GunnerBill
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Where'd you get your numbers? Spotrac has the Bills at $12.3M in space for the top 51 as of now.
A few of the sites were slow allocating the Hodges and Streeter money so was probably that.
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Mike G. veteran running back in the league
Jon Williams.....rookie coming off of full year not playing due to injury?
Do we not take this into account when making this comparison?
The concerns are legitimate based on tape. Can we "project" on JWill? Sure. But you shouldn't expect that everyone is going to do that.
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I have seen him do this but I think your right in that he becomes a runner when he decides to pull the ball down.....in which case it becomes BETTER for the receiver to turn blocker
Holmes is actually a willing and pretty good blocker. Maybe not Bob Woods level but pretty good all the same.
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So we could of easily afforded an extra couple of million for Mike Gillislee ! What a waste. Would be interested to know whether that was a Whaley decision or a McDermott decision.
And an absolute NO to Byrd. Suspect his foot injury might flare up again.
Whaley made no decisions this offseason.
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While I understand Not overpaying Woods, I think you severely undervalue what Woods brought to the game for the Bills. Not just as a receiver, but as a blocker for Taylor and the running game when the pass plays broke down. Which happened way too often. Jones is already hurt, and is a total question mark at receiver until we see him in the regular season. He is a glimmer of hope, but as this point is just a dream, not a reality. Neither Holmes or Brown has shown themselves to be a #2 WR, much less a # 3. Maybe one could outperform their history and become a decent #3 (Goodwin's replacement). But based on their past history, they could also both end up being #4 talent as well.
Holmes is an upgrade on Goodwin. There is no question about that. His best career year is way better than Goodwin's. My concern is more that I see all 3 of our best WRs - Sammy, Holmes and Zay as outside guys. I know Blokes saw Zay more as a slot receiver so maybe he ends up in there.... maybe they move Sammy around.... but it does concern me a little bit. If Sammy stays healthy I think Jones and Holmes bring enough support for him (with a good dose of Clay and Shady as a receiver). It is if Sammy goes down and Zay and Holmes become your 1-2 that I really worry.
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this will be a facinating year. in my eyes it is two season. Taylor really has 10 games to get it done. If this team is 4-6 or worse then they should go to Peterman or Jones for the final 6
I broadly agree with that. If the team looks done with 6 to play I'd like to see some Peterman (doubt Jones makes the roster).
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I'm glad you've come around!
Me too. There were so many died in the wool Rex defenders on here a year ago.... about time some of them gave a mea culpa.
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6-10 is what I expect. I hope we might hit .500.
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Clay is not milking his knee. He has a chronic knee injury that will never be "fixed". That is a reason for being smart with his practice reps. It is also a reason for not giving him the largest % guaranteed money contract to a non Quarterback in the whole league......
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Going to any championship trophy games?
Nah. I am a Test match snob. Ain't been to an international 1 day game in about 7 or 8 years.
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Yeah it is having an impact I think. Doesn't Sky broadcast NFL games everyweek with their own panel of analysts similar to what networks here do with Premier League?
Yea but they were doing that way before the International Series games, though viewing figures are up considerably in the last 5 or 6 years.
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Indeed. And my guess is JWill does not win the #2 job. I think one of the less heralded guys beats him out. O'Neal or Banyard.we just have to trust that they know what they're doing, i guess.
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Of course it sums it up. All he said is that for the Bills to be good, the defense has to be good, the run game has to be good and the pass game has be good.
Powerful insight.
I think what I said was a bit more nuanced than that. It was a specific element of each that I identified as needing to be good.
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, did you really want to pay our back up running back 4mm? we'll be fine.
Where did I say that?
I just don't think JWill is the answer and think they should have tendered MG higher.
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I guess the games in London aren't bringing the international fanfare Goodell thought it would? Or maybe teams like the Patriots and Steelers need to start playing games over there?
They are having a big effect in the UK.... in London and the south east. Whenever I move jobs in London there are NFL fans in the new office. When I go "home" in northern England it is still seen as very niche. London and the South East of England is very different to the rest of the UK. Viewing figures for NFL in the UK are up but I suspect it is massively skewed geographically. Blokes lives nearer where I am from and he was saying there is 1 bar in Manchester he knows show games. I know half a dozen that show the Sunday games within 5 miles of me in London.
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Alright GB, enjoy the matches. Question, what can you see during the game from the stands? It looks like you are very far away from the action, the best seats are further away than decent baseball seating, do you watch on large screens to show the details of a bowl?
When the quicks are on you wanna be either behind the bowler or behind the batsman. If you are watching from the side it can be a bit of a blur. You see when the slower bowlers are on. But it is just a great day. We always get seats at the commentary box end at Lords opposite the pavilion. I was there in Durham 2013 as well when we sealed the Ashes by taking 7 or 8 Aussie wickets in the final session just as the light faded. That was one of the best sporting atmospheres I have ever been in.
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Seriously. Clayton sounds like he's BSing his way through an oral exam during his WGR segments, not that Schopp cares.
He makes Schopp and Bulldog (who I don't actually mind they are pretty funny you just can't take them seriously) look informed.
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I guess the list only about active players otherwise Tendulkar would be high on the list. He would come in top 5 you think?
Well I suppose it depends if you allowed non-active players from other sports and then how you judge fame. But Sachin is the finest batsman I have ever seen. Such incredible soft hands.
Great summer of a South Africa tour, then the Ashes.
I have tickets for 3 days of the South Africa test at Lords. And I am going to the Windies test there later in the summer too. Be a hard job down under this winter though. I think one or two of our older boys are beginning to creek. Jimmy particularly.
Yeah right. Preston Brown can't walk down the streets in Paris or Liverpool without a mob of fans wanting his autograph or picture.
To be fair getting mobbed in Liverpool can happen to anyone......
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Oh yes for sure, I still have Botham posters in my sports cave and listen to every word when he broadcasts for test and ODI and T20s, usually do a lot of fast fowarding if he's off the mic...
Botham the player was just before my time. He had retired just as I got into cricket. He is a fantastic commentator. The last 10-15 have been for the most part good for English cricket. When I was a kid in the 90s we were terrible!
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Dhoni less so the last calendar year, winding it down...
He is still a legend over there though.. captained them in all 3 formats, they became the no 1 test team for the first time under him. He is a huge superstar. Kohli is clearly in the prime of his career which helps but Dhoni is an Indian cricket legend right up there with Gavaskar and Sachin.
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My three questions for the Bills season are:
- Defense - front end and back end working together. I worry about the inexperience in the secondary but if they are only having to cover fora couple of seconds it will make their jobs easier. Can the front 4 get the requisite pressure to force the ball out quick and protect the back end?
- Run game - how does our o-line execute the stretch zone? Roman's run scheme had a bit of everything in it and the line generally executed to a high standard in the run game. Apparently Dennison and OL coach / run game coordinator Juan Castillo have discussed keeping some of the good stuff from Roman's playbook in so it might be more multiple than a classic Shanahan / Kubiak / Dennison zone stretch scheme but if it is primarily a zone stretch scheme that is going to ask different things of our big guys. I hope they can adjust.
- Passing game - Can Tyrod step up in the clutch? I think McDermott is going to keep a lot of games tight and so there will be moments when we need Tyrod to make those 3 or 4 big throws in a 4th Quarter and on vital 3rd downs. He needs to be more efficient in those scenarios and it comes with better, quicker, reading of the field and diagnosing what he sees.
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Not a Clayton fan at all
I think he is useless on WGR. Of all the national guys they could get on weekly they could at least try and find someone who makes some effort to understand what is going on in the market he is about to discuss.
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Hi-light of the month, work colleague comes in with the list and asks me for someone ranking high that "nobody has ever heard of."
Virat Kohli is my reply in a microsecond. He thinks I'm even more of a rainman freak now.
Nah, just a cricket fan, being the top player of a country like India would be worth face recognition by the billions.
Yea I knew Kohli and Dhoni would be on this list. India is a huge country and cricket mad.
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If you took out the endorsements variable, I would have to believe that Messi would be #1. Simply put he is the most dominating pro that we've seen in any sport since Michael Jordan.
Best player ever in the world's biggest sport.... but the list is about fame. I'm not surprised to see Ronaldo ahead of him in that regard. Messi lives a quieter, more unassuming, (and a little more tax dodging) existence....
I've had the privilege to see them both live a handful of times. Messi is incredible.
No surprise here. As far as the world is concerned the NFL is a regional nuanced sport. Outside of the US they have heard of Brady (maybe) but revere Messi, Christiano, Pogba, Neymar......
Pogba? Pogba? Seriously.... he isn't in the same league as those other three. Speaking from a general UK perspective the two NFL players that none fans mention when they find out I love the NFL are Brady (obviously) and OBJ (I think the Beckham name helps).
Rex and rob what clowns
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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You see I have respect for you Peter because you were a Rex guy when he was here and are still defending him. I think you were wrong then and wrong now but when I look around this thread I see more than one person who spent a lot of time on here defending the Ryans over the past 2 years now joining in the criticism of their character with no sense of irony. Rex (and Rob) are who they have always been. Rex is the same guy now as he was the day he told us "we're going." Clown show then, clown show now, clown show forever.