Sisyphean Bills
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BTW, not to say there are not die-hard optimists. I recall a few people after the debacle in New England still supporting Bledsoe and saying the Bills would win out the rest of the season.
Nice call by those 5 people. Congrats!
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I'd say Prisco's rip on Bills fans was deserved. Who the hell are these dorks e-mailing in their gripes about his imaginary rankings? Get a grip, the NFL has nothing to do with "rank", it's about earned position. Right now, the Bills are looking in from outside of the playoff picture, their earned position is "out of the money".
Yeah, it hurts because it contains some truth. Many Bills fans felt the season was over after the "effort" they put together against New England. Bledsoe played like complete garbage, the offense was useless, etc. I didn't see the Bills having a chance at that point; that was one of the worst performances I'd ever seen. Fans were taking shots at Donahoe for saying "it's a long season and there is more football to play" -- honestly, I thought the guy was just trying desperately to spin things at that low point. Even Ralph Wilson spoke publicly about how crappy the offense was.
Then there was a break in the clouds of doom, Willis was named starter. Now, Bills fans are buying into the sound bites of the Bills being the best team in the NFL, etc.
How quickly fortunes change.
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I'm wondering if the must-have great LT heyday is in the rearview mirror to some extent.
When Bruce Smith was in his prime, especially teams in the AFC East simply had to have a great LT in order to do anything offensively. But the Bills owned the AFC East and they had an average LT in John Fina. And Jim Kelly wasn't exactly Michael Vick in the pocket either.
Anyway, the need for truly dominant OTs seems to be lessened from what it once was (say 10-15 years ago) with the all-time greats like Bruce Smith, Charles Haley, Reggie White, etc. no longer wreaking havoc on opponents.
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I find that really interesting. The Peerless deal was supposed to cement Vick as a weapon because he'd have a downfield go-to receiver if defenses bunched the o-line to take away the Vick run. So after two years they would give up on Peerless? They need the cap space that much? And they have other receivers?
Peerless was a free agency year wonderboy. His production has been in rapid decline since 2002. The Falcons also drafted Jenkins last year in the 1st round and quite frankly he may be the better deep threat already. Being younger and cheaper, Jenkins could make Peerless highly dumpable. It would not surprise me at all to see the Falcons try to go in a different direction at the position -- the Falcons receivers have been pretty putrid this year, Crumpler being about the only guy that can be counted upon.
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Nothing against the guys, but Kevin Schaffer and Todd Weiner are not exactly household names with Hall-of-Fame credentials.
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I'll spell it out slowly. The Bills have 3 options at QB at this point.
1) Continue the status quo and go with Bledsoe. Are there any positives to this? Bledsoe can no longer make plays, makes terrible decisions, etc., etc. MM can continue to pretend Bledsoe is going to come out of his funk, but how does that help? I guess it saves MM some grief, because he can just cut Bledsoe at the end of the season and say it wasn't his fault.
2) Rush a rookie who has missed virtually everything up until now because of a broken leg into the line up. He's a 1st round pick and needs to develop. Of course, rushing him out there without a clue, he could easily be ruined and enter the books as the latest Ryan Leaf, Cade McNown, or Akili Smith bust.
3) Put in the other veteran QB on the roster, Matthews. He can run around and has a so-so arm. He's not the best QB around but it's hard to see how anybody that's actually trying to play well could make as many back-breaking mistakes as Bledsoe does. He's not the long term answer, of course. But he could fill in as a stop gap between an out of gas Bledsoe coasting to the finish and an unready Losman.
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Smith is terrible. What happened to Tucker?
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Losman will start when he is ready.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you what: it took the best QB in the game today, Brett Favre, a couple years before he got on the field as a starter and a couple more before he knew which way was up. There is no shame in that.
Losman is another gunslinger coming out of college, like Favre was. He's going to have to learn how to play QB.
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Is Losman going to get enough reps in ONE WEEK??
If so, then sure. Why not?
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I'm also glad I don't coach this stevestojan.
And whatever. Matthews will single handedly retard the development of which players? More than Bledose? More than an unprepared one-legged wet behind the ears doe eyed kid? Put down the crack pipe and talk some sense.
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I hope you are right. I really do.
But the fact is Losman sucked.
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Competitive? We got annihilated/embarrassed/schooled in front of a national audience. Matthews will do nothing to tip the scales in our favor as far as being competitive. The Bills need to think about next year right freaking now. Why wait? What difference does it make if we win a game with Shane Matthews as QB right now?
Yeah. Competitive. Not every team is the Patriots. Bledsoe is only getting worse and from what I saw Losman is definitely NOT ready. The Bills should be able to compete with some bottom feeding teams.
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Yes, the Bills have stevestojan players.
But you are deluding yourself if you think this group of coaches is doing a "fine job."
That's downright hilarious.
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Easy. JP looked like crap.
Sure, there are plenty of excuses. He wasn't ready, blah, blah, blah.
He looked like CRAP. He was only in there a handful of plays and fumbled and threw a horrible interception. He was totally unprepared. He was the anti-Tom Brady coming in for Bledsoe.
Look, I don't want Losman to suck. I wish I saw Jim Kelly and not Rob Johnson out there. But I'm intellectually honest with myself. What I saw was a clueless kid playing atrocious football. Maybe not completely his fault. But he has a long, long way to go.
Playing Matthews seems like the only real option if the Bills want to be competitive.
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Are you guys really that surprised Drew got yanked? He sucked. That was one of the worst games by a QB I have ever seen. Why the hell didn't Mularkey grow a sack and pull him earlier?
I was surprised to see Losman enter the game but then thought, well, he'll just be handing the ball to a back...
But then I see him stepping back to PASS. WTF IS THAT???
Losman looked like crap too. He looked like Rob Johnson quite frankly. So, the next thought is: oh no, they wasted another 1st round pick on a Rob Johnson clone.
Maybe they did. Losman was truly pathetic.
Still, he hasn't practiced much at all and was probably not ready to play. I hope. I hope that was what it was. And not a clueless fool 1st round bust running around and tossing the ball to defenders 1 yard away from him in a panic.
After last night, I have to say Gregg Williams (who's doing very well in Washington) is a much better coach than what we have now. And he wasn't ready to be a head coach and wasn't very good at it.
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Sorry but the defense sucked last night. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain:
Players that had a solid outing: Sam Adams.
Players that got their ass handed to them and gave up: everybody else. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain:
Go ahead and make excuses for some of these guys. Claiming Takeo, London, or Schobel had a good game is to ignore reality. Those guys made a play here and there while spending most of the game on their backs. They got steamrolled and Dillon destroyed them. The Patriots ran right at the those guys all game long and it was easy.
The Bills secondary is putrid. Even the "great" Lawyer Milloy. That guy can't run anymore and is woeful in coverage. Talk is cheap when you can't get it done anymore. So why not shut up? Just like Bledsoe, he's but a shadow of what he was as an All-Pro Patriot.
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Jennings is constantly injured. He's pretty good (not great) but since he's never on the field for 16 games, it's hard to seriously think he's worth huge money.
That said, I'd rather have him at LT than Fat Slow Mike.
Who knows, maybe the Bills will figure out how to land a legit LT they can plant at the position for the next decade and send to the Pro Bowl annually.
A guy can dream, right?
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I'd love to see this guy run over Troy Brown.
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Funny how whoever the Pats play catches a case of the Stupids...like the fumble before the half. Talk about see it comin' Bulger is hanging that ball out like a loaf of bread begging for someone to knock it out of his hand. I mean can he not hear the footsteps? Does he think he's no one is chasing him?
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What a jackass. Telling his receiver to stretch the play as if he had 20 seconds more time back there.
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Not as a Bill.
As a Hurricane, Willis was a man among boys. He was Michael Jordan in his prime. He made everyone else on the field look like they were wearing cement overshoes. He'd cut back against the grain at top speed and simply vanish in a vapor trail.
If he gets back to that... you'll be screaming "Go Willis go!" damn often.
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How the hell can the "greatest show on turf" not move against them???
Bulger fuggin has time and he forces the ball into the only guy with 5 defenders on him?!?!?
The Rams are pathetic.
Jerry Rice
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No thanks.
He's a #4 or #5 receiver at this point. He'd cost the veteran minimum (which is a lot more than the youngling minimum). And, he can't play special teams like a real #4 or #5 receiver should. Finally, he pouts if he doesn't get on the field cause in his mind, and only in his mind, he can "still make it happen."
Get a projection TV, Jerry. That way it'll feel like you are "still there."