Sisyphean Bills

Reading this article http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-2/Whitner-trending-up/0648c88e-fc74-4ae0-b0f9-1059b0f202b6 is sort of like seeing a hypothetical sweeper arm swat Dean's Whitner defense arguments into a swimming pool on Wipeout...

Just call him the "One Man Defense". It could be the name of the system he plays in as well.

Stevie or Andre or both?

Maybe Favre's streak will end this week too? Wow.

He really shouldn't be charging his groceries against Brett Favre's account. Even if it is the first sack of groceries this month.

http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2006/09/28/ronnie-harmon-to-be-honorary-captain-for-hawkeyes/

Or it could be that the Bills have a pretty good offensive coach now, one with more than 0 experience in the NFL, who can actually design plays and sequences to get his playmaker -- Steve Johnson -- open to make plays. Nah.

What is this position, TE? Anybody?

"There's nothing funny about being whipped, but that doesn't mean you have to walk around and look like your constipated all the time either." -- John Madden.

Isn't the whole thing inherently hypocritical? The NFL keeps getting bigger, faster, stronger guys to play a collision sport because that's the time-proven way to win the game and the collisions are an inherent part of the product, yet they want to portray that they are pulling out all the stops on safety, etc. History lesson: http://www.leatherhelmetillus.com/forward_pass.html

Good post. Lee Evans is playing in an NFL offense this year and Ryan Fitzpatrick is having a solid season, and yet Evans is once again the second option with barely more production than Roscoe. There were several times in the Pittsburgh game when the Bills went with a 3 WR package and Lee Evans wasn't one of them; they went with Johnson, Jones, and Nelson. The idea that the Bills might move on from Lee Evans doesn't mean he is being called "garbage" or that he isn't an OK player, like Peerless Price was in his role; it is a compliment to the young WRs on this team that have stepped up this year in this offense and produced.

First, it's clear that you are no longer arguing your original point. Second, I shouldn't have to spell it out to you, but I guess I have to. There is a big difference between giving a guy a contract extension mere weeks into a new regime, after planning to change the defensive scheme, after seeing the guy play abysmally in that scheme and be a gigantic liability, and giving a player a season to adapt and perform in a new system and making a decision that his production, age, and salary together with some growing depth at the position makes the player expendable. Please continue to make up straw-men arguments though and try to put words in my mouth and spew nonsense. Those actions really bolster your reputation as a subject expert and logician. PS: Weren't you one of those that claimed that there was no way that the Bills would be worse this year than last year? You must be pretty stoked to see the Bills run the table. When that happens, I'll have a smile on my face, but it won't be because you were right for once.

The central problem I had with the Kelsay contract extension had nothing to do with the Bills ability to cut players. You're being an idiot.

Bryce Paup anyone? Takeo Spikes, London Fletcher, and Lawyer Milloy made impacts.

Is this the definition of rookie as applied to Trent Edwards here? George Edwards was DC of the Washington Redskins. That means he isn't a rookie. Nor does it make him experienced as a DC. Couple that with a HC that lacks a lot of experience as an NFL HC and who has spent his career as an offensive coach, and you have an inexperienced DC feeling his way in the dark. It's a smart thing he is asking for help from someone, though his hiring in the first place is highly suspect.

Do you think Buddy Nix is going to have a major reversal of philosophy? I don't.

Actually $4M or thereabouts, which gives them the trade ability, perhaps. See my original post. They could keep him, but he's going to be 30 and they are rebuilding with a youth movement. Like I said, it wouldn't be surprising at all (well, it would amaze Big Kitty) if the new regime moves on. PS: As far as a character guy, you're right. OTOH, Lee doesn't suck enough to be extended like Kelsay.

I was not comparing Dockery to Evans. I was comparing contract situations. You stated that the Bills would keep Evans in no uncertain terms, but the Bills have unequivocally shown that they can and will purge big contracts. Hate to break it to you but Evans isn't a superstar, All-Pro, nor even the centerpiece of this offense. It's not that hard to understand.

No doubt it is optimism, but it wouldn't be surprising one iota if the Bills shop their big ticket decoy or just plain pass on paying him the remainder of his contract. It's not like all NFL teams don't routinely pass on paying out the backend of heavy contracts and frankly he isn't worth his sticker shock. See Dockery, Derrick.

What rundown? The kid is faster than light.

Wrong. Sheer size isn't the be-all and end-all. And when I said technique, having a smaller guy run directly into a huge guy and let the huge guy fall straight onto him wasn't what I meant. Willis, Lewis, Beason, Urlacher, etc. don't outweigh NFL lineman either, but they know how to get off a block. Jeremiah Trotter was a real down-hill thumper from the ILB position, who could get low in the hole and wreck havoc.

The year we played them and the 49ers each once (along with the AFC West chumps), we went 7-9 and Dick Jauron got an extension at 5-1 and before the team went into freefall.

Technique.

Give me back my roll of quarters, Ben!

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