[LaMarr Woodley vs. Poz]

How sad Levy traded up for Poz when they could have stayed where they were and drafted Woodley. Woodley is everything Poz isn't. The Steelers stay put, don't waste draft picks, get the better player, and pay him less.

 

Hey, that sounds like the Bills draft this year.

[dick jauron was THE PROBLEM]

Yes and Polian was a great GM......can't have it both ways- either the coach is supposed to pick the players or the GM is supposed to pick the players.

 

This doesn't make sense. The coach had great influence in what players were on this team. So his talent was another one of his bad decisions. He *could have pushed for different players.

 

How did Polian come into this? Did you know he was gone long before Jauron was on the Bills?

[dick jauron was THE PROBLEM]

DJ wasn't the whole problem, but he was A problem and arguably, the biggest of them all. He didn't have a whole lot to work with, but he did have them playing pretty decent ball for about 5 or 6 games.

 

However, when the wheels did start to come off, he wasn't able to do much of anything about it and he ultimately lost the confidence of the players and FO.

 

Well, since Jauron had a big hand in picking those players...

[Which quarterback are you pulling for ultimately]

Why would I be pulling for any Quarterback who isn't the best?

[Why are some of you so Pessimistic?]

What do real fans do in these scenarios? They whine, complain and B word. Why? Because they care and the dumb things this team continually does actually hurts them. The ones who can get excited about this joke of a franchise just aren't as emotionally invested in the team. And that's okay. They're the same people who will say "oh get a life, it's only a football game" or something to that effect. This mentality has served you well for the last 10 years, I'm sure.

 

I think the example of, 'if your kid's little league team sucks, are you going to stop cheering?' Are you less 'emotionally' invested because you keep cheering for them anyway? I'm under no illusions that the team is going to have a difficult year in what seems like a tough division. I'm not going to somehow be 'less interested' in rooting for them.

 

You can be pessimistic all you want, but we're not your therapist. I know I'm tired of feeling like I'm trying to talk to a room of depressed teenagers who are unable to entertain any thought that is not exactly what they think.

[Will the Bills Win the Super Bowl?]

I dont have any doubt.

 

That you're in violation of your parole by being within 100 yards of an elementary school?

[Why the Bills drafted CJ Spiller]

Thanks for that information. It has not been covered yet on these boards.

[Why are some of you so Pessimistic?]

Thanks Dr. Phil for your group pysch e v a l

Generalize much?

6 paragraphs of pure ignorance couched in pop psychology crap.

 

You seem very angry. I can help for $150 an hour.

[Why are some of you so Pessimistic?]

Some people are just really unhappy with their lives. They haven't made the best choices and are stuck in a poor job (Would you like fries with that?) or they don't have connections with other people so they need to act out. It's not that they are purposefully trying to be debbie downers. They don't know how to be anything else. They only understand disappointment so they latch onto a football team, not as a fan, but as way to find some sort of meaning they lack personally. If the team doesn't win or have success then there right back where they started.

 

They can't by definition be a 'fan' of the team because they're not watching the team as entertainment. They have a deeply vested interest int he team's success and it is a harsh reminder of their lack of control in their own lives when the team makes a decisions that doesn't pan out.

 

It also helps to find an easy target. No one makes fun of the most popular kid. They will gang up on the weak link and make fun of the shortcomings. It's easy to always say the Bills will lose than crow when they do suffer a loss. That moment is the highlight of their life. They were 'RIGHT'! It's a brief moment in a depressing series of days where they feel like they are unable to do anything. However, the Bills lack of success if a salve for their wounds. They PREDICTED they would lose because THEY are incompetent. It's much easier to deal with one's own lack of success when you can point to the failings of others. A sports team is a focal point for that and provides an audience of other fans who they can point out just how RIGHT they were about the team.

 

Posts like this only inflate their sense of ego.

 

My advice is to be fan and stop worrying about the personal problems of others. They're not paying you by the hour to counsel them.

 

The Bills could lose for the next fifty years. I'll still be a fan, I'll still watch the games. That is what being a fan is about.

[My GUESS is Spillrt at #2 WR]

You spent a lot of time thinking about something so retarded

[F. Adams wants 4 mill a year]

one or two a game would be a big improvement from what we get from Bell at LT

 

Hooray, this post has officially entered Candy Land! I love chutes! HATE ladders~!

[Source with Eagles said VICK to be released regardless]

Seriously? This is a source? I could be considered "a person familiar w/ the team's thinking" (well, maybe not for the Eagles, but for the Bills) & my last interaction w/ ANYONE in any way affiliated w/ the Bills was attending (just watching like every other fan) training camp a few yrs ago.

 

Journalists make stuff up. At best, he probably talked to a reporter from Philly who heard from the guy who shines his shoes that Vick was getting released. It's a reporter circle jerk since if they anonymously source a local reporter then they don't need to look into where *he* got his information.

 

Message boards, blogs and other similar sources are on par with many 'publications' these days.

 

Look at the 'blogs' for ESPN where 90% of them are just straight up copy/pasting other articles. I don't know why ESPN bothers to pay 'reporters' to do this. If you do see something genuine, it's generally either a rehashed local article or a summary of forums for the team.

 

 

 

 

Also, Vick is terrible football player. I don't think he could crack the Bills top 3 QBs.

[Trent one of the "strongest arms in the NFL"]

It goes to show nothing much about QBing.

 

The one thing that has anything to do with QBing is that Trent's initial reaction is faster. I don't know if it's surprising, though, since Darby's motion must be small and precise and a QB's first motion is a blunt, big movement, jamming his foot into the ground.

 

Regardless of anything else in this thread or anything related to Trent, they timed the first movement so it has nothing to do with precision. As soon as any kind of motion started..that's the timing they used.

[Whaley: The Pittsburgh Model and no Big-Name FAs]

Are you serious? I think what you mean is when did we not try to build through the draft. All boils down to knowing how to draft and evaluate. We'll see if this regime knows how to.

 

I think there are two distinct philosophies for the draft. I consider the 'best player available' as 'building' through the draft.

 

Desperately grasping at picks to try to make up for coaching deficiencies or fill holes is not 'building' anything.

[Bills Fantasy Ranking]

I don't see a problem with his assessment. I don't see a reason to pay attention to it either.

[Trent one of the "strongest arms in the NFL"]

Wow, they really wanted to pump him up. The entire premise of the clip seems silly. It's also old.

[M. Lynch ready to BALL in Buffalo]

LMAO he is the 3rd RB on this roster, the only balling he will do is from the bench and maybe in goal line situations.

 

The Bills might need a ball boy. He also seems to be good at ballwashing.

[Whaley: The Pittsburgh Model and no Big-Name FAs]

I'm not sure there are many fans who want to wait until the 2013 season to see a winner after 10 season minus the post-season. Building through the draft is a nice principle and all, but it doesn't mean using this method exclusively to put a team together.

 

I like your plan. Make bad decisions to appease the fan base. It is the gloried path to success.

[Giants' disgruntled LT might be worth keeping an eye on.]

I agree that it's certainly time to evaluate, however O-lines take years to to build and develop, so wouldn't you pick up a

true starter if you could to speed the process? The only issue I would have is the Bills have historically been so brutal at

picking up free agent O-linemen I just can't trust them with the keys to that car.

 

IMO.

 

if a 'true starter' is playing then you don't have the guys you're expecting to develop playing. Playing > Not Playing for development.

[No Bills arrests this off season]

That is what happens when players are practicing and working out during the offseason. It also helps to know their is accountability for actions.

[Rumors: Troy Smith... as the Bills' starter- ESPN Insider]

Drew Bledsoe once was the starter for the new England Patriots. He lost his job due to injury. The Bills signed him.

 

It worked out really well for Buffalo, but New England is still trying to find someone to play QB for them.

 

Let's get this deal done. Smith has proved way more than Bledsoe ever did.

[F. Adams wants 4 mill a year]

It seems obvious to me that bringing in a veteran as a stop gap measure only further retards the growth of potential players currently on the roster.

 

If he's not the answer, why spend your resources on him? Why not find out what you really have on the roster? If there's nothing there then you can go out the next season there is football and get someone.

[Vikes waive QB]

rob johnson available.

drew bledsoe, too.

 

jw

 

What's Billy Joe Hobert doing these days?

[Vikes waive QB]

seriously...can we stop making threads for every single player that gets released from another team?

[If you build it, they will come]

You mean, Wilson has to die and the new management demonstrate they are competent.

 

That probably means leaving Buffalo. All the garbage you hear, guys are motivated by money.