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IDK he's on some video I have about the glory days and he's representing himself as a legit fan of the team and city/fans...I did not know he was from Boston. Oh well, we have Donald Trump, Meatloaf, 50 Cent, and Burman anyway...
Why would Trump -- being from NY -- be a Bills fan? I question some of the others too.
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I might get flamed but I always thought Collins got kind of a raw deal here. He was far from great but it seems like people expected him to be the next Kelly right out of the gate. Who knows what might have happened if they'd hung on to him and those picks they spent on Johnson.
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I hope he drops off big time and gets lit up this year.
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He probably will be cut. Hopefully he stays on the practice squad.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the NFL have a rule that if there is snow or rain then a retractable roof must be closed?
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Haha. People getting all up in arms over the backup QB is funny.
All that's missing is witty disparaging nicknames for each side.
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Spiller.
Because if he was lost for the year it would subtract one of the few truly interesting stories from this team to look forward to.
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Only if the NFL forgets about their rule and allows them to play the Benny Hill music during all of their returns
There's a rule against Yakety Sax? No Fun League, indeed.
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I am not a fan of Spiller returning kicks or punts...just use him as a RB and leave it at that.
I'm a fan of whatever gets the ball in his hands.
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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/2002dra...2-04-18-qbs.htm
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Bill Walsh is sitting in the back of a players meeting room, clicker in hand. Before him is a stack of tapes of games played last season by the two top-rated quarterbacks in this weekend's NFL draft, Fresno State's David Carr and Oregon's Joey Harrington.The goal is to examine the difficulty of choosing a quarterback in the draft, even for this Hall of Fame guru who now is a San Francisco 49ers executive. In this case, Walsh likes Carr and Harrington, although he tends to rave more about Harrington than Carr, who will be taken No. 1 overall by the expansion Houston Texans.
"From what I've seen, these guys are good," Walsh says. "But I'd give them in the mid-range of outstanding college quarterbacks. There isn't anything that really stands out, other than they're good athletes: good feet, well coached, accurate balls, quick delivery. It's a good package. They'll both be very, very successful."
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Even Walsh, who acquired Joe Montana and Steve Young for the 49ers, needed to be pushed into selecting Montana in the third round in 1979. Walsh nearly chose Steve Dils.
Carr and Harrington are considered franchise quarterbacks. But similar to 1998, when the Indianapolis Colts did not decide to pick Peyton Manning rather than Ryan Leaf until a few nights before the draft, the league is somewhat divided about them.
Some worry Carr's low delivery will result in his passes getting deflected. Others say Harrington might be a bit too cocky. And now that Harrington may slip out of the top-five selections — which Walsh thinks would be a huge mistake — some are comparing the situation to others in which future stars fell in the first round.
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Asked what he is looking for as he stops, starts and rewinds the tapes, Walsh says, "Quickness. His feet. How quick his feet are. How quick his delivery is. How much agility he has. Feet, agility, quickness, then instincts."
Of the two before him, Walsh says, "The Texans must really had done their homework, whatever it was. And came to that conclusion. But I'm sure they spent all kinds of time. And I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision between (Carr) and Harrington. It wasn't, 'So, OK, there's only one quarterback.' There were two."
At one point, Walsh says of Carr, "He's well coached. He finds a second receiver real quick. Very smooth."
And of Harrington: "Oh, yeah, look at that. See, these are really good feet. Really nice, mechanically sound, well coached. It's like Montana in his movement."
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"Take Marino," Walsh says in summation of Carr and Harrington. "He had a quicker delivery than both. A sharper pass. But he wasn't nearly as quick on his feet. And Joe Montana would have won games on his sheer instinctive, inherent ability — but without the arm that these guys may have. But, of course, Joe timed everything perfectly. Steve Young was a better athlete than both of them but wasn't as disciplined as a player until later in his career."
Huh!
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Maybin playing as a 3rd down pass rush specialist is where he should have been last year.
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Smerlas has a bit of revisionist history goin on here.
Belechick was ran out of cleveland after a largely unsuccessful stint as the head coach for the browns, after that he wound up in NE and the rest is history.
Chan has had one shot as a NFL HC in which he made the playoffs both years, this is now his 2nd shot (as we all know).
Point being, Billy B wasnt a "great" hire when he came to NE, time will tell if Chan can follow the trend.
Belichick didn't go right from Cleveland to New England though. He was Parcells' Defensive Coordinator with the Patriots and then was DC/Assistant Coach with the rebuilt Jets teams. When Parcells retired the Jets wanted to keep Belichick as head coach, and even announced he would be the coach until Belichick backed out for the Patriots job. Belichick had rebuilt his reputation as a top coordinator long before he got another Head Coaching job. Gailey hasn't done that.
I'm not being critical of the Gailey hire either. I like him. I'm just saying it's a very different situation.
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annexation of puerto rico
The Flying V!
Wait....
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One of the most classless acts in all of sports history that I recall was after the Dolphins beat us in that thrilling playoff game, when Jimmy Johnson produced a box of Flutie Flakes and stomped on it in the locker room, encouraging his players to do the same.
Totally classless person and an immensely tacky human being.
As Johnson and everyone knows and knew, profits from the sales of Flutie Flakes go towards Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism, created in honor of Flutie's autistic son. The goal of the foundation is to create awareness of, and a cure for autism.
Yeah, but who cares. It's stupid to do what he did but it's pretty stupid to get all bent out of shape about it too. He or someone associated with the Dolphins paid for that box of Flutie flakes so he can do whatever he wants with it and Flutie's foundation still got the money. Unless he encouraged people to go into super markets, take the boxes down off the shelf and stomp them so they can't be bought then I really think it's people making a big deal out of a pretty insignificant gesture.
Flutie also could have not fumbled to the end the game that day. Then Johnson probably wouldn't have stepped on some cereal.
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Kind of funny that Brohm's game fell off in college when Steve Kragthorpe took over as Head Coach since Kragthorpe was the QB coach here under Gregg Williams.
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Well EVERYONE knew Ronnie Jones was a terrible Special Teams coach. EVERYONE knew Wade scapegoated Dehaven for the Music City Miracle and hired his friend who had NO experience. EVERYONE knew that this was a mistake and when he got called out on it he got indignant and fell on his sword for a guy who is now an Assistant Coach on a HIGH SCHOOL team. But I guess that's reasonable, right? He also completely mismanaged the QB controversy and refused to make up his mind which helped cause the split in the lockerroom.
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Didn't Wade Phillips leave because he basically hired his college roommate to coach Special Teams then when it was a huge disaster he refused to fire him? He dug his own grave.
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Raion played SS...Keion and Tillman manned the FS spot
Yeah, you're right. I misprinted from the site.
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The biggest bust in franchise history, even more than Erik Flowers or Mike Williams is punk surfer dude Rob the sht stain Johnson. Not only did the franchise waste a 1st rounder on him, He takes over a team that had gone to the playoffs the past two seasons and goes 2-14. He sucked.
The Bills never went 2-14 with Rob Johnson. The closest they came was 3-13, which might be splitting hairs except you can hardly blame it on Johnson. He only started 8 games that year. He only won one of them, but overall that was just a bad team. Take a look: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2001.htm
The starting LBs were Keith Newman, Brandon Spoon and Jay Foreman (who led the team in tackles). Raion Hill started 13 games at FS. The other safetys were Keion Carpenter and Travares Tillman. Bill Conaty and Corey Hulsey were part of the starting OL. They went through 2 place kickers that year, Oh and it was Gregg "Air Horn" Williams' first season of on the job learning.
I'm not defending Johnson as much as I'm just trying to put his performance in perspective.
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i was at that game. the entire team sucked that day. Brohm had been on our roster for just over a month. i wouldnt use that game to judge anything.
Also Brohm had been here for a month and didn't look any worse than the guys who had been here all season. He wasn't good but he wasn't a disaster either.
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Evans
Johnson
Hardy
Huggins
Easely
Roosevelt and Nelson to PS. Chad Jackson cut in one of last cutdowns.
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Gonna have to say JP on this one
Collins...the only problem that wasn't his fault was the fact that Dan Henning was an awful offensive coordinator for us...a 2-TE base set when we had Lonnie Johnson, Tony Cline, Rob Coons, and a young Jay Riemersma? Talk about trying to fit a square peg into a round hole
Don't forget that Henning refused to let the QBs work out of a shotgun formation. I don't think they ran it once that year.
Collins biggest sin was that he wasn't Jim Kelly and people weren't ready to wait for him.
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Read more: http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl#ixzz0rQFUJJVs
The guy's body type reminds me of Moulds. Let's hope we got a steal in the 4th and his play mirrors Moulds as well.
FWIW Moulds was considered to be a bust for his first few seasons. WRs take time. Keep it in mind with Easely.
Peter King - Can't stand him
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Wasn't Peter King one of the ones a few years ago that was quick to anoint Edwards and the Bills when they were 5-1 too? It goes both ways. If the Bills earn it they will get credit even if they don't entirely deserve it like that year.