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earlier this week someone compared fairchild to ted marchibroda before this new staff even got an nfl victory and now perry fewell is already being given a head coaching job after two solid games. at least there is optimism in buffalo again.

according to dierdorf, the punters were the two best guys out there.

indeed!! lets hope we can enjoy more of the same against the jests!!!

billsdaily has them listed

i guess i would watch it regardless since i'm so starving for bills football right now. overall though i'd say it was kind of a bland overview of the team and their opponent for the week. it's pretty much a host asking marv his opinions and marv in turn dishing out praise to the players on both sides, which i would expect from a class act like marv levy. they did have an interesting piece with lots of camp footage of whitner.

yes it does. i watched it this morning at 11:30 on sunday ticket.

win the first three?? let's shoot for 19! that would shut up the crtics. realisticly i would hope to see buffalo win just one of these three games. if they win two, i'll be elated.

that doesn't say a whole lot for their ability to scout/evaluate personnel. they are a franchise i complete disarray if you ask me.

AVP spends most of his time with the QBs. Shonert is(or will be) expendable. the bills QBs were impressive this week so the Offensive QC coach gets praise and the QB coach gets blasted.

i can't imagine anything other than injury taking jp out of the starting lineup for week 1 at this point. i'm not sure why the coaches won't just come out and say it, but clearly jp is the guy.

if we're gonna allow kyle williams to be larry tripplet, can we perhaps see if jp losman would mind being peyton manning for a couple months???

our punter will again be amoung the league's best. beyond that i'd say there are 52 enormous question marks.

tomorrow 7-8 am

If its true it could make a lot of sense...Spikes is the bigger more phyisical of the 2 and after his injury may be a step slower than before....let the quicker/lighter LB Crowell play the weakside LB that's exactly what i thought or maybe just hoped when i read this news. hopefully it will pay dividends. crowell showed us last year that he could get into the backfield on the weakside. hopefully he can produce even more this season. it will be interesting to see how takeo comes back and now i guess how he responds to a new position. also, i'd like to hear opinions from the board on posey. is he done as a bill or is it possible he could get time as DE/pass rushing specialist?

Yeah, he dropped weight alright. From his belly to his ass.

He's done nothing so far to think he has a chance to be anything but 3rd string. If the injury is anything significant, he's not only out of the starter's job, but has no chance at #2. That said, he'll be 3rd stringer this year, when healthy, & if he can't get to 2nd string by 2007 it's sayonara. He's not looking like a good signing right now. Wow, i'm glad your not my boss. two days and nall is already a bust.

he plans on using their semen to create a youth serum.

Something isn't right. Two out of three of these NC State guys have bust written all over them. Maybe not, but cmon, you certainly could make an assumption. So you think mccargo will be the only good one out of the three?

i'll eat every member of the jills.

Handing JP the job and letting PhatPat/Jonas walk makes me beleive that he was playing for 2006 and that he would have made more effort to bring higher caliber players into the OLine mix this year. The discussion can never be more than speculation but I'm inclined to think that given that one more year he would have spent another Day1 pick (or possibly even 2) on the OLine as well as making a serious run at LBentley (who probably would ahve gone to Cleveburgh anyways); and would have had a nice looking OLine when the season started although you may be right in saying that was tom D's plan, i think it is a pretty flawed plan. a successful offense begins with a good line. looking at the good teams in the league proves that. big name skill players often leave their successful teams for lucrative deals elsewhere, and their former teams continue winning games. the loss of premier linemen, although sometimes overlooked , leaves a much bigger void in my opinion. losing a productive lineman also frequently creates a domino effect and can cause other members of the unit to struggle playing alongside unfamiliar and often less talented replacements. i think part of that is that consistency is needed along the o-line as they play not as five players but a cohesive unit. building a team around a young qb and skill players is laughable and the results are what we see now with this team. damn, i thought all my teflon tom angst was gone.

from your summary JoeF i can't help but think just how profound the differences are between marv and tom donahoe. marv clearly had to settle for a 5th in exchange for moulds and openly admits he had no other offers. i have to believe tom d would have been very stubborn in that situation which you could view as positive or negative i guess. also the fact marv discusses the logic or thought process behind hirings and signings is a big change at OBD. his frank manner in discussing jp(at least i get that impression from your summary) is also very different from anything tom d would ever say. i'm not sure how marv will work out and he's definitely giving us some reasons to doubt him, but it is refreshing to actually here comments from our gm that are actually insightful and not just a bunch of BS meant to mask all of the failures the team has had