possible situation to succeed. This isn't TWOFOXBORODRIVE. Or TheGILETTEWALL. The Pats have a great system and the players for that system. Novel Concept eh? Brady Runs the system great, but he's not the sole reason they've won 2 of the last 3 sb's, just a part of it. Anywayz...... :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: TOM BRADY :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: THE PATRIOTS :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: BRIDGET MOHYHAN<LITERALLY> :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: HER :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: Pond Scum Bill Belichick And lets hope <probably against hope> that the pats fall on their collective asses. To steal some quotes from the rocky movies. "GET UP YOU SONS OF BITCHES.... GET UP!!! FIGHT THESE GUYS HARD. THEY'RE NOT A MACHINE" "GET UP CAUSE MICKEY LOVES YA" <ok well this doesn't actually have a purpose I just felt like putting it > GO BILLS!!! RED WHITE AND BLUE TILL I'M 6 FEET UNDER TAKIN THAT ETERNAL DIRTY NAP PUSHIN UP DAISY'S AND EVEN THAN I'LL BE BURRIED WEARING A BILLS JERSEY.

travis henry in the 9th rd? lol damn. He's usually gone by the 3rd. Michael bennett in the 11th? lol you got some good steals. I'd trade one of your runningbacks to upgrade your wrs. You defintlly have trade leverage, but pretty stellar draft B)

Hey heres a novel idea, instead of all you nimrods saying. "Bledsoe looks shell shocked" "Bledsoe is done" "Bledsoe can't be fixed" please for the love of god, Or if you don't believe in god for the love of nature, or the love of well <State something else you love here> GIVE A REASON!?!?! Is this too hard to ask? While Bledsoe has not thrown a td this season I've noticed quite a few improvements in his game. 1. He has been getting rid of the ball quicker 2. He's hitting his te's 3. He's taking the dumpoff and not always looking to go deep 4. Despite not playing behind the full 1st string oline has only been sacked 3 times. once against denver, and twice against indy. 5. Has been more efficent. Our offense can move the ball. The only thing holding them back is not named Drew Bledsoe it's named the inability of our starting oline to remain healthy and to play any significant amount of time together. So All you doom and gloom tpes. Take off the dark shades and you'll see despite as much as you hate Drew, that there is indeed light at the end of the tunnell

he wasn't drafted. He was signed as an undrafted rookie free agent. I think he was cut now in the rash of nfl cuts so he'll slip by the radar of other teams and be signed to the bills practice squad where he'll gain some valuable experience. Peters is a project. Talented, but dumb as rocks. Once he gets the mental aspect down. I think he'll be a force in this league, but none the less he's a project.

Any team can get any rb to run for 1000 yards if they keep handing him the ball. However denver does not have a rb on their roster nearly as talented as Clinton Portis. Plus Denver lost long time oline coach Alex Gibbs to the falcons. If you're one of those people who judge from preseason games. The shape of the broncos oline is not that good. Plummer is pretty bad, and while griffen has speed. Once teams start gameplanning, unless their wr's and plummer step it up denver could be in pretty damn bad shape on offense. Teams aren't gonna respect griffen or the broncos wr's and more than likely will send the house at Jake plummer which could result in a loooooooooooooong season for the snake and the rest of the Denver Broncos. I wouldn't be shocked to see Denver fall off the map and finish 3rd in that division with Oakland suprising some people and finishing 2nd. It's still the chiefs division.

I'm pretty sure the original point of this post was to point out that ne has a good oline, and the bills do not. Sorry this may come as a shock to some pats fans, but when you go 6 games from the end of the regular season to the superbowl without giving up a sack, and pretty much handle some of the best dlines in the nfl, titans, panthers. You got a good oline. I'm also fairly certain no ones tryin to discredit that ne played well. Just pointing out facts. The Patriots have a good oline, the buffalo bills do not. end of discussion. K...thx B)

I'm pretty sure the original point of this post was to point out that ne has a good oline, and the bills do not. Sorry this may come as a shock to some pats fans, but when you go 6 games from the end of the regular season to the superbowl without giving up a sack, and pretty much handle some of the best dlines in the nfl, titans, panthers. You got a good oline. I'm also fairly certain no ones tryin to discredit that ne played well. Just pointing out facts. The Patriots have a good oline, the buffalo bills do not. end of discussion. K...thx B)

Milloy will probably have surgery so he can be back in time by week 1 wearing a cast. Still though this is a blow to our defense. This is why I hate preseason. Travis henry- ribs, travis brown- knee injury losman- broken leg<I know not in a preseason game but still> Milloy- broken forearm. Put this together with an oline unit that has not once this season practiced consistently as a unit. It's been makeshift day in and day out. We can sit here and talk about how bledsoe is getting rid of the ball quick, and how the defense is forcing turnovers, or we can look at the real facts. Our Oline sucks. They need to get healthy. The stupid dumba$$ mistakes need to stop. you can't one play have a bad pitch, than on the very next play make it worse by holding, and it's not like this stevestojan happens every once in a blue moon. It happens every damn time we have a good drive. What I've noticed is, our offense can move the ball between the 20's but than the mistakes happen, and they keep piling up. One slip up turns into 3 and next thing you know instead of putting it in the endzone we're punting or settling for 3. Whether it's conditioning poor coaching, not being healthy or all 3. IT HAS TO CHANGE. If the Bills have any hope of making the playoffs this year, and I fully believe we have the talent to do so. We have to get some consistency, and stay healthy along the offensive line. Hopefully we just make it through the next week of preseason without any more injuries ::knocks on wood::

Well we should've known this was gonna happen the moment he was brought in. Even with the jags that team had talent to go to the superbowl and cause of gilbrides inability to manage a game and dictate the pace by calling the correct plays at the correct time, he stuck with the old run n shoot or as Bill Parcells calls it. The Run N Duck Offense. Theres a reason this guy got the nickname, Kill-A-Drive. I'll still maintain the worst offensive coordinators of the past decade are 1. Kevin Gilbride 2. Paul Hackett. Just be thankful we're rid of that cancer now and may he rot Elis brain