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I liked the guy. Good for him...
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I'm assuming that the poster is going for sarcasm. 'The Run' was pretty impressive. The 'Hawks gave up a 4th in 2011, and a 4th or 5th in 2012. I wish that Lynch had that fire while here, but I hope the Bills use those picks wisely...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpwRSiUbic&feature=player_embedded
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Funny...it seems that the Broncos are paying attention to the Bills...Studesville (ex-Bills running backs coach) was their interim manager, and now, they are intereted in interviewing Mike Mularkey, Gregg Williams and Perry Fewell for their permanent HC job...
Yeah: Success breeds more success, right? Ha! Good luck to 'em!
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Statistically that's meaningless. A one year's sample has no merit as it relates to yearly expected outcomes. I have a lot of questions before I'd even give this any consideration. Of the remaining teams no in the playoffs or without winning records, how many first rounders are starting or did start? What percent of all QBs are first round picks? The position has such a premier that QBs often get picked in the first round not because they're deserve it, but because teams feel like they have to grab one and gamble and its worth the risk.
Cherry picking statistics and then making an argument without any statistical tests to prove anything only shows a bias in your argument toward the pick you want. Take stats 101 and come back with something significant.
While I agree, that's a pretty high bar to surpass on a sports discussion board. 2BD would be a lonely place if that were a requirement for comments.
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Are you sure about that? You might want to watch the end of the game!
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I'm no fashion expert, but I'm thinking you don't wear a half-sweater thing with a wife beater. My girlfriend wears one of those.
(Um, the shawl, not the wife beater.)
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I'm in the 'What-Was-Donte-Supposed-To-Do-Turn-Down-His-Draft-Position?' camp. We all aren't the best at what we do, but we hope that we try our hardest. Buffalo's a tough town, and one that should recognize and appreciate hard working folk. Donte works hard, gives a crap, and knows that the people of Buffalo deserve better than the product that they're getting on the field. He can't transform himself into Ed Reed circa 2008. I won't take my anger out on him, but respect that he does what he does and has some heart. I haven't seen much guts on or off the field save for Fitzy, McIntyre, and Nelson. (Although I'm sure that stoicism has its place, and that many Bills are choking down some anger.) I think that Donte gets crucified on this board more than others should. As an example of a high-caliber, high draft pick, I think that Lee Evans could be a little diplomatic and a little more passonate (and catch a ball or two yesterday against a rookie DB).
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'Bad Teams' lose close games, 'Terrible Teams' get blown out by their opponents. 'Good Teams' win close games, 'Great Teams' blow out by their opponents.
For the first two games the Bills were a 'Terrible Team.' Yesterday they were, perhaps, upgraded to 'Bad Team.' I suspect that they may alternate between 'Bad' and 'Terrible' all season long. More the latter than the former.
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He embraced Buffalo a heck of a lot more than some other players we had....even went above and beyond in my opinion. And yes...that counts for something. Too bad the on the field product never materialized. I wish him well. He certainly gave it his best shot here in all phases.
He was a bust, but I really dislike the vitriol on this board towards him for this exact reason. He came in and really embraced this town, and tried to do what was right off the field. He wasn't good on our field, fine. Be he's not the only one. As far as I'm concerned, eff all y'all. I would guess that he did far more for our town than most of those who post on this board.
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The QB situation, IMO, could be this:
Clausen at #9.
If Clausen is not available, OL at #9 and Tebow at #41.
If Tebow (or McCoy?) is not available, then DL at #41 and trade 3rd or (preferably) 4th for Jason Campbell.
If the draft develops and no QB option emerges, you go with TE/RF/BB and aim for next year.
Just a thought.
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I find it amusing that he tries to portray this as if we could have had ALL those guys. Some of them were not "needs" at that point in time either. But, I just really get a kick out of the fact that this idiot makes it sound like ALL of those guys "could have been" ours.
Folks: It's a thought experiment. It's not like he's saying we could've had all of them... but if you stack up all the misses, you've got yourself a damn great team. And while Joe_the_6_pack is right that other teams didn't take these players either, I think that we can't protest too much with the results: Most of those other teams have made the playoffs since 2002.
I know it's fun to trash Sully here, but that article made me pretty sad. (Almost as much as papazoid's post did a few days ago! I would worry more about Jerry stealing good ideas for articles on this board rather than dissing his larger point here.)
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I will say this though: When I opened up TBD this AM and I saw 'Cowher' and 'Buffalo' in the lead sentence, I had a flicker of hope that Ralph had done something spectacular... but then I remembered.
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I can't argue with that piece! Welcome! Another great thing to read on this site, which is turning out to be more entertaining than the on-field product...
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Great. Wake me up in 2011.
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I think there's a wide gap between 'interviewing' and 'had the chance to interview.' I too would be interested in hearing about those who we passed up for Williams, Mularky, and Jauron.
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You know what's sad????? The douchebag got 62% when we beat the Buccaneers. Lemmings, we are. With the memory span of parameciums.
This paramecium voted 'no' with his angry, shaking cilia.
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I hate the same teams as everyone here (e.g., Pats, Fish, 'Boys), but I'm surprised at how little mention there is of the Titans. I really dislike Jeff Fisher, and I feel like I need a shower after rooting for them against the Jets. Hell, I even hate the city of Nashville and have built up a healthy contempt of Jeff Fisher's mustache.
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why? what is credit from ESPN going to do for him? is it going to make Jackson the starter for the rest of the year?
Not for him, but for the team and for Buffalo. Showing a clip of the T.O. 'Show' makes the Bills more of a freakshow, than a team with some great role players who can fill in and get the job done (our two tackles, for example) and a few on the rise. A team like that gives Buffalo positive PR, and I don't think that could possibly be a bad thing.
That said, no one on this board would keep Freddy instead of a trade for Adrian P., and I would rather not have other teams key up on Freddy (and soon the FJ/ML combo) the way they do on AP. Or wait: maybe they should key up on him/them... I'd rather have other teams stack the box and leave Lee or TO to pop open! So, yeah: Hey look everyone, our backs kick a**!
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Nice thoughts, and I appreciate the comparison. While others are right about arm strength, I don't think that it undermines your point that we need a little patience with TE. While no one has a crystal ball around here, it's hard not to be anxious. Still, I'm pretty enthused by what I see. (Wouldn't it have been nice if we picked someone other than Todd Collins to groom under Kelly a la Aaron Rodgers?) I think that this board would have imploded if you tried to make that argument about JP, though!
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Dunno if I'd call it "good depth" but it's depth. There's a reason TE's are typically not drafted high unless you're a complete game-changer, there's simply truckfuls of cornfed dust bowl white boys who can catch everything and run... sorta, that can get plugged in and look mostly similar to one another. Like, say, Derek Fine and Derek Schouman and Jonathan Stupar. Nelson is the potential game-changer but still went in the 4th round because he's so raw.
Fair enough... But that's why I said 'good' and not 'great'! [if I were an emoticon type of person, I suppose I'd put some sort of 'wink' there.]
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Not that I see these two going down to be a good thing, but I have to say, TE one of the few positions I feel that we have good depth on. And I agree that our midfield/underneath receiving corps (Roscoe, Reed, Johnson) may fill in too.
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Nice clip of the fans with McKelvin before the game. I'm glad they showed that...
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So the Bucs scored...did anyone really want to watch a blowout game anyway??
Once in a while it would be nice!
McKelvin needs to put two hands on that ball.
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We've got a game. The middle is the problem. Obviously.
Did anyone catch the Fox halftime show?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Thanks for posting the Fox talking heads... Makes me think that it would be nice to have some part of the site or even the homepage that would provide those kinds of media links.