The Dean
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Well it's not like he just goes out and murders random people, right? At least not that we know of...right? You say there's luxury cutlery in those boxes? That's really nothing to be worried about...r...r...right?
Maybe it's time to change seats...
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I agree with what you're saying. I do think our coaching is weak compared to some other teams.
Pats watched Hearns-Hagler to psych up for Falcons
That's an example of Belichick doing something a little bit different to get his boys going. MM will probably make the players eat more cheeseburgers next time we have a big game on the road.
This is a toatlly asinine thread...I only inteject here to point out some of the crazy s#it being talked about here.
First of all ALL GMs get involved in the starting QB decision...every single freaking one of them. Asking TD to be uninvolved is asking him to NOT do his job. Remember TD is a GENERAL MANAGER...not a Director of Player Personell or some other lesser position. He's G-freaking-M. Some of you think MMs a crummy coach...but that he should assume all of the GM duties, too. Yikes!
Secondly, this Hearns-Hagler thing is total BS when it comes to evaluating a coach. NE is much farther along on the team scale than the Bills (in case you haven't noticed). BB has the luxury of being able to use these kinds of techniques and give his players these kinds of "motivational" breaks. Whether or not they work is disputable...but many coaches use this sort of thing. (I'm sure even a really terrible coach like MM uses these kinds of things from time-to-time.)
Right now, I want the Bills watching game film and reading their playbooks. These things they can also do while eating cheesburgers, if they wish.
Finally, for now at least, is the just flat-out-stupid assertion that MM had little or nothing to do with last year's recovery. EVERYBODY (well at least everybody who knows ANYTHING...such as players, other coaches, owner, TD, etc.) credits MM for the turn around by: keeping calm...staying the course while making some minor adjustments. etc.
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Anyone notice that India of all places has some really beautiful women?
There is a very beautiful (and nice...and intelligent...etc) Indian woman who sometimes comes to the North Star in SF to watch her beloved Bills. Always a treat, I say.
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Well you may be right, too. But, his confidence is obviously better in Dallas...I believe because he has much better protection, as a rule. Drew rattles and that confidence goes south after he takes a beating. I think he'd take a beating here.
But I DID notice him throwing a decent screen pass. What's up with that?
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Just to clarify a few things:
The way FOX and CBS make most of their $ on the NFL is through ad sales at the local stations they own. (The networks usually lose $ on the NFL deal.) Both networks own big stations in LA. The question is (or one of the questions is), can they make more $ selling the local LA team, but losing the number of games they can sell? Right now, LA stations have no blackouts and fewer restrictions on game carriage than stations in markets with an NFL team.
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See, I disagree with that assessment. For example, we took several shots downfield against the Falcons at the start of the game. JPL missed them all, but that's Drew's bread and butter - no way does he overthrow all of those passes. I believe we would've won that game.
The Saints game is the same thing -- we took our shots, the ball was nowhere near the receivers, but I think DB would've gotten us those as well.
We would've lost the TB game, but I believe we would be 3-2 or 4-1 right now if we had kept the QB in there. No way to know for sure, but I've stated why I think that's true, even with our current OL.
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DB never even gets the throw off, IMO. JP buys time (and then makes an innacurate throw)...DB buys NO time. With DB, Miami would have just killed us IMO. KH got rid of the Ball very quickly and made accurate short throws. DB does neither of those things well.
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I agree with you. But I think TD thought that we were not ready to win now, and decided to go with JPL this season with KH and SM as the backups. Unfortunately, JPL was not quite ready, and KH will be the QB for 05. We might still get to the playoffs, but it is not because we cut Bledsoe.
DB would be eating carpet with the Bills this year. IMO our chances of winning with him this year (given our OL woes) would be nil.
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I guess you don't consider the AFC Championship a Big Game. His team won four of those in a row. (For the record, you don't get to the SB if you don't win the Championship game...a little Football 101 for ya.)
Levy's plaoff record is 11-8. Got to 4 Superbowls
Marty's playoff record is 5-12. How many SBs for Marty?
Good old ground Chuck Knox was 7-11. How many SBs for Mr. Knox?
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She said he was drinking "diet Pepsi". DIET Pepsi? Did she taste it? Did she ask the Juice, "Yo, OJ...what's in the cup?" Did he shake her hand and say, "You know, miss, this is simply a cup of diet Pepsi...in case anyone asks what I was drinking."?
Perhaps our friend the Plastic Cup can weigh-in on this vital issue.
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The OP asked about the stiff-arm. I think I read somewhere that defenders are very aware of it (and why wouldn't they be, when he put two or three guys out last year with it?) and are trying to avoid it when tackling him, i.e., coming in lower when he runs those sweeps. So he doesn't have as many opportunities to use the hammer.
Wilis didn't have a stiff arm in college...he admited it himself after a Bills game when he hammered a dude (can't remember which game or dude). It just wasn't part of his arsenal.
He developed it as a Bill. IMO, he picked it up while practicing with a back with the best stiff arm in the league right now, Travis Henry.
But, you are correct, defenders are probably aware of it. That doesn't mean there's no opportunity for a smack or two along the way.
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Don't want to split hairs - and my British understanding of the US judicial process may not be 100% - but OJ was proven not guilty and acquitted of all charges in a criminal court. Technically speaking he was not guilty of the crime he was charged for.
In a civil court OJ was found to be liable for the deaths - he was not found guilty in that sense of the phrase.
Well, you'd be wrong. In a US court it is up to the prosecution to prove guilt. If they do not prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the jury must find the defendant not guilty. The defense does not prove "not guilty". He was aquited because the prosecution didn't prove him guilty.
You are correct when you say "Technically speaking he was not guilty of the crime he was charged for". But he wasn't "proven" not guilty...he simply was not proven guilty. so he was "found" not guilty.
In Civil court the standard is different. They are not bound by "reasonable doubt" but by the preponderance of the evidence (where's the damn spell check?).
I'm neither supporting nor attacking OJ. Just wanted to help clear up your confusion with US law procedures.
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Sullivan may be a deceent writer, but it's clear he knows next-to-nothing about football. In this instance he got a perfectly acceptable answer for a post-game press conference. Asking a head coach about next week before he's had a chance to look at film, evaluate preformances, find out if there were any injuries, etc. is just stupid.
"We'll have to evaluate that...." is actually one of the the only reasonable answers any competent head coach should give in that situation.
Now, if this were Wednesday, Jerry would have a point.
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Merely that point production is the major achilles heel of the 2005 Bills and it was a strength of our offense over the second half of 2004.
You're correct that (like every QB) Bledsoe has his warts, and surely he's no fit for a team with poor pass blocking, but even with all the awful things about his game he was productive here. Lack of productivity at the QB spot has been tough on all the other areas of our team to date in 2005. We look like we can muster enough D to win if we can get 20-25 first downs from the offense; those measures were easily met by the Bledsoe offenses on most Sundays.
We'll ultimately be better off, but I think maybe for a little bit different reason. Right now we might very well have a better record had we kept Bledsoe, because even with all those warts he does have a weapon that complements our WR squad much more so than the Cowboys IMO. At the same time the 2005 Bills have too many roster holes to be considered a threat in the post season. The prudent thing is to give the best effort we can to get in position to win, as the coaching staff finally did this past Sunday.
Bledsoe/Losman seems to be a perfect example of "be careful what you wish for". In my mind our coaches blew it by "wishing for" a mobile QB, and they encouraged JP to run. It took them a few weeks of regular season starts to realize what a huge error that was, but they're apparently through it. Now we'll have to wait and see how many weeks JP has to sit and watch someone throw from the pocket before they'll try him out again.
And the bad news all the way around is that the jackasses on this board who continue to spew hatred of a QB who played for us prove week after week just how little they understand the position by their need for continued attacks against a guy who seems to have landed himself in a good spot for himself and his toolbox. And since I'm hesitant to feel sympathetic towards anyone with a star on their uniform I'll confine my sympathy to the poor kids trying to make something happen with our current offense- it seems just a matter of weeks before the hate spewers will pick up their banners of vile to begin maligning another quarterback wearing a Bill's uni. Ignorance is one of the greatest of the shames.
I see...and I agree, for the most part. I don't think the Bills would have two wins with DB and THIS line. Remember, right now, our line is worse than anything we fielded last year. I don't think Drew's weapon would have been a factor in the last few games as he sold have spent most of them on his backside. When we get some of these guys back and have a few consecutive games with the same OL I think you'll see an increase in our offensive production no matter who's at QB. Of course, I only predict this if the Bills commit to running the damn ball!
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I know that you have a point (you usually do)...but I can't find it. Pretend I'm stoopid (no great acting feat, there) and 'splain what you mean, please.
Thanks
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My point was (and remains) that releasing DB was the right thing to do given the existing situation. Obviously TD gets some (a lot?) of the blame for that situation...but, the situation is what it is right now. As this was a praise Drew thread, I wanted to note that I believe we are better this year w/o DB.
I agree that TD's big failing with this club has been the continuing OL problems. But, I don't think TD could have "fixed the line" this offseason. Getting rid of DB was a move he was able to make this offseason.
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So it is the Oline that caused Bledsoe to look bad, but TD was correct for cutting the cancer?
Parcells gets the most from his players?
We are better off with JP or KH than with DB at QB?
I am lost here.
Bottom line...
With a good OL, DB looks like a Pro Bowl QB. TD should have built a better OL.
With a good coach, DB looks like a Pro Bowl QB. TD should have chosen a better coach for the TALENT he brought in.
Bottom line, DB was not the problem, the OL and coaching was and is the problem.
An please do not tell me that DB plays better at the beginning of the season, we were 0-4 last year.
Let's make no mistake about this:
The Bills are FAR FAR better off without Bledsoe. I wasn't a Bledsoe basher, but it was time for him to leave this team. I always thought that, in the right situation, he could still be a good QB. Dallas is closer to that "right situation". But, don't assume he's going to continue on this pace. Remember, he looked GREAT for half a season here, too. (Of course, Dallas doesn't have Kevin Killdrive to worry about.) He was a Pro-Bowl QB here, if you remember, until teams remembered what they should have known about him from his days as a Patriot: Hit him early and hard and he's done. Once Drew literally "feels" the pressure, he figuratively feels it for the rest of the game and he has NO ability to avoid it.
Now you can turn this into a reason to bash TD if you want...have at it. Clearly this is the contuning problem with this team. But, fixing the line is not as easy as you make it sound. It isn't done overnight. Given the line situation, would you want DB as the QB this year?
As for the genius Parcells...well, he's certainly better than Greggo and Killdrive...that's for sure. But, remember old Bill has ZERO superbowl rings without Bellicheck...none...nada...zip! BB has three without Parcells. But, I digress. Dallas is 3-2 and the Bills are 2-3. You'd think the Cowboys were undefeated and the Bills were winless with some of the talk on this board. I honestly believe that the Bills would have a worse record if DB were starting at QB (and I think Dallas would have a worse record with either of the Bills QBs).
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Sure, you question them now, and ask for them to change what they do.
Its very easy to stick by what you believe when things are going good. Only great coaches and executives have the fortitude to stick to those convictions when things are going bad- and IMHO, thats what Mularkey and Donahoe are doing, and if they didn't believe in what they're doing, how can the players ever be expected to.
If Mularkey thinks benching Losman is best for him and the team, then so be it. He knows better than me, or any of you.
Patience is the way to go- no team really ever came out of nowhere- no matter what the ESPN crew says about Baltimore and St. Louis- they were terrible for years, and got a bunch of good players year after year in the draft before things clicked.
While my gut is against the move (I thought JP played pretty well the last game...too many dropped passes), I support the staff right now. We've got to let them make the decisions and then see how they work out. It's far too early to jump all over them (or JP). If JP hs the right stuff he'll weather this setback with no problem.
Burger King Commericals
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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In the one where the King dances in the end zone I think it's pretty clear it's a woman in the King suit. Thin shapely legs...little girly dance...big old King-head.
YIKES!