UConn James

I think you just won the POST OF THE DAY award. For the posters who want to start KH the rest of the way to garner us a whole 4 or 5 wins, when JP has just as much a chance of doing that plus learning the game and becoming a potentially great QB, I want to just reach through my computer screen and choke the sh-- out of them.

Are we watching the same video? Went nuts? He looked like a deer in the headlights. Lifting the officers up? They had his hands behind his back. What was he using, his third leg? The hopping you see is the officers were scrambling around him to get in position. Is this the same way Willis summons a run-blitzing CB to leave his feet and go helmet-to-helmet for a tackle? (The way the refs call our games, I wouldn't be surprised to see that call at some point).

Always the clearest sign that nothing wrong is happening when the blue wall goes up. "Move on. Nothing happening here." When sh-- like this happens, it's not enough that someone in a suit smirks and says, "Sorry 'bout that."

He's played too little to be estimated. Three and a half games and people here are ready to put him on the guillatine. Friggin unbelievable. Agreed on your last sentence. We've got people in there that can't define what kind of team they want to be.

Instead, he's doing exactly as I predicted he would when he was signed. 'JP who? I'll be starting from now on.' He ran the same Mr. Innocent Supplanter scheme with Couch. I hope JP holds up better, but it's gotta be a shock when the team said it was his team this year thick and thin then pulled him after four friggin' games. He needs a sit-down for a couple of games. Reading that BN article, I think KH has other ideas, tho.

So, Ralph didn't growl and say, "WTF!!"?

Feast-or-famine rain in the NE isn't anything new. It would be nice if it came down an inch per week in the summer/fall, but it doesn't happen like that. New England is not Arizona. Vive le difference.

<Jim Mora voice> PLAYOFFS??!?!!?? PLAYOFFS??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???? </Jim Mora voice>

Let's face it. We are in the bottom tier of teams, and have been there for the past several seasons. The team I'd compare us with is the mid-to-late '90s Detroit Lions. Talent at a lot of positions, but for some reason it doesn't all come together.

Happened last year as people were willing to stick with Bledose until he came up small vs. Pitt. m it'll happen this year as everyone's screaming to start Holcomb b/c he'll get us a guaranteed 5 wins (WOO HOO for mediocrity!!! ). It's called patience, something that NO ONE here has. Everyone expects the catepillar to instantly turn into the butterfly. Fully agree with the timeframe. If he doesn't get playing time at least the last half of the season, we'll be doing the same thing next season, and if we still have wishy-washy coaches and TC's craptacular playcalling, he will ride the pine again and either go Ryan-Leaf-crazy or oxidize or both. HE'S PLAYED FOUR EFFING GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Early on in the tape, when they have hhim against the building, the police horse was in the way and as it backed up, you could see the guy wide-eyed, probably thinking "WTF?" but otherwise nonagressive. And then the punching starts. The guy says he doesn't think, or at least hopes, it was not racially motivated. I don't think it was. But it was way overboard. The officers involved have been charged with "simple battery" so far; they should be charged with assault. Also, why is the thread title describe them as "corrupt"? Corruption in the common vernacular and especially in this sense, implies bribes, etc.

Wouldn't be surprised if he would be able to appoint someone to oversee the team while he would stay hands-off for anything relating to them. Kind of like how many high-level pols put their stocks and such in a blind trust. I don't think he'd have to sell 51% or something like that. Holding office doesn't mean that you can't own a business. Just that there can't be any hoochie-koochie, and people with an interest are going to watch you pretty closely.

If it's brown, flush it down. I don't even live in California, and I think of this every time I'm in the loo. That, and Oprah. The one time there was nothing else on and I was too sick (flu) to reach for the remote anyway, there was a doctor on saying that your "yellow" should be very light, and if it's a dark yellow, you're dehydrated. ----- Also in a preview was Kate taking a shower, apparently in Desmond's pad. Who wants to bet that Kate buddies up with Locke to enter the code? She does everything else that Jack says not to do, after she explicity says "I've got your back" and he never really gets upset about it.

I would just like to point out all of those other times when we all "knew" that we'd blow out to the Jets and Vinny's 40-year-old, and then punch our TVs when they absolutely raped us. I speak distinctly to that pre-halftime Hail Mary.... then Chadwick's juke on ER.... then CM's big games last year. Seems every year we go in confident and come out with a big . I'm not even confident this year.

Ramius, that's probably considered a spoiler as it contains at least some info on the fate of the characters. Not that anyone really thinks those characters will be bumped off or anything. But still. Yellow, bud.

On the contrary, if it weren't true, I would've expected DB to be at the podium saying something like, "Obviously, we've* got to execute better at determining which end zone we're going to defend after the coin flip, obviously. Obviously." The fact that he never refuted the story speaks to itself. *"we've" meaning all 1 of the Buffalo Bills starting QBs.

Not that I'm on board with it, but Drew did fairly tank the win-and-you're-in game vs. Pitt. Made sure to show everyone with the streak that he still had something, but came up small in a big game. Ensured that the coaches and TD were very disappointed in his performance. And even with something as small as choosing the opposite end zone they distinctly told him to, there was a battle of wills going on. If it is the case that he intentioanlly tanked his way out of town, I can't really blame Drew. He's in a great spot that highlights his strengths now, and he's away from people who were putting together a gumbo of one of everything that's in the fridge and hoping it tasted good. Which is the same thing they're doing now.

The milk is spilled. You can't drink it. And it's really of no use talking about it except as to say that we need someone who won't spill the milk in the future.

It hurts to say it, but I think the realization is just hitting me and a lot of us that we're in the lower teir of teams. Five years removed from the playoffs, 10 years removed from winning a playoff game.... We've largely built up with FAs in place of drafting players. It has all the hallmarks of a team not knowing what it's doing or where it's headed, from the highest levels down. About in the same boat as SD was in '98. TD is a good team president, but as a GM, I've lost all confidence in him.

JC, we'll wait and see until the D and/or STs throw up a couple of stinkers, and then the posters here will realize that it was they who won the game, not Holcomb. When Holcomb has to put the team on his shoulders like JP was forced to vs. TB and NO, I'll still rabidly root for the Bills, but I8 don't think he'll be able to pull it off. Anyone watch at least the first half of Pitt-SD last night? Two relatively young QBs that were making bad reads and bad throws. Ben The Great Rothlisberger has a 58% completion rate so far. Thing is, he's not being placed in a situation designed to fail. And they've left him in there. They have used the running game adequately, whereas Tom Clements has his head so far up his a$$ he can see daylight. If anyone did some snooping, I'd wager you'd find that scoring and offenses in general are declining from previous years. Defense has made a comeback in the NFL after a few years where the league has bent over backwards to change rules to give an advantage to offenses.

NO NO NO! The failings of the offense were all JP. If he were in there, we would have lost by like..... 1,000. Didn't get your talking points today, did you?

He made two in the preseason from 50+. I think his struggles here have been more power-related (and perhaps some snap issues), and he did a good job of working on that in the offseason. As I recall, he worked with a guy who specialized in that, and I've been impressed with the results. It really shows in his KOs too; no more fielding at the 10-15. Most are at or near the goal line.

I believe it was 6 first downs given to the Bills on penalties, if the counters in the chat room were accurate.

I dunno. For all of his big break-away highlight reel runs at the U, Willis hasn't broken any like that here. Kind of disappointing, b/c behind this line, he hasn't shown to be much more than a guy who has a lot of 1-4 yard runs. There was one against the Falcons where EM had a nice block, but Willis got tackled by his biggest nemesis --- the Turf Monster.

That, and they made a cute couple. :D