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Paul Hamilton is blaming Houston for bailing out Jauron's terrible call (his words) for punting near the end of the 4th quarter. Hamilton lost all credibility by comparing Houston's play calling to Mularkey & clinging to his position that Jauron made the wrong call. For the record, I was for the punt since if we don't make it on 4th down, we're conceeding the game, while if we punt-recognizing that our punter is a WEAPON, and we don't trust the D, we might as well pack in the season right there. The guys who were watching the game with me didn't want to punt. I brought up the fact that if they didn't plan to punt, they should have run on 3rd down. Bottom line is if WGR can say a call is terrible that contributed to us winning the game, they're just being moronic.

He just missed his 2nd kick of the game. I don't think Parcells will give him another week.

When Houston was punting & Parrish was back there waiting for the kick & Criqui said Terrance McGee is one of the league's best returners, all I could think was Criqui should have retired with Van.

Bush thinks he's doing a great job. Every time his disapproval rating goes up, the people around him who keep him the bubble-boy white out the letters d i and s and they show him the poll. He thinks he's the most beloved President in the history of this country.

This is what I'm rooting for right now-a sign one way or the other that JP will either be the impact player that can sometime in the next few years, lead us to a championship, or enough evidence that he is a bust, so that we can move on. If JP can wake up, show some definitive improvement in the last 7 games the wins will come. If he's a bust, then the wins won't come and then I hope we can get a QB who can lead us to a championship. Like it or not, the season is all about JP, one way or another.

You just gave some of the worst examples of why the draft is a crapshoot. Just because 3 teams were stupid enough to draft the players you mentioned too high, doesn't make the draft, especially in the top 4, the crapshoot you think it is. As for the 2 QBs, both were drafted too high because of the desperation of teams. Teams often take a QB, who is not the top QB taken, too high. Best to not reach like those 2 were. For example: Ryan Leaf showed major signs of immaturity at the combine, coming in overweight, treating the Colts with no respect etc. He was also an underclassman, which account for a very high percentage of QB failures among high draft picks. Leaf was not the 1st QB taken, Manning was and is a major success. Akili Smith was the 3rd QB taken in his class, here are his red flags: A record of off field troubles, choosing baseball 1st out of high school-virtually no QB has succeeded who chose baseball over football and then went back to football, he was a one year wonder, which produces a very high bust rate among QBs and worst of all, he had no ability to read defenses. A decent scout would have never recommended Smith. Let's go to our whipping boy, Mike Williams: Huge red flag-over 350 lbs in college. Look at the guys over 350 in college & the bust rate is sky high. It's because a weight problem as a hungry collegian only gets worse as a well paid pro. A stupid selection! Now it really depends on the strength of the year's draft. But when a star who does not have red flags and is at an impact position such as QB, OT, DL is available around the top of the draft, you better hope your team is picking high enough to get him if your a constant loser. RBs, WRs, are a dime a dozen and should never be top 5 picks with few exceptions. If there is no impact player at one of those 3 positions, having a top 5 pick is a curse, not a blessing-all depends on the year. Lets look at recent drafts since 1995 at those 3 positions: 2006, which is probably too soon but: 1-Williams, 3-Young-red flagged for underclassman QB and style which might not translate to NFL, 4-Ferguson. 2005: 1-Smith-red flagged for underclass QB 2004: 1-Manning, 2-Gallery(possible bust, no red flags) 4-Rivers (emerging superstar) 2003: 1-Palmer-one of the Bengals brightest stars, 4-Robertson 2002: This was just a bad year, just our luck that we picked high in a draft with only 1 talented player in the top 5. 1-Carr 2 Peppers 3-Harrington 4-Williams -red flags above 2001: 1-Vick-red flagged underclass QB, 2-Davis-red flagged over 350 lbs 3-Warren 4-Smith 2000: 1-Brown 3-Samuels 1999: 1-Couch-red flagged underclass QB, 2-McNabb 3-Smith-red flags above 1998: 1-Manning 2-Leaf -red flags above 3-Wadsworth 1997 1-Pace 2-Russell 1996 3-Rice 4-Ogden 1995 2-Boselli 3-McNair My conclusion-If I'm looking to turn a team around, if I can get a top 4 pick when there is a QB or OT with no red flags, the odds are I'm going to get a difference maker. DL is a little dicier, too many busts to rely on getting a difference maker, but if you end up with a Peppers or a Bruce Smith, you're golden. Players like Tony Boselli, Steve McNair, Jon Ogden, Orlando Pace, Peyton Manning, Donovan McNabb, Carson Palmer, Eli Manning, Phillip Rivers and D'Brickashaw Ferguson just aren't available if you win one too many meaningless games in the last two weeks of the season.

Potential Presidential candidate? As much as JP is the potential Super Bowl XLI MVP. Edwards was a total dud as a VP candidate. No way he should ever be taken seriously as a Presidential candidate. During the campaign, he was on Meet The Press, Russert chewed him up & spat him out-it was an embarrassment.

Big difference is when you're 4-10 with 2 weeks to go, virtually nothing good comes from a win. Worse yet was at the time, I still had hopes that Mularkey would wake up & give JP one more game to get experience. Once we beat Cincinnati, Holcomb was a lock to finish the season & JP didn't play. If JP had started the game & lit it up & gave me hope for this season, I would have been happy with the win & would be eagerly anticipating game 16 & this season. Instead, the only good thing that could have possibly come from that game was taken away before the kickoff with Holcomb named the starter.

At 4-10 with a chance of getting rid of TD & Mularkey and getting ahead of the Jets in the draft, which I considered a must because I knew they wouldn't pass on Ferguson, I was definitely openly rooting against the Bills. People seem to have forgotten the team goal is a Super Bowl championship. That's what I root for & if they're not good enough, I want them to get to the point where they are good enough. I just can't stand mediocrity or worse, what we've had the past 2 seasons & other recent seasons-a bad team. A win by a bad team is worthless when you're out of the playoffs late in the season. A loss gives you a better chance to get closer to the goal-especially when an impact player at the position you are weakest at is coveted by a divisional rival that will take the player if they are higher than you in the draft. I believe my position looks at the big picture, not one small insignificant victory to feel good for a few hours. Championships last forever. Any time the Bills are out of the playoffs in December, I'm in draft pick mode. Maybe the shortsighted fans who think every win is great, (no matter what it costs in the long run, like December wins by 4-10 teams, and look forward to each sub 500 season because they'll be happy with a late season, meaningless win by a playoff eliminated team) are happy on the Sunday the Bills win that meaningless game. I'm not! I'd rather lose a game or two more and get a Bruce Smith, who can help get me to the show, than wallow in mediocrity for the next decade.

We could have had Mangold when we traded up to get McCargo, getting sicker with each reply

Now I'm really getting ill, we ended up with Mike Willams instead

I hope the people who were gleeful last Christmas Eve still have that feeling of euphoria. Meanwhile, back in the real world, the New York Jets have the anchor of their O-line in D'Brick-the guy we would have drafted if we had lost at Cincinnati. Have another eggnog, and keep that Cincy win euphoria alive!

Look at the combined records of the teams those players play for and you'll understand why they are the leaders. Only Miller gets an exemption from the all "They're always kicking off against my team" team.

I don't ever want a Bill to lead the league in kickoff return yards. I'd rather have the Bills' lead the league in fewest kickoffs by opponents.

Sort of like asking the question why the NFL has banned the Bills from the opponents' endzone?

It's because the same excuses that were made why the Bills should stick with Rob Johnson are now being made for JP Losman. Dig up the old RJ posts from the late 90s/early 00s and its the same s**t, different QB.

The Kelly injury he remembers is from the Super Bowl that same season. Sadly there was no miracle Frank Reich comeback, as we lost 52-17.

If you want to dredge up ancient history, how about McCain? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keating_Five

They just showed the tape on NBC news. He refused the money & was never charged with anything. Knowing how FOX news works, they'll probably edit the refusal out of the tape.

According to the local sportscast WNYT 13, & KFFL: Patriots | Team signs Testaverde Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:47:51 -0800 ESPNews reports the New England Patriots have signed QB Vinny Testaverde (Jets). Details of the contract were not disclosed. Here's the ESPN link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2662075

A lot of money to pay the top pick in the 2008 draft.

$2,464,000 in dead space if we cut him. According to Clumpy's page, he had $3,696,000 in dead space if he was cut this year with 3 years left on the bonus of $1,232,000 per year. So with 2 years left it's $2,464,000. This means his original signing bonus was $6,160,000.

I can see it now, Baltimore has clinched their playoff spot & has nothing to play for, so they start Boller & Madden conducts a clinic all night on how not to play QB in the NFL.

When Rob Johnson was here I was making excuses for him just like the Losman supporters are making for him now. It's the same stuff all over again! Give him time, you can't give up on a QB after only XX games! He can learn not to hold onto the ball too long. Just because he's from SoCal, doesn't mean he can't play in Buffalo He tries so hard. He's a nice guy. The other guys have no long term future with the Bills. He needs a better Offensive Line. The only difference is JP doesn't let us out of our misery like Rob did, because he's more durable. We won't be fooled again.

Davis is one of our best ST players