BillsGuyInMalta

Its official, Warren is done for the season. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/...for-the-season/ Good news for us, bad news for New England.

The next time we Bills fans want to complain about our 4th round WR going down with an injury, lets remember it could be a LOT worse.

It is pretty much identical to last year's franchise mode, right down to the same background they use for appropriate stages of the offseason. I took over the Bears and after the first season I fired Lovie and his entire staff. In his place: Greggo! He comes with +2 to every LBs awareness so I figured it was worth it. Brought in Norv Turner as my offensive coordinator and Rob Ryan to man the defense. Bobby April is the special teams coach. Funny thing is that I simmed the first game of the season and my Bears were up 21-0 at the beginning of the 4th QTR and lost 24-21. Gregg Williams' game planning at its finest!

Whats the over/under on how many minutes it takes after the game starts for the first "DOOOOOOMED" thread?

I'm going to go with the Niners. They play in a weak division, have a ridiculously easy schedule and a defense that is getting better and better.

To me, Clausen looked very average last night. While I give him props for his pocket presence as he didn't seemed phased at all by the pressure, he made some VERY questionable throws that would have been easily picked off had he been playing against a first string defense. The one play that really jumps out to me is when Terrence Cody burst through the line and was (slowly) trying to chase him down and Clausen threw off his back foot into a group of Ravens defenders. What was confusing to me was he really didnt have to throw the ball there, he could have tucked it and ran for a few or thrown it out of bounds since Cody clearly wasn't going to catch him in a foot race. In a real NFL game, that errant throw will net the opposing team 6 points. I'm actually in the camp that believes Clausen will be a pretty good pro, but lets not break out the knee pads yet since he'll go through quite a bit of growing pains before he is ready.

Its something minor I know, but I love it when CJ was drawing up his favorite play on the board...stops...and then changes the slot receiver's route assignment saying that he (the slot WR) can run two different patterns depending on the situation. That impressed the hell out of me, knowing what other players on the offense's route responsibilities are.

I know a lot of us were expecting Easley to contribute this year, I suppose if there is a silver lining to all of this its that Chad Jackson has surprised everyone in camp and looks ready to fill the void. As mentioned earlier though, if he's gone for the year I really would like to see another WR brought in...especially with Jenkins also hurt.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttccccccchhhhhhhhhh!!!!! BURN HIM!

Great job Mike, I love hearing about Stupar's performance!

Even IF Troup is as advertised, losing Williams would be disaster considering how thin we already are at NT. Still though, as noted above, it all seems to be over nothing and Kyle should be fine.

The Bills better hope that Williams' hand injury is nothing too serious considering the only other NTs on roster are a rookie and a guy who has never played in a regular season game.

Thanks for the update, interesting note about using Ellis back at DE in situational plays.

Me too, its probably the best NCAA game I've ever played. I've heard very mixed things about Madden this year, I think I'm going to try to get it on Gamefly first before/if I buy.

I'd probably get upset after the third beer was dumped over my head.

I feel like they do this too. I also think nobody works there on Sundays during the offseason since no Bills news ever occurs on Sunday. Heck, one could argue nobody works there on Sundays during the regular season over the last 10 years.

From where I was, I didn't see Trent complete much of anything. I wasn't around the QBs much for the individual drills but when it came to 7 on 7 and the final scrimmage, he did very little to move the ball. Basically the same thing we're all used to, lot of dump off passes.

Met up with my parents who came in from Albany for lunch in Rochester (garbage plates galore) and then we all made the pilgrimage to training camp. I thought my GPS was trying to lead me onto the set of the Children of The Corn with how much farmland I ended up driving through, but I eventually landed in the Mendon parking lot as I was supposed to. So sadly no Stephen King-esque horrors befell me. As for the camp itself, it looked pretty full to me...maybe the earlier practices had sparse attendance but this one was pretty packed, especially for a Tuesday. It didnt come close to last year's TO-mania, but it's definitely comparable to the last few years. It was hotter than hell out there today, lots of players tossing down the Gatorade cups and a few situations of heat cramps arose. Nothing too serious. As for the particulars... QB: Trent Edwards had a pretty terrible day. He was throwing a lot of dump-off passes and a lot of times looked like he didnt know where he wanted to throw the ball and ended up just tossing it to the ground. He tried to squeeze a bomb down the sidelines but his guy was pretty well covered and it ended up going out of bounds anyways. Brohm had some serious trouble in the snap drills, he fumbled the snap 3 times from Hangartner. However he was MUCH better on the 7 on 7 and full scrimmage practices. One play in particular was quite good where it ended up being a rollout screen...got out to the flat, threw the ball perfectly to Chad Simpson who scampered for a huge gain with plenty of blockers in front of him. In the endzone drills, he lead his team to a TD all 3 times (including a beauty of a throw over to middle to Stupar) while Trent Edwards failed to punch it in during his 3 chances. Fitzpatrick had a pretty good day too, some nice over the middle slant passes. This competition is clearly going to be decided by pre-season games. RB: All of the running backs looked really good today with Fred Jackson and Joique Bell getting special props. Jackson (on a kickoff return) caught the ball over his shoulder, reversed field and would have had at least a 50 yard return, if not more. Bell is really quick and hit the holes with authority. Lynch looked good too, he seems to be hitting his stride after missing all of the mini camps. WR: Nothing really that special today as the QBs didnt give them much to work with. James Hardy probably had the best catch of the day from Fitzpatrick, pulling in a long bomb for a TD where he totally outmuscled the CB covering him. The Bills practiced A LOT of fade routes today, methinks we'll see a lot of Hardy in those situations. Chad Jackson has a solid day too, didn't drop any of the passes I saw thrown at him during the 7 on 7s or the position practices. TE: Interesting note, Jonathan Stupar practiced with the first team when they were practicing running plays and Shawn Nelson started when they were practicing passing plays. Nelson really struggles with his blocks, but he brought in some very nice passes over the middle. Stupar is his usual self, catches everything in reach and lays into people during blocks. Schouman ended up being stripped on one play for a fumble and Matthews got hit HARD by two secondary players in the endzone. It looked like there could be another fight after Matthews got up and started yelling about the hit, but everyone just walked back to the huddle and it was forgotten. O-Line: The running game is waaaaaaaaaaaaay ahead of the passing game at this point. They actually opened up some really nice holes for the running backs and all of the backs were quick through them. I actually feel a little bit better about our tackle position than I did before today as Cornell Green looked very good today, the guy was pretty much a wall. Meredith looked good filling in for Bell when he needed a rest at LT. Kyle Calloway stood up Marcus Stroud on pass rush drills when he was filling in at RT. The interior O-Line did struggle for the most part though in pass rush drills. D-Line: ...damn, this is the one spot where I was expecting very little and saw quite a bit. First off, Alex Carrington was the star of the practice IMO. In the pass rush drills, the guy was absolutely unblockable. What impressed me was that it wasnt just one move, he has a variety of pass rushing moves and even ended up throwing a lot of O-Linemen backwards into the "QB". I left camp thinking that we have a future star in Carrington. Kyle Williams has sold me on his ability to man the NT, I watched him just blow up Hangartner and storm the backfield on two consecutive rush drills. Stroud, aside from getting owned by Calloway on that one play, also got quite a bit of pressure and looks a lot less flabby than in years past. Troup got double-teamed for most of the plays he was involved in and still managed to push them back a bit which is honestly the best you can hope for out of your space clogging NT. This was the unit I was most impressed with, they look to have very good starters and (shockingly) quite a bit of depth behind them. Can't wait to see them in pre-season. LBs: Nobody really stood out to me today, Antonio Coleman has some nice outside pass rushing skills, Donovan Woods (I think it was him) caused Schuman to fumble and Reggie Torbor was constantly around the ball. Aaron Maybin didn't have a great day, he was stuffed on all of the pass rush drills and did nothing during the 7 on 7 and scrimmage drills. It looked like he was getting coached pretty hard on the field and seemed to take it well. I feel like he really wants to get better but his skills just aren't translating well to the NFL level. CBs: McGee was in sweat pants so McKelvin took over the CB1 spot and had himself a great day. Lots of pass breakups and soft hands during INT drills. As usual all of our secondary guys looked good, Byrd really does go after every single football thrown his way, even in practice. He was laying out for them even if they were out of reach. Ellis Lankster also pulled in a few nice picks during the drills, tapping the sidelines to stay in bounds, I was impressed by that. Overall, I came away feeling a little better about our OT positions and a hell of a lot better about our D-Line. The Bills ran a lot of playaction today (I couldnt believe it either, I havent seen that in years) and a lot of screen passes so I would expect to see them heavily used during pre-season to iron out the kinks. Definitely a different tempo in Camp Gailey compared to Camp Jauron, the guys are doing a lot more work and seem to be far more energetic.

We need to put Childress and Vikings fans on suicide watch.

Its the lack of depth that is scaring the hell out of me right now. Not so much at LB but our Tackle position right now is god-awful, regardless of who starts. I know Wang was a rookie, but that now leaves us with Jamon Meredith and Nick Hennessey as our primary backups. Ugh. I dont know what Levi Jones did to make people think he can't play in the NFL, maybe he re-injured his knee in the offseason and thats why everyone is staying away from the guy, but he was Washington's best O-Lineman over the last half of 2009 and has experience at LT. I'd at least bring him in for a visit and a physical, I"m amazed he's still a FA. At best, he'll start. At worst, he's depth.

Batten also has a "fairly significant" shoulder injury. http://blogs.buffalobills.com/2010/08/02/b...miss-some-time/ The only amusing part of all of this is in Chris Brown's rush to get this news posted on his BB.com blog, he left in some pretty good misspellings. “Danny hit his shoulder nad it’s a fairly significant injury and we’re going to have to look and see how long that takes for him to get back,” Gailey said. Poor guy, I wouldnt want anyone to ever hit my shoulder nad.

Yikes...even more non-participants. Still though, good to hear about Brohm having a great day.

You can only be beaten down so many times before the hope fades altogether.

From casual fans...maybe. I think any of the diehards are 100% aware of this team's front office ineptitude. Not like we can do anything about it, though.

I do love how jaded we've become as Bills fans where we cannot accept the fact that a football player might just be done playing football. We HAVE to break out the "two minutes of hate" every chance we get.