vincec

Davis is the best.

“Cowher OK with what the Bills will offer Salary wise, but looking for commitment from RB (Russ Brandon) for player budget.” “From everything I am told a contract isn’t the issue. It’s about other things, such as if the Bills will spend on talent and personnel and coaches and other things." Sounds like he wants the Bills to move away from "cash to the cap." I strongly doubt that will happen. I suspect that this was a sticking point with Shanahan as well (who will have no such limitations in Washington).

Wait, isn't he the guy that didn't do jack in Washington with Gibbs?

The Tampa 2 scheme is never going to be strong against the run, especially with today's zone blocking offenses. The linebackers are too open to blockers and the lanes between the DL are too wide. Does Indy have weak defensive players as well? They can't stop the run either. That doesn't mean that the defense can't work in terms of keeping points off the board. If you can drastically reduce big plays (almost all of which come in the passing game) and get off the field on most third downs, then you will stop drives because very few opponents can sustain drives all the way down the field without a negative play or penalty.

Just hire Fewell and get it over with.

Am watching the game right now. He doesn't have a pro arm... and hasn't exactly been accurate either. He is pretty athletic and is obviously pretty smart in running a fairly complex offense. He might be a future Ryan Fitzpatrick. We already have one of them.

Actually, I chartered these planes. I was jonesing for some wings from the Anchor Bar so I had some delivered to me here in Charlotte. I told them to land in Hickory so as not to arouse the suspicion of my wife, as I am on a diet.

3-2, and falling.

Earl is #3 on my list, right after Sanders and Brown. OJ is #4. I'd knock Dickerson off the top 10. Always played with strong OLs, was a fumbler and never got it done in the playoffs. Consider that in 1979 Campbell was voted by coaches in the NFL as the one player, regardless of position, they'd like to have on their team.

My take is that Stroud is on the downside of his career. Given that DLs need a couple of years to mature, the Bills need to take one in this draft. I think that DE is an even higher priority. Kelsay is just another guy and Schobel may retire or, best case, return for a couple more years with declining production. Even if Maybin develops (year right), the Bills need another DE. No way that Stroud has the quickness to play DE either. Maybe I'm not looking at the same LB as everybody else, but when I see Poz I see plenty of speed for an LB just not enough physicality at the point of attack. In the defense Buffalo played this year, he was unable to get away from blockers often enough. That's why so many tackles were made downfield. He might do better in a scheme where the DTs are trying to keep the blockers off of him, otherwise I seem him as more of a weakside linebacker like Mitchell.

Wood-Levitre-Hangartner-Incognito-McKinney. We should have three solid starters and one quality backup out of these five players. This is one area where the Bills are probably OK.

Because Scott is better than him. If Scott could play against 2nd and 3rd stringers all the time, he'd look pretty good too.

Yup.

I'll give them this: of the teams that needed to win to make the playoffs, they are the only one that is playing like it.

I hope that week keep both Whitner and Lynch. They may not be starters anymore, but until we have someone on the roster who is better why get rid of them? We have too many needs already and don't need to create depth problems at safety and running back.

Today he didn't even look like he could play against the Colt backups. He will definitely be gone. Too bad he failed his physical or we would've actually stolen a draft pick for him...

Can you imagine TBD the day that happens?

He will leave skid marks out of here if there is a remotely decent offer from a contender. He only has a couple of years left and I'm sure he wants to play somewhere where he has a shot at a championship. That being said, if there isn't interest from a strong team the Bills should seriously think about trying to sign him to a two year deal. The drop off between him and Hardy/Johnson is pretty steep.

He's basically no different than any of the posters on this board. He is moderately informed and typically negative. He doesn't really do much reporting so if you read TBD, there's no need to read anything by Sullivan.

I agree 100%, but then again I'd be playing for the perfect season if I was the Colts too. To paraphrase John Madden, if there's a game to play then there's one way to play it: to win.

My question as well. Seems like a strange hire after what Nix said at the press conference. Did he really develop anybody on the offensive side of the ball? Just wondering.

I don't see how being forced to stand in the tool shed, in the dark, by your self teaches you about teamwork or helps you learn about your playing abilities. People in authority that try and teach their charges "lessons" through intimidation should realize that the only lesson that teaches is that the person with the power makes the rules.

He was trying to teach him that when you have power over another individual, you can humiliate them at your leisure if they displease you... an important life lesson.

If you listen to Leech's attorney, he was actually doing James a favor by helping to keep him in a cool, dark place with a trainer standing outside on stand by in case he needed some ice water or cocktails or something. Yeah, right... and OJ was not in good enough shape to commit the crime... If you take a player person and lock him alone in a windowless room, where he has to stand for several hours because you don't like his attitude, then that's inappropriate. When you basically tell your employer to f*** off when they come to you and say they want to investigate allegations of impropriety, and then try to get a restraining order against them after they suspend you for the investigation, they you get fired... as you should. If Leech were a true disciplinarian, they he should've respected the authority of the school athletic director in their interactions with him.