VJ91

Who's Teflon Don?

Interesting how Guy and Modrak seem to have had better "insight" under Russ Brandon these past two drafts, then they did under Donahoe and Levy. You blame them more then the GM's, however they seemed to do a better job after Donahoe and Levy left. You are proving that most of the blame therefore should be on the GM's they worked for! We will never know what Modrak and Guy were telling Donahoe and Levy all those years, since they have way to much interest in not burning bridges in the NFL to keep their current jobs. But here's one example for you: John Guy may have suggested that Levy sign a different free agent guard then Dockery, but Marv and Ralph may have over-ruled him for all we fans know!!

Your definition of credible needs to be explained to me. We all know why he hired Dick. Levy thought he was looking into a mirror of his younger self when he looked across the table at Jauron. Bang, Dick's in. Next, he brought in Fowler and Triplett. Next, Ngata and Cutler were staring at him when his first draft pick as GM came up, and he stared back at them and called Donte Whitner's name out instead. Next, Dick's first 7-9-0 season. Next, here comes all those millions he spent on Dockery and Walker. His second draft seems better, but that was followed by Dick's second 7-9-0 season. Next.....Levy quit. Please feel free to input the credibility he brought back to the Bills, and remember I did give him some credit for a better second draft before you get too carried away with how he brought in Lynch and Poz. Lynch has been a pain in the butt off the field and Poz still has plenty to prove. Other then those two, I don't see anything Marv did for the franchise. And I have always been a huge Marv Levy fan as a Hall of Fame NFL head coach, so I really try to be open minded about this!

It's hard to blame Levy as much as Donahoe. He had zero experience as an NFL GM. I think he did work as a GM-type up in Canada a little bit, but that's all the experience he had. If you want to blame Marv more, then you have to put that one on Ralph, for settling for Marv in the first place. No way did Levy deserve that opportunity. If you read some of the history of how those 4 straight SB teams were built, you will find that on the big moves Polian made, Levy's first instinct was to not make the deal, while Polian wasted his time convincing Marv. Check out the story of the Biscuit Bennet trade, and you can find it right in Marv's own book! Levy absolutely wanted nothing to do with that trade. He wrote that he held Polian up until like 3 in the morning until he finally went along with it.

More stupid O-Line stats, check this sentence out from the link: ..."Wood, 6-feet-4, 304 pounds, started 49 consecutive games for Louisville at center, registering 328 knockdown blocks and 46 touchdown-producing blocks...." 46-TD producing blocks?? Never heard of that stat before. Does that mean Wood blocked all 11 defenders on the same play 46 times to "produce" those TD?? What a football player!! I say, we need more linemen stats in football!.

Is that the mid 80's to mid 90's "tumster" - fat dude with no shirt and looked like he has not showered since the season before?? Please tell me he's not still there, all these years later!

Not patriotic? No kidding, you are psychotic. Anyone who voluntarily leaves the greatest country on earth over one president, needs serious help. I'm sure you did not go very far, in fact I'd bet you live just over the border in southern Ontario, most likely for a job opportunity. The left wing liberals hated Bush for eight years and the right wing conservatives will hate Obama for his 4 or 8 years. And how is that any different from the past say......233 years of our great countries history?? Shame on you for leaving, if you really left only because of George W. Bush!

...and of course Matt Cassell, the QB who had not started a football game since high school, who he managed to coach to an 11-5-0 record, to add to your 41-55 Brady-less record. Seems that Coach B. can coach without Tom, when he has to.

Don't worry, if Roscoe is on the official "salary dump" list, he will get dumped, sooner or later. The season doesn't start for 5 more months, plenty of time to snag that 6th or 7th rounder for him.

Bruce is very well spoken, almost eloquent. Of course, whoever put that piece together seemed bent on finding as many or even more highlights of Smith in a Redskins uniform as his Bills uniform. Since he only played his last couple of years in Washington at his oldest and least athletic, the guy had to really work hard to find those plays, as compared to only having about 1,000 plays Bruce made as a Buffalo Bill in his 15 years here, to choose from. Sometimes I just get pissed off as a Buffalonian and life time Bills fan. Sorry, but I had to vent.

First, why do any of us buy players jerseys anymore? The last one I bought was TKO's #51. He is now playing for his second team since being traded out of Buffalo. Secondly, E-Moulds is just stating his opinion. He happens to think the coaches in New England are better then the coaches in Buffalo these days. Kind of hard to argue with that opinion, don't you think?

The Bills thinking about matching this contract? Now that's the funniest "possibility" anyone's ever written out here. Hey, no worries there, DIE HARD, the Bills won't be matching big Levi's contract demands anytime soon!

Why not mention that SB loss to Dallas by 35 points? We're getting all weepy eyed and emotional over the greatest comeback in NFL history, why not talk about one of the greatest SB blowout losses in NFL history while we're at it? Or I know, how about a whole thread on "wide-right"? Or the 51-3 win over the Raiders the week before "wide-right"? Personally, at this point in my 41 year career as a Bills fan, I'm just interested in the present Buffalo Bills teams. As much as I was awed and thrilled by those teams of the late 80's to mid 90's, they never won a SB, and my one wish is to see the Buffalo (not Niagara or Toronto or San Antonio) Bills win a SB. And at Ralph's age and the way he's been running his team lately, that wish is becoming more of a fantasy every day.

I can't imagine a Bills fan at least 8 or 9 years old that January day in '93, not having watched highlights of that game at least 100 times by now. Is there some point in posting a link to it now, in May of '09, after 9 consecutive years of playoff-less football and a season slowly approaching that offers no certain guarantees that the streak won't reach 10?? We'll have plenty of time to wax nostalgic when Ralph & Bruce give their acceptance speeches in Canton in early August. Sorry to be the grinch here, but I lived through those amazing games already. I'm ready to watch some new amazing games any time the Bills are ready to play them.

As an outstanding backup who can play guard or tackle with some game experience. Not to mention the fact he is till very young, and should be able to compete with any of them for a starting job.

With all due respect to you, Tim, I think these stats are pretty lame. It's like when they came out with "scoring chances" and "hits" stats in hockey. Who cares how many scoring chances a team gets, the only thing that matters is how many times they convert those chances into goals. And hockey hits? That is the stupidest stat kept in all of sports today. The Stanley Cup winner each year in the NHL will lead the NHL in hits in one game, and then not have a single hit recorded the very next game, depending on the team they are playing and how the refs seem to be calling the game!! So now here we go in the NFL, as if there are not enough stats kept to begin with, we are trying to keep track of everything Offensive linemen do. Why?? The teams themselves could care less about these linemen stats! Jason Peters had like the most sacks allowed in the entire NFL last year, and then he ended up signing for the most money in history for NFL O-Linemen! I guess the Eagles were not too concerned with those sack stats, eh? And now we have all the Bills' linemen scoring 80 or lower in point of attack "wins". Then why did they cut Dockery? He was the only one who scored over 80 most of the time. If you think it's worth the time to study the AFC East teams' and their OL stats, that's cool. However I won't be reading your results. As long as a running back can break the tackle of the d-linemen who wins the "point of attack" block against the o-linemen, and still gain 20 yards, or....as long as the running back can slip and lose 3 yards despite every 0-linemen winning their point of attacks on that play, I won't waste my time reading those stats.

"I gotta have more cow bell, baby!" (Not many times a serious actor can come on SNL and crack up every single comedian in the skit, but nobody could stay in the moment when Walken was ranting about needing that cow bell") But don't waste your time reading Ed Kilgore anymore. Ed has been around Buffalo for more then 30 years now, and he has never been anything more then a real life sports Ted Baxter, complete and total brainless idiot.

"in position to beat the Pats"? Wow, great job Dick. Of course they did end up losing that game, right?

I see delusional people, and they believe that (1) Buffalo will beat the Pats in NE on MNF to open the season. (2) That they have to beat the Pats in that game for them to have any chance of winning this season. Russ Brandon can "Steinbrenner" all he wants on DJ, but it's obvious Dick does not respond to any of that any way. Buffalo will not win the opener, in my humble opinion. However, I still feel they can make the playoffs with a 9-7-0 or even a 10-6-0 record anyway. As proven by last years' team, a great start means nothing in a 16 game NFL season.

Trade (Peters to Philly) - YES. plus a tradedown (Detroit or San Diego): NO. 15 Buffalo Brian Cushing - #15 - Houston 20 Buffalo Brandon Pettigrew-#20 - Detroit. 28 Buffalo Max Unger-#49 - Seattle 42 Buffalo Ron Brace -#40 - New England 46 Buffalo Michael Johnson-#70 - Cincinnati 3 of your first 5 "Bills mock draft picks" were picked almost exactly at the spots you predicted, while the other two would have been considered reaches based on where they actually went in the draft. That's pretty good mock drafting - I would have been happy with your top 5 picks.

I can't believe the Bills haven't signed him already. He is the perfect Bills' type free agent - a player coming off injuries or problems.

He told Trent Dilfer that?? In the famous words of former Colts GM Bill Tobin, "who the hell is Trent Dilfer?" Brett Favre has told everyone in the world he has had no interest in playing again every off-season for the past 4 years, right up until around the end of May of each of those off-seasons. Then, his massive out-of-control ego kicks in and he starts panting for the sweat of another training camp and the "glory" of playing in front of sold out stadiums just "one more season." I'll believe Trent freakin' Dilfer and his inside "sources" and personal conversations as soon as he gets elected to the Hall of Fame as a star NFL QB!

Why not? Johnny U. finished with the Chargers. Namouth finished with the Rams. Montana was carted off the field at Rich Stadium to finish his career in the 1993 AFC Chamionship game, as a Chief. Favre might be the stupidest of all of them, but he's certainly not the first elite QB whose ego would not allow him to quit gracefully. I think we all knew Bledsoe was washed up watching him struggle so badly at home against the Steelers' back up defense in the most important game of his 3 year career as a Bill in '04. Yet there he was, starting for the desperate Dallas Cowboys the entire '05 season while they waited for Romo to be ready. Not that Bledsoe deserves to be mentioned in the above class of QB's, but like I said, Favre is certainly not alone!

Why not, why not I say! Oh, and please PM me with the drugs you are doing, as Huey Lewis once said, I need a new one!

Patriots 11-5 (Brady back, Pats back.) Bills 10-6 (Everything goes right.).....right?? Dolphins 7-9 (Reality strikes after one great season, Pennington back to earth & youth shows.) Jets 4-12 (Sanchez won't be ready but will be forced to play, and the D is not as good as it thinks.)