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Were all hoping MW turns it around but he won't. Thats because he lacks desire, is lazy, and really doesn't care about football imo.
Who said he was the best tackle coming out in that draft. Some scout. I can find another who said McKinnie was. MW supposedly had better character,LOL. So McKinnie plays left tackle for one of the best offense in the NFL now. It was TD's job to make the right decision.
If Im an owner and you're my new GM and you tell me you're gonna take a guy who has already revealed nationally what an A$$ he is and that he is going to hold out before the draft even starts over a guy of equal talent with a much better history of character, then you're fired before you even get started.
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Don't worry MDH, it's only the fans who are "attention span challenged" who exhibit such foolhearty thoughts.
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I think you are on to something there, simply based on Drew's stationary point in the pocket. Plus MW takes alot of flack by fans (including Peter King) for errors/ sacks given up that weren't even his responsibility. This in addition to the errors that ARE his responsibility which is bad enough. Bottom line, he has not reached potential, but hindsight critique of a GM's decision on a unanimously highly rated player does not hold much water.
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Ignore all the talent and stats for a moment...That my friends is why Eric Moulds is and will always be (atleast should always be) a Buffalo Bill.
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Considering that when he was here, Williams didn't do a hell of a lot to hide Bledsoe in the offense (i.e. run the ball 40 times), and that he put the ball in Bledsoe's hand in the closest of games (passing on 3rd and short), I believe Williams would say that Bledsoe is a great QB.
That's why he got fired.
Captain ego?
Get a clue and try thinking (or researching) for yourself instead of believing some fan based myth about how decisions are made at OBD.
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right now I'd have to say.....
TKO
Schobel
Moulds
Fletcher
Moorman
honorable mention to Evans and Mcgahee
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Graham was a joke of a kicker when we had him. Guys do develop and sometimes you can't afford to wait around.
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Well, that's pretty much exactly how I judge a GM (along with how well he puts a staff together). I don't see it like some others who use the corporate "trickle down" analogy where everything stems to the top man. The Coaches have their own responsibilities that don't fall back to the GM, as do the players. I am not one who would say any GM is a failure because he chose one draft pick over an equally rated draft pick at the time, in any round. Hindsight should not factor into how one can fairly evaluate a GM.
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I agree with just about all points Matty T.
I am a MW supporter generally but was also dissapointed by his play yesterday. Although I found it very diffucult to "key on him" yesterday due to the nature of the television broadcast. I was trying to determine if the TE was at all involved in some of the mistakes I was attributing to MW just to be fair because honestly he's played pretty well THIS season up until yesterday.
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I'd hesitate to say the Line can't support being a running team when we pass the ball so frequently inside the red zone. At this point I'd much rather see run,run, run , FG than any od the plays they've been running.
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10th all-time in any pro sport is not a meaningless accomplishment, unless it's the XFL or Dodgeball.
As down as any of us are on DB, remember that he's harder on himself than we are. This guy's not quitting on our team, he's just not able to get it done anymore. The responsibility in dropping him down the depth chart isn't his, so as long as he's penciled in to start, he will start. He will continue to play poorly, but not for a lack of effort. Can you say the same for MW?
I agree with Bill from NYC. Give him his props.
A standing O would go a long way in showing that Bills fans can still appreciate a will to win, even when it comes up short.
Well said...
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It's too bad that because of all the other implosions going on, it will go under the Radar that our sometimes maligned DE Schoebel (sp?) had a monster game against the best LT in football.
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Sorry, you are wrong. Flutie was at his best when the pocket collapsed. Most of his completions were after rolling out. Teams actually WANTED Flutie to be in the pocket. This would usually negate his running threat, and his passes were very often batted down because he was so short. His arm was also comparitively weak.
Flutie WAS more effective than RJ mind you, but a football team is unlikely to win behind a crappy OL no matter who is qb. Flutie was a bandaid over the gaping wound of the Bills inability to block.
Well said...
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Yes, I am familiar with those days and much of that writing. The columns he wrote back then were nothing like those of today (unless you're speaking of day-after Super Bowl entries). Of course he brought up negatives back then, but nothing like the scathing criticisms we see on a typical Monday now. Many of his columns were praise-laden with a mention here or there about a way the Bills could get better. What's wrong with that? To say he "focused" on the negatives back then is crazy. He simply pointed out holes in very good teams that, perhaps you'll remember, never won the big one.
As I remember it the rants were very much the same as they are today. He's always spoken as if he knows better, as if he knows item one about football. When it comes down to it, he doesn't. He enjoys the losing and feels his opinions are a way of "talking straight" to the fans, and that every comment from OBD is a spin job. He hated Kelly for god's sake...
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Reading Sullivan's column on a Monday is one of the few things that has given me pleasure during this train wreck of a season. It's nice to see the voice of reason and (gasp!) criticism of a team that is terrible not have to deal with the censure that similarly minded posts often have to on this board.
Sullivan calls them as he sees them. What I want to know is what you're seeing to defend the last 4 years of Bills football.
You obviously weren't familiar with Sullivan during the "glory days" of the early nineties. He sounded much the same as he does today and had the same unfounded yet consistent negative opinions on teams that were going 13-3.
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So we drafted QB from Tulane with a questionable attitude with a top 5-ish pick? eeesh - I'm skeptical that that one year is worth the difference in talent between where they picked Losman and where they would pick (assuming that someone other than Donahoe will be actually doing the picking next year?
The whole staff ...TD, Modrak, Ralph, Coaches, and scouts collectively do the picking. I see nobody coming out next year that I'd be more excited about than JP in the QB department, especially with his mobility. Oh, and TD will be here next year like it or not.
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lurker here
With Bledsoe, he could be successful if he had the protection to just sit there all day and gun the ball downfield. But how many NFL qbs wouldn't be successful behind a line that was so good that Bledsoe could thrive? Have to get a guy who can make the best of a bad situation, and if the situation improves, so will he. And probably for less money than Drew
Donahoe has been a complete failure. When it comes to GMs, it's ok to have the benefit of hindsight. Bledsoe - thought it was a good idea at the time. Failed. Mike Williams - failed. As much promise as McGahee has, people make the mistake of thinking that his improving play justifies the pick. You have to consider opportunity cost. One year was already down the tubes. Whatever McGahee gives us isn't going to be a huge improvement over Henry because Henry's good. And you also have to take into account how other teams are able to succeed with no name RBs that don't cost much (like Denver)
It's amazing that this team might go 3-13 like they did a few years ago and not have a high pick to show for it. Donohoe's arrogant keister needs to get run out of town asap.
That pick that we "don't have" next year is JP Losman, with a year in the system under our coaches, as opposed to some rookie QB fresh out of college.
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Drew Bledsoe
Travis Henry (trade)
Ryan Denney
Chris Kelsay
Izell Reese
Coy Wire
Mike Williams
Sam Adams (I like Sam, but he's had his troubles)
Josh Reed
Eric Moulds (too much cap space invested)
Ryan Lindell
With the money we save on those guys and the losing attitude we lose with others, this team gets better.
Am I missing anyone?
Kids I tell ya....
Willis to start
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Is it because of the Flutie / Johnson debate that we all (well not all but most) feel we must completely polarize ourselves to the point that if we like one guy at a position, we must hate and ridicule his counterpart? Just wondering....
btw. I like them both but agree that Willis is the better option now. I choose not to throw away all the heart and effort and production TH has given us since his arrival and simply throw him out like yesterday's news. And I still like Willis. Imagine that !