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Yep !! I hear big Ben Rothlesberger (sp?) is doing pretty well in Pittsburgh. How many years of experience does he have under hsi belt ?

Agree 100%. He has scored a touchdown in each game - NOBODY ELSE HAS as single one !! I hope EM retires a Bill. We gain more by keeping him here than by chasing him out.

Umm.. I am sorry, but 'learn' what by sitting ? - Watching a disastrous offense ? - Watching a QB who cannot scramble ? (this is not DB bashing). JP can scramble and can learn nothing from watching DB. - Watch how other teams get blitz-happy against us ? He can only learn to avoid if he is in the middle of the action. We will have to win 10 of the last 13 to make the playoffs. With the Pats and Jets in our division, we can almost kiss Playoffs goodbye for this year. Might as well use this year to put JP in as soon as possible so he learns on the job this year and we do well next year. Else we are setting ourselves up for a build job next year as well. I am so sick of this 'wait till next year' philosophy that I now know how perennial loser teams like the Cardinals must be feeling. We are a sucky team. The past two years have been particularly bad for us fans.

I hope Matthews STARTS and confuses the genius BB.

MM should pull a surprise and put Matthews in as a starter on game day. That will confuse the heck out of BB who would have spent a majority of the two weeks fine tuning his plan against DB.

I too have been a DB supporter. But I am on the verge of going over to the other side. A good QB makes everyone around better - he does not need "a great supporting cast" to make the offense run well. If you have a great supporting case, Shane Matthews will be adequate. I need to actually see a game or two before deciding if DB has lost it forever.

BJs for $39.99 ? Good deal or not depends on who is giving them

My tooth was really rotten and even after several numbing shots, all I remember was intense pain for as long as he was grinding and drillnig away. Sorry to have to tell you that. Sounds to me that a broken tooth will cause considerably less misery.

Look - I don't care about the positives if we continue to lose. At some point you have to realize your potential if there is any. Potential is useless if you don't perform and deliver.

At the risk of sounding cliched ... Smash mouth football has a much better chance of winning championships than airing it out. But I do agree that we need to get Evans more involved and test the opposition's weaknesses. No harm in having a constant threat of a 60+ bomb every few plays.

You summarized my thoughts very well. While I will root for the team, I agree with Foxboro Mike that there is no tangible advantages we can point to. It is a fair guess that: - NE will blitz up the middle - Brady will continue with his dinking and dunking - We will do a fair job against the run - We will probably run well till we get into NE 30 after which we can neither advance nor kick a field goal. If we ever get close to sniffing distance of the 30, BB will bring his big guns to stall us there. Basically we will lose and I predict the score to be 23-6.

That was good. If I wasn't so damn depressed, I would laugh.

NOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't punch it in from the 1 ???????????

Go for it !

I always found it funny that people think a vehicle helps in proving their manliness. Or any assorted prop for that matter.

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/arch...t-20040916.html

A roller coaster ride lasts 1.5 minutes but feels like 10 A male orgasm lasts 15 seconds but feels like 2 Guffalo, ICE was on a roller coaster having an orgasm and you were only watching - so it is a perception issue.

Can you imagine if our kicker missed a game winning field goal in the 2006 superbowl ? I am confident that we will get there next year, but I think a 'wide-left' to complement the 'wide-right' will put me in the closest asylum .....

Speak for yourself. I only rise with Misty May

Don't you mean dis-courage ? I remember that by the end of his second season, we were labeling him a bust and wanted to dump him at the cheapest possible price. Glad things turned out the way they did. As for Evans, let us not have enormous expectations from him so early.

Darn it ! Thanx for the reply.

Looks like Comcast is going to add NFL Network. So is there any way to find out which Bills games will be televised by them ? Please don't give me DirecTV advice as I know all about that deal. Thanx in advance

In addition, this can serve as a 'lesson' for his future career to not be so bold in taking on linebackers who are physically stronger. It is good that this injury came this early in his career. Will remind him to slide and not go head first on his rushes and sneaks.