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Albany,n.y.

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  1. The only boss I've ever engaged in shouting matches with was one who I got along well with and we both knew it would be forgotten 5 minutes later. Only yell at bosses you get along with. Sorry Sue, but if I had never met you, I'd swear you were Travis Henry (or Drew Bledsoe) venting.
  2. If all players took the security route, there wouldn't be any unrestricted free agents. The worst thing a player can do is opt for security comming off an injury plagued season where he was also benched in favor of a better player. Unless he has a career ending injury or plain out sucks, he will be able to command a much better contract as an unrestricted free agent a year from now. Especially in a place he knows he'll be the starter at. Many have played a season in the last year of a contract without opting for security. The good ones get rewarded. Travis already went the security angle once & was royally burned-he'd be an UFA right now if he wasn't so friggin stupid!
  3. I don't see how the records compare in any way to the 2005 Bills. Only 5 of these QBs were upgrades from the prior season (63, 73, 86, 98, & 02). The rest were either treading water-switching from one lousy QB to another or downgrades. Additionally, I don't see how bringing in an established veteran, like Kemp & Bledsoe compares at all to this team's situation. We won't know what we've got until the season unfolds. I am encouraged by TD's & MM's comments in today's paper.
  4. There's no comparison to Randy Moss. Moss slid in round 1. Clarett has fallen to the 6th or 7th round. Since the average 6th rounder has about a 10% chance of making it (according to Casserly when he picked Henson in the 6th) Clarett is worth a shot-as long as there's no Tom Brady or Terrell Davis that you're passing up to take Clarett. Anything earlier is a reach based on his resume on & off the field & combine times.
  5. He deserves what he agreed to play for & not a penny more. If I had the possibility of signing a multi-million $ contract at a lot more $ than I could command this year, I'd have the brains to play for whatever I'm signed for, knowing that as long as I play up to my expectations, I'll be filthy rich in one year. ...and if he gets hurt & has a bad season, then he is worth a lot LESS than the $1.25 million that he will get by playing under his present contract. I don't mind him pursuing a new contract, I think it's stupid on his part to do so. With a good season he'll be in the same boat he's in now-playing for less than the $ he could have received if he & his agent had one iota of patience. Of course, if he plans on sucking the rest of his career, then he should get that new contract ASAP.
  6. 12/15 with 3 misses outside the 40 is not enough data to draw any conclusions. Please let us know the exact distances that he missed on (and the ones he hit on) along with the competence of the snaps and the holds on those kicks, otherwise the story means nothing in terms of an evaluation.
  7. I don't understand Travis Henry's position on a long term deal unless he has 0 confidence in his ability. Being traded to Arizona with only one year left would be a dream if the guy had 1/2 a brain. Why would any player want a long term deal with one of the league's worst franchises, when as an alternative, he plays one year there, showcases himself & gets better $ with a better franchise. Either Travis is flat broke again & is looking for the quick fix that the multi-year contract's signing bonus would provide, he thinks he's going to get injured again &/or suck this season, or he just is clueless. He can spend one year with Arizona & be in line for a windfall in 1 year-his market value for a contract is a lot lower today than it would be with a good season. I really thought that it would be Arizona, looking to protect its interests, looking for the long term deal & not the other way around. Travis Henry & his agent's stupidity continues to amaze.
  8. We already had Art Schlichter in camp 19 years ago. Just say no.
  9. I think there's a huge difference between 13-3 & 3-13. 3-13 means you probably have a hole at QB & some other key positions. (Unless you started a true rookie QB & he's ready to improve dramatically) 13-3 means you're pretty close, assuming you don't have major FA losses upcomming, you go for veterans via FA to get you over the top. At 3-13 you're drafting a QB if a top prospect is there at the top of the draft and trying to make a lot of moves that will get you in contention within a couple of years.
  10. If Fiedler doesn't end up with his 1st choice, his hometown Jets, I wouldn't mind having him as a backup to JP if the price is right. It's not like he's going to be the starter & I think he wants to coach when he stops playing, so he'd be a good soldier & mentor to JP.
  11. Here's a list. I've also read that Mike Tice, coach of the Vikings is Jewish but he was not included on this list. http://www.jewishsports.com/jewsin/nfl.htm
  12. Bradley Warshauer =RJ
  13. It makes no sense because McNair will either be a Titan or retired. He's not among Tennessee's upcomming cuts & he's more likely to hang it up on his own than be cut.
  14. I took the comments as more like a guy who is the boss one day & asked to take a demotion so the kid who recently joined the company can be his boss. Like-I don't want to be managed by X, I was his boss when he came here. I'd rather manage elsewhere than work here as a peon.
  15. Your chart as of 1/14/05 says MW is a $5,896,875 cap hit for 05. Which info is correct?
  16. Chandler was an embarrassment this year when he played, NO!!! Mark me down in the Fiedler vote.
  17. When they had the Albany Firebirds I used to go to games, more in the beginning and finally I was down to 1 a year (against the Buffalo Destroyers) when they left for Indianapolis (& then folded). I went to the most games during the Bills Super Bowl years, so every year I'd go to the Super Bowl & my next "pro" football game was Arenaball.
  18. Absolutely correct! I never seen a stat that said "12 year veteran made bad decisions that even a rookie wouldn't have made" It's amazing how much different a player can look on the field from what his stats are. Just look up RJ.
  19. Here are some details: He's from Arizona & has NY/NJ real estate guys as his partners (I wonder if The Donald is one of them) http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/stor..._len&id=1991023
  20. He played in 4 games (ESPN missed the 49ers game because he didn't throw any passes. http://www.buffalobills.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=122557
  21. I'm sure the decision was made with the approval of if not the demands of Mularchy, Wyche, Clements & probably Ralph as well. This is not the Baltimore Colts where they make QB decisions at the top without notifying the people it will have the most impact on (see as the NY Post called it "Grand Theft Elway")
  22. It takes a lot of time to compile them & I've already spent too much of today on the internet, so here are the QBs that were available. I'll look at other positions in about a week or 2, I'm going to be too busy this week. Once the combine is over, I should be able to have all the combine Wonderlics. The source is the SportsXchange premium draft site. A. Smith 37 Frye 28 Campbell 14 Orton 25 Walter 24 Orlovsky 21 Anderson 15 Fitzpatrick 37 Greene 21 Rix 22 Allen 18 Lefors 26 J. White 31 Nothing earth shattering here, interesting that only 1 player, Harvard's Ryan Fitzpatrick, was able to get through all 50 questions in the time given.
  23. You can't base where a guy would have been drafted by how his career went. Based on that logic, Ryan Leaf would not have been drafted with the second pick of the draft-but he was and you can't revise his draft status because he was a bust. Same thing for guys like Akili Smith, Heath Schuler, Todd Marinovich, Cade McNown, David Klingler, Andre Ware etc-all 1st round busts. For the record, Flutie was only cut by New England, that's hardly every NFL team! He was traded by the Rams to the Bears, who then traded him to NE. Ditka loved him but lost out when the decision to trade him was made. So although NE cut him and the rest of the NFL passed on signing him, he was never cut by every NFL team-not even cut by more than the 1 of 3 teams that owned his rights Pre-Canada.
  24. I hope you don't plan on robbing the cradle to find out. (I'm older than you so I can say that)
  25. You lost me on Gilbride. Gilbride was Giants' QB coach, 1 year removed from the Bills, when Drew sealed his own fate against the Steelers' 2nd & 3rd stringers. If Drew had played as well against Pittsburgh as he did against the 49ers, there would be no imminent release to talk about. However, once the coaches, GM & Ralph saw that Drew couldn't put it together against a good scheme-regardless of what players the other team used, they knew that choosing JP (who they've seen & we haven't) would not be a large step backwards in the short run and possibly a huge upgrade in the long run. I predict that by next year at this time, you'll be a big JP supporter. You'll have to at least have his picture on the wall at your Super Bowl party-unless you go to the game wearing your JP jersey.
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