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Good point, I guess. Especially considering practically the entire defense and defensive staff are returning from last year.

Dude, that is the freakiest avatar.

I agree with you on that laser that shot from his arm in the first half. I couldn't believe how fast he got rid of the ball, or how fast it shot down the field. Impressive. My impression of him from that game is that he just seemed a little too jacked up. At least at first. One thing I noted is that, on the first few drives, many of his throws involved pump fakes, play actions, roll outs, or some other motion to initially distract the defense. On those plays, he really seemed too anxious. Later in the half, they just had him do mostly straight drop backs, and he appeared much more comfortable. My thought is that they should just let this kid get comfortable in the pocket before making him do all those little trick-play thingies. Which I think will be very effective, but I'd slow it down a bit right now.

Anyone else a little uneasy at the amount of blitzing we've done so far? I mean, I realize the purpose of the preseason is to practice what you're going to be doing, but I would also think we'd try to keep things fairly vanilla until the season starts. Doesn't sound like it's been very vanilla.

Just look for "Buffalo"

They just did a story on Bledsoe coming to Buffalo right before that. Shame it never worked out, it realy would have made a great story. Oh well.

Especially if they took their pants off to feel more comfortable while doing so.

Uh, how exactly would TIVO have prevented this?

So I was away on vacation this past week and just got back today. Set the VCR to record the Bills-Colts game, only to find out the entire second quarter is replaced with Rich Eisen's ugly mug and the frigging Jacksonvill Jaguars "live camp" update. WTF? So then as I'm figuring this out I have the NFL Network on in the background today and, well, looky there, the Bills-Colts game is on again. In it's entirety. But it's not on the schedule...it's supposed to be "Inside Training Camp: Colts". I guess this is better than a training camp update for them. WTF? BTW...looking at the schedule....tonight at 6pm eastern: "6 p.m. -- NFL Films Presents Explores the depth of the NFL Films archive with unique perspectives on football's greatest heroes and personalities as well as its history, humanity and humor. Buffalo Blues stories include: Bledsoe, Buffalo, Kalsu, Birth of the AFL." Looks like some decent Buffalo stuff.

I lived in the house right across the street from them on Woodmere until I was 9 years old. For most of my available memory, Tom had already separated from his wife and did not live on Woodmere, so they must have separated early in my life. I'm a few years younger than Lenora, a little bit younger his son Tom.

Yes, she was there too. His other daughter, Michelle, was there as well. We all knew each other growing up. Cool family.

Tippy's right...his son and I were going through some of his old memorabilia when I was back. He had some great pictures of his dad in action, a couple with him sacking Joe Namath. Very cool stuff. He also had some great pics of OJ back in the day, too.

Funny you should mention that...I was just recently back in Buffalo for a few days and spent an afternoon with Tom Day's family (it was his ex-wife's birthday), and wouldn't you know it, Ernie Warlick came over for a few minutes. He still remembered me from when I was a little boy. What a great guy.

remember, wax on, wax off.

I've been hearing all about it in the news here. Quite an amazing thing. The crater left behind is HUGE, and I can't believe nobody died from it. What sucks is that I'm driving to visit my mother tomorrow in New Mexico, and that's the route we take. We have to go pretty far out of the way now to get around that.

Burns does have the ST thing going for him, but he did miss a blitz pickup pretty badly in the scrimmage. I think it was the only play that JP got "sacked" on. That can't help.

It said in the story that he's out right now...I doubt he'll play this game if there's any question about his health. I agree, though, it would be a good test for Gandy.

Man, that's gotta be tough, going through all that while having to be on the air. Hopefully he'll get through it all right.

Making excuses already, I see

How does Don sound after that tragedy? Has he talked about it at all?

Damn, if only /dev/null were here he could tell us Evolution = Picard ID = Kirk

Personally, I'm in favor of letting people choose when it comes to helmets. We're dangerously short on good organs for those who need them.

This is a freaking hysterical thread.

If that's the case, maybe they should send him up with the next shuttle.

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