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Palmer was only sacked twice and had time to throw throughout most of the game. Even with backups Evan Mathis and Dennis Roland seeing significant snaps, this line seamlessly transitioned big guys in and out without losing much rhythm. Offensive line coach Paul Alexander deserves tons of credit for an excellent start this season. Another huge positive factor has been the play of cornerbacks Johnathan Joseph and Leon Hall.It was as if the Raven receivers decided to go to the racetrack or golf course instead of play football; were they there If these two can continue to shut down the opposition's top receiver, I suspect that we will continue to see more sacks and pressure on the quarterback as a result.They can be left in single coverage, which allows for more safety and linebacker blitzing a perfect equation for sacks.It's only Week Five, but a Pro Bowl invitation for at least one of them may be in order. The final major bright spot worth pointing out is our favorite golden boy, Carson Palmer.Those fans clamoring for the big-armed, sling-shooting Palmer of 2005 might feel somewhat underwhelmed by his play so far, but no matter what his stats look like, he has risen to the game's ultimate challenge of playing from behind and orchestrating the win in every game this season. I've shared my skepticism on Carson's ability to improve on the things I felt he had faltered in, like pocket presence and clutch ability.I cautioned against the belief that just because No. 9 was back, things would automatically turn around.I am quite delighted that Mr. HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan.

26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ The Pennsylvania GameCommission and U.S. Geological Survey's Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish andWildlife Research Unit at Pennsylvania State University today presented anoverview of a new deer research project to the Board of Game Commissioners. For the 2008-09 deer seasons, the Board approved a change in the firearms deerseason in WMUs 2D, 2G, 3C, and 4B.The change made antlered deer legal forthe first five days of the two-week firearms deer season, followed by sevendays of antlered and antlerless deer hunting. Previously, these four WMUs hada two-week concurrent firearms season for antlered and antlerless deer season. In passing this change in seasons, the Board directed staff to develop afour-year study for these WMUs to evaluate its impact before consideringchanges to the two-week firearms deer season length in any other WMUs. It wasnoted that these four WMUs chosen were for this split season because: WMUs 2Gand 4B had ongoing deer research in them; WMU 2D is an area where antlerrestrictions are set at four points on one side, and is where the agencypreviously had deer research conducted; and WMU 3C is an area where antlerrestrictions are set at three points on one side, and is an area of the statewhere no extensive deer research has been conducted.Today, Dr. Christopher Rosenberry, Game Commission Deer and Elk Sectionsupervisor, and Dr.

Duane Diefenbach, who heads up the Cooperative ResearchUnit, presented information on the study."The research will address biological and social aspects of the shortenedantlerless season in the four WMUs," Rosenberry said. "The study will seek toanswer several questions, including: will hunters see more deer; and will theshorter antlerless season allow deer population objectives to be met "As with all of our deer studies, we will address these various questionsusing radio-collared deer, ear tagged deer, deer harvest data and huntersurveys."From the social side, Rosenberry noted that the study will monitor hunterresponse and opinion regarding the shorter antlerless rifle season.From thebiological side, the study will monitor deer populations and determine actionsnecessary to meet deer population objectives with a shorter antlerless rifleseason. "Although many believe a shorter season may reduce the antlerless harvest, itis important to remember that the antlerless harvest is the method of meetingthe population objective for a WMU and can be adjusted with the antlerlessallocation," Rosenberry said. "If fewer deer are being harvested and thepopulation objective is not being met, then we would recommend an increase inthe allocation to achieve the proper antlerless harvest." Diefenbach said that this study also will be using reward tags to collect deerharvest information. "This is not the first time reward tags have been used in Pennsylvania,"Diefenbach noted "Reward tags have been used on pheasants, doves and turkeys.