Dopey

Where, what, huh?!?!

Like the OP said, we used Spiller as a wide receiver when injuries hit that position… now suddenly he can't be used as a 3rd down receiver? Hagan and Roosevelt are recievers, Spiller is a RB. With Fred on IR, we need to keep Spiller at RB to get touches and see what he has. Flip-Flpping to RB and WR will hurt his progress as a RB. When Fred was playing we had the " luxury" of using Spiller at WR out of necessity. We are out of the playoff race, let's run Spiller.

I haven't gotten to see our OLB's play because we have none. Those guys are DE'd playing out of position due to injury. When they play where they are supposed to, they actually play OK. Until around game 6 or 7 our D was creating turnovers and led the league in pts off of TO's. The DB's were ball hawking and tackling. The D line and Merriman were creating enough pressure to create these turnovers. What was missing though was OLB play once Merriman and Kelsay went down. We have good depth on the D line when Spencer and Carrintgon are not playing OLB. The way I see it, next year we'll be deep at Dline and DB's. We need help at OLB, bad. Hopefully Merriman will pan out after surgery to an achilles that luckily was strained and not torn. Same with Kyle. He says surgery went well and he has more flexability now than anytime since college. When healthy, this D is 2-3 players away from being a good one. Not dominant yet, but good.

If your life is affected by sports that much, you need to get a real life. Get married, have kids, get a job, something that will show you that sports is just that, sports.

I'm calling it now: Bills 24 Chargers 17

Nice.

Let's see, Kelsay is a DE asked to play OLB with responsibilities he's not used to and Maybin is thrown in on 3 and forever and told "just beeline it to the QB". Yep he's soooo much better.

but fans like you are the exact reason this team has been so bad for so long. Really?!?!? We don't sign checks for player, or draft them, or bring them in as FA's, soooo how is it that someone like me is the reason? So fans like us mean more to the Bills than fans like you? Don't think so. There is alot more bitching than complkiments going around OBD, so if they listened to fans, then "fans like you" would have more of a say in things. So, with your logic, I'm blamimg fans like you.

Young players just don't flourish in the Bills system anymore. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. were you watching the games before the injuries? We were scoring at a pretty good rate and the receivers were doing their job. If these nonames can do what we did in the first few games before injuries, then Blackmon will flourish here. These coaches are only in their 2nd season and the team has played alot better than 2010, 'til the injuries. Our depth players are not good, but you can't build it in 1 & 1/2 seasons into a complete rebuild. I feel by next year you'll see a major improvement in the qualty of depth. Lets see Stevie and Blackmon on the outside, Nelson in the slot, Chandler at TE sounds good to me.

For some reason I felt like adding to the other "is someone elite" posts that are ridiculous. Did I just see one asking if Kelsay is elite. Come on folks!!!

Let it go man, let it go.

I hope Florence stays, he seems to be playing well.

You forgot Merriman.

We did win more games immediately(5-2 this season vs 0-7 last season) without Green and the D was much better with Dareus. IMO injuries derailed this team. All that means is that we are not deep enough yet. You guys are amazing ith this hindsight stuff. So there ya go.

I'm a guy, but that last slap at 1:50 would have earned her a B word slap by me. I would have asked the guy who filmed it for a copy as proof that even with security escorting her out, she was out of control and I had to defend myself. On second thought, it would have been a punch, not a B word slap.

Can't agree with you on the Evans trade. He hasn't done anything for Balt. this season either. I like Lee, but it's kinda sad to see how he's playing now compared to 4-5 yrs ago. He's not playing well at all. Only Stevie is part of the top 3 recievers at the beginning of the season. Pretty sure the top 3 were going to be Stevie,Roscoe, and Easley. We only have 1 of our top 3-4 recievers heading into the beginning of the season playing now.

I'm sure someone out here can find this for you. That's a tough one. Even though I liked what I saw in the 1st 8 games, part of me says look around to see what's out there as far as DC. Those #'s did look good though. My biggest complaint latley was when he sent 2 blitzes in a row against the Jets a couple of weeks ago. The first blitz did cause a bad throw that Plax made a hell of a catch on, but the 2nd blitz that led to a TD was an awful call. Sanchez saw the blitz coming a mile away and our blitzers ran into each other, effectively canceling each other out.

Maybe I'm a glass half-full kinda guy or maybe I'm blinded by being a Bills fan since '75-76, but I looke at the 1st 8 games of the season (defense) and compared them to the last 4. We were a healthy unit for the first 6-7 games. Then injuries took over and the difference is obvious(imo). Lets take a look: Rush yds given up per game through 1st 8 games 120.75 (didn't look it up, but I'm pretty sure this is way better than 2010) through last 4 games 145.75 Pass yds given up per game through 1st 8 games 260.375 through last 4 games 181.75 (sure, the #'s went down, but teams ran more on us after the 1st 8 games due to injuries, see above)) Sack total through 1st 8 games 15 ( I know, I know 10 were in one game. we can say 5 if you want) through last 4 games 2 Int total through 1st 8 games 15 through last 4 games 1 forced fum through 1st 8 games 6 through last 4 games 2 Fum rec through 1st 8 games 5 through last 4 games 1 Def TD's through 1st 8 games 3 through last 4 games 0 Were talking 15 Int's, 5 Fum Rec,3 D TD's, and a better run avg. in the 1st 8 games of the season. We still lack in the sack #'s, but will get better. IMO injuries and depth(lack of) are the biggest difference between the 1st 8 games and the last 4 games. Through the 1st 8 games this D was performing alot better than 2010 when we were 0-8. The Dline and Db's were playing pretty well. The lB's still needed help, but Merriman and Barnett were making a difference. I remember plenty of posts complaining about the lack of holding calls when an Oline man tried to block Merriman. We still had Kelsay playing OLB. When Merriman went down we had to use Dlinemen(Spencer and Carrington) as OLB, not gonna work too well but was done out of necessity. I guess what all of this leads to is that aside from the yardage, we were playing pretty good ball on D. Can't fix it all in one offseason, so I like what I saw. I expect a deeper D next season and I expect a return to the type of D played in the 1st 8 games. That was no accident folks. Bring back a healthy Kyle,Merriman,Troupe, and players with a yr under their belts(Searcy,Williams,Sheppard,Dareus, Rogers), plus the additions from the draft and FA(OLB's hint, hint) and we should be better(hopefully healthy). Again, those #'s through the 1st 8 games were no mistake. Any thoughts or comments( as you can see, I'm trying to be the Glass Half-Full kinda guy)?

I get that you're upset, but stop with the Ralph doesn't care crap!!!Give me a break! There is a way to vent, but saying Ralph doesn't care is way off base.

Link to what?!?! I hear people saying it too. How do you link that?!?!?! Coach, I hope you don't think these moves were done cuz Bills fans asked for them. Just saying.

I'm looking foward to it. I like the last two drafts compared to jauron drafts.

He was still fighting for yards(can't get mad for the effort). That was a hard hit to his lower back. He was never the same after that hit.

The key word is "serviceable". I liked the pick. We needed talent everywhere on the team. Lynch was as good as gone and Fred was a mystery(no one here knew he would be this good)and close to 30 yrs.old. So we drafted a RB we thought would be better than serviceable. He would have started if not for fred playing at an MVP level. Pretty hard for Chan to play him when Fred was tearing up the league. It wasn't a luxury pick unless you were fine with "serviceable" backs, one on his way out and one almost 30 yrs old that was a mystery. Now we get to play him for the last few weeks and he'll be that much more prepared for next season.IMO.

I'm with you, but you're wasting your time. These "experts" know better. We needed talent everywhere on this team and Lynch was as good as gone.