Mr. WEO
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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.
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Maybe someone smarter than I on the subject can answer this.....
Why doesnt Ralph just sell the team to his children for $1. Then, whenever he does pass, he wont pay any taxes because he wont be the owner of the team. This is no different than a child buying an elderly parents home for $1 then allowing the parent to live there until they pass. Why is this not an option?
Simple. The NFL/owners would never approve the sale at that price.
Also, By not selling the team this year, Ralph made another $35 million. His plan to avoid capital gains is simply to never sell the team. He won't care how much tax is due when he's dead.
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No, what I'm saying is that finding a better NT than a "great one" is a lot more difficult than finding a better QB than "an above average one." Although it depends on who (playing now) you would consider "above average." Although whether Clausen is even an average, much less above average, QB remains to be seen.
I'll take "above average QBs" Flacco, Ryan, McNabb, Palmer...
You can have the "greatest NT" in the league--whoever you feel that is (how can you tell?). Y
I think you prove how opinions die hard. You convince yourself that Clausen was so good, and when reality shows he's not even going to make an NFL roster you still cling to the ideas that he's something special. What is the difference between you and the people making draft decisions for the Bills pre-Nix?PTR
Wow, Clausen's not even going to make a roster? Is that not your "diehard opinion"? When did "reality show" he's not going to make a roster?
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Few others would. A great NT is the key to a good 3-4 and you won't find anyone better. The same isn't true for "an above average QB."
We won't find anyone better than our first round draft pick at NT?
Anyway, an above average QB (we don't have one and have for 10 years, by the way) is good for more than a few wins a year. An NT? Come on! Of course he is key to the 3-4, but his direct impact isn't comparable to QB.
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I must have missed it, but who has said any other player was dogging it last year? Outside of possibly the 3rd ball Lynch? The answer is: no one.
Plenty of people at this site have said that he was dogging it. This is a discussion about TO, so other names haven't, that I recall, come into the conversation. You could start a thread such as.."who else was dogging it besides TO last year?". That's probably the most direct way to get an accurate answer to your question--if that's what your looking for.
Again doc, his 55 catches for 829 yards and 6 TD's by themselves, nevermind the putridity of the offense, say that his career is far from "over." And he was the #2 WR on the team. Sure "someone had to lead the team in receiving," just like "someone had to win the SB." But it wasn't anyone else. So while he may have gotten lazy at times, he still outproduced everyone on offense except for Fred Jackson, who got a hell of a lot more chances. What does that say about everyone else? I think you know the answer.So he may have gotten lazy at times but he wasn't dogging it. OK. I'll let you rest on that hair splitting job. He was the "#2 WR on the team" and the leading receiver? OK. Anyway, metaphorically speaking, it would be more accurate to say "someone of our three RBs will be our leading RB this season (likely at the expense of last year's leading RB)".
Hey, crappy Trent Edwards did better throwing to Evans in '08 than anybody did in '09. Oh, that's right---it's because we had such a better O-line in '08 (I hardly remember you feeling that way at the time) and a top notch OC (ditto).
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The defense looked depressed and listless (probably because of the play of the offense; and no need for quotations bud, I'm as much of a doctor as you) in the 4th quarter, while the offense looked like crap all season long. But the underlying point is that to claim that TO was the only one dogging-it on offense is laughable. And at least it's an explanation for less-than-ideal production, versus lack of talent ("passionate" play only gets you so far). The only other player who played well on offense was Jackson, but if we take away his best game...
Who says that TO was the only player dogging it?
Oh, I get it---you made that up in order to redirect your argument successfully.
Check.
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I consider an expert...& someone who's opinion is worth listening to, as someone who's been there - done that. Terry Bradshaw's opinion is good enuf for me. Talking heads are a dime a dozen. I've wrapped myself around Spiller & Troup & look forward to seeing what they can do. I've listened to Clausen & he seems like he's got a few loose screws. Give me a solid, stable thinker & talker for my QB, before analyzing his abilities. Chances are a goofy kid will make goofy decisions.
You mean like...Terry Bradshaw?
Time will tell about Calusen, but I would take "an above average QB" over a great NT any day.
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Good points. It's obvious by the awesome production from the offense that they were happy and motivated, and giving it their all on every play. Only to be brought down by TO. Who doesn't hate to lose; he just hates his QB's.
I thought elements of the defense played very well---didn't seem depressed at all. As for the offense, Jackson played well--he didn't seem to me to be depressed or listless. Even Fitz seemed to play with passion as opposed to "listlessness" (you're a "doctor", perhaps you can help us understand this claim by the other poster). Lynch was a supernumerary testicle---not depressed. More likely a personality disorder combined with subnormal IQ.
The Buffalo News: Chan Gailey the Fundamentalist
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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.