hondo in seattle
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ieatcrayonz claims on his profile to be 10 years. Not sure if this is true but at least it's consistent with posts.
I think he's pulling a Jaquin Phoenix on us.
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Idk, ARE we? (sp)
Thanks... I have moments of premature senility and dyslexia, amongst other things... I guess I should proof-read before posting...
I normally don't bust on grammar errors...but come one..you have to at least get the title right.
Come one? Come two? Come all???
Yeah, I get the point but turnabout is fair play.
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Last year I groaned with heart-rending futility as opposing RBs ran through our defense like a machete through jello.
Have we in just one year transformed our weak LB corps into a strength? While reading Mark Gaughan's article today, I was struck by the quality of LBs who might not even make the 53 man squad:
Linebacker: Gailey kept nine last year. The starters are Shawne Merriman, Chris Kelsay, Andra Davis and Nick Barnett. Alex Carrington could count as a D-lineman or a linebacker, but he has worked at outside 'backer the past three weeks. Danny Batten is a lock outside. Inside men Kirk Morrison, Kelvin Sheppard and Chris White are locks. That's nine players, or eight if you count Carrington as a lineman. Will the Bills make room for either outside man Antonio Coleman or inside man Arthur Moats? Moats does more on special teams. Undrafted rookie Robert Eddins is a prime practice squad candidate.
http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/article541133.ece
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Yeah... I never thought trading Lee was a "salary dump." And I never thought Roscoe would be a "surprise cut." Roscoe, in fact, was pretty productive in his 8 games last year. Interesting that the Bills want to extend his contract.
Gailey clearly wants big guys on defense. On offense he wants quick guys at the skill positions who have big play potential. Freddie Jackson isn't really Chan's type. But he's too productive to neglect. Parrish is Chan's type. Although we haven't seen him do it enough times recently, Roscoe can turn nothing into something with his burst and athleticism. Would like to see him return punts again.
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@ Kc
If we want to go 4-0, it all starts with a road win @ Kc. Very winnable game. The rams scored 2tds on their first two drives vs chiefs. Our offense can do the same. Brady's boy toy Matt C did ZERO against ram's defense. With our new defense, maybe we could do the same. Kc's major offense is the run. We have the foundation to stop it, I believe. The drawback is their home field advantage.
Host Raiders
The raiders are the raiders. Home field advantage should give us this win.
Host pats
With the momentum of 2 wins and being at home, this is the year we finally beat them. Plus we have the pass rushing attack that is needed to drop brady on his ass. We win a close one.
@ Bengals
We always beat them. Im glad we can say that about somebody.
Host eagles
Lose this one. Record 4-1 By the way, who knows? Having the 12th man doesnt hurt. 5-0???? Okay lets stop the dreaming right?
Anyone else agree???? or disagree?
"@ Bengals
We always beat them."
By this logic, we'll lose to the Pats.
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Not exactly flawed if you ask me.
raiders are the raiders. meaning they suck one year, then they are ok another. jason campbell is not that good.
We have not proven to sack brady. you are right. he normally ballets his way to 4 tds per game. i get that. however our line and our line-backers are bigger and better. the formula is there. we just have to execute. plus like other posters mention, our last few games have been pretty close except one. so why not this year?
Bengals... Of course there is no such thing as always. bringing up an 88 game???? oh and since you dont know, let me tell you. i think we have like a 10-game winning streak against them.
my logic is not flawed.
Maybe it's better to say your logic isn't persuasive. You haven't persuaded many people here and we're all Bills fans!
Just because the Raiders are the Raiders doesn't mean we will beat them. We have an all-time losing record against the Raiders and dropped 4 of the last 5. Regardless of what you think of Campbell, the Raider offense was in the Top Ten last year in both yards and points - far better than ours.
Just because you say we will sack Brady doesn't mean we will. Yep, our D looks to be much improved. But I wonder if our O Line will protect Fitz better than their O Line will protect Brady???
Just because we "always" beat the Bengals doesn't mean we will this year. Streaks come to conclusions. The 2011 Bills and 2011 Bengals are not the Bills and Bengals of the past.
Man, I really hope you are right! I would love to see it! And I'll grant it's "possible" as you say in your headline - just not "very possible." Simple random luck says the chances of being 4-0 (assuming the outcome of any game is 50-50) is 1-in-16. I think 2-2 is a more likely record for the Bills after four games. But I hope I have to eat my words when your prediction comes true.
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20%? Ridiculous. Even for a $5 million/year player (not huge FA money), 20% is $1 million. No one is going to make that coin in endorsements in Buffalo.
I understand your point of view.
Establishing a consortium that will sign marketing agreements with players where the money paid out exceeds the expected ROI is unprecedented in American professional sports. However, rich businessmen in other countries will financially help attract athletes to their favorite teams. And the concept does exist - albeit in a more economical form - in American collegiate sports. College boosters often risk legal problems in pay-for-play schemes that don't generate tangible returns on the investment. Often, they are motivated more by team loyalty than money.
Imagine Twenty Buffalo businesses and/or businessmen each putting up a million per year (or maybe even$500,000) - that would swing the financial calculations of many FAs. The "Twenty Friends of the Bills" could help turn the Bills into a favored FA destination and thus winners!
I suppose it's just a dream. The electric light bulb was just a dream once too.
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"I can see the Bills stealing a playoff birth."
Wow, Florio is risking his rep. Who else of importance is saying anything like this????
(With apologies to the Senator who's predicting the Bills to go 19-0, baby!)
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Yeah, I never got that criticism of Gailey. I know for a fact Edwards played much better in practice than Fitz. Fitz is one of the worst practice QBs in the league. But he is the ultimate gamer. Edwards looks every part of a star NFL QB and had a great preseason last year. He won the starter's job and then lost it with 2 terrible performances in the regular season. Better to correct that sooner than later.
And to fair to Trent, the Raiders 3rd string oline was awful. The guy was a 3rd round pick who struggled with injuries. I don't get the hate. 3rd rounders aren't guaranteed HOFers. Losman hurt this franchise significantly more. I hope Edwards plays in this league for a long time as a backup, probably a role he is made for. But either way with a Stanford degree, I'm sure he won't be hurting for options after his career is over.
Fact is a guy like Edwards would be a perfect QB for the the Jets. He'd play it safe and keep games close. Losman is like Sanchez. All the physical skills and a plays braindead at times. He can make all the throws but he can also single-handedly murder your team.
Bottomline is a bust of a 1st rounder hurts your team a lot more than a 3rd rounder.
I think you meant to say Edwards WOULD HAVE BEEN a perfect QB for the Jets. TE used to be effective when he had time - accurate, safe with the ball... He might have done well in the NFL if he had played for a team like the Jets with a good O line and running game.
But now he's been irrevocably ruined. Too many hits. Confidence shaken too many times. And his leadership skills were never great. He's not the perfect QB for anyone anymore if he ever was.
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That early episode in Gailey's Buffalo career still has me baffled - yelling at teenaged kids at SJF that gave Edwards some crap ("You dawg one of us, you dawg all of us...no autographs for you!"), arrogantly dressing down reporters ("Oh, and if any of you want to know who our starting quarterback is, it's Trent!"), a supposed offensive genius and QB mentor par excellence not realizing what every fan in Buffalo seemed to already know - that even he couldn't make an NFL QB out of FanningFan...no one could...not even...
A leader who sticks up for his team. What a terrible idea!!!
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Reading about Freddie's marketing deal with M&T Bank makes me wish that more Buffalo area businesses would step up and offer advertising contracts to players. If star players knew they would augment their Bills salary by, say, 20% when coming to Buffalo, we'd be a better FA destination - and lose fewer of our own players to the brighter lights of a bigger city.
The big markets have this going for them. A star can make an Escalade full of cash - beyond their player salary - in places like New York and Dallas.
Boosters providing pay and benefits to college players are breaking the law. Not so in the NFL, if done appropriately.
Needless to say, celebrity pitchmen can be effective business drivers. Aside from that, it would be great if some of the bigger area companies supported the team and its players just out of civic pride. A consortium of WNY businesses could get together and agree to each 'draft' a star player so that our Top Twenty players all have lucrative marketing deals - thus giving the Bills a recruiting & retention advantage.
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2011/08/31/bills-jackson-in-mt-marketing-deal.html
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Let's get through 2011 first before we worry about 2012.
Huh? You mean it's not 2012 yet? Thank God! It seems I have an extra year to live!
The older I get, the more the years blur into each other.
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@ Kc
If we want to go 4-0, it all starts with a road win @ Kc. Very winnable game. The rams scored 2tds on their first two drives vs chiefs. Our offense can do the same. Brady's boy toy Matt C did ZERO against ram's defense. With our new defense, maybe we could do the same. Kc's major offense is the run. We have the foundation to stop it, I believe. The drawback is their home field advantage.
Host Raiders
The raiders are the raiders. Home field advantage should give us this win.
Host pats
With the momentum of 2 wins and being at home, this is the year we finally beat them. Plus we have the pass rushing attack that is needed to drop brady on his ass. We win a close one.
@ Bengals
We always beat them. Im glad we can say that about somebody.
Host eagles
Lose this one. Record 4-1 By the way, who knows? Having the 12th man doesnt hurt. 5-0???? Okay lets stop the dreaming right?
Anyone else agree???? or disagree?
I love the optimism but your argument is exactly well-reasoned...
The Raiders are the Raiders? The Raiders won twice as many games as we did last year.
We're going to put Brady on his ass? Exactly when did the Bills prove they could sack Brady?
We always beat the Bengals? We didn't beat the 1988 Bengals when we met them in the playoffs. We've never yet played the 2011 Bengals.
Despite the flawed logic, I hope you are right!
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I remember when Brohm said he came to Buffalo to compete for the starting job. And (for reasons I never understood), there were Bills fans who passionately wanted him to start.
Now this is what we read about him:
"Brohm will look to be the Locos’ No. 2 quarterback behind starter Chase Clement, and will compete for that spot with ex-Nebraska rookie Zac Lee and journeyman Chad Friehauf."
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I know some folks picked Parrish as their "surprise cut." JW's article gives a different impression of Parrish's role in 2012.
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That throw to Stevie johnson was horrible, Stevie almost had to break stride before strolling into the ez. Brad smith would have made that throw along with any other scrub in the league. He threw 11/12 because they were checkdowns. The throw to Jackson was a duck.
There did I cover all the absurdity in one pass?
C'mon. Not every pass from Brady, Manning, Brees is a perfectly placed tight spiral. And all QBs checkdown sometimes.
Fitz went 11 of 12 with two TDs against the Jags first team defense. The results speak for themselves. He put the balls in catchable spots and got yards, first downs and touchdowns. You can't rationally criticize that.
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.....not sure if anyone else posted this, but listening to Ray Bentley call Saturday's game was painful ........ his incessant malaprop while announcing the "JagUIRES" was brutal and made the broadcast sound like the local show it was, unfortunately. He needs to go back to doing cartoon books with Hamby.
The commercials were not much better - at first I thought "blackpeoplemeet.com" was some kind of joke or satire, then almost laughed when I realized it was legit. Don't even ask the question, what about "whitepeoplemeet.com". ......??
I agree... I'm not usually a critic of sports media types. I'm content with most of 'em but thought Bentley was less than TV ready. Far less.
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Last year the Jets ran the ball down our throats. Since NE is more of a passing team, I expect more sacks on Brady.
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The 'article' begins, "I keep hearing what a great job (Bills GM) Buddy Nix is doing."
So obviously there are dissenting opinions out there. Count me amongst them. Although I'm also dismayed at the OL, it seems so far this preseason that Nix has done a good job rebuilding what had been a pathetically undersized, undertalented defense.
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Hondo...this is no time for love! We're going to war in a couple weeks! Now take off that pink tutu, don your new white helmet you just bought, and bang your head against the fireplace a few times!
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I'm kind of surprised this got such a reaction. Reading that article wasn't much different from browsing this board for the last week.
Good point
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we've seen indisputable proof of, the NFL/refs will be against us in every game as well.
We saw bad officiating in the Jags game but "indisputable proof"??? Refs will be against us in EVERY game???
I assume you like conspiracy theories like the mob killed JFK and we never landed a man on the moon and Bush was complicit in 9/11 and Obama was born in Indonesia where he attended a madrassa and Bin Laden is still alive and living at a beach resort with Elvis and Jim Morrison.
I share your pain about yesterday's bad calls but let's not feel victimized yet for future officiating. Let's at least wait until it happens in actuality.
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Larry's old and clearly confused so let's give the guy a break.
To give you an idea of how old Larry is, he used to be a ball boy in the 1940s for the original Buffalo Bills of the All American Football Conference. Those Bills went extinct, of course, but when Ralph started up a new iteration of Bills in 1959, Larry was there to cover it. He's been covering the Bills ever since, though now he's in semi-retirement and only writes once a week.
Unlike Sully, Larry usually writes fair and balanced articles. He used to have good connections within the organization, amongst the players, coaches, and administrators. A reader often learned something new or, at least, was exposed to a knowledgeable insight when reading his stuff. He was always respected by his peers and by sports people in general. Larry was asked to serve on the NFL Hall of Fame Selection Committee back in the 80s (?). Jim Kelly gave special thanks in his enshrinement speech to Felser for his work in getting Kelly elected first ballot. It wouldn't be the last time Larry helped get a Bill into Canton. In '84 the Pro Football Writers of America voted Larry the Dick McCann Memorial Award, their highest honor. That plaque is now hanging at Canton not far from the busts of the Bills he helped send there.
Felser's served the Bills with loyalty and talent for many, many years. Clearly not at his peak any more, I think we still should show the man a little Bills love.
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The Bills are averaging a bit over 4 yards per carry, but the run blocking has been only so-so.
Not holding my breath, NGU
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JW, a certain percentage of the human race is composed of fools. Don't be offended when you encounter one.
Wiser heads still trust and respect your work as a sports journalist.