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Needless to say, I voted "No" in their poll.

"The Game CBS Refused to Carry."

From your lips to Marv's ears. The guy is a straight-up pro quarterback. (DISCLAIMER (for the benefit of the JP police): This endorsement of Matt Schaub does not necessarily constitute an expression of the opinion that JP Losman is not qualified to start at quarterback for the Buffalo Bills in 2007, nor does it imply that JP Losman and poor play at the quarterback position are the only, or even the primary, reason that the 2006 Bills stink on toast.)

You can call Marv senile. You can curse Ralph Wilson's name. You can insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that this would be a Super Bowl team if only Craig Nall were starting. You can even speak ill of The Holy Trinity of Kelly, Thurman, and Reed. But it is an unforgivable blasphemy to -- even jokingly -- suggest that the Buffalo Bills should be moved out of Erie or Niagara Counties.

Now, now. You think that would've been ruled a fumble if the Bills had recovered?

A-effing-men. The beginning of the end of fun Sundays was the day that Donahoe hired Gregg Williams, who assumed the HC job determined to eradicate any signs of the highly effective Phillips/Cottrell defense -- simply because he needed to do things the way he did them in Tennessee. The fact that we didn't have the personnel to do things the way he did them in Tennessee should've caused him to think twice, but Gregggggg wasn't much for thinking in the first place . . .

I couldn't agree more. We're not going anywhere anyway this year -- let's take 17 weeks to fully evaluate JP Losman. If he still sucks at the end of the year, and shows no signs that he has what it takes to win a championship -- not just "improve," but win a championship -- it'll be time to cut bait and move on.

Nah. 1) Raiders (#1 with a bullet!) 2) Titans (Yes, they won today, but the Skins are pretty bad in their own right, and the Titans looked atrocious in their first three games.) 3) Fish (We beat them, after all.) 4) Texans (Even if you don't rate Willis . . . Ron Dayne?) Those four are definitely worse. Detroit, GB, Cleveland, and Arizona may be worse, may be better. We're a bad team, but we're probably not in the bottom five.

No one -- not even fans, much less the national press -- thought that the Bills were going to win "the NFL's toughest division." Because the Bills weren't hyped, they're not a fraud. They is what they is -- a mediocre to bad team.

So, so true. I look forward to collecting on my bets with Skins fans who thought that Washington would finish better than 10-6. Watching the annual preseason overconfidence of Skins fans degenerate into frustration and loathing is one of the pleasures of living in DC.

For what it's worth: Intentional Grounding of Forward Pass 1. Intentional grounding of a forward pass is a foul: loss of down and 10 yards from previous spot if passer is in the field of play or loss of down at the spot of the foul if it occurs more than 10 yards behind the line or safety if passer is in his own end zone when ball is released. 2. Intentional grounding will be called when a passer, facing an imminent loss of yardage due to pressure from the defense, throws a forward pass without a realistic chance of completion. 3. Intentional grounding will not be called when a passer, while out of the pocket and facing an imminent loss of yardage, throws a pass that lands at or beyond the line of scrimmage, even if no offensive player(s) have a realistic chance to catch the ball (including if the ball lands out of bounds over the sideline or end line). The key is to get outside the tackles, or to make it look like there was a "realistic chance of completion."

OK . . . let's see what we can do.

Yeah, there's plenty of middle ground between chucking the ball into triple coverage and intentionally grounding the ball. Lots of QBs manage to dump off the the ball to avoid sacks many times every game, and rarely get called for grounding.

Ooog.

Slowwww.

He had time to unload it that time . . .

Whaddya smell now, Frez? Say "Bills TD."

I'd agree with you, except that we are playing Les Liones. Anything could happen.

Eh. Good decision by Jauron, in any event.

That's fine -- it's a good risk-reward balance. If we win it, it makes a big difference. If we lose, i's just a time out, and it was worth it to try and keep 3 off the board.

See, I don't know about that. It wouldn't surprise me if he weren't almost to the point of no return -- where he's just taken too many hits, and seen so much unabated pressure, that he can't function and process information like a normal QB. It happens. Kenny O'Brien is the classic example.

Aaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh It's getting to the point where we'll never know whether JP would have been a decent NFL QB in a normal situation, because he's this close to contracting Ken O'Brien-its (also known as shellshockitude).

Keep running . . . need to wear them down.

Holy sheet -- we coverted a big 3rd down! Will wonders never cease?

A little pressure makes all the difference.