Mr. WEO
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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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No chance he gets out of this without a suspension. Second run in in one year, he has to be disciplined. I agree that by itself it is fairly minor, but the fact its his second, he's up chit creek.
Hope Jackson can carry the load that first game, the running game should definelty open up with Owens and Evans on the field.
The one positive I see in this game, like Chris Brown said yesterday, the Pats have no film to gameplan around. I hope the Bills put it all on the line...if we could beat the Pats on Monday night, that would be nice!!!
They have the games from last season to look at. They can ignore any plays with Lynch and go from there.
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I sure hope not....
This is the problem with making such modifications. The kind of hits that inspire rule changes like this are the hit on Brady (of course), but also the hit on Carson Palmer in the playoffs: QB stands in the pocket, starts throwing, DL is down.. crawls and lunges at the knee. If they are going to have this rule, that should be the only use for it... once the QB begins running out of the pocket the rule should be moot.
If you read the article, that's what it says. It only is in effect when the QB has both feet on the ground.
A simple reading of the rule would eliminate 3/4 of the posts on this thread.
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Nice to see Hardy actually found a way to earn his pay.
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Actually, I am not 100% convinced he gets suspended either, but it has nothing to do with the game on Monday night.
I am just not so sure his incident is going to be enough to garner a suspension given he wasn't doing anything at the time of his arrest. I am not saying he wont get suspended, I am just dont think its a certainty.
"He wasn't doing anything at the time of his arrest"? You think they got the wrong "Marshawn Lynch"?
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That was in New England, week 1. Takeo Spikes destroyed Tom Brady the first play of the season and London Fletcher scored a touchdown- that was pretty much the turning point of the season. It was all downhill from there. Do you remember Donte Whitner returned an interception for a TD that was called back on a phantom call in that game too? The Bills should've won that game.
Spikes and Fletch--just not good enough to keep on this team of stars.
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Yancy Thigpen
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Andre Smith has "bust" written all over him. Mike Williams part deux.
Sidbury shouldn't go until the second day; I'd like to be able to get him in round four but would be willing to grab in the third if the opportunity to do so is there and we don't have another need to fill (LG, TE, OLB).
Let's leave Smith for round 54 Full C.
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What can Erie County do? They are just the landlord.
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With the weapons Trent has, what kind of a season are we calling breakout. Just improvements, are mediocre numbers considered breakout considering his previous stats. I think with the WR core and RB tandem we have he needs to put up TOP numbers, being ranked 10-20th isnt going to cut, he needs to be easy top 10 in every category.
This is what I think his MINIMUMS are
YDS- 3700+
Comp %- 65
Yds/Game- 240+
TD- 24+
INTs- 14-
QB Rating- 90+
These numbers will put him in the top 8-10 QB's, which he needs to be atleast with the weapons available, anything short of TOP 10 play is easily unacceptable to me, and I think I am giving him a lot of wiggle room here, all things considered
The only "weapon" added has been TO.
And I assuming your acceptable level of performance is a joke. Jim Kelly didn't have a "breakout year" by your standards until 1991---and it was quickly downhill from that solitary peak, I guess.
This "cold weather" nonsense is getting old. Edwards is no worse in the cold than our last 3 or 4 QBs. Also, if you cared to look, after his awful 1st Q in Cleveland, he played nearly mistake free ball for rest of his games--i.e., he learned to protect the ball.
His main issue will be one of confidence. I bet he would feel more confident with a competent OC helping him through his development, instead of one who is trying to figure out how to be an OC.
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The very fact that he was never charged with a felony suggests the evidence didn't support a felony charge. Police reports are what they are. But, they don't constitute a formal charge.
I never said the search WAS dirty, or the charges fabricated. I suggested that happens. None of us here KNOWS what happened that night. If you are putting all of your beliefs in a police report, that's your issue, not mine.
I think the plea deal represents the DA didn't have enough to proceed with a felony charge (and the search would certainly be questioned if it ever went to trial), and Lynch and his attorneys decided a misdemeanor was something they could live with, to move on and avoid more publicity. Nothing here suggests a felony charge was looming.
I understand that the report is not a charge. The charge entered at his booking was a felony class. The DA probably handles hundreds of these cases a week. Looking at Lynch's sad gangsta wannabe case, he made the deal because it was probably the only non-actual gangster with a gun posession charge on the docket that day. AND the fact that the guy is a harmless celeb.
As for "putting all my beliefs in a police report"--I did nothing of the sort. I put my belief in the fact that a report made public was never disputed or contested by anyone with a direct stake in its veracity.
Certain people here simply tossing out there that evidence was fabricated and the report falsified are the ones stretching credibility in order to preserve their support for whatever trouble ML wishes to find himself in. It is the only way for them to justify their position. It's pathetic.
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It's hard to imagine, this long after, that anyone can be nostalgic about the tenure of Rob Johnson with the Bills. He was simply awful.
Flutie had a fraction of the physical tools that RJ had, but he was far more intellegent, he was far tougher (RJ was injured when he fell on the football!) and he was a fierce competitor. RJ was a big kitty.
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The reason the Wonderlic has lost much of its predictive ability is because players are trained to take the test. It doesn't test how smart you are anymore, just how well your agent prepared you.
Peters needs a new agent.
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The problem, as I see it here, is one of semantics. What the police write on the arresting report is often different than what the DA decides is the proper charge for the offense (BEFORE plea bargaining).
According to the info I see, Lynch was never charged with a felony (not even before a plea). It sounds more like the DA's office decided the correct charge (and the charge they could prosecute successfully) was a misdemeanor.
Other points:
As far as the pot goes, who the fuc# cares? They were never charged, so why does it matter?
The local constables have been known to "smell marijuana" when they have no other probable cause to do a search.
Arrest reports are only as honest as the men who write them. I was arrested once, and the report was half fiction. (Given the fact that it was dismissed the next day, suggests the fiction was fairly obvious.)
This case was not dismissed. NO ONE is challenging the police report in this case. If it was a dirty search, Lynch would have walked. He's not some poor kid from the hood anymore who has to rely on the overworked, underpaid Public Defender to challege the search--he's a millionaire with the most expensive representation at his call. They reviewed the report, his case, and gladly took the plea deal. Case closed, OJ.
The notion that the weed was fabricated is itself pure fabrication. There is simply no reason, in THIS case (NOT the ones you watch on TV shows), to believe otherwise. Unless you can back that up?
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That is one of the dumbest things I ever heard, Billy B. knows the only way he looks like a good coach is if Tom Brady is his QB and would never let him go.
Really? He didn't look too bad when Brady was replaced with a high school QB last year.
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Ans if they fail...I believe they leave. The business model of the NFL in WNY does not work due to the escelating costs to run and own a team and the stagnant population and economy in Upstate NY... To all those hating on the Canadians - embrace your destiny and hope they are happy with a 3 game annual package....
This is a fallacy that has kept Ralph in WNY's good graces for the past ten years. This truth is that owning the Bills has been VERY lucrative for Ralph----he has no stadium debt, no loan debt. "His" stadium sells out nearly all it's games. This business had an operating margin of over $100 million between '04-'07. He just pocketed over $70 million form a dying Rogers last year.
Escalating costs?? Those only exist if you are spending to the cap or have a large debt to service. Neither is true with Ralph. The only thing that can hurt him is if fans stop coming to games, but even then, the sheer mass of guaranteed money form the NFL TV rights would keep him in the black.
The next guy who owns the Bills will be strapped for sure. But Ralph has the absolute best financial situation in the League. He's printing money while he goes out to congress and to the other owners with his hand in his hat.
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...and two of the Bills receivers, for all three years had... :blink:This thread would have been unimaginable if the Bills had not aquired TO. The author is essentially comparing TO and Moss.
By the way, all three of the Bills recievers still have....
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Geez, didn't those people SEE that game vs. Miami last season? And they still want to shell out at least $100 a game?
My guess is the questionnaire gets crumpled and tossed or deleted by the vast majority of those receiving it.
J.P. Lossman to new UFL ? What do you think
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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"?