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Week 1 Mon, Sep 14 @ New England Patriots* W Week 2 Sun, Sep 20 Tampa Bay Buccaneers W Week 3 Sun, Sep 27 New Orleans Saints L Week 4 Sun, Oct 04 @ Miami Dolphins W Week 5 Sun, Oct 11 Cleveland Browns W Week 6 Sun, Oct 18 @ New York Jets W Week 7 Sun, Oct 25 @ Carolina Panthers L Week 8 Sun, Nov 01 Houston Texans W Week 9 Sun, Nov 08 BYE Week 10 Sun, Nov 15 @ Tennessee Titans L Week 11 Sun, Nov 22 @ Jacksonville Jaguars W Week 12 Sun, Nov 29 Miami Dolphins W Week 13 Thu, Dec 03 New York Jets (Toronto) W Week 14 Sun, Dec 13 @ Kansas City Chiefs W Week 15 Sun, Dec 20 New England Patriots* L Week 16 Sun, Dec 27 @ Atlanta Falcons L Week 17 Sun, Jan 03 Indianapolis Colts L 10 - 6 *I'm not eligible (Dutch) for the price if for some miracle I would win I'll donate it to Lori

Given his record prior to when the cheating started per rumormill I'm saying he was a decent coach but nothing special. Yet having yet tape all these years made him learn stuff others wouldn't such as what decisions an opposing coach makes; his tendencies with relation the the plays and playbooks used. The advantage he had was learning this while being sure it was like that which now translates into a far better guessing ability assuming he doesn't cheat anymore. The guy has been going to coaching college with all this material availble to him all these years and he should have been banned from the NFL in all. But $$$ > a fair game.

Hmm, Peters being over 90% would also influence Dockery his performance in a positive way (having Peters to his direct left), so the Dockery figure doesn't mean much. Also I'm being curious as to the amount of runs where Peters/Dockery were POA versus the right side. My gut tells me we did the majority of the runs over the right side.

Jenkins making the roster would surprise me more tbh.

I think CB blogged he thought the guy looked good as well (on the field); would be cool to give him a go imho.

Willis McGahee-RB- Ravens May. 6 - 12:05 pm et According to the Baltimore Sun, Willis McGahee recently underwent another procedure to clean out his knee. The Sun doesn't specify which knee, but it's likely the same one that has given McGahee trouble since tearing it up in college. Given his history of knee and conditioning issues, the clean-up is another strike against McGahee's already shaky fantasy value. http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/rav...n_minicamp.html IMHO it reads he had a knee scoop (4-6 weeks I believe) and may or may not be ready.

We used to have our own championship game named the World Bowl (NFL Europe used to be WLAF which featured 3 european teams, 6 american teams and 1 canadian team with 70-80% of the players going back or landing teams into the NFL after the WLAF folded). NFL Europe was terminated in favor of the stupid atmosphereless NFL International series. Yes it still fugging upsets me. For the record NFL Europe was costing the league financially exactly the same amount as Roger Goodell his yearly salary (without his bonusses). Ow and before you comment about there not being enough fans: (and yes noise levels were often above college levels; we were fanatic and serious about supporting our team as 12th man). Edit: !@#$ you all for even mentioning NFL Europe this is what I miss: and this and this and this and this also that clown of a Goodell didnt even have to guts to shown up and tell us himself. To all the guys worried about relocating to Toronto... I hope you never have to experience the complete closure of a league instead of the dreaded move.

This even made the Dutch primetime news (they reported 11 injured).

I honestly think that Hamdan did very well last year in his pre-season game; he was bitten a couple of times of crucial downs by fumbles by that RB and some nasty drops by I believe it was Jenkins. They like him as third for running the scout team and prepping with TE, I got the feeling from talking to him earlier this year that he feels that is where he thinks he'll endup again. But then again the Bills were shopping for a veterean QB as backup then, we'll see what happens if he manages to outplay Fitz.

For the record I love Lori even if she is 60+....

Welcome onboard, and for pre-season game 4.... Gooooooo Hamdan!!!!

Did you? If you did then... seconded...

I'd be more impressed if he feared legislation...

I think the preperation remarks were more aimed at the coaching staff as judged by the resulted playcalling especially throughout the early parts of the game at the later part of the season then at Trent personally. We all know him and Hamdan are the ones to turn the lights out at one bills drive.

No not at all, reason I asked was because the discussion was about armstrenght (which I believe has has just fine). A lot of plays were checkdowns with good yardage after the catch. There werent a lot of deep plays further down the season.

Doesnt that stat include yards after catch obtained by the receiver?

I think the cause is not so much arm limitations as it was lack of confidence (after his concusion infused by lack of protection, him throwing a couple of interceptions when trying to push the ball into double coverage and Evans receiving double coverage throughout the season (pressure forced him to go for the check down rather then to read more options, later this got worse where you saw him clearly not trusting his own reads and waiting too long to deliver again going for the checkdown). He played a lot of downs under heavy pressure. Also per definition a checkdown isnt as bad as advertised if you average above 3.5 yards on them. T.O. should solve the Evans issue, which in turn should resolve into him having confidence in his reads. The pressure versus confidence issue will prolly be solved by going to a lot of short passing in the early season (giving the oline further time to develop and create a trust relation between Trent and the oline). Anyway thats how I observed Trents development throughout last season, reaching Evans became an issue and he lacked trust in his oline (for good reason) combined which led to timing issues. Watch the early games and preseason games of last year and you'll see that Trent has good arm strenght and is accurate. The guy can do it.

Ok maybe I should have said the playcalling then. Pass receiving TO = 60 ~ 100 yards a game Evans = 60 ~ 100 yards a game Reed = 50 ~ 60 yards a game Nelson = 30 ~ 40 yards a game Johnson = 0 ~ 50 yards a game Jackson = 0 ~ 30 yards a game Rhodes = 0 ~ 30 yards a game Lynch = 0 ~ 10 yards a game Hardy = 0 ~ 20 yards a game bottomline the weapons are there... but then again nobody really disagrees with that.

That the game changed from run heavy to pass happy.

The question is way off imho, it's not so much the question if Trent Edwards is a 300 yard plus guy the real question should be: Is the playbook capable of supporting 300 yard plus passing games.

1. Assuming the coaching staff has tested their LT solution last year to their satisfaction it looks like all pieces are in place if all pieces turnout as intended. 2. There is a lot of position shifting going on which makes for an uncertain factor. 3. We have a rough schedule. 4. New oline groups traditionally take time to blossom (allthough teams have reached and won the SB with completly or partly rebuild olines). 5. Jauron and his staff need to show a huge improvement on gamedays (clock management, feck the deffering theory (a fresh D coming off the tea send out with a mission and strong focus will be able to turn the not defering into an advantage), stronger play calling). 6. If we don't manage to do it this year then we will prolly have lost momentum again (loosing mcgee and TO next year). 7. The offense has the chance to be something really special this year with TO, Evans, Reed (if he plays as good as last year) and Nelson turns out. It can be done but it requires both luck (no critical or minimal injuries), lot's of work and very strong coaching.

Not addressing the LT 'need' shows that the coaching staff is confident that they have a better quality LT allready onboard then what they could get in this draft. What the press seems to have forgotten is that the team prepped without the LT we shall not name and even started the 2008 season without him. The whole holdout was in that sense a blessing in disguise since it forced the coaching staff to create a solution and now have the experience of allready having tested alternatives to the LT we shall not name. It remains a gamble, but at least it's an educated one. Without pointing 11.5 sacks into the direction of the former LT it should be possible to keep the sacks coming from the leftside to or below 8 without him.

Keeping 6 WRs, 1 season is often not enough time for a wr to adjust. Still I think Steve Johnson is a lock and Hardy has to proof himself during camp. Realisticly I see us going into the season carrying these guys: 1. Lee Evans 1. Terrell Owens 3. Josh Reed 4. Steve Johnson 5. James Hardy 6. Roscoe Parrish Cut: 88 Huggins, Felton 17 Jenkins, Justin 18 Hawthorne, C.J. 88 Jefferson, Mike

Steve Johnson is a no brainer imho; I'm even going as far as saying he's a lock for 4th receiver. Assuming they have Hardy envisioned as situational 5th wr it would explain the expensive shopping they did with Roscoe.