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.........and yet again, our king was captured.....checkmate.....

The 4th and 1 call was a call 90-95% of us wanted Jauron to make at the time. What bothered me more than even failing to get the first was the shutdown of the offense in the second half. They simply did not play well save for that one drive that ended on downs. What I was looking for waa a solid second half peformance. One that showed they came to play. Sadly, it was too similar to last year's second half play. Disappointing. Also, for TKO to work so hard to get back, make a big play, and then suffer the hammy injury, gave me a bad feeling that the second half fulfilled. On a positive, I liked the way the "D" was swarming to the ball, especially in the first half when the front four was actually putting some heat on Brady. My pick for the most obvious blown call.....how about Light's hold of Schoebel that was as blatant as any I've ever seen?

Not that I wish injury on any player, let alone our own, I for one do not want to see him as our starter. He's shown even less to date than Losman. Yet, If he did, I'd back him until orif he shows otherwise. Holcomb, is the known commodity, and he's simply not going to take anyone anywhere.

I've been in the Transportation field (International - Imports) for the past 23 years, beginning with Emery Worldwide, and for the last 21 years, I've been based at the Emery Worldwide Dayton Hub. In Dec 2004, we were bought by UPS. UPS has built a new hub in Louisville (next to their World Ports Hub) and on Jun 29, 2006, we ran our last operation at the old Emery Worldwide Hub in Dayton, Oh. Sad night it was too. However, for the past 4 months I've been working mainly in Louisville, and have been offered a position there. Of the 1200 plus employees in Dayton, only approx 50 of us were offered positions elsewhere so I'm very thankful for the opportunity. I'm currently a Senior Supervisor in the Brokerage dept. So......all's good for family except my wife has lived her whole life in Dayton Oh, and my eldest daughter (16 in another month) are pretty sad about all this. As husband and father (of five children), I'm pleased that I will continue to be able to provide for my family, and will retain my length of service for all except the company paid pension. Yet, I still have a pension based upon 21 years of service with CNF (our former owners), so this isn't a problem either. I'll begin another with UPS. The UPS 401K plan, to which I rolled my old 401 k into, is much better too, so that was a gain. Financially, this will all work out in my favor. So what's the downside? Anyone know of any Bills Backers bars in Louisville? (Fez - It looks like I'm going to land on my feet after all......old OhBF)

At his best Villerial would have been considered a solid Guard and now old mother time is gaining on him quick. believe what we saw last year from him was an athlete hitting the wall. We better have a replacement ready to go

Shayne Graham? What about Jake Ariens? What's he doing now? Pumping gas? Shayne Graham was actually decent in replacing Jake, and he's also gone on to being one of the leagues better kickers since joining the Bengals. TD sure knew everything about kickers.

I think Thurman suffered a liver laceration on the hit. I cursed out Flutrie all year long after that. We all knew TT wasn't going to be around much longer and the toad hung him out to dry and save a few late season games (including a nice 15-16 carry, 85 yard or thereabouts game against the Pats), he was done.

Actually, I think you're referring to the infamous 1-2 yard throw to Moulds on 4th and 7 against the Pats. Pure genius, especially considering Mould was doubled. So how long before JP or anyone else can be that polished? Answer - yesterday.... Holcomb's Arm aside, Holcomb is a career backup at best who can on occasion actually have a decent game or two. In fact they're good enough to make folks think he isn't half bad and should get a shot as starter. News break - the Browns, that franchise factory of QB greatness, thought so too and found out otherwise (as we did as well). Holcomb is a backup, albeit a decent one, but a backup none the less.

Great with the press? Maybe, but 2-5 are nothing but wishful thinking....Pure speculation.

His entire career, including USC, but then that makes me older than most around here...

It was around 30.....but hey, why not embellish it a bit. Maybe in a few more years, it will be up to 50...

This was.... You must really hate Pyrite's loooooooong posts.

OK, that does it. You're next.......... Ah, a voice of reason and wisdom. Not much of this going on around here of late. Thanks RR.

Or better yet, any G.W. Bush Q&A....

Clearly (and overtly obvious) the exception.

Exactly, There was a time during Kelly's career that when teams lined up against the run, he'd pass. When they played the pass, he'd handoff play after play.

That would be my guess....

And that my friends will be the only way to accurately gauge this years draft., as it always has been, and always will be, although I would shorten the period to 3 years. Now that my "beer' haze and initial disappointed has faded, I will do the only thing we can and that is to give these picks a chance. I really wish we would have added more quality to our lines, FA & draft, but alas..... Had we managed to land Reggie Wells, I'd feel better about our O-line. Reyes, Gibson, Fowler? None of those guys strike fear into anyone's hearts. Even the much heralded McNally has yet to take a turd and make him serviceable. The only developing O-line guy we have is Peters to date, and we've not been able to get a contract extension with him so far. The rest....?

It's sad to make one 1st round "reach", with so much at stake, but Marv has managed to make two reaches in round 1. While I still would have taken Ngata (or even Bunkley), trading down would have been better, had there been a mid 1st willing to trade. A year or two from now, we may sit back and regale in our happiness over this years draft, but I strongly doubt it. Marv stated in a PC shortly after his hire that the game is won and lost in the trenches. That seems so long ago now. I like both DB's we picked up so far, but we needed the big guys more.,....

Bunkley and Justice would have been decent, although I still favored Ngata. With that said, we still would have had 2 - 3rds to go and so far, only our 3rd round pick seems to have been a good value....We lost the chance to pick up another early round, solid player.

.....and for you, I've got this little piece of property in Florida that I'll let you have for a steal....

We won't have this level of enthusiasm and optimism around here... What did we get? Another year of watching our defensive front line get pushed all over the field. Just stinking Great.

1.) Ngata 2.) Justice For starters.......... Plus, we could have still had both 3rds....maybe then pick McCargo, plus the DB we got in the third anyway. Yet....in the truest sense of Butler 2000, we LOST.