OvrOfficiousJerk
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we'll we're probably mediocre because we lost Stamer, Haggan and Aiken too...don't get me wrong, guys like Corto and Wendling can step up, but the loss of Wire is only one part of the large turnover in our ST corps as of last year
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I agree..Not having Crowell this yr is gonna hurt us at some point this year..And if we have any LB's go down for a serious injury we could be in for a rough time..The one position on defense we are thin at is lb..
I must admit, though losing another LB will be rough, at least we've seen that we can play nickel defense with Youbouty [instead of the third LB] and not have a drop-off in the quality of run defense or pass rushing, as he's been doing both pretty well.
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Let's not forget CB Will James; we signed him even before we drafted McKelvin. If they drafted McKelvin despite having signed a notable free agent to shore up the DB corps, I'd say it was a case of "we're taking the best player on the board regardless of the position" mantra that we picked McKelvin.
Had they known Ashton "Shake" Youbouty would have been such a good player, they probably wouldn't have signed James, but they probably would've still drafted Leodis.
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Should we start thinking division? Maybe it'll more closely resemble the 1988 season than the 2003 season. I could live with that.
As it relates to our "soft" schedule this year, can anyone speak to how soft our schedule was in 2003 after our 2-0 start? I forgot how good the teams we played at the time actually were...
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Not to minimalize the awesome special teams we have (don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan; I can recite April's nicknames for each of the phases from memory), but the biggest positive about the win is that we were able to do it without a special teams TD or special teams trick play. We can't beat good teams like JAX on special teams alone, and we proved today that the other two phases aren't too shabby.
Also Ashton "Kutcher"-"Shake" Youbouty was awesome, in on almost every play and had a sick CB blitz too.
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One more note on Pollard: I watched the play in slow-motion 40 times, not to mention the other 440 times that the TV networks showed it … and I don't care how badly Pollard felt or how he tried to spin it, when you're on the ground and make that sprawling hiccup jump toward a quarterback's knees as he's throwing, bad things happen. Vince Wilfork did the same thing to J.P. Losman last season, and that wasn't right either. It's a cheap play -- worse than a horse-collar tackle and a cut block, in my opinion. And both of those are penalties. Nobody should be allowed to dive at a quarterback's legs unless he's running.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/080909
Dude, when even the granddaddy of all Boston homers, the Sports Guy, sides against you, you gotta be wrong...
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I enjoy reading the Sportsguy...even if he is a hack. His podcasts are awesome. Funny stuff.
I agree, his podcasts are great. Also, he donated an entire column/mail-bag to the Sonics' fans this past year to air their grievances about their team being ripped out of their community (something we all could appreciate in Buffalo).
Moreover, more important to the current discussion about Brady, he directly compared Wilfork's hit on JP to what happened to Brady:
"One more note on Pollard: I watched the play in slow-motion 40 times, not to mention the other 440 times that the TV networks showed it … and I don't care how badly Pollard felt or how he tried to spin it, when you're on the ground and make that sprawling hiccup jump toward a quarterback's knees as he's throwing, bad things happen. Vince Wilfork did the same thing to J.P. Losman last season, and that wasn't right either. It's a cheap play -- worse than a horse-collar tackle and a cut block, in my opinion. And both of those are penalties. Nobody should be allowed to dive at a quarterback's legs unless he's running."http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/080909
Unlike the fairweather prima donnas over on the Pats board, he admits that Wilfork was guilty of a cheap shot; he may be a homer, but at least he's consistent.
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"Three's company too."
Ditka was just on Mike and Mike and compared the Bills
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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What about a hurricane named Ditka or Ditka?