White Linen

I think most would categorize the 2015 Buffalo Bills as a team without a QB - meaning a "franchise QB" or in other words having one that has proven they can consistently be relied on to win games. Clearly we understand what they're doing - they attempting to win with a strong defense and running game. It's a passing league, right? The league has clearly embraced this trend in many ways by protecting QB's and defenseless receivers. Just to be clear I'm not necessarily speaking against any of that. But the rules, height of receivers, coordinators mindsets, etc have created this pass and how to stop it phenomenon. Not a whole lot has changed in terms of opportunity to run the ball. Maybe in the midst of conceding to not having a QB a new trend is about to start. Maybe teams will find out through the 2015 Bills that it's actually not prudent to keep looking for a franchise QB or even pay one if you do get one. We've seen the diminished importance of paying RB's and not too long ago teams spent a lot of resources trying to find a running back, then they just stopped. We've seen teams with franchise QB's that have had to pay a huge salary to that QB - to only watch their teams fall apart. I think it's possible the Bills are creating not only another way to win - but THE new way to win. Stop the teams that have built around their QB and destroy the teams without one because that's all they've tried to do. Remember when the team that had the ball the most usually won the game (time of possession)? I think we'll do that too. In my opinion teams that throw the ball will be the only ones with a chance to beat us and that's going to be an uphill battle. I think we're going to create panic because they'll start to figure out it's going to be a while until they see the ball again. Am I delusional? Or do the non national headline signings like Felton and Connor once again become the way to win in the NFL?

I used to do this kind of stuff - until one day when a very good friend of our family said he wasn't ever watching another movie by a certain actor because of his political view. He was actually hurting himself because the actor was always putting out excellent movies. So I just told him think of yourself as the King and the actor as the court gesture. You pay him $10 dollars and basically are telling him "entertain me - make me laugh - no wait cry so I feel sad". He laughed hysterically and continued to go to his movies feeling like a King until he passed a couple of years ago.

No one wants to come to Buffalo with the crazy weather.

Why don't we just find a franchise QB?

My guess is the Bills reached out to him to see if he'd be interested in a one year deal - then his agent said well we're trying to get 2-3 years - the Bills said ok we just can't do that because we've got already tough decisions to make beyond this year but we do have a bit of room this year, so if your client can't find extended years call us.

I liked the job Dave Wannstedt did.

Whatever Dork!

Hey - we don't say bunch.

Here's the game.

I also remember collecting the posters on the back page of the sports section in the Buffalo News. At the end of my collection I scotch taped them to my wall - which thrilled my parents. I remember my music teacher Mrs. Vento at Allendale Elementary gave me the only one I was missing which was Eugene Marve. I thought she was the nicest lady in the whole world for doing that for me.

I guess you could go through a bunch of scenarios with our existing running backs and try and make sense of interest in Rice. Fred and Boobie and Brown, etc, but for me the door closes with Karlos Williams. It's hard to make sense of it getting past the vets and a rookie being drafted.

Listened to the entire game on the Radio. As we were getting crushed I still had it on but it lost my attention - then it started unfolding into a crescendo of me jumping up and down listening as a 17 year old.

I just recently purchased my sons NFL sticker albums (Panini). I used to love collecting those stickers and trying to fill up the album. My two sons love doing it now and we'll continue with them again this year.

I tallied every pass that was thrown in these sessions. I thought it would be interesting to see how many passes were 3 step drops - 5 step drops - 7 step drops - less than 3 steps - Play Action/Roll Outs - and Shotgun (If the pass was from the shotgun but was also play action I gave a tally for both). I'm definitely not an expert on what all of this could mean in terms of play calling and how it would correlate to a young QB vs maybe a veteran. I thought everyone could kind of chime in on their thoughts based on this information. My novice observation is clearly shotgun was the overwhelming formation. Manuel struggled IMO throwing off his back foot. Even in the limited drop backs he just doesn't put pressure on that back foot on the last step and doesn't come forward with a confident throw. In the shotgun this was even more obvious to me, he hopped a couple times and then shows lazy footwork and seems to flick the ball instead of coming off the back foot. What does this information mean? What if anything in terms of play calling for a young QB should have been done different by the old coaching staff? Bears Less than 3 - 0 3 step - 2 5 step - 3 7 step - 0 Roll out/Play action - 9 Shotgun - 22 Dolphins Less than 3 - 1 3 step - 0 5 step - 3 7 step - 0 Roll out/Play action - 8 Shotgun - 26 Chargers Less than 3 - 1 3 step - 1 5 step - 0 7 step - 0 Roll out/Play action - 7 Shotgun - 46 Texans Less than 3 - 1 3 step - 1 5 step - 2 7 step - 2 Roll out/Play action - 8 Shotgun - 42

Oh ok, it's my opinion Rex was involved in giving his input and it's my opinion Whaley makes the final call. Good lord. Of course we aren't on the staff and don't know - and I think your point about him discussing Hill and Bryant show that in most cases unless as you stated the coach has FO responsibilities - he gives his opinions but the FO makes the final decision. I think that should be the case and probably is.

My guess is that it won't take someone being impaired to not find this funny. It just wasn't.

I'm certainly he had a proportionate amount of input as I'm sure Rex was present in most of the draft talk/analysis. Draft picks are and should be a team decision with the ultimate call being placed on Whaley. I'm also fairly certain Whaley and the scouts didn't have another player they wanted and Rex wanted Darby so they drafted Darby.

Thanks to the Pegula's we get to have nice things now.

I think Whaley is happy where they're at on the o-line - both with the players that are competing to start and the money they are having to allocate. I don't think we'll see much action.

Beyond what appears to be a good head coach - the rest is kind of what he has had.

I think if all but about 4 teams had Rodgers they'd be in the hunt for a super bowl every year. The 4 that wouldn't need Rodgers already have a chance every year.

Go back and read and you'll see the big deal wasn't that he quoted the bible albeit not verbatim - but the irony. Please pay attention. How do you know there's been thousands of years? I guess someone told you that - see the irony in that? Or do you need someone to come to your rescue?

Exactly. Most people I run into know we traded for McCoy, signed Incognito, and have a good defense. Then they ask, who will be the QB?

I was just trying to add a little levity - obviously it didn't come across that way so I apologize. So you won't admit you quoted the bible and didn't realize it?

You can't "compression" that treat others as you want to be treated is from the Bible? Yikes. You don't even know what you're quoting.