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Agreed. Posters often seem to be out of control on this board with demands that a 1st round pick start right now and contribute right now or he somehow is being misused or shouldbe declared a bust. Remember Eric Moulds rookie+ performance. It took him over 2 years to find his way and become productive as a player. Even despite some dumb penalties this year and the usual occurence of some untimely drops (which happen to all WRs unless they are Jerry Rice) he is by far the best player on the Bills offense. It is great when a 1st rounder plays immediately. it is even better when a 1st rounder contributes immediately. However, though it ishoped for it is far from required in the NFL as many great players have gotten slow or even disgusting starts and then become good or even great players. Moulds is just one example close to home of a 1st rounder who sucked initially that was a great pick by us. For those whose panties are all up in a wad about us "wasting" a 1st rounder+ on Losman, Michael Vick sat and learned his first year and led his team to the playoffs his second year. Chad Pennington sat and watched his first year and led his team to the playoffs his second year. Teams fairly routinely make an investment like Carson Palmer who was drafted as early as you want and contrbuted nothing his first year on the field. he may yet turn out to be a Ryan Leaf, but any flat out claim that a 1st round pick must play and contribute right away or he was a bad pick is simply wrong.

Certasinly the most interesting play Moorman has made this year from my perspective was the pass he completed for the first down in Sundays game. While discussion of this will likely breed such silliness from folks who devote far too much time to Bledsoe than he is worth as suggestions that he be made our starting QB, I found it important for several reasons: 1. It should make Moorman a more effective punter as opponents now know he can and will pull off this play. Players blitzing from that side now need to keep an eye on a potential WR as well as simply making an all-out blitz to block the kick. In addition by making himself a potential receiver. it becomes even more important for anyone trying to block the gunner to not hit him after 5 yards lest they draw an interference call. 2. It is tangible evidence that MM has retained his bag of tricks and willingness to go to the trick play on occaision. 3, it is some evidence that the Bills have identified their seemingly recurrent problem of going 3 and out on the first series as an issue to be addressed. One would prefer the real O do some drives, but if it comes down to a fake punt this is part of our bag of tricks. This pass certainly does not outweight Moorman being judged on his performance as a punter as that it is primary job, but it is a positive factor in his game that needs to be mentioned in any analysis of him which purports to be complete.

Cliff notesL yep the OL is bad right now but I wouldn't give up hope. My sense of the O-line is: 1. The unit actually has some potential, but my sense of potential in the NFL simply means you haven't done anything yet so this group has little to be proud of in general and nothing to be proud of this year. 2, There are several real things which actually account for this potential: A. It's a group game overall few units on the team will perform well based more on how they mesh and co-ordinate with each other rather than the sum of the individual skills of the olayers. Individual talent is obviously a baseline from which you start, but I have both seen talented athletes individually suck as an OL because they can't communicate and co-ordinate well the line calls anf blocking scheme and I have also seen underweight pedestrian talented blockers produce 1000 yard seasons with a fair to middlin RB because they cio=ordinate well together. There is potential here because the Bills braintrust seems to get it (even if fans don't with our typical over-focusing on the talents (or lack thereof) of individual players and the counter-productive desire to switch players in and out of the line-up or between OL positions in mid-season as though the players were tinker-toys who can be moved anywhere. The key here is to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts so i am not freaked out by individual problems with adequate players. B. Age- Its a yong unit for the most part and the players should be expected to learn and get better. C. The individual players the Bills have strike me as adequate across the board and actually exceptional in some regard in many cases: 1. Jonas Jennings- Seems to be generally regarded as an exceptional talent by most observers and his peers. The fact he has moved into the LT slot for the Bills when originally he was not visualized there is objective evidence of his quality. The likelihood that he should cimmand vigorous interest as an FA is further outside validation of his talent. However, his FA status is a negative for his Bills prospects as he appears to be ready to head south to his home after this season. His FA status problem is only exceeded by his inability to stay healthy throughout his career. Still, it is easy to see why Bills fans should be hopeful about his play this year. 2. Lawrence Smith- Too arly to tell if he is really any good, but the fact he broke into the lineup from UDFA status may bode very well. The lack of a returning starter at his LG position does raise the possibility that the move to Smith spoke more to the lack of a firm answer here than to his talent. However, the bck-ups here seem to be credible NFL players though not world-beaters so the likelihood is that Smith is at least a credible NFL talent and we hope he develops into a star. 3. Trey Teague- He is a whipping boy on TSW and it is true that he is underweight for an NFL lineman and given the trend of increased size of opposing DTS in this league, a level of concern is justified particularly when you see him get bullriushed from time to time. However, fans tend to overblow these issues as the keys to the center position are primarily in other areas such as the smarts to analyze quuickly to do good line calls, am ability to communicate well with your peers to help them co-ordinate, communication with your QB and the ability to make consistent good snaps in the shotgun. Teague is generaly recognized as a smart player who can handle the mental aspects of the center game which are a key to its success. He is also talked about as having good communication and rapport with his linemates on and off the field, he and Drew seem to communicate well. His shotgun snaps were a real adventure last year and seem to have improved. I think the major issue I see with Teague is one of multi-tasking, he does a lot of things quite well, but seems to have trouble sometimes when called upon to do multiple items at the same time, My sense is that he is most prone to be bull-rushed when O-line analysis and making line calls or making a shotgun snap distract him from getting the leverage he needs as an undersized guy against an onrushing DT. Who knows wether he can do all of this, but practice we hope makes perfect/ 4. Chris Villarial- He has a good rep and seems to step right in to a needed area when we loss the only experienced OL player we had when we cur Ruben. We know what he can do, he simply has to do it, The holding call on thrid and short reversing WM's first down did not bode well, we must hope it was an exception that will prove the rule of a productive Villarial. 5. Mile Williams- despite earned disgust with him taking a death hard and allowing himself toget overweight, it is still way too early for fans to devlare him a bust and give up on him. A lot of the acrimony against him on TSW seems more prompted by the hatred some have for TD than any understanding of this athlete proving to be unfortunately human or any sense of his development as a player really being arrested by being under the leadership of Vinky and Ruel. He is still a big boy who is light on his feet and had success in college. Back-ups- I like Price and Tucker alot as back-ups and would give them the call first at both tackle positions for Price and all three interior positions for Tucker. Pucillo cannot be counted upon to start but has seen alot of gametime which makes him reasonable a back-up to my back-ups. Both McFarland and PS guy Sobieski are future speculative investments as far as I am concerned, Overall, the OL looked pretty good to me in the first game and simply sucked against Oakland. We'll see who shows up against the Pats but despite some problems that must be addressed I remain hopeful about this bunch. For the most part, this is the same crew that was effective at run blocking the last two seasons for Travis and showed surprinly good results with pass pro last week.

As far as real teams, it would depend on what I thought my team needed in order to achieve. If I needed good Xs and Os, I'd choose Belicheck because it is clear few if any have better football minds. However. if I had a team which needed to rebuild and regain its stature and if I judged my team needed motivation and leadership, I'd choose Parcellls over BB. In terms of the tota; package because neither is a stiff at the other guys strenght (BB willed NE to success and Parcells also has a great football mind and instincts though I think he is no BB in terms of Xs abd Os) I'd choose Parcells in ter,s pf tje whole package. Winning the SF is what it is all about in terms of goals, but simply making the SB is essential if you want to win it and making the Big Game gets lots of credit in my book. I think that Parcells achievements are fantastic in not only being a multiple winner (something few HCs have achieved and even fewer with vrty different teams winning it), but I put a big feather in the Parcells cap for coaching a team to the dance in addition to winning it. In addition to his outstanding achievements with NYG and NE, I also think it is a lesser than making it to the Big Dance but still an outstanding axhievement far better than what most HCs have achieved with how he was able to bring virtually immediate improvement to NYJ and Dallas. It takes a Rich Kotite type to lose everywhere he goes, but I'm pretty confident that Parcells can win everywhere he goea. Belicheck has done a phenomenal job with NE and winning an SB puts an HC in a special place and skipping a year and then winning it puts him in an even more special place. However, being impressive in one place does not compare in my mind to Parcells being impressive in multiple places everywhere he goes. BB will have to win a few more with NE or go someplace else and win to erase from my mind the horrible results he had in his first go round as an HC and the flip-flop he pulled when he agreed to go to NY and then he went back on his word and pulled out. This was not a fine hour or a profile in HC courage in my book. BB is great but there are some negatives in his career as an HC that cannot be ignored if one is judging the careers of the these two men. As far as BB getting credit for the SB wins under Parcells at NYG, sorry but Parcells was the HC and BB wasn't so I find it contrtadictory to give BB credit for being a good HC there when he wasn't. Even to the extent you want to declare BB a god there, then also give Parcells credit for being smart enough to choose him and let him do his work. In addition, as far as the NYG win over the Bills, there work on the side of the game which BB did not have control over was a key to the NYG win. Parcells gets the credit in my book for being HC of NYG because he was the JB and BB wasn't.

Nope he won't be ready based pm what I hear. He apparently is expected to miss at least two more games.

I think very highly of folks who are in our armed services not merely because they do what they do, but because they do what they do without asking for thanks, requiring our fealty or requiring adulation. Protests that members of the armed services pay folks welfare or do what they do to protect us reduces this great service to a mercenary level. That the relationship between the public and the armed forces is some fee for service deal. We can never pay enough money to people in our armed forces for risking the ultimate for our freedom. Our society should pay our troops more and certainly should offer whatever it takes to take care of the wounded and offer them leadership that does not make the mistakes seemingly made in getting more troops to Iraq, mistakes that our troops are paying for today with over a 1000 lives lost and thousands wounded. I wish though that posters would not reduce this sacrifice down to some financial deal or requirement of some certain type of behavior. The poster should know better than many the sacrifice that our troops have made so Simon or others can post anyway they want.

Many thanks!!

From what I read and see everyne involved with the Oprah show from tproducers and Oprah on down (economically) to the car recipients do have this figured out. Oprah and show get the benefit of a great promotion for the show and her "wikdest dreams" season. They also get the joy of seeing how excited folks were when they got the keys and realized they had been given this "gift." The folks who received this gift got the joy of getting this substantial gift. In shirt order I;m sure they came to realize that this gift wasn't an outright simple gift where they had nothing to do but drive, but any consideration of these issues comes down to a bootomline that they still are receiving $20K for coming to a show and they need to make a choice about whether to take this $20K gift in the form of a $28K car with several thousand dollars in taxes to be paid for receiving this gift (most likely something like $4000 or less depending upon their tax bracket rather than the theoretically true $7K tax for someone in the highest tax bracket). A gift is a gift and a $29K gift is a $20 K gift. Eveyine involved in the Oprah show be they audience or producers is making out great on this. Reporters who selectively report the racts surrounding this case are also making out well on this. The only folks who seem to be rubes here are anyone who thinks that someone who received a $20K gift is being ripped off and a still surprising number of people to me who seem to gain their tax knowledge from the folks in Hollywood from movies. No one involved is getting ripped off here.

One need only notice who has the byline and seen some of his past ranting to consider the source of this article and its impact on the sum total truth of what it says. In the past the author has collected a bunch of factoids and woven them together and selectively chosen them to try to prove a predetermined point of view and simply failed at his task and seeming goal. Definitiely 0-2 is 0-2 and this team needs to make some significant improvements and adjustments in order to produce better game results. However, leaping from the selected events and stats, powered by conslusions drawn by the writer about why people did what they did and what impact it has had on their psyches and the team is simply fluff. I think this team is a long way away from being on the verge of collapse because A: it is still early in the season and teams seemingly on the verge of collapse have turned their fortunes around in a big way by drawing together (ex: a credible case could certainly be made that last year's NE team was on the verge of collapse after BB fumbled the Milloy situation and a bunch of unfortunate injuries occured and look at the results). B: All things being said the players are (take your pick) proud athletes or dumb joks and either way both starting points lead to a TEAM drawing together and turning against outsiders before it implodes (which did finally happen to the Bills late last season after a 2-0 start and many problems). C: The primemotivator for individual players if it is not athletic pride is simply to make as much money as they can and clearly collapsing after 2 games will not be good for any individual trying to make a bunch of money. All in all the conclusions drawn by this article seem mostly based on the thinking (wishful or just silly) of the author and seem based more on his own theories of the game rather than any reporting or reality.

Actually consideration of real dollar amounts that you do shows how this article presents stats which may be true (meaning its possible) but does not tell the truth about this situation. The tax bite which is owed for this gift varies depending upon the taxes of the individual receiving the gift. The only way a person might owe $7,000 in taxes for this car is if they are in the highest tax bracket (translated this means they make a lot of money) so that this gift is taxed at the highest rate. For folks taxed at the highest rate (28% I believe but I ain't no accountant), this tax bite is probably not a huge worry as they likely can oset it with losses accrued in other holdings. The people one would be most concerned about in this case are lower-income people and thus in our progressive tax structure, their income is taxed at the lowest rate (15% I believe). Thus, someone conceivably could owe $7000 for receiving this $28,000 gift, but if they are in the lowest tax bracket they would in fact owe $4200 so the monthly payment you describe would in fact be lower. Much depends also on the nature of the gift. Many game shows for example, find it a royal hassle to give away the actual item offered on the show or in a brochure because it would mean they would have to buy and ship that item. The yactually offer winners the ability to receive the cash equivalent of the item up front. This both saves them from having to go out and buy and ship a bunch of toasters or cars and the recipient from advertising, selling, and shipping it. In Oprah's case, it seems as though she gave away keys and the actual cars so they could get a great video shoot. This may be the case as well because the car dealer actually can pay the wholesale costs for these cars and then deduct the retail value for the giveaway. However, the details of the declared value makes a substantial difference (as much as 50% mark-up on some items). In addition, there is a $10,000 gift tax deduction which allows the recipient not to pay any taxes on a $10,000 gift. usually this is used to transfer assets from one family member to another. I do not know how it applies or if it can be applied to this gift, but perhaps there may be some way for the recipient of the cars to escape these taxes as well. The baseline is that this rip-off ain't no rip-off.

I don't think it suckls for them at all. They are getting a gift with a cash value of $21,000 after taxes for applying for a ticket to be entertained. If they can't afford to take this gift in the form of a car and pay $7,000 (with various tax breaks ranging from the total amount for the rich to amounts in earned-income tax crednear the $3100 which lower level earners would owe for the car its really a red-herring to claim that somehow folks are going to be penalized economically for receiving this gift. I think the numbers reflected in this news story are simply bad reporting which gives some stas but less of the truth.

I dosagree that qb ratungs are a crock< they are badly flawed as shown by the calculations on HS, but its flaws are easily understood and explained as you point out in your post when a result turns yp that makes no sense. One would be totally foolish to taje this rating (ir any 1 stat quite frankly) as clearly showing who is the best QB. However, rather than being a crock (which I take from your context to be a complete or virtually complete rejection of it) it is a good tool to take strong account of when considering the quality of a QB. The vast vast najority of better QBs will have higher rankings and the vast vast majority of crappy QBs will have crappy rankings. As bad as it may be, it by far is the best thing out there in terms of trying to pull off the flawed idea of reducing reality tp statistics. I like the QB rating and I like it alot. Do you have something better that allows for easy comparison between individuls.

Fact is it depends upon what happens over the rest of this year and the nature of his contract. In terms of predictions, it appears extremely doubtful that they will even compete for much less make the playoffs this year, but stranger things have happened. Even if they don't make it to the playoffs, if they finish the year on a winning streak so that things look hopeful for next year, he certainly stays, Even if they suck in their play the rest of this year, he apparently has another year left on his contract at least and all signs point to him having taken care of the business side of the Bills well, upgrading the ticketing function into the 20th century finally, attracting competent guys to the braintrust, negotiated contracts well (though this matters less as far as the bottomline under the salary cap, and got them out of cap hell a least a year earlier than expected, Long term ticket sales and Business Backs the Bills seems to be cooking with gas also. It adds up to even if the team sux on the field this year he almost certainly stays another season.

This is totally an entertainment event and the major qualifiication is that she attract attention and folks talk about her, Comments from a number of folks saying how pissed they are at her that they are moved to advertise this event on TSW means Mission Accomplished on her part. One might remotely state that the WSOP is (or maybe used to be) is a Poker skill and luck tournament, but this event is made for TV completely. The key thing for ESPN, Annie Duke and in fact all the participants who will make bucks adding this to their resume and advertising them for other gigs is they could give a rat's behind what anyone thinks, just spell the name right.

This column should be a point well taken, particularly when you consider how firn we held to out views of the future after a 2-0 start last year and how the season turned out. The column actually points out more truth about thereactions of fans (which often have little to do with how things occur in the reality of a season) than it says about the Bills play. The only real and important measure for the Bills is the W/L and we have seen time and again that almost regardless of how it looks right now it ain't over until its over. Any poster who declares the season over right now should be immediately given the Wade Phillips award. it was not very long ago that he declared the season being over because there was no logical hope of getting to the playoffs with our record. Though he was right about us, Indy made the playoffs that year with the same record. The difference? There were many but a good starting point is that Indy HC Jim Mora publicly disagreed with Wade's view and said it ain't over til it over.

This is the least of our problems (particularly given the production of the D as a unit) and believe me we have problems on ST and O.

If you cut Bledsoe after July 1, 2005, the dead space is distributed to both 2005 and 2006. So there is no need to keep him and play him next season if you choose to not to cut him until July.

I disagree with you. Bledsoe certainly sucks as a player who is on the backsode pf his career , but one thing positive that can be said about him is that he never as far as I have hear offered up a series of excuses for his poor play blaming the OL, his OC or lack of a speed WR. He really has not reacted like the normal NFL player as he sucked it up and shut up when BB picked Brady to start the SB over him after he played QB in the majority of a must win game in the league championships. As far as your list" Excuse #17- Drew's immobility makes it tough for any OL to block for him particularly when he goes into his patting routine and holds the ball too long, but the OL does suck and that contributes to his poor production. Excuse #31- Kevin Killdrive did suck as an OC. How anyone can claim that Bledsoe sucking somehow lets KG off the hook for going completely pass happy and relying on Bledsoe is totally contradictory snf shows negative football knowledge. Excuse #33- GW was so not-ready-for-primetime that he not only deserved to be canned as HC but should have never been hired over Fox and Lewis inthe first place. Excuse #37- Bledsoe's public statements after Ruben's run-in with Killdrive last year were actually fairly supportive of Ruben or at least did not indict him for the transgression of going after one his bosses. Perhaps you know something we don't about what Bledsoe said and did behind closed doors. Excyse #54- This was obviously a team that by any utilitarian estimate was in deep need of another threat at WR after we saw how badly the passing game went after Moulds was hurt and the downturn in production after PP left. Reed disppointed with his drops last year and raised significant questions. A utilitarian view would actually tend you toward and Evans pick. It is amazing how folks dislike of Bledsoe causes them to take leave of any football sense and make arguments for the sake of blaming Bledsoe which are contradictory or just plain wrong. There are plenty or reasons to want to go beyond Bledsoe without making stuff up.

Wrong. One of Kevin Killdrive's problems was that he put too much faith in Bledsoe and got totally pass-happy with his ineffective offense. It is simply contradictory to apologize to KG and to blame Bledsoe for being a bad player when KG's problem was that he put too much faith in and gave too much responsiblity to Bledsoe.

I know what Parcells wouldn't do. He wouldn't do something stupid just to prove he was tough and in control of the roster for the moment so he had the power to fire someone willy-nilly. I think one of the great things Parcells does that has helped him become a great HC is that he realizes that players definitely want discipline, but he earns his respect from the players with his unstinting loyalty to players for playing hard and gets the players permission to discipline them. Parcells from what I have seen has a wonderful sense of humor and a record of outstanding achievement. He has parlayed these two things into being able to publicly call out players with a smile along with his tough words so that the discipline is about a players play and not about a player as a person. He will call out a player on a personal failing, but only when that failing is a transgression and a lack of respect for his teammates and Parcells is speaking for them and disciplining for the teammates. Folks wonder how on earth an HC like Parcells would sign a player like Keyshawn Johnson. My guess is that though Keyshawn is clearly an egotistical idiot he never let down team leaders on a Parcells squad so there was no need to discipline him for his outlandish statements. My guess is that Parcells would certainly not bench a better player merely to play a 1st round choice because of his draft position. Just as Parcells is willing to put his team in the hands of an old guy likeTestaverde who is clearly past his prime and can't makes passes like he used to, I also would not be surprised that if Parcells HC'ed Bledsoe that he would also would stick with him. Rather than using an alarm clock to get Bledsoe to throw the damn ball he would probably use hi voice and the force of his will, but don't be sure at all that Parcells would ding Bledsoe or Moulds as you suggest.

I don't think it makes football sense to fault TD for the trade, as it: 1. Provided a clear upgrade over Rob Johnson when the deal was done as I think Bledsoe earned his Bowl nod for the 2002 season. He was by far the cheapest way for the Bills to get a QB who had started and won in the NFL (like it or not he was the QB in the majority of a must-win game for the Pats in 2001). 2. The deal played a major role in costing the hated Patriots a playoff appearance in the 2002 sandwiched in beteeen their SB runs in the 2001 and 2003 seasons. It certainly was painful to watch Belicheck undress Drew in the two games we played against the Pats in 2002, but overall, a trade which helped bring us from 3-13 to 8-8 and saw the Pats drop from SB winner to sitting at home during the playoffs because the acceleration of the Bledsoe cap hit took away their ability to sign players saw the Bills profit from this deal in 2002 while the Pats paid bigtime for the foolish contract they gave to Bledsoe. 3. Clearly was a big part of reviving excitement about football in this town after we went 3-13 in cap hel while rebuilding from the Butler days. on the other hand, I think TD can clearly be faulted for not cutting his and the team's losses by saying adios to Bledsoe (with no cap liability) after he sucked last season. Keeping Bledsoe made sense to the outside observer after he: 1. Agreed to a cap friendly contract which allows him to be cut after this season after July 1st of next year with a doable cap hit. 2. Pursued an offensive strategy with MM/Clements designed to repeat the Parcells/Belicheck job of getting Bledsoe to get rid of it quickly and to rely on the run game as our primary means of winning. 3. Most pundits felt that Bledsoe had something left. However, the pundits seem to be wrong. Bledsoe does not appear to have the football sense to constnatly play a winning style game which means not relying on his powerful arm. Even worse, the bringing in of JMac (a good move since Vinky and Ruel were clearly not remotely up to snuff) does not appear to be enough to improve the OL with Williams going in the wrong direction, with Teague having difficulty multi-tasking and with injuries which happen. I think the Bledsoe move was the right move at the time unless you know something we don't about AVP and RJ but he is not capable of winning like he did early in his career under Parcells or late in his career under BB/Weis without a lof of things the Bills do not have in place.

Not offering GW a new contract was one of the things which TD got right. GW should not have been hired in the first place over Fox or Lewis. Once he was hired, TD never should have let him make his own bed with his coaching staff as he did not (and does not) know the O game. Once this became clear when Shepard needed to be canned, TD should have followed his own inclination and gotten GW to hire Clements instead of Kevin Killdrive. Once it was clear that Killdrive was pass-happy, TD should have forced (cajoled) GW into stripping him of the OC responsibility (as NYG did in mid-season with Sean Payton) and given it to former OC les Steckel as apparently many players advocated doing. Canning GW was the right thing to do to try to reverse an early error by TD.

Yhe early bye week sux, but since the Bills O sux also this is a very good time for it. Bledsoe has 2 weeks to recover from the hit(s) and if the Bills braintrust deems Matthews as an answer (I really doubt he is since he would be on the courch at home were it not for the Brown injury) they have an extra week to school him. They also have an extra week for scanning the waiver wire for QB help, though again I doubt there is anyone left above the Matthews level. One of the silliest things on TSW are the ongoing rants and anti-Bledsoe threads. We all know Bledsoe sucks (tell us something we don't know) the key is who do folks advocate as the replacement QB whose bandwagon they are now getting on. The sound of crickets chirping is not only from those who still think Bledsoe can do it, but also the sound of Bledsoe bashers offering any credible alternatives.

Uhh.. the problem here is that Losman is out 8-12 weeks and cannot replace Bledsoe even if you thought he was ready for a couple of months. Matthews would be warming the couch if Brown hadn't been hurt and do you seriously see him as an NFL starting QB even if you don't see Bledsoe as a starting NFL QB? I know Bledsoe sucks and fans want to say this but what about reality?

I think there are those of us out here who are not Bledsoe lovers (it would have been great if they canned him in the off-season and looked elsewhere for a couple of cheaper potential starter QBs) who do not see his play as the primary cause of out losses. The key here to me would be to minimize the demand for Bledsoe to win the game for you (cause he can't) and instead to focus on improving the OL play and eliminating supid undisciplined ST play. I'm not arguing at all that Bledsoe is gonna win it for this team (though we all wish the QB position would), I only argue that he plays at his worse when you rely on him for the big play and he is not the QB we need to dig ourselves out of holes created by the ST. If you know some QB we can pick up who can do that, I'm all ears, but i see little alternatives for improvement that look beyond minimizing the impacts of Bledsoe's many faults.