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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?

We're definitely better than the Lions, probably better than the Bears...and I think we can beat a baseball team if they try to play football.

I've always said that being called a great come from behind QB isn't so great, because the team fell behind while you were in the game. I usually argue this in the context that the greatest comeback would never have taken place if Kelly had started instead of Reich, because the Bills would never have been down 35-3 with Kelly in there.

We wouldn't have traded for Bledsoe, but he would have been beaten out by Brady by the end of the 2002 season in New England. Since Bledsoe wouldn't have been available for 2002, we would have been left with AVP & possibly Jeff Blake as our QBs in 2002. Instead of 8-8, the record would have been anywhere from 2-14 to 6-10. That would have given us a high pick. If it was 2-14, we may have gotten Carson Palmer if Cincy beat us on a tie breaker for #1. Otherwisethe pick would have been Byron Leftwich.

The scary part of your post is that there are people like you who truly believe that Hillary can win the Presidency. If enough Democrats share this view in the primaries then Hillary could actually get the Democratic nomination and go down to certain defeat in November. I just hope if this happens that the Republicans put up a candidate who is not bought & paid for by big business and/or the religious right, because if the Democrats are stupid enough to nominate H. Clinton, the election is in the bag for the Republicans.

You can't be serious. Scalia is a brilliant man, but he's the biggest idealogue on the Supreme Court. Oftentimes he dissents on issues based strictly on his own beliefs without any merit in constitutional law. The reason they are dissents is because the majority is usually following the constitution.

A good post, just a couple of corrections. Terrance McGee was picked in the 2003 draft (1st of 2 round 4 selections), same year as McGahee. Polian went 4-12, 7-8 (6-6 in real games), and 12-4 his 1st 3 years. It also didn't hurt him to inherit Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, and Andre Reed, although he might have had a hand in the Smith & Reed selections before he was GM.

Tom Brady won the Super Bowl with as much experience as JP going into his 2nd season Daunte Culpepper had a good 2nd season with basically the same experience as JP. It can be done. The biggest problem I've seen is JP is throwing like Steve Blass did when he completely lost home plate with the Pirates. A QB who is inaccurate as often as JP has been can not play very long in the NFL. JP has about another 10 weeks before it is put up or shut up time. Right now he's still in the honeymoon stage, but the bride is about to put him out on the couch in the honeymoon suite unless he starts performing.

I find it amazing that 1)A player who is in the program can demand a trade while he's under contract and expect the team to be able to trade him. 2) That TD was able to hold out for a 3rd for a player with 1 year left on his contract and was 1 hit of ? away from a 4 game suspension 3) That 2 teams would actually go head to head in bidding for said player 4) That the winning bidder would be stupid enough to give up the 3rd unconditionally, knowing Henry was 1 strike away from suspension. 5) Tennessee would actually extend his contract*** *** This does explain why Henry signed a contract that seemed below market (especially when compared with Jordan's Raider deal) for a player of his accomplishments. Actually, the only one who came out of this not looking like a total idiot is Donahoe. Get on his case for other transactions, but this one was definitely a steal. PS: The suspension should shut up "The Coach", who on his 1st postgame show was highly critical of TD for trading TH & leaving the Bills with Shaud Williams as their backup RB.

I thought it was leading up to: JP was so depressed last night he tried to throw himself off the Peace Bridge, lucky for him, he was as accurate as he was with his throws at the Ralph, finally gave up & walked home.