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I think with the team trying Levitre at Center in practice it's pretty likely that Hangartner won't make the team. They won't pay his salary as a backup.
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How exactly is it the same O-line as last year? Wood wasn't at center last year, Pears and Urbik started 3 games combined. Levitre wasn't being experimented with at Tackle. People should really stop saying it's the same as if it is fact. This is not at all the same O-line. It could very easily be worse.
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Ralph is cheap
Buddy is asleep
Surprised they didn't trade him for 4th
The team is still cheap regardless of this deal.
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Are you telling us that Ralph Wilson has been turned into an immortal vampire and therefore the team will never need to be sold?!? We've all been waiting for that day (except for Pegula fans).
He's a reverse vampire.
That's why the Bills don't get night games anymore.
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It's NOT going to Toronto, the team is STAYING in Buffalo. The wheels are in motion and if I could provide more detail, I would. All I can do is tell you that for the first time EVER, there is progress....
Like throwing a lit match into a dry forest and expecting nothing to happen.
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The owners of the stadium are responsible for what happens on the grounds of the stadium. Last year some drunk maniac almost went on a killing spree with his car. It was inevitable that there would be some kind of reaction to it. They are never going to take away tailgating, but the inmates have been running that particular asylum for a long long time so it's understandable that the county/team is trying to control the situation from now on.
I'm not arguing against the idea that the Bills need to start winning games. That's obvious. But that point has nothing to do with controlling the parking lot.
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Think you have figured our Schoop. If I was his father, I'd tell him to grow a pair. God help us, however, because now he's a "father". which apparently - to him - worth wasting listeners' time about.
Why put it in quotes?
Also WGR is doing a show right now all about training camp and the Bills. But I guess that doesn't count.
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They might just be counting on Merriman to be the rusher on the outside so if they want to get their best players on the field it makes sense to give Moats a chance on the inside.
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Not to burst anyone's bubble on Sheppard, but Mike Mayock said right after Sheppard was drafted that he was projected as a back-up in the NFL. Just sayin'
So that would make him a projected starter on the Bills.
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Really what is there to say? The Bills have been completely uninteresting for years and they haven't done anything this year to change that. Training camp hasn't even started so all conversation at this point is speculative. Should they take calls from people suggesting the Bills sign this guy or that when it isn't going to happen? What's the point? If the Bills did something exciting or even interesting there would be an audience for that and they would talk about it. That's not the Bills though -- at least not this yet this year. How much time can you devote to the same old conversations about Ralph not wanting to spend money, or players not wanting to play in Buffalo, or any of the other relevant topics? Unless there is some miracle and everything happens to come together the Bills are going to be bad again next year. Really really bad. And it's a little early for the 2012 Draft.
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Wouldn't Parrish likely be an UFA when the new CBA comes out?
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Well, we can now officially cross this guy's name off a potential list of Bills owners.
Ralph has consistently and adamantly put the kabbosh on anybody foolish enough to float a "desire to purchase" trial balloon in the press (right, Mark Hamister!
), other than Jimbo, who has tiptoed around the subject with his "syndicate." This guy just crossed his name off of any potential list (including dealing with Ralph's heirs), and I suspect his background as a trader is another black mark with RW.
What list? Ralph said he's not selling so it's a moot point either way. The team won't change hands until Ralph passes on and I doubt he'll be holding any grudges then.
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I miss Van Miller
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I didn't say that Phil Hansen was more valuable to the history of the Bills than Lou Saban. He's not, but that's not the point. My point was that the younger the people who choose get, and the further away the accomplishments get the less likely it is that he'll be chosen especially with so many great players on those more recent Bills teams being up for the same honor. It's not fair, obviously. Just like it isn't fair that athletes and contributors to the NFL from 30-50 years ago get passed over for the hall of fame by guys that retired 5 years ago.
Luckily for Saban it'll be slim pickings from the last decade.
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With regards to Polian…it is said by both men that Wilson and Polian have buried the hatchet.
In view of this, why hasn't Polian been recognized on the Wall?
He was the undisputed architect of some of the greatest teams in recent NFL history…for a franchise which has had a VERY MEDIOCRE existence.
Ask yourself this, Mr. Wilson: Where would the franchise be without Lou Saban and Bill Polian?
I know (we all do) that this is Mr. Wilson's call. A member of the committee told me only a few years ago that Saban and Gilchrist are excluded for personal reasons. I didn't need to be told this because it's kind of obvious…there could be no other reason, considering their contributions.
That's fine…it's Mr. Wilson's Wall, after all. But if that's the case, then why even have a committee?
Polian is a moot point because he's still the GM of the Colts. Maybe if he retired from football it would be different. Saban probably gets passed over for the same reason great players from the 60s and 70s get passed over for the Hall of Fame -- there are only so many spots per year and there are more recently retired guys that win out.
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Sure but how many times have the Bills picked 1st overall in those 51 years?
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You are trying to take this argument into a year by year analysis, and AGAIN, that is not the point. You have already illustrated that in hindsight there is probably a QB in every draft that they coulda' shoulda' taken. I know that, but that's an entirely different argument IMO.
Answer me one question, yes or no, do you think that not drafting a QB with their first pick in any draft in 51 years has any bearing on their failures as an organization?
Not being able to pick the right QB in most of those years has more to do with the Bills' failures than whether or not they used their 1st pick, 7th pick, or 12th pick.
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Back in '85 according to TBN polls, a lot of fans wanted the Bills to take Flutie w/ the #1 overall pick. (IIRC, Felser was pushing hard for that pick as well. I know somebody at the Snooze was in favor of it, my apologies to Larry if I have him confused w/ a different writer.) Having that #1 overall pick would have been much better than the guy they chose.
Ralph wanted Flutie too. So the owner wanted a QB with the first pick and the GM won. It's all Polian's fault.
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AGREED!!!
That would be AWESOME!!!
I have a question though... I can't remember the exact date or who we were playing against, but one game in the 90's we were wearing the red helmet with the white standing buffalo... What was the point of that???
They wore them against Houston for sure on the road and Denver at home. They wore the stickers on their helmets because they didn't want to break in white helmets.
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i see no blue away pants
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/6/68/20110426021817!AFCE-Uniform-BUF-V3.png
pretty sure it's not official though.
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Giving the Patriots what would likely be a top 10 pick next year? Better not be the Bills.
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What was the number at this time last year? Probably pretty similar.
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OJ Simpson w/ knife and severed head is on the poll too. No way this has anything to do McFarlane.
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Better yet, let's drink for 4 hours before the game stumble into the stadium and start a fight with someone that's wearing a different colored shirt. FREEDOM!