Mr. WEO
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Wow, Mort's a complete douche.
Can't believe anyone puts any stock in what ESPN has to say.
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Game day attendance is down league wide, and has been the topic of popular sports radio shows like Colin Cow-turd and Jim Rome.
Actually, the total attendance per game (256 games) is down less than 1% from the previous season (which was a record season for attendance. Still it was higher than 2003, for instance, which was in a much different economy. Rome and the other guy are misinformed/exaggerating.
Every team is going to lose money this year. No NFL team is going to make money in this nightmare of an economy. Not this year. Not with the middle class essentially tapped out financially or unemployed.
Wow. Just....wow. Why do people say these things?
With all due respect to some of you who brought up the economy, do you really think that if the Bills were coming off a 10-6 season last year and we won at least one playoff game that there would be any (ANY) hesitation by these fans to buy the crap out of those tickets and sellout the whole season?
...this is definitely NOT one of those scenarios where "its the economy, stupid!".
There would be no hesitation. Winning makes "the economy" a nonfactor.
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I know OL and QB have gotten a lot of attention this off season as weak spots, mainly because they were horrid last season and we didn't address them in the draft. But what about the pass rush? This preseason we basically had none when it was 1st v 1sts
IMO we dont have the talent to go out and create pressure. Kelsay/Maybin/Ellis/Torbor sure aren't scaring anyone. Dwan Edwards seemed to be our best pass rusher this preseason which is not a good sign. Now I was thinking about it and I think the 34 scheme will help, as we can use the scheme to create pressure and not have to rely solely on our players beating their players like last season.
But at the same time when we go to the nickle in passing situations we go back to a 4 man front, and we are back to relying on Maybin/Ellis to beat LTs etc. I think that this is really our Achilles heal. With our secondary, we should be shutting down teams, but with no pass rush their talent is neutralized somewhat because they cant cover for 8 seconds. Hopefully we can figure out a way to dial up the pressure.
After the preseason and seeing Trent and the O improve the pass rush is whats worrying me most, Luckily Long is out so we can beat the Phish
More worried about the opposing pass rush.
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In the current economic times the league will find it hard to get public money. However, the Snyders and Jones of the league have pushed the idea that the league can finance stadiums. Small markets like Buffalo lose either way. The only thing that will stop this is financial losses on the part of the league due to stadium building.
At some point the league will get a team to LA and the painful lessons of costly stadium building will be learned all over again.
Snyder bought a fairly new stadium and team without financing from the League. The NFL no longer provides financing for stadiums.
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Anybody who is crazy enough to privately fund a new stadium for the Bills would run the franchise into the ground. Like really, into the ground, not the mediocre teams of the last few years. There's absolutely no way a new stadium in Buffalo is profitable, regardless of who builds it.
I agree. But the article only discusses public stadiums.
for the umpteenth time: buffalo does not need a new stadium. articles like the one posted here just continues to back that up. tweak the ralph in whatever way, but it seems like it could be serviceable for many years. do what green bay did, add a little charm, the place has a bit of history , promote that. any new owner would be at an advantage from a stadium debt standpoint.
"A little charm"? They didn't repaint it a pretty color---that renovation cost $300 million.
The Buffalo area is paying for the Giants/Jets stadium, after all it is in New York State. I just think it's time for the State to start taking care of it's other Cities.
Huhwhaaaaa??
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Doesn't apply to privately funded stadiums.
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The year before Gailey arrived in Dallas, the Cowboys were 6-10. In Gailey's first year in Dallas, the Cowboys went 10-6 and had a wild card berth. If Gailey can do the same here in Buffalo, does he he serious consideration for Coach Of the Year?
Really?
http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/118439-i-know-its-preseason/
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Huge nonstory.
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It is definitely possible that the "developmental QB" position was a two person competition from the beginning. If so, that was asking a lot of Brown, to come in and be more polished than someone who had been in the League for awhile. But it's possible.
Is any of that true? Where did you get that info? I've never heard that he showed up "totally out of shape" and "unprepared." What's the source there?
Saw it with my own two eyes at camp. He was the only on the 4 sucking wind throughout the QB drills. His throwing motion is witnessed on his youtube vids. Unprepared---see above.
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Brown is a slow kid with a poor throwing motion who showed up for his big break totally out of shape and unprepared to take advantage of a golden opportunity.
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As far as the guys that are likely to go undrafted, there are a few that I think have potential and will be keeping my eye on. Sticking with the tight ends, I'm interested to see how the two young tight ends in New England perform: Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski. Matt Hasselbeck could really click in that offense they're running in Seattle, and Derek Anderson could be everything Kurt Warner was in Arizona now that they've handed him the keys. I also think whoever the Bills pick as their starter has potential to put up big numbers.
Sure, it is for fantasy football...but doesnt it mean that if our QB puts up "big numbers", he has a pretty good year?!
I think MJD seems some potential in our playmakers and QB, and maybe he thinks our O-Line is decent.
I sure hope he is right!
Hasselbeck had to compete with for his job this summer. What offense are they running in Seattle??
"Anderson can could be everything Kurt Warner was in Arizona"??????? Haven't heard Peter King utter THAT yet....
MHD haa serious credibility problems if this is his fund of knowledge. What does it mean, therefore, when he the Bills O can put up big numbers?
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The "proud" fans of Pittsburgh will screaming for his return after a month of Dixon. They will line his path with rose petals.
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It's open that PK loves the sox. It's an open secret that he's a Pats fan and it's only a "secret" because he can't just declare his love for NE on NBC or NFL radio. Sorry Dave, but i don't know where you did your "homework" (king's bio page maybe?) but just because you say it doesn't make it so. I go by years of listening to him on Sirius and hearing the constant bias when talking about the Pats and Bellicheck. Maybe i'm just crazy and hearing things in my car almost every morning that arent actually coming through my speakers.
I don't read PK anymore because i could feel brain cells dying when i stared at his column. However, i did go to it today just to check the OP's claims and i will give PK this - he didn't give manning a "pass." To be fair he criticized both peyton and wayne.
You should definitely stay away from his column in that case....
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I case you missed my meaning, many hear were screaming that the Bills didn't try to trade for Cutler and were predicting the Bears got their ticket to the SB with Cutler. Turns out not only were they dead wrong, but the Bears mortgaged their future on a QB that they are benching one year after making that blockbuster trade. If the Bills did that people would be jumping off the Skyway.
Lovie may have gotten to one SB but he ain't going back with Todd flippin' Collins at QB. Meanwhile at least the Bills are on track and we didn't piss away our draft picks like some teams.
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No they didn't.
and
No they aren't.
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I agree 100%. Even last year watching the Jets he had allowed a handful of catches with huge cushions. A shiit ton of ESPN ballwashing later and and he wants 10 years 160 million.
McGee is just as good.
He didn't get what he wanted.
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Whatever. I listen to Sirius NFL Radio nearly every day on my commute to work every day. I have not heard him say that "about 25 other teams" or even close to that. I am not defending him per se. I am just reporting what I heard. Whoever you think the guy may secretly be a fan of, he certainly does not appear to anti Bills as some in the media seem to be.
Let the boys have a good cry, Peter.
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gee whiz, sorry if i dont stay here on two bills drive and geek out all day everyday.....
and actually a friend who works on a cruise line sent me an email that had just read it.
and what disturbs me is not what he said about the bills, they all say that crap, i was stating that i dont like to be called a felonious jerk because my team didnt do well again this year, saying you or i would purposefully suckerpunch a jets fan because of his jersey choice. please dont comment until you have read the OP. and if my posts disturb you so much, dont read them.
also never called him a football expert, just an "expert", so if i called him a "sportswriter" would you STFU?
You can stop now.
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You gotta read this excerpt from a recent Bill Simmons article on ESPN.
First of all, we did--about 4 days ago, right here on TBD. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/118447-espns-bill-simmons-on-trent-edwards/
Second, Simmons doesn't offer himself as a football expert, just a commentator.
Third, if reading the popular press's accounts of the Bills disturbs you so easily, I suggest you stop reading.
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Too many were in too big a hurry to spin this as a mistake by the front office (one TE! Dooooomed!) to wait and see what would happen next.
Foschi out Martin in. This is the law of conservation of TE talent at work.
Newtonian FO.
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Aaron Schobel = Brett Farve, Jr.
Comparing Schobel to Favre is a joke.
Hamlet Schobel has played nine seasons and 128 games----at DE.
Favre has played for 19 years and 285 games (none missed in 17 years) and has taken a million more big hits than Schobel has ever dished out.
They couldn't be more dissimilar in their value. Far better DEs than Schobel have played longer and showed up to preseason every year.
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What people are really saying is "sign someone I've heard of or at least with a high Madden score."
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Actually, no, I don't think they are. They want a better O-line.
After the first preseason game, many here were saying "it will be much better once they get their starters (Wood, Green, Bell) back". As it turns out, Wood was the only one worth having back.
Now what?
And what about tight end? This will haunt us.
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Before the second or third preseason game I figured Roscoe was a goner. And how they have kept McCargo is dumbfounding.
I posted that there was no way they would cut Fitz after the first saturday of practice. Also noted that Brown looked slow and out of shape. Knew he wouldn't make it.
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They decided to carry two QBs.
He completed 64% of his passes and had a 93.9 rating in preseason. I think it makes a lot of sense to bring him in.
Yet they simply cut him. Why did that make sense?
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Why and when did everyone north of the Mason-Dixon agree to refer to a college, always, by its nickname? What other school is treated to this?
And how many more southern universities' mascots are named for chicken fights?
For anyone who still thinks a new stadium is a good idea
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Buffalo hasn't been a consideration as a SB site since the Leagues merged. And now this bothers you?
Rollerball? How so?