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Did you bother to read what I wrote? The fact that he drew double teams and opened things up for Evans certainly helped. Who is going to do that now? So what if they are all fast? Is that really a benefit in cold, windy weather? Wouldn't it be nice to have ONE jut ONE big receiver who can use his body to get position on a DB? Excuse me, but where did I say that? Somewhere between being a fly weight and being a fat blob lies a strong effective lineman. We are on the fly weight end of the scale. Oh thats brilliant. Just trust in Marv. Amazing how the loss of key players can affect you. I haven't seen any of those key players replaced by anyone playing close to their level. If anything, we've lost a few more key players.

I find it absolutley astonishing that anyone would think we are not weaker at wide receiver. For your numerous pages of rationalization, one only has to look at how bad our offense was in Miami, after Moulds was on the bench, and the following week in New England to know that as a receiver or decoy, he was a huge part of our offense and it was anemic without him. You may not have read about any Bills supporting him but I recally Bills wide outs saying that the Bills were a different team without him, he took pressure off of them and they needed him. The fact that Peerless Price couldn't get a decent look elsewhere pretty much tells me all I have to know about his skills at this point. He was given a sweetheart deal but there is no way that he will draw the double teams like Moulds did. While you might like the Bills having a St Louis O, I am not. Unlike St Louis, the Bills do not play in a dome. Having at least one big physical receiver who can use his body to get position on a DB and get a reception is a huge plus, especially for a team that often times plays in inclement weather. Moulds could do that. Our smurfs can not. How good was Levy at stopping the run in 4 Super Bowls? I'm not convinced that there is a singlen Bills DL on this team that could have cracked the starting line up in the Super Bowl years. I didn't like his undersized tackles then and expect to see running backs running right up the gut again this year. Levy's talk about stopping the run is little more that a cliche. Talk about brain trusts all you want but bulk and strength at the point of attack are a big plus and we don't have it. Given our smallish LBs and a rookie SS, it ain't looking pretty. I said it before and I'll say it again, this a 3-13 team.

Tonight is the season finale for 24. I'm wondering how the chief villian will die. The mastermind is played by actor Paul McCrane. McCrane often plays characters who suffer bizarre deaths. In RoboCop he played Emile, a villian who had a vat of toxic liquid spilled on him, started to turn into a mass of goo, walked in front of a van and went splat on the front end of the van. In ER he played Robert Romano. Romano died when a helicopter suffered an accident taking off from the roof and fell on him. In The X-Files he played Leonard Betts, a cancer absorbing mutant who was decapitated, grew his head back and was later blown up in a car later in the same episode. Something tells me he isn't simply going to be shot or captured in 24.

I'm not blaming Marv or Jauron for the Bills not being in the playoffs for over 6 years, but I'm not at all impressed with any of the moves Marv has made. Compared to 1 year ago, I can't think of a single area of this team that has been markedly improved but can see areas that have probably gotten worse (secondary and receiving corps).

I'd be curious how many teams won a Super Bowl while having no 1st round picks on their offensive line. As it stands, the Bills have only one 1st round offensive line pick, Aaron Gibson, a Mike Williams like bust who has been bounced arround to several teams, has a 1 year contract with the Bills at Vet minimum and is not projected to start. The only other 1st day picks the Bills have are Fowlers and Gandy.

From what I understand, Fowler has been a backup who got his chance to start because of an injury. He wasn't particularly impressive. He is supposedly replacing Teague. The rational for Reyes sounds similar to why we signed Bennie Anderson. He did a decent job at right guard for the Panthers. So now he is supposed to move the left guard spot? Will he have the same problems Anderson had doing so?

The key word in there was hopefully. I don't see why the chik-n-chit play calling or pouting wideouts would prevent the offensive linemen from doing their jobs. Just sounds like a weak excuse. I'm not disappointed to see MW or Teague gone. I was never sold on either of them. Still, they did beat out other people for their positions on the team and there is no guarantee that the people who are replacing them are any improvement.

I see no evidence that the revolving door policy has been changed at all. How do you know that guys Marv is bringing in are going to work any harder or give you any more than the guys TD brought in?

If it is so simple, how come the Bills have such a hard time finding players who can do that? And again, I didn't say you need Pro Bowlers to do that. You're the one who keeps injecting the Pro Bowl argument.

I don't think that everyone who does not believe the Bills have adequately addressed the offensive line situation believes that the entire line has to be made up of Pro-Bowlers. Many of us believe that in order to win a championship, you need to dominate up front first. Therefore, we need more that a line that is just good enough to keep us in games.

On what basis do you say Fowler is solid? Same question regarding Reyes. To me the offensive line looks more like Peters - promising but to early to say solid Villarial - solid(if uninjured which seems to be a big if to me) Fowler - ? Reyes - ? Gandy - below average I'm skeptical that Levy has addressed the line situation any more seriously than TD did. In fact I'd go so far as to say that TD put a greater, more credible effort into it.

Did he actually see him when he was conscious or was it in a dream?

Eko would know as well.

On that note, I'm hoping that the boat is bringing Kim to the Island.

It was on the flight manifest. He also wrote a will that was included in the bottle of letters that was taken on the raft. Sawyer read the letters and was wondering "who the hell is Hugo?" I believe that Locke and Sawyer have both refered to him as Hugo.

Might go a long way to explaining why she was nuts.

I thought the nurse called Libby by her name when she gave her meds in the hospital.

I was a supporter of Flutie at the time but quite frankly, I'm not convinced Johnson vs Flutie was the deciding factor in that game and the Bills secondary suffered so many injuries in that game that they wouldn't have made it past through the next round.

I hope you're right, but to me your arguments smack of rationalization and homerism.

The Bills had more seasoned veterans last year. You don't really consider Jason Peters to be a "seasoned vet", do you? How do you know that Reyes/Fowler will be any better than Anderson/Teague.

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I'm a bit surprised that Norwood wasn't on that list.

From the article Isn't he gay? Maybe prison is like a harem to him.

Maybe we're going to trade him to Tampa for Mike Williams.

Most agile player? Not a chance. He was no where in the same league as Barry Sanders, OJ or Gale Sayers, just to name a few. Most agile QB? Do you really think he was any more agile than Cunningham, Vick, Tarkenton or Steve Young?