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yeah yeah....guys like Haynesworth will be mean and ready come game day. I think Shanahan is sending a very good message to him and to others that he expects a lot out of them and isn't putting up with slackers. Haynesworth will fall into line and probably be kicking butt as usual when the season opens.

thanks mike...these are interesting to those of us too far away to get to the camps.

not anymore...looks like he'll be starting for Pittsburgh.

I love Jim Kelly and think he was one of the greatest and toughest qb's that ever lived, and remember the time he damn near (or actually did) break a linebackers leg after he intercepted one of his passes...but seeing him "put a move and scramble" would be a pretty rare occassion. I remember some halfback imitating Chris Berman when Kelly ran three yards for a touchdown.."He's at the three...he's at the two...he could go ALL THE WAY." Oh I wish Jim were still playing....

Ahhh...now I understand why the Pittsburgh Steelers have been such a lousy franchise. Why would they sign a walking holding machine. Come to think of it..why would they put him in the pro bowl all of those years? We don't seem to have a problem with penalty prone tackles from Oakland.

I hear ya. I get it and its steroids at the outset. Every time I've tried to take care of it with over the counter crap nothing happens. Oh..it is on miserable thing to get.

That is great news. Good to see he is making a good recovery. He is going to be a special player.

Spiller might do a lot of things, but he isn't going to make the offensive line better. A good blocking tight end might make the line better (or accomodate for a bad offensive line.) A good blocking fullback can do the same. Spiller may be good, or he may be bad, but he ain't gonna help us on the O-line. I have an idea...why don't we get some LINEMEN to help the offensive line?

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/footbal...position=recent Yeah...he's been to the pro bowl a few times, but we managed to sign a guy from Oakland who is a penalty machine, and look how Oakland did with him at tackle! Nix and Gailey had better know something we all don't as I'm not seeing any improvement at either tackle position as of yet.

If Jauron were such a bad coach...and our team is as good as last year...and most of the folks have recovered from their injuries...and we had such a wonderful move in drafting Spiller....why on earth wouldn't we AT LEAST expect us to win two or more games more than we won last year? Why? Because we look at Nix an Gailey and what they've done to date and see the word "LOSER" tatooed on that package. Five wins...FIVE wins...now is THAT the mark of success? If they are any good, and I suspect they are good at game day football (but pretty bad at recognizing where they need help and going out and getting it.) they might end up between five and nine wins. Staying in that envelope might justify keeping them around another year.

Why should I "believe Buddy Nix after all this time?" I've been less than impressed by his tenure thus far. I am not aware of any rules prohibiting Buddy from trading up or trading down. Maybe he lacks the negotiating skills to do it, or didn't want to do it...but he wasn't prohibited. Proof is in the pudding. He wins nine games with the offensive line he puts on the field this season and I'll eat my words. He wins fewer than the seven we won last year and he should be fired.

yup..lou piccone...I really liked that guy.

I agree with you that there were other ways to get the talent we needed on the offensive line such as free agency and trades...but we didn't do that. There were quality offensive linemen on the board at our draft position, we could have traded up or even traded down to get help...and we didn't. Spiller will not significantly improve our running game this year over last year. Two offensive tackles through draft, free agency or trade would have significantly improved both our running game and our passing game. That being said I think Spiller is a real catch for a running back and I can't be too hard on Nix and Gailey for picking him...if they had addressed the o-line need some other way.

lynch and jackson are two very good running backs. we have plenty of depth at the running back position even without spiller. We don't even have one quality proven tackle (and don't give me Green as a quality tackle...his previous team was delighted to have him gone.)

yeah..and we're that deep in all 21 other positions?

yeah..and to think OJ had to put up with that Electric Company group.

I drove down I-81 from Albany to Tennessee in July and the traffic was no problem (July 5) I usually go the way described above to Buffalo but if you are going to the Bills in Rochester you might try 81 straight on up to Syracuse. Where I've run into issues on 81 (traffic and construction) in the past has been in northern Pennsylvania.

Robert James....one of the best d-backs we ever had.

We're going to be in great shape when we play Wake Forest and South Carolina next year! Oh...and those big fat guys in front of him hitting defensive linemen...they are called blockers...we should really get some of them.

nicde analysis. I think there is agreement that there is no overall huge better except possibly for running back and no huge worse other than wide receiver. At quarterback and offensive line the same means a bottom of the league designation. One of the QB's had better shape up and Wang and Green had better pay off. If those things happen we will probably have a very positive and surprising turn around.

hell...there was a receiver and special teams guy in the 80's, and I was sure someone would name him as he was gutsy as hell and a fan favorite as he had limited talent and played at 150%. To show how unheralded he was even I can't think of his name off the top of my head. I would also put Ernie Warlick up there as an unheralded Bill. He was an outstanding player in big games and never got the credit he deserved.

I had heard rumors that he was messing with someone's wife, but COOKIE GILCHRIST? Wow..if that were true I'd have to think Daryle was a little suicidal. Given that we traded Cookie away at almost the same time we should have kept Daryl. He took Oakland to a couple of AFC championships and a trip to the superbowl.

First day of camp? Gotta be TE. Everything they've said from the get go seems to have him starting but on a very short leash. I don't think starting on day one is any huge leg up in this camp. The race for the position come the regular season is wide open.

he will be an addition, but I'd be stunned if he plays as well as he has in the past. Its a new defense he has little interest in learning, he's retired in his head, and there is a big paycheck that keeps him here. Not a good omen. I hope I'm wrong in this, but it seems he's checked out.

he'll play. demoralized and phone it in attitude and no confidence in his coach, his teammates and no realistic hope to be traded. Show up punch in hang out punch out...collect the check...thank you very much!