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Glenn is too heavy and slow IMO for the requirements of a LT. I'm done with the Eric Wood experience. I think an upgrade at Center would do wonders for the performance of the line.

What happened to all the good kickers in the NFL? I wouldn't cut Dan Carpenter but I would give him the time he needs to get the leg healthy. As someone said - he's a great kicker *when* healthy.

The penalties are going to doom this season. It's as simple as that. When the Bills play a clean game, they win. When they don't, they lose.

I like Doug. I think he's good at his job. Wish he handled the FJ situation a lot better than he did. Hope he learns from it.

Jeff Fisher. Big expectations in St. Louis this year and a DESIRE to play in a new stadium. If the season goes down the tubes or it's another 6-10 season, he'll be a Dead Man Walking like Pagano.

"Rest Shady for as long as it takes until he's healthy. If it's one week or 8 weeks, get the guy HEALTHY." +1 I'd shelve him until November 12 against the Jets if need be. I'm not underestimating the defenses of October but I don't think they are so formidable that the other guys couldn't handle them.

I agree 100%. It's weird to ban Rose in perpetuity yet allow McGwire and Bonds to continue to have active roles in the game post-retirement.

Kiko, with his injuries, will not have a long career. You can only repair knees so many times before they become painfully arthritic to the point the shots won't touch it anymore. I'm sure those knees have been injured more than what was reported at Oregon, Buffalo and Philadelphia. I see the trade as an even swap - you get the last good years of McCoy and the bright few years of Alonso.

Penalties - especially ones on 3rd and long. Stupid kills.

If I'm the Patriots, I would have just had Brady serve the four game suspension at the beginning of the year and get on with life. I think they ultimately may win many battles but lose the war. I'd take my chances with the first four games of the season versus the uncertainty of when a suspension will hit.

FTWD has way too many scenes of people sitting or standing in a house...talking. The show has next to no action. They took Herschel's Farm and turned it into a cramped kitchen in suburban Los Angeles. I don't think it's as good as the Walking Dead. While the Walking Dead has years of great material to write a show around, FTWD is writing its universe on the fly - and it shows.

I feel terrible for wanting the Jets to win that game last night - largely because of Fitz and Gailey. I think the Colts are terrible - Johnson and Gore are past their primes and their lines are full of nobodys. I do think last night's game was instructional - you have to attack the quarterback ALL THE TIME. Non stop. A casual pass rush and your corners playing 5 yards off the line loses football games. As Sal Paolantonio said this morning on the radio, the quarterbacks are too good and the rules prevent the secondary from really playing defense - so it's won/lost on the frequency and effectiveness of your pass rush.

I like Rex showing emotion during the game. I hated how Jauron and Marrone especially would stand there stoic when something great happened. What I think is over the top is all of the time and energy spent on the bluster before games. I think it only helps to make the very young players even less focused on the mission at hand. What you get is a rabid like frenzy that's all emotion and no logic. Sloppy, overly aggressive tunnel vision. Ryan isn't just a coach. He's a leader of men - the majority of whom are still in their 20s. He needs to remember that.

Of all the things that went wrong yesterday - this was by far the biggest blinking red light on the screen. I felt this game was in trouble when the Bills morphed into the 1986 Miami Hurricanes by mid-week for no reason whatsoever. Those emotions cost us dearly yesterday in penalties and the sloppiest play I've seen in years. And that's saying something considering. "Keep cool and you will command everyone."

While we're at it, the train horn should go too. It's ok once in a while, but I feel at times there is a Norfolk Southern at-grade crossing at the 50.

Every year since 2003 without fail, I've had a meal paid for at a restaurant by another patron. I pay it forward immediately because I'm afraid to break the streak. Happens in all sorts of restaurants from chains to diners to sub shops.

I'd relax. You could argue that Sammy took Vontae Davis out of that game completely. Taylor's play calling was conservative - due to the fact this was the first game that counted for everybody and you had to see how everything gelled and worked. (Or didn't.) This isn't new phenomena. Jerry Rice would be doubled and that opened up things for John Taylor who had Pro Bowl career years because of Rice drawing double teams. Teams would double Michael Irvin which provided Alvin Harper his career years in 1993 and 1994. Reed and Lofton is another example. Harrison and Wayne in Indy. Moss and Carter in Minnesota, especially in 1998. Point being - Sammy will get his catches but he provides an opportunity to Harvin, Woods or Clay to really shine.

That Steelers defense was an unorganized disaster, absent Pro-Bowl talent in their prime. The Bills defense is not with several Pro-Bowlers in their prime.

You get the impression the national media would enjoy a Chiefs-like beatdown of the Patriots by the Bills?

"I don't know about you guys, but I am ready to go right now. They can schedule the game for this afternoon, I'll leave work now and tailgate. I am so pumped already, I may need an oxygen tank Sunday." If there was a quote of the year contest, you'd have my vote.

The Bills always start off pretty good. It's when that game #3 rolls around where you see the Bills run into a fully prepared opposition and in years past, get smacked around. I'll believe if they don't suffer a let down and go in there and beat Miami. Even next week, the Patriots are relying on exactly one game of data. That's it. You can only prepare so much based off such limited information for a team with personnel and scheme so new. I doubt the Patriots know the Roman offense all that well and are cramming as much as they can. Sure, the Pats have played Ryan's defense but Ryan's defense never had so many playmakers, and as a result, creative options. There probably hasn't been a single game in this matchup in the last 15 years where the teams have been so evenly matched.

I love a coach who shows emotion on the sidelines. It's been a refreshing change after years of blank stares and monotone press conference responses.

The one thing I noticed in Pitt/NE is the NE ends had a difficult time holding the edge in the game. Pittsburgh could have stayed in that game by just running Williams around the ends.

She's a great athlete and a beautiful woman. But no actress. It's going to be no better than that inevitable Predator/Commando/True Lies tour de force with the Rock where all the cool guys will be replaced with less cool guys from professional wrestling. Carl Weathers? Oh, you get Dave Bautista now. Ventura? Please. We have Jon Cena for you. You know who's to blame for all this? Roddy Piper. Awesome in They Live, he gave Hollywood ideas...

The recent articles about Kraft driving the Goddell appointment as Commissioner tells me this guy has to win by all means. Petty things to headsets to putting *your* guy in the Commissioners office. I'm just surprised other owners haven't blunted the Kraft offensive on the NFL. An ethical businessman would have fired everyone related to these cheating scandals. All you need to know about Kraft is that everybody is still there.