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  1. When other QBs play at a mid range level, his team is successful despite him.

     

    When our QBs play at a mid range level, the team is a loser because of him.

     

    I don't get this place.

     

    Dalton and Green have been moderately successful together since coming into the league. Is Dalton elite? No. Is he good enough to help his team to the playoffs? Yes. Is he good enough to win in the playoffs? I bet he is. In fact, I think the Bengals win yesterday if Bernard doesn't fumble at the 2 yard line. But hey, "LOL DALTON SUX", while our QBs and teams fail year after year. That makes sense.

     

    Go Bills.

     

    Did you watch the Chargers-Bengals game, Dorkington?

     

    Believe me, Dalton was horrible.

     

    He threw two picks among numerous inaccurate passes.

     

    He fumbled twice.

     

    He took a sack when he could have thrown the ball away a la Rob Johnson.

     

    The guy is an average QB in the regular season and a terrible post season QB. This is his 3rd year in the league and he looked like a rookie out there, IMO.

     

    His passer rating in 3 playoff games is 56.2.

     

    I would always prefer to have a developmental QB starting for my team than just another guy like Dalton who's team lifts him up instead of the other way around.

     

    JMO.

  2. O-line players always fascinate me in that there are countless examples across the league of unheralded players in college becoming legit starters in the NFL.

     

    Good observation. Guard particularly is a position where many non-blue chip players have had great careers.

     

    Of the 5 All Pro guards this year, only 1 was drafted in the first round. Two were drafted in the 3rd round and 2 were drafted in the 4th round.

     

    Also it's hard to find an offensive line that doesn't feature at least a couple of mid-low draft picks and/or undrafted free agents.

     

    This even applies to some of the great O-lines in NFL history.

  3. (Aaron Williams) played CB in the Baltimore game this year and had 2 picks. No ball skills? We are talking about the current year.

     

    Yep. He had 4 ints for the season and 11 passes defensed.

     

    I'm not sure what Donnie Anderson had him drinking but he was a completely different player than his first two seasons.

     

    Dalton would not have "led" a lot of teams to the playoffs. He isn't good enough. The Bengals were built to go to the SB. He held them back. He overthrew a wide open AJ Green in the endzone on the potential game winning TD last year in the playoffs and his turnovers and erratic play led to the loss yesterday. Their defense was actually pretty good despite not having their best defensive player and a banged up secondary.

     

    He is the Tony Romo of the AFC North.

     

    Nicely put except the Bengals would probably love to have Tony Romo instead of Dalton.

  4. George WInfield is a good guy from my limited interactions with him, he usually takes his clients to a bar across the street from my buddies house and we get tipped off by the bartenders.

     

    Very cool!

     

    So you live in the San Diego area?

     

    Even jamarcus Russell got a workout.

     

    The question will be, can he accept a pure backup role. No punt protecter, no wildcat, just backup qb that understands what that means and all that comes with it (ie be quiet, work, and be ready to return to the bench when the starter is healthy). There are plenty of teams running read option packages that you wouldn't have to totally flip things upside down for him, simply change the playcalling within existing schemes.

     

    Agreed.

     

    Also though it's not entirely his fault, he would still create a media distraction for his team because of his celebrity. He would have to be committed to keeping a low profile and it would help if he joined a stable organization which would be able to deal with the slight disruption his presence could cause.

  5. Speaking of QBs.....anyone see the piece this morning on ESPN about how Trent Dilfer and a couple other west coast QB coaches spent some time working with Tim Tebow? It was pretty interesting. Dilfer seemed to think that Tebow's throwing mechanics have been fixed. What are the Bills waiting for!? LOL

     

    I didn't know that Dilfer was a quarterback guru but in another thread I posted that if I was an NFL QB I'd spend my offseasons with quarterback gurus like Tom House, David Cutcliffe, George Whitfield, Terry Shea, Chris Weinke, etc.

     

    I'd study with all of these guys and try to improve my craft.

     

    I mentioned Tim Tebow and his reputation as a hard and dedicated worker and said that he should be doing this sort of thing if he wants to get back into the NFL.

     

    If the reports of him trying to fix his mechanics are true, I can't see why any team needing a QB wouldn't bring him in for a workout.

  6. To add to what's already been said, the better QBs won in all cases except in Green Bay however the best QBs also didn't have to carry their teams with their arms. They were just very efficient and relatively mistake free and in fact the ground games re-emerged in the playoffs.

     

    Except for KC-Indy, there was a fair amount of old-style football played.

  7. i think you should pick the topics.. i put this out to see how people felt about the weekend and the crowds as seen on t v.. why not get a life "rags"? the point of this site is to talk about , i would think, FOOTBALL.. Take your miserable outlook elsewhere.

     

    Wow Dwight. I think you misconstrued.

     

    Mrags is a longtime season ticket holder, he sits down near the field, and he makes tons of noise. He's as dyed-in-wool Bills fan as you'll meet.

     

    But in his post he actually cuts slack to those fans who are less enthusiastic than he is and says the debate is a moot point, just enjoy the team.

     

    I don't know where you're getting a miserable attitude from.

  8. Gee San Jose Bills Fan, I don't know what part of San Jose you live in, but where I live there have been devoted 49'er fans all my life, and that was before the Bill Walsh era.

     

    I don't doubt you Mark but in my circles I rarely met any of them.

     

    Meanwhile on Fridays I wear my Bills hard hat and have my Bills bumper sticker on my toolbox.

     

    It wasn't until the Harbaugh era that I really started hearing from Niners fans.

     

    BTW, I live in South San Jose but last week I was in Emeryville, Palo Alto, Dublin, Sunnyvale, and North San Jose.

  9. I have no problem with Henne. I live in J-ville. I've seen plenty of him. I wouldn't mind him on the team.

     

    I agree.

     

    Henne's at least as good a player as Kevin Kolb.

     

    Then again so was Tarvaris Jackson.

     

    However Henne is still under contract to Jacksonville through 2014.

  10. Pretty telling in what way? That the consensus best QB in at least the last decade (whom the Bills did not have a shot at) looks to be better than EJ Manuel so far? Who'd have thunk?

     

    Besides aberrations Kaepernick and Wilson, what great QB prospect have the Bills passed on? I'll grant that Nick Foles looked good this year, to, but I saw Nobody claiming that Wilson, Kaepernick and Foles were can't miss prospects- if there were, they'd have been picked early in round 1 by any number of QB-needy teams.

     

    Off the top of my head, the biggest QB errors the Bills have made in the last decade are passing on Kaepernick and Wilson.

     

    In 2006 they drafted Donte Whitner instead of Jay Cutler but I'm not sure Cutler is the kind of player Bills fans would have been satisfied with.

     

    In 2011 I suppose they could have packaged multiple draft picks to move up for Cam Newton. We don't know if Carolina would have traded though.

     

    Ditto in 2004 for Roethlisberger.

     

    The opportunity to draft one of these guys is rare. When one of them is within reach, you have to recognize the opportunity and make it happen.

     

    You need a bit of luck to get one in your sights and you need a bit of luck that the player will become the player you hope he'll become.

     

    During this same time period plenty of first round QBs busted so there's that too.

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    Eagles -2.5 Eagles lose by 2, wrong

     

    Colts -2 Colts win by 1, wrong

     

    Bengals -7 Bengals lose by 17, wrong

     

    49ers -3 Niners win by 3, push, wrong

     

    The pick I feel least sure about is Chargers at Bengals.

     

    0-4

     

    Ouch!

     

    Glad there was no money changing hands!

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