Charles Romes
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Does anyone realize that two of our five best players are on IR.
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Jasper is big but he is built all wrong to be an NFL interior linemen Good NFL linemen like wood, Williams and dareus have huge lower bodies and are built from the ground up. Jasper on the other hand has skinny little ankles and legs and a massive upper body. He's kind of like one of those gen1 body builders from the post schwarzennegger era that spent all his time working his upper body ignoring the legs except with Jasper the upper body muscle is replaced with upper body fat.
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84 yards against Revis. Most by any receiver in 3 years against Revis. Better than A. Johnson, L. Fitzgerald, B. Marshall, W. Welke, R. Moss.. He flat out beat the #1 CB in the league on a 52 yard strike. But yea he sucks, doesn't play like other #1's..... Oh wait.
um, garbage time?
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The classic Mora "Playoffs?" video. Somebody had to post it.
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Interesting pats get ticky tack offensive pit on plax but bills didn't get mugging he did on mckelvin
Maybe the refs would show McKelvin some respect if they didn't see him get torched for big plays every time they watched the Sunday highlights on Sports Center.
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I couldn't believe how slow Ocho looked on that long completion. A few years ago he would have split the Dbs and scored on that play. I have seen nothing tonight that convinces me he is not washed up which was everyone knew going into this game.
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I thought this thread would have something to do with a decorative wood working project relating to the patriots.
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Wow. A third stringer in high school. This furthers the theory that Fred may be 2-4 years younger in actual football years.
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Hey it worked for Jim Kelly.
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Not as entertaining as the first link in this thread, but here are Raynor's career stats:
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/raynedav01.htm
Not bad.
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The most overrated historical player is reggie white. I still cringe when someone tries to put him in the class as Bruce. I mean you could watch them both play on the same day most of their careers.
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Giants d was in decline if not disarray before fewell got there and he turned it around. As another poster put it we could not keep fewell because he had the stink of jauron on him.
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My research shows that a current player (Henry) was on the top of the board the last time the Bills were 3+ over .500 past the half way point:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041229085558/http://www.twobillsdrive.com/
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They did one game like this...it did not poll favorably. I gurantee, as much as people whine about the announcers, if they really went without announcers, ratings would plummet.
That game was a reaction to a single out of this world bombastic announcer who became loved after he was gone
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I get so mad when people talk domes. I would rather us play outside in front of temporary bleachers at best and Jefferson than in a phony dome. It doesn't even look like real football.
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Boston Globe has us in first place as meaningless as that is this time of year.
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Why the patriots had a medical examiner on staff anyway I don't know.
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Believe it or not, the Bills only have one on the list.
Rob Johnson is the all time career NFL leader in sack percentage by more than a point.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_sacked_perc_career.htm
How can he not be on the list.
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He beat the RB for that one. Count me less than impressed.
Yeah snuffing out the opening drive of a top conference team and setting the tone for the game by doing exactly what a legit pass rusher is supposed to do is not impressive. For all the improvement in the Bills its infuriating that we were a competent defensive staff away from making a memorable leap this year. Now we have a wiffed disaster #1 and a premature release with the same player.
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There was a guy that held down a starting corner job for almost a decade from the late 70s to mid 80s.
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I've seen enough of Martin (was targeted on Fitzy's int Sunday & fell down). sure he makes a play here and there on ST, but I'm willing to bet there would be little fall off with Aiken. Martin has bounced around and hasn't stuck anywhere & Aiken is a young (UDFA siging) sitting on our practice squad? The kid's about 6'1" and around 215....pretty good size! He ran a 4.45 @ UCF's proday and in the preseason performed really well...something like 5 catches for 100 yds, and I think all of those cathes were for 1st downs...He looked to run crisp routes and was able to get good seperation...I'm not sure what the eligibility rules are with retaining the ability to PS him next year IF we activate him for a couple games while Nelson heals up...Anyone?
I am a big fan of Aiken. He has the look of a prototypical #1 receiver. I agree that he should be playing ahead of Martin and that Martin should be cut. I also thought Aiken should have been called up before Roosevelt. It should be noted that these comments are coming from someone who thought Brohm should be playing ahead of Fitz because he looked more like a #1.
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For your information its a very common trait of long suffering Bills fans to predict that they will lose while hoping for the best. It helps ease the pain a smidgen to not get your hopes up too high and to be able to tell yourself you were right after they lose. It doesn't mean that Boomer didn't give a pronounced fist pump or more when Fitzy drew the Eagles offsides to clinch the game.
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In a league that markets the "superstar", nobody wants the team of misfit toys doing anything awesome and crashing that party besides all of us Bills fans.
Detroit is palatable because they have "stars".
The NFL and the national media would be horrified at having a team comprised of castoffs, 7th rounders and UDFAs making the playoffs, and heaven forbid getting to the Super Bowl. It would rip apart the time-space continuum and put a hell of a dent into the NFL's embrace and marketing of superstars.
The NFL, on the surface, embraces parity, but not to that extent where a bunch of Average Joe's can beat Globo Gym.
This team and its fans will never have a shortage of motivation to do well.
The Saints were pretty much a patch work team embraced by the media and especially so because they were in a small market suffering hard times. They took a shot on an injured Brees after Miami passed on him for Culpepper (the modern day curse of the Bambino). Their whole championship roster has always been filled with castoffs, low round picks and UDFAs. Their only name high first rounder never performed close to his selection number.
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I know I'm going to take some flak for this, and that there will be no shortage of people willing to write comments like "we're 4-1, be happy," or "a win is a win. It doesn't matter how you do it."
But a method of winning that will work over the long haul is fundamentally different from, and superior to, a method of winning that will soon fizzle out. The Bills' method of winning seems to be in the latter category.
Against the I-95 teams the Bills have played thus far (Patriots and Eagles), the Bills had nine takeaways and no giveaways. And yet, despite that insane +9 turnover differential, the Bills won both games by the skin of their teeth. This means that the Bills were significantly outplayed in the non-turnover aspects of the game, and needed all of those nine turnovers to eke out wins.
What happens when the Bills fail to achieve this kind of ridiculously one-sided turnover ratio?
Statistically, a good turnover ratio is highly correlated with wins, for obvious reasons. But teams' turnover ratios tend to change significantly from one season to the next. Two seasons ago that worked in the Bills' favor, as there were games Byrd won almost singlehandedly. His turnovers made the Bills' record better than its talent level would otherwise have dictated. Last season Byrd's turnovers dried up, and were no longer available to mask the team's overall lack of talent. That's why the Bills went 4-12. This season the turnovers are back again and (in combination with KC's implosion) are the main pillar of Buffalo's fast start. I do not believe that attaining turnovers at this ridiculous pace is sustainable, any more than the insane pace Byrd set during his rookie year was sustainable.
This should not be taken to mean that all is gloom and doom, or an implication that the team will never amount to anything. What it does mean is that Nix's rebuilding process is not as far along as the Bills' current record would seem to indicate. This team needs to play better in the non-turnover-related aspects of the game if its current success is to be sustainable. Maybe some of that can come from younger players already on the roster learning to improve. Byrd himself is a good example of this: he's playing better this year than last year. I also suspect the Bills will need at least one or two good drafts before they can truly become one of the NFL's top teams.
Who cares - If you are a non-turnover assisted 1-4 and legitimately close 6-5 you wind up 7-9 and miss the playoffs. If you are a turnover-assisted 4-1 and legitimately close 6-5 you are 10-6 and often get in the playoffs.
Luck looks bad
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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tonight and has been far from perfect the last month. Now I can enjoy the rest of the season and not be preoccupied with anger about the Colts nabbing a once in a generation player.