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Ofcourse its just a scrimmage. So now Corner has an INT return for TD. And our second in two games. How does that help in the regular season ? I am messing with ya, Mark. As you didn't pick up on my sarcasm, I am coming clean. I am loving all of what I am seeing since the last game.

Stupid play by Fitz. Should have thrown it away

Butter fingers Hardy

See ? We now scored with a backup QB and an undrafted rookie. So why are we going all gaga over the first team O ? Big friggin deal.

But this is only the pre-season, see ? So we really should not get emotional. Remember the superbowl Bills used to regularly lose in the pre-season and then turn it up in the main season. The fact that we appear to be competent on O, we have a baller rookie and can deliver pressure with the D means squat.

Not that we want to know whats in your hand

Oh good. Now I have something to do at work next week.

I second that.

What was your question ?

I am in the honeymoon period where I would find it cute if he got drunk and pi$$ed on the living room carpet. Seriously, as Coach Tuesday said, it all sounds good but we have to see results during the season. Is the team improving ? Are the coaches planning and executing games well ? Are they putting personnel in the best position to succeed ? Call me gullible but I have initially liked every coach we hired in the recent past (except Jauron whose handiwork I had seen at Chicago).

I suppose that is a rhetorical question but I will play along. I can give a regime a pass for one but not two blown high picks in a three year span. I look at this list and weep: http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...0&type=team

Sad isn't it ? I was hoping Hardy would develop into a Moss or TO kind of receiver. Looks like that is not to be. Unless Johnson and Easley develop this year, we will have little talent at the # 2 and # 3 spots.

Bell is unproven and so is Spiller. As we are in the speculative world right now, I would like to believe we could have traded down and acquired another pick. But Dean does make some good arguments but I stand by my opposition to picking a RB with our top pick this year and would love to be proven wrong.

I would say no based on what I have heard. But I need more than serviceable from a #9 pick. If we traded down and got two players at positions of need, we would be better as a team and any shortfall at the backup RB position could be filled with an UDFA or cast-off. Do you really not get my point or are you just playing with me ?

Now that it is official, I would like to say a big thank you to AS for a wonderful and self-less career for the Bills. I wish things had turned out differently in that he would play this year, contribute, help the youngsters and then retire a Bill. But that was not to be and I wish him success in the future within or without the NFL.

My point is that it is not difficult to get a serviceable back-up RB off the street. Bell just happens to re-inforce that view.

I know I am re-hashing an oft-debated item, but if Bell ends up playing well, it will add to an already strong stable of RBs including Jackson and Lynch. Which further re-inforces the question about why we used our #9 to draft a RB. For those wondering what my position is - I would have traded down if there was no player we liked at #9.

Well, I would agree with you. But so what if he shuts down Evans ? We have .... umm.... aahh...... Nevermind - I agree with you.

Good to see Nix take this approach. Schobel's career with the Bills has been good and if he had decided that he would play one last season and then retire, then it would have been nice to have him. However, his indecision and resulting lack of commitment to the team must have forced Nix's hand. I am sure Nix wanted to end the uncertainty and move on.

Well written and fair, however depressing it is. I look forward to your article next year about how Nix and Gailey turned the franchise around.

While I disagree with the 70-30 percent, the rest seems fairly likely to open the season. With our unproven OL, questionable LT, the offense has to be based on quick passes rather than long developing plays. The other option is keeping a TE back for blocking which hampers the passing options. If our OL surprises us or gets better during the season, then we may see longer pass completions. But as it stands right now, the only QB on our roster who can make quick decisions and does not need to have a great deep ball (per above argument) is TE and logically that makes him the starter. Ofcourse this is not an ideal situation (unproven OL, starting QB by default etc) but we have to make do with what we have (duh!). Presumably we fixed the D this year, next year is the one for the O.

I have been truly hoping he plays well just so we get some semblance of stability at the QB position. I, for one, do not hate Trent. What I do hate is people giving him credit for much more than he has accomplished on the field besides looking 'poised'.

A small size and lack of opportunity are not reasons he is not considered a legitimate WR. He has had a tough time gaining separation/getting open and also hasn't shown an ability to fight for the ball. If he starts performing as a WR, it will be for the first time in his career.

No kidding, this summer movie season has been pretty poor so far. As a side note, see the following for terrific takes on tired genres: "Let the Right one In" with a vampire "Revanche" for a very different type of revenge

True and I don't necessarily have a problem (nor a choice) with rehashed plot lines. I was responding to the refrain I have been hearing that this is an 'original' story and concept. Which it most definitely is not.