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Right back at you, sporto. When Cassel doesn't have Moss, Welker, and Faulk to throw to, he won't look so hot. Moss made Culpepper's career, and look at Culpepper now. Cassel will be no different and look like every other player that leaves the Putz' system. Book it.
You are the Dick Jauron of opinions.
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Now that we know this, I would not be surprised if his time here depends on a victory against New England. Maybe Ralph wants to see how Richard is going to prove to him that he can FINALLY beat NE (without Brady).
How many people here would like a loss to NE if it means a new coaching staff. I, for one, was very excited to see the players happy yesterday but if this next game means a chance for Dick to continue his losing ways in another city, I am all for it. Spare me all the "you call yourself a real fan" as well.
I saw Jauron lose, lose and lose in Chicago and now I see it here. I will sacrifice one meaningless game for the future of this team!! Isn't it obvious that players like playing for this guy because he NEVER holds anyone accountable. Nobody is scared for their job...
I will not root for the team to lose. It is up to management to identify what is a real indicator of future results, versus a rare surprise. I can only BARELY envision the Bills winning this game, but even if they did it will only serve as the last game in Jauron's run of only 1 winning season in 8 tries. EVEN IF JAURON WERE KEPT AND HAD A WINNING SEASON NEXT YEAR......see Norv Turner. Losers with good teams lose. Losers with very good teams disappoint and that's all Bills fans have to look forward to with Jauron.
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Cassel is Scott Mitchell v2.0.
As usual, you will be wrong again.
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Do you watch the NFL or did I suddenly and unexpectedly forget my understanding of the English language? Both (Jets and Fins) are fighting for the division title after coming no where near to even licking the mud off of the Pats cleats. Both have better Quarterback play, even though on of them (Farve) leads the NFL in interceptions. Both are a helluva lot better now than they were last year mainly because of the quarterback. What was your point again?
Perhaps you are unfamialar with the history of Chad Pennington. Pennington is very effective on the whole, but he can't stay healthy. The Jets finally decided to get rid of Pennington because he couldn't stay healthy and it totally f'd up their seasons when he couldn't play or wasn't healthy.
Pennington is where he belongs, in a warm sterile environment in Miami where he has his best chance to stay healthy and not have to deal with the northern winds that play havoc with his softball tosses. But he will not repeat next year. No way, no how.
Edwards has the potential to be the Bills version of Pennington, except I'm not sure Trent could actually put even one full season together because unlike Chad's sore shoulder, Trents ailments are MANY. The list of injuries that have cost him games the past 6 years is getting pretty long, and one of them IS shoulder and he can't survive losing much more off his fastball playing in the wind tunnel that is RWS.
But the Bills never learn. You don't make a living by defying odds. Past history IS indicative of future results.
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Did we not learn our lesson?
Exactly what lessons HAVE the Bills learned the past 9 years? Donahoe comes in, they make overly drastic cuts to the roster and decide they want to replace their big run stopper go with a smaller, undersized DL. Levy comes in and the make overly drastic cuts to the roster and decide to go with a smaller, undersized DL instead of the one they had just repaired. Anyone who can't see the parallels in the repeated mistakes the Bills have made is blind.
As for Patriots QB's, Bledsoe was awful in Belichick/Weis' offense. Cassell is outstanding. Big difference.
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You do realize that Cassel took over a team that went 16-0 in the regular season last year? He wan't taking over a young team with a overpaid and suspect O-Line and a team coming off an overachieved 7-9 season. Cassel most likely wouldn't have done any better than Edwards has on this team. Some team is going to overpay drastically for Cassel and I am sure it won't be and very glad that it won't be Buffalo. Put Edwards on the Pats this year and they do just as good if not better, mainly because up there you become part of a system that has been working for years, not one struggling to find it's identity like the Bills are. No Thanks, let the Jets over pay and they won't have anymore than they have with Favre this year.
Put Edwards on the Pats and he misses half the season with injuries. Wake up and smell it folks, the guy is injury prone.
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Ralph isn't going to pay Cassell's asking price so it's most likely a moot point.
Ralph may be enigmatic, but the talk about him being chronically cheap is absolute horsesh*t. This is the same guy that just 2 offseasons ago signed the $7M per year check for an offensive guard who had never sniffed a Pro Bowl. During the Bills SB runs a number of Bills were routinely the top paid players in the NFL. Kelly, Smith and Thomas. I don't expect the Bills to sign Cassell, but it is far from out of the question.
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21 TD passes 3650 yards +10 t/o ratio. He is better than Edwards now and was a higher rated prospect coming out of HS than Edwards. Also he has a much better arm and has had great coaching for 4+ years.
Cassell is also HEALTHY with a solid frame. When Trent is on, he's on. But he is FRAGILE. Face it. The guy got hit about 5 times yesterday and I thought the ref was going to have to red card the defense for all the writhing agony Trent was experiencing. FRAGILE. Quarterback is the deciding position in the league and when you tie your wagon to a fragile one you are just asking for an enormous collapse when they get hurt. Check out the ups and downs of the Jets with and without Pennington prior to letting him go.
As for the people like Todd who are dissing your post, don't worry about it. Those assclowns are ALWAYS wrong and have no balls at all.
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Everyone gets on Jauron's case for just having that one 13-3 season- lets not judge Sparano just yet either
It would be a surprise to me if the Dolphins had as good of a season next year as this year, but what Sparano has done with most of what was a 1-15 team is remarkable. And minus DPOY Jason Taylor to boot. But there are no dominant units on the Dolphins. Jauron had his 13-3 season because he had an incredibly talented front 7, including better than 700 pounds of run stopping at DT in Ted Washington and Keith Traylor. Jauron's Bears SHOULD have gotten better.
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When Trent Edwards and Josh Reed both are healthy and play more than a half of football together, the Buffalo Bills are 6-0 and have covered the spread in 5 of 6.
That's nothing, if you recall Doug Flutie was never responsible for any losses in his career.
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Sullivan should not even be allowed at the press conferences to begin with- he is a discredit to legitimate reporters trying to do their job. It is sad that newspapers continue to hire people to do the job that Sullivan does- just write controversial articles that have no merit. It is a discredit to journalism as a profession.
I have been in numerous states and Sullivan is by far the worst of his kind I have ever seen
You have got to be the craziest defender of whatever sh*t the Bills organization rolls out on all of TBD!
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Nothing is as important for this team as finding a way to get to the quarterback, and assuming Jauron and Fewell will be back, thats synonymous with finding a pass rushing end.
No, nothing is more important than getting better play from our own QB position. That is WITHOUT question.
The Bills OL is ill equipped to handle the top defenses in the league, and their chosen QB is not able to withstand a beating. Keep in mind, the Bills have had an EASY schedule this year, not having to face any of the top pass rushing defenses in the league. Don't be fooled by the team being able to run the ball a bit late in the season, that's a recurring theme from Buffalo Bills offensive lines......too little, too late. Imagine Trent Edwards standing in against this years Steelers, Ravens, Giants, Cowboys etc....never happen. Fire up the gator and warm up JP.
You need pass rush nowadays to win a SB. No doubt. However, the Bills aren't a playoff team yet and aren't much closer, it at all, to being one than they were in Jaurons' first season here. They need to crawl before they walk. Stop kidding themselves that what they have on the OL now is good enough.
My take on the draft is simple. Trade out of that outrageous $10M+ bonus range into the late first or early second and stock 2nd and 3rd round picks. Do that, and draft well and you can get help at multiple positions. Perhaps OL AND pass rushers. The last time the Bills did that, they ended up with Nate Clements, Aaron Schobel, Travis Henry and Jonas Jennings on the first day. Three of them have played in Pro Bowls and Jennings was a very good OT who didn't allow a sack in his rookie year and should have been a Pro Bowler if not for an inability to stay healthy. This draft is simialarly stacked, the Bills need to come out with more than 2-3 players in the first 3 rounds.
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I like Rey Maualuga, a lot actually. But English is more of a pass-rusher and has a bit better motor. You won't hear a lot about him in the lead up to the draft, but he'll be a huge impact rookie in the DeMarcus Ware mold.
Also, don't get him confused with Austin English, a DE from Oklahoma.
Oh, you'll hear plenty about English. Maualuga is a great player as well. But one thing to keep in mind, EVERYONE is trying to stock up on pass rushers and adjust their defenses to get to the QB........that's why it's more important to improve that OL.
If anyone watched the Ravens/Cowboys last night you saw how the Cowboys overgrown OL got blown up by the Ravens complex schemes. The Bills have had a piece of cake schedule this year and haven't had to play the Steelers, Titans, Ravens, Giants etc.....none of the dominant defenses......and yet Trent Edwards can't stay healthy. Imagine Edwards taking the beating Tony Romo did last night and surviving. Would never happen. Job #1 for the Bills has to be building a great OL.
I don't think there is any question that to win a SB today you need to be able to get to the opponents QB, but the Bills aren't even good enough to make the playoffs right now. They need to stack that OL and maximize the production from their QB positon first.
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y not?
First of all, he's going to be drafted too high. I don't like pass rushing defensive lineman very early unless they are incredibly dominant or a freak of nature(like Mario Williams). The reason being that their position is 95% about desire to succeed, more than any other position, and giving them a $10M plus bonus is not a great way to motivate them. Orakpo is not dominant and is not a freak of nature type athlete. Very good, yes. But not like Peppers or Bruce or even Sam Adams were in college.
I like my DE's motivated. Aaron Schobel is a good example. He was a mid-2nd round pick and he was determined to see a big payday and worked hard to earn an early extension. It's not a complete coincidence that when he signed what should be his last big contract, the second extension, his game dropped off significantly. In 2007 he "became a better run defender" because his motor dropped a few rpm's.
Second, the Texas connection. Texas players live in an athletes utopia and they seem to find the jump to the NFL a big disappointment. Like it or not, it's an issue. A Texas player would have to be out of this world for me to drop a top 10 pick on him. Too much risk.
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You had me until you suggested that Cassell is a starting QB in this league. Quality back up maybe but not a starter.
I find this take reminiscent of many terribly wrong takes about Brady after he won the Super Bowl against the Rams. Check what Cassel is doing. If he's not starter quality, he at least will have the distinction of being the only backup quality QB to ever have back-to-back 400 yard passing games!
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Wouldn't argue at all with Marty. But DJ, if he is for some reason kept for 09, will have a tough go of it next year.
The Bills had one of, if not the easiest schedules in the NFL. There won't be cupcakes in 09 as they had this year in abundance. To think they played the AFC and NFC West and could not muster more than 6 wins through 14 games should make even a fourth grader realize how bad 2008 has been.
If fans think a 7-9 season was acceptable with that schedule, they'll struggle mightily next year against the AFC and NFC South. Next year, I'd be surprised if they went 5-11 with DJ running the show and those opponents.
Yeah, I actually think things will get WORSE next year if Jauron stays. Like I said before, continuity is only worthwhile if you can EXPECT it to pay off.
EXPECT.
With Jauron it is nothing but a hope and a prayer. I mean, for the one millionth time, the guy has had only one winning season in 8 chances. There is far more parity in the league nowadays, if you can't do better than 1 for 8 you don't deserve to be a HC in the NFL.
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I like Peters but in the abstract I would trade anybody if I thought the trade would benefit the team.
If the Bills were to trade Peters, it's highly unlikely that you would be able to say on the surface it would help this team the way the personnel department has been run. The likelihood is that it would be a handful of draft picks, which the Bills might very well misuse. I am a big believer in quantity of draft picks being a good thing, but if this team were to trade him for picks I would want to see a personnel department that knows how to maximize their picks. Example: trading Peters for the 8th pick in the draft might look good on paper........until they draft Donte Whitner with that pick.
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Given the above, I wish Wade Philipps would coach us next year after he is fired by Jones. I would prefer Marty, but anything would be better than Dick Levy.
Wade is a great DC. I once saw some national media types talk about how Wade FINALLY got to work with some talent in Dallas in praise of his fast start last year. When has he actually NOT had talent? He had competitive talent in Denver, which Shanahan converted from mediocre to very good. He inherited a talented veteran team in Buffalo that had had enough of Marv and was primed for a bounce back. Then he got set up with a boatload of talent from Parcells. He's a little better than Jauron, but still far from a maximizer of talent.
Now Marty......he has actually built teams up from talent starved losers to talented winners. He's never got a full cupboard and never left one bare. This team might actually be the most talented team Marty would have inherited. Bring in Marty and chalk up 10 wins next season. Keep Dick and HOPE it doesn't get worse.
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He was the best athlete coming out of college in '06. Freakish strength and speed for a big man. The boards loved him. Oh if only he was still on the board when the Bills picked 8th, they all said. Every mock draft had him in the top 5. The 49ers bit, and drafted him with the number 6 pick of the draft. What's he done so far to deserve that draft position? He's averaged bout 30 catches and 3 TD's. a year in almost 3 full seasons. The Bills almost get that much out of Royal.
But take a look at these offensive linemen that were drafted after Davis in the first two rounds in '06:
#23- Davin Joseph-G Starts for the Bucs.
#29- Nick Mangold-C Starts for the Jets.
#50- Marcus McNeill-LT Starts for the Chargers.
#55- Andrew Whitworth-LG Starts for the Bengals.
#59- Jeremy Trueblood-RT Starts for the Bucs.
My point is very simple. Offensive linemen that get drafted in the first two rounds usually end up starting in the NFL. Buffalo has ignored the offensive line in the first two rounds since they struck out with Mike Williams in 2002. This franchise needs to build a new foundation. Three of the four best centers could all still be on the board when the Bills draft in the second round. If they ignore them, and draft the hot-shot tight end or another position, no way will the other three best centers still be there when the Bills' third round pick comes along. You see that is the key. Draft your offensive linemen in the first two rounds, and he will most likely start very quickly and be an impact player for you within a year or two.
The Bills have long needed a TE, but I agree they badly need to focus on their lines. Despite the struggles, a lot of people think the Bills OL is good enough, will get better, etc.. Some may even see the improved running game of late and unrealistically expect that to carry over. It won't, we've seen the same thing many times before.
The damning factor is their lack of athleticism. Having the biggest and tallest OL would have been great 15 years ago. Perhaps Marv hasn't watched much football since then. Nowadays defenses are quicker and athleticism is a better fit in both pass protection and the run game. Ideally, you're both big AND athletic(translate:first day picks), but Walker, Dockery and Preston are not and it's hard for the offense to get any rhythm going when they are not getting into blocks quickly and allowing the defense to be disruptive and dictate tempo.
Side note, I'm watching Steve Farichild's OL at Colorado State whip Fresno's defense using counters and other athletic blocking schemes. His offense at CSU looks more like a pro offense than the one he ran in Buffalo.
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Orakpo is a physical beast, and possibly the best de in this class. He doesn't beat you with pure speed, but has very good technique and strength, and a good closing burst. If you're looking for an nfl comparison. Michael Strahan may be more in line. Personally I'm hoping for Michael Johnson, Greg Hardy, or George Selvie. With several 1st rd caliber, but no clear cut top dend. There's no excuse not to get someone out of the draft. There is no "next bruce smith". The closest player"s" who can have that kind of impact. When he feels like it Julius Peppers. Mario Williams if he keeps it up has all world potential. As does the Giants Justin Tuck. I'll settle for the Demarcus Ware type Michael Johnson in this draft.
Johnson is no DeMarcus Ware. He's a true DE and not as agile as guys like Ware or Joey Porter or James Harrison. But then, Ware wouldn't be the same player as a down DE either. There are precious few dominant pass rushing 4-3 ends anymore, in part because there are so many big, athletic 330 pound LT's which match up better in pass protection against 280 pound ends than they do slightly quicker and more athletic 240-250 pound LB's. It makes me sick to think that this team once had a dominant 3-4 defense and switched to a defense that is easier for offenses to handle. Good pass rushing OLB's are so much easier to find than pass rushing DE's who can consistently get to the QB......and therefore cheaper, and so on......
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If you remember, all of those you mentioned were not worth the money they sought, and we were right in not overpaying for them, as will be the case with Peters.
Jason Peters is not Will Wolford, or even a John Fina... he's a guy that is not a team player, not a stud, and someone will unceremoniously overpay for the guy. You may THINK signing Peters is the right move, but many of us completely disagree. We have lost the last 9 years because of our QUARTERBACK position, and everyone knows it. You could have had AIKMAN's o-line back there, and Losman, Bledsoe, Rob Johnson, Flutie, et al. STILL would have failed. Why is that so hard to see?
Your post lost all credibility when you implied Will Wolford was a team player. He had just played in 3 SB's with the team and dropped a poison pill on them so he could play for a terrible team in Indy. The deal he signed with Indy was structured so that the Bills could not match, but instead would have to pay him MILLIONS more per season for the Bills to keep him. That would be like Peters turning down $10M per year to play for the Bills to play for $5M per elsewhere. Team player? More like despicable.
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One way the Bills could get better very fast is to go for a shooting star..
bring Josh McDanials as head coach and Matt Cassel as the QB.
This would accomplish not only making the Bills more effective in drafting and acquiring players, have an instant successful QB and play caller.
Matt Cassel. The next Derek Anderson, or the next Rob Johnson, or the next Tom Brady? I would cringe if the Bills locked up that kind of money in this guy. Like the Broncos running attack, I fear they can plug me in there and have some success. I still like our chances with our cap friendly QB. I wonder how he would look in New England, I bet very good. Unfortunately, to generate some pass rush, this team may have to lock up even MORE at DE. We'll need a government bailout to finance these average lines.
I think his point was that if you take McDaniel and Cassel, you get the offense AND the guy who is running it well. It's a sound judgement, IMO.
The Pats offense is better now than it was with Weis(also, IMO), so McDaniel is pretty impressive. I mean, if Mangini was a coaching candidate being nothing more than a figure head for the real DC, Belichick, then a REAL coordinator with McDaniels track record deserves a good look. And as WR said, it also takes away from the Pats without having to reward them with any compensation. Far better than sticking with Jauron, and quite frankly I don't care if it means the Bills have to spend so much money that they can't even be $20M+ under the cap next season!
BTW, with regard to Cassel, he's not going to get $10M per year(barring a SB MVP performance or something unlikely). I know we haven't given up on Trent, but beside the fact that he has played badly for much of this season, he also, AGAIN can't stay healthy. Not to be overlooked.
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the only thing about his ownership that is not a failure is that he hasn't sold the team out of town...yet. it cracks me up that some people want him in the hall of fame.
he gets way too much credit, and he's no longer able to make competent decisions with regard to the product on the field,.
I have grown to wholeheartedly agree. The straw for me was the hiring of Dick Jauron a proven LOSER after the Bills just had 6 non-playoff seasons in succession. Having only been a Bills fan since the Chuck Knox era, I had seen mostly success from Ralph's hires, but it all became clear when he allowed this travesty to happen. It was undeniably time for a Chuck Knox type hire at that juncture, not a loser who even the most passive, accepting of Bills fans have to struggle to justify as worthy of a head coaching job, be it the day he was hired, or now 3 years later.
Ralph butchered the Polian deal, and he screwed up a pretty good thing with Butler/Smith/Adams, but Donahoe was actually an impressive hire and it really looked like Ralph had landed on his feet. TD had a great track record in Pittsburgh, better in fact than Butler had in Buffalo. Donahoe had been great at stocking the dominant 3-4 defenses in Pittsburgh, routinely outmaneuvering Butler for pass rushing LB talent.
But he inexplicably decided to go against what he did best and hired a bad coach who ran a difficult to stock 46 type defense which turned a somewhat painful 3 year rebuild into a near mission impossible. He then followed it up with another bad hire in a non-leader of men in Mike Mularkey after successfully building a dominant 4-3. The bad coaching hires and the difficulty of that type of rebuild undermined Donahoe and he made a number of mistakes trying to overcompensate and play catch-up.
If he had just stuck with what he did best and copied the model in Pittsburgh things would have been much better. I absolutely believe the team would be far better off today with him than the complete void of leadership and direction they have now because he had success before and the experience would have made him better.
Everyone is talking about having that type of continuity now, but continuity is only important if their is reason to EXPECT a turnaround. Aside from another year of drafting high in each round, and having a young QB who hasn't totally DISPROVEN himself, there isn't much here to look forward to. This isn't 1984, every team in the league has a number of talented players, so having Peters, Lynch, Poz, McKelvin by no means assures this team won't be awful for the foreseeable future.
It's time for a change, preferably to a HC with a proven program, but if not, even to a BRILLIANT coordinator because Jauron will only continue to disappoint just like Norv Turner. But it's very unlikely to happen, and so is Ralph EVER getting into the HOF.
Bring back Marv Levy as Coach, 3 year deal !!
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You must really want to put Marv in his grave. Do you not remember the withered, tired, beaten man he was on the sidelines in 1997? Kelly, Bruce, Thurman, Andre, Talley, Washington and Paup are gone. Dick McPherson, Tom Olivadotti and Bruce Coslet are no longer coaching in this division. I think a 56-0 loss to the Pats might send Marv to the afterlife.