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Here's a thought... There's some really knowledgeable (x's and o's) posters on this board that are from the Rochester and surrounding areas in WNY. Some of them them use twitter. Many of them go to camp. You should all "follow" each other and them and include more of their play by play tweets in the mix and less tweets from the same 3 reporters who may not know the game at that level (ie. calling a pass overthrown when the WR went to the wrong spot or cut off his route ). Then at least we can formulate a more informed opinion when our Qb's F up

reading comprehension is an underrated skill.

Bruce by a landslide

Well put overall, however I'll add that not all posters are equally as clueless about what they see. Some have actually played a bit and/ or coached a bit. That's not to say they still can't be wrong of course Usually when the emotion and prior team history of it all is taken out of the analysis it's a lot more accurate. Then there's some things that are just retarded like expecting your QB to "scan the field" when it's a 3 step drop and his 1st read is wide opn and the pass needs to be on time.

You can't do that on a 3 step drop play. If you scanned the field the primary wr's window would be closed. If we're seeing that a lot on 5 and seven step drop plays that would be a different story.

Looks like he didn't set his hips and got worked in the upper body to me there .... He's lost his balance at the moment of that shot

that's probably a matter of personal preference. I'm fine with it though

Well done. Well done.

Guard might be an option sure.... RT might still be an option too. He's just gonna have to develop. It was one game. Maybe we'll see improvement on Friday.

His footwork leaves a lot to be desired. He'll need to progress quite a bit before Pears will need to worry about anything out there.

just one more thought ( again continue the wonderful rants ). If you have a three step drop called on a play and the 1st read is open (open meaning anything from wide-open to "in good position in single coverage"), you throw it to the 1st read. as long as the arm motion and follow through are high enough, you don't blame your Qb for getting the ball tipped at the line there. So yeah, other than the mis-read LB he didn't see on the near-pick play, and looking back again I didn't see any bad throws or "not going through his progressions". Throw to Williams in end zone was good, Deep throw to Watkins was where it was supposed to be, conversion to Lee Smith was nice. Not sure where all these bad throws and reads were. This is neither a post in support of or bashing EJ.Just real football stuff.

All I know is they said he's been around the league for a few years... He was certainly making the most of his opportunity out there in the 2nd half.

I'm pretty sure our head coach called out the O-line in being responsible for 2 of the 3 tipped passes at the line. Henderson mysteriously disengaged his opponent early on the one. Not sure on the other. Also pretty sure our head coach was a former NFL lineman. The one tipped ball to be concerned of was the near interception. Ej needs to see that guy sliding into coverage. Carry on the rants I guess ....

Agreed. Not that I don't think Robey did a great Job, but McKelvin's role had a much higher degree of difficulty and he had his best season as a pro.

Lazy or at least incomplete. Nobody could answer my question above for example about the method of ranking D-Lineman for PFF (I figured someone more familiar with their methods would know), which leads me to think that they don't have a true accurate evaluation process in place for them. It all seems like more of a football = Dungeons and Dragons approach that they use, which leaves out huge important factors.

Paranoid much?

If some people only knew the depth of issues that our former heroes Talley, Bennett, Kelly, Reed, Thomas and company got into and got away with

I was there with my father. He had worked with ex Bills LB Scott Radecic's father in law and we got a hold of some good seats next to him that way. By 35-3 (right after the 2nd half pick six) the father in law had seen enough and decided to leave. You could tell Dad felt really pressured to get the heck outta dodge too but stubborn 21 year old me would have none of it. Next was the "C'mon youre crazy if you think they could....." etc. etc. In those times we had seen that team do enough amazing things with consistency that I did Billieve. Sure enough, the nearly impossible outcome was acheived... Never again will a victory (even a Super Bowl) feel quite that special to both my father and I, that's for sure...

hmm , must be a mystery .... or a stumper

does pff have a stat for D-lineman for occupying 2 blockers or having a chip block assigned to them? just curious... Also along those lines, how do they evaluate DT's considering there are two different types of Dt's really? The pluggers and the penetrators...

Mario is elite , period (and it's not just about sacks). If someone can't see that, they need to watch more tape/film/replays of him playing. He is a top 5 DE.

That plus I bet there was other competition for Watkins which upped the Ante ...

I think the 40 fronts will be much more similar to last season's 40 fronts than most people think. LOTS of assumptions going on about Schwartz's defense but he has never said he's going to a traditional 4-3 - he said there would be SOME tweaks and a lot of what was already working last year from everything I have seen at least.

I was right with you til the last part there... While that may be true, Whaley still relies deeply on Nix's insight on a regular basis. To add, take a look at the pics from the war room on the bills website last night. Nix knows players, period. Better than most. They all have failures...

OMFG!