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  1. On 4/30/2022 at 8:50 AM, Inigo Montoya said:

    4.  With the return of Aaron Kromer I think we can expect an improvement in the running game.  The Bills had the #1 rushing attack in the NFL in 2015 and 2016 when Kromer was the O-line coach.  I don't think Buffalo will ever be a run first team as long as Josh is under center, but if we can become more effective in the run game that will pay huge dividends all around for the offense.  The Bills passed the ball 59.2% of the time last season, I expect that number to come down this season.

    Not only that, no one will be messing with the Bills lawn furniture ☝️ 

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  2. I mentioned it in another thread but yeah the coverage has been boring the last few years. I went to a bar last night and kept it on mute today while I worked. Putting the volume up only when I got a text from friends we were up or that we traded for a 6th which seemed like most of the night! 😂 

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  3. 2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

    I remember hearing a report about how Eric Wood who was in the same draft as Maybin, went against Maybin in practice that training camp and he knocked him on his ass and told him to "get the f**k up and earn his money". I found it pretty hysterical 

    Oh yeah! I think that is pretty much verifiable true at this point. Good on Wood. 2009 was actually a decent draft and it would have been outstanding if we took someone like Orakapo instead Maybin with that first pick.


    The Maybin pick was a fiasco from the start when he held out for an uber contract and missed important practice and development time. It didn’t improve once he was on the team. Garbage holdout tactics like that were one the reasons for the lock out the following off season.
     

    That was one of the few pro sport labor disputes that I actually think improved the league because it capped rookies contracts and limited the number of the hold outs( I believe Bosa in San Diego did hold out post new labor agreement) and end the buy the farm deals on no production rookies you would see prior to 2010.

  4. Piggy backing off my other point about Losman. Why is Manuel even listed instead of Tulane Torpedo? If I remember correctly didn’t we move down in the draft in 2013. EJ didn’t pan out but we still got some picks in the first to soften the blow of being a desperate buyer in a weak QB class. Losman we bet the farm and were set back further.

  5. 6 hours ago, SoTier said:

     

    What makes you think that Aaron Rodgers would have been anything but a mediocre QB on the Bills in the 2005-2009 period?  Mularkey couldn't get much out of Pro Bowler Drew Bledsoe in 2004-2005 and Jauron seemed to have a pathological dislike for talented players who didn't toe his play-not-to-lose-by-too-much line.  Captain Checkdown Trent Edwards was Juaron's style QB.  He banished Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch to his "doghouse" in 2009 when Lynch was the only offense the Bills had.  Rodgers would have clashed with Jauron instantly simply because he wanted to win football games not play not to lose them by too much.

    I would have taken Rodgers,our 2004 2nd, and 5th over Losman. The amount we gave up for him was brutal.  We actually had an effective offense as well with Mularkey in 2004 which would have likely fit Rodgers playing style. We regressed from coming within a game of making the playoffs in 2004 to a proverbial tire fire in 2005 when we tried to give JP the reins and that was the end of the MM tenure as head coach which lead us to the height of the drought days with Jauron. History would have been different had we not moved up for the “4th best QB in the draft”.

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  6. Based on what we gave up to get him and who we could have gotten if DonaDOH! Had just been patient after the move up for Rothlishburger fell through I actually say Losman. The 3 picks lost including a 2nd and a 1st that we could used to get Rodgers would most certainly have ended drought much sooner than 2017.

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