Sisyphean Bills
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Hey, he could always be moved to FS and make an instant impact.
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He tried the Whitman Sampler of narfarious narcotics and dopey drugs. Who's to remember or say?
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Reed's being turned out, right? So, it's all on "Little Teapot" Parrish and "Slightly Bigger Little Teapot" Evans. Oh, and "Breakin' and" Aiken.
We're doomed.
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We really need JP to start playing like someone with a thimble of talent. Or maybe this Tory chick. Maybe we'll catch a break and she can play.
Holcomb?! Do we just suck or what? Holcomb. Damn, man.
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Let's compare Rob Johnson and Kelly Holcomb then. The bold indicates the better between the two.
Career games started/games played/years in league:
RJ - 29/48/10
KH - 21/34/10
Career QB rating:
RJ - 83.6
KH - 79.9
Career Completion %:
RJ - 61.3
KH - 64.6
Career passing yards:
RJ - 5795
KH - 5401
Career rushing yards:
RJ - 877
KH - 30
Career total yards:
RJ - 6672
KH - 5431
Career total yards per play:
RJ - 7.05
KH - 6.36
Career TD/INT:
RJ - 30/23
KH - 37/37
Career fumbles:
RJ - 14
KH - 24
Career YPC:
RJ - 7.19
KH - 6.67
Career 20+ yard completions:
RJ - 76
KH - 54
Career 40+ yard completions:
RJ - 14
KH - 9
Career seaons with 100+ QB rating:
RJ - 3 (total 15 games played)
KH - 1 (total 1 game played)
Now explain to me why we should think Holcomb is anything more than an OK back up. He doesn't even beat Rob Johnson on 12/13 categories.
Yep. Holcomb will take a team exactly nowhere.
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No. Completely wrong. He takes the dump off knowing there is very little chance that the first down will be had. And his rating is rewarded for it, which makes it misleading. On the other hand, other quarterbacks, including JP, will try to make a play. And hence, his QB rating often goes down when Holcomb's goes up. The QB rating is extremely misleading at times. It doesnt count fumbles and sacks and again, it rewards things that are often bad plays. And I happen to like Holcomb. A lot. As a back-up.
Rob Johnson was a disastard. Never could get it through his thick skull to get rid of the ball.
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Tory? Wasn't she on Melrose Place or 90210 or something?
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Other. Run the wishbone, man.
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Nah.
They'll just set a cardboard cutout up on the field and throw at it.
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NASCAR drivers have it made.
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Dude, get a whizzinator!!!
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Aeneas Williams was a dynamite cover-corner who was more of a technician than a banger and he made the switch very succesfully.
Ray Buchanan was 5'8", 185lbs and he made a very succesful switch to the Free.
Mike Rumph was switched to safety and immediately payed dividends.
All three of these guys made very succesful switches right before the Bills moved Vincent to safety.
Mike Rumph? The guy who's sat out most of the last 2 years with the 49ers? Is that your definition of "successful switch"?
I never claimed it was impossible to switch. Nor, did I claim Vincent was horrible. Vincent may be adequate enough as a FS someday, but I'm not ready to say the guy is the "next Rod Woodson" until he actually plays something like Rod Woodson did.
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Byron Boston (an NFL ref, and father of David Boston) was out of position during the HomeJob ThrowUp and had to run to get to where the play was happening. He could NOT have judged where Wychek was in relation to Dyson while running towards the play because his perspective was constantly changing. Hence he didn't make a call and hoped replay would sort it out. But most everyone who saw the play, including the Titans players and owner, thought it was a forward lateral and was going to come back, and had a flag BEEN thrown, the play would have stood because of inconclusive evidence.
The problem with instant replay in a nutshell is that it affords the officials the ability to not make the call at the time of the infraction. Instead of "calling what you see," the official can call things he thinks he might have wanted to see with undeniable knowledge that if he screws it up then the replay can bail him out. This is even more insane when you consider that the number of challenges are limited so that the NFL can better squeeze their games into the allotted 3 hour period AND jack in a maximum number of commercials. The officials are officiating the game with the mindset that it can always be reviewed but even this is false, the plays cannot always be reviewed for a variety of reasons.
In the Super Bowl, Leavy should not have been applauded and given the Super Bowl for his league leading refusal to reverse calls on the field. In my opinion, he was rewarded for being statistically the most incompetent of all officials!
He abdicated his responsibility to make sure the calls were correct and fair to his crew more often than any other official to the point of being the statistical outlier. And, people are surprised the Super Bowl looked like it was officiated by clowns from a circus troupe? -
Didn't mean to offend you, and I agree that whether it's skates, or cleats, it applies.
My point is that it applies to speed beating a player, not a system.
The NJ Devils may have that ominous saying up on their locker-room wall right about now.
The idea will be to minimize Milloy's range by employing Kiffin's (or Dungy's) version of the c2 where the deep zone is split into thirds rather than halves. This will reduce Milloy's (and Vincent's) responsibilities. I don't see Fletcher covering that mid-1/3, but that's another problem.
You may be right. Maybe he fails. But this is the best base D for our aging safeties. I don't know if Leonhard is any quicker than an aging Milloy, but maybe Baker is. Right now, that's our depth, and that's our coach's plans.
No offense taken. Sorry if it seemed that way. I think we're mostly in agreement. You're just being optimistic and me being pessimistic on the chances to pull another year or two out of Lawyer "Super Slo Mo" Milloy.
Thanks for the intelligent discussion, actually.
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I know what it means, and it applies just as much in this case. It doesn't matter if the guy is wearing skates or cleats, if he can't get there to make the play, it doesn't matter how hard he hits because the offensive guy is already by him on his way to the net or for a touchdown.
Simply put, I don't see any reason to think Milloy will be any better at ranging over half the field in a cover-2 than in some other scheme. I don't think Milloy was ever a speedster, but he once was mean, tough, smart and quick enough to get there to make plays. The guy has lost several steps and Belichick cut him because of it.
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To be fair to MM, I am thinking more and more that he had little to no say in terms of coaching the Bills.
The man DID say that he wanted to play "smashmouth," and the first player drafted in 05 was Roscoe "Litle Boy Blue" Parrish.
TD, ever the genius, wanted to go against the grain and "out-smart" everybody. He brought us McNally and a pile of crap, and that was supposed to work. He drafted a fat slob with a history of injuries at the #4 slot to play right tackle. He overpaid for JP, and tossed him to the wolves.
I am NOT trying to start a MM fan club here, but I do think that it was primarily TD who took us down the tubes.
Man, I dunno what to think about the Smurf pick. Was this Loads-O' trying to snag a bargain bin Randle El type of player to run his gadgets and gimmicks? Or was this Teflon's way of putting together smashmouth? As usual, the double-speak coming out of 1BD was thick and hard to penetrate.
These bozos did seem to think that putting together a football team was like playing with a set of tinker toys. Don't have a guy for that position? It's OK, we'll just toss a random player in there and "teach" him to have more talent than he has.
What a disaster. An absolute train wreck. I don't care if Marv Levy was only 21 years old; he has a GINORMOUS job to do to clean up this EPA-class dump site.
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OK.
But what would he do? We don't have any TEs, do we? [checking] Well, I'll be!
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I'm reminded of a saying from hockey. "You can't check what you can't touch." I think Milloy is done. Like Henry Jones before him, he's just playing on his laurels.
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I'm constantly amazed that anyone still believes (even in hindsight) that JP, essentially a rookie, could have succeeded last season.
Look at what this board said were MAJOR problems and need to be fixed:
1. The offensive line was one of the worst in the league. Many scenarios have nearly an entire new line next year -- only to retain the UFA TE to start at RT. Nearly three seconds of pass protection was a high water mark for any game.
2. Below average play at TE (likely a must for young QBs). Moreover, lack of a pass catching RB or FB. In other words, no worthy safety valve. How many times do we have to see brady, big ben, palmer or even the "average" team QBs find the safety receiver wide open?
3. At best, an inconsistant run game AND/OR constantly playing from behind due to the seive for a defense. If the opposing team knew the Bills HAD to pass it was tee-time.
4. A #1 WR who rarely played like one and certainly left the fireworks for off the field.
5. Recievers who never appeared to be open. How many catches do you recall where the Bills receiver was OPEN? I'm still shocked when I see another team's reciever with more than a yard of space. It seemed JP or KH had to thread the needle on every pass.
6. At times atrocious and at best unimaginative/dumbfounding play calling.
If you agree that just a few of these things occured, how can you not give JP the benefit of a mulligan and a chance to play well on a decently run team?
Does anyone really think any QB could have pulled his team along
Damn straight. Nope. Give me Michael Vick, a jet pack, and roller skates, and then maybe, only maybe, we lose a few games by fewer points.
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I see what you're getting at - that subbing Holcomb for JP in Week 5 was a sign of lacking allegiance. I view it as a desparate attempt to save the season. Jp's start was going much worse than they expected. They figured that even if he didn't play well, they could still win games. Even still, they went back to JP after four weeks. And afterwards, Mularkey was starting Holcomb after it was a foregone conclusion that TD was done. I think handing JP the starting job at the beginning of the season was a tremendous show of support for him. He was laying his job on the line with JP, and by Week 12, it was clear that he had lost.
And my theory on your theory is that there just isn't that much talent there. I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but what some on this board see as talent, I see as that old saying about the broken clock.
He wasn't playing well, but it wasn't all his fault either. Poor coaching and play calling? The promised "physically and mentally tough" smashmouth offense that Mike "Loads Of" Mularkey was where? Were they confused and thought they had Tommy Maddox again and could just go out there and sling it all over the lot?
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Will we need a WR if Moulds departs?
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or they could draft a QB and WR in the first couple of picks.
Bill in NYC would be so pleased.