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The Coach on WHAM was pretty good. Even the callers & Coach concluded they have to keep Losman in there.

Because I have to assume they're Bills fans & our defense is going to make JP's game in Tampa look good compared to Schaub's game in Buffalo. Anyone who has claimed JP is a rookie has to admit, Schaub is in the same boat-and add to that he's spent all his time playing 2nd fiddle to Vick, with Atlanta never giving him much time with the 1st unit. He's started 1 NFL game, JP has started twice as many. http://www.nfl.com/players/playerpage/493050

Bill Parcells does this all the time & he's a Hall Of Fame coach. If you play subpar, the coach's job is to let you know it. It's a great way to motivate your players if it's done correctly & the players respect you. A guy like Mularkey can do this because he's played in the NFL & the guys know he knows what it's like to play in the NFL and respect him for it. Someone like Gregg Williams might have a tougher time pulling it off, but Mularkey has nothing to worry about in calling out his players.

Getting back to the point, VA's basic argument that if JP busts we're in trouble and waste 3 years is pretty accurate. Imagine if TD had succeeded in his original plan on draft day-trading ahead of the Steelers & drafting Roethlisberger. There would be no what if arguments on today's board. I hope we aren't the Jets of the 90's who tried frantically to trade up & draft Favre, but settled for Browning Nagle. Only time will tell if JP is the answer or not. It looks pretty definite that Carr & Harrington were major reaches at picks 1 & 3 because they were the only QBs (I don't include Ramsey) in a draft that may turn out to be one of the worst for QBs. However, I stick by my statement that a QB at pick 22 is not as big a risk, salary cap wise as a 1 or 3 in the whole draft. But, any 1st round QB who doesn't work out is a disaster for the team. Houston, Detroit, & Washington have been paying the price since 2002. I hope JP hits it big, because if he doesn't were doomed, short term. I think he's more on the Todd Collins schedule where if he doesn't show improvement throughout this season, he's 1 year & done as a starter. One of the main reasons we got Holcomb was insurance in case JP doesn't make it. I hope we never have to cash in on that "policy", but it is there if we need it. Here are some excerpts from what I thought before the 2004 draft on JP, and I still feel the same, except for the Roethlisberger part when I thought Roethlisberger would be a top 4 pick with a huge contract, after that I talked about the Jets & Favre/Nagle, I hope that wasn't prophetic about the Roethlisberger/Losman road TD took. : J.P. Losman is an intriguing prospect due to his arm and athleticism. Scouts vary on him whether he’s the next Brett Favre or the next Cade McNown. Since he will go in the late 1st or early second I’d be willing to take the risk that he’s the next Favre. His busting would be a lot less costly than a team that took Roethlisberger and found him to be a bust. . At least one pick will be for the future because another QB has to be brought in. I just hope that the team doesn’t repeat a Jets mistake of 1991. The Jets loved Brett Favre & came within one pick of getting him in round 2, after desperate attempts to trade up (they had no #1 that year). When Favre was taken by Atlanta, the Jets still had the need for a QB of the future, they took the next QB on their board, Browning Nagle. If the Bills get into the same spot, say they like Losman and they miss him by a pick or 2, I hope they regroup and forget about a QB of the future and just concentrate on other positions.

Somebody has Moulds, Evans, McGahee or some combination of those guys on his fantasy team.

Didn't we once trade a #1 & #4 for a guy who lit it up in preseason every year with Jacksonville & even had a great game one time to start the regular season?

It's a lot easier to handle a bust at the pick JP was taken, cap wise, than a top 3 QB. So even if the worst happens with JP, it's better than either of those two.

If the expansion Texans had not entered the league in 2002, we would have picked 3rd. Either Carr or Harrington would have been there at pick 3, and we would have taken the remaining QB. These guys are in their 4th seasons and neither one of them has shown he can play consistently in the NFL, and they have top 3 contracts.

Can't, death penalty is not currently legal in New York State.

Minnesota will be a better club without Mike Tice. He's not going to last the season if this keeps going on. Good news is Ted Cottrell will probably be the interim coach & could keep the job if the team picks up its play under him. My over/under on Tice is after 4 games, because their bye is in week 5.

Sort of reminded me of Kelly on trips to KC or Pittsburgh during the Super Bowl years.

To quote another coach in our division "You play to win the game". If Tampa had not kicked a field goal due to defensive breakdowns while Holcomb was warming up to come in, we're down 13 & if Holcomb catches fire, 2 TDs WIN THE GAME! It's that simple reason that Holcomb came in. After the FG & Holcomb's 3 & out, chances of winning the game were slim, so he put JP back for more experience.

Everyone seems to be forgetting the circumstances at the time of the game when this stuff took place. Bills were down 16-3, 13 points. 2 TDs win the game. Mularkey had Holcomb warming up to go in when TB had the ball. Holcomb was going in at that point, hopefully to try to pull the game out. When TB drove down the field & kicked the FG to put them up by 16, a tie became a longshot, but Mularkey had already committed to putting Holcomb in. So he puts Holcomb in and we go 3 & out. After that he decides what good does it do to have Holcomb mop up when JP can get some valuable experience. So to sum things up 2 things happened. 1) Mularkey tried to switch to Holcomb in hopes of winning the game, but between the time Mularkey makes that decision & Holcomb going in, the D gives up 3 that basically kills the point of putting Holcomb in. 2) After the series already promised to Holcomb, with the game basically out of reach, Mularkey decides JP needs the work more than Holcomb & puts him back. Nothing wrong with either decision except the D messed up the plan by giving up the final 3.

Crowell was injured last week & didn't play.

Here they are : Euhus Parrish Wilson (George, not Ralph) Gates Sape Geisinger LEONHARD Matthews 3rd QB

They are not broadcasting the pregame show on 103.9 (or 1300). Once I get off the computer to go watch it, I won't get to listen. Don't they know coverage includes pre & post game? Stones were great last night. We were in the 4th row off the floor & when they moved the stage they were practically right in front of us.

I'm listening to the pre-game until around 12:20-12:30, before I head out to watch it, if they announce them on the radio, I'll try to get them all & post it.

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Thanks to our local TV station not seeing the light & televising all the road games, I cannot have a ritual. My only ritual on those days is to curse out the decision makers at WRGB, Ch 6, and try to figure out where we'll watch the game.

Thanks for the link, Here is the complaint I sent them, titled "Show In Decline" The show is in serious decline since the days of Len & Nick. You have turned an informative hour into a comedy. In the place of "Where are they now" we are now subject to bad stand up comics making bad jokes. Worse than your new "NFL Comedy Hour" format is the lack of highlights. It seems every time the Buffalo Bills play a good game, you eliminate them from the highlights. I don't understand the producers of the show's decision to show some games and not others. If I'm watching a show called "Inside The NFL" I expect to see a review of EVERY GAME, not just the ones that feature large market teams or fodder for the comedy. Some of us take our football seriously. Your Inside the NFL producers obviously don't. The show has declined to a bad joke. If you want to present a comedy, please rename the show to "Curb Your Enthusiasm About Seeing The NFL Taken Seriously", with permission from Larry David, of course.

Who is Paul Hamilton?

I have no problems with predictions for or against the Bills. What I do have a problem with is when, in explaining the reasoning, the person making the prediction states something that is obviously not true, or makes an assumption that is totally without merit. For example, when Mike Francessa was making his NFL season predictions and had the Bills something like 6-10 and stated that JP will cost the Bills 5-6 games, that is a prediction without merit. When was the last time any QB who was not some guy off the bench pressed into service because of an injury, been the main reason a 6-10 team, which had a winning record the prior year with a more experienced QB, lost half of those 10 games? A QB could cost a team a game or 2, but no QB is singlehandedly going to cost his team 1/3 of their scheduled games, unless he's playing very badly. If JP were ever to approach that level of play, week after week to singlehandedly cost us 1 of every 3 games, Mularkey would have no choice but to replace him with Holcomb. Look at the Ravens, even Kyle Boller has never been responsible for 5-6 losses out of 10 overall losses. In fact, the Ravens have won plenty of times in spite of Boller's weak play. One can get mad at predictions based on just plain stupid assumptions, like Francessa's but to get mad just because someone predicted a loss one week is absurd. Edit-I just re-read my post & realized that the Flutoians will soon be replying, showing the Rob-Flutie W/L record as evidence. I still stand by my statement that Francessa was an American Idiot by stating JP would cost us 5-6 games.

They did play the Shout song. In Atlanta the 1st time the Bills scored, they played the one that was used in preseason that everyone hated & got replaced by opening day with the old (& present) one. I started screaming thaty they're playing the wrong song & I had all these corporate types looking at me like I was nuts. After that they played the right song the rest of the game.

Marino must still hold a grudge for us beating him in every important game from the time Kelly arrived until he left. He must have told HBO that there will be no Bills highlights on Inside The NFL. I can't wait until Super Bowl week when if they continue to ignore us, they'll have an hour of NFC highlights & will be picking the NFC team to lose without mentioning who will beat them in the pick segment.

Just about any sports bar with a dish. Just look up taverns in the yellow pages & call the closest ones to you & ask if they show all the NFL games.