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It's a good idea, but I don't know if we should have a recovering alcoholic (Thurman), a wife-beater (Kelly), or a poor character/attitude guy (Bruce) mentoring the younger guys. Deion was a loud mouth and show-off, but he was a good player and I can't really remember him getting into a lot of trouble off the field when he was playing. Now maybe if those former players showed the younger ones how to do all that stuff without getting caught or at least without getting in trouble with the league, we might be getting somewhere...

Why stop there? If 30 lbs makes him a TE, which we have a bunch of average ones already, we could have him add 45 and be the backup LT! We need more line depth, right?

I was the victim of a hit and run two years ago. Thankfully I was not hit and my car was, while it was parked on my one way street. The nature of the incident was that a car was driving at a high speed the wrong way down my street when it hit a parked car and spun into my car, among others. This happened at about 4 am. When the car stopped spinning, according to a witness who heard the noise and came out of their house, the driver got out and ran into a nearby house, which happened to be his own house, only about a block from the accident. When I called the police and they took all the information down, they had the witnesses statement. They also recieved a call reporting that same car stolen at about 6 am that morning - two hours after the incident. The police, since "they did not have credible evidence", as they put it, to charge the driver, would not go to that person's house to question them. No criminalcharges were ever filed against the car owner either. Eventually, since I had to pay the deductable for the work on my car, my insurance company sued him for it in civil court and won - 18 months later. That's when I got my $500.00 deductable back. The cops will not go out and talk to Lynch unless they can prove in court that he was driving or he elects to speak with them. Otherwise this will be resolved in civil court, not criminal. This is not to make light of what the poor girl went through or about the driver "being a man" about it. Those are separate cases all together. For everyone who is saying the driver is in the wrong and is a bad person, how do even know that the driver knew he hit some one?

This is how the legal process works. Even if he were to be questioned by the police, he wouldn't have to answer legally, since it might be construed as self-incrimination. Now pleading the fifth probably won't help him with the league, but it could get him off the hook legally. The other thing is that how are you really going to find a credible witness to something that happened on Chippewa at 3:30 am? The defense attorney just has to ask the witness how many drinks they had that night. Not to mention that since the story has taken off in the enws and the witness just came forward in the past two days, it causes doubt about the witnesses motives. What if the "witness" was a bartender who Marshawn didn't tip that night? Or maybe Marshawn was hitting on some one's girlfriend that night - or any other night - and that guy thought it would be a good way to get back at him. Christ - it might even be a Dolphins, Pats, or Jets fan that is trying to ruin our season! Not that any of these thigns are that probable, but they are all just as valid as Marshawn actually hitting the girl and driving away.

Wasn't their philosophy to draft players with high football character? They wanted players who loved to play football, not necessarily guys who won't screw up off the field. All of the guys we have drafted recently fit that profile. They like to play football, a lot have come from poor backgrounds (monetarily and support-wise), and have overcome a lot to play football. The hope being that they want to play football to the point that they might change their lifestyles when they mature a bit so the off-field issues are a non-factor. I don't want Tim Anderson bringing his lunch pale to work every day, I want Marshawn Lynch and Jason Peters stealing Tim Anderson's lunch pale every day.

After Dick!? We need a plan of succession - sign him long term!

Of course he is. Who else is named Lindy... (Ruff)

So I don't get it... You don't like JP, you don't seem to think Trent did anything in his rookie season, but by what you said, since he was hurt, this is his rookie season ("messed with or injured" last season)? So, since he gets two practice seasons before his real rookie season, do you expect him to do anything this year? Are you saying that because Trent got hurt fo rpart of the year last year that this should be his new rookie season and we shouldn't expect anything out of a rookie!?

I think you are right in saying that this case has a lot to do with the timing of each QBs career and that timing in general affects sports players more than most fans will admit, but I think you took it too far. Speaking only of football, I would say that it is the skill positions players that are impacted the most by timing. If you have a QB, but no TE or WR, then that's poor timing. Vice-versa is true as well. Those positions are dependant on each other to play well. You could also say that if you can't pass the ball, then the running game isn't going to work, no matter how good your o-line is. There are exceptions, but generally if a defense stacks 8 in the box, the offense isn't going to run very effectively. With that said, I would say linemen on both sides of the ball are not influenced by timing for the most part. Of course it might depend on scheme (zone blocking vs smash mouth, tampa 2 vs two gap), but for the most part those guys are not dependant on other positions to make plays. In fact to a certian extent other positions are dependant on linemen to make plays and be good/great players.

I eat puppies...

I was thinking along those lines myself, but I wonder if Youboty shows some flashes this pre-season, they might consider trading Greer, who I think is about to be an FA and sicne he was a UDFA from the previous regime, they might view him as expendable. Not to mention he is probably worth much more than Youboty in trade. I could see it happening because Greer probably won't be re-signed after his contract is up anyways.

Hate: Pats* Fins Jets Cowboys Senators Flyers Stars Thrashers Leafs Yankees Red Sox Lakers Suns Syracuse U Notre Dame Texas Rodney Harrison Teddy Bruschi (and his swiss cheese heart) Terrell Owens Tom Brady Willis McGahee Dan Marino John Elway I don't have time to list any more.

Leave the guy alone - he's agreeable.

Like Cheektowaga...

I second, but watch out - I think one of those new cameras on Chippewa can see through my office window and what I am writing. They'll come for all of us tonight! "Sir, you're going to have to come with me, you didn't shovel the snow from your sidewalk." "But officer, it hasn't snowed in over a month!" "So, you admit that you didn't shovel your sidewalk when it snowed then. We have a place for people like you..."

That's a pretty good attempt. One thing is for certain, it will be one of the msot interesting pre-seasons in terms of who gets cut in a while. There is a lot more talent than in the past on this roster and a few good players will probably get cut. I agree that they keep 6 WRs - Jenkins being the last and I bet they only keep 10 DBs total, since they had talked about wanting to use Whitner as a CB sometimes. Not sure who out of that group goes though. I think they also keep 9 or 10 DLs, since they finally have some players who can contribute and have a little experience. It would be great if one of the TEs could long snap since it would open up another roster spot.

I tend to agree that the numbers appear more equal than I thought they would based on watching the games. I tend to think that the reason people think Trent distributes the ball mroe is because he seemed to do it more when the game was on the line. People think of JP winning ball games (the few that he did over his tenure) with a pass or two to Lee Evans. I remember him hitting Roscoe deep agains tthe Jets once, but I think that was before half time. Edwards on the other hand will go to different people in the clutch. Reed caught the one over the middle against the Skins and Gaines a few times in third down situations. Aside from the few times JP went to Roscoe and the end of that game when the A-Train caught five passes in the last four minutes, he really only looked to Lee in the clutch it seems.

Not to piss on the sacred cow, but wasn't Farve addicted to pain killers for an 19 month period that allowed him to go out and play through some pain for most of, if not all of a season? I think it was around the time he went to the Super Bowl. I don't think it was that Farve was unbreakable, he just had a better threshold for pain than most.

That hurts man. The OTAs are only two weeks away and go on for a month. Then it's 1.r5 months to training camp.... (This can't happen fast enough)

Not to mention SD only got good after that trade.

I'm not saying you're wrong about Jauron, but I think what fans are trying to aviod by cutting him some slack is the "knee-jerk" reaction that often comes from fans who think you can turn a losing franchise around in a day or year. It doesn't happen. Also, do you think that all successful coaches are successful with every type of team? Could it be that come coaches are better suited for coaching younger players than older ones and vice-versa? That's really just one example too. You could say some coaches would be better to have coaching a defense first team and others an offense first team. I agree that Dick has had virtually no success in the NFL as a head coach and he almost seems, at least to me, to be more suited as a defensive coordinator (i.e. Gregg Williams). Does that mean I don't think he can post a winning season in 08? No. Does it mean that I don't think he can get us to the playoffs in 08? No. Does it mean I would feel good going far into the playoffs with him, with the extra burden of having playoff expectations on the team? Probably. At least until he does it for a first time. So, I agree that he probably is not our Super Bowl winning coach, but I don't think we have a legitimate shot at the Super Bowl this year anyway. Why run a guy out of town when at this point, there probably isn't a guy who is going to do a much better job. Also, I think the fact that we hired two coordinators, with no experience prior to him, made the FO (Wilson) want a guy with some experience and maturity. That's pretty much Dick.

You might be right - they might only keep 2 QBs too. I think I forgot the long snapper too, so that would actually be back to 54 with only 2 QBs and the snapper. The best senario would probably be if some one besides the now-sixth defensive end on the roster can long-snap.

There you go. I got rid of four players to bring you down to 52. The 53rd guy should be Bryan Scott at SS.

They havea point though. I mean the Buffalo Bills just wouldn't the Buffalo Bills of this decade with good players instead of medicore players. Thanks for putting it into perspective realfootball365.com!

BBB - great post. Holcomb's Arm - I don't think you can judge a draft on wheather or not the Bills re-sign a player after their first contract. I think too much else goes into re-signing a player to simplify it like that. I look at Clements like that. They could have signed him and probably wanted to, to a certain extent. I'm sure things like his attitude, his leadership, his play (consistency), and monetary request were all taken into account. The only thing you can really draft for is the ability and toa certain extent production (from college). I don't think you can tell if a player is going to get greedy, or if he is going to be a me first, loud-mouthed type player as much as you can say that he is going to play the game well. I believe that the Clements situation had more to do with the Bills not wanting to give that much money to a player who wasn't really a leader and came off as kind of an ass. The big contracts should be given to the players who are the complete package, not just good players on the field.