Albany,n.y.

Jerman came in in the middle of one series

He's always on "Donahue"'s case. He's one of those "he has too much of an ego to bring in a strong head coach" BSers. Still on "The Mouth That Roared"'s case (GW). After bagging on TD messing up the Henry situation in the 1st week or 2, he hasn't said boo since the drug suspension. Yesterday he called Holcomb a rag arm but said there have been plenty of successful rag arm QBs & they shouldn't throw long-just concentrate on short passes & RAC yards. Yesterday he read a couple of E-mails criticizing him, calling him a lardass. He seemed to enjoy the critics. If you want to listen to what he said today , go the www.wgr55.com and hit the listen to him section. I heard about half in the car today. I was at a rest stop & the radio wouldn't come in indoors, only could get him on the car radio.

I'm going to be the voice of dissent. He's clueless. He sounds good as long as you don't match the broadcast to what's going on on the field. Two times I got really PO'd at him yesterday. 1st there was a Jet who dove & broke up a pass, a pretty good play. All Murph said was incomplete pass. Then later on one Holcomb interception, Murphy 1st called it an incomplete pass & then said flag down when it was the bag for the spot of the interception. I yelled out "Murph you're a moron" as I listened to the broadcast. Van may have gotten names wrong and stuff like this, but even in his seventies, Van saw the game a lot better than Murphy does. It's like he's making stuff up as he goes along, with no relation to the game he's broadcasting.

...and he just wins. He's so much better than that kid from California. He's a savvy veteran who has the respect of the other veterans. This Bills QB situation is like deja vu all over again and its going to get ugly sooner or later.

Try to trade them to OJ for a pair of Bruno Maglis

Krumrie doesn't have much say on draft day. I'm sure he would have liked the team to have added a DT instead of Parrish, but TD, MM & Ralph run the draft, the coordinators might get an ear, but nobody is going to blame the DL coach when TD decided to draft a WR. Don't you think Mouse wanted an OT? He has as much pull as Krumrie, and frankly, an OT would have made more sense last April.

I think the Bills are the lock of the century in this game. People are totally overlooking the fact that the Bills should have an entirely different offense this Sunday. Mike Williams is starting. No matter what you think his value is regarding his salary, he is a HUGE improvement over Jerman. Villarial, who missed last week's game & has played other games injured, should be at his best this week. That's the whole friggin' right side of the O-line! Tim Euhus is playing his 1st time this year. A big upgrade over Neufeld & Peters. If Roscoe plays, our O is even more super charged. Holcomb looked OK with Jerman at RT, no Euhus, no Parrish. Imagine if he has all these extra weapons at his disposal. Curtis Martin is banged up & the Jets have no NFL caliber backups with the injury to Blaylock. Vinny is always good for an interception or 2 at the Ralph. This game has Bills domination all over it.

That made me think that there must be someone (or something) that replenishes the food supply. Things like candy bars, potato chips & peanut butter all have expiration dates. If Desmond only had 30-40 days of food, more food would be arriving, otherwise Desmond would have had less than 2 months left to continue to push the button.

Shaub may look ok playing in a dome in October, but he doesn't have the arm to play in Buffalo in December. He is totally overrated & if some other team wants to trade with Atlanta & become the 2000s version of the Bills & RJ, they can do it with my blessing. Please Miami or the Jets do it, you'll soon find out why trading a 1st for another team's mid-late round picked QB never works out. I can go back to Matt Robinson to Denver through RJ & even throw in Miami's stupid #2 for Feeley if you don't get it. PS: Doug Johnson looked pretty good filling in at Atlanta a few years ago.

If we finish with the worst record, it means JP didn't start coming into his own late in the year (and in all probability went 1-15, since SF will be lucky to win one more game with Smith in there). If we're that bad JP will be back in the lineup as soon as playoffs are gone, which would mean we haven't won a game with Holcomb and will have 7 weeks for JP to play. If he loses them all we have to take a QB be it Leinart or trading down a couple of spots & taking Vince Young. We'll have to see how Young grades out after playing an entire season, since some teams may end up rating Young over Leinart.

Since most teams don't apply the game plan to Tuesday or Wednesday of game week, all the Dolphins really lost was a day or 2. They still have Thurs, Fri & Sat to prepare for Holcomb. If Saban is as good a coach as people give him credit for, that's plenty of time.

The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl, not get a regular season win against the Dolphins. If that's the ultimate goal then everyone at One Bills Drive has morphed into George Steinbrenner, a man who never stops to look at the big picture after a loss.

I think it says a lot about those two teams: They don't have enough people working on the draft. If your team doesn't know stuff on every available player in the draft, your scouting department sucks. If I can get info on Cassel off an internet site, it is unconsionable that 2 teams never heard of this player. It doesn't matter if the guy makes it or not, a team should have a grade on EVERY player available. As far as the Chow hypothesis, there's a good chance that Tennessee didn't think he was going to get drafted and figured with Chow there, they'd be able to sign him as an UFA. The fact that many draft experts were shocked Cassel was drafted is a good indication that most teams viewed him in the UFA category, since he was a backup at USC. Tennessee (if they were interested) probably didn't think he'd be drafted and instead went for a player who they feared would be, considering they drafted 37 picks before the end of the draft.

The only logical reason I can see for replacing JP is they think JP is a bust who will never make it & their actions are the true indication of this. JP's biggest problem is accuracy. Here's a quote from (Pompei) The Sporting News' article on Joey Harrington, which in a lot of ways could have been written about JP if his bad play continued as long as Harrington's. " Accuracy generally doesn't improve a lot over time. Either a passer has it or he doesn't" If the Bills management believes in this theory, then maybe this isn't a spark, but an admission that JP will never make it. Before anyone goes into the "Young QBs need time" stuff, think about this: Players, QBs included are cut every year in preseason their rookie years. For the most part, unless a team thinks they can hide a player with potential on a practice squad, the team is saying that they've seen enough of the player to believe he can't make it in the NFL, or has less talent than the players at that position on the roster. Rookie QBs are cut all the time. Most, don't ever make it, confirming the 1st team's original opinion of the player after just a few months on the team. If NFL teams can cut rookie QBs, seldom cutting a future starter, it just isn't that tough to spot a bust. Now keep the guy around & see him in 4 NFL preseason games & 4 regular season games and maybe what he's doing is deemed unable to ever be corrected by management. I hope I'm wrong, but the team's actions are that they have given up on JP. This is not just a benching, it is closer to a firing.

On Inside The NFL they have an interview with Scott Pioli of the Patriots. To show how far ahead of the curve he is they stated that 2 teams never heard of the guy NE picked in round 7. How can an NFL team not have heard of a guy that the Patriots picked in the 7th round? The guy is Matt Cassel, the team's 3rd QB. I can't believe there are professional NFL draft guys who didn't know who this guy was. I knew who he was before the draft and even wrote in my draft analysis "Matt Cassel has been buried on the depth chart at USC and may be better than a lot of college team’s starters. He’s worth bringing into camp and finding out. " When I'm picking up on a player that 2 teams missed entirely, those 2 teams are in huge trouble. I sure hope one of them wasn't the Bills.

But every QB who ever made it as a long time answer as starting QB always had a first name that began with the letter J. The only answer is to go back to JP.

Rudy remarried over 2 years ago. I can't wait to see what his opponents do to him in the more conservative states: Married 3 times including once to a cousin, numerous affairs, gay rights advocate who moved in with a gay couple when he left Gracie Mansion and needed a place to stay when his marriage to Donna Hanover fell apart. He once dressed up as a woman in some spoof show and I'm sure the photos will be appearing in negative ads, probably with the caption "I wonder if he was dressed like this when he moved in with a gay couple" Rudy has as much of a chance of being the Republican nominee as Ted Kennedy.

2 losses, 13 points each game by the Dallas offense. Same old Drew. Just because JP is playing like s**t, it doesn't mean Drew is playing any better than he did last year, when against good teams, he couldn't get the job done-which is leading his team to victory. Dallas is 2-2, not exactly reaping the benefits of having the 3rd ranked QB in the NFC. I'll take at least half the guys ranked below him over Drew. Sure he's a better QB than Losman is right now, and he may always be better than JP (see Flutie over Johnson). But being better than JP doesn't mean anything right now.

I tried the TD link & got Mularkey's instead. I"ll try again & see if its fixed.

He had a questionable drug test at the combine, claiming he drank too much water.

If JP turns into a bust as the season progresses, we may get comic relief at JP's expense. Among the things we could do in the stands: Start singing the song "Wild Thing" whenever JP takes the field. If we're really bad, bring Welcome mats, and under the word Welcome write the word Matt. Have JP pictures covered in leaves. (With a Ryan Leaf where the # goes) I hope JP turns into a great or even good player, but to this point, I can't remember quarterbacking so bad from a starter since Joe Ferguson went down & Gary Marangi once and for all ended the "we want Marangi" chants with his play on the field.

I remember when Ted Cottrell was a hot HC candidate when he was our DC. He then went to the NYJ, got fired & is now DC at Minnesota-on a staff that is almost certain to see its HC fired before the year 2006. Nobody mentions Ted as HC material anymore (although I wouldn't be surprised if he's named interim head coach of the Vikings if Tice gets fired in season). Is Jerry Gray being exposed by this year's defense, or will he get his HC job? I think Gray has his reputation as a NFL player and youth on his side, but there are a lot of formerly hot candidates who never got head coaching jobs. Jerry Gray may be the next of these. In fact, if our D continues to be as bad as they've been, he may get the same treatment that Cottrell got in NY.

If you run into Matt Leinart, tell him how good it is to be the Bills QB-if you're successful.

No need to spend any money on playoff or Super Bowl tickets.

He didn't say anything important. What else is new?