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I am hoping and praying for the stadium in Batavia idea. It would really open up the market to Rochester, make it more feasible for people from syracuse (which is an untapped market from an nfl perspective), and be closer for me because I leave near syracuse! I would get my seasons back in a heartbeat! Same as you it just got to be too long of a day. On the road at 7am home at 8pm with work the next day. Avoiding the cluster of exits 51-55, sending Canadian fans one way and Rochester fans the other (I believe both are around the same number according to Brandon) would ease traffic for a lot of people. Again though the real reason I'm rooting for this is pure selfishness

Agree completely. His pass rush move is the loop and swoop and hope that the qb is still holding onto the ball after 4+ seconds. He is raw and definitely has athletic ability but way too much of a project to take at 9 imo.

Field goal percentage: 91.7 (10th) Yards per punt: 42.96 (28th) Net yards per punt: 36.11 (30th) Yards per kickoff return: 20.39 (29th) Opponents yards per kickoff return: 23.38 (17th) Yards per punt return: 6.23 (29th) Opponent yards per punt return: 10.6 (25th) Looking a bit deeper at these stats does say a lot more about the players than the coaching. Yards per punt right off the bat speaks to a poor punting performance, and I would agree with the poster who said Moormon was a sore spot last year. They desperately need to upgrade the punter position. The days of long booming punts from him are long gone. He can give you hang time or distance but not both. I think the last game of the year is sticking out in everyone's mind. Watching Blount go crazy on a wet field, in a rain storm, with nothing to play for is skewing people's thoughts imo. When you look at the stats about touchbacks and return yards it shows that they were more middle of the pack than as bad as some would suggest. Where coaching did show as a weakness was in the return game. We were used to seeing electric returns and got none of them last year. That certainly needs to be worked on. I know some of you don't care for football outsiders but it is interesting to see that the Bills had the 4th worst disadvantage in the hidden category as well as the 12th worst weather factor for special teams. ST certainly wasn't the strength it had been in years past but I think it has become the whipping boy for why they finished 6-10. Personally I attribute it much more to qb carousel, run d, inability to convert and stop the other team from converting 3rd and whatever (specifically 3rd and long for the d).

It's going to be interesting to see if they keep the draft this far back next year. It may just be me but it seems the air has kind of been sucked out of the draft this year. When it was late April it was "right around the corner" so it would be getting a ton of ESPN hype. Since it isn't still for another month there has been (to me at least) much less hype this year. I know the NFL likes to stay front and center but pushing the draft has caused/allowed more coverage for opening day and the NCAA tournament. Those are always big events as it is but it seems this year they have received much more play due to the fact that the draft is still so far away.

Also in the Kaufman camp. I thought he showed well last year in ps. It will be interesting to see what he can do this year.

I think you went a bit over the top.

Nice Avatar Even better thread idea!

Share a birthday with Ralph. Every year I thought man if I can live as long as Ralph Wilson has... It is surreal to hear this. I didn't expect this at all even at 95. Part of me thought he would live forever. It seemed with the performance of the team last year and this off season that the organization was turning a corner. Now Jim Kelly and Ralph. What a rough week for Bills fans everywhere. 2 people responsible for a lot of memories.

Mercer Baby!!! Great win by the Orange last night coupled with the loss by Duke made for a great first 2 days. One of my buddies moved out of state and is a huge Duke fan. He has been talking smack all year and particularly over the last 2 weeks. Today he deleted his facebook account Fair got a rest in the first half which I thought was a great move and the team got its confidence back. At one point in time Boeheim yelled at Cooney to keep shooting. Not talking or directing, yelling. It was finally a game where they controlled every aspect from the tip to the whistle. Great great showing.

While I don't believe it was completely made up I do think that it was exaggerated. I think if this year it were to flair up he may be willing to play at less than 100% so he didn't get labeled injury prone. This is all pure conjecture on my part but just my thoughts on this. I think the push to FA was indeed made without a deal in hand. I think that Parker overplayed his hand here. Whether or not that bites he and Byrd in the butt remains to be seen but the lack of any news or information in the twitter age speaks very loudly. I think their thought was that someone would be willing to overpay him to the tune of 10+ million, then 9 was floated, then 8. Teams have been mentioned and then removed from contention. Most of the talking heads are saying he isn't worth what he is asking. This doesn't appear to be the dream he expected it to be. He may still get paid handsomely but I will now be surprised if it ends up being 10+ a year.

You have to admit the thread was way overdue for that!

Yessssss!!!!!!! :beer: :beer: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I can't believe it has taken so long!

From what I found his cap # for next year is about 4.5 million. Sport trac had it and I'm feeling to lazy to link it 4.2 million cap hit next year

Not surprising to me. This is why I was saying he couldn't pull the PF crap again if he got tagged this year. Nobody would give money to a player who had to miss time in 2 straight years phantom injury or not. It looks like this year hurt him more than I thought though. The less I hear about Byrd as FA is beginning the more of a possibility his return becomes.

Some dumb team lol I could see 4 being around where he goes and maybe with incentives up to 5 million a year.

I don't think Chandler is signing for less than 1 million a year and I don't think MJD will sign for 5 million over 2 years. I have a feeling it will take much more than that to get either of those players signed.

11th in both polls.... Laughable to still see Duke up above with 7 losses...

I suppose you could! Or you could play along... How much do you think we will spend? How would you spend it?

I may be an idiot but what is the number It just says we have an accurate estimate and then doesn't lay out a number.

I don't think Spikes will get anywhere near 9 million a year. I would say 5 at the high end. That is of course only my opinion so who knows. What is the point of this post?

I really don't want to see Chandler back as the starter. If he would take a team friendly deal I wouldn't mind him back but I just don't care for him. He is my Stevie Johnson. The hate that others have for Stevie is how I feel about Chandler. He will have a bad drop, he will disappear for long stretches, and then when I am down on him the most he will make a great 3rd down catch. He is maddening to me which is why I want a te in the draft this year. Playing the 16 million dollar game I would take: Brandon Spikes 4 years 12 million - 3 million Schwartz 4 years 20 million - 8 total Howard 4 years 20 million - 13 total

He is quoting an NFL Network report nothing official. I think it may be more accurate than most sites but why can't the league just have a site with everyone's cap space? It would remove the speculation, everyone else could link to it, and there would be some consistency to the numbers. I wonder how they have calculated these numbers and how the other sites are all so far off.

Looking around the internet it appears that nobody knows. There are differing numbers everywhere. This says 22 million This says 25 million This says 24 million

Looking around the internet it appears that nobody knows. There are differing numbers everywhere. This says 22 million This says 25 million This says 24 million

Can I sign with the Bills? I used to play soccer and have to be a better punter than Moorman! What a steal I would be!