Charles Romes

Agreed. For all the moves Polian off, its still amazes me he filled the middle of a 3-4 with a journeyman linebacker.

The Fergy hobbling around game against SD in 1980 playoffs

Week 2 (Sunday September 28, 1975): Buffalo Bills 1 2 3 4 Total Bills 0 10 13 7 30 Steelers 0 0 7 14 21 at Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

This might be the case. Tucker talked about the Bills renting Rhodes for two weeks. Originally I thought Tucker's reference to two weeks was just because Tucker made a mistake about the time of Lynch's suspension. He may have been suggesting the Bills will re-sign Rhodes AFTER week 1.

Ross Tucker opined this morning on NFL radio that the Rhodes is still part of the Bills' plans for weeks 1-3 but that was cut in view of a league rule which forces teams to pay veterans for a full year if they are on the original 53 man roster. He believes the Bills calculated that Rhodes will clear waivers and speculated that the Bills will re-sign him over the next few days. By cutting and re-signing Rhodes, rather than having him as part of the original 53 man team, the Bills will be obligated to pay Rhodes for only the weeks he is on the team rather than the full year.

I think you need to take the kid to the ralph, and while gesturing to the giant leaping buffalo, say THIS is what your purpose in life is.

I suppose many of the things you mention are within the realm of possibility. The one thing I can't fathom is "the defense actually PRESSURES the Quarterback." Where is this pressure supposed to come from? An old broken down Schobel? Is not the rookie a two year project. On your wish list you should put in "if Stroud stays healthy" (a big if at his age). Without at least that happening things could get very ugly pretty quick.

Chris Carter is available as well.

Because of this game in which they totally outplayed, and the win against the Raiders the following week in which they were also totally outplayed, the Bills of 1990 suddenly had a gaudy record that was way better than what it should have been. Some how they grew into their record and became as good as their record indicated them to be.

I allowed myself to dream when we were 6-1 with a touchdown plus second half lead about to close out the Dolphins. Then Edwards, who had shown signs of being a guy who became better in the clutch suddenly became a guy who wilted under pressure. Watching Denny and Kelsay act as dance partners to the Jets OL the following week brought me down to earth, though I still had hope that the historically easy schedule would bring a winning season.

It seems like there is some revisionist history in this thread arguing that Rob Johnson was not all that bad. The thing to remember is that not only was Johson bad at avoiding the rush, he was historically bad. By a wide margin, the very worst in the history of the league. His career sack percentage was an unbelievable 14.8! http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/J/JohnRo00.htm By comparison, statue-man Bledsoe was in the 6's (Marino in the 3's), Losman 9.9. Johnson understood that taking a sack never had an impact on the QB rating and consequently always built up a respectable to good rating.

I brought this same topic up a few months ago... http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=79615 Its not valid to compare the rj/jp comparison to the mathison/dufek comparison. The bills paid a kings ransom for both rj and jp, each of whom was brought in to be the franchise quarterback. So, RJ and JP belong in a special category of ex bills qbs - expensive putative franchise qbs. Also, as I noted in my December post they had similar games.

Winning the whole thing has kept two franchises where they are in the NHL.

Gary Anderson, Bill Polian, Marty Schottenheimer

Building the OL is done best through the draft, and good franchises don't buy OL's as Buffalo tried to do in 06-07. Our store-bought line, now dismantled, was vastly superior to its predecessor and was one of the strengths of the team. Our below average QBs throwing to diminutive receivers have often had all day to throw. In spite of facing eight in the box just about every game we somehow managed a respectable yards per rush.

this thread makes me not want to be a bills fan

Well, they used to have one of the top 7 or 8 PGA tour events, they couldn't find a sponsor and completely ran the tournament into the ground.

Is Russ going to do anything about this? Isn't it against league rules? http://blog.syracuse.com/orangefootball/20..._of_moving.html

Its driving me nuts. At least put in the broncos game score.

Why are we even looking at this guy. He's only 5'11".

Gil asked Bruce to talk about the things he did to separate himself. Bruce talked about how playing basketball in high school helped his footwork, quickness and hands. Then Bruce described for several minutes about how his sack stats were distortedly low because he played in a 3 - 4, and noted that the late great Reggie White whom he has tremendous respect 4 played in a 4 - 3 with great ends taking up double teams. He stated he wanted to educate fans about how much more difficult it was to put up huge sack numbers playing in a 4 - 3 so that fans could make up their own mind about who was the greatest DE of his era. A lot of people don't like the fact that Bruce is constantly tooting his own horn. I think its regrettable he has to, having watched him completely blow up the opposing team's Oline on just about every play for 15 years.

TD was a failure but hard to call it a Ralph mistake. When TD was hired he had the best resume of anyone out there. When Ralph hired TD he was doing what everyone wishes he would do now, proceed according to conventional wisdom, hire the name football guy with a track record, hand over the entire operation to the football guy.

Fisher was coaching out of a trailor for those early years and as the franchise was threatening to move, gearing up to move, and eventually moving. His 8-8 seasons were properly seen as translating to 11-5 years in that environment.

Yeah, that'll show 'em. Maybe with the terrible sales they will have to move the team. Oh, wait...