Sound_n_Fury

Not to beat a dead horse (much better to beat Florio), but here for your reading edification.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm 'ZONA DUMPS ON DONAHOE As a follow-up to our story from earlier on Tuesday regarding some harsh opinions as to Bills G.M. Tom Donahoe, we're now hearing that the Arizona Cardinals are unhappy with the manner in which Donahoe has handled the potential trade of tailback Travis Henry. Per a league source, Donahoe "totally screwed up the deal." Apparently, Arizona was offering tackle L.J. Shelton and a flip-flop of second-round picks. During those discussions, Donahoe "was swearing up and down that he had offers from . . . Philadelphia and Tampa Bay . . . for straight third-round picks." So "the Cardinals called [Donahoe's] bluff and both the Bucs and Eagles took [running backs] in the draft." Per the source, Donahoe "lost all credibility with [the Cardinals] when he pulled that crap. He never once said he didn't like [shelton], he just said he had better offers." Since the draft, Donahoe has suggested that the Bills never wanted Shelton. As a result, the Cardinals were chuckling when Donahoe was left holding the bag, and the source says that we can now add one more organization "to the list of teams that know [Donahoe] is full of sh-t."

Sounds like player and agent were made for one another...

Why don't you ask him: http://www.willismcgahee21.com/forum/viewt...ecfde933bfb466c

Then again..... http://www.profootballtalk.com/6-1-04through6-15-04.htm (Even though Florio's a douchebag, it's still a funny story) LOSMAN PUTS THE "P" IN J.P. We know that teams are required to rally 'round their draft picks, especially when they mortgage a piece of the future to jump up and get a guy they want. But we're hearing that the Buffalo Bills have taken the turd-polishing thing to a new level with the explanation they're offering regarding the initial Wonderlic score generated by rookie quarterback J.P. Losman, for whom the team sacrificed its 2005 first-round pick in order to acquire him in the 2004 draft. Losman is one of the guys whose Wonderlic saw a dramatic rise from one season to the next, prompting speculation in some circles that he had access to the test before he took it the second time. Word is that the Bills privately are saying that Losman's initial score (which was somewhere in the teens) resulted from the fact that (egads!) he really had to pee. Supposedly, Losman left the testing room so that he could relieve himself, and he didn't get back in time to generate a respectable score. The hole in all of this, as we see it, is that the Wonderlic test is only 12 minutes long. Twelve minutes! Unless J.P. was in danger of getting uromycsotisis poisoning a la Jerry Seinfeld in the garage of the shopping mall, there's no reason why he couldn't have held it in for 12 minutes. If the excuse is true (and we doubt that it is), it's further evidence of Losman's stupidity. Smart guys would have pissed before the 12-minute test began. Alternatively, they would have realized that leaving the test room for a pit stop might have affected adversely their ability to answer all 50 questions within the 12-minute span, which without a visit to the pee-pee palace requires players to progress through the page at a rate of more than four problems per minute. We're also hearing that Losman's apparent cognitive limitations already have surfaced in team practices. Though it's normal for a rookie quarterback to be overwhelmed by NFL playbooks and terminologies, Losman got so discombobulated in his drills with the Bills that he started calling out his high school cadences. Then again, maybe he just had to pee.

Could we also get a pee break, if needed!!! (sorry, JP)

Doubt it, though it would be a nice surprise. Everett's only got one year of experience as a starter...he's got a lot to learn yet.

Minimum of 3 (possibly 4, if they're exceptional ST players like Peters last year). Euhus is a MM favorite and isn't going anywhere. I'm guessing we'll see a lot of two TE sets this season, with a depth chart like this: 1. Campbell 2. Euhus 3. Everett 4. ??? (blocking specialist for short yardage)

You mean unemployed?

http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=23294 (Sorry, just pullin' your chain )

These kind of street FAs get signed all the time in the off-season. The team looks at them as insurance in case they don't get help in the draft. If Everett hadn't been picked in round 3, he'd probably still be here. But with 5-6 TE's on the roster, it's just a numbers game and he was the short straw. Probably cost the Bills $20,000 or less. I wonder about posts like this sometimes...

The PFW draft guide has one of the all-time greatest summaries I've ever seen on a player: "If he were three inches taller and thirty pounds heavier he would be getting looks in the first round. Looks like Opie Taylor but plays like Gary Fencik. Teams downgrading him for his lack of size will miss out on a very good football player. Return skills should bring him off draft boards early on the second day."

How about making it part of the registration process, with a built-in time limit function, just like the real thing!

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050...?tbd1052513.asp "The Buffalo Bills are getting closer to the league's elite in terms of building through the draft. But the numbers suggest the Bills still need to increase their percentages of draftees on the roster. The Bills had 25 drafted players on the roster last year, and nine of those were starters. New England and Philadelphia each had 30 drafted players in the fold. Each of the league's Elite Eight - the eight that advanced to the divisional playoff round - had more home-grown starters. The Steelers and Colts each had 15 drafted starters. The Pats had 14 and the Eagles 13."

Hey, Brandon...I enjoy your posts, but don't you see some irony in what you just wrote?

Personally, I'm waiting for the "TD's in the final year of his contract...we're doomed!" thread.

Humm...sound familiar to a situation close to OBD? Washington: The Redskins were forced to use the ninth pick overall on a cornerback to replace Fred Smoot, whom they were forced to let go due to salary-cap problems caused by their trade of Laveranues Coles, who forced the Redskins to trade him by threatening to hold his breath till he turned blue. Boy, Washington could have benefited from an ego cap on this one. What struck yours truly, and must have outraged the football gods, is how Joe Gibbs caved in to Coles' hissy fit. In the old days, if a player was whining in public, Gibbs would have told him to shut up and go do his job. Instead, in touchy-feely 2005, Gibbs twice met with Coles to attempt to persuade the gentleman to please, please, pretty please do his job. Maybe they should have attended encounter therapy together then had herbal tea and a Thai message. Gibbs even issued a complex statement about how he had reviewed the season's game film and determined that Redskins' quarterbacks looked first at Coles more than they looked first at anyone else. Gibbs seemed to hope this would placate the operatic (me-me-me-me-me) Coles. Coach, just tell the guy to shut up and do his job!

This is the kind of arcane stat work that Easterbrook does better than anybody else. What's funniest about it, however, is that he's not a sportswriter by trade....

I don't think it necessarily has to be injury-driven. It may be as simple as adding a new dimension to the offense, as we're doing with Parrish/Everett. In any event, this thread was a good way of verifying how many people are on-line at this time of day...

Agreed. But I don't think we're at that point yet. Maybe in July, but not yet. Many teams will be looking at their rosters now that the draft is over, and some may decide to pull the trigger on TH prior to opening training camp. Let's let the process work a while longer (just as Seattle is doing with Alexander) before pushing the "red button."

Gee, TH will have to break a few more laws before he can move up to the "varsity," don't you think?

...same with Westbrook.

Easterbrook's my favorite NFL writer. He's insightful, yet there's no mistaking that he considers football to be "entertainment"....not something meaningful in the grand scheme of things (like hiking tolls on the Thruway, raising property taxes, having a moonscape waterfront, finding fingers in your chili, etc.).

The operative word here is "anything." I look at it as TD saying "anything" commensurate with the value we place on TH. Shades of grey, not B&W. That's the language of GMs.

Good point. I guess I was thinking of 2003 when it was a jail break on the Gints O-line.