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ok fine, but you did not factor in who is making the picks for the bills. i'm not unhappy we're picking 3rd, but after watching the bills' 2010 draft class, forgive me for not being all stoked up...
nix will probably take a corner
But, the higher he gets to pick, the less chance he has of effing it up.......I agree about the current crop. Spiller was a total wasted pick - I thought at least we were getting a great running back. I just didn't want a rb. Turns out he's not great or even good, anyway!
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Yes, it was in anticipation of the Jets declaring their starting linebackers out with the flu on Sunday morning.
I liked how it played out. The Jets then inactivated their running backs, so we countered that with putting out the same D that has been the worst against the run all year! Some no name with 7 carries to his name breaks out for 158 yards - Checkmate!
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Oh wait, you're comparing 1 draft from 1985 to the draft positions in the 2011 draft.
Yes, you must be drunk!
Why would you quote half of my post and then talk out of context. Somebody said Bruce was picked #3. Somebody else posted a link, not saying what it was. I went to it and it was the 1985 draft. I clearly state what I did.....How could you possibly confuse it with the 2007 draft, which is when Peterson was drafted. Did Bruce at #1 not mean tell you all you needed to know?
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I'm assuming you're drunk.
Adrian Peterson was the #7 pick and has been to 4 straight Pro Bowl, and that is just off the top of the head.
Adrian Peterson was the #7 pick in the 1985 draft? Man, and they say Brett Favre has played a long time!
Yeah, I must be drunk!
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I posted this to another thread, but it was really on topic. The reason I did is because somebody posted a link to the 1985 draft to prove Bruce was the #1 pick......Anyway, when looking at it, this was my response:
Look at that list. For those who kept saying picking 7-9 and getting the win today is better than picking 2-4 and losing today:
1. Buffalo - Bruce Smith, DE Virginia Tech
2. Atlanta - Bill Fralic, G Pittsburgh
3. Houston - Ray Childress, DT Texas A&M
4. Minnesota - Chris Doleman, DE Pittsburgh
5. Indianapolis - Duane Bickett, OLB Southern California
6. Detroit - Lomas Brown, T Florida
7. Green Bay - Ken Ruettgers, T Southern California
8. Tampa Bay - Ron Holmes, DE Washington
9. Philadelphia - Kevin Allen, T Indiana
Picks 2-4 went to 17 Pro Bowls. Picks 7-9 went to zero! nada! none!
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Thanks.You're welcome - it's definitely counter-intuitive!
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I could not be happier about the way the front office handled this game.
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Look at that list. For those who kept saying picking 7-9 and getting the win today is better than picking 2-4 and losing today:
1. Buffalo - Bruce Smith, DE Virginia Tech
2. Atlanta - Bill Fralic, G Pittsburgh
3. Houston - Ray Childress, DT Texas A&M
4. Minnesota - Chris Doleman, DE Pittsburgh
5. Indianapolis - Duane Bickett, OLB Southern California
6. Detroit - Lomas Brown, T Florida
7. Green Bay - Ken Ruettgers, T Southern California
8. Tampa Bay - Ron Holmes, DE Washington
9. Philadelphia - Kevin Allen, T Indiana
Picks 2-4 went to 17 Pro Bowls. Picks 7-9 went to zero! nada! none!
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It's the 4th pick, isn't it? With a tie in SoS (Bills and Bengals @ .589), the Bills beat the Bengals so the Bengals will draft ahead of the Bills.
http://www.wgr550.com/BUSCAGLIA--Bills-To-Draft-3rd--What-to-Expect-/8895348
last time the Bills picked 3rd they grabbed someone by the name of Bruce Smith. I might be crazy, but I think we should follow a similar road map.
Which Bruce Smith was picked 3rd?
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I know there's no way we are getting Luck, but I have the feeling if Newton has a big game next week, he moves into the discussion........Will the Broncos possibly take him, or will they not because they just took Tebow in the first round this year?
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Put me in the we need a franchise QB camp........Mark Gaughan said today in the paper that the Dolphins big mistake was taking Jake Long over Matt Ryan. Long is a Pro Bowler who will be great for a decade, yet getting the franchise QB is much more important. The Fins are still floundering and the Falcons are the #1 seed.
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Brohm put up huge numbers in Petrino's QB friendly system. Mallett has put up huge numbers in Petrino's QB friendly system. See where I'm going with this?
You're saying Brohm is our franchise QB, right?!?
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Amazing how Jets used their 3rd stringers and still blew us away in the second half. McKnight had like 32 yards all year long and looked like OJ in this game. We need an OL and DL and LBs. Bell looks the otherway 2 or 3 times and guys go right by him without being touched and he does not touch anyone on the inside. Most oevrrateed T in NFL.
Don't you have to be rated to be over-rated?
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Looks like we can forget about number two, but definitely still in the running for #3. Go Colts!
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Nothing to get worked up about!!! I have a lot of Jets fans as friends and I have to listen to their mockery of the Bills all off season. I go to work everyday and I have to perform to the best of my abilities. These players and coaches show up to work and it looks as if they don't even care how they perform. Absolutely brutal.
The scary thing is, I'm already worried that they will screw up the first pick in the draft.
I hate to break it to you, but we're not getting the first pick in the draft, either.
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I guess. But you'd think the head to head match up would show who was the better team (at least on that day).
Since in this case the rule works in the Bills' favor (a rarity -- or so it seems) I'm not complaining
So true, usually it seems like we tie with 5 other teams, and draft the latest of the 5!
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So, how can they get the #2 pick? As I look at the standings, they have the same record as Cincy. Since they beat the Bengals, that would mean Cincy's in the 2 slot and the Bills are #3. No other result from today should matter.
You would think, but it seems to me head to head doesn't apply in drafting, only SOS? I haven't delved too deep, but that's the only thing I've heard about.
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If The Broncos beat the Chargers.
The Jags loose
Colts Win
We Get the #2 Seed
If The Chargers Win and Colts win we get the #3 Seed.
Draft Seeding Tie Breaker is SOS, Conference then Division record are the next tie breakers and the Bengals beat us in both.
The Bills SOS without the the Jags game 148 107 The Bengals SOS without the Chargers and Colts 147 107
To beat out the Bengals, don't we need BOTH the Jags to lose and the Colts to win?
Here is what Mark Gaughan said (in any case, if they would just end all the games right now, we'd be picking number 2!):
So the Bills' path to the No. 2 pick goes like this: Denver beats San Diego; and either Cincinnati beats Baltimore or the Bengals lose to the Ravens while Indianapolis beats Tennessee, Jacksonville loses to Houston and Kansas City loses to Oakland. A Bengals loss coupled with those other results would give the Bills and Bengals a strength-of-schedule tie and force a coin flip to decide who gets the earlier pick.
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The editorial decisions I speak of definitely happened with hanged/hung and dived/dove.
So, 20 years ago, or five years ago, or whenever you learned about tenses, was their no word dove? "He dived into the pool" sounds so awkward to me still.
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A little googling found me this, so the last paragraph agrees it wasn't overnight, but it did happen. And, somebody who is going to college now is not going to have any idea about it, and I guess I shouldn't have offended fez by saying 15 years ago. It was longer than that, I guess. I was taught otherwise back in the Stones Age:
I hope that was amusing; my main point being, however, that words get added to the dictionary or words get different meaning or words get left out of modern dictionaries because of WHAT WE SAY. So, language changes, and it follows us.
How do we usually make a verb past tense? we add -ed. Danced, travelled, tried, squeaked, lived, washed, etc. If we made up a new verb we would create its past tense with -ed.
But this wasn't always true. Think of words like ate, gave, came, 'hung'! These don't use -ed. That rule didn't even used to exist!
However, the rule came to be true as more and more of out past tenses were -ed, which was like an avalanche: Like I said, now any new verb you could find or make up would end in -ed.
But it's not like people woke up one day and said, I think there is a new rule: I will from now on say 'striked' instead of 'struck'. What happened is, the verbs that were used most often never changed, because people were using them every day and a change would have been strange. But all the other, nondaily words started to change to -ed.
Edit - PS Having said all that, there was a day or a time when all of a sudden newspapers, magazines, etc. made the editorial decision to change the word they would use in that tense.
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Are you guys telling me there was no change in this?
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Anybody know who else we should be rooting for to win today for us to get a higher pick? I never saw any scenarios.
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It was mentioned earlier, but what happened about 15 years ago, when hung became hanged and a bunch of other similar ones like that came on board?
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But what evidence exactly would you expect to come out in Heywood's favor?
I don't know. I'm sure nobody ever falsely accused a boyfriend or ex-boyfriend of this before.
Which is more important to you?
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I went to Bonas, so we didn't have football. Therefore, I can't vote. But, I have often debated in my head about which sports team is the one I care the most about - the Bills or the Bonnies. I'm still not sure.