faderphreak
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I could care less about a win. We've already bandied about those great preseason teams like the Lions, and back in the day, the Jets. I just want to see the o-line develop, see Levitre playing lower and working on his leverage, and get everyone out healthy.
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I'm glad--I hope they really suck this year. I've hated them ever since my dad and I went out West to Denver to see the Bills-Broncos game earlier this decade. Their fans were just downright arrogant and obnoxious. We've traveled to a bunch of other places since then and they remain by far the worst folks we've encountered (although we haven't made it to Foxboro yet).....
Once you get to Gillette Stadium you will change your tune on that one my friend. Hell you don't even have to get to the stadium, just walk through the Commons on a game day.
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First off let me state I almost didn't respond to this post because I don't really want to think about the Bills leaving western NY. While I have virtually no way to make a living in my profession in western NY, the Bills still tie me to the region. I still get homesick when I see those overhead shots of the fall. I still get butterflies in my stomach when I see the shots of the tailgaters. Nothing gets me amped up like opening kickoff of a Bills game! They are the team I've been rooting for for almost 25 years now. However, it is a sad reality that they could move and I really started to think about what I would do or who I would root for.
I came to the conclusion that I don't know that I could pick another team. The passion I hold for the Bills would probably shift to an NCAA Division I team here in Florida. Most likely University of Florida, as that is where I will likely be getting my next degree. If you've ever been to the greatest cocktail party on earth, where Florida plays Georgia in Jacksonville, or a game up in Gainesville, you see an atmosphere that rivals that of any pro game I've been to and I've been to games in every stadium in the AFC east, as well as Jax, Tampa, and Philly. Also, while some players are playing for NFL contracts, in the NCAA most play because they love the game and it shows! The majority of the players give every effort every play because if they want to keep playing at that level or the next, they have to. There seem to be more suspensions, or even outright removal of scholarships for athletes that get in trouble with the law, though some programs are more lax than others. There also seem to be many games where a team of superior talent and skill gets beaten by a team that has players with heart. I never got into college football when I lived in NY because we had no teams and I didn't get it. Sure I followed the Orange because that is all we had but down here college football is like a religion.
Granted comparing a Bills / Jags game to the FL/GA game is unfair because Jags have no real support, but when you go to Alltel stadium for FL/GA you can't even get close to the stadium despite having roughly the same amount of parking as the Ralph. The are satellite lots all over the city that you have to be bussed in from and the sidewalks are packed for what seems like miles around the stadium. Thousands of people come that will never get into the game and simply crowd "the Landing" and other areas surrounding the stadium to watch the game together on big screens and bars. When you go to a Bills / Jags, or Indy / Jags game for that matter, you can pretty much show up at the last minute, the crowds barely fill the parking lot, and there is nowhere near the passion
On the other hand, as I may find myself having to move to LA for work, I may be able to deal with the Bills there. I don't know. To actually be able to watch them without shelling out insane amounts of cheese for the airfare and accommodations, the NFL ticket, or the big tabs that result from watching the game at sports bars would be a nice change of pace from the last ten years. If they went anywhere else and I stay put here in Florida I would not root for them.
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I was at a Greenday concert in Houston last night. It was a GREAT show. They were on for over 2 1/2 hours and played a great selection of old and new. About an hour and a half into the concert, they started playing partial covers from other artists: Ozzy, Van Halen, Tom Petty- just to name a few. One of the songs they played for a few minutes was Shout. It was awesome. For 2 minutes I felt like I was back at a RWS, and that our Bills had just scored the game winning TD.
I've met a few Bills fans since I moved down here, so I'm sure that I wasn't the only one who was singing "lets go Buffalo" during that part of the song last night!
Go Bills, stay HEALTHY tonight!
I was singing along the Bills version of "Shout" with Green Day on Wednesday in Orlando. My friend was looking at me like I was nuts. I converted her to a Bills fan last year but she hasn't been to a game so she didn't understand.
On a side note, Green Day is such a great live band. I never even liked them till I saw them at VoodooFest the year before Katrina. What they do for their fans, bringing kids up and letting them play or sing in front of their crowds is just so cool. They give them an experience that they are very unlikely to ever have again. Though the kid who played guitar during Jesus of Suburbia here in Orlando might have a shot. I know for a fact that he has some industry connections on the engineering side of things but I digress...
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Doubt it, cause the Orlando sentinel is reporting it. But it is unofficial as of yet.
The Slantinel is about as reliable a source as wiki. Funny they made the same comment about the "Orlando Sentinels" being too easy.
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Las Vegas Locomotives
New York Sentinels
Orlando Tuskers
San Francisco Rockfish
It's currently unofficial but the names are pretty hilarious
They missed the boat on so many levels. Orlando could've been the Sentinels and had a great tie in with that waste of a newspaper. Who knows, maybe they tried it and the Slantinel told them "Hell No! We don't want a second rate product tie in to our second rate product"
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Me too. My buddy and I did not even bother getting out of the truck to head into the stadium till about ten minutes before kickoff! Man it was F'n cold!!!
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We most definitely should.
Which means we wont.
The Bills FO is shockingly set at LT and OLB when there are veteran upgrades available. What really gets me is the OLB spot. Derrick Brooks, Marcus Washington and Boss Bailey are all FAs and have experience in the Cover 2. Hell, Derrick Brooks practically IS the ultimate Cover 2 OLB. And yet we do nothing. Now I know that injuries and age come into question with these late free agency additions, but nobody can convince me that one of those guys on our roster (as long as they pass their physical) would be a bad thing during the season.
Even as backup options or camp competition, these guys are worth a shot.
But instead, we'll have an entire offseason to hear how amazing Nic Harris and Alvin Bowen are.
I don't know about Brooks being an upgrade. Living here in Orlando I saw him at training camp, as well as a lot during the season. He is a shadow of what he was.
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Jim Harbaugh
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What if his wife was a raving B word? What if she was banging the next door neighbor?
I admit hearing the guy was with his 20-year old girlfriend can make some angry, but there is more to the story than that, I'm sure. None of us know the circumstances were here, so judging him based on this one snippet of perceived bad behavior (especially when weighed against a lifetime of being a very good guy, or so it is told) might be a little bit rash.
Relationships are unique. I'm not going to take back my RIP, or feel better about his death, simply because he had a girlfriend.
I completely agree. Judging McNair, or anyone for that matter, without knowing all of the circumstances that led up to the action or reaction to the situation. It is very easy to see the worst in people and live in a black and white world. The problem is all those shades of gray. I guess that is why Catholics have that whole "Judge not, yest ye be judged" thing going on.
As an athlete and a player I remember him to definitely be a tough and classy guy. As an individual citizen he appeared to be a decent and giving individual who wanted to give back and share his gifts to make society better. Through his charities and public actions he genuinely appeared to care a great deal about others. That this is the way he went out is a shame and it is tragic but no one is infallible. No one.
RIP McNair. My thoughts go out to your family and close friends. This is only going to get rougher for them as more details are released regardless of what outcome has been determined when all the facts are known.
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Whoever did this was reallllyyyyy pissed at him. Multiple shots is the work of severe anger. IMO
I was thinking the same thing. Only one for her? It certainly leads to easy speculation on at last two fronts.
Podody's Nerfect.
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University of Texas players are not mentally tough, not hard workers and/or they're underachievers, so hearing this about Roy Williams doesn't surprise me.
Here's a list of Texas high-profile underachievers:
Roy E. Williams
Ricky Williams
Mike Williams
Vince Young
Derrick Dockery (not as bad as the others, just overpaid by the Bills)
Cedric Benson
just to name a few. We'll see whether Orakpo pans out.
I've been saying this for years. University of Texas athletes are big prima-donnas. They live in a state where football is given higher priority than almost anything. The first time most of those Texas players face any real adversity they fold like a house of cards in a hurricane.
In fact you could make the argument they are a microcosm of a certain segment of society these days. When the going gets tough for those people who never faced adversity, those people snap because they can't handle it. Kind of like the F-stain down here that whacked his whole family last weekend because he went from being well off to not being able to pay the bills.
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You are the second person today who has mentioned Stir it Up. I live right down the street from it and pass it all the time, but have yet to try it. It doesn't look as though they sell beer or wine...do they? I rarely eat at places that don't serve some type of alcohol...but I've been known to make an exception. It looks like a healthy-granola type of place. Is it?
Let me know if you make it to town.
A friend of mine turned me on to the place because she grew up there. While it does not sell alcohol and is definitely catering more towards the healthy food crowd, the soup and sandwiches I've had there have been great. In the past I've just grabbed sandwiches and soup, thrown them into a cooler with some adult libations and sat on the beach. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon. The only thing I don't like is that in the past they could be sketchy about their hours. I guess that is the price you pay to frequent a place run by surfers or hippies.
I'll let you know when I get up there. Its always cool to hang out with fellow fans. Particularly those that actually know about this BB.
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Someday, it will be legal but until then don't be a moron and enjoy yourself. I have no problem with employers setting rules either. The NFL is certainly within their rights to run the league how they see fit. Go do something else if you don't like it or just deal with the consequences. It all falls back to the moron rule again.
Agreed. If you are getting paid millions of dollars to play a game that many of us would (and do) pay to play, you can suck it up and stay off of any substance on the NFL banned list.
Even were it to be legalized, I don't think the NFL would take marijuana off of the list because of the social stigma attached to it, particularly by the older NFL fans. The best the players who smoke could probably hope for is that NFL would not test for it during the off season as they seem to do now.
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Interesting comparison. Both quarterbacks definitely share some common traits. The intelligence and ability to make quick read being key amongst them. The O-Line play is a factor and at this point I would say that Chad had more years playing behind a better line than Trent has had. It will be interesting to see what Trent can do when he gets to play behind a line comparable to some of the lines Pennington had early in the decade when he was completing almost 70% of his passes.
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There's the problem. Some people don't have the ability to understand analogies. They focus on the differences between the two comparatives, and forget the analogy tends to deal in the relationship of concepts. It pretty much is impossible to have an intelligent discussion, and argument, with someone who doesn't understand the concept of the analogy.
I almost posted the same thing, when I read todd's response. He either doesn't understand analogies, or is trying to deflect the intelligent argument by focusing on the differences between the two concepts.
You're in St Auggie right now? If you haven't already tried it, Harry's is a tasty place to eat dinner. If you are on the beach Stir It Up rocks for lunch. I've been meaning to get up there for months and every weekend something seems to come up.
As far as the analogies theory goes, he gets it. I've seen enough of his posts to know he has a vocabulary. At least he didn't resort to his usual retort of "Douche."
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Are you kidding me? Are you really comparing our founding fathers and their need to form a new government to illegal marijuana use? Please tell me you are joking, because that would be sad - and stupid. If you can't see the difference between the two maybe you should post while not smoking.
While I can understand why you would choose to call my analogy "sad", I'm not quite sure why you would call it stupid. Unless I'm mistaken the word stupid indicates a lack of intelligence, or ideas that are a result of thinking without the ability to reason, make use of logic, or make correlations between ideas and events. I'll assume you are not calling me unintelligent as you don't know me well enough to judge that particular aspect of my psyche. So please allow me to retort.
First off I have not smoked in forever. To steal a quote "There is a time and a place for everything and it is called college."
Secondly I was making an analogy. You know what that is right? You can look up the word in a dictionary. You know that book full of words and their uses? Based on your understanding of the word "stupid" you may want to invest in one. In case you don't understand the concept of an analogy, let me break it down for you in simple terms:
King George was making laws without the consent of the people and often in direct opposition to what the people expressed they felt was right or corresponded with their belief system. Our founding fathers did not agree with said laws, tried to reason with the king to no avail through legal means and when that failed, broke said laws.
The United States government made laws regarding marijuana without input from the people, and in spite of input from AMA, at the time. Today people have tried repeatedly to reverse those laws through proper procedure but have been stymied due to to lobbyists from pharmaceutical companies, paper companies, the alcohol industry, legal industry, as well as law enforcement agencies fearful of having their budgets cut. As a result said people are breaking those laws for similar reasons our forefathers broke the laws of King George.
As an aside, it has been well documented that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Monroe, John Adams, and even Ben Franklin grew and/or smoked hemp. (you know, marijuana?) In fact Franklin smoked hash. It has been documented, so go ahead and do your research. Today the number one cash crop for both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington would be illegal.
Hmmm... I wonder what their reaction might be to being told they could not keep their livelihood, or do what they wanted with their own land?
Ps. I apologize for the length of this post. When I try and convey an idea I have this pesky habit of putting sentences one after the other to develop it and ensure it is understandable. Hopefully you had your Ritalin this evening.
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Right, but the law is the law. You change it by being an activist, not by disobeying it.
With the fourth coming up, after reading this, I could not help but think that it is a good thing our forefathers didn't share this belief. I'm sure I'll get flamed for making this comparison but the fact of the matter is they tried to do it the right way and work within the system. When that failed and they realized that they would never have a representative government they broke the laws. Of course the laws they broke would not have resulted in them losing a lucrative contract, they would have lost their lives had agents of the crown ever caught them.
If we look to more recent history you could use Martin Luther King as an example. As an activist he broke laws to bring attention to the injustice. By practicing civil disobedience and breaking those laws, he was able to get many of those laws changed because he brought attention to how unjust or hypocritical they were. We all know the old adage "when one man breaks the law he is committing a crime. When a thousand men break a law it is civil disobedience." It could be argued that if enough of these athletes tested positive it could actually force society to acknowledge a problem with the laws and force the politicians to address them. Of course that could never happen. Too many pharmaceutical companies would lose revenue; from the pain pills they push to the psychotropics (which have been involved in every significant school shooting over the past 20 years) that more than half the country is currently being prescribed, that is a lot of cash.
Yes, I know this thread is supposed to be about whether or not I care if Bills players smoke or not. I've always maintained that for the money these guys make they should be able to abstain. In fact I would prefer they did abstain as their inability to do so could cost the team dearly.
However, playing devil's advocate, I'd have to say if we did not have the draconian anti-marijuana laws, that were the result of a PR campaign designed to maintain control of a market, this would not be an issue and we'd be happy to have players treat their pain with marijuana as opposed to highly addictive substances such as the Oxycodone, Hydocodone, and Meperidine, which are routinely handed out to these athletes like candy. All of which, by the way, are very much mind altering, contrary to the claims of one poster.
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
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Great article in SI a few months ago about the huge % of athletes who have to declare bankruptcy.
And, somebody nailed it above - the killers are stupid investments like restaurants and bad real estate and especially divorce.
I like how you turned marriage into an investment. That was great. Made me think of a Bill Burr routine...
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Behind T.O. and LE? Not to mention ML and FJ. There are only so many plays on offense. Reed having a big season seems like a tall order to me. Especially if Trent is looking down field through his ear hole.
First I will state that I referring to Reed being poised for having a good season for a number three receiver. I sincerely apologize for not qualifying that or defining the word poise ( http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poise[1]). Now before I waste my time researching the stats of the number three receiver on top 10 NFL teams last year, I will ask a simple question. What do you feel is a big season for a number three receiver? Please refrain from giving me numbers for a number one or number two receiver and think in terms of a slot guy. Comparing the stats and expectations of a number three receiver with those of number one and number two receivers is not really logical. While I realize I live in a state where logic and reason are suspended I'm personally not ready to give up on them.
I still stand by my opinion about Reed being poised to have a very big season. As I qualified in my first post I know you can't take the 2002 year as an absolute indicator but that is the last time Reed had an actual bona fide number two receiver on the field with him. In that year Moulds caught 100 balls, Price caught 94 balls, both going for over 1200 yards. Riemersma (32) and Moore (16) chipped in another 48 catches. Travis (Captain Cocaine) Henry by himself rushed for almost 1400 yards on 325 carries that year, along with another 43 receptions. Factor in another 44 receptions and 23 carries by Larry Centers(43/13) and Shawn Bryson(1/10), who basically shared the role of Jackson, and the backs on the 2002 team had 435 touches. Last year between carries and catches Marshawn (250/1036, 47/300) and Freddy (130/571, 37/317) combined for 464 total touches.
While I'm not disputing your concern about Trent looking out of his ear hole, the argument that there are not enough touches to go around is not really valid to me. Especially when considering that the 2K2 offense didn't run the no huddle and the intent this year is to use it a bunch, which usually results in an offense running more plays overall. While our offensive line is a serious concern I would hardly consider the 2002 line of Jennings, Brown, Teague, Sullivan and super bust Mike Williams as world beaters. In fact I'm pretty sure that line had three guys that were first year starters. If Trent can make the right read and get the ball out quickly to the open man he can help negate that weakness.
Hopefully you can see where I'm coming from in my opinion that Reed is poised for a very good year. The last time he had the kind of talent around him that he'll have this year he was a rookie that caught 37 for over 500 yards and two TDs. At that time he had two veteran tight ends and one of the greatest pass catching backs in NFL history gobbling up touches that Moulds, Price, and Henry weren't getting. At this point in his career Reed is a way more polished a route runner, understands coverages and where to squat to get the open looks, and is one of the better blockers. With LE and TO commanding double teams, an inexperienced and unproven TE corps, as well as linebackers forced to crowd the line to account for the RBs, a guy that has already developed into Trent's security blanket should get a lot of opportunity to make plays or help others make hem. At this point in his career I think he's in a position to really take advantage of it. You might say he is poised...
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Vivid, with a touch of emotion.
Way to go Clark. Love the fact you finished with the Tylenol joke.
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Funny. There are so many different things to respond to in this thread I don't know where to start. It seems this place has become so much more snarky and in some ways straight up childish than when I first joined back in the mid 90s but I digress. I think it will suffice to just say this...
Going into training camp I feel Josh Reed looks to be poised for a very big season. I don't know about the comparisons to his rookie season because that year Drew Bledsoe was slinging it very deep to 1 and 1a so much that the middle and underneath were wide open way more than I expect them to be with Edwards throwing.
With that said, if one of those other guys that are being discussed as being better prospects than Reed are truly better then they will have the opportunity to prove it in camp. If they can't do it there they don't deserve to unseat him and send him to the waiver wire. After all if they can't beat the Bill's number one or number two defenses in practice, what would lead anyone to believe they would beat the other teams number one defense in a live game situation
It all boils down to one of the oldest adages: May the best man win!
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L.A. Rams @ Bills Monday Night 10/16/89
Frank Reich at QB. Check out how clutch Thurman Thomas was, on the ground and through the air. What a weapon he was.
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I remember listening to that game on AM radio from Maryland while attending Job Corps in Chicoppee Mass. WoW!
How will Billicheck stop the no huddle?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Oh man! You just had to bring up 3rd and 17! Thanks a lot pal.
On a lighter note I was considering heading up to Auggie this weekend for a little R&R. If you have a suggestion for a place with decent wings that will show the game I'm all ears.