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Praise where praise is due, criticism where criticism is due. In my case, it's criticism. I was CERTAIN McCargo would be given an injury release a couple of days ago. I'm still scratching my head that he's with the team. Which makes me.....oh, wait a minute. It makes me just-another-internet-blogger. This all having been said, okay, he's with the team. I love a happy ending. If they're going to keep him, I'd love to see the kid get out there this weekend and break some bones. Wouldn't THAT be something? I don't pretend to know whether the guy is motivated or not, but I can tell you how the attempted trade would affect ME. I'd get out there and send someone off the field on a cart. Not because I'd give a schit about Ralph Wilson, Buffalo or TBD, but because I want someone to get me the hell out of here!

If I was a betting man, my money would be on the injury settlement, a quick handshake, and some heart-rending piano solo playing softly in the background as the rain patters down on the hood of John McCargo's luxury SUV while Ralph Wilson Stadium grows ever smaller in the rearview mirror. The is the dreaded "bulging disc" problem. Perhaps in years past McCargo might have attempted some sort of comeback, or some team desperate (and I'm using that term intentionally) for help in the interior line would have taken a flyer on him. Hell, Indianapolis did before they knew of the injury. Two players come to MY mind when I think of "bulging discs": Eric Dickerson Peerless Price I'm sure the compendium of TBD posters could come up with a lot more. The point is this - think of how long those two players lasted in the league once the announcement was made that they had a bulging disc. About as long as it took to finish the press conference, right? The risks of permanent injury - including quadriplegia - are too great for any front office to risk. Even Jerry Jones or Dot-Com Snyder don't want the cameras focusing in on their luxury suites following a horrific hit resulting in a Kevin-Everett-style moment. Nice knowing you, John. Hope you invested wisely, and we'll see you soon in a Subway commercial with Jared.

Cheer extra loud for me, Olivier. It's ironic - you'll be able to watch the game in France, but I'll be stuck at a trade show booth next Sunday in Orlando, and WON'T be able to watch it. Damn it!

I second the motion. If this O-Line doesn't learn how to run-block this week, get ready for a miserable afternoon. Keeping SD's defense off Edwards' now-addled brain would be a nice touch as well.

That is, by the way, one heck of an avatar. Well done, good man, well done.

Good morning, Bill. I'll start by saying that I have far less of a clue than most people on this board, and certainly less than you. I love your weekly "Thoughts on the Game" post, and, through them, have learned a thing or two from you. This having been said, my $0.02 is that you have to let go of this "Drafting nothing but the Secondary" bit! It's not healthy, and we need you around here! I'm not denying for a moment that OBD has spent an inordinate amount of time developing: McGee McLovin' Greer Youboty Simpson Whitner Wilson (I know I'm forgetting someone important) That's a heckuva secondary that virtually any team in the league would die for. The challenge for OBD this coming year is not drafting someone else in the secondary, but keeping those that they have in place. I'll be the first to admit that my livingroom still echoes with my "WTF" scream from the Whitner pick, but it looks like the front office knew what they were doing there, doesn't it? I just don't see that OBD is so goddamn ignorant that they'll be spending high draft picks on the secondary. I guess you do. It's okay. Let it go. Learn to focus your ire on the breathtakingly piss-poor ability of this O-Line to learn how to run block. You wanna get pissed off at a coach? Start barking at the offensive line coaching and planning. And then start getting pissed off at the lack of execution of the run blocking by the players themselves. We need that karma directed where it's going to do the most good.

Good job! Reeled in a lot of 'em on that one!

I've got a low spot in my lawn. Let me know when you can spare a box.

Let's review the situation. 1) A ten-year-old box of fructose-saturated starch that sucked gerbil tail the moment it came off the production line. Yummy. 2) Stir in Molson Canadian. 3) Thanks. I'll pass. 4) But you're above-average-cool for offering. Mucho appreciado!

Hope I did this right. Looks like you rock the house! http://www.wellsvilledaily.com/entertainment/x1196568481 Quick question. Have you ever actually EATEN Flutie Flakes? I did, about 10 years ago. Nice name, but they really....er.....sucked. Sorry for the ineloquence.

I personally try to stay away from this board for a few days after every loss so as to keep clear of the ambulances rolling in and out as they pick up the suicide victims. Is it safe yet?

And who could blame him, really? The kid walks on as an UFA, and plays himself into a respectable starter. Which is to say, of course, that he's better than probably about 2/3s of the CBs on the field in the NFL at this point. He'll command a big payday, and at 5 years in the league, he's got to think about taking it. Because he's only going to have 2-4 years left.

"...and run wild over them....."? Hope springs eternal! I've been waiting for that for two seasons now! This O-Line drives me nuts. Heaviest in the league, but can't get Lynch two yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Some of those run plays last week had me screaming at Fairchild just out of habit. I would simply LOVE to see the Bills "run wild", but I'm fearing that they're going to be in the usual 4th quarter shootout. And I don't think this is a particularly good team against which one wishes to lock horns in such a fashion.

He may - MAY - be dumb as a bag of beagles, but I'm guessing even Peters can't miss the turn of events over the past week. Let's see if he takes it as inspiration and plays his friggin' brains out in Arizona this week. The Bills are going to need it. This game could turn into a track meet. Three or four touchdowns aren't going to cut it. I was wondering if this thread was going to resurface. It's Saturday night before the game, and it's time to start the pre-tailgate tailgate. Molson Canadian and the Beatles White Album. Fire in the fireplace. The bay is flat calm.

Or, perhaps he's a self-absorbed, delusional mouth-breather who has somehow - against all odds - managed to get himself this incredibly cool gig wherein people on internet boards actually think he knows the difference between inhaling and exhaling? Just a thought. "From Me To You" - The BEATLES

Simpleton. Sociology didn't work out, they've switched to meteorology, and are pointing to the heavens to warn us of an approaching cold front. You should be grateful. I sure am.

Wings. Fine. Be that way. Fine. Oh, it's now "Across the Universe" Pass that toke-generating-device.

Oh. Sorry. Dr. Konstantin Frank Chardonnay (2005), and it's pretty much a dead indian. Should have purchased the Dry Riesling, but didn't. On to the Molson Canadian. The music is old Paul McCartney - "Every Night". And he's rocking.

True, Senator, but only "at times". You can't (with a straight face) state to me, God, and The Wall, that you'd rather have either Chambers or Walker playing LT on a regular basis. Peters, that pantload, deserves all the fecal surprise that he gets, but he's going to have to play himself back into shape. Soon.

Yeesh. Really. Jamie Nails? That's stretching the truth a little harder than Peters' waist band. I'm kind of hammered on Konstantin Frank Chardonnay, so I can't remember the year that Nails went to the Pro Bowl. I could Google it, but that's about 19 keystrokes I just don't have in me....

Another way to think of it, perhaps, is that he's somewheres around June (?). July? August? Certainly not October. I'm not defending the fact that he pulled a bonehead move - he should be speed-dialing another agent. THAT move certainly backfired. But here we are, right? The guy didn't get into playing shape when the rest of the team did, and he's now an albatross. Hang in there. He'll be crushing people by the Jets/Pats* series. But you can kiss that contract good bye, Jason. You've been a naughty, naughty boy.

Didn't you say you were going to do something about the avatar? Or was I just having one of those hopeful moments that arise like mushrooms just before the lawnmower gets its weekly workout?

Gosh, Senator, no. The Bills are rolling along at 4-0 as a team. Let me repeat that. As a team. Including the back up QB. Fortunately, this is an internet forum populated by impatient, usually-alcohol-soaked fans, and not General Managers. This would NOT be the time to pull the trigger on a tectonic event like trading a VERY EXPERIENCED backup QB on a team that HASN'T MADE THE PLAYOFFS in this century. I really wanted JP to succeed, and you can all search my posts that relate him to being the next Stabler. It didn't happen. But, boy oh boy, am I glad that he's on the bench, one hit away from not only coming INTO a game, but from WINNING a game. That's what this year is about, boys and girls. That's what this year is about.

Perhaps Edwards doesn't have the arm strength, but I'm doubtful that's the case - he seems to be able to wing it 40 yards or more. He's not Losman, but not too many people have that kind of arm. If you're talking deep balls this season, I guess that means Evans. I can't think of one thus far to Hardy, or Reed. Parrish? Someone help me out on that one - I truly can't remember. Evans is awfully fast. I think we've heard "4.3" tossed around here from time to time. I'm thinking that Evans just tends to overrun it with that speed. And that will all change with more playing time together. The fact that they've linked up as much as they have already this year is encouraging. I'm more excited about what they could do (a) later this year and (b) into next year, now that Evans is here for awhile.

There was only marginal contrition in the apology, but it'll have to do. "I didn't get a harrrumph out of you!!".... - Mel Brooks