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The proof is in the pudding. I'll tell you how good he is at the end of next season. Given his years of experience in the game working with players on a day to day basis, I suspect he will be pretty darn good...but we shall see.

He's the real deal...Ralph!!! Roll out the dollars...

first and foremost, whatever system the Bills want to run next year will have to stop the run. No one is going to design their offense to accomodate our defensive system. If there is an intent to go to the cover 2 the common consisnes to beat the cover 2 is a power running game up the middle. That is where we have our worse weakness. Ngata is a big power back but a very athletic big guy with speed, the vertical leap and the brains to make a huge difference right away. He is a very good pass rusher and he gives us the power in the middle to address the power runners...Linebackers and safeties..no matter who they are...aren't going to consistently stop opponents from moving the chains...eating up the clock (remember our first super bowl) and scoring touchdowns. On the other hands Mario Williams just might be the best defensive lineman to come down the pike, could greatly strengthen the defensive line as an entity and we could get very good defensive tackles (mahelona of Tennessee comes to mind for some reason) in later rounds. Tough choice...I like Davis too...but I still go with Ngata.

Stick it in the g-string of some well-tanned crack whore at the lap-dance place. Dolphin money belongs in that millieu.

Two years ago I was diagnosed with a large malignant brain tumor. My son quit his job, came down and helped during a crazy three day period where I almost died and there was emergency surgery. The tumor turned out to be an abcess...long recovery and some blindness, but other than that I'm ok. A few months ago we were driving in his truck and he played a song by Tim McGraw whose father had just died of brain cancer. The song was "Live like you were dying" or something like that. We both choked up.

Expand the season, fine. Two more playoff teams? No way. Teams with losing records already get into the playoffs on occassion.

yes...but wouldn't be surpised if Eric fit into the mix as a stretch choice as well. I like them both, but not at the number 8 pick.

From what I am seeing here and hearing on NFL Radio and elsewhere we may get to number 7 and have the following to choose from: Ngata, Williams, Huff, Young, Davis, Bunckley, Winston. Assuming no trade down and a forced choice of one of the above, who do you go with and why? For me its Ngata, but against that is the fact that we have signed one DT and this draft is very strong in DT's and I could see us drafting a good DT in the second and third round. Also Williams is one hell of a defensive end and would strengthen the line in an area where we are mediocre. Winston and Bunckley are real stretches for a number 8 pick. Hawk is a stud worthy of top ten status but he is a linebacker when we need help now on the lines. Davis would be a plus for the offense as a receiver and pass blocker, although he isn't a gaurd or tackle. It didn't really occur to me that Young would slip to eight, and I still find it hard to believe, but he has to be considered if he does slip that far. After all that waffling and wavering...I've got to stick with Ngata.

Sounds like a price that will not stay very long. Given the property as you described it it is hard to see how you can go wrong giving the asking price. Don't be surprised if THEY don't raise the asking price in a few weeks as they see the interest. People make very bad decisions in divorce situations and selling the house for far less than its worth is one of them. Buying a house just before a divorce is a very common practice. Ironically in many cases having a child just before a divorce in hopes it will "save" the marriage is another one of those wierd things that they do. Go for it.

IRS Service The Internal Revenue sends their auditor (a nasty little man) to audit a synagogue. The auditor is doing all the checks, and then turns to the Rabbi and says, "I noticed that you buy a lot of candles." Yes," answered the Rabbi. "Well, Rabbi, what do you do with the candle drippings?" he asked. "A good question," noted the Rabbi. "We actually save them up. When we have enough, we send them back to the candle maker. And every now and then, they send us a free box of candles." "Oh," replied the auditor somewhat disappointed that his question actually had a practical answer. So he thought he'd try another question, in his obnoxious way... "Rabbi, what about all these matzo purchases? What do you do...with the crumbs from the matzo?" "Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi calmly, "we actually collect up the crumbs, we send them in a box back to the manufacturer and every now and then, they send a box of matzo balls." "Oh," replied the auditor, thinking hard how to fluster the Rabbi. "Well, Rabbi," he went on, "what do you do with all the foreskins from the circumcisions? " "Yes, here too, we do not waste," answered the Rabbi. "What we do is save up all the foreskins. And when we have enough we actually send them to the Internal Revenue Service." "Internal Revenue Service?," questioned the auditor in disbelief. "Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, "Internal Revenue Service. And... about once a year, they send us a little prick like you."

Greatest true sports story I ever heard involved the "Death Matches" between the Kyiv Dynamo team and the German Luftwaffe team in WWII. The Ukrainians were forced to play and Ukrainians were forced to watch a German all star team play against a Ukrainian team that had not trained and was underfed. To top it off the refereeing was all german....The Ukrainians won. The second game the team was told that if they won they would be killed. They won and were sent to concentration camps. There are different variations of this as a series of games but it is one of the Ukrainians great sports stories.

Hey..we're all part of the system!

Right now? I suspect the chart would read Evans Reed Parrish until someone takes the place of one of them. We are in far better condition at WR than we are with the O line or the tight end positions.

Sorry, but I disagree. The guy must have been a moron to think the judge wouldn't come down on him like a ton of bricks. I remember the most compelling legal advice ever given to me by a senior practitioner..."Don't piss off the judge". I suspect we aren't putting away the next Nobel prize winner.

They don't have televisions in jail?

hey..what the hell. If the defensive tackle can't stop the run there are linebackers behind him and safeties behind them. Besides...the runner might bang into the goal posts on the first touchdown. Seriously we need to stop the run. The best way to defeat the cover 2 is a strong inside running game...which draws the linebackers and safeties up and opens up...you guessed it..the long pass. We need a run stopper.

I would put Neal down as a five star acquisition, and I mean that in the same way that Hutchinson would have been a five star acquisition. If he's available, Ralph...roll out the wheelbarrow and fill it with Benjamins, cuz he would be a key acquisition and we would be one very good tackle draft choice from solving our o line problems.

Remember...Tom Sestak was a converted tight end with a knee injury! Peters is a converted tight end! Given where the pick is coming in the draft as defined, he is the best we will get. If Ngata were available at 8 I wouldn't bother with the trade, but with the assumption that Ngata is not going to be available, this is a good way to go.

I've been pulling for us to sign Neal all along. I know the patsies will counter, but if he comes to the bills it would be a huge signing. I had thought the pats had already signed him, but if he is out there...go get him marv!!!

I can buy that. Would prefer Jason Allen of Tennessee as the safety pick though and believe he may be available at the Cromartie selection. Winston is a great pick in my book at that stage of the draft and is a need position guy. Nice selections all around.

Samuel Jackson dealing with snakes... Samuel Jackson dealing with Cheney... same=same

"rag arm"...I beg to differ. If there is one thing he does have it is a very strong arm. You don't teach that. You have it or you don't. I think the jury should still be out on the guy. I don't think he has shown he is good. I don't think he has shown he is bad. Let's get an offensive line and a tight end into the mix and see what he has. Holcomb doesn't have the arm, nor is he that good a quarterback. Last year ws a rookie year because of JP Losman's injury. We'll see what we need to see in the first half of this year...assuming we get the offensive line fixed. If we don't fix the offensive line, we might as well have Joe Montana or Billy Joe Holbert in there...same result.

I used to fish in the thousand islands. Where do you do your bass fishing, Paul. God I haven't been fishing in years...have to correct that one of these days.

Don't be trying to enter one of those PPP conversations. They ban your hienie if you don't agree with them! Anyway...if Condoleeza became commissh...and we appointed Bush GM and Cheney Coach...Rumsfeld as offensive co-ordinator....would the Dubai Port folk be handling parking? And I assume Halliburton would get the no-bid concessions contract?

Quayle....vice president....shooting Vice president...quail...shooting Hmmm..the more things change...