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  1. Johnson's camp said they were going to wait until the offseason, because the Bills were offering nowhere close to what Johnson's agent wanted.

     

    Jackson verbally stated that he was unhappy with his contract, and got really PO'd when there was talk that the starting RB position was Spiller's job to lose.

     

    So, maybe you're the one with the reading comprehension problem?!

    So, because Johnson's agent didn't get what he wants, Ralph is racist?!?!?

  2. Gotta wonder why Chan Gailey can't find coaches like this, but Mike Leach can...

     

     

    Mike Smith's name doesn't appear anywhere on the Jets' official roster, a list that includes 19 coaches on staff. He's not on the team's website. To most Jets fans, he doesn't exist. As a coaching intern, Smith beats the sun to work each day, doing "the grunt work," Rex Ryan says, electronically diagramming plays for the defensive game-plans, helping defensive coordinator Mike Pettine run meetings, logging up to 20 hours a day, pitching in any way he can. Smith, 30, gets a nominal paycheck every couple weeks. He lives rent-free in Pettine's townhouse near the team facility. He's also Maybin's de facto personal coach, spending countless hours helping the former Bills first-round pick find his way.

     

    "Without him, I'd probably be a fish without fins in the open sea," says Maybin, who is an NFL Comeback Player of the Year candidate with his team-high six sacks and four forced fumbles in nine games. "He understands me better than any of my coaches since I was in college. He's one of the biggest reasons I'm doing what I'm doing now."

     

     

    Link - Unknown intern Mike Smith helped revive Aaron Maybin's career

     

     

     

    Don't know why the Bills can't find seem to find any good coaches like Smith to help our pathetic defense - but I guess we should be glad he's leaving the Jets and headed to Pullman, Washington to join his old college coach at Wazzu...

    Link - Mike Leach Reportedly Hires Mike Smith As Linebackers Coach

    This is the same staff that drafted Vernon Gholston with a top 10 pick(I believe) and couldn't utilize him properly. We are not the only team with busts.

  3. It's very hard to argue the talent side when we are burned by a TE that didn't get me any fantasy points until Sunday

     

    :wallbash:

     

     

    Do you mean the future Hall of Famer who is now healthy and would do that to just about anyone when healthy?!?! So you picked him and it didn't work out too well?!?!? Some talent evaluator you are. Sounds familiar, huh? The Bills staff is not the only one who gets burned by injuries?!

  4. Ok, one more time...

     

    The Bills have approached Stevie and Freddie. It is Stevie's camp and Freddie's camp that decided to wait until after the season. It takes two to tango.

     

    The Bills approached Jackson in preseason during the "starter controversy". He chose to wait.

     

    The Bills were in talks with Johnson, but when talks stalled, Johnson's camp pulled out. He chose to wait.

     

    This was all widely reported and Buddy talked about it in his post-Fitz signing interview.

    Thanks for clearing things up, but these guys will find something else to B word about.

  5. Only in Buffalo would Demetrius Bell and Chris Hairston count as significant injuries to an offensive line. Meanwhile, the Patriots have started four guys at center this season.

     

    It's practically criminal to enter the season with Hairston as your swing tackle and Bell starting given the latter's injury history. Or, not having a backup center. Or expecting your best guard to double as a OLT. The list goes on and on, and we're not even talking about Spencer Johnson having to play OLB when Merriman got hurt. Sense a trend here?

    Yea, I sense a trend. A lot of babies on board who need a life. QUIT CRYING! We know, we know already!!! So whenever an ex player does well we're going to B word. Get a life people. I heard Mario Hagan recovered a fubmle for a TD somewhere! Oh no, what a mistake that he's not here anymore. Nate Clemments made a tackle last week! Oh no, what a mistake he's not here anymore. I saw Takeo make a tackle against us too, oh no!!! You all wanted Maybin gone(Ok 95%) and now the front office made a mistake!QUIT CRYING!

    :cry:

  6. The continued inability to use Spiller is one of the failings of Gailey's tenure.

     

    Again, I support coach right now but it's real simple.

     

    They drafted him because they felt he was too great of an offensive weapon to pass up.

     

    If that's the case, why is Derek Hagan or Naaman Roosevelt on the field instead of Spiller on 3rd down?

     

    It's understood that Choice is the better pass blocker.

     

    That being the case, just put Choice and Spiller on the field at the same time. Devise plays for that package.

     

    Start Spiller in a two-back set and motion him to one side or the other.

     

    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?

    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.

  7. Have you seen our DE's, outside LB's, and DB's play? It's going to a heck of alot more than simply changing the DC before this defense can stop anybody.

    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.

    :beer:

  8. ..these daze seems like Buffalo.N.Y. is da Black Hole of sports..sabres loaded; but slumped over???...i am a die hard Buffalo sports fan but i just cant phathom the Bad Luck dhat we exper..how do u lose your Kicker for da year!!!...What!..by the way, when Kyle Williams went down,that wz the season

     

    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.

  9. Oh please knock it off.

     

    Five weeks ago Chan was a genius! Then we lose to the Jets and didn't show up in Dallas or Miami. Then we play pretty well in NY, but lose - (historically most teams are lucky to win 1 game in a 3 game road trip, unless they're a top-5 team: source NFL Network)

     

    Then we played Tennessee (Chris Johnson decides to play for a 2nd consecutive week!). If we didn't have 10 starters on IR - I think we beat Tenn & the Jets.

     

    I won't be surprised if we win in SD. Rivers lays an egg just when you start calling him elite & as mentioned above, they only beat a reeling Jacksonville team that not only lost its coach, but got sold too.

     

    We need to look at the last 4 games as getting our young guys ready to make serious contributions next year and beyond.

     

    I'm calling it now: Bills 24 Chargers 17

  10. I think each of their skill sets were pretty equal when Maybin played for this Bills. But they cut Maybins ass and Kelsay still makes it on the field every week.

     

    Neither can generate any pass rush and kelsay's outside contain is just horrible. I have never seen a DE over pursue as much as Kelsay. In coverage its bad.

     

    At this point, and with Maybin's recent success Maybin > Kelsay. And if he keeps on playing with the Jets his ceiling even might rise while Kelsay's is on the downfall.

     

    What I am saying, Maybin wasn't providing the production or the progress they expected, yet he didn't make it on the field. Kelsay somehow lacks production year after year and he starts every week. I don't get it?

    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.

  11. lololol bobobonators - let me get this straight..

     

    you don't think fitz is average, you apparently think he's really awesome, like maybe in the top 10 of QBs.

     

    so in an attempt to prove this, you put fitz's stats up against a bunch of good, not great QBs, and a couple average ones.

     

    and what do you know! fitz had the lowest QB rating. lolol i can't make this stuff up. thanks for proving my entire point with one, long, worthless, condescending post.

     

    not to mention, using stats as a stand alone point when comparing QBs like Big Ben is a complete !@#$ing joke, and you know it. In no way, shape, or form is Fitzpatrick a playmaker like some of these other guys. On a 3rd and 9, it's a goddamn coinflip whether the ball is even within 5 yards of the receiver.

     

    you can keep bitching about me all you want - i could give a flying !@#$ - but fans like you are the exact reason this team has been so bad for so long. you accept mediocrity and defend it like it's your first born child, only to come to the realization in 24 months how wrong you actually were. take a 1st round QB in the top 10? noooo, we have fitz! insane.

     

    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.

  12. I wouldn't mind having him. Thing is, I don't trust this corp of coaches to develop young talent. I see a kid like that gettting frustrated, becoming unproductive, and eventually leaving for new team in several years. I hate to sound negative, but you can't say it hasn't happened before. Young players just don't flourish in the Bills system anymore.

     

    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.

  13. I think each of their skill sets were pretty equal when Maybin played for this Bills. But they cut Maybins ass and Kelsay still makes it on the field every week.

     

    Neither can generate any pass rush and kelsay's outside contain is just horrible. I have never seen a DE over pursue as much as Kelsay. In coverage its bad.

     

    At this point, and with Maybin's recent success Maybin > Kelsay. And if he keeps on playing with the Jets his ceiling even might rise while Kelsay's is on the downfall.

     

    What I am saying, Maybin wasn't providing the production or the progress they expected, yet he didn't make it on the field. Kelsay somehow lacks production year after year and he starts every week. I don't get it?

    Let it go man, let it go.

    :wallbash:

  14. Remember this kids name. He has first round talent and undrafted free agent baggage. He is a top cover guy with great return skills. The Bills have a history of drafting well from the state of Oregon (Byrd and Levitre). He would be a great middle round steal to team with Williams. With McGee gone and Florence likely gone as well they will need to draft at least one CB assuming they don't sign one in FA.

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

  15. Is this an elite thread?

     

     

     

    Funny, I seem to recall quite the mountain of Kelsay-bashing around here, particularly last year. As I recall speculation was rife that he must have the drop on someone in the Bills organization to get the extension he got.

     

    I also recall many the comments this year that he's playing solidly, but he is NOT an OLB and we badly need OLBs.

     

    I do hope we're not going to be subjected to the tedium of thread after thread of inane "is such-and-such player an elite this-or-that? now

    :thumbsup:

     

    My personal list?

     

    1) DeMarcus Ware

    2 Chris Kelsay

    3) James Harrison

    4) Arthur Moats

    5) Robert Eddins

    You forgot Merriman.

  16. Yes you can, when what you're comapring is their respective values, at their respective positions, in a 12 game span.

     

    And you may have missed the point that I was making...that being that people gave up on CJ and characterized him as a "bust" halfway into the season last year. If it's not fair for one, then it's not fair for the other.

     

     

     

     

     

    I'm not arguing your point in this respect. I'm confused as to why you think that CJ deserved different treatment. Is it because he is a RB and that is *theoretically* an easier position in the NFL to transition into? So we don't look at each person individually and their [respective] amount of NFL experience?

     

    Hmmmm. Ok.

     

    Either way you wanna slice it, Dareus was *probably* the best pick (long term) but he hasn't improved the defense appreciably and we're still losing games. With Green, we would have won more games immediately (with competent offensive output) and the defense would have remained bad.

     

    So there ya go.

    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. :wallbash:

     

    So there ya go.

  17. Im not happy about posting this, but it's only a matter of time.

     

    Not sure which is the worst part of this video?

     

    -The Bills fans turning on themselves.

    -The fact that this is typical behavior at the Ralph.

    -The empty seats.

    -The weak security that cant control this small female.

    -Or the comments about the Bills from all the talking heads....

     

    Anyone know this "classy broad"?

     

    youtube.com/watch?v=-bFyPj1kpL4

    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.

     

    Male or female, sometimes people just need to be socked in the face to learn a lesson. When you're being physically belligerent like that, gender has nothing to do with it.

    :thumbsup:

  18. In preseason our top 4 WRs were Johnson, Evans, Easely and Parrish. We traded Evans away. Parrish gets hurt every year. Easely has basically yet to play for us in 2 or 3 years. Basically this means we traded away our #2(former #1) and history has shown that our #3 and #4 can't stay healthy. You can't expect so many injuries at one particular position unless their is a proven record of those injuries. I think that has been proven.

     

    Trading Evans was just dumb. He has been hurt basically all year for Baltimore but he pretty much played every game for Buffalo in his time here. We would still be looking pretty damn good with Johnson and Evans together on the field. Nelson has been a nice surprise in the end zone but other than that we didn't put ourselves in a good position in the off season.

     

    Scott Chandler again is another good surprise but he is a TE. I consider that a separate position and I don't lump them in with the WRs for the same reason I don't lump RBs into the WR position just because they catch passes too.

    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.

     

    We haven't won a game with Roscoe on the field in 2 years. What are you talking about?? Fantasize all you want about Merriman and then go back and watch the games--rarely doubled or drew more attention than his replacement. He lost more than a step.

     

     

     

    How can we be "missing" Easley--he's never played a game for the Bills in the regular season in his 2 years in the (IR) NFL. Losing Aaron Williams (rookie backup) has cost us zero wins.

     

     

     

    This is not bascially what happened to the Bills. Our top 3 receivers are still playing (Stevie, Nelson, Chandler). Freddie went down after our November slide was underway (so did Wood).

     

    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.

  19. I'd like to know what the numbers for caused fumbles and fumble recoveries have been over the past five years or so compared to other teams in the NFL. It seems the Bills cause/recover far fewer than other teams.

    I'm sure someone out here can find this for you.

     

    This is probably why we will see Edwards back in 2012. The injuries have been horrendous.

    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.

  20. 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)?

  21. "No experienced, veteran depth"???!!! First off, they are a young, rebuilding team, so by definition, this is a preposterous attack, but they also have Andra Davis, Dwan Edwards, Kirk Morrison, Bryan Scott, Spencer Johnson, etc. You can't seriously expect a rebuilding team to weather TEN significant injuries (including all four players who made the pro bowl last year or made the mid-season all-pro lists, one of whom having an mvp-caliber year), and suggest they're not going to miss a step. That's like telling an architect he should have planned better after a nuclear bomb hits his house.

    :thumbsup:

  22. The Bills are losers. You are what your record says you are.

    Next year is the year we will see if they are turning the corner.

    If they dont make progress, they need to star over again.

    Ralph Wilson doesnt care if the team wins or loses anymore.

    He is squeezing every penny he can out of it and not putting any back into it.

    No team has more bad fortune than Buffalo with the exception of maybe Cleveland (and maybe Detroit if they dont make playoffs this year-which they probably wont...)

    It is dumbfounding and unexplicable how things go for this team year after year after year....

    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.

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