UConn James

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Oh, to return to those days where on a 3rd and goal from the 1, the opponent can know we're going to run, and we still run and put up 6 points. The heady days of Carwell Gardner and Sam Gash blowing holes and smashing LBs. What we've had at FB for the past several years is pathetic for a cold-weather, run first, especially-in-December-when-it-counts team. Which is another plus about Bernstein.... he's outta friggin' Wisconsin. STL, you've gotta be kidding if you think he's still going to be there in the 6th. Even the low 3rd is a maybe.

Albeit, he could sign it with someone else.... It's not a bad deal for either camp. Provides the Bills with a receiver who, given an opportunity as #2 (who knows if he will), will be well motivated in order to cash in next year, but if he doesn't produce we can let him go w/ no hit. Davis stands to benefit in the example you provide.

Thanks for starting a thread on this. As I said on the college board, we really should be looking to draft a FB this year, as this is probably one of the better crops in a while and for a while. Add in that Shelton is 33(?) and didn't impress me too much last year. If Marv/Jauron are going to commit to the running game rather than just say he will like the past two regimes, he needs to fully commit. Time to get back to Buffalo Bills-style football, if you ask me. Which might mean using one of the early 3rds on a guy like Bernstein. It'd be nice to wrap this position up for the next 8 years and not have to worry about it. As it stands, we've been bringing in these small-school project FBs and depending on hybrids like Neufeld. Lots of people here on TBD who don't appreciate the FB. He is AS important or MORE important than any offensive lineman.

Moulds was disgruntled last season, when the FO wasn't seriously screwing around with his pay. I don't think him too low to not see the writing on the wall, and that he's going with the trade-or-release threat shows it. Relationships that sour like this don't generally get back to good terms. As for that last sentence, there's a lot of time for something to happen; from a draft-day deal to a Milloy-type release. And if it is a Milloy situation, there will be teams that will do what they need to get him, as he still can be a good-to-great receiver, just probably not in Buffalo. And to Peter, I'm not a "JP apologist," it's just that some of us take issue with a guy who holds a grudge against another due to circumstances out of his control, such that it affects the QB-WR effectiveness. I'm not saying that several weeks of offseason workouts would have guaranteed they'd be best buddies, but it would have helped both Moulds and the team if they were on the same page prior to camp, and it showed itself early in the season (and JP's performance was hindered when Evans got the heat) and exaserbated itself later in the season. Moulds is the one who didn't make the effort at the start, and refused to get over that Drew was no longer on the team.

Johnny, Lieberman and Dodd are the Connecticut senators until they choose not to run again or their hearts stop beating. And they know it. There are no consequences in whether they, or about 80 percent of the rest of both houses of Congress, support this or that legislation.

I don't think we differ all that much. I'm just more in the mindset of 'If he's done it once....' What happens the next time he deems that he's not being used effectively? Moulds hasn't really showed me that he's any better than my 5-y.o. nephew in learning what his role is and who is in charge. And I don't think this sets the proper tone in the locker room, even if it has been glossed over/smoothed out. It still happened and it's not going to be forgotten while he's still here. But the harsher look is further supported by what he's doing now in creating another publicly-aired flap with the FO (and BTW a FO now headed by the coach he didn't exactly enamor himself with as a young player), even if it is about something as delicate as a man's paycheck. If someone else wants this type of player, or can give Eric the situation that he wants, fine.

I don't know, if I'm on a job and call my boss an idiot who doesn't know his bippy from a hole in the ground, then get in my car and drive off.... You wouldn't expect to get fired? Moulds got a slap on the wrist. What does this say wrt anyone else doing the same thing? JP and Evans' syncranization last year was testament to what could have been had Moulds not been staring at his colon from the inside? Like I said, it was a problem of his own making. What's happening now is what needed to happen. It's how the NFL (and sports) is now that a player needs to "demand a trade" then the GM says that "X is under contract, and we'll blah blah blah" to get some hype going so both sides can get done what needs to get done. And I think it'll end up being win-win.

And whose fault is that? When JP was named the starter, he invited Evans and Moulds to work out with him to get their timing down and generally acclimate to each other. Moulds chose to take out his anger at TD cutting Drew, by not showing up. JP was on the same page as Evans; Moulds wasn't thrown to as much last year b/c he wasn't. Hard to empathize with someone who created his problem in the first place. And then there's the whole Miami game spectacle. The fact he's still on the team sends the players the wrong message that they can defy the coaches; Rueben pulled the same thing and he got his. Levy's hand was kind of forced, as you want to try to get something in exchange. And yet, he couldn't shop Moulds around in the situation last week b/c other teams figure all they need to do is wait to get him for free. Moulds and his agent now are moving things along on their natural progression by announcing that he is, de facto, on the market. I think we get something for him, but maybe not as much as one would like.

We haven't heard a fuggin' peep from him since the season ended, in contrast to last year's hypefest, but what do you expect from a loudmouth, cocky punk!

My inside sources say that in addition to that new rule only applying to the Bills, we have a $2 salary cap and must purge our roster of everyone but JP Losman, who will hike and throw to himself and then catch the ball; he will also play defense. Marv will be forced to coach pro bono by NFL fiat. Also, our opponents are allowed to have their entire roster and pratice squad on the field at all times.

Oh, dear. BTW, her name is Madeleine, just so you don't have to say "Lindy Ruff's daughter" while doing thoughts/prayers. Link

Yes, but he banged Blaze Starr in a linen cabinet. Tell me you wouldn't've nailed this back in the day, even if she was swarming with cooties.

Crennel put together a shopping list and he's getting what he wants. Good for him.

... and TD's Plug-'n'-Play LG, Lawrence 'Larry' Smith. Buh-bye(!), Justin.

The FB is not irrelevant, especially given our weakness in the interior OL. Antowain Smith griped about 'having to follow a FB' b/c it was the only excuse he had left while he was here, and the next season the times he was in a one-back set showed that, like all players who think they can be coaches, he was wrong. You're right that Shelton should be gone. McGahee should have either a blocking or a multi-use FB, and there are a couple in the draft that could be had in the 3rd or 4th. I for one am not overly confident in having Willis as a single-back or Neufeld or someone as a lead blocker on 3rd and goal from the 1. We've dealt with the effects of not having a bruiser FB since Gash left. In my mind, this is as important as upgrading the OL. Link.

To be fair, Buchanan has some jaw fat and structure left, and he brushed his hair (or someone cared enough about him to do it for him).

And, at times, fetal.

I can really see how Jefferson might have had Asperger's (high-functioning autism). Wrote the Declaration in 17 days. Gunshot and sword wounds are diseases? What entails "debilitating diarrhea"? Why does everyone assume that b/c Cal was quiet, he was depressed? You'd've thought a couple would have had paranoia.

I've been pointing this kid out since last season. With all the onus on 'We need OL!' this kid would be a GREAT pickup if Marv and Dick are truly serious about the running game. Bernstein is a bruiser and will remind you of Sam Gash. If we're looking more toward a rushing FB, there's a kid, Nick Hartigan out of Brown who will do well if he goes to the right situation; Ivy League TD record and I've seen him take big hits and pop right back up; Alstott-type player. Shelton underwhelmed me last season, and he's... 33? 34? There's a reason he was watching football from his couch two seasons ago.

Maybe having to pay his own way will turn him into a fiscal conservative Dem... or Libertarian. Good thing for one to have to do, in learning the 'Maybe govt shouldn't spend other people's money like a drunken sailor" idiom.

Best way to learn a foreign language too. He was in Puerto Rico for a few months and down in Columbia when that plane went down (lots to that story that he would not say), and if I had to list all the other places, it'd honestly take less time to tell you where he didn't go. My s-i-l went down to PR for a couple of weeks and stayed in the hotel room. Fabulous deal for her.

My uncle served on the Midway in late WWII & Korea. Lost his hearing and is just now getting VA benefits for it. Thanks. I'll make sure to send him this.

I was thinking stuff like this. Get a few pictures of administration officials with a split-second bizarre facial feature, some nice clip-art of demons, and a grainy photo of the cover of "Wag the Dog," combine it all with 12 different color fonts and you've got yourself a sizzling indictment of the Clinton Presidency, yessiree. All of these Dems under accusation by the Repubs must go un-indicted and get away Scot-free with everything because.... they control all three branches of government?

My brother in the Air Force Ravens goes on missions from time to time. Taking care of his checkbook while he was away after 9/11, it was a vertiable checklist of five-star hotels (for amenities the gov't didn't pick up, which meant, not much b/c they love to spend it). But after Khobar, that's what they have to do; anything less doesn't have the required security.