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The untagged car is immaterial. And in Cook County, you cannot have a gun in your car, period, even if it's unloaded, encased, and inaccessible. If you do, it's a felony. Johnson got it reduced to a misdemeanor. He was later arrested for aggravated assault and resisting arrest, but charges were dropped, because apparently it didn't happen ( ). His home was later raided, where in addition to finding the guns, which violated his probation, his bodyguard was found to be in felony possession of marijuana. So you see, to claim that Johnson got 8 games (reduced to 6) for having guns in his home is just plain old silly.

He's not. Order away.

And you're respected...where?

Ah yes, I see. I remembered his awesome ST's work for those 5 games, but chose to ignore it because it was so amazingly awesome, that it destroyed my argument. And then I lied about it and said I was just talking about O-line, which is where both currently play. Got it. True Thurm, I don't have a lot of positive to say about Peters, and I wouldn't talk much about his ST's work even if I did. Something changed in him after the 2007 season. I don't know if it was the injury, the Pro Bowl bid inflating his ego, McNally leaving, or if there was something else. But he played it like he wanted out of Buffalo, because they somehow treated him poorly. Poor baby.

Seeing as how he missed all of training camp and has been practicing with the team for just 2 weeks, his struggles aren't surprising. Frankly I'd like to see him used like Suggs was used his rookie season.

For what do you think that Lynch should have gone to jail?

Try again.

Maybin, Wood, Byrd, Levitre, Harris, Nelson, and Lankster have looked promising, as have Palmer, Buggs, and Stupar. Good to see.

No, I was talking about O-line. I mostly forgot that Peters played ST's for the 5 games in which he appeared in his rookie (2004) season, and until he became the full-time starting RT in the 8th game of his 2nd season (although he made a start in the 6th game, for the ailing Mike Williams). The blocked punt for a TD in 2004 was impressive, but didn't affect the outcome of the game (the Bills beat the Bungles 33-17). As for "having a part in the success of the team" in those 5 games in 2004, I don't recall the ST's winning any of those games for the Bills, and the Bills have had stellar ST's during the 5 years April has been around, and even after Peters stopped playing them. Essentially he was another piece in the puzzle for April, but yes, technically he was more productive than Bell was in his rookie season. And the point with "playing LT 1-1/2 years earlier than Peters" is that they trust Bell to play LT sooner than they did Peters. Time spent at the position in college and "rate of development in the NFL" is meaningless, although Peters was a blocking TE in college, and was essentially another O-lineman. And Peters played at a better school with better coaches than Bell. Look, I know you "don't really care about Peters" , but you've somehow managed to deify the guy for 12 games of ST's play and 1-1/2 years of playing OT well. I think it's safe to say that there are serious concerns that he won't ever re-achieve, much less consistently sustain, what he showed in 2007, his first and only deserved Pro Bowl season, and those concerns don't even take into account the $10M/year he's now getting. His behavior during the 2008 off-season was unprofessional and inexcusable, although some (ahem) have tried. Otherwise he'd still be here.

He might make it over Florence.

Whoops, you are correct sir. He had 5 tackles with 1 TFL but no INT's. Still has a lot of promise.

Well, Byrd just started practicing 2 weks ago and is playing in his first game, and got an INT. And Bryan Scott looks good.

Congrats.

Based on what?

After seeing the sack, the comparison to Derrick Thomas looks to be appropriate. Speed and the tomahawk chop.

What a ridiculous statement.

True. Videocameras and circumventing the salary cap are cheaper.

I'm still pissed that he missed all of training camp because he could be that much further along. But I'll cut him some slack for looking good.

Yup. Just ask Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones.

I was looking for a vomit smilie. Over on the BBMB, they have tons of smilies.

Maybin plays 2 games after missing all of training camp and gets a sack each game. Orakpo has almost a full training camp (he missed a day) and plays 4 pre-season games, and has no sacks. Just sayin'.

I wonder how many games Goodell would give Rae Carruth, after his "suspension."

He should have gotten out of the car and beaten her up instead. Ol' Rog doesn't care about that kind of stuff.

Who said anything about LA? Or it being easy?