Last Guy on the Bench
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The Sporting News said that he really came on the second part of the year as he adapted to the coaching. They seem to think a light switch went on and that he's going to keep developing into a pro style QB rapidly. TSN can be way off, but they do their own homework, and you have to admire the way they call 'em as they seem 'em, no matter what the other rags/mocks say. They think Crompton is a better bet in this draft than any QB but Bradford.
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I've been thinking about Graham too. I would be way on on board with that pick. Especially if Schobel retires.
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The Clipper had club seats for 10 years, and couldn't wait to get rid of them.
Here is what the club seats promise:
1) Heated/cooled clubhouse to relax in
2) Wider, heated seats
3) Dozens of televisions to keep up with other NFL action
4) Gourmet food selections
5) Full bar service throughout game
6) Tables to sit and relax at
7) In seat waitress service
8) Luxury bathrooms
9) Seats under cover
10) Fan friendly experience
Here is what you get:
1) While it is nice to warm up in December for the 4 minutes you are inside taking a pee break, you really don't have to worry about a scorcher in Buffalo
2) The heated seats went to crap season #2. Yes, they are wider, but the cupholders placed at knee level in front of you take away any advantage
3) Whoever the retard is that is in charge of the televisions has no clue. I really enjoy 4 of 9 screens being on the Browns/Rams game while Eagles/Cowboys is nowhere to be found.
4) The food is better....that is if you can get any in your hands. The Bills let a different charity run the stands every week....which is fine when you have 3 menu selections....not 20. Nothing like a 70 year old trying to figure out an automatic register with 5 minutes of training. When I say "I'll have a Canadian" after waiting for 2 series of downs....I don't mean Wayne Gretzky
5) Bar is a nice touch....especially if you enjoy putting a $6 shot of Baily's into a $3 Hot Chocolate
6) Here's an idea....we'll put 50 tables that can seat 200 people right in the middle of prime traffic area that is meant for 1500. This way, not only does nobody get to sit down, but those that are can prevent the other 85% from getting to the bathroom or getting to the line for good Rev. Moses to take 5 minutes to figure out how to salt a pretzel.
7) There's nothing I enjoy more than waiting 20 minutes for a $9 beer, only for it to be passed down by 17 people, including the 6 year old of some M&T exec. who I assume happens to have extreme early onset Parkinsons given the actual amount of beer remaining in my cup when I receive it
8) Bathrooms......No complaints....other than beware a group of people that can afford $2000 season tickets in Buffalo, congregating in a men's room. Good money says 1 in 10 enjoys the company of men or children
9) Someone didn't get the memo about the 35mph winds' effect on precipitation when determining who is/is not under cover....but that is child's play. You can always escape to the clubhouse and give those 200 people sitting at the tables whiplash as you try to squeeze that svelte, Buffalo behind, close enough to watch the Browns/Rams game
10) Let's put it this way......the Rockpile section is like sex with a 20 year old hooker on coke. The club seats are like the twice annual handcranker you get from your wife of 30 years
Add the fact that you are paying $1100 for 7 games in addition to the $65 for each ticket....and I think it's a $220 per game well spent.
Think about it.....$220......that's about $4.50 for every Buffalo Bills offensive play.
Trent Edwards 2 yard checkdown to caucasion tight end....BOOM!....four fiddy
Joey Porter coming around on Javon Merrideth and Christian Gaddis for a 9 yard sack....BOOM!...four fiddy
Ryan Fitzpatrick, gently bouncing a ball 15 feet short of his intended receiver.....BOOM!....four fiddy
Really.......what is there to not be excited about?
Do what the Clipper did and move your seats back with the unwashed masses. Sure, there is a chance you will sit next to somebody that will invite you to their trailer in Waterport...but it's all good.
You need to post more. Post of the year.
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Good one. A great movie.
I'd add Angel Heart and Sleuth (only saw the original, not the new one) to the list. Fun, not-great movies with good twist endings.
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You know what is amazing: it seems that everyone JUST focuses on winning the Super Bowl. Look it is VERY VERY hard to even get to a Super Bowl, yet win it.
But you know what I miss most of all?
Going to see the Bills in person, going to a bar, watching the game at home, and have a GENUINE joy and intensity to watch the Bills, thinking to yourself that you actually BELIEVE they might have a chance to win it all.
THAT is what I miss the most.
And to me that is one of the best things about being a sports fan. Id rather take my chances and lose the Super Bowl over and over then finish 5-11, be irrelevant, and have ZERO juice for the Bills.
Great, great post.
Super Bowl obsession is simple-minded. ("You either win everything or you are a loser.") Honestly, I'd love for the Bills to win the big one, but it's way down on my list of Bills' goals.
I like watching football. I love watching football when the Bills are interesting and competitive week in and week out. Sure the Super Bowl losses stung. But my life doesn't change based in one game. It does change, however, based on the overall experience of watching the team every week.
When I think about the 90s Bills, I think about how MANY amazing, fun games there were. Every season there were tons of great moments: gritty victories, comebacks, upsets, playoff wins - all mixed in with the occasional crusher that kept life interesting.
This has been a generally boring effing team for the last decade. Tell me the Bills will be interesting and exciting and win more than their share of games, and I say you can stuff your Super Bowl.
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Its hard to disagree with that, but with TO in the game and a different game plan (or a game plan at all) I think TE probably fairs a little better, even against the Superbowl champs. I hope so anyway because we will be finding out shortly and it probably isn't getting any easier.
I agree. I've seen enough good things out of Trent (and TO for that matter) to remain marginally hopeful. But then again, I'm an idiot.
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If you timed the difference given to the QB's and compared the two O-lines, you would see Big Ben's lineman gave him ample time and a pocket where as TE was having his own lineman literally shoved right into his face right from the very get go.
TE played poorly, but the O-line contributed greatly to the problem, at least in my opinion.
We all know Big Ben can improvise, he just won a SB doing it, he's one tough ass QB to go up against and seems impossible sometimes to bring down.
One bright point of the evening though, Maybin looked really good at times.
I gotta agree with Murra on this. I still hold out some hope for Trent, and I hate to judge anyone on preseason, but that hope is weakening a little.
I thought our DL looked pretty good tonight. They actually got quite a bit of pressure on Ben, but watching him slip that pressure, or get rid of the ball just in time, rifling it into a covered receiver time after time, reminded me what a real. winning QB looks like.
I don't expect Trent to be Big Ben (who I think is just a fantastic QB - criminally underrated, because he doesn't sling the 300 yard games like Manning/Brady/Rivers/Brees). But the good QBs can work well with and even take advantage of moderate pressure. (No QB looks good in a jail break, but that's not what we mostly saw tonight.)
I'm not saying our OL was great, but they were adequate given the defense they were facing, and I thought Trent had enough time to do much more than he did. Even throwing the ball away with authority if he felt the pressure too much would have been an improvement over those desperate, tentative, tardy passes.
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I begrudge him not for dancing, but because I can't dance and I'm quite bitter about it...
Fair enough.
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At least he was within 5 yards of him..And after seeing the replay he made a nice move inside and Ben was right there..Good play
Exactly. He got stuffed on his first move. But disengaged really well and then juked the OT. That let him fill the gap that Big Ben was trying to escape through. That was a well deserved sack. And why would anyone begrudge the guy a little dancing on his first sack in the NFL?
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Simon, what's your take on Nic Harris? Just curious, as you often don't see things the way the crowd sees them.
I'm with the crowd on this one. Seems to me like he has really good awareness, is decisive, and hits. I could live with with a few big rookie mistakes along the way if it's in the service of acclimating a guy who seems to know how to make things happen.
Would you start him?
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Interesting that they are letting the FB get the running back work here late
I think Omon got hurt a little, and then Hall took a whack right before he came out. I doubt they want to go back to one of their top three.
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Bills QBs are 23/26.
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Yep, he is excluded after next year.
I think it is just that past champions don't automatically qualify after 60. You can qualify at any age if you meet different criteria (e.g., 10 ten in British Open the previous year, major winner in previous 5 years, certain world rankings or money list rankings, etc.).
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DT concerns have been halted due to the drafting of Maybin and adulation of same, as the Difference Maker.
Words to the contrary must be dismissed as akin to a farm animal grunting displeasure about his rations for the day. Get with the program, Labatt, and blaspheme no more.
Where do these persecution complexes come from? There isn't one issue on this board that doesn't have a substantial number of people on both sides of it. That some people disagree with you (maybe even vociferously) doesn't mean the debate has been quashed.
In this thread alone, five people posted before you agreeing with the original poster's worry about DT. Do a poll and I'll bet you find lots of people would like to shore up that spot. How have these concerns been halted? Who is this imaginary mob that is defining the "program"?
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Quick, simple answer: He wasn't speaking to the media last night. Same with Jauron.
And no, I didn't give it "top story" billing, which is the only way I can put something on the front page.
Well, you should give it "top story" billing, because it is the most revealing piece on the Bills to come out in a while.
Thanks for writing it.
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Lori, I enjoyed your booster club piece. Tons of interesting info and well written, of course, as usual.
(BTW, am I blind or is it not linked on the TBD front page? I actually stumbled onto it from a link on BZone.)
I was amazed at how forthcoming and coherent Brandon was. He usually drives me crazy with his deadpan, say-nothing, man-in-the-gray-flannel-suit speak. Secrecy is a WAY overrated commodity in the NFL. Over the long run, I think you build a stronger organizational culture - and that culture includes fans and media, of course - by being relatively transparent, honest, and human. Don't need to give the gory details, but understanding and feeling like part of the team's process is important for coaches, players, reporters, and fans alike, each in their own ways.
Anyway, Brandon shocked me with his willingness to describe some the Bills' off-season high-jinks in detail. It was great. Was he drinking? Was his demeanor different than normal? What did you make of it? I'll be happy not to have a Robo-GM (sorry, Robo-COO).
[Edit: Whoops, just saw the long thread about Lori's article. Don't know how I missed it. Mods, feel free to merge this into that or close it or delete it or whatever.]
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I just took my own advice and emailed Simmons the following:
Bill,
Best burgeoning nickname for a 2009 NFL draft pick?
Easy. The Bills' new guard/center Eric Wood:
http://media.scout.com/media/image/57/578379.jpg
Soon to be known as, 'Bad Santa':
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads...ld_actors_3.jpg
The only gift you'll get from him is a stack of pancakes and an ass whoopin'.
(Slogan courtesy of PromoTheRobot at twobillsdrive.com.)
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Bad Santa works for me. Wood will be known for giving a$$-kickings and pancakes to D-linemen. BAD SANTA!
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Nice. That's an even better description. Print it.
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Agreed. 'Bad Santa' is a fantastic nickname.
The visual comparison to the kid is phenomenal, so you have the good inside joke reference going.
Plus, it works on its own for a mean old offensive lineman - he's the opposite of jolly and instead of giving you stuff, he takes all your favorite sh*t away and leaves you weeping like a poor little Who from Whoville (I'm talking to you Kris Jenkins and Vince Wilfork).
Best nickname ever. Someone should send it with pics to Bill Simmons, and we can make it stick nationally
(Now let's hope he doesn't suck.)
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Will he start for the Bills is about my only question.
Clearly he'll start on defense (safety), offense (qb and rb), and special teams (punter).
We can probably go with a roster of only 20 or 30 guys this year as long as one of them is Byrd. Should save some money. Maybe the Bills will lower ticket prices. The Byrd effect.
What are you worried about?
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I know everyone in the NFL was good in High School, so it doesn't mean much, but this made me laugh:
"At Clayton High School, to merely hint that the Missouri 4A Offensive Player of the Year played a large role in leading the Greyhounds to the 2004 state championship would be a gross understatement. He willed the school to a 13-1 ledger as a quarterback, safety, wide receiver and on special teams to aid the march to the Suburban East Conference title.
"Byrd ranked fourth in the state in scoring (158 points), as he rushed for 1,480 yards (seventh in the state) while averaging 8.76 yards per carry and scoring 26 touchdowns his senior season. In addition, he passed for another 1,038 yards (65-128) and 13 scores.
"On defense, Byrd was afforded first-team All-State accolades as his team's second-leading tackler, posting 71 stops (60 solos) along with seven interceptions (fifth in the state), three sacks and two fumble recoveries. He completed his "total package" with six catches for 125 yards (20.8 avg), 10 kickoff returns (30.1 avg), 15 returned punts (13.3 avg), in addition to punting the football 18 times for a 37.6-yard clip."
The punting is my favorite part. He can join Dick Jauron in the All-World High School Hall of Fame.
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Ahhhhh, Antoine....I miss you everyday 
In this clusterfck of a decade, few things genuinely made me smile more than watching 'Toine drop 260 lb. TEs with ease.
I think that was absolutely my favorite Bills sight of the last ten years. He was an outrageously consistent tackler, and yet it still sort of caught me by surprise every single time he came up and knocked one of those big suckers down with such nonchalant authority.
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Pro Football Weekly had Darius Butler the 2nd rated cornerback. Butler was drafted by New England.
Jairus and Darius do sound alike though. The devil is in the details.
http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/NFLDr...Cornerbacks.htm
I'm staring right now at the PFW draft mag, and Jairus Byrd is rated 2nd. They may have changed their rankings later online, but in the mag, Darius Butler is rated 8th.
Analyzing the analysts
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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It's not even close. NFL Network was excellent. Tons of insight.
I've actually enjoyed ESPN over the years, but I found it painful to watch this year. Borderline unwatchable. Too many guys, low energy, lots of stumbling, no one seemed that well informed, and Steve Young almost single-handedly kills it - he is such a boor (loves to hear himself talk, interrupts, doesn't listen to anyone, offers nothing new - just godawful).
I was really impressed with the NFL Network coverage.