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Sorry for puttiin' that spanking on ya this week Rich !
I can't help it that Culpepper scores enough points for 4 players on most given weeks
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Oh I agree with you. My point was less of a defense of GW than it was about the decline in hype with those two coaches.
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Speaking of GW and his coaching peers, has anyone noticed that a little of the luster has come quickly off of the two "great" coaches that we "should have hired" (Marvin Lewis and John Fox) ? Players win games. Coaches help, but players win games. (unless you are New England :-) )
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Gardoons are an underrated Italian dish.
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Ok it sounds like Bill NYC knows (see above post) what this guy is talking about. He must have had his laser guided Travis Henry positivity sensor left on from last night, and is responding immediately.
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That was very cool and caught me much by surprise as well because it was delayed a bit.
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I did not hear about all the SA stuff until after the Game, though I did wonder why Edwards was getting so much PT...And by no means was I watching SA on every play...What I did notice late in the 2nd Quarter, there was a running play to Morris and Sam blew up the O-Lineman blocking him, pushing the guy 4-5 yds. straight into the backfield. Morris actually had to sidestep the penetration, then he went right up the middle for 8 yds....
It's funny because on that one Play I was thinking here is Sam doing exactly what he should be doing, and no other Defender is there to clean up. I mean Adams almost pushed the O-Lineman into Morris 4 yds deep....Anyway, at least on that Play he looked fine to me...
Nonetheless, I think we all need to be careful here...Granted the D played MUCH better in the 2nd Half with Adams out, but Lord knows there was plenty of blame to go around in that 1st Half. It seemed to me The Bills missed a million Tackles in that 1st Half, and Adams job is to plug more than Tackle. Like I said I really was not paying much attention to Sam except on that one Play, but certainly he can't be solely blamed for that piss poor 1st Half performance vs. the Run... B)
Actually you were very perceptive there, but the technique was undiscilpined by SA. In fact I believe that the play you mentioned was what initially got the staff so upset. Sam's job on that play should be to occupy blockers, not penetrate and create a new void or hole where he exited from. Sam still wants to be a star still and gather QB sacks and national attention. The Bills have a very sound scheme that only works when the players simply do their own specific assignments and don't worry about trying to be "the man".
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Simply Hillarius!!!!
Jeez what does it say about our other defenders when our best defender this year sucks ?
Put down the pipe.
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As the cliche goes, "Where is Rico and what have you done with him?"
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Other than experience, Edwards has bulked up quite a bit over the past two seasons. He's got the DT "gut" now if you will. He has also fine tuned his techniques under Krumrie. He may not ever be the run stuffer that SA is, but atleast he's a team player, can rush the passer.
side - Bike Mike played yet another very good game yesterday, and if you actually look at him you will also notice that the extra weight is gone and I bet he's back to where the team wants him.
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Down with PTR ;-(
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TH was interviewed off audio today after the game and was reported to respond with a genuine sense of support for WM. I really believe the 2 of them have come together and worked out this thing amongst themselves. They both realize that they may not remain together much beyond this season and have accepted the fact.
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NIIIIICE!
I particularly liked Willis's stiff arm on the whatshisname db that hit him out of bounds earlier...
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Price again showed that he is a better than average player who can step in for fairly long periods if needed. He had a lot of help (by design) from the Te's lining up frequently on the left side of the formation and getting chip blocks on JT. Jennings until playing with the effects of a concusion, had been playing well up until the injury, and has always palyed well when not injured.
McGahee played great today! Showed great ball handling and great leg drive today most of all. The good thing the way I see it is atleast for this year, we will have the priveledge of having 2 quality backs in our stable. It's not a requirement in liking one of our backs to hate the other.
Edwards did play well, especially on passing downs! I couldn't believe the news about Sam Adams. It's gonna be hard to keep him on the team after that incident.
The win definetely felt great as a fan!
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I start this as a new thread because even though it covers the same ground pursued in another thread. I think an honest football based answer to this question provides an answer that neither the folks who focus too much attention on his play as the central question for the Bills seem to want to confront.
I think he played an OK game today, but generally the same weaknesses (and strengths) which he has displayed most of this season were there.
I agree with Simon that Bledsoe made a number of seemingly unforgiveable errors by a starting NFL QB. He clearly overthrew some receivers one would hope and even expect an NFL starting QB to hit. He exercised some really poor judgment on a few of his throws where the only answer for a Bills rooter was thank gosh Zach Thomas has hands of stone. The great leadership which he has shown in this town marketing the Bills product was not matched by great in-field leadership which encourages/forces his teammates to perform well and this was reflected in Takeo Spikes being our biggest offensive weapon in the first half.
Nevertheless, we won the game as offensive blocking finally provided him with a bit of time, Bledsoe once again demonstrated that you need not be a good runner to buy siome critical time at QB, and the D was maddening giving uo 1st downs on some critical ong yardage third down situation but this time stepped up with a lead to make a crucial goal line stand and get some timely sacks to win the game.
The bottomline for me is that Bledsoe looked pretty much the same to me as a performer in this game and ironically desoite the fact he was generally the same in my view as a performer we racked up a W against this very bad team instead of producing an L.
Face it Bledsoe worshippers, he is no longer the QB (if he ever was) to lift this team onto his broad shoulders and lead them to even a winning season much less an SB.
However, also face it Bledsoe bashers even if he is a statue he is quite capable of being the QB of a team which can win in this league, can even make the SB with some phenomenal coaching and he can even play an essential role in helping a team win an SB with some extraordinary circumstances.
Face it, Bledsoe was the QB on a team which made the SB in conjunction with (or behind the phenomenal coaching work of Bill Parcells and his NE colleagues. He also played an essential role QBing NE to a win in a must win game in place of an injured Brady in the 2001 season running a BB/Weis offense built a long a low risk model for the young Brady.
Bledsoe played well enough today to be part of the Bills getting a W at home against a bad team and so far this season has played at about the same level to unfortunately not allow the TEAM to win against better coached teams experiencing some good luck (bad ref calls mostly) where virtually none of the Bills not only are unable to pick-up and load the team on their shoulders at critical times but also make some bad individual plays at the wrong time like commitng undisciplined penalties.
I hope the main thing which comes from today's great victory is that all you folks who were already composing your posts about how Bledsoe is a total failure will look at reality and realize that though Bledsoe is no longer (if he ever was) capable of winning games on his own, it is also not his failings as a player which has caused this team to lose games. He certainly had a role, but Bledsoe's play is well below even a secondary area where this team can and needs to improve in order to become a TEAM and a winner.
FFS, Let's just say the old television set doesn't always give you quite the perspective of reality that you think it is providing. I was at the game and the winds were a consistent 20 to 30 mph with varying gusts. Other than the ball carrying on play 1 due to a gale force gust, DB's passes today largely appeared as though there really wasn't any wind. Didn't you maybe wonder for a second why every single one of Fiedler's passes wobbled like wounded seagulls (touchdown pass included)?
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Fact:
Spikes was in mid blitz on the screen play and pulled off due to a good READ of the quarterback and the screen setup. That is how he made the INT.
Why there are complaints about the defense today I can't even begin to understand.
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Bill, while I agree it's been a long time since you could feel real good about the Ol (@ '94) I really gotta wonder why you continue to root for this team (do you "root" or do you hope for failure to clarify your points in a message board?) . Everyone is either a loser or fat or sucks I mean you sound like a disgruntled house wife or something. You make some solid points at times but to me it is often clouded by your secondary school aproach to ridiculing these players. I'm sure a token answer is forthcoming...
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Price playing spot duty for Jennings normally would not worry me. The difference now is that we have Price / Smith(newb)/ Tucker (for the injured Teague) forming our left side. That, my friends, scares me ....
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Good work Kzoo, that's a nice layout and you express your points well. The only problem I see is that you tend to weigh the cheap, minimum/low salary signing failures (Robinson/ Watson, etc.) up there or equally with the high priced FA signings (which btw have all worked out pretty well). Sometimes you just take a stab at a player and if there is nothing really to lose in return, no harm done.
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And what that has happened this season would possibly bring this about?