[How many different defenses are there?]

Don't forget the 0-4 variation of prevent that patriots played for a while, and the 6-1 that bears did year before they came up with the 46 defense. then variations of secondary like 2 deep, 3 deep, cover 3, cover 4, tampa 2, and zone blitz to name a few. Short yardage or big is considered a type as well. Depending on whether mean type or personnel on field there are several hundred different names given for schemes played out of base sets, and blitzing types.

[Who is the surprise cut this offseason?]

Right now Hardy is #6 on the depth chart. Assuming they keep 6 receivers, there is chance that Justin Jenkins will be kept for Special teams purposes putting Hardy on the hot seat. Given his injury and the 1 year nature of TO's deal, I would expect the team to put him on the PUP list and develop him with the practice squad. It gives them optionality, if he starts to develop, to activate him midway through the season.

 

Well considering you cant practice with team while on pup, except during a short window where they can have you practive for 2 weeks while they decide if going to activate or not, and if decide not too, cant practice with team again.

[Things looking better for signing Pisa]

Fewell was a secondary coach in St. Louis, not a LB coach. He was there at the same time as Tinoisamoa.

 

Linebackers usually spend a portion of thier time with secondary coaches going over coverage schemes and responsibilities at very least, if not going over coverage technics and other skills as well. So they should have a basic working knowledge of each other, at very least.

[Bills made Pisa Tinoisamoa a contract offer before he left]

What he was referencing was all-purpose yards, in that Rhodes can catch out of the back field, which has never been Taylor's strong suit. He is correct about that, as Rhodes had about 190 more all purpose yards and an absolute ton more TD's (like 9 to 1 IIRC). Rhodes didn't play in one game last year (the last)--Taylor in the last 3. Rhodes is also 3 years younger--Taylor is a one-year fix at age 33. I won't argue that Taylor career-wise is the better back--that's obvious. However, for the roles being asked by Buffalo--2nd-3rd back, with potential use on 3rd down--I'd honestly take Rhodes over Taylor at this point in their careers, but that's just me.....

 

I would like to have had Taylor for the games that Lynch misses, but for the rest of the season, would prefer Rhodes for the reasons you point out.

 

Although we have a pretty good backup already who can catch and is exciting in the open field when he does in Jackson. He doesn't run routes as precise as Rhodes does. I think that is why he doesn't see as many balls come his way as one would think with a QB like TE. With Rhodes as 3rd down back, I think the passing numbers to the backs goes way up, since the confidence TE will have on knowing the RB will be were he should on the play will be higher.

 

So while we may have been better off in the short term with Taylor, I think Rhodes brings more to the Bills over the course of the season.

[If the Bills got Vick, we would welcome him with open arms]

LOL DUDE YOUR INSANE..the exaderation "he killed hundreds" try 6....yea people like you are the main reason i get mad at this subject cuz you try to make him out to be charles manson...its not that serious HE DIDNT KILL ANYBODY...i bet you eat meat, wear fur coat, have a comforter with feathers...try to relax....

 

They had proof that he had a direct hand in killing 6. Hundreds did die through the organization he ran however, either by the people he employed or through the actually fights they where in.

 

So what I am getting from this argument, is that a crime only should count if someone dies? Or the masterminds behind the organizations who commit crimes should be able to hide behind the people they pay to do them for them? Not sure if I'm understanding what your point is, but there are more things than murder that are illegal in this country.

[If the Bills got Vick, we would welcome him with open arms]

I'm sorry Philster, but I have a hard time thinking that what Vick did is worse than what Little did.

 

Generally, DWI is not premeditated, that's true enough. But we're talking about a guy that killed a woman with his irresponsibility (am I even using a real word here?), and--despite knowing that, and carrying around whatever burden any normal person with a discernable conscience would be stricken with--did it a second time (that the law knows about). It shows a total disregard for human life, which--in my opinion--is of greater value than a dog's life.

 

Vick did heinous things to those animals, absolutely. Did he deserve to be punished? Undoubtedly, and severely at that. But he has been. He's lost everything. Even if he comes back, he'll have to prove he's capable of playing in the league (which some don't even think he did the first time he tried). He won't come back and play for millions, he'll play at or near the league minimum, which won't even cover 10% of the money he owes in bankruptcy court.

 

I think that fact that he ran an organization doing illegal activities, put up a legal front to try and hide the activities, then lied repeatedly after they where uncovered in an attempted to still hide the facts are pretty major. Also the killing of the dogs isn't the issue, its the way he killed them. If he just shot them or killed them without torturing them, there wouldn't have been such an uproar on that point, but he still would have gone to jail for running an organized criminal organization.

[If the Bills got Vick, we would welcome him with open arms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sport...t_12162006.html

 

Attached is link to a list of player arrested in 2006 from the Washington Post. Still looking for 07-08. Point is that what Vick did is not any worse (as far as a criminal act goes) from what these other guys did any in my opinion what some of them did was worse than what Vick did. I think dogfighting is wrong and a horrible act but so are these other crimes and these players (with the exception of a few) remain in the NFL. Vick served his time and I beleive has the potential to use the lessons he learned the hard way to teach people (especially kids) that the crime and "thug" lifestyle are overrated and dangerous and to be a positive influence on them. The goal of our correction system is to rehabilitate and if it has worked let him be a teacher to others.

 

With all that said, I still do not want him in Buffalo (but not becuase of his personal history). I personally beleive he was the most overated QB ever. It is a passing position and he has, I beleive, the lowest completion percentage ever of a starting QB in the league. We have running backs we do not need a QB as another RB.

 

So you dont think financing and running a multistate criminal orginization for over 6 years is worse than these offenses? Most of them where emotional spur of the moment crimes, and werent planned and run for years, like Vicks was. Sorry but think being a crime boss is a bit too much to forgive in my eyes.

[Is Vick really THAT bad?]

Every seems to be on the killing an animal as not being that bad, so he isn't that bad. I am more concerned about 2 aspects myself.

 

1. He bankrolled, and pretty much ran a multi-state organization for illegal activities and put up a shell company to cover it. The fact he went through the trouble of the cover shows he knew he was doing illegal activity, and went through allot of trouble to hide it.

 

2. He didn't just kill the animals, he purposely torchered them. He killed them in slow painfully ways, just for the fun of it. I have seen allot on TV and INTERNET saying someone in the NFL is playing after Driving Drunk and killing someone, so he shouldn't be punished. While I am not condoning drunk driving, there was no plan there to kill or torchered anyone. So while killing a person is much worse than killing a dog, dint think there is a direct comparison. The WR for Panthers that hired people to kill his kids mother would be a closer comparison in my eyes.

 

Basically what it comes down to to me, isn't that he killed dogs. It is that he ran a criminal organization. I dint see how he can be considered a good person after doing that. Of course, most people that know serial killers say what nice people they are too.