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Nance is a guy who the team has no room for this season. However, the Bills are doing what smart teams do if they like the guy. but feel he's a year or so away from contributing. That is, do not expose him much in pre-season, maybe even cut him in the 1st round of cuts (like they did with Peters 2 years ago) and sign him to the practice squad after he's cleared waivers. The worst thing you can do, if you think the guy can contribute a year or 2 from now is give him enough time in preseason to catch someone else's attention. The only possible problem is that unless they've fully explained the situation to Nance & he feels that his best shot is in Buffalo, Roethlisberger will be lobbying the Steelers to add Nance to their practice squad.

Holcomb is not going to retire. Where else can he make half a million $ this year? When the preseason began I felt if Losman & Nall outplayed Holcomb, or if was even close between the 3rd guy & Holcomb, Holcomb would be traded for a mid round pick. Instead, I now think Holcomb will be released -but some team will pick him up-probably a team in need of a #2 that plays an offense that Holcomb is familiar with. While his lack of arm strength was a known, the unknown going into camp was that the Fairchild offense would be totally baffling to Holcomb. A veteran having this much trouble adjusting to a new offense is totally unacceptable-and the reason Holcomb has basically played his way off the team. Kingsbury will start the season #3, with a possible push from Ochs if he can be ready when the PUP players have to be on the roster or IR. I'm not sure what the rules are for a player injured in Europe, but I'd guess he'll be on PUP when the season starts if he can be ready by November.

If you trust your scouts, general manager, and whoever else has a say in draft picks, you won't be afraid of the risk/reward. If you don't trust those guys, you better get some guys you do trust. Bailing out of the 1st isn't an option.

Blood doesn't make Bledsoe squimish. The problem was all the Bruschi blood he received was lost when he was hit in the Jets game. Having already used up that year's supply of Bruschi blood, Bledsoe was not permitted to return as the starter that year. It turned out that Brady responded so much better to his transfusions than Bledsoe, the Pats decided that wasting precious Bruschi blood on Bledsoe wasn't worth it & traded him to an unsuspecting Donahoe, who as we know, did not possess any Bruschi blood.

I couldn't have said this better myself! I'll add 1 more thing-what has Schaub done any different than what RJ had done when we traded for him?

From your title I thought you were talking about SDS, and I thought you were blind.

Why do you continuously spell Holcomb's name wrong. If you think you're being funny, you're not-your posts look moronic.

Moulds was at the end of his Bills career and was looking to get released outright. Meanwhile, Marv held out and appears to have traded Moulds for a guy who will start for the forseeable future. Not only a good trade but great use of the draft. It's more than 1 game on Williams, it's the entire camp and the fact he's already been promoted to starter.

No, I haven't found anyone who wants to go to Giants practice. The problem is they start too close to when I get out of the office & they are now limited on weekends due to exhibition games. Petrino hasn't been around here much & when he is he's too busy to go to Giants' camp.

His arm is still not 100% and he's in what will probably be a losing battle with Jared Lorenzen, AKA the Pillsbury Throwboy, for the 3rd string job.

My point is that the coach might know a little bit more about what his team needs than you or I. If the coach doesn't place that much emphasis on winning, I'm trusting him to know more than we fans do.

Then why did Jauron put in Kingsbury with the game on the line? He obviously didn't place much meaning on getting the W.

You must think Marv & Dick Jauron suck too, because Marv never tried to win exhibition games and with a chance to win on Saturday, Jauron switched to Kingsbury rather than try to win the game. It's pre-season, it's about player evaluation not winning & losing. It doesn't count. It's more important to not cut a future star by playing 10 future cuts of the 11 guys on the field than trying to win a meaningless game. It's more important tyo keep your starters healthy than to win a damn pre-season game. Anyone can go 4-0 in preseason if they play their 1st stringers long enough against the other team's scrubs. Rich Kotite once went 5-0 in preseason & 1-15 when it counted. I guess you would have been on cloud nine that preseason if you were a Jets fan.

This year is an abberation. Most years you cannot pick up a veteran who is any better than Kerry Collins because teams don't get rid of starting QBs. The fact that both Brees & Culpepper were coming off career threatening injuries made this year's offseason unique. Add to that the lunacy of new coach Childress getting into an ill-advised feud with Culpepper and this offseason became a one time thing. The only other option is the draft, and statistically, the earlier the round a QB is taken, the greater chance of success. A 1st rounder may have a 50% chance of success, but a 6th rounder has only about a 10%* chance of making it, and other rounds fall somewhere in between. *Based on Charlie Casserly's comments when he drafted Drew Henson in the 6th round. I have not run my own statistical check on his statement.

As long as it's not Kelly Holcomb throwing in the towel, the towel has a shot of reaching its intended destination.

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Nice TD pass Kelly: To Ken Lucas of Carolina.

Not if their scouts had as many flaws in his game as some of the draft reports I read had. They were not about to risk having 2 #1 QB busts in 3 years. They decided this was not the year that a 1st round QB was worth the risk-that doesn't mean they had one iota of confidence in JP. All it meant is that they didn't have enough confidence in Leinart or Cutler to use pick #8 and have to sign either to a contract typical of a top ten QB pick.

Due to cap reasons, keeping JP no matter where he is on the depth chart, is a must this season. I was laughed at by many here last week for predicting Nall would be the starter by our home opener-I stand by that prediction and your post shows exactly why I believe that Nall will get a shot fairly early in the season.

He's 47 today.

I haven't figured out how to link it, but CNN has a home video of her talking about things. It's under the title Stars Behaving Badly. Her IQ must be around 50.

Why cut a guy when we can get an 8th round pick for him?

They were on my porch when I got home today.

The Bengals organization has been drafting thugs for years, long before Marvin Lewis got there. The most successful player who overcame his rap sheet was Corey Dillon, considered by many as the best RB the year the Bills drafted Antowain Smith. The Bills would have never drafted Dillon. When you draft thugs who are 1st round talents that slip to later rounds you are gambling they won't get arrested or worse. The Bengals are always looking for value without regard to background. Since its been going on so long, it is the ownership that not only condones it, but apparently encourages it. It basically comes down to the fact Brown is a cheapskate who thinks these guys who are rated higher on talent than where they are drafted are bargains. It's gotten worse since Lewis' arrival because he wants talent and has bought into the Bengals gamble on greatness philosophy. It also goes back to the days when the Bengals had the fewest scouts in the NFL and didn't bother with background checks.

6 months is a pretty big opening. People get invited to the White House all the time. Really, all Saban had to do was say was he'd be willing to go to the White House any day after the Super Bowl, or have dinner with Bush any time he's in Florida next year after the Super Bowl. You'd have to be an idiot to completely blow off the President or accept the Dolphins head coaching job to begin with. Saban is the Dolphins head coach.