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If you had bothered to read the article, you would have seen the type of offense Chan is running is similar to the one Brohm ran while at Louisville. That means Brohm should be further along the learning curve as opposed to the other QB's when it comes to learning and running the this offense. If anybody needs to sit for "another" year to learn the offense, it would be the other 3 QB's. So let me get this straight. The guy who is most familiar with the O should sit another year so he can continue learning the new offense (because we don't want to ruin his confidence), but the Bills have to give Trent (who's confidence is ruined) another chance to regain his confidence back with an O he's just learning? Talk about a recipe for disaster. This smells like another potential excuse. If Trent fails, you can claim he was learning a new O, therefore needs yet another chance to prove himself.

Would we? Hate to piss in your Cheerios, but not everybody was a Clausen fan. IMHO, if the Pickle was drafted, you would have seen about the same level of optimism, just different people showing it.

I can't believe I made it out of my teens. Drunk driving, excessive speeding (not uncommon to happened at the same time), the occasional fight, ... and the speeding had no limitations. Straight, drunk, day, night, with lights, without lights, dry, pouring rain, snow, ice ... I did a bunch of partying in the woods of Central PA, and I had similar situation to yours among others.

As for mine: The city and the people of WNY to do NOTHING. No rioting, no looting, no mass celebration, just a little parade a week later. We can do a full blown celebration after the Bills have won their 4th straight SB 3 years later

Gailey coached Georgia Tech for 6 seasons, from 2002-2007. During that time, GT never played against Louisville. In 2008, Gailey was signed by the KC Chiefs to be their OC. Brian Brohm played in Louisville for 4 seasons, from 2004-2007. Scout.com and Rivals.com both list the following schools made a scholarship offer to Brohm: Louisville, Illinois, Kentucky, Notre Dame and Tennessee. Rivals also claims that Alabama and Purdue made Brohm an offer. In 2008, Brohm was drafted in the second round by the Packers. Is it possible Gailey had an interest in recruiting Brohm out of HS? Yes. Is it probable? My guess would be no. As for when Brohm was drafted, I could not say how much interest Gailey had in Brohm, if any, and whether or not he was allowed to supply any input for KC's draft.

Gailey coached Georgia Tech, based in Atlanta, GA, and plays in the ACC.

But he's never ruled out moving the team. And there is nothing stopping the NFL from passing something like minimum payouts to visiting teams based on stadium capacity instead of tickets sales. The NFL can also choose to count the covered seats into that equation. By increasing his losses, the NFL can force Weaver to sell the team or at least move it.

Patrick Willis disagrees.

What pisses me off more is spending a bunch $$ and some azzholes in the stadium thinking they are the designated section leaders and everything becomes about themselves. Here's a concept. Despite what your "beer" ego wants, when the Bills Offense is coming to the line, that's NOT the time to be loud.

and that would be the entire stadium. That place was a **** hole.

I like this: In this day and age of the Internet, posing for Playboy is probably not the smartest idea if you want to become an undercover cop.

Keely Hazell She once said if you can have sex and watch football at the same time, why not? Now, the football she was referring to was soccer, but I like to think she meant any sport.

And to further what he said: The feature allowing embedding of images into a post have been turned off. Most of us like it that way. It keeps all that picture based signature nonsense in check.

I am with Kelly and JPS. Spiller is the guy who they wanted. To further JPS argument, Gailey did say he coveted a hybrid type player. Even if you did not watch Spiller play in college and just read his scouting reports, Spiller fits that "hybrid" player role to a T. After the draft, Gailey said he already envisioned using Spiller in numerous ways such split out, misdirection, as a WR, etc. Again, if you read his scouting reports, that is what he was projected to be. About a week ago, somebody mentioned to me a great example the type of player we could expect Spiller to be: Eric Metcalf. As for the OL, Nix/Gailey have been very consistent in their message. They will not overpay for players. This will not be fixed in one year. They know the OT are a problem, but they are not just going to throw players at it and hope the problems go away (ala Jauron). If it takes another year or 2 to truly fix the problems, so be it.

It's possible. The NFL CBA does not really address that situation. The 2 things I found: The way I take it, a practice squad player is a free agent that gets to practice with a specific team during the year. I see nothing in the above that would have prohibited GB from upping the ante, if they had wanted to.

While I get what you are saying, technically, GB did let Brohm go. At least twice. In order to qualify for the practice squad, the player has to be waived. Even when Buffalo claimed Brohm off GB's PS, if GB was really interested in keeping Brohm, they would have upped the Bills offer. IMHO, I think GB matched the Bills offer hoping Brohm would stay so they could move him in the off-season.

Sorry, there really is a reason you do not see a slew of undersized NT in the league. Kelly Gregg is such a fine nose in Baltimore, the Ravens drafted Cody. And can we stop with the Kyle Williams - Jay Ratliff comparisons? One, ONE undersized NT that is playing well does not mean Kyle will be the same or better. Ratliff is the exception, not the standard. The Bills run defense last year ranked 30th in the league, and gave up 4.7 yards a crack. That's with Kyle Williams. I like Kyle Williams. But if he's the starting NT, expect more of the same.

Already some discrepancies in the "new" BigXII-2: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/j...ons/?tigerextra Seems Beebe might have been promising money to UT, TAMU, and OU behind the other schools backs.

We will continue to agree to disagree. I still say Jauron is/was one of the worst head coaches in the NFL. One winning season out of 8-9 seasons tends to support that theory. Feel free to continue to offer his COTY award as "proof" of whatever, but I will remind you both Wayne Fontes and Dennis Green were awarded the same thing at one point. Besides, Jauron winning the COTY is akin to Gino Torretta winning the Heisman. The part in bold is one of the few positives you can say about a Jauron team. As for the game plan for Dallas, the defense had one, did the offense? And that still does not mean he knew how to adapt as the game progressed and changed. Revis blitzed Edwards 29-30 straight times during one game, and the only reason he stopped was due to Edwards injury. How many times does it take a CB to blitz before somebody says, "Hey! Can we do something about this guy?" 1. The biggest mistake was the Bears giving Jauron the HC job to begin with. That gave him the false illusion he was capable of doing the job. I've said it all long. Jauron's problems were systemic. His approach to and philosophy of the game and team were flawed. It would not have mattered who he brought in as OC. It was Jauron's team, Jauron's philosophy, and Jauron's system. Either the OC did what Jauron wanted, or the OC would never got hired. Or in Turk's case, once he decided he was no longer going to conform his offense to what Jauron wanted, he was fired. 2. I think it was pretty obvious Jauron had way too much input into personnel. The amount of resources spent on DB acquisition and evaluation while he was in Buffalo was similar to the time he was in Chicago. See #1 above. That is a debatable issue, no doubt, But when the HC has significant say in or is part of the FO, it's a moot point. You cannot differentiate the positions he controls. You cannot claim he had no talent to work with when he is responsible for the talent that is there.

Unfortunately, every fan of every NFL team (and probably every college team) can say the same thing. In fact, I have heard the same argument regarding the Bill's D over the years as far back as I can remember even when the Bills were good. I heard it during the Bills glory years, and when Wade and Greggo produced the best defenses in the league. Every team uses the prevent at some point, much to the chagrin of the fans.

Never said that. But the article never states how the same defense picked off Romo 5 times with 2 going for TDs, and the special teams scoring 1 TD and 1 FG. Hell, the reason the Bills were even in position to win the game was due to the defense and special teams. After the game, Romo stated the Bills defense was doing things he never saw before, and it confused him. That's why he threw 5 picks. As for not recovering the onside kick, is that the fault of the special teams coach or the fault of the players on the field? I don't have a problem with questioning the competency of the coaching under Jauron. Hell, I was one of the most vocal Jauron critics on this board. But every close loss was not due to poor coaching, as Real Football 365 is implying. Robert Royal's failure to get his foot in bounds is a coaching fault? I would be willing to bet if we watched that game we could find clear and better examples of coaching gaffes, but Royal's foot is not one of them.

Real football 365? Might as well read and believe the Bleacher Report. This says it all: Just thinking out loud, but if the Bills offense had actually bothered to do something, like score ...

Biggest problem is still the boosters and/or alumni. Schools can crack down and self report violations all day long, but boosters with deep pockets will continue to find ways to "help" aspiring student-athletes achieve their dreams. Like this guy from USC. USC did not cheat. They just broke the rules. Linky

Lovely. So if the fatter TV contracts do NOT materialize, expect Texas to upset the apple cart once again. I bet Aggie fans are just thrilled with this bit of news.

This is weird. No matter which QB a poster prefers, everybody pretty much agrees with this statement (highlighted in bold, above). What I do not understand is the logic of how Fitz is going to be cut based on that perception. The other 3 QB's have serious question marks surrounding them. So you cut your only known commodity? Of the 4 QBs, at this point in time, only Fitz has a legitimate shot to make the team. He might not be the starter, but he would make it as back up. To me, as of right now, Fitz sets the base level of QB play. The other 3 need to look at Fitz and go "I need to be at least as good as him, with the real potential of being better, otherwise, I am getting cut."