Sen. John Blutarsky

I agree, but it doesn't excuse the person who got hit for not doing everything they can do to protect themselves. I go right back to the seat belt arguement, if you go through a windshield w/o a belt on it's at least partially YOUR FAULT for not accepting responsibility for your own safety. YOU could have taken action to reduce the severity of your own injuries in the event of an accident. YOU chose not to do that. Why does he wear a mouthguard on the field, thigh pads, large (non-kicker) shoulder pads? To protect himself from the hit he doesn't see coming. He does that on grass, not at any speed on concrete with thousands of pounds of steel flying around. For football, he'll take precautions, but not for riding his motorcycle? Stupid.

His level of stupidity is, in no way, linked to the severity of his injuries. He was stupid before he got hit by a car. I'm also quite sure that he was in violation of his massive contract (just like Winslow). If he ends up not being seriously hurt, it makes him luckier, not smarter. Just like it makes me luckier if I drive my car w/o a seatbelt and the airbag switched off and I don't get hurt, it isn't smart, it's lucky. If he wears a cup for football why not a helmet for riding in PA...neither are required by the rules (the NFL requires helmet use so it's not a fair comparison)

Ya know, that hearing and vision restricting helmet doesn't seem to bother him at work. And any helmet is better than none, even if it wasn't a full face shielded one. The rest of us have hearing and vision restricting CARS around us, my helmet weighs 3,000 lbs...how's yours.

I think the helmet law should be based upon speed. if you're going less than 35 (e.g. on a city street) you should have to wear a helmet because the likelihood of a minor crash that you can survive is high, if you're on the freeway the hell with it because if you wipe out you're road kill, especially these guys on the racing bikes, they fall, they're dead, the only thing the helmet will do is allow your faily to identify the mass of shredded flesh you will have become.

Well if Jerome says it...with his vast medical expertise... "encouraging" news from a hospital means the patient isn't going to DIE. From a medical standpoint Kellen Winslow wasn't seriously injured in his motorcycle wreck, hospitals prioritize arms and legs much lower than heads and internal organs, if you tear an ACL in a car wreck you're "fine" because it won't kill you. If you whack your head off the ground and the news is "encouraging" that means they don't think they'll have to drill a hole in your skull to let the blood drain out before the excess pressure kills you. It doesn't mean that you don't have a hellacious concussion or a fractured skull.

He's careful when he rides...maybe if he plays carefully he shouldn't wear a helmet at his job. MOST people wear helmets to prevent UNEXPECTED injuries, not to protect them from their own actions...the people that do wear helmets for that reason don't get paid tons of money to play football...they sit in padded rooms. IDIOT. Maybe there is some validity to the Wonderlic test after all.

I have my eye on Coy Wire, but I wouldn't recommend coming into camp out of shape...Marv HATES fat players (except for his brief foray into BBW love with Jerry Crafts). Even Ballard wasn't fat and he'd be smallish by modern standards.

Rumor had it that when Bennie was cut he bled gravy.... In a related story, the wholesale price of chicken wings plummeted in WNY this week. Industry insiders speculated that the price drop was in response to a sudden drop in demand...

If Bennie Anderson falls in the woods does anything in the forest survive? and were the squirrels stunting on the play?

Well, the newest Bills/Sabres fan thinks he's turned the luck around. My son was born Tuesday at 5:48pm. For those of you who know how hospitals work, they wrote it down as 17:48. We joked that Dumont and Briere would score because of the numbers. Imagine our reaction when not only Dumont scored, but Briere got the winner. He's coming home from the hospital tomorrow and we've got the Sabres onesie and hat all ready to put him in. The only question is old logo or new? I'm leaning new, the new logo is 1-1 in game 7 and the old one is 0-3...and the one we won was on the road...

Not in the locker room....BEFORE THE GAME...there are principles involved. The Cup might be in the bldg. but the team up 3-2 isn't sipping their Gatorade out of it during the pre-game skate. You know who else had the champagne out too early? The '86 Boston Red Sox. Buckner boots the ball, Mets win game 6, Red Sox come into the locker room to see equipment managers scrambling to get all the stuff out of the room and they had to peel the protective plastic off their own lockers...they went on to lose game 7. Never forget, underneath it all....THEY'RE STILL THE HARTFORD WHALERS!

Staal went to the Matthew Barnaby School of Self-Induced Whiplash. Every time someone comes anywhere NEAR him he jerks his head back like he's having an epileptic seizure...and in game 5 he swung his stick at someone's head in a scrum, he didn't connect so no penalty was called...yeah...he's a credit to the game... The fact that Doug Weight is one of the best American hockey players ever is an indictment of American hockey, not a credit to Weight. What exactly has the US team done in international competition under his steadfast leadership? Speaking of Laviolette, maybe we should sign Artus Irbe for one night and put him in goal...or dress like the Latvian National Team. Laviolette couldn't get the US National Team to a win over LATVIA....master motivator he is not.

The Buffalo Bills are on the clock...

While the quote makes me happy keep in mind we're talking about special teams, the bulk of which involves being motivated to run fast and kill the man in front of you. I guess we can take that our rookies are well motivated to play hard in any role even when it means running 60 yards into a 300 pound man. Nonetheless, I smile when thinking of our newest crop of wedge busters and crackbackers.

We have a winner! Bruce Mathison of the 4 TDs and 14 Ints which STILL managed to be better than Vince Ferragamo...yeeeesh

...of course we also lost to Jeff Hostetler and Mark Rypien in Super Bowls But you're right in that the competetion to get there was at least a little better than what the Eagles have faced and the Bills did it on the road a couple times too, winning in Pittsburgh and Miami. There's also something to be said for dominating at home, that's what you're SUPPOSED to do. The Eagles lost the last game at the Vet for God's Sake, you can't lose that game and be taken seriously. We did luck out a bit in '90 when Bo Jackson got hurt the week before, I think that game would have been much much closer had that not happened.

Amen brother...

Trotter is liked here because he's a good quote and he jumps up and down, on the field he has the distinction of being better than Mark Simoneau. Their defense improved when he came back, was it because he's great or because Simoneau is awful? The Eagles in general are pretty overrated, they had been beating up on a soft division in the lesser conference for a number of years only to lose in the playoffs (both at home and on the road) to the first truly good team they faced (St. Louis who went on to lose to Brady, Tampa who crushed Oakland, Carolina who lost to Brady, and then they finally beat Atlanta at home only to lose to Brady themselves) They're like the Colts except the Colts lost to the eventual SB champ 3 straight years (New England 2x and Pittsburgh), the Eagles only did that once (Tampa). Their division caught up to them finally so we'll see how they do but I think they're decline is well underway given that they were pretty large paper tigers to start with.

Who laid that out as a blueprint? my point was that your defense should never quit and then blame the offense for the outcome. The guys you WANT on defense dont even care what the SCORE is, they want to stop the opposing offense out of PRINCIPLE. It's easy to motivate people in a close game, you learn something about people by the way they play when they are either up or down big. Offensive guys should be greedy and always want more yards, more points, more of everything, defensive guys should always want to shut the opposition down, no yards, no first downs, no points...ever. Even if they've gotten torched 5 straight drives, this is gonna be the drive we stop them. Players that coast when you're up get you beat (ask the '92 Oilers) and players that quit when you're down get you beat because you never have a chance to pull off a comeback. I'll be the corny fan-boy that brings it up...if the '92 Bills defense had mailed it in because "the team wasn't going anywhere" that comeback would have never happened. they gave up 28 points in a half and the offense tacked 7 more onto that by themselves. The very easily could have bagged the game from there out and noone would have blamed them. The defense won that game by shutting the Oilers down for the second half and the first couple stops were ON PRINCIPLE not because we were within a sniff of catching up. All those lovely Andre Reed clips we see on the highlight video and the big warm fuzzy we all get would not have happened if our BACKUP defense hadn't played hard just because it's what you're supposed to do.

Yes, if only they'd allowed Doug to cover the kickoff he'd have tackled Kevin Dyson with a mere stern glare... I'm glad someone mentioned Dougie's playoff game too. Nothing like fumbling on the 5 yard line when you're going in for the win. If you mess with the V-size on your monitor a little it actually looks like an RJ play. And to be fair RJ DID lead a substantial 2 minute drive in that game to take the lead and he did part of it without a shoe. If we tackle Dyson I think we all look at RJ differently because he joins a very short list of Bills QBs to win a playoff game (Kemp, Ferguson, Kelly, Reich and I think that's it.) And before someone goes off as me being a Flutie Hater and RJ-slurper. Whatever, they BOTH sucked. They BOTH needed to go and the fact that people debate this is emabrassing. Flutie/Johnson is like Bush/Gore or Bush/Kerry. It inspires at lot of heated debate and ruffles feathers but at the end of the day they BOTH suck. Let's stop arguing about who was less crappy.

Freddy was a victim of the notorious "Plan B" free agency. He was claimed by San Francisco and under the rules of the time had to go. he hurt his back very early that year and was done. My enduring memory of Fred is "Offsides, Number #76, Defense. Five yeard penalty, first down." Of course my solid memories begin around 1984 when the team was shite so I don't really recall the "Bermuda Triangle" days.

Those two things don't go together. Locker room cancers are losers. Terrell Owens is a loser, Barry Bonds is a loser, Jeff Kent is a loser. All of those guys are tremendously competitive and do tremendous things on the field but their clubhouse/locker room stuff sabotages their on-field accomplishments. Tom Brady is a winner (though it kills me to say it). He isn't the most physically gifted guy either but he sublimates his ego and does what the team needs.

The defense should be the last thing to quit, as a matter of fact it should never quit. If your defense bails because "the team isn't going anywhere" you need a new defense because they were at least half the reason the Eagles DIDN'T go anywhere last year. I don't care how terrible the offense is. The Ravens won a Super Bowl with a worse offense than what the Eagles put on the field last year because their defense didn't mail it in on Trent Dilfer and Tony Banks.

Philly has done absoultely NOTHING to improve their running game and have fewer people to throw to. Unless Andy Reid figures out that this isn't the CFL the Eagles are gonna have problems again. Their secondary was absoultely exposed last year and their front 8 really hasn't been upgraded much. Kearse got his contract and will now disappear for the next 3 years. Darren Howard is damaged goods and doesn't play the run. Their starting linebackers include Dhani Jones and Matt McCoy, along with Jeremiah Trotter who is quite possibly the single most overrated LB in the NFL. Bunkley needs to come in and be King Kong from day 1 which is pretty unlikely based on the history of rookie DTs. They really could have used LeVar Arrington but they lost him to the Giants. Tom Coughlin isn't gonna mess around and bench him for freelancing like Huckleberry The Idiot did down in DC. His job is going to be finding the football and killing the man carrying it and the defense will be built around that rather than vice-versa.

Anybody remember the name of the first QB in the video. #5 who threw the ball to Andre in #46? Think of it, it'll come to you. Though I have to say it cracks me up that we all see Andre through rose colored glasses now. I remember a very large love/hate relationship with Andre and I'm quite sure if this board were in existance in 1995 that'd we'd have killed him for refusing to sign a lucrative extension and generally acting like a primadona. Coincidentally, he tore his hamstring that year, had to re-sign with us for less money and then played 4 more seasons with us. Had he stayed healthy that year and walked away for a big money deal I wonder if we'd be seeing him on the Wall of Fame or if he'd be in the pile along with Cornelius Bennett.