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Charles Romes

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  1. Yeah, someone who wins 143 games in the NFL, and is in the Hall of Fame must be a horrible coach.

     

    Super Bowl 25 was lost by two reasons - Jeff Wright and Norwood. That's it. Blame Polian for Wright, and Norwood for being a kitty. It wasn't Levy at all. He coached a great game. Thurman was unstoppable. Kelly played like crap. Don't rewrite history. Polian failed us that year.

     

     

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

  2. Is anyone picking them to win? This should be a no-brainer, however, a .5% of me thinks there's a chance of a win. If it happens, will it be the biggest upset in Bills history? If you say no, what do you conisder the Bills biggest upset to be.

     

    I say, yes, it would be the biggest upset in Bills history.

     

    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

  3. I thought that only applies if he's signed after the first game? Because players on the opening day rosters are guaranteed their year's salary.

     

     

    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.

  4. 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.

  5. Lets just say that everything, for once, went the Buffalo Bills way in 2009. Lets imagine that the offense line GELS, the defense actually PRESSURES the Quarterback and FORCES turnovers, TO becomes a model citizen and football player, and Trent Edwards turns into the QB that this franchise has so desperately needed since Jim Kelly. If all this happens, what is our record, and if you have us making the playoffs, how far do we go? (Last year would have been the year with Tom Brady going down, but in my opinion, if we do beat the Pats, I want to do it with a healthy Tom Brady)

     

    So for example do the 2009 Bills: make the playoffs and end that terrible playoff drought, go 7-9 again, finish last in the AFC East and finally Fire Dick Jauron, WIN IT ALL, or ...........? You tell me your opinion for the 2009 Bills season-

     

     

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. This poll makes me sick....

    Mathison or Dufek?

     

     

    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.

  9. 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.

  10. Have you heard the words "big target" come up this year? You know why you haven't?? The cards are being held close to the vest because Pettigrew is a 6'6" 257 lbs beast. They love big targets last year and it makes no sense to trade one expensive OT for another.

     

    Pettigrew is our pick at #11, book it.

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    Seems he will be the only truly dominant-at-his-position player left at 11. For that reason it would be

    a wise choice.

  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.

  12. 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.

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