LongLiveRalph

Kids, don't do steroids.* *Unless you want to become a multi-millionaire professional athlete with national endorsements and only need to work for four years. Then by all means, do your stupid steroids.

I'm with you, I was a big fan of Wade. And even though Ronnie Jones was a complete waste of space and should've been kicked to the curb long before, Wade getting fired because of loyalty to "his guys" is not the worst trait in the world, either.

And still only down 1 score in the 4th quarter when your QB has done dogshiit. I'm not brushing off the entire team's performance, but let's be real....Jacksonville was WITHOUT A DOUBT the better team, and the game was at their place. They're supposed to win. For the rest of the Bills team to hold up as well as they did, and keep things close for three-and-a-half quarters, was fairly remarkable. The rest of the team put Losman in a position to be a hero. And he was the furthest thing from it. I'm not saying the Bills should've beaten the Jags, and that Losman was the sole reason they lost. I'm saying, when your QB is in his 4th season, and you have aspirations of being a playoff team, those are the times when your QB has to rise above and lead his overmatched team to victory. The overmatched Bills got Losman the ball, down by one score in the 4th quarter, and he gave it away with a horrible INT, thrown in the same area of the field where he has consistently failed to see the weak-side covereage many times before. If you still think he can get it done, I won't dispute that with you, and I applaud your optimism. I was as much a "JP guy" as anybody, but I promised myself after that game that it was over, let's move in another direction because this guy doesn't have it. Again, that was it for my PERSONAL quarterback controversy. Trent didn't necessarily win it...JP lost it. I felt like I had given him every excuse I could think of, and his performance in that game- when he KNEW he needed to perform- was inexcusable.

That Bills defense gave up a long burst to Fred Taylor early, and then basically held Jacksonville to FG's until halfway thru the 4th quarter, PRAYING their quarterback could actually make a play and steal a game that they had no business still hanging around in. If JP's continuous excuse is that the other team had a good defense, well then hell, put him in there and we'll go 6-10 every year, beating the likes of Oakland and Houston and losing to any semi-competitive team. No thanks.

He was the MAJOR reason for the Bills loss. Jacksonville, AS A TEAM, was better than Buffalo AS A TEAM. That is occasionally when you need an exceptional performance by your 4th-year QB to lift you up on the road, and steal a game you're not supposed to win. Watching first-year full-time starter David Garrard compared to Losman in that game was a complete joke. Losman looked like Tulane's QB. He made error after error, dumped the ball off until finally throwing downfield late in the 4th quarter when Jax had blown it open. He knew it was likely his big chance to grab the starting job back and stamp himself as the face of the franchise, maybe even leading a playoff push. His performance that game had me thinking the Bills were light years away from the playoffs. And the interceptions? They didn't bug me all that much. I understand that they happen when you're trying to make plays. What bugged me was JP's quotes after the game, when asked about the crucial, game-changing INT when the Bills were down 22-14 in the 4th quarter: Hahahaha...So, down by one score in the 4th quarter, you finally throw downfield...And your receiver was open ("we actually had it") EXCEPT for the LB you didn't see who intercepted the pass???? Nice....Hit the bench. To continuously watch the guy make the same mistakes is torture. At least with Trent we'll hopefully get some new mistakes.

You can dislike anyone you choose, no problem there. But wishing bodily harm on people aint too koo, man.

I realize that the media loves feeding into these things...As for me personally, the QB controversy ended last season watching JP in the Jacksonville game. Playing on the road, against a good defense, against a playoff team, in essentially a "must-win" game...JP was downright pathetic, and for me, I decided right then and there that I was done with him, and we need a different starter. That awful performance didn't tell me that Trent was the answer, it just told me that JP wasn't. If there was ever a game for him to grab the starter's job by the horns and put the team on his back, that was it. He was disgusting to watch. Even if he goes 18-18 for 360 yards and 5 TD's this Sunday, all I will be thinking of is trying to win a game on the road in November against a playoff team. I don't see it happening any time soon with our boy JP, unfortunately...

The other threads addressing the addition/subtraction of Olympic sports got me thinking. What events would make up the Buffalo Olympics? Thus far: Bowling Horseshoes Softball (slow pitch only, of course) Euchre Bar Shuffleboard Shoveling (if its the summer games, maybe shoveling blue cheese?) Marathon (I have determined that it is 23 miles from Delaware Park to Mickey Rats in Angola...Maybe some shots at Rats to make up for the missing 3 miles?) -side note: the marathon must be completed in Zubaz pants. Pogey (more of a winter event...holding onto the bumper of a moving car and cruising through the snow.) Ride the Metro after Thursday in the Square Spelling contest for Polish last names What else??????

Fantastic...I can't believe this whole time I've been wasting an entire letter by using "cool." That ship has sailed, "koo" is so much better, it's not even close! Love it.

We all know that the likely scenario is a last-second loss vs. Seattle and laying an egg at Jax for the 0-2 start resulting in mass uproar on TBD, complete with torches and pitchforks and calls for blood.

I do love him. This definitely adds to it...I think its hilarious. I'm not one to pretend that Cal Berkeley recruits these kids to be pre-med...

I never understood how one even gets started in this event. How do you determine that you possibly have world-class skill at walking??

Leo would lock that shiit down!!!

Two that might have been edited out for legal reasons: "June 1, 5 AM --- what's good yall...aw man, sum weird shiit at da bars tonite, hit a B word wit my porsh whip, pretty crunked up...what da fk? pigs at my door...gone" "June 22, 4PM --- I gotz 2 give da mad props 2 my crew in da backseat....no snitchin...dats how we roll in da 7-1-6...If u aint dyin u aint tryin…Nuh nuh nuh gone"…”

My favorite is without a doubt the translation for "cool" "Its koo"

We may hear more about these posts when they start awarding a Pulitzer Prize for blogging. http://www.yardbarker.com/users/MarshawnLynch

I'm not disagreeing with you...But we do have a relatively biased view of the sport...Perhaps they are removing them because only about 8 countries in the entire world play competitive baseball and softball, and they are in SE Asia, the Carribean, and the US? The majority of the baseball programs in the Olympics are barely the equivalent of rookie ball or low-single A level.

Agreed. Rodriguez will be fine at UM but needs to get the right players to execute his spread offense. That's the danger with the spread vs. a traditional run game/drop back passer attack...When clicking, the spread can be nearly unstoppable, but it takes special athletes to make it function correctly. The play call alone doesn't generate any yardage, and success can depend on the sustained health of your 3-4 skill players. The evidence could be seen last season, when after 2 months, Dennis Dixon was a Heisman candidate and undefeated Oregon was on track for a potential title game appearance. Swap in Leaf (drop back passer) for the injured Dixon, and suddenly Oregon loses three straight and looks like a mid-level PAC-10 team. (Not to say that ANY offense losing their starting QB wouldn't suffer...Just that it's easier to replace like-for-like.)

The nature of the sport alone sees pitchers throwing no-hitters ALL THE TIME. It happens in NCAA, it happens in the Olympics. It's very hard to hit a good pitcher. If that pitcher is "on" that day, there's not a lot the hitters can do. The Japanese girls are the best players in their country, too...

Yes... "Japanese pitcher hurls gem in biggest game of her life" would seem more appropriate than "USA chokes." As hard as it is to believe for us Americans, we are not predisposed by our DNA to win every single athletic event in the world. That's why the Olympics is so funny...Every four years, we tune in to sports we otherwise couldn't care less about in order to boost our collective national ego.

It's unbelievable. McDonalds, Coke, and Budweiser are all MAJOR sponsors of the Olympics. Does that mean I'm supposed to believe all the athletes were super-sizing their Big Mac meals and getting bombed on Buds throughout their training??? People are such idiots. I heard Howard Stern yesterday discussing how lunatic people can be when bitching about this stuff. He said if he was Michael Phelps, he would accept every endorsement offer that came his way, including exploding tampons and Al Qaeda. "Hey, Michael Phelps here for Al Qaeda...Sorry about that whole "9/11" thing..."

JP may have a much bigger role this season besides auditioning for other teams. We have a starting QB who was painfully conservative and average in his rookie season, and who has gotten injured for five consecutive seasons. My ship has sailed on him as well, and I think Edwards is the better option at QB, but lashing out at JP and laughing at his failures won't do us any good if the Bills are 5-3 and need Losman to come in and hold down the fort for a few weeks. I don't relish the idea of JP going on the road and beating a good team like Jacksonville in a playoff chase (he proved last year he couldn't) but I'm very comfortable with him coming in if Edwards gets dinged up in the 3rd quarter of a game where the Bills are down 7. And I think the Pats would take JP over Matt Cassell in a heartbeat. He's a part of this team, and is likely a necessary part. These 1st round QB's are a funny situation. If JP was a 3rd or 4th rounder, people would love him. But since he was supposed to be the savior for a franchise coming out of a dogshiit decade, he failed? Nobody bitches about DiGiorgio when he comes in if Crowell gets hurt, and there's a drop in the level of play. I guess that's just the nature of the beast.

He needs to speak directly to LabattBlue, so that LabattBlue can then either disregard or decipher what he says into whatever fits his agenda that day. It's all about being professional...Fans and media demand it because we ALWAYS act professionally and humanely when dealing with athletes.

And WTF do you expect Losman to say? You're weaving quite the retard web here.

Wow bro, you are quite the clown... You are certain Lynch KNOWS he hit the girl even though he tells the media he didn't know he hit her... And you are certain Losman is pouting and acting unprofessionally because he won't talk to the media.... Sounds like somebody is going to believe whatever they want, no matter what anybody says...Good for you...