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Well, you're not telling Mickey anything he doesn't already know and hasn't already commented on ad nauseum...but you do remind everyone of why most of us think he'll be reporting today...ok, maybe tomorrow after he spends today wiping barbecue sauce off his two chins. Halfway through the season, when we're 7-1 and thinking Super Bowl, I guarantee this holdout will be largely forgotten. Yes, most folks do have that short a memory. But it's possible Peters will have gotten his point across. At some point into his holdout, I think he realized the Bills weren't going to budge and that he wasn't getting a new deal this year. In that light, his continuing could only be to try to loosen up the Bills for next year. After all, from his point of view, why wouldn't they try to keep him on the old contract for yet another year? This would say (hopefully) that he's confident and expects to step in and play at another pro-bowl level this year (which wouldn't be bad, would it?). Yeah, we all hate him now, and if he's introduced with the starting offense this Sunday I'll be there booing him the loudest... BUT, the first time he crushes the competition and gives Trent the time he needs to connect with Lee for the game-winning touchdown...much, if not all, will be forgiven.

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Seriously though, remember all those games where Kelly would fumble, like, five times in the first half, but then would just shake it off and come back and throw, like, fourteen touchdowns in the second? That's why he's in the HOF.

OMG!! "McKinney" and "McKelvin" are even closer!!

Also at the game, and I have to agree with that description of the fumble...it was a real surprise to see it pop out. They weren't going for the ball, just a solid hit, but nothing spectacular. Wright saw the hit coming and appeared to have the ball covered up, but... A shame because I thought he was making good decisions and running pretty well last night (has been all pre-season). He was patient, showed good vision and kept finding holes for some positive yards, without a great deal of help. I also agree with this. That should be a coach-able defect. I think he makes the team.

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Led the team in sacks each of those years.

Well said, and quite right. Remember last year's pre-season, when the offense looked out of joint the whole way? Even Jauron commented after the final PS game that he wished the offense had more time to work things out. Guess what, the offense we saw during pre-season was the same offense we got all year long. By contrast, this year's offense has often looked sharp and confident, and has shown the ability to sustain long drives, a luxury last year's defense rarely enjoyed. It has also shown a knack for scoring touchdowns occasionally, rather than constantly settling for field goals. Remember, despite the lameness of the offense last year, we didn't need to convert all that many field goals to touchdowns to alter the outcome of a number of games we lost. I think this year's offense has already shown they have the potential to do just that. GO BILLS!

LOL, Kelly, I think you transformed yourself into a fly and hung out on the wall in Peter's living room as he and Parker talked stategy. Nice job, forgive the slight editing on my part. Yup.

Sorry to inform y'all, but JP can't grow facial hair. That beard is from hair transplanted from his ass.

The new O reinforces for me just how stinking bad Steve Fairchild was last year. I remember Josh Reed saying after a game last year he couldn't understand how they could be so bad with the talent they had. He knew. The ratio of talent to results last year was mystifying, but consider: Last night the first team looked pretty good With JP at QB W/o Peters on the line W/o James Hardy in the lineup Yeah, Turk stepped into a good spot, as almost anything will be a huge improvement over Stevie Blunder. That said, I get the feeling TS could be a smart, sound and creative OC in his own right. Hope he doesn't demand a new contract next year.

What's the big deal? All the Bills need to do to pay a huge signing bonus to JP is get off their lazy a$$es and sell a few dozen corporate luxury suites to prosperous Outer New York corporations.

The numbers are no different than years ago. The league is simply filled with a bunch of girly whiners nowadays. Doc to Ronnie Lott: You need immediate surgery on that injured finger. Lott: What, miss the playoffs? Just amputate the damn thing.

Fine, so how about giving $6 cash to each spectator at the Ralph as they pass through the turnstiles on Opening Day...hey Jason, thanks man!

Ha, I see yer boys Steely and Darryl have got their game faces on early this year.

It was a close call...turns out a majority of the team wanted to be awarded custom, monogrammed 18-1* designer handbags.

Bingo. One thing you can be sure of when it comes to Ralph Wilson: He will defend the overall, long-term interests of his team, as he sees them, with the ferocity of a bear sow defending her cubs.

Based on what we know I think this sums it up pretty nicely!

Fair enough, also. However, that last phrase, "he will get even better", tends to get repeated as though it were set in stone. The truth is something closer to "he may/should get better"; and this goes to my point, as past performance is the best indicator of future results. The NFL playing field is littered with sure things who never reached their potential. I think the most prudent course is to find the right balance between "promise" and "track record" (with the emphasis on track record). Also, if Schobel is on the "downside of his career", my guess is the Bills' brass is rightly confident that, in our system, the slope will be a long, gradual one. This will allow them to focus on other areas of need for a few years. I'm giving the FO some latitude in judging our own players here, of course...just ask Baltimore how that McGahee thing is going.

Hell, yeah...5 and 0...sounds sweet to my ears. In the immortal words of Bruce Smith after a 5 and 0 start: "Fo 'n 0 no mo!!"

Yeah, yeah, Wade is a good guy, but can we please leave his loins out of this discussion?

Seems to me the important distinction between the two cases might not be the number of years left on the original contract, but rather the total number of years of service to the team at the time of negotiations. Let's face it, Schobel had six full years under his belt when the time came to discuss a new contract. He had demonstrated durability and consistency during that time by leading the team in sacks each of those years. For all his remarkable ability, Peters simply has not had the same time to prove that he can be a similar, long-term force. I think he did get some playing time at the end of the season in '04 on special teams, but that means only three full seasons in total compared to Schobel's six. I don't think it's too much to ask of him to honor his existing contract and prove himself for one more season; to ask him to play healthy and at the same high level for one more full season at Left Tackle before giving him the kind of contract he wants. In the end I think this is exactly how it will all sort out.

Obviously the lobotomy has already been done.

Another hit and run for Lynch...where does it end?

The worst thing to contemplate about Babywipe Brady is that, after he retires some day, we'll be seeing him on NFL broadcasts for the next 40 years...