Mr. WEO
-
Posts
47,109 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Gallery
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by Mr. WEO
-
-
Yes I typed Todd Collins. Have you seen him play since he left Buffalo? Like in 2007 when he played the last 4 games for the Redskins and threw 5 TDs and 0 picks with a 106.4 rating. In the first playoff game against Seattle he threw for 266 yards in alosing effort. Or in the Giants game this year when Campbell was sucking as usual. They put him in and he goes 2 for 4 for 57 yards. Then they put Campbell back in who resumed sucking. You can see hightlights fromt that game here: http://www.nfl.com/players/toddcollins/profile?id=COL694708
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm tired of losing. Maybe you're OK with sucking along with rookie QBs. Seems many on here want another one. 3 times a charm I guess. Unless you throw in RJ too. Then it's 4. Seems like some of you are afraid to go for it. Acquire and put the best players out there this year. Screw developing rookies. We'll worry about 2012 in 2012. There's no guarantee a rookie will ever develop. But Todd, Kyle, and Jake are already developed and ready to start right out of the chute. They don't have to learn how to play in a non spread offense, how to read defenses, or get used to the speed of the game.
Again, wow.
-
The only logical explanation in choosing Antonio Bryant (you want to talk irrelevant on the field) over TO is that TO turned down Cincy's offer. It's actually fairly obvious.
Another classic.
You have always struggled with the obvious. And this one was so obviously wrong on its face, yet you couldn't resist jumping right in.
-
Correct. It was not "cheating."
StarCaps was OK with the NFL. This happened years ago.
Its not even a PED, it an OTC weight loss supplement. Incase you have noticed the Williamseses are fat.
Wrong, except the last statement.
-
How is it cheating? the NFL approved it, now they want to ban them for it. !@#$ em. I sue the **** out of the NFL
You're not one to let fact get in the way of your conclusions, but consider this:
Starcaps is a diuretic and a PED masking substance.
All players and their agents were warned against using this product by the NFLPA BEFORE the Williams boys were busted.
Regardless, Williams was contractually prohibited (by the Vikings) from using any diuretics, banned or not, to meet his weight requirements.
So he willfully did use a diuretic, and instead of using a League legal one chose one that masks steroid use. The only logical conclusion is that he used PEDs.
I don't see how the League loses this one.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/nf...sts-mar-10-2010
-
The interesting thing to me is that among the seemingly numerous areas of Bills FA inactivity, seeking a #2 WR is prominent to me on the list.
Its hard to read motivations into this and even remotely be accurate (not that it does or should stop us armchair pundits) but the Bills have a clear need (one they exacerbated by saying bye to Josh Reed) and actually have $6 million in salary cap room committed to the position last year which even if they utilized it in part they should be able to get talent which in a good year for them would threaten to equal TOs 09 output for the Bills.
As the Bills have not yet officially said adios to TO in the same manner they have actually told other FAs like Reed, it does not seem unreasonable if you were the Bills to guesstimate that the market for TO is at worst the $5 per year Cincy apparently used to attract him to visit another small market cold climate (in the modern Internet and easy travel world I think the market size question is a factor but often not a determining one for many FAs) city.
Can TO come back?
I think it is doubtful actually as he would likely need to accept a serious contract downsizing that in terms of his attempts to market himself to VH1 and such would make this effort harder. However, a long term backended deal which has a large size but small cash to cap payout might work.
Depends on the options and in a WR rich draft there are too many wildcards to say without some real inside knowledge.
You think TO turned down an offer in Cincy?
No way. That interview was a courtesy to OC and his agent.
-
So Ben admits something happen - Just no intercourse. According to him the girl bumped her head.
Seriously folks - if your engaged in some type of sex act - and right after the other party goes to the hospital with an injury and then the police - acting hysterical.
You would be arrested.
certainly not allowed to leave the state.
Really? On a story of a bathroom knob cobbing that caused a closed head injury?
-
Why in the world would someone write a column about winners and losers in FA when FA is only a week old? Why?
Because it is to ensnare idiots into thinking it means something. I bet his editor told him to write it. No self-respecting journalist, especially Vic, would write an article about FA winners and losers this early on purpose.
Must be a lot of pushy editors out there.
http://www.sbnation.com/2010/3/10/1366919/...-winners-losers
http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/marvez-early-fa-win
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/358161-...son-to-be-jolly
http://thefastertimes.com/football/2010/03...ssible-rapists/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-f...o&type=lgns
http://cippinonsports.com/2010/03/09/nfl-f...ers-and-losers/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=pfw-...w&type=lgns
I'll stop there. They do it every year.
What was your point again? Oh yeah, why would they write these articles? Oh yeah--- "to ensnare idiots into thinking it means something."
Looks like you were right.
-
What's everyone crying about?
We DID sign a FA---an O-lineman from the Raiders. How can that go wrong?
This new Bills regime is really going where no other has gone before.
-
Just so you know, Smith was scheduled to be the starter for Baltimore the year they drafted Flaco. He got an infection and went on IR. He did not lose the job to Flaco. Flaco got the job after Smith went on IR.
The point is meaningless. At some point Smith's infection cleared yet he was still on the bench because everyone was convinced that Flacco was better.
-
Yep - a good college QB. With OSU...a perennial powerhouse (recent bowl games notwithstanding) with overall talent on both sides of the ball, year after year. They are a desired destination for high schoolers, and have the advantage of drawing from a State that's one of the high school football hotbeds.
His pro stats are minimal. But he's been on their team for 3 years and knows their system. My guess is that if somebody came up with a really generous offer, they'd trade him. Otherwise - keep him.
The bolded part is the only important fact.
The NFL has pretty much ignored OSU QB's for a reason.
-
Fits the system ????????? What system? Have you listened to Coach Gailey and his offensive guy at all? He doesn't run an East Coast. North Coast whatever. He sees what he's got and builds an offense around that.
Sounds to me unfortunately that he thinks he can win with what we've got what or we can get in the draft. Or maybe he's workin' something else. It's still early.
I do like the Delhomme and TO thing though.
His "offensive guy"?
No, I haven't heard that guy say anything yet.
In fact, I thought we were pretty much guaranteed that guy wasn't going to be saying much all year.
-
exceptional post that points out what would seem to me to be the obvious point here. you have highly competitive people who covet the opportunity to lead a franchise. you probably have on average 2 or 3 positions available in a given year, you have former head coaches who want to coach again, you have college coaches who want to make it at the pro level, you have the hottest/shiny-new-penny def/off coordinators ready to step up. and to boot, you can make a few mill a year if you get the job. i wouldn't think you'd have to post it on monster.com to garner some interest.
i think two issues are at play here. the media being the media, speculating on the front side about what someone may or may not be thinking (Shanahan would NEVER go to Buffalo!) and opining on the backside whatever way they want to spin it (Shanahan would NEVER go to Buffalo because _____). the second issue is that fans react emotionally to business decisions that must occur on the business side of the NFL, when all in all it's just business. True--some teams do it better than others (and Ralph hasn't done a great job blending business with wins), but Ralph would be a frigging moron to ever lose sight of the business of football.
OK, let's stipulate that every man in America would love to be a HC in the NFL. There's your 15 ("or more") calls a day.
But really, you mention "former head coaches", yet none were interviewed by Nix, other than CG. No college coaches were interviewed. One coordinator was interviewed (not counting Fewell, who was a token interview). Unless, like the other poster, you believe that all of the rest of the former HC's, college HC's and coordinators were interviewed in total secrecy and their identities will never be revealed (really??), you have to ask yourself why Nix would say such a silly thing? And why punish the press for calling him out on it?
Also, logic should tell you that if over a hundred guys have requested interviews with the Bills, why are they all turned down during a weeks long search that settles for a guy who hasn't been an NFL HC in 10 years and who was just fired as OC the season before (a scenario that has never happened in the NFL before)?
If Buddy got all riled up about the press calling out on a foolish claim, he's got a pretty thin skin. It doesn't bose well for him given the team he's inherited.
Stop blaming "the media" for other people's mistakes.
-
African Americans dominant the U.S., from our music, to the sports we play, and now we are starting to dominant politics. This makes cacucasians very nervous because of the oppression that they continue today. This is why writers like King have a double standard, because if everything was equal between the races, blacks would dominant everything!
One day the chicken will come home to roost, i hope the racists out there will one day learn they're lesson!
Yes, just in NY alone, we have Charlie Rangel and Gov. Paterson "dominanting" politics right now.
I'm black and I'm proud!
-
Yes to TO. NO to LT. RBs we got. WRs we don't. Then sign a real QB like Delhomme or Todd Collins or Kyle Orton. Work on the lines. Emphasize the run game. Get the new defense to get off the field on 3rd down more often. We might have something. Playing for the last WC spot late into December. Could be fun.
Delhomme or TODD Collins? Come on! You need to go to bed earlier.
-
What on earth is silly about that assertion? I would be shocked if the number of phone calls wasn't higher. Bash the Bills all you would like, but with the number of unemployed coaches out there (big name and the no names alike) I have no doubt they were fielding at least this number of calls a day. Save the "Bills suck" "Bills are a joke" rhetoric because there are only 32 of these positions available and a lot more candidates that that vying for them. Regardless of what you think about the state of the Bills, to be a HC in the NFL is still a coveted position, WITH ANY TEAM. One that immediately makes you worth millions more...
The press were downright dumb in the instance.
PS. Really, who cares about his font size?
I'm not bashing the Bills, so calm the f**k down.
We've already heard from many of the "unemployed coaches" and they didn't want the job.
If you want to believe that Nix was fielding more than 15 calls a day, yet he only interviewed, what, 2 guys (one who he just fired!)---go ahead.
The claim that the press is out to get Nix because of that goofy press conference is just dumb.
That's all I'm saying, so relax.
-
You can't look at it that way when a new front office and coaching staff has been put into place. It's starting over (for them).
Obviously for the fans it isn't like starting over, because we've been here for the last decade going through all this. The fact is, none of what the previous staffs have done has anything to do with the people in charge now. So unfortunately our only option is to start over with them. For them its getting the team together, for us its getting our emotions together and hope this regime gives us something to get excited about.
To your point about Ben Watson, I totally disagree. I would rather give Schouman, Stupar, and Nelson all the playing time and have them ready to be good "in their prime" players, and skip the whole bring in Watson and when he sucks cut him at age 33 or 34 then be left with inexperience again.
Donohoe was "starting over" when he got here. MArv was "starting over". What makes you think this will be different, or that this is how we will succeed anyway?
As for Watson, you missed the point that he is better than anyone we have NOW. Also, you seem to believe that we can't have Watson AND Nelson (heck AND Schouman). There is no rule against that, as far as I know. You would really rather have three guys with little experience and/or suspect talent? Really??
What's is wrong, exactly, with bringing in some modestly priced vets who are good NOW? How is that bad for the team---or worse than endlessly drafting guys who won't pan out or will start immediately-----because we have no good vet at their position??
-
Why would we draft any quarterback who idn't used to playing in the cold?
Time after time we have tried Qb's from California and other warm weather states (with the exception of Jimbo) and it hasn't worked.
Ah, there it is.......
It has been a few weeks.
-
I have to disagree again. He's an inside linebacker and of our linebacker needs the inside is the least of them. We have Mitchell and Poz slated to start with Ellison and some 2nd year players ready to step up and be legitimate backups. Why pay a guy over 8 million a year, when its not of dire need? In addition Dansby is a good linebacker, that got elite money. Its a foolish move unless your a team very close to going deep in the playoffs. Maybe Miami thinks they are, we however are not. Then maybe this investment pays off. But it wouldn't be a prudent signing for the Bills, this would be the type of player the old regime might have signed. I think Buddy and company are too smart for that.
Just saying that our LB crew scares no one. Poz may someday, if healthy enough for a full season, prove to be above average. Mitchell IS average at best and injured. Ellison is well below average and the rest are keeping the aluminum warm.
-
he (and you) are sooo wrong it is pathetic - and i'll tell you why.
wow where to start - this is the worst fa "class" in recent memory - first of all the talent of available players is not great - secondly the cba restrictions have drastically limited what teams "would" do and now what they "cannot" afford to do - thirdly there are so many other teams that have not done anything yet - and some of them are in truly worse shape than we are
now to get the the real meat of the concern here - idiots write things like that to get a raise out of who they are targeting - in this case the bills - why? well nix blasted one of their own (that pos sully-in-your-pants) in a presser and this a part of the pay back - don't expect to see anything good written or said about the bills by the media because of that - period! get over it - and accept that is the way it's going to be - i can live with it because i couldn't care less what they say anyway
continuing on - they write things like that so people will enable their poor professionalism by posting about it and trying to make it look like they are right - they aren't.
which brings me to my last point - because you bought in on this and had the shear brazenness to use tim russert's name to further your misguided post - you should be ashamed of yourself. in fact you do not deserve to use tim russert's name period - he would have seen it for what it is and not even given it a second thought!
So this article is "payback" for Nix's lame lashing out at the press for calling him on his silly claim that he was getting 15 calls a day from guys looking to coach the Bills?
Maybe you should take pause before you call others "idiots". And lay off the "I Can Read" large font.
-
And such regulation is permissible only to the extent it fits within the confines of the Second Amendment. For example, in the Supreme Court Case "District of Columbia v. Heller," the US Supreme Court held that a DC Ban on Handguns exceeded permissible regulation under the Second Amendment.
States, cities, etc. are free to regulate anything they want so long as the regulation does not infringe on constitutional rights, or federal laws permissibly enacted under Congresses' commerce power.
I was waiting for this. You should read the case. It's a very limited ruling.
The second amendment does NOT limit the states from prohibiting gun ownership. It applies to laws enacted by the federal government only. DC is not a state but a Federal enclave. The SCOTUS ruling did not limit states in their ability to pass laws governing gun ownership. Until such a challenge comes to the Court form a state case, this ruling does not hold against any state. Also, as an aside, the ruling specifically concerned possessing guns in the home, not the right to carry.
To put it simply, states and other municipalities are still free to "infringe" upon certain people's rights to own a gun. This has been true for over 100 years.
-
If he wanted to tank this season, why fire Jauron last season?
Excellent point!
Also, this goofy "conspiracy" ignores the fact that Ralph himself has said that he is not concerned about an uncapped year.
-
Who's Cleveland's QB when Quinn goes?
-
Actually, states are not free to regulate guns if such regulation infringes with 2nd Amendment rights.
Every state does it. So do many cities and towns. They decide who can own a handgun, who can carry a weapon on them, etc.
-
I'm not saying these 3 players wouldn't be fine FA signings, but they aren't impact players to take this team over any sort of proverbial hump. Say its 3 years from now that we become a team with a legitimate chance to be over 500. These players will be 31-32-or even 33, by then we will be in a situation with their 4-5 year contracts and be stuck, and for what?, sign these players and win 4-6 games still? I don't get the point.
How has building a team around the draft been going for the past decade? We've drafted some decent players over that time, some very good ones, too.
Big deal. Nothing happened.
Really?, you only take FAs to get your team over the playoff hump or to become benchwarming "depth" players?
Look at the three guys listed above---none will be very expensive. All are young veterans. All could probably have a positive impact on this team now.
It's better to wait a few years (and another few years) until lightning strikes a sufficient number of times for this crew to draft a playoff team? If, in 3 years, a guy like Ben Watson sucks, guess what--you let him go!
A. Bryant signs with Cincy
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted
Again arguing against statements I never made in order to salvage some poorly made point. Sure, maybe hiring Bryant wasn't a great move (never said it was, doc). But what I did say is that it was obvious that since reports all said he left without an offer, the interview was a courtesy to OC and their shared agent. There is no other logical conclusion.
And yes, I am on an island with my belief that Deion Sanders does not review the (even condensed and prescreened and cliff noted) film of every offensive down of the Buffalo Bills to declare TO open "all the time"---and that I think Sanders is a clown placed on TV for comic relief and not as a cerebral analyst. Caught me.