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No, he got past the marker, and then got even a bit further after his knee had already hit. On the broadcast they showed a good replay and in a Vick-like manner he kept his knee off the ground incredibly deep into his lunge. I really thought he had it and that they brought it back too far. I was even thinking Jauron may opt to challenge the spot.

This question was answered perfectly in the post right before yours: Let him get nice and comfy in the pocket, and instead of taking off when his first guy isn't open, let him stand in there and go through his progressions. Once he learns how to do that and we're comfortable with his pocket presence we can start letting him pick his spots to run. The last thing we want is him reverting back to last year's Losman, which involved altogether too much scrambling and not enough checking down. He's on the way though, as he did a good job of this today.

Actually, I would have seen kicking the field goal as the option that would be "giving up points." You should be able to pick up a couple of feet on 4th down, and they would have if McGahee ran it correctly. Therefore, with the field goal you're only getting 3 points when you should have a crack at getting 7. As you said, you shouldn't be giving up points on the road. Just because McGahee f'ed up on the play doesn't mean it was a bad coaching decision.

Whenever he gets into a conversation about the Bills quarterback position, my father will still always cite that one play as the reason why Kelly Holcomb should no longer be on this team. I don't know if I agree or not, but that was a truly disgusting play without a doubt.

Pass the sh--, man. Go Bills.

I believe McCargo plays Triplett's position, and he can only play the spot occupied by Williams and Anderson in pass rushing situations, like 3rd and long.

Uh...they usually lose?

Yeah and whose the leader and most important member of their defense? Richard Seymour, a big chunk of 1st round gold. You need to get players in a combination of ways, but the draft is a significant part of it.

Dumbass.

And if you wanted to fairly compare these drafts, you'd have to do so after the same amount of time, such as looking at the 2005 draft now, and comparing those players' status to those of the 2006 draft at the start of next year. That way, you're looking a both drafts after the same amount of time. In other words, let me know the status of each player in the 06 draft class at the start of next season.

Agreed Rico, I thought we should have cut Vincent and let Ko start, keeping Baker around on the bench. Vincent always seems to be late on the deep balls, and I think some youth at that spot would be refreshing.

Actually, I can't stand Clements on punt returns, and I was relieved when they started using Parrish in that role. Clements NEVER just goes straight ahead. No matter what, he ALWAYS begins by running across the field. He could have 7-8 yards of open space in front of him and instead of just turning on the jets straight ahead, his first steps would be dancing to the side. Sometimes it works out, but alot of times you've got to just run ahead and find a lane that way, and I think Parrish has a much better sense for it.

It's amazing, all of a sudden every other topic is dedicated to mocking the media.

Yeah, they looked crappy but it was still a good time and good to see them win it in the end. The kicking game and pass protection both definitely must be improved.

Meh, I liked Bledsoe and still have no problem wearing his jersey. That's obviously just me though.

Is that a shot at PTI? Cause PTI is ESPN's best show, hands-down.

I'll be there LIVE and for free too, as I've just started my first year at UB and students get in for free. I'm pretty excited for it.

Yeah, this would probably work with most positions. The higher the percentage of your first-day picks that go on to fill starting spots, the better your team will be. It's obvious and statistics aren't needed to grasp that. Because when your picks aren't filling starting spots, then they're busts, and thats wasting very good oppurtunities to get good players.

You're talking about two completely different animals. One school can produce good players at a given position because of good coaching in that area, and once they gain the reputation for handling a position well, the big-time high school recruits will see it as a more desirable place to play. As top-level recruits begin going to a certain school for this reason, the cycle not only continues but grows because this reputation the school has for producing well at that position becomes more and more prevelant and thus more and more top-level recruits want to go there, and it goes on and on. This effect isn't very likely to surface on a broad, conference-wide generalization, such as "all receivers who go to a MAC school are doomed to fail in the NFL." The reason is that few people would ever realize an entire college football conference isn't producing at one individual position. And even if they did notice, few people would give it any significance because the basis of it makes no sense. It's unrealistic to believe that every team in a college football conference has some sort of flaw that stops recruits from succeeding in the NFL when they otherwise would have had a good career. I personally find believing that to be preposterous.

It's ridiculous to say that a MAC receiver will never succeed in the NFL. What, has someone cojured a magic spell or cursed all MAC wideouts until the end of time? Because THERE IS NO MORE LOGICAL EXPLANATION FOR IT. It's merely coincidence that, since Randy Moss, only players from other positions have established themselves in the NFL, and in time your theory will become a falsity.

I liked the way he stepped straight up into the pocket on the deep ball to Price. This is one thing Bledsoe was always very good at. Many young (especially young and mobile) quarterbacks will instead try to run around the edge of the outside rush, instead of just stepping up, and we've seen JP do that before. He showed progress, and that's the name of the game for a young starting quarterback. Here's to hoping he continues to improve.

I liked what I saw out of Williams and Denney. I don't know if Williams made any tackles but he fought hard to hold the middle of the field against the run and I would've credited him with a hurry or two. Denney has really impressed me this whole preseason, and he played well against the run Saturday. Crowell didn't do a whole lot, and I noticed them running successfully to his side of the field. I didn't, however, see exactly what he was doing on those plays so take it for what its worth. Roscoe and Whitner were quiet and I didn't notice anything of Fowler.

Anybody hear anything about Youboty? Because I don't think I've heard his name since the draft. Talking to my brother yesterday I actually said that either Eric King would take over for Clements next year or we'd have to bring in somebody new, and he had to remind me that Youboty existed.