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dpberr

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  1. I drove up from PA this weekend. First Bills game at the stadium for me in over ten years.

     

    The positives...NY has superior roads, local folks were nice, and enjoyed the stadium. OP and Buffalo have a lot to be proud of. This sometimes visitor to town is impressed.

     

    The negatives...lousy weather, even lousier performance on the field. I saw a defeated fan base in attendance today. The spirit just sucked out of everybody, and it's something that you can only appreciate in person.

     

    I'll never quit on the Bills. However, I am less optimistic about the direction of the team than I was 24 hours ago by seeing just how bad it is. Perhaps, too, I'm pissed I sat out in sub 40s with a cold pelting rain to watch yet another blowout.

  2. Sometimes the Bills front office fails (at its peril) to listen to the Most Interesting Man In the World:

     

    "Find out what it is in life that you don't do well, and then don't do that thing."

     

    Why the Bills seem intent on screwing around with Maybin and Moats, who knows. These guys were successful in college with one mission in mind, get at the QB at all costs. Why not let them run around the field and do it? Especially, in Moats' case.

     

    Put Moats in the four point, and take Maybin out of the four point. Right now, the Bills have it backwards.

  3. If a new stadium were to be built, I'd say it will be built right across from the existing one.

     

    Stadiums are expensive, that goes without saying, but they are completely infeasible if you have to go out and buy the land or go through the expensive and time consuming process to condemn it for public use. It's one of the reasons you see NFL/MLB/NBA facilities built adjacent to the existing ones. The authorities or municipality own that land already.

     

    In light of the legal quicksand the Cowboys found themselves in when they constructed the new stadium, I'm sure officials who are even considering new stadiums are very apprehensive about using eminent domain to take property for a new stadium. You are almost guaranteed a drawn out legal fight from private property owners.

  4. That article is all over the place. Complain about the quality of the food, or how much it costs, or that there isn't enough...blah blah.

     

    The Washington Redskins comment is where I stopped giving the standard 2% seriousness I give to articles such as this. The female writer is complaining it has Hooters. Is it because Hooters has bad food? Or is that she's opposed to the restaurant concept, irrelevant of the food quality?

  5. All of what NaPolian says is why I can't understand why they played the 4/2/5 yesterday. I know it's popular and all, and simple to pick up, but it sucked yesterday. Yesterday's game got me thinking about how important scheme is.

     

    What did the Bills run in the game against the Patriots last year (opener) and the infamous game against the Cowboys back in 2008? Anybody remember? Just curious. I recall from the Cowboys game that some of the time, the linemen would be standing up, not in stance.

  6. Can the Jets be beat? Yes. They always play down to their competition.

     

    Outside of the Packers, the Dolphins and the Patriots were both beatable teams with games that the Bills were in until the 4th quarter.

     

    The key is getting after Sanchez, but you need a pass rush to do that. That's the problem. If the Bills use that lousy nickel scheme they used yesterday, that's not going to do it. I don't know why the Bills went with the 4/2/5 nickel as often as they did yesterday. It clearly wasn't effective.

     

    Gailey made adjustments that worked yesterday. George Edwards needs to do the same and we can beat the Jets.

  7. Now that the offense has *somewhat* been figured out with today's showing, the defense scheme confuses the hell out of me.

     

    I have no idea why guys like Troup, Carrington, Moats or even McCargo are not even given a shot to show something and see if they can get a pass rush started.

     

    I know Stroud is a name, but he's awful in the 3-4.

  8. Jason Campbell beyond a doubt. Apples to oranges here in comparing him to Edwards.

     

    Not only was he picked in the first round by Washington, the Redskins traded an immense amount of pick value (one in 2005, 2 in 2006) to get him.

     

    Then, Oakland parted with a 4th rounder to get him, just to bench him two games into the season.

     

    Edwards on the other hand was a 3rd round lottery ticket. The Bills didn't trade up nor trade for him. Just didn't work out.

  9. Anybody who thought Owens was a factor last year or would be a game-changer this year plays too much Madden and doesn't watch enough live games.

     

    Even with Carson Palmer and another wide receiver to take the double team off of him, he's only got 110 yards with 10 catches.

     

    I don't fault Nix for not resigning him.

     

    As for Schobel, he was done playing football regardless if Buffalo played a 3-4 or 4-3.

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