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Beane said Peterman makes up for not having a big arm with anticipation and a quick release.
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I asked @greggabe on twitter today if he would have picked a qb before Peterman, and if so, who? He answered...
"No, I like Peterman's future. Thought he could go a lot higher."
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Which would put him comfortably ahead of Henderson, Ola, Mills & Jefferson.
Just needs some pants.
#somuchwin
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Never seen that clip before...outstanding!
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@salsports said on WGR at 7:30am today that Bflo's FO sincerely believes they will be better for the trade this season, just not today. He listed some reasons...possibility of injury, locker room and scheme.
He made a point of saying he did not necessarily agree with that.
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I hear what people are saying about Bflo not picking up the 5th year option. However, it would have much riskier for teams trading for him, being obligated to the 5th year when his health is still a big question mark. This way the Rams have a lot more flexibility. They can evaluate if his health and performance warrant a long term deal. Or, at the minimum, they could still franchise tag him.
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Saw this...
Greg Gabriel @greggabe
Have the people overreacting to Bills trading Sammy Watkins watched his tape? He hadn't come close to playing like he was projected to.
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I'm pumped that he will be on the field this season. not that it makes much of a difference but living here in the southeast the last 30 + years and following bama the last 21 this kid was fun to watch.
he will make a difference and he will lay on the wood.
That was a treat watching him.
Thanks for posting the vid.
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Nix may have made the final call on the pick but Whaley constantly owned it. He himself said if EJ didn't work out he'd be out of a job. He traded a future 1st round pick for a WR. There is no way you can say Whaley wasn't fully on board with EJ as our starter.
While no fan of Whaley's, for the reasons you mentioned and more, I'm trying to do something I normally don't do on the subject...be open minded.
lol
Sal C. (@salsports) weighed in on DW and the EJ pick the other day...
He tweeted this on 04/27/17.
"He DID set up the board. And he had EJ as the top ranked QB. That doesn't mean he did or even would have taken him in Rd 1."
You are right about him saying back in '13 talking that if after 3 years if EJ didn't work out, he'd be looking for a job. He put it this way to the media... "Hey guys...anybody got a job for me?" He was having a little fun with them. Not sure if he was 100% serious.
Here's that clip...
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http://www.rochesterfirst.com/sports/nfl/nfl-buffalo/mcdermott-preps-for-his-first-draft/695114050
McDermott preps for his first draft
Question remains, who gets the final say?
By: Dan Fetes
Posted: Apr 20, 2017 04:49 PM EDT
Updated: Apr 20, 2017 04:49 PM EDT
Orchard Park - With all the change in the Bills organization over the last few months, one thing remains the same. Who gets the final say?
First year head coach Sean McDermott is preparing for his first draft and addressed the media today and NOT general manager Doug Whaley.
While McDermott confirmed that Whaley has complete control of the 53 man roster it was unclear as to who gets the final call in the war room on draft night.
McDermott added that owner Terry Pegula will have also have a voice in the decision on picks but said that the final call will come down to Whaley and himself.
But what if they disagree? McDermott's answer seemed unclear.
"At the end of the day we agree at the end of it all. That's what we do. Iron sharpens iron at the end of the day, so we say this is how I feel, this is how you feel and we hammer it out, if it takes all day. Thats what great teams do they have healthy conversation and they continue to hammer things out because at the end of the day if you do that you come to the right decision for the football team."
The problem is the Bills wont have 'all day' to agree.
Whoever makes the final call and whenever that decision is made McDermott wants their draft pick to be like his vehicle.
"If you go out in the parking lot and look at my car and the type of car I drive I think you'll see I'm not into flash. I drive a pick up truck but I like to put armor-all on the tires every once in a while also right. We're going to pick a guy for the right seasons where there's flash on him whether there's armor-all on those tires or not is a bonus I guess," said McDermott.
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Saw this when this ever popular subject came up on twitter a while back. Includes vid with Doug Whaley.
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Published: May 17, 2013 at 04:35 p.m. Updated: May 18, 2013 at 02:49 a.m.
New Bills GM Doug Whaley integral in EJ Manuel pick
"The Buffalo Bills raised plenty of eyebrows after taking EJ Manuel with the No. 16 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, making him the first quarterback to go off the board. New general manager Doug Whaley isn't shy about taking ownership of the pick, even if he was second-in-command to Buddy Nix at the time.
"I was an integral part in the drafting process of EJ Manuel," Whaley said on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" on Thursday. "I was the person that handled the draft process and setting up the board."
Whaley did allow that it was a "collaborative effort" between area scouts, cross-checkers, coach Doug Marrone and Nix, but the new front-office boss is comfortable with hanging his hat on Manuel after vetting the quarterback in the pre-draft process.
"We have a philosophy that the information makes the decision," Whaley explained. "We think that we did enough due diligence, and the information pointed us all to this point that EJ would be the guy we feel will take the Buffalo Bills into the future."
Whaley's confidence is refreshing after Nix seemed to be in over his head while running the show for three and a half years. According to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, Whaley is a "bright young star" who has impressed colleagues with his smarts and personnel acumen in his time with the Bills and Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Bills finally seem pointed in the right direction. It now falls on Whaley's hand-picked franchise quarterback to end the longest active playoff drought in the NFL."
Follow Chris Wesseling on Twitter @ChrisWesseling.
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No words...
I pray for you and your family.
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absolutely! the game was usually played in late june as i recall.. saw lots of good ones.. most players that were selected usually played, didnt bow out.. then the college all star game in chicago was played in august..
Agreed, they were good games. I enjoyed them.
If I remember correctly, Bob Hayes and Ken Willard played in the ones I saw.
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he is a relatively young one! i go back to richie lucas.. i am a friggin fossil!
Remember the 'Coaches All-American' games played at the Rockpile from '61-'65?
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I can still see in my minds eye Garrett sweeping left...way too successfully.Ray Scott?
Me too. Damn Mike Garrett and Johnny Robinson
Were you at the Chiefs game here in '65?
Sadly memorable because their FB tore his knee up in that game (Mack Lee Hill) and he died
2 days later immediately following the surgery.
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Just Rex showin' the way on how to be 'the bully'...
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I was at the AFL championship game that year. After seeing what KC did to us In that game, I thought they would fare much better against GB.
Wrong.
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lolI was concerned that Rex lost some of his fastball after he got lap band.
Now that we have a carbon copy of pre-lap band Rex on the sideline, we've got our Fat Rex. This defense will surely turn around.
Helps me get over channel flipping and seeing him spewing forth on Mike & Mike. It was just too soon after hearing he hired Fat Rex.
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Isn't that what happened in '15? He ran a hybrid of his system and Schwartz's system and it failed. You don't want him to acknowledge the obvious?
If he acknowledged the obvious, he would admit he is not HC material, imho.
He is such a manipulator, so I don't trust what he says most of the time.
So I believe he also said that to take a shot at all those who criticize him for not keeping Schwartz's scheme intact.
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#Bills HC Rex Ryan on ESPN Radio on the defense: "We're going to do things much differently next year, and we're going to be much better"
#Bills HC Rex Ryan said on ESPN Radio that they won't try to merge like what was done defensively in 2014. Going to run his defense.
Ryan says #Bills will be "all in" w his defensive scheme rather than trying to "merge" what was done in 2014.
Rex said the Bills got better yesterday by hiring his brother Rob and "nobody works harder" than him.
Thanks for posting those.
I hear more excuses in his "merge" comments.
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I know he's targeted to work at NT, but since he played O-line as well, visions of him being an earthmoving center are very enjoyable
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Good advice being given in this thread.
'Matt Foley' also seems to have believed that less is more
Dareus sent home for violating a team rule
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I wonder how much knowing for awhile that it may come to a point where MD may have to be released factored into the FO not signing Gilmore and trading Sammy, since letting MD go would put a stranglehold on their cap for several years.