FightinIrishBills
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Not too shabby. Hate to consider things like "no longer an automatic out" a compliment but at this point, I'll take it.
The best part of the article comes when he's talking about the AFC West, the Jags in particular. Wait till you see who he thinks will keep Jacksonville from having the 28th ranked defense again!
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=6942181&sportCat=nfl
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Couldnt tell if his "Chan Gailey who very well could be a genius" comment was sarcastic or not..
I don't think so. I've read a bunch of stuff on Arrowhead Pride in prep for this game, and the fans there generally tend to revere Gailey for what he did with that offense after Trent Green went down.
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Only a Bills homer would predict a Bills victory against the Chiefs.
Both teams have relatively few changes, but one team was a playoff team and one team very much wasn't. On paper, it's easy to take the Chiefs.
I think we'll give them a game, and barring any stupidity on our part, will take the win.
Say, how would you like our odds against the Seahawks?
Past results don't guarantee future outcomes. On paper they're relatively equal, and if Cassel is iffy and with Tony Moeaki on IR, I like our odds.
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So they do not want to sign better players that could make them a better team now. Instead they want to save the money now so that they can resign the key players from the 4-12 season last year? Even though if they spent the money this year on short term veteran improvements they could cut these players in the future when they needed to in order to fit under the cap? This is your logic? This theory makes the Bills front office seems so stupid that it makes you look like a "gloomer" in my opinion. LOL
I am not privy to the inner working of OBD, but I sure as hell hope you are not correct for the sake of the Bills future!
This is a great way to woo free agents to Buffalo
The "sign players now to make the team better" is short-sighted. The quality of the player your getting in FA usually isn't enough to make your team that much better in the short term. You need to develop your own players, especially your early round talent. You won't get a team's worth of players from FA, most likely just a piece or two that will complement your home-grown talent.
I don't disagree with a couple short-term veteran signings, but you need to have a solid foundation before you add those pieces. Otherwise you're just wasting time and money in developing your young franchise-potential talent.
Does building through the draft include not resigning Poz?
Not when you're Buddy Nix and the player in question is a middling product of the terrible drafting organization that preceded you.
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I hope you're right, but I have my doubts. They are SIGNIFICANTLY under the cap right now
I think their spending will be determined in a big way by the team's on-field performance this year.
Stevie Johnson and Roscoe Parrish are free agents in 2012, and contract extensions have been mentioned for both so far. I think that Stevie is a lock to be extended, but Roscoe needs to look good early to ensure that he stays a Bill.
Ryan Fitzpatrick is a FA next year, and obviously his performance is very important to what his extension (if he gets one) would look like. But even more important, IMHO, is Demetrius Bell's contract relative to his performance. LTs don't come cheap. Even if he's only adequate this season, he'll still command big money simply due to the market value at that position. If he's terrible, the Bills have to address the position either in the draft or free agency next year. Either way, they're shelling out big money.
In the meantime, prudence is necessary in judging what they've got and what they'll need to get, which is why I don't mind that they're significantly under the cap.
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Brett favre could come out of retirement and pressure bell for starting LT. Not sure of this says anything about Hairston
Do you watch the games? Bell's not great, but he's not God awful either.
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Now this is interesting. The kid is really boosting his profile.
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It only makes sense. Having added a big time defensive play maker in Marcell Dareus, a potentially resurgent Merriman, and a rock-solid Nick Barnett, the Bills defense looks to be more stout than last year's sieve.
Meanwhile, the offense just needs to be steady. Losing Lee Evans looks bad on paper, but Chan Gailey gets a lot of respect in this league as an offensive mind. They're not winning the division with Fitz but they certainly aren't bottoming out in it either. 9-7 with a late playoff push wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
Sidenote: I just realized this off-season that the Bills let go of Donte Whitner, Lee Evans, Aaron Maybin, and Paul Posluszny--three 1st round picks and a 2nd rounder. I knew how futile our drafts have been but wow. That just hit home now.
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"The Raiders cut X? (X being a third string LB) Get 'er done Buddy!!!"
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Giving him a long look for the practice squad, I imagine. As bad as Thigpen looked, I don't want him taking too much live action in preseason on the off-chance that our #2 QB gets hurt.
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That's why we drafted him. I want to see Hairston pan out, only if to quiet those who say the Bills do nothing to address the O-line. Maybe you don't consider a 4th round pick much, but if he develops, he can provide some solid depth.
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Did you watch the draft. Please spare me your ignorance. When he took over Buddy laid out his plan and he hasn't deviated from it.
1- He said we would build through the draft. That we wouldn't be a team likely to trade around our draft picks, but would always look to acquire more.
2- He said he's not looking to make big free-agent splashes and prefers to re-sign productive players.
3- He said the process would most likely take about 3 years and he understood that would frustrate people.
Last year they drafted for offense and those guys have yet to step up, but there's nothing that we can do about that. This year's draft was clearly predicated no fixing the defense and they have done that. The worst thing a franchise can do is hang on to and overpay players who has passed the prime of their careers, or never produced. We got rid of Whitner, Maybin and Evans this year because they were unlikely to surprise anyone with a productive year. I don't understand how 2 months ago people were saying we should get what we could for Lee, then turned around and acted like the sky was falling when we did.
This. Instant gratification and the 24 hour news cycle, while being old saws to rail against, are certainly the biggest factors in all of the doom and gloom talk around here and everywhere else. All of a sudden the franchise is "doomed" and Buddy Nix is incompetent, even though he's doing exactly what he said he was going to do. I've said this many times-- I'm not a Pollyanna for this team, but this type of talk and attitude is only justified if it's November and we're 2-7.
BTW, nice name/avatar Irish
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Luck's coming out (he's graduating this Spring I believe) and he'll play in the NFL in 2012...Now that does not mean he won't refuse to come Buffalo ( a likely scenerio IMHO)...But he's not going to sit out a year...At least I don't think he will...
Why? Because you want it to be? Nothing about Andrew Luck in how he acts or what he has said would lead you to think that it's a likely scenario. Self-loathing Bills fans are pathetic.
Don't mean to single you out but come on, man.
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All I wanted was for people to re-examine the way they view a guy like Brad Smith. He may pick up a DUI tonight and prove me wrong, or get a domestic violence charge, or knock-up a stripper. Nobody's perfect. Still his body of work indicates that he's capable of much more than Chan and his staff may be grooming him for.
You spent 3 pages of a thread arguing for a point that no one was arguing against. So thank you for the soliloquy.
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Please, Tebow is not going to be cut in his second season. Pryor besides being a cheat sucked as a QB on the collegiate level despite what Drew Rosenhaus says. Think of Maurice Clarett as a QB.
A cheat? He took some money or whatever booster-ish thing happened. College football is a shady business--by your definition, many NFL players are "cheats". To my knowledge he never cheated on the field or did anything underhanded in his play. Further, his actions are nowhere near Maurice Clarett levels. I'm no fan of Pryor and certainly have no love for THE Ohio State University, but the guy sucks enough throwing the football. No need to tarry him as a cheat as well.
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Per pregame show.
At least he'll have the practice squad going for him.
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Hey, I resemble that remark! I love and miss Genny Cream Ale. You can't get that stuff west of the Ohio river and that is plain unfair!
I love Creamers, but only when they're ice cold. You have a five minute window to drink that sucker before it starts tasting like horse piss.
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Anyone comparing Cam Newton and JaMarcus Russell only watched long enough to see that they were both black, then checked back out.
Many people have compared him to Jemarcus Russel, but I though his college game resembled the play of Steve McNair. I think Newton will be a good qb if the Panthers are patient. He will show flashes but will probably struggle this year. McNair didn't start an NFL game until his 3rd year as a pro.
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Everyone, chill. He's talking about facing the Bills in Madden when he gets home after getting cut from the Jets. He can play any position that he wants!
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oh please you big baby. were you crying when you wrote this? You obviously hate the American system called capitalism. simple solution: just move to France or San Francisco or Greece and stand with all your socialist friends in the unemployment line. baby.
And...ignore. Your overwhelmingly negative posts are barely tolerable but foolish ad hominem attacks are not.
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Via Deadspin:
"I think I can say this now, because it's not going to hurt anybody's feelings, and it's the truth... I didn't want to come to Philadelphia. Being the third-team quarterback is nothing to smile about. Cincinnati and Buffalo were better options."
Those two teams wanted him and would've allowed him to start, but after meeting with commissioner Roger Goodell and other reps from the NFL, Vick was convinced—and granted league approval—to sign with Philly. "And I commend and thank them, because they put me in the right situation."
Just saw the new Jersey I want on ESPN
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Uh oh. I never want to agree with that d-bag about anything. Hopefully we're both right.