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I guess NFL GM's, who all passed on drafting Rogers this past April, really do know more about NFL personnel than all the amateur draftniks who proclaimed Rogers to be the next Randy Moss.

The toughest challenge for the Bengals will be getting out of the division .... healthy and able to continue on should they make the playoffs. That division will be a dogfight with all 3 of the Bengals, Steelers and Ravens capable of taking it. I also believe the Bengals are seriously held back by Marvin Lewis.

The sal cap has pretty much ensures that not much talent separates teams 53 man squads. However, the Broncs and Pats are interchangeable at the top in the AFC due to their superiority at the QB position. Flip a coin thereafter amongst the remaining clubs.

He should be cut ...... for sheer stupidity.

6? Commish must have added 2 due to that picture above ...........

You tell me ... you have all the connections and "are in the know"

Not good. Kolb sucks and EJ needs the pre-season to gain experience.

You may "know what you know" but if you know that HGH is, was, or will ever be, limited to just the Pats (as you imply), then you really must have some amazing connections. .

Oh, please. Give it a rest will ya.

Perhaps so but, by the sounds of it, Brady was carving them up in practice as well. In fact, I heard a few former player, now reporters, on NFL Network, who were reporting on the practice tilts, say they have never seen anything like the precision of what Brady had done in camp before.

The Pats OL are very well coached and talented but they also benefit tremendously by having Brady at the helm. Brady's primary gift as a QB is his ability to read defenses, pre and post snap, a gift which allows him to 1) gett rid of the ball quickly and 2) audible out of unfavourable matchups and into favourable matchups, thereby alleviating much of the stress that afflicts most other OL's in the league.

Keep in mind that the starters play very little in pre-season games so would question how much value, what you are proposing, has. I agree they are not very likely to be as good as last years version. Then again, that was an offense for the ages.

No doubt, If the Pats can run, as they did very well last year, it gives Brady 1 additional mismatch, in his already loaded arsenal; the ability to kill defenses with play action all day long. And, if the new guys can actually stress the opposing defense downfield this year, unlike in recent years, it'll be a monumental challenge to defend them in any way. It's probably easier to accept the fact that you'll have to simply try and outscore them.

In that case then, most HC's hang their teams out to dry by not planning for their pre-season opponent as there simply isn't enough time during pre-season to spend it watching game film on a pre-season opponent. I'm sure a valid counter argument could be made that, whatever little time is available during this time of the year, is much better spent watching film of ones own players than of other teams'.

Even more than hitting Brady - which doesn't happen all that much for he's without peer at quickly processing the play and getting rid of the ball before the rush can get to him - is disrupting the timing between him and his receivers. By far, the best way to accomplish this either jam his receivers and get them off their routes so they can't be where Brady expects them to be or you scheme defenses that confine the receivers to routes in congested, short areas, of the field where defenders can make plays (or prevent the Pats receivers from making big plays). Do this and the odds of slowing that Pats offense down goes up exponentially. Despite the greatness of Brady with the new receivers in place it's quite possible this could be accomplished easier than in years past. However, if Brady's new guys keep playing like they have it might be more of the same for teams who try to defend that Pats offense. Especially so if they have found some skilled players who can stretch the perimeter and make plays deep thereby negating one of the defenses best weapons ..... clogging and congesting the short area game on them. I think Amendola's biggest gift to the Pats is he can actually make plays downfield, in addition to thriving in the Wes Welker role inside, something the Pats never got out of Wes. Saw this in last night's game on Amendola TD catch.

I highly doubt any preparation (ie film watching of opponent) was done by either team for the game. There simply isn't any time, or need (according to Frazier) for that in pre-season.

I think the pt being missed here is that the Vikes didn't gameplan to counter the Bills blitzing; not that the Bills devised a game plan (ie heavy blitz packages) for the game.

Kolb sucks and is not the future so no point in playing him over EJ. I suppose Kolb could have value as an insurance plan should EJ struggle when the real bullets start to fly. Frankly, I'd rather see them sink or swim with EJ starting all season long.

I think that's the pt Frazier is making .... they didn't watch previous tape, and therefore, didn't gameplan for what might happen based upon what the Bills did previously. I suppose one could argue that they should have but, it seems, not many teams game-plans for an opponent in the pre-season.

This is a QB driven league. The Pats have, arguably, the best QB in the game under centre whereas the Bills have major questions marks at the QB spot. Furthermore, the Pats have, arguably, the best HC in the game roaming the sidelines (not to mention a highly proven and successful support staff) wheras the Bills have a bunch of rookie unknowns. It really doesn't take much of a stretch to believe the odds of the Bills ousting the Pats to win the division are quite high.

Throughout his career, Brady has been wildly successful in the passing game with the likes of David Givens, David Patten, Reche Caldwell, Jabar Gaffney, Donte Stallworth and a host of other JAG's at his primary disposal. At some point in time you gotta accept that it's the passer, and not the receiver(s), who is the critical component to the Pats passing success. Last I heard, Brady is still the Pats QB (and on fire in camp by all accounts) so I wouldn't count on anything but a wildly successful Pats passing offense yet again.

What most often separates the great from the good is their drive and desire to be great. On and off the field. Brady has this intangible in spades and it wouldn't matter where he was drafted or what team he ended up on; he would still have it and he'd be wildly successful.

If you are fortunate enough t have a QB who excels at getting rid fo the ball quickly then you don't need great pass blockers anywhere on the OL, including at LT. The issue, for too many NFL teams, is they don't have said QB so they need to spend on pass blockers on the OL.

This is what happens when you are forced to take a major need player in the draft .... you reach for the guy and take him earlier than need be for fear some other team will take him first. It happens to crappy teams all of the time and it happened to the Bills yesterday. After trading out of the top 10, the Bills were in position to fall all the way into the 3rd without much drop off in available talent. In retrospect, they should have traded down more once that decision was made. But, they panicked and had to make the QB pick because of the monumental weakness at the spot. Just imagine if the Bills had been patient and traded down two more times; a 2nd time into the late 20's (say for a 2nd and 4th) and then pulled off the trade the Pats made with the Vikes. They'd have set themselves up for the foreseeable future with a draft haul like no other.

I believe they were as well. And probably would have had Gronk and Hernandez not gotten injured as they did.