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You're unsure if you're still in the dark?

How did I miss this quote from Rogers last week? This is the kind of thing you say to your buddies over a beer - not to the press before you've ever started a game. Unless Rogers lights it up quickly the fans are going to eat him alive.

If you are looking for immediate help at the WR position the draft generally isn't the way to go (here comes the posters who post the list of a handfull of players who have done it in the past 10 years...). It would be great if Hardy could step right in and start but I seriously doubt that will happen. The best case scenario has him taking over mid-season. A more likely scenario is he doesn't move into the starting spot until next year (unless last in the season they're eliminated from the playoffs and they throw him in there to get some seasoning.)

Takeo was good in Cinci (nowhere near the best in the league, however) but he was actually better in Buffalo - at least for the few productive years he had pre-injury.

It's a strategy that has success when you are facing teams who are more talented/better than your team. It keeps the games close and gives your team a chance to win it late (usually when the opposing team makes a mistake.) The problem with the strategy is when you have a talented/good team because it allows lesser teams to stay close and perhaps pull out a win late. If your team is loaded with talent (and I'm not saying the Bills are) then playing this type of style gets a coach fired. Right now the Bills are somewhere in between, I'd like to see them drop the conservative game plans against lesser teams but still use it when faced with the better teams in the league.

I agree with some of your comments but Vince Young? The guy isn't in the top half of starting QBs in the league, there's no way he deserves to be on a list of the top 50 players. I wouldn't have him in a list of the top 100 players.

Peters will be the best player on the Bills once again.

If the question is who is worth the money in general, OL or WR? - the answer is OL. If the question is who should the Bills extend right now if they can only extend on contract - the answer is Evans. If the Bills extend Evans now they'll have both Evans and Peters on the roster for the next three years minimum (and they'll likely still be able to extend Peters later.) If they only extend Peters then Evans is gone after this year. I'm of the opinion that you try to keep your good players on the team while adding additional talent instead of letting your good players walk and attempting to replace them (otherwise known as walking on a treadmill.)

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Did your friend tell you about the dog's issues prior to leaving her in your care?

What excuses Bill? He didn't make a single excuse for Losman, he actually spoke almost solely about Edwards. Of course, you have yet to speak to anybody's points about Edwards and continue on your inane Losman crusade despite the fact that Losman isn't the subject of this thread.

Show me where in my post I am "defensive of JP"? The only one defensive of anybody is you of Edwards (and the only one being overly critical is you of JP.) Why does this always have to devolve into a debate between the two QBs? What is being discussed here are the attributes and limitations of Edwards yet you keep trying to sidetrack the conversation into JP SUCKS - EDWARDS IS BETTER! I guess you can't actually answer Bado's concerns over Edwards and instead try to shift the focus onto something else.

Unlike you I've never had a favorite horse in this race. I defend JP from the hordes here who want to put the blame for everything on him but that doesn't mean I don't have plenty of issues with his play. I also see some good things in Edwards but I'm not going to cross my fingers and wish upon a star that he is the Bills savior when he has obvious deficiencies in his game. And no, it is not "empty rhetoric." When NFL people talk about a QB being able to make "every throw" they mean he needs to be able to use the entire field (this is exactly what Bado was speaking about up top – go ahead and tell him he’s full of “empty rhetoric”.) Are you really going to play dumb and pretend you don't understand this? Last year Edwards could not effectively use the entire field. You can create ridiculous specific scenarios in an attempt to make a point but it just makes you look ignorant.

How did JP even come into the discussion here? Bado was speaking strictly about Edwards. Bado brought up several solid points that had nothing to do with JP and you didn't address any of those but instead resorted to the typical Edwards vs. JP post that we've seen a thousand times. And as for Hasselback's arm - he can make every throw needed, the same can not yet be said about Edwards. He floats the out patterns and (as Bado has stated) has way too much loft on his long ball, which wouldn't necessarily be an issue if he could mussel it down field farther too allow for the extra time it takes to get there (alla Jeff Blake). Arm strength is definitely an overrated aspect of the QB position but only if the QB can make ALL the necessary throws. We'll see if Edwards can do that this year.

an actual pic Why are these things always grainy, blurry, or taken from an extreme long distance. You'd think with the proliferation of cameras these days SOMEBODY could get a clear picture.

Yeah, Reed would be as good as Welker on NE - if he had fantastic hands, ran perfect routes and had a knack for always finding the weak part of a D.

Uhh, I'll take the guy who scores TDs on special teams. Is this really a question?

I think you missed the most important thing: Hardy made the decision to pull out a gun and point it at somebody over an argument. His life wasn't in danger, there was no physical confrontation - it was an argument. Somebody with this these types of decision making skills is going to get into trouble time and again - and since he carries a gun on him there's always a chance he ends up hurting somebody seriously.

To me is seems like the "knuckleheads" who are entertaining would be the perpetual optimists. The people predicting doom and gloom have been right this entire decade…

James will not beat out McGee - and I seriously doubt Leodis will see a startinng spot this year - rookie CBs rarely step right in and are effective. Like it or not McGee will again be the #1 CB this year. If I had to guess,, I'd say Greer will be the #2CB for most of the year as well.

Speed is only a small part of the equation on returns. McGee is fantastic with reading blocks and finding the open lane - which is why so many of his returns end up around the 40-50 yard line.

Why do you think he'll be a stud? Is it from personally watching him play? How many times have you seen Troy play? I'll admit, I know pretty much nothing of Leodis (did anybody before the combine?) - but in the two highlight reels I've seen of the guy I haven't seen a single instance of him in tight coverage breaking up a pass - it's all easy INTs from poorly thrown balls or ST returns. My immediate thought (which I fully admit is an uninformed one) was "did the Bills just draft the 2008 version of Ted Ginn Jr.?" Then again, I'm almost certain that this is just a case of the editors of those highlight reels selecting the most "electrifying" plays he could instead of one's that illustrate how well he plays CB.

If the Bills would have paid Clements two years ago (before he entered the last year of his contract) it wouldn't have cost nearly so much. But the arguement then was, "we don't need a top flight CB with this D scheme." Yet here the Bills are again using a first round pick on a CB. Why not pay Nate two years ago instead of running on the treadmill?

WIN - Sept. 7 Seattle Seahawks 1 p.m. LOSS - Sept. 14 at Jacksonville Jaguars 1 p.m. WIN - Sept. 21 Oakland Raiders 1 p.m. WIN - Sept. 28 at St. Louis Rams 4:05 p.m. LOSS - Oct. 5 at Arizona Cardinals 4:15 p.m. Oct. 12 Bye LOSS - Oct. 19 San Diego Chargers 1 p.m. WIN - Oct. 26 at Miami Dolphins 1 p.m. LOSS - Nov. 2 New York Jets 1 p.m. LOSS - Nov. 9 at New England Patriots* 1 p.m. LOSS - Nov. 17 (Mon.) Cleveland Browns 8:30 p.m. WIN - Nov. 23 at Kansas City Chiefs 1 p.m. WIN - Nov. 30 San Francisco 49ers 1 p.m. WIN - Dec. 7 Miami Dolphins (at Toronto) 4:05 p.m. WIN - Dec. 14 at New York Jets 1 p.m. LOSS - Dec. 21 at Denver Broncos 4:05 p.m. LOSS - Dec. 28 New England Patriots* 1 p.m FINAL RECORD 8-8

You mean like you did when JP was the starter?