mike oxhurtz
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IMO, the Bills are just like the Bungals. The Bengals were a great team in the 80's, then collasped big time. Look at the Bungals Top 10 draft busts under Mike Brown: http://nkysportsworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/cincinnati-bengals-top-10-draft-busts.html
A lot of those busts are comparable to the Bills draft busts over the last 12 years.
David Klingler (1992 – 1st Round, 6th pick, QB from Houston); Akili Smith (1999 – 1st Round, 3rd pick, QB from Oregon) - J.P. Losman (traded back into the 1st round and gave up the following year's 1st round pick)
Dan Wilkinson (1994 – 1st Round, 1st pick, DT from Ohio St.): Mike Williams - 1st round pick. (Williams played OT, but was a huge bust just like Wilkinson)
Reinard Wilson (1997 – 1st Round, 14th pick, DE from Florida St.): Erik Flowers - 1st round pick
John Copeland (1993 – 1st Round, 5th pick, DE from Alabama): Aaron Maybin - don't care how good he's doing in New Jersey, wrong pick for our defense
I'd have to agree with you. The Bengals were a very successful team in the 80's and I used to hate it when the Bills lost to them back then. After the Bengals Superbowl run, they started to decline and really started to suck for a long time. It seemed like every year they would have a high top 10 draft pick and they would blow it. You can definitely make those comparisons over the past 11 years about the Bills. IMO, I think this year's draft is the first good draft in years, but still, that's a lot of blown draft picks the Bills have wasted.
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Yesterday on the CBS pre-show, one of the CBS announcers was talking with Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress about Stevie Johnson's TD Celebration (where Johnson imitated shooting himself in the leg, ala Burress). Holmes stated (somewhere along these lines), "first off, he's playing for the Buffalo Bills..." With they way Holmes said [Johnson] is playing for the Buffalo Bills, he said it in a disrespectful manner (meaning playing for the lowly Bills) and disrespecting Johnson.
Are the Bills going to lie down and take this the next time they play the Jets next year or are they going to step up?
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Buffalo Rumblings did a poll on if the Bills can win one more game this season, that is a f@!cking joke!!! To think we used to be such a proud organization, the cream-of-the-crop in the AFC during the late 80's and early 90's. Even Santonio Holmes ripped on the Bills Sunday on the CBS pre-game show when commenting on Stevie Johnson's TD celebration saying "He's playing for the Buffalo Bills..."
19 winning seasons out of 52
12 years without the playoffs
Another year of watching other teams fight for a playoff spot, teams playing in the playoffs and 2 teams (other than the Bills) playing in the Superbowl. God I miss the early 90's.
I saw that when Holmes & Burress were discussing Johnson's celebration. By the way Holmes said "He's playing for the Buffalo Bills...", he was disrepecting the Bills (meaning playing for the lowly Bills) and disrespecting Johnson. The Bills of 20 years ago would be very fired up about this, but not this group of pansies!!
I hope Chad Kelly is right and "The New Man" is in charge next year.
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Except that Fitz only throws to him 12 times. Naaman catches 98% of what's thrown to him. Did you see the pop he took vs Miami...and STILL made the catch? The kid is velcro.
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Compared to Donald "Hands of Stone" Jones who dropped 98% of his passes.
I have no clue what Boss Hogg & Cooter saw in Jones to make him the #2 WR? IMO, Jones is a good special teams player, but that's it. Aiken should have been a starter since Week 1, I'm glad to see him finally get his shot.
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Just saw on ESPN that Kyle Orton is released...who picks him up, I think he has some talent this may be a blessing for the colts,houston,chicago,KC and some may say the Bills... Thoughts...
I thought he was in the WWE?
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Why does Chan like the empty back field so much in short yardage and inside the 10?
I mean half this thread is spent talking about how the Bills are thin at WR.
IF Freddie is our best player, why not atleast line him up in the backfield?
I have seen very little play action.
Great points. Also, the Bills spent good money to get Brad Smith and they barely use him. Everytime the Bills run the wildcat, you know it's a run and it's most likely going to the left side. I don't understand why Gailey doesn't add in a fake run and let Smith pass while running the wildcat. Fred Jackson did that a few years ago and threw a TD to Evans in the endzone.
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Just a note about all the criticism of the aggressive throws downfield to Donald Jones.
It's clear that opponents are compressing the field against the Bills and that the Bills have to find ways to stretch things out again.
It's one of those deals where people don't complain if it works.
Unfortunately it hasn't been working.
I think people have to consider that fairly early on this season, a succession of bad things happened to the Bills receiving corps after Lee Evans was traded on August 12:
1) Marcus Easley was placed on IR (September 13th)
2) Roscoe Parrish was placed on IR (September 20th).
3) Donald Jones suffered a high ankle sprain and missed several weeks (October 9th)
Losing 4 of your top 6 receivers from the year before was bound to catch up with the Bills offense. Jones is back but missed lots of practice time important to a young, developing player.
I don't know if Jones will ever develop into anything but you have to acknowledge the reasons why he and the receiving corps have been ineffective lately.
Great post!!
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Never said they were frauds, just said their weaknesses got exposed, big difference!! IMO, I really like the direction Nix & Gailey have the team pointed in, but they still have some work to do. Nix & Gailey have built the Bills up quicker than anyone expected, but they still have holes on the team.
Like others have said about Donald Jones, how times are you going to throw the ball to him on 3rd & short and he misses 98% of the time? That's ridiculous!! The play doesn't work, but yet they still try forcing it multiple times a game?! Spiller showed last year that he's capable of catching deep passes, I'd rather see the Bills try those passes to Spiller instead. The 4th & inches play was absolutely terrible!! Dick Jauron did the exact same thing against the Pats 5 years ago with a long drawn up run play and it failed miserably. QB sneak should have been the first option, 2nd option should have been a fake QB sneak into a short pass play. The best fake QB sneak attempt I've seen the Bills use was when Mularkey had Bledsoe pretend to go for the QB sneak, then threw it back to McGahee and he ran it in 33 yards for a TD. I like Gailey's creativity so far, but that 4th & inches play was the worst possible call he's made so far this year.
Great points about passing deep to Jones on 3rd & short, plus that horrendous 4th & inches call. After seeing the same terrible offensive play calls by the Bills, I was saying "WTF are they thinking?"
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Whether or not the offense was "exposed" is what we are discussing RIGHT?
I don't think anyone doesn't think they need to improve. I just don't think they were "exposed". If that is true then they won't score nearly as much and will be shutdown in a similar fashion for the rest of the season RIGHT? I don't think another team can do what the Jets did to the Bills, the way the Jets did it.
They play 14 other games and have only faced the Jets once so far. I don't think you are providing some kind of insight into how to win the division, and as I have said before, what beats the Pats won't necessarily beat the Jets.
I said "NAME THE TEAMS THAT CAN DO WHAT THE JETS DID". Well?
I'd say they got exposed. They've been playing a creative dink & dunk offense and try the deep ball at the wrong possible times.
To name teams: Bengals & Giants also shut down the Bills offense.
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Up until today's win over the Pats, many in the media and some fans didn't take the Bills seriously. The first game of the season, almost everyone favored the Chiefs, the Bills destroyed them and held the Chiefs to 108 rushing yards. Last week, the Bills came back from being down 21-3, held the Raiders to 131 rushing yards. Today, the Bills held the Pats to 108 yards rushing, compared to giving up 200+ yards rushing in each game vs the Pats last season and intercepted Brady 4 times (which was as many INT's Brady threw for all of last season). Also, after seeing the Raiders beat the Jets by 10 points and had 234 rushing yards against the big, bad Jets, that should give fans confidence that the Bills can beat the Jets this year as well and hot a legitimate shot not just getting a wild card spot, but winning the AFC East.
You're absolutely right the Bills are for real!! Great way to point out how much better the run defense is this year. We faced the top 2 rushing teams in the first 2 weeks and held them to under 132 yards in each game. Great point about the raiders, they're for real as well, so no one should discount the Bills win last week against the Raiders, considering how they beat a tough Jets team & rushed for over 230 on their defense.
If the Bills win the AFC East title again, Buffalo would go just as nuts as they did back in 1988. I really want to see a home playoff game again!!! (It's been too damn long!!!!!)
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Wouldn't that strategy make a little more sense if your 'key players' got you to the Super Bowl multiple times (like Pittsburgh) instead of to 4-12?
This is the start of year 2 for CHIX. If you seriously think anyone can turn a sh@t team into a superbowl team in one year, then you're smoking some serious crack.
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For those that don't agree with this assessment and say that there isn't talent on this team worth resigning, and Ralph is cheap...then by your logic, the Bills shouldn't have resigned Kyle Williams, just because the Bills were 4-12 last year. So, Williams shouldn't have been resigned, plus there's no need to resign guys like Steve Johnson, Parrish, Fitzpatrick, Merriman, Wood, and Levitre. While we're at it, when it comes time for Dareus to be resigned, the Bills should just lose him to free agency. So screw keeping any good players and let's have the Bills do what Daniel Snyder does in DC every year and play fantasy football with the team, overpay over the hill free agents.
So if you were the GM, you would just let young talent like Easley and David Nelson go, just to keep a guy that produced: 38 catches for 578 yards last year, and 44 catches for 610 yards the year before. That's brilliant...
JJ, I completely agree with you. CHIX has been doing a complete overhaul of the roster from Dickie J & Marv. http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/9/4/2403478/buffalo-bills-roster-2011-buddy-nix-chan-gailey
"Now that yesterday's roster cuts have sunk in, it's time to update those numbers: of the 53 players currently on Buffalo's roster, 40 are players that Nix and Gailey have either acquired themselves, or inherited players that they've made serious commitments to."
People forget that Nix helped transform the Chargers from a 1-15 team to a consistent playoff team, that had a better win/loss record against one of the top AFC teams of the 2000's, the Indianapolis Colts. Nix stated the Chargers beat the Colts by having bigger lines (both offense & defense). Nix stated he plans to build the team through the draft and mentioned that the Steelers have been successful that way. The Bills defense of the late 90's was awesome and we had some huge guys on defense at that time (which Nix was involved with Butler & AJ Smith for building the defense). CHIX beefed up the defense this year. Next year, you can bet the focus will be on the offense. When your team gives up nearly 170 rushing YPG, then you have no choice but to address it. 8 times last year, teams rushed for over 200 YPG, that's pathetic!!
Everyone hates it that it's been 11 years since we've been to the playoffs. With that said, fans should expect a good Bills team that not only makes it to the playoffs, but is a long-term playoff team like Chargers have been since Butler/Smith/Nix took over in SD. Donahoe tried building a quick playoff team through FA and failed.
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Between Maybin & Bart Scott running their mouths, I hope Fred Jackson and other Bills players do a Marion Barber and send Maybin flying on his azz.
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From watching Jasper's play last night, I saw him pushing back his O-linemen on a consistent basis, but he wasn't able to disengage and make a tackle or go after the QB. I know he is basically new to the NT position, is raw and needs time to develop, but considering how horrible Urbik, Wrotto & Howard were last night, should the Bills FO consider moving Jasper to the RG position? Jasper has played Guard in college, so it's not like they would be throwing him into a completely new environment. Thoughts...
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I agree the excitement is too early, but I haven't seen such a dominating display of a pass rush like that from the Bills in a very long time. I guess after the years of the Tampon 2 defense, last night's pass rush was incredible to see.
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I hope none of the QB's in the division paid attention to the Bills front 7 last night and don't for the whole preseason. I'd love to see K. Williams, Dareus & Merriman do what they did last night to Tommy Boy, Sanchez & Henne. I know it's early, but that was great to see last night.
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http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/8/10/2355087/why-fix-the-run-first#storyjump
Here's a good article on why Nix has decided to build the defensive line up first, instead of the O-line. IMO, I've always felt the right way to build a team was to start with the lines and build out from there. I was wondering why the Bills did not build the O-line along with the D-line, but the article explains why Nix went with the D-line first.
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Evans has 2 years left on his contract. Does anyone think he'll get an extension with the Bills? The Bills have enormous depth at WR. I understand what Evans brings to the table, but the Bills aren't going to the playoffs this year (that might take another year or two). Plus Evans won't be re-signed at the end of his contract, so why not try and get something for him, especially since the Bills are still rebuilding. Why cut one of the young and up incoming WR's for a guy that will be off the team in 2 years?
I agree 100%
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In that span of time, the Patriots outscored the Bills 243-36 in the second division game of the year. This shows that Belichek learns a lot from the first division game, and makes better adjustments than the Bills coaches do, which is why the streak has been going on as long as it has been.
The first step for the Bills is to finally get that first victory over the Patriots. The next step, is to be able to beat them in the second division game of the year, when the Patriots have been much better than the Bills in those games.
Holy ass kickings Batman!!! I knew those games were bad, but DAMN!!! Those were some major butt whippings!
My hope is for the Bills to not only get a win against the Patriots, but for the Bills to blowout and embarass the Patriots in Foxboro, like they did to us, when they beat the Bills 56-10 at the Ralph.
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Another stat which should be mentioned is the huge difference in interceptions. In 2009, with Schobel in the lineup, the Bills D had 28 INT’s (2nd in the league), without Schobel in 2010, the Bills D had 11 INT’s (28th in the league). Last year, with no pass rush, the opposing QB’s had all day long in the pocket. It doesn’t matter how great your secondary is, if you can’t get any pressure on the QB, eventually, someone on offense will get open.
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The Bills had some bad retirements last year - imagine an offensive line of Bell-Levitre-Hangartener-Wood-Butler and an LB corps of Kelsay-Poz-Davis-Schobel. That could be worth at least two extra wins.
http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/5/19/2179542/did-schobels-indecision-effect-the-bills-in-2010
"If the Nix and Gailey knew that Schobel wasn’t going to play prior to the start of free agency and the draft, they could have addressed his loss during that time period. Instead, the Bills went with what they had on the roster and also picked up OLB Shawne Merriman, who only lasted 15 minutes on the practice field. The Bills shuffled the OLB position from Chris Ellis, Chris Kelsay, Aaron Maybin, Arthur Moats and Antonio Coleman."
This is very true. IMO, Schobel shackled the Bills by his indecision and the team couldn't properly address his position that late into training camp. While I don't blame Schobel for not wanting to play, considering how bad the Bills were during his time on the team, but him and Brad Butler should have told Nix & Gailey early in the year that they didn't want to play, that way Nix & Gailey could have addressed those positions either in FA or the draft.
I agree with this 100%
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Don't let the stats fool you, the Bills scored more than 20 points just four times during the season, and still managed to lose three of those games.
The offense was considerably less calamitous than it was with Trentative at the helm, but it was a far cry from good.
I agree that the offense wasn't good last year, but there's reason to believe that it will be better than last year. Fitz is the starting QB this year and won't have to share reps with anyone, plus he won't have to learn a new offense, so another year in the same system should benefit him & the players. Plus, as others have said, with the defense getting a lot of offseason help to stop the run, they will be able to get off the field more and give the offense more shots to do something.
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Ralph stated last October that it will take the Bills three years to turn around, and he doesn't expect to be around for it, leading many people to think (including John Wawrow) that Ralph is/has put a succession plan in place. After October, not much else was mentioned about it. Has anyone else heard more info on that?
The only one I can think that Ralph would give the team to, would be his niece.
Very good question. Wawrow said last year, he felt it was 65-70% chance that the Bills will be in Buffalo long-term after Ralph passes. Let's hope that comes true.
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Games that stick out over the last 5 years, the Dallas MNF game and the Bills loss to NE (the McKelvin "take a knee" kickoff/fumble). Those are the type of close games that I would like to see the Bills winning in the future.
Bills = Bungals
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2000 Erik Flowers Arizona State Defensive End BUST
2001 Nate Clements Ohio State Defensive Back Good Player, but wanted way too much to stay
2002 Mike Williams Texas Tackle BUST
2003 Willis McGahee Miami (FL) Running Back Luxury Pick, wrong player for Buffalo
2004 Lee Evans Wisconsin Wide Receiver Good player
2004 J.P. Losman Tulane Quarterback BUST
2005 No 1st Round Pick, Roscoe Parrish (2nd Round) Miami (FL) Wide Receiver Waste of a #1 draft pick on Losman, Thanks Donahoe!!
2006 Donte Whitner Ohio State Safety The Wrong Pick
2006 J ohn McCargo North Carolina State Defensive Tackle BUST
2007 Marshawn Lynch California Running Back Good Player, Attitude problem & problem child
2008 Leodis McKelvin Troy Defensive Back Too inconsistent
2009 Aaron Maybin Penn State Defensive End/Outside Linebacker BUST (for the Bills)
2009 Eric Wood Louisville Center Very Good Center (health problems is a concern)
2010 CJ Spiller Clemson Running Back Luxury Pick when there were much bigger holes to fill