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He was holding a gernade in his had when it went off but we never saw the body.

When your like 80 eh? Kind of like Stingray Jim?

This season was certainly better than last season but quite frankly, losing this show won't be as bad as losing 'The Nine' or 'Journey Man'. Those two shows were far more complex and interesting.

I believe Rousseau and Claire were pregnant before they came to the Island. If that is true, then perhaps the immune system attacking the fetus only happens to people who got pregnant on the island. In that case, what the Others did with Claire was probably unnecessary. It would also lend cred to the theory that Sun, who is also pregnant, is not carrying Jin's child.

Are you talking about the white haired woman that could see the future? What makes you think the Others put that woman in the jewelry store?

Wow Juliet was a plant! Who didn't see that coming? Jack was duped again. Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

I found the whole episode frustrating. Juliet is obviously a plant. Notice how quickly she produced keys to the handcuffs when she was in danger? What was really mystifying was that they "took what was useful" and went back to the camp on the beach. Hello McFly, who in their right minds would abandon a village with running water, electricity, refrigeration, solid houses with real roofs and a fence that keeps out the smok monster that has killed several lost aways for a camp on the beach? The fence keeping the smoke monster out made little sense. The lost-aways got by the fence by going over it. Why doesn't smokey to the same thing? He's picked the pilot out of a spot much higher than those fence posts, not to mention what he did to Eko. Sawyer having a daughter is not particularly revealing. He was told he was going to be a father in a previous season. He even set up a trust fund by revealing the hiding place of a bank heist another convict commited. His daughters name is Clementime Phillips if I'm not mistaken. All we really got out of this episode is a connection between Kate and Sawyer (no real surprise there) and Locke joining the Others.

Did you bother to answer the question posed IN THE TITLE OF THE THREAD? How did you come up with this little gem Where did Badol mention Villarial or Gandy? Why is it an either or choice? I'm talking about the Bills run defense in any year under Gray according to stats provided by ESPN. Fact is that the run defense has gotten worse under this regime. TD/Gray may have sucked but that doesn't mean Levy/DJ can't be bad or worse.

That is too funny. In typical styl, you never answered the key question he asked, posted a false choice and tried to shove that question into his mouth, another of your penchants, and then criticize him for "poor wording". BTW, the Bills run defense was better under Jerry Gray than Dick Jauron, but don't let facts stand in the way of your love fest.

He has clearly stated his opinion here He has never seen it as an either/or issue. He has consistently advocated keeping young proven talent and pointed out the Bills failure to do so for years.

Why is it an either/or choice? The Bills have more room under the cap than 27 other teams in the NFL. While they may not have matched the offer that Nate Clements got, they screwed up by agreeing not to franchise him this year. Had they franchised him, they could have allowed him to talk to other teams and at least gotten something for him. They could have kept Fletcher and still could have addressed the O-line issue.

Completely dismissed him yet still felt compelled to respond over and over and over again?

Guess its a good thing he saved that for the second to the last sentence in his post.

They finally put him down. Barbaro euthanized

There were people criticizing this pick the moment it was made. There were people arguing for Ngata before the draft. It is not so much hindsight as you make it out to be.

It means we could have gotten better talent and done more to upgrade the team. Isn't that how you build a winning team? And we could have had Freeney in 2002 but took Mike Williams. There were people on this board lobbying to pick Freeney at that time. They were obviously right. Would you argue with them as endlessly as you do with people who are not enthralled with the Whitner pick? And what did the Cowboys and Panthers do since that time? I know the Seahawks went to a Super Bowl and the Colts are going to one this year. Maybe you come across a Marv apologist. If there were a player to be concerned about, it was McCargo based on his injury history. I thought it was pretty obvious that our run defense was going to be bad this year. A run stuffing DT could have been the best way of addressing that deficiency. I'm sorry but McCargo and all the rest of our DTs just seem to light to me.

I guess it depends on whether if you prefer to build your team from the outside in or the inside out. A DT is far more likely to have an impact on both the rush and pass defense than a SS ever will.

If the Bills had chosen Ngata, maybe our rush defense wouldn't have sucked as bad, hence our DBs wouldn't have been forced to make so many tackles. Unless I had a really solid line, which the Bills did not have, I'd take the DT over the SS any day of the week. Strength in the middle and domination of the lines on both sides of the ball will win you more games than a decent secondary will.

Because this team had so many holes in so many places it only made sense to maximize the number of picks you could get, and thus plug as many holes as you could. If Marv didn't see DL as a primary need, why did he trade up to get Mcargo?

Did I say something negative about Whitner in my post? Lighten up Francis.

Is being 5th in total tackles for a DB really something to crow about? When a DB is making so many tackles, isn't that usually because the team has a weak run defense? Doesn't that really show that the defensive line is being handled by the opponents offensive line one on one and guards are able to to block the LBs so the DBs have to make the tackle? Of the top 10 DBs on the list you linked, only one played for a barely above average team in run defense. Most were pretty close to the Bills as a bad run D team.

But that isn't my criticism. My criticism was that he refused to resign proven talent at DB and used high draft picks to fill the holes he created by refusing to resign proven DBs. If he had resigned the proven DBs, he may have been able to use the draft picks he used on DBs on OLs instead. My choice? What are you talking about? Hmm, all first day draft picks in your list. Perhaps if he had spent some of those first day draft picks on offensive linemen some of them would be solid pros or Pro Bowlers.

For most if not all of the last decade, the small market excuse just doesn't cut it. The Bills were close to the cap in every year. Maybe things have changed in the last year. The Bills could try to work an extension the year before a contract is set to expire. You usually save a little money by doing that.

Actually, the statement really asks why not keep those performers past their 1st contract instead of letting them walk in free agency? So how good was TDs record at addressing the OL through those other "things" like free agency?

Using a pick on a player isn't a problem. Letting the talent go in free agency forcing you to use another high round pick to replace the talent you allready had is the problem. Why not resign your proven talent and use the draft to address chronic areas of need?