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Everyone seems focused on the Chargers and Feely but I think the craziest thing about this trade is Feely wasn't even worth Lemon (a QB no one has heard of) straight up. The Dolphins had to also throw in a 7th rounder. The speculation is that the Chargers are getting Feely to be the backup so they can trade Rivers. But they think so poorly of Feely that they wanted a 7th rounder in addition to give up Lemon? A really weird trade in my opinion.

Thanks all!! A new decade - scary. Just got back from my honeymoon in Belize. Nice to see the Bills win a couple while I was away!!

I think people can get a general sense of the team regardless of stats though. In 2003 - after we started off quickly and then lost a few games - I was pretty sure we were going to finish less 7-9 or worse because we were losing badly or barely winning (such as the win against the Bengals in overtime). Then last year - even when we were 0-4, I knew we were much better than our record indicated (kinda like this year's Raiders). Plus we had a tough early schedule and an easier late schedule. I thought we would finish around 8-8 because we were competitive in most of the games. This year - we are 1-2. We won comfortably over the Texans (who appear to be the worst team in the league) and we got dominated by two teams - one of which was devastated by injuries. (I liked how the commentators kept pointing out that the Falcons' starting cornerbacks were on the street without a job just a few weeks ago.) Eight points may not seem like domination but the Falcons controlled that game. I'd like to see how we look against the Saints (a mediocre to bad team) and the Dolphins (much tougher than I expected). If we look bad in those games - even we squeak out a victory against the Saints - we will probably go 6-10 or worse this year.

Here's the problem that I see. When I watched Carson Palmer and Eli Manning in their first years - I saw flashes of brilliance. Sure they made stupid decisions and threw interceptions but they also had some great throws - especially deep balls. They both seemed fairly accurate to me - they just needed to improve their decision-making. Decision-making can be improved with experience. What I have seen with Losman so far is that he lacks both accuracy AND good decision-making. He's completed one pass that could be called long (one of his first in the Texans game) and that's it. Yes, it's only been 3 games but I have not seen flashes of brilliance like the others that show there is room for improvement. And is it possible to improve accuracy? I'd be interested to see how accurate Losman was in college. It's not the losses so much that bother me although I clearly would like to make the playoffs this year after such a long drought. But I am worried that Losman has not done anything thus far to show he can improve. He played decent against the Texans - which I was pretty happy about at the time - but now it looks like the Texans may be the worst team in the league. I definitely think we should play Losman for the rest of the season unless we think we can make the playoffs with Holcomb. But unless he shows a flash or two - I can't imagine giving him 3+ years like the Ravens have with Boller or the Lions with Harrington.

I've been practicing for 4 years and have realized that I don't want to practice longterm. Although people say a law degree is useful for a number of jobs, I'm not sure that's true. It definitely does not hurt you but I'm not sure it's as much of an asset as people think - if you want a non-law job. So I wouldn't spend the money and the time if you are pretty sure you don't want to practice.

I agree - I think $100 from two people is a nice gift. I'm actually getting married in a few months (I'm in my late 20's) and most gifts from family friends (but not close family) have been about $100 per couple.

Do the chickens have large talons?

Did you guys know that Natalie Gulbis is apparently dating Ben Roethlisberger? Here's a link. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazett...ts/11890678.htm

My pic has me on the left with my fiance - a Browns fan.

My job sucks because it is boring. However, I make a good salary and have no idea what I would rather do so I hesitate to leave and be at a sucky job for less pay.

McLean is a nice area but like everyone is saying - real estate is very expensive in D.C. and the surrounding areas right now. 1 bedroom apartments in desirable areas are going for $350,000 to $400,000. It might be a little less in McLean - we were only looking in D.C. and Arlington.

I was responding to JohnnyB's post who referenced "brilliant" people. I actually don't really care if he is intelligent or not (or if Tom Brady is intelligent or not) so I'm not going to continue to argue about this. If you think Parrish is smart (or at least not stupid), that's fine. I happen to disagree but I guess we'll never know until they create an intelligence test that is not "standardized" (since we can't trust the results of SATs, Wonderlic, or IQ tests).

I actually can usually tell the difference between someone with poor speaking skills and someone who is not intelligent. But I don't understand this desire to prove that Parrish is intelligent. Tom Brady is dumb as a rock and it hasn't affected his success. You can be dumb and still understand football. I don't think Parrish's intelligence (or lack thereof) will have a significant effect on his success. But it seems a stretch to claim he's really a brilliant guy who just happens to be a poor public speaker and bad at standardized tests. (And I guess the fact that all Miami players score poorly on the Wonderlic is just a coincidence too).

Did you listen to his press conference? I don't think he said anything that was more than 2 syllables. Based on hearing him speak, I would say it is highly doubtful the above is a quote from him. My fiance listened to him as well and said he couldn't believe that guy graduated from a 4 year college. I'm not saying he's going to bust - I'm just saying if you listened to him speak - you wouldn't be trying to explain away his Wonderlic score. Everett sounded much more intelligent and that's not saying much. Duke blew both of them away and it wasn't like he sounded like Einstein just of above average intelligence. (Those were all the press conferences I listened to.)

Don't forget that Rosenhaus is also the agent for Sean Taylor and Santana Moss - both of whom are holding out as well for new contracts. Sean Taylor has played ONE year and it was a good year not an amazing year. So I'm sure McGahee will be holding out next offseason even if he doesn't have a pro bowl year. We're just lucky Rosenhaus didn't talk him into holding out THIS year like Taylor.

I'm getting married in October. We had planned to go to Grenada because it had everything we wanted (not touristy, lots of hiking, relaxing). However, our friend mentioned hurricane season to us. What are other options? We are both Europed out and although I LOVED Australia and Hawaii and want to go back at some point - both are too far for us. (We're only planning to take a week for our honeymoon.) Any suggestions? Tahiti looks pretty awesome but I think that is too far as well.

As a D.C. resident, I do think it is annoying we don't have ONE representative (I don't even think a Senator is necessary just one representative in the House). I don't think it would change that much but it's the principle of the whole thing. Even states with tiny populations have 3 Congressmen.

Raised in Rustburg, Virginia. Currently 29. Now living in D.C. My first time to Buffalo was for a Bills game. Became a fan in 1989 because of Jim Kelly and hurry up offense and have been a fan ever since.

While I agree that JJ is not worth the contract - it wasn't THAT exorbitant. Strap the Bills for years? Assuming the base numbers look something like this - 1st year - $1 million, 2nd year $2 million, 3rd year $4 million, 4th year $4 million, 5th year $4 million, 6th year $4.5 million, 7th year $5 million (total $24.5 million with $12 million signing bonus = $36.5 million). I assume the contract is even more backloaded but we can use these numbers to be conservative. JJ's cap hit for the 1st year is $2.7 million - quite reasonable. 2nd year - $3.7 million - still reasonable. 3rd through 5th years - $5.7 million - not great but not horrendous. Assume he gets cut before his 6th year - dead cap of $3.4 million. I don't think that would strap the Bills for years. If he actually could play every game - a stout left tackle for an average of $5 million a year is a good deal. Of course, given his injury problems - I think the 49'ers overpaid but not as insanely as some teams last year.

My fiance who is a Browns fan has heard the Browns will offer Mangini $1 million. He has also heard the Pats will not give him more than $750,000. However, Mangini is supposedly super loyal to Bellicheck and so the Browns thinks the odds are slim that they get him. My fiance thought it was probably 75% Pats, 20% Browns and 5% Dolphins.

I hate the Pats but 3 SB wins in 4 years constitutes a dynasty. The Bills made it to 4 but they would still have had to win 3 of them to be considered a dynasty. Besides if the Bills squeaked out 3 of those - we would be livid if people said we weren't a dynasty.

Cost of hotel and travel expenses do make it much harder when the Bills lose but I love having season tickets! Besides - the Buffalo ticket is so much cheaper than most other teams and the hotels are very reasonable as well. You can't beat the atmosphere at a home game - it's so much better than watching on TV - definitely worth it.

I live in DC but have had season tickets for the past 2 years. Usually make it to 3 games and sell the rest. I like having seats in the lower level which are hard to get when you just buy individual games.

I looked into this once and you have to enter into a lottery really early (like the spring) to have a chance to buy tickets at face value. The NFL only allocates a VERY small percentage to the general public. Really sucks because it ends up that corporations buy like 80% of the tickets or something ridiculous.