Mr. WEO
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I was with ol' Bob after #1, but stoppeed reading after 2,3,4--figuring I had already read his punchline.
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no problem with TE staying at Stanford, no problem at all, however, choosing to stick with the sinking ship doesnt absolve him for his lack of productivity.
So are you saying that even if the team around him truly sucked, he should be faulted for his "lack of productivity"....because he didn't transfer?
And should he just picked up the phone to a top program and say "OK, I've had enough with Stanford. I'm coming next week."?
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Dez Bryant has told Williams: "blow me, I ain't carrying your pads."
Is it possible to retard Hardy's development?
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How do you fall down "two flights of stairs"? Do you negotiate the landing between them as you are falling?
His father's name is "Johnny Walker".
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I don't know about bad luck, Fingon.
He drives into an apartment building while "probably texting?"
He then pushes the vehicle out of the building and down the street and then abandons it to go home and sleep?
Reports all of this THE NEXT DAY including admitting himself for a concussion? Promises that he will file an accident report?
All this in the context of having a prior driving while intoxicated in the summer of 2007.
Then this mysterious fall down two flights of steps…was alcohol or something else involved?
I don't know what happened in each of these 3 separate incidents…but I personally doubt that bad luck had anything to do with any of them.
His family will send his brain to W Virginia to get his Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy diagnosis. Everyone will then comment on the tragic nature of this violent sport.
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Thanks for the great dig. I love the research you did in exposing Trentative's past. I hope Gailey reads this before he announces the pecking order.
I have read many versions of Bill Walsh's so called endorsement. Several of them were quite mild edorsements, while others seem strong...so what's the real version? Bill Walsh is not around to clarify. And hey...not all the gurus are always right. I remember Bill Cowher saying two years ago that the Bills are the team to watch. Well...we watched, & then we agonized.
I predict TE will be #1 in the pecking order, but will be overtaken by Brohm early on...& Fitz will be the odd man out because of his inaccuracy. If we want what we always got, let's do what we've always done. If TE is our guy all season, I fear we'll just get more of the same.
If CG changes his "pecking order" after reading Alphadawg's latest anti Edwards screed, then he needs to leave OBD.
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No one's surprised by this assertion. Gailey's always been a run-first coach, unfortunately he can't block for the guys who'll be logging the carries. The OL still has serious issues, namely LT and RT and that's if Wood comes back 100%.
There is no team in the NFL right now winning games with a power running style. Not Carolina, not Tennessee, not Pittsburgh, and not Buffalo 2010. For all the plaudits guys like Chris Johnson and DeAngelo Williams receive, teams these days need more diversified offenses with a passing game that can keep defenses honest. Buffalo doesn't have that.
Gailey will have his work cut out for him when teams stuff 8 and even 9 in the box. How he responds will be one thing, but I don't think he's got the talent in the passing game right now to succeed.
Besides, I won't disappear from the board if the team begins to struggle like others do.
Good point. Gailey's passing games in Pitt and Miami were weak.
However, excepting the potential for significantly tougher AFCE, Gailey should deliver more than 7 wins with what he's got.
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I agree that Eric Wood is the key to this offensive line, but for a different reason: I think he should replace Hangartner at center from day one of training camp later this week, and he should remain the Bills center for the next decade or so. Anybody remember Kent Hull out here?? Wood is a natural center, and has the toughness and smarts to excell as the leader of his line. Hangartner is a little better then a journeyman, and I don't believe is strong enough to "hold his own" against the likes of Wilfork and Jenkins! Let's not forget that Chan wants a great running game to set up his attacking passing game.
Great post! Put Wood back at center.
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If you stopped posting negative crap you wouldn't post ever,
Actually, it was a compliment to JD. always thought he was a good guy.
You don't read all my posts, I guess.
Go back to your cats.
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Yes, I admittedly jumped the gun. It irks me the way fans presume to know things when they are, in fact, clueless. Myself included.
Actually, you were making a great point, don't back away. Sure the OP was offering an opinion--so were you, as you pointed out how lame his claim that Cowher was a dirtbag for not taking the job. For some reason, the OP hasn't figured out why the job isn't attractive to top coaching candidates.
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Agreed. I think that he would have been a good linebacker if his body could stand up to the game, which it obviously could not. Sorta like a poor man's Holocek, no?
It's a shame. He was better than one of our current starters.
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Again what you fail to see is yes....currently Smith is a back up on the Ravens to Joe Flacco. If we assume that Flacco is better than Smith which I'm sure he is, what does that say about how he compares to the QBs in Buffalo? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Soooooo saying that he couldn't beat out Flacco and he could be miles and miles better than anything we have are not mutually exclusive statements. Get it?.....eh ...probably not.
Why did the Ravens just spend $3.5 million to pick up Bulger?
Straight answer please.
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Oh. Really?
That Ralph spends as much as Snyder?
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Dramatically upgrading the stadium certainly is feasible. It is presently being done in KC. Arrow Head stadium is going through a three year project which will result in it being a first class facility. Both our stadium and KC's stadium are very similar. The engineering company was the same for both stadiums.
If you do some google research you can come up with pictures and articles on how it is paid for and its feasibility. The problem with our situatin is that our present owner has absolutely no interest in contributing to an upgrade in the facility he is playing in.
There are ways to contend with the very challenging economics of the league. With some creativity and desire it can be worked out. It is not going to happen until there is a new owner. When you are 92 yrs old there isn't much incentive to invest in the long term future.
Like green bananas.
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They were both chicken shiit coaching hires by TD. Mularkey in particular is another bad season in Atlanta from being demoted to TE coach (again), while Williams was the proverbial blind squirrel finding a nut Both are coordinators and neither is HC material.
Mularkey isn't HC'ing material.
Wow. It's 2010, but I guess it's a start.
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Ralph has spent nowhere near as much as Snyder. You know that much.
Never said or even implied he did.
But hey, you've cut down another straw man!
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A coach gets two years here? That could not be more wrong. Ralph had already offered Mularkey another year after his second, but he quit. Gregg Williams got three years. Wade Phillips got three years and was offered a fourth if he fired Ronnie Jones, and before that was Marv.
The last coach who got two years or less was Hank Bullough who was fired in 1986.
As for expecting to win 8 this year, well, good luck with that.
I agree. Williams and DJ should never have been brought back for their 3rd seasons.
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Like Dan Snyder?
Actually he is like Snyder--when both open up their wallets, they waste money in a spectacular fashion.
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Nate was very easily replaced, however i dont think winfield is. Winfield is a great cover guy and a tremendous tackler. Winfield is not overrated at all, he was and still is in the top five corners in the nfl. He sticks to the receivers like glue, and when he does get beat he tackles them better than any corner in the league. He is the best corner tackler in the league.
Winfield was hardly a "great cover guy"--covered in butter and jelly, maybe. Yeah, a great tackler, but you don't pay a CB to cover the run.
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You'd have taken Flacco in 2008? You mean you heard of him before he was drafted? Surprising. The Bills wouldn't have, since they still thought Edwards had a future at that time.
BTW, Flacco was 15th in yards and TD passes. I don't know what you consider "above average," but I agree he's "above Boller and Smith."
Hmmm. Let's try again.
I would take an above average QB (via the draft, trade, whatever) over a great NT simply because the direct impact on team performance between the 2 positions is orders of magnitude apart. I can't restate it any simpler than this.
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Look, as far as qbs go for this franchise I am not worried.
Nix: Phillip Rivers and Drew Brees
Gailey: Dynamic offenses even with mediocre QBs.
We are set. May take a few years though.
Can we at least stop with the kudos for Nix "drafting" Rivers?
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Ah, so now you've changed it from from "great" to "greatest." Okay. Let's say someone like Ngata. Remember him? The guy you didn't want the Bills to draft in 2006?
Flacco benefits from having Ngata on defense and having a great defense and running game. Ryan didn't look so good without his running game. They've both been in the league just 2 years, so whether they're "above average" is still largely unknown. And in Ryan's case, the Bills had no shot at him (the same with Palmer and McNabb, although they allegedly tried to trade for him and he said no). McNabb and Palmer I'd consider better than "above average," unless by "above average" you mean anything better than average, in which case Pro Bowl players would qualify.
Are you saying that Clausen is "above average?"
Ngata is one guy on a very good defense. I'm sure Flacco loves them all.
The Ravens are much better off because Flacco (who is an above average QB to this point, I'm comfortable saying) is QB as opposed to Troy Smith or Kyle Boller than they are because Ngata is NT as opposed to some other guy.This should be intuitive.
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I think the main thing is in the whole 9 vs 41 vs not at all debate -- as a coach and gm, any qb taken in the first two rounds you sink or swim with. If you believe in a qb, you take him at 9 even if hes rated lower, if you dont believe hes your franchise, you dont take him at 41 either, even if its value.
A guy like Troupe wont be your own career on the line, a guy like claussen is.... so if you dont want to hitch your wagon to him, you just have to stay away unless he somehow falls to 3 or later (see edwards here, or mccoy in cleveland) and suddenly its not a make or break pick.
So you pick an NT in order to safeguard your career as GM? That's great--real bold. if he's anything but frankly awful, he can chug along at NT and no one will notice or say much.
Sweet!
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Why would you ask me to explain why we didn't resign Clements, when you don't think we should have? Here's your post:
"And im glad we got rid of clements, the 49ers overpaid him and he is not the same lock down corner as he was when he was with the bills."
But then earlier you said this:
"I just think Ralph can do much more to help this team. Look at Nate Clements and Antoine Winfield. Two great corners, and Ralph wouldnt resign them. Why? Because they were too much money. Dont get me wrong, terrence mcgee and leodis mckelvin are great and i love them way more than nate and antoine but come on. At the time they were the best cornerback duo in the game and he wouldnt resign them. Thats being cheap."
You're saying you love Mcgee and McKelvin more than Winfield and Clements. Which is it? You define contradiction.
Can't fault Ralphus for not resigning either one of those two---totally overrated, easily replaced.
If Dallas cuts Roy Williams (WR)
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Yeah, the Cowboys are in bad shape.