Mr. WEO
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The defense plays a Tampa 2,which is a bend but don't break defense. Its supposed to allow moderate run gains but not give up the big play, tell that to Tom Brady and Randy moss.
As much as everyone is crying for a pass rusher in this years draft I'd be happier with a real run stuffer.Someone big enough to collapse the pocket from the outside and still be big enough to stop the run when needed.
As for the offense, tricky dick handed it over to a newbie, Turk Schonert. He made some good calls and some really horrific calls to lose games. The problem doesn't lie with Schonert though because he should improve, Its the basic offensive scheme that stinks.
The Tampa 2 defense and the Martz passing offense are both outdated schemes and will finally die once Jauron is fired.
The Martz passing offense?
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And this is a message board -- not a distinguished panel of experts. So you can pick and choose at what you'd like to read, and take everything with a grain of salt. Your jaded and tiring negativism being the bits and pieces that I usually try to ignore.
The post was merely a reflection of how I've been impressed by a kid who was deemed by many to be a thug. I think character and optimism can be the mark of a successful team. Clearly you disagree. To you, I say: Go back to your hole. The spring is far too pleasent for the likes of trolls.
Relax. Fans are free to expect more for a team than refreshing press conferences. Clearly you disagree.
If character and optimism might be the hallmark of a successful team, shouldn't we have won at least the AFCC by now?
And why don't you come right out and say how pleasantly surprised you were that this young black man ("deemed by many to be a thug") is so.........articulate-----and spare us the patronizing crap that follows.
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Doesn't matter. The cops are beyond reproach. At least that's what I've been told.
Really? That's what you have been told? Not by anyone here.
This is a story about a cop with poor judgement who acted badly.
Even bringing up Marshawn Lynch or somehow equating this story with Lynch's actually breaking the law reveals how desperate you are to salvage your "they should have checked the pot for DNA" doozie, and how pathologic your attachment to this kid truly is.
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Every time I see or hear an interview with this guy, I am stunned by his professionalism. Maybe it is a great facade, but it seems like he says the right thing almost every time he's given the chance. It's really hard for me to believe that this guy ever had the character concerns, and incidences, he was once perceived to have had.
Part of me thinks it's a pretty remarkable testament to what can happen when a genuinely good kid gets removed from the toxic situation he's had to deal with at home. In that sense, Buffalo can be the perfect landing spot for some big-time athletes. I have a sneaking suspicion that the same thing may happen to one star, gold-toothed running back, after this latest incident.
Regardless, I'm proud that this guy is a Bill.
This is a football team. Not a parole board. Who cares what he says? He gets his chance this year--let's see what happens.
Are we this desperate that we have to get excited about these occasional cogent utterances?
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He's as much of a short-term fix as Gonzalez would be. But hey, where you're concerned, the best player is the one who doesn't currently play for the Bills.
Of course they are both short term. The point someone made was that TG was on the downside of his career. Just saying that this was not so, byhis performance last year--particularly compared to The One.
You know, it would be quite easy to agree with the statement that the best player(s) out there doesn't currently play for the Bills. But I would love if at least a few of them did. Wouldn't you? Oh, that's right--your pretty much all set with whatever Ralph and his band of football nimrods serve up.
But for this discussion, a meaningful move would have been to make a play for Boldin---a guy who would actually have the potential to make an impact for more than a year; i. e. more than a gimmick. It would have a secondary effect of relieving us of the agita about how our first pick will be wasted this year.
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So are your posts. But think of it this way Mr. WEO: the less time TO spends with the Bills players, the less time he has to "rip the lockerroom apart."
"So are your posts."
Wow. 10 posts a day and that's your best response?
Anyway, my point stands. As soon as a guy signs up, he can do no wrong---especially with a guy like you, who will suspend all disbelief to hold tight to your hero worship---even as your hero ML laughs at you.
But hey, nice work on the Tim Graham attack. I'm sure TO will friend you now.
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Depends on whether you want a short- or long-term fix.
TO is neither.
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Bottom line is that if TO was not a Bill, every homer here would, if asked, rip the guy as a serial douchebag and would absolutely ridicule any team--especially another AFCE team--that picked him up.
Instead, we have to hear all these phonies cry about how tough "the press" is being on this poor, great new Bill.
It's so pathetic. And so predictable.
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Correct JP never played five teams with losing records in a row.
No, but he was named the starting QB on 3 teams with losing records.
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Hey man, maybe Gregg knows something the rest of the NFL doesn't. Or not.
Hmmm. We can rule out "he's a sh**ty coach". I give up, what is it he knows that no one else knows?
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The reason people say he doesn't drink is that he sneakes his own booze into bars and pours it into his soda. That's why he joined the Bills.
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People in Rochester don't consider themselves from WNY. That's Buffalo.
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Would you rather have Tony Scheffler or Tony Gonzalez?
One is entering the prime of his career, but who knows if he's already hit his potential, and how much he'll cost.
The other is a legend on the down side of his career, probably has 1-2 seasons left in him.
I highly doubt we'd get either, especially Gonzalez....but what the hell, I'm bored.
Tony G is "on the downside of his career"?
What does that make the thrice fired TO, who is older, caught fewer passes last year?
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"a la Jason Campbell and Alex Smith"?
Yikes.
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All those fatcats in "WNY" would have to do is raise $800-900 million. Should be easy.
The anti-trust exemption will never be challenged seriously. Never. If it went away, the Bills would disappear as a franchise, because each team would be free to negotiate their own TV contracts. There would be no revenue sharing.
This is a dumb idea.
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I don't know why this is such a big deal anyway. He NEVER goes to these sessions---DJ acknowledged as much this week. Why would he start now??
And by the way, the sessions started Monday and the big awards banquet is tonight. You know, I bet there are flights directly from Buffalo to Washington---and back!--- every day. If Mr. TEO were so inclined, he could easily had jetted down to DC this AM and been back in 24 hours. He didn't need to take the week off for this rubber chicken dinner.
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Might be a good option for him...he can likely start and will have good coaches there. If he plays well, he may very well play himself right back into a qb competition in the NFL or even a starting gig. ...
Yup, some great coaches there in the "UFL".
Didn't you just post elsewhere that coaching was not our problem, it was the terrible play of "our QB's"?
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The only reason we missed the playoffs last year was because of this:
After starting 5-1, this is what our QB's did in the next 8 games:
Edwards:
Mia: 67.2 QB rating, 227 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT, 1 Fmb lost (2 total)
Jets: 79.3 QB rating, 289 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT, 1 Fmb lost (1 total)
NE: 46.2 QB rating, 120 yds, 1 TD, 2 INT
CLE: 50.3 QB rating, 148 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT
KC: 121.0 QB rating, 273 tds, 2 TD, 0 INT, 2 TD's rushing, 2 fumbles (none lost).
SF: (Both Edwards and JP)
Edwards first half: 64.0 QB rating, 112 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT
JP second half: 78 QB rating, 93 yds, 0 TD, 0 INT
JP Losman
Mia: 45.8 QB rating, 123 yds, 0 TD, 1 INT, 1 Fmb lost (3 total)
Jets: 45.7 QB rating, 148 yds, 1 TD, 3 INT, 1 Fmb lost (3 total)
Combination for 8 games of both:
1533 yds (191.6 per game), 8 total TD's (only 6 passing), 16 turnovers (12 INT's 4 lost Fumbles)...they also combined for 11 total fumbles.
And if you take out the KC game (our only win), this is what they did in the 7 losses that ended our season:
1260 yds (180 per game), 4 TD's, 16 turnovers (12 INT's, 4 lost fumbles).
Edwards had a very good game against KC, problem is, the other 7 games were atrocious by both Trent and JP. Not suprisingly we lost all 7 of them and only won the KC game.
This says a few things:
1. Coaching wasnt our biggest problem...no coach can win with that kind of play from the QB.
2. Offense was a much bigger problem than a lackluster pass rush.
3. Our QB's need to get better for this team to be good next year.
So, that being said, the signing of TO is HUGE for us, and may be enough to get us to the playoffs because he plays to Trents style of throwing. If he can make Trent better, and this offense can make big improvements, we will undoubtedly be a playoff team. So adding TO is a major improvement to the weakest side of the ball...the offense.
Our D was solid last year, espeically considering how long they and how often they were on the field when our offense couldnt do squat over this stretch. With a better showing from the offesne, our D has the potential to be top 10. And for the record, this list wasnt even all the bad games played by our QB's, just a highlight of the 8 games immediately following our 5-1 start.
The defense was not on the field any longer than half other teams in the league.
We get it, you don't like Edwards---you could have said so in far fewer words and posts.
Hey, look at it this way, "our QB's" got better the minute JPL cleared out his locker.
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There is no question that he was re-engaged, and there is no question that he lunged.
The only question is...why is that going to be illegal?
The tape shows he was engaged, on the ground, and then clearly lunged directly at Brady's leg below the knee. He was not "pushed" into Brady.
Read Jeff Fisher's response at to why it will be illegal.
Hey, does Jeff Fisher work for the Pats or is he simply brainwashed along with all of the other non-Pats on the rules committee? I think there needs to be an investigation into this---you know, how Kraft gets all the other owners and committees to do his bidding.
Huge scandal.
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Probably the Bills.
Not possible---we don't have anyone who can get to the QB.
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How/why did he bite his tongue lifting bags of sand? Did he have a seizure?
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What Lynch needed to learn from last year's incident was admitting his involvement from the beginning. He did that in this case. So he learned his lesson. And again, having the gun in his trunk isn't even as bad as being caught DUI (without injuring anyone, of course). How many loaded guns injure people in the trunk of a car versus when people drive under the influence?
The lesson was to admit involvement from the beginning?? I thought the lesson was to say nothing from the beginning. In fact, his clamming up after the hit and run was a source of fawning respect from you. Why the sudden reversal?
In fact, with all the tainted evidence and fabricated reports saturating this case, you must have lost all respect for your BBF Lynch when he totally caved and cooperated with the investigation AND copped a plea.
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What is the "clarification?" Is this going to be just subject to a 15-yard penalty, or a suspension? If just the former, I'd still take the chance as a defender. If it's the latter, then the steps being taken to protect QB's are getting ridiculous.
And this is more applicable to Wilfork, who got a 15-yard penalty anyway, than Pollard. Pollard didn't go for Brady's knees, or at least, wasn't unimpeded going after Brady. Morris was on his back as he hit Brady. It was analogous to a player blocking an opposing player into his punter.
Pollard was blocked to the ground, he was hit tangentially on his side by Morris. He then lunged at Brady's knee after the contact with Morris. He was not blocked or ridden into Brady. Review the tape.
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Apparently too many people here don't understand the TV rights situation, and how important the local telecast is, in order to make the system work. If games don't sell out, they don't get televised locally, and the bulk of their potential viewership is lost. That impacts the advertising rates, which in fact impacts the amount the networks pay to the NFL...the TV rights are the fuel that drives the NFL machine.
LA doesn't have a team, for Christ's sake. If that doesn't explain what fan attendance means to the NFL, I guess I can't help you.
The value of the TV contracts is derived from the top 8-10 markets. The local TV ad revenue that ultimately ends up in the pockets of the national network carrying the game is miniscule in markets like Buffalo.
LA doesn't have a team because, still, no one there has put together a viable stadium plan/deal.
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Sometimes "cynicism" is just being able to point out the BS.
I'm glad that you are happy that Hardy is adjusting so well in Buffalo. Just wasn't sure why you need to share that on a football fan site. If you were black, you wouldn't have posted this at all.
I'm not into the team for that kind of stuff. It's sport, and sport is entertainment. Being pleasantly surprised or encouraged that an athlete with a propensity for violence speaks as if he may not commit crimes in the future is not usually entertaining. I'm more interested in tangible efforts and evidence that the team is, at some point, going to position themselves to be competitive---so we can get excited about actual accomplishments.
I don't have a man cave or any Nine Inch Nails to listen to. Sorry to ruin the visual for you.