Sisyphean Bills

Hey, now. I thought the company line on the Ruben Brown thing was that the Bills upgraded when they stole Chris Villareal from the Bears and got rid of a malcontent. Some of TD's very first moves were to renegotiate contracts with Henry Jones and John Holecek. Then he hired Gregg and Gregg realized these guys didn't fit his system and cut them. Now that was brilliant.

Nothing.

How many teams starting LTs were not acquired in a draft?

I'd take a box of tape for him.

They kicked Lawyer Milloy, who is still playing, to the curb creating a desperate need. Imagine for a moment a team building process which involved keeping veteran players and developing talent behind them. Then, when the younger talent is ready, the veteran player can move on and the draft can be used to acquire more talent to develop rather than be pressed into service before it is ready. Imagine the Pittsburgh Steelers model of building a team.

One of those top picks at S was on Roy Williams, who also happens to actually go to Pro Bowls often. On the other hand, he is not a versatile SS and is a real liability in the passing game because he can't cover or close. He's a bigger, stronger Adam Archuleta.

He's better than George Friggin Wilson.

Is there a hockey player that doesn't wear gloves?

Fair points, KFBD. On the establish the run point, that seems like a bit of cherry picking as well. Picking 5 teams that run a West Coast or spread offense, have enough offensive aerial firepower to establish a sizable lead early, and then play kill the clock in the 4th quarter, doesn't exactly prove that all teams have to come out of the gate slinging the ball all over the sandlot to be successful. An offense needs to stick with what they do best. If its banging the rock up the gut and mixing in the play action, ala the Pittsburgh Steelers, or some other system. Also, teams the would go significantly the other way, with a balanced or run oriented attack early in the game and then swing to heaving it nearly every offensive snap are, probably, more likely to be playing from behind and are at a disadvantage to the defense, further reducing their offensive success.

I can't see your finger from here. Who are you pointing at?

I doubt they carry 6 FB/H-back/TEs on the roster. I think/hope there will be some surprises as that would be an indication that the front office is actually bringing in better talent than some of the street free agents pressed into action last year so those players become expendable.

He was sort of a Randy Moss character in that draft. He had made some big mistakes as a teenager but his NFL career was much more productive than, say, Antowain Smith; and, he was never in the same league as the "Chris Henry one man crime wave" or "#85 temper tantrums". He did have a falling out in Cincinnati, not unlike when Ruben Brown blew a gasket to end his career here in Buffalo. Frankly, I think the Bills blew it when they took Smith over Dillon. Smith turned out to be a lazy underachiever and a vastly less versatile RB than the Bills thought they were drafting.

Now you know why the owners don't care about uncapped years...

The majority of the union are guys that are just passing through for a 1-3 year career. Who speaks for these players? They aren't around long enough or know enough about the business to have a voice of their own, so it is the agents who do their talking for them. And, from the agents perspective, the current system is great. You sign up a kid, boost his draft stock, and in a few short months are skimming a couple of million in cream off the top knowing full well the kid's career might never happen and he may never see another contract.

Smoking Marlboros and cleaning their handguns...

Wow. Your popularity pulse is pretty thready.

Running towards the light is very difficult. It takes insects as small as a pinhead all of about a millisecond to master it.

Too bad there is only 3 more years of football.

If you throw enough at the fan at once, the fan blows up and there is less spray.

Crazy monkey rookery?

Something mind-blowing like a quantum physics theory of professional football.

Schein puts a layer of frosting on nearly everything.

Get 'er done.

The owners voted unanimously to throw out the current agreement. Poor Tags and Roger.