GunnerBill
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9 OLB KHALIL MACK BUFFALO
41 OT CYRUS KOUANDJIO ALABAMA
73 TE TROY NIKLAS NOTRE DAME
105 ILB YAWIN SMALLWOOD UCONN
137 RB JAMES WHITE WISCONSIN
169 QB TAJH BOYD CLEMSON
201 CB WALT AIKENS LIBERTY
I quite liked mine..... not sure how realistic Mack sliding to 9 is but once he was there I felt I had to take him ahead of Richardson who was still there as an OT, but Kouandjio fell to me as the BPA in round 2, which I don't think would be a terrible outcome. Niklas was a bit of a reach according to their board in round 3, but I think we have to take a tight end somewhere and if Tajh Boyd slipped to the 6th round In wouldn't think twice about picking him.
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I think he will be even more aware of his surroundings than if he were heterosexual.... to the extent that I'm sure he will be looking anywhere but at his team mates gentiles, because he will be anxious to act even more sensitively than he needs to. The idea that he will be thinking "hey tough loss today.... but now it's shower time.... every cloud..." is ludicrous.
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I was born..... I was 6 years old, but living in the UK I was completely oblivious to it. It was another 10/11 years before I began following the NFL and the Buffalo Bills. My feelings are kind of mixed.... and let me explain this.... when I watch those highlights and the missing rings America's Game etc I feel sorry that that great Bills team didn't win a Superbowl. It deserved one. I feel for Marv Levy who deserved a Superbowl too and obviously I feel a kind of sympathy pain for all you Bills fans that were there or can remember that moment. I watched my soccer team lose a Champions League Final very late on not all that many years ago and that was pretty devastating.
However.... from a purely selfish perspective there is a bit of me that is secretly quite glad we didn't win one, because the first one is always the best. And you only get to win the first one once.... and I can now live in perpetual hope that one day I will see the Buffalo Bills win their first Superbowl. And then I will cry probably for days. When it comes to sport defeat never reduces me to tears.... but success does.
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They had a couple of Raven games on over here down the stretch. He didn't look the same player to me, but then he wasn't quite being used in the same way as in 2012. I would not be against taking a flier on him, so long as the numbers made sense and it was a short term deal. I do think fully fit he is better than Chandler.
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I'm jealous
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Not me man, the gay dudes love me. Ive been small talked/hit on a few times.
So all gay men love you? Have you ever been hit on by a woman? Maybe all woman kind love you too?
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Nope, if a gay man is allowed in a locker room full of men. Than a straight man should be allowed in a locker room with females. Prove to me how it's not a double standard.
You are the person asserting something. The purden of proof is on you. Nothing you have said so far proves your assertion.
Is a straight man a woman?
Nope and it's a double standard.... probably.
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It's not acceptable to stare at naked people in a locker room. That is not acceptable behaviour. If someone did that in a locker room that I was in and I felt it was at a level where it was inappropriate I wouldn't ask about his sexuality first I would tell him that his behavious was not acceptable. I don't know about America but here in the UK we have plenty of municipal swimming baths with family areas where men and women are naked in the same area. We don't have lots of issues with creeps staring at people. If that did happen someone would make a complaint and the person would be removed. It's about behavioural standards I'm afraid. That principle does not change wheher it's a single gender changing facility or a mixed gender facility.
I would suspect that Michael Sam will be extra aware of his need to behave appropriately in the locker room when he first arrives in an NFL setting and will show the necessary sensitivity to his team mates as I'm sure he has at college seeing as there seems to have been no problems highlighted in his college career.
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If a gay guy is allowed in a locker room full of naked men than a straight man should be allowed in a locker room with females. That's my point, its a double standard and cannot be proved otherwise.
So because a gay man has the opportunity if so inclined to act like a creep in a locker room (which would not be acceptable behaviour) then you as a straight man should be granted that same opportunity to act inappropriately or else it's a double standard?
I'd think again if I were you.
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Looking and staring are not the same thing are they? I'm sure there are hetrosexual men who look at your "ding dong" in the locker room... you were suggesting homosexual men will stare at it (presumably because you think they will be attracted to you) and it would freak you out in some way. Staring at someone who is naked in a locker room is not in your genealogy, it's just creepy.
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I don't think cutting Stevie this year saves them much unless I'm mistaken? I think he could well be cut next year though unless he has a big season.
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I really like the Jim Hostler hire. Nate Hackett is clearly a guy who brings a boat load of energy but sometimes being young and enthused and full of ideas is not a good thing if you can't focus your mind to the most important details. I see Hostler as a guy that Hackett can really lean on and learn from. I wonder if the plan will be to have Hostler in the box and Hackett down on the sideline where he ended last season? A voice saying to him "Nate let's slow it down here" or "let's open it out here" at the right moment could really improve him as a young coordinator I think.
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Good decision by the Saints. None of those 4 really contributed much last year. Vilma is done and Greer had a bad injury as mentioned. Not convinced the other two were ever all that good.
A less good decision might be tying up too much money in Jimmy Graham. That Saints team is still missing peices if it is going to win in the NFC (even their own conference is going to be very tough next year if Atlanta get healthy and bounce back and with Lovie in Tampa) and if they sign Jimmy Graham to a massive contract, with Brees already eating a huge amount of cap space I'm not sure they have much room to then manouvre.
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Oh, then why don’t you prove it with a link? There are now a whole host of meanings and specific “homophobias”, but the original meaning was exactly what I stated, and that is a FACT..
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As an English born, English speaking, English language graduate (first class honours no less), residing in England I can assure you that you are incorrect. Not that I think you will take any notice.
I honestly could care less if someone is gay or not gay. The thing that gets me is the locker room thing. I go to the gym 5-6 days a week and I can see how it might be rather weird for some people. I mean if your gay and your in a mens locker room with naked men everywhere with there dongs hanging out, that turns you on...I mean would you not stare at them just like I would stare at a naked women because that is attractive to me since I am straight. If its okay for gay men to be in a locker room with naked guys than I want to be in a coed locker room with naked girls. It goes both ways, but obviously a double standard is there.
I think the issue is you sir. Staring at people you are attracted to is not reasonable behaviour, regardless of their gender or your sexual preference. There are no double standards here.
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I don't think there is any question that the Bills can only take that step from 6-10 / 7-9 territory to 9-7 / 10-6 territory if they get more out of the quarterback position. And more means two things.... 1) it means EJ staying healthy for the entire season. 2) it means him being more consistent. If he played at the level of his best games in year 1 in say 10/12 of the games in year 2 that would give us a chance of making the post season and I think is a realistic progression. I'm not expecting to see EJ morph into Peyton Manning just a nice solid season of progression would be good.
However, I think everyone here accepts EJ has to get better to give us a chance to win enough games. The thread is about how do you help him get better. Personally I think another top talent on our O-Line does help him, because going back to point 1 above... him getting hit less increases the chances of him staying healthy. Equally on the O-Line I think that too often we ran for short yardage or lost yardage on first down with CJ in the backfield where our line was blown up before the back had a realistic chance. It is those plays that I think hurt you because then your rookie QB finds himself in 2nd long too often.
I think a top tight end would help him too. I haven't seen enough of Ebron to know if he is that guy... I'm personally a bit dubious about picking a tight end at 9... everyone talks about having a Gronkowski or Graham style game changer, but there are a lot more Gresham and Pettigrew types out there and if we gave up a top 10 pick for somone with that level of production I'd be pretty miffed. If we traded back a few spots I'd be more comfortable with a tight end knowing that we still had (hopefully in my trade scenario) a couple of 2nd rounders to use on O-Line and Linebacker. I think they are the three priority positions that we need to upgrade aside from better Quarterback play.
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The Nix-Whaley thing was a handover planned pretty much from the day Nix brought Whaley in. The extent to which he chose the timing or Russ chose it is open for debate, but Whaley clearly played a key role in the selection of Marrone and in the draft process particularly last year. This looks more of a mess than that I would suggest.
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Michael Lombardi has been a disaster. Who could have predicted that? Well.... anyone who listened to the nonsense he spouted on NFL Network maybe?
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Not for me but wouldn't be a huge surprise to me if the Bills sought to bring him in and have a look. One of the things Doug Whaley has talked about is keeping an eye on guys that you have high draft grades on when they hit the pros. I don't know how Whaley had Carimi graded coming out but if he had a high mark on him don't be surprised if he thinks it's worth trying the turnaround. They had a high first round grade on Jerry Hughes which was a factor in pursuing him last offseason. Having said that Doug Marrone seemed pretty committted to trying to develop one of the young PS guys.
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The idea that sexuality is some kind of choice is ignorant of fact. I wonder how many of these people chose to be hetrosexual?
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Alrighty then, how many of you would be comfortable sharing a locker room with an openly gay teammate? Would you go about your business, try not to change in front of him/her, demand that he/she change in another part of the locker room, etc.? I occasionally work with an openly gay colleague who does per diem for us and one time I was just getting into the locker room and was ready to get into my scrubs and he walked in. I could have milled about or gone to the bathroom, but instead continued to start changing just to let him know it wasn't a big deal. So even though I didn't have a problem with it, it still was on my mind. Now maybe next time I won't think twice, but that time I did.
I have and do frequently. One of my regular gym buddies is gay. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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Good on him and good luck to him. It's a definite sign of progress in American society. People trying to wrestle internally with living a secret life does them no good whatsoever. I suspect he will have a better career with this weight lifted from his mind than he would have had otherwise, not because being gay makes him a better football player, but bcause being totally comfortable in himself will.
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I'm a semi-professional soccer coach here in England. I've appointed guys that are very well regarded coaches who have interviewed well and who I've thought fitted what we were looking for "philiosophically" and then you work with them and over a period of time you think "nah... this isn't working out." It happens. Sometimes things just don't fit together as nicely as you had hoped. I suspect that is what happened with Hilliard. I don't think it had anything at all to do with any disagreement over D'Rick Rodgers. It's life sometimes it happens. The thing is people are not robots. So even when everything looks right on paper and seems to match up there are times when the reality is different and you don't know that until you are in the middle of the season. The speed with which the change was made at the end of the campaign suggests to me that they had probably both ome to the conculsion some time earlier that it would be best to go their separate ways.
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I'd leave well alone on both Martin and Incognito. On Martin it has nothing to do with him being "mentally weak", I don't believe he is.... it's because I don't think he is a very good offensive tackle. On Incognito it's because I don't trust him as a character one bit. The report will in all likelyhood finish him as an NFL player anyway. Make no mistake he has a hell of a lot of questions to answer.
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I think the key these days to being able to pressure Quarterbacks and sack Quarterbacks is not whether you are running 43 or 34 or whether you are blitzing often or rarely.... it's about not being vanilla and having an ability to disguise what you are doing. With Wanny's defense you could tell by the way they lined up pretty much every snap what they were going to do. With Pettine they could line up exactly the same 3 snaps in a row and throw three very different things at you...... once the season was done (after Atlanta basically) I spent the remaining games just watching the way the D lined up and what they then did, there were very few patterns and that's why they kept offenses off guard. However, being so creative and disguising things so much might have actually been part of the reason why we never fixed the run D. I'd be happy to tweak that balance and take 10 fewer sacks for saving ourselves 10 big gash running plays that cost us points.
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I think Boyd lasts beyond the 3rd... not sure he makes it to the 6th myself though. 4th/5th Round I reckon. But he was on the board and the second BPA in that simulation come Buffalo's 6th pick and in that situation I think it's a no brainer.