starrymessenger

Seems so simple really. Best thing for him and for the team is for him to show up, bring some good attitude and show everybody that he can still play. Ignoring his HC is definitely not good attitude. There is a meaningful role for him here this year as inside power runner. He needs to grab that and "run" with it because its all he has left for now. Whats standing in the way again is his immaturity and an exaggerated sense of his ability. Bills won't likely cut him or give him away, so what else is there for Marshawn to do?

...and just wait till you see what he can do on a football field. Has a real chance to be the one people most remember from this entire draft class.

Would only play for the Bills because he could never get that kind of money from anyone else and not worth it to him to play for anything less. So what exactly does Aaron want?

Agree with your comment re their O-line. Would go further though and say KC and VY are just plain flat out better playmakers than Trent under center. I don't wonder so much what ML or FJ would have done behind that line and in that system. I am more intrigued with knowing what Spiller could do (not that we will ever find out any time soon).

Remember that. What surprised me even more was Kurt W just shrugging it off. Tough guy.

Roscoe needs to find a good professional touch football league to play in.

My thoughts exactly.

Have no fear. CJ Spiller is no Roscoe Parrish. He is the real deal. There is a reason why they nearly fell over themselves in their haste to get to the podium.

What worries me most about Easly is his small hand size. Agree that it can be silly to harp on a detail like this, but the problem is his greatest drawback as a reciever so far has been his tendency to catch the ball into and with his body rather than with his hands, which suggests a connection.

Get over it. Marshawn is a mystery and Fred is 30 years old. I look forward to reading your posts when CJ lights it up, which I have no doubt he will do.

Funny, I always compared him to Oher, who the Bills could/should have picked ahead of Orapko or Maybin. Bills pass rush/pressures were not that bad last year without Maybin. LT was a disaster.

Their ability to play football actually has nothing to do with where they are from. It has to do with the opportunities they had to pass through at least a college program. By the time they reach the NFL they are trained football players, not rugby or track & field guys. Even Christian Okoye played college ball, and certainly Ngata, the rugby player, did. Bob Hayes was a star football player at Florida A&M (which Usaim Bolt was not). Every now and then somebody gets the bright idea that accessing a good gene pool (or a great individual athlete) gets you what you want. Jamaicans are known to be great athletes so why not enter a Jamaican bobsled team in the winter olympics! They made it down the course in record time, but upside down under their sled. Conversely, if there are not many Afro-American players in the NHL it is not for want of athletic ability. P.K.Subban is loaded with talent and has a chance to become a great player. But his father had him on skates when he was 2 years old and he grew up in the hockey hotbed of southern Ontario. Its as much about exposure and opportiunity than it is about athletic ability, and all are prerequisites (not to mention mental toughness and fearlessness Trent). I strongly doubt that this rugby player will ever see the NFL from field level.

Roth is an absolute beast against the run. Just what we need.

Where Michael Johnson was (3rd) and for all of the same or similar reasons - a talented project player.

Probably the most sensible post I have read on this often discussed subject. Or maybe I'm just getting old too.

...and he beat her up?????

You're right. They both suck (especially Brohm).

He He. Thread just went from wurst to furst.

You mean the Ty Cobb who once lept into the stands to beat up a parapelegic fan who had been heckling him? The same Ty Cobb who would lay down a bunt forcing the pitcher to cover first and then slide in and spike him? Or the Ty Cobb who in his old age would down a 40 ouncer of Johhny Walker a day and walk around town with a luger in one hand and carrying a brown bag containing 1 million dollars of negotiable securities in the other? Ah, the lives of the great. I think Ty had a lot more of an edge to him than Ben does. Sort of like comparing Ronnie Lott tough with Donte tough.

You mean the same Bill Walsh who annointed Rick Mirer as "the second coming of Joe Montana".

Unfortunately you are probably right. Elsewhere on this thread somebody claimed that Brohm had played in a pro style offence at Louisville. Somebody else pointed out that the offence there, at least while B. Petrino was drawing it up, was two thirds spread, on third power 1 .e. not "pro" style. More importantly, under both Petrino and Scott Linehan, it was a "one read" scheme for the QB. In other words Brohm pretty well knew where he was going with the ball on every snap on a passing down, whether he was under centre or in the shotgun. That is a long way from the kind of preparation you need to know how to go through progressions to contend with what NFL defenses will throw at you in the way of speed and complexity. Not surprising to me that he has had trouble adjusting.

Not the long term answer at RT but given the youth on the line the Bills definitely needed a guy like this. Good signing.

There is a difference between what Washington did (that will apparently not be forgiven) and the other perhaps more reprehensible things that others do (and that are forgiven). Whether it be DUI, vehicular homocide, manslaughter, even perhaps murder, the thought often comes to mind "There, but for the grace of God, go I". This permits us to empathize with the offender and explains our readiness to forgive. In a sense we are forgiving ourselves, which is easier to do than to forgive others for things that we would never have done. When it comes to Washington, fewer of us would be able to empathize with the offender because we know we would never go there.

Correction: "Washington" not "Robinson".

Incest, and more specifically inbreeding, has been an accepted, even institutionalized, aspect of certain cultures considered civilized in many ways. But that is not our culture. The NFL is now image conscious to a fault and the values that are projected (or professed) are basically very conservative. Perhaps not surprising since the majority of football fans and indeed the public at large are also relatively conservative in their moral outlook, politics etc... Quite possible that the NFL would be tolerant/forgiving of incidents that might very well be worse than what Robinson did. And as a philosophical matter I'm sure many people subscribe to confession and remission of sin, forgiveness, rehabilitation - whatever you chose to call it. Doesn't alter the fact that his blemish is a colossal cultural taboo that will inevitably provoke in the public feelings of disgust and contempt. The NFL seems not even to have come to grips with sexual behavior that is lawful i.e. homosexuality, because clearly it remains viscerally distasteful to a majority of people and doesn'y jive with our image a football, football players and football fans. It may be wrong or unfortunate but I wouldn't be surprised if this guy never makes it on a NFL roster. Who needs the grief. Its hard enough to win in the NFL. Last thing we need is a distraction like this in our lockerroom.