ocemur
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TIL that the actress who played the school teacher on Little House on the Prairie dated Jim Morrison and partied with Bill Murray during the '70s. It's always the quiet ones.
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You guys need to leave Buff Opie alone. He is McOh-and-oh, right now and after the first game he'll either be McOh-and-one or McOne-and-oh. The real question is will we be seeing Bryce at any of the games?
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I think the lack of a long term plan is the result in turnover at the Head Coach position. The GM is hopefully trying to support what the HC is doing. Keep changing HC and the GM has to go back to square one and retool. Marrone quit, and Rex needed to go. I don't like it, but those are the facts. I'm not a fan of the organizational structure chosen by the Pegulas, either.
The Gilmore to White transition just seems like normal business in the NFL. The fact that we got a first next year seems the opposite of business as usual for the Bills as it seems to be a move with an eye at the future, instead of giving up the future for the present like the Sammy trade.
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Good Lord, Sullivan must douche with sandpaper grit. First, we won't know if it was a good trade for a few years. However, IF, and that's a capital IF you are going to get a good deal out of Andy Reid, it's when he has fallen in love with a QB. Also, Andy has a better chance of developing that QB than we do, i.e. Mahomes as a Chief in 2020 is a different player than Mahomes as a Bill in 2020. I've seen a ton of people saying we need to trade down and get more pics in a deep draft. OK, I'll accept that I guess, but if Sully had found out we turned down the Chiefs' trade, he'd be screaming tomorrow that Whaley was short sighted and trying to save his job by screwing over the future of the team.
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What do I want? Hope. That probably means a QB. Brad Kaaya is the only guy outside Mahomes/Trubisky/Watson that would give me hope. I definitely don't want Kizer. I don't think he has any fire in his belly. QB is probably not the logical choice, so I'm not going to even try to defend it as the right thing to do. I just want to ride the ride. I'm not actually defying death on a roller coaster, but they are entertaining. We're not actually going to win a Super Bowl with any of this year's QBs, but maybe they'll at least be entertaining. I've seen the Tyrod Show, meh.
You can pick apart when we get that QB and the right value for the pick, but I want my powerball ticket. Also, I don't want the Jets taking one of the QBs. I don't need to finally see the sunset of the Pats Cheating Regime to watch it give way to ten years of Jets dominance. The only people who could possibly be more obnoxious than Bostonians are in New York City. Not in any way meant as a shot at the thread starter, just a general observation that there are some seriously arrogant people in NYC.
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I get the value and the need of finding The Guy, but we don't have even one chance per year realistically of finding him. I know there's people on here who say draft a guy every year, but if you do that, you never really give any of then a chance to develop and see what you have. So my question is, if you take a guy in the first this year, does it mean you don't take a guy in the first next year. I think it does. I think that's a career ender for the GM as everyone would say the first guy was a wasted pick. So if this year's crop are 10% and you think next year has two or three 20-25% guys, I think you have to pass this year.
Second, if you think a QB has a 10% chance of becoming a Franchise guy, is that percentage the same everywhere he goes? Does the QB have the same chance of success in Cleveland or NYJ or Buffalo as he would in Houston or Dallas? There is definitely value in building other areas of the team to maximize your guy's chances of developing into the Franchise guy. Depending on the environment, that guy you call a 10% might be a 5% or a 20% guy. Since your shots at acquiring the guy are limited, I want t ogive him the best shot possible.
It's a judgment thing. You have a limited budget of draft picks/time and far more needs/wants than any team can fill. All that being said, I'd love to the Bills take a QB, because I don't think any other position would give me as much excitement and hope. Yeah, it'll almost definitely be the wrong guy, but I'll buy my ticket and ride the ride.
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First, he performs the Dark Ritual in honor of Satan, his Lord and Master. Then, he follows instructions. Maybe you were looking for a more practical answer. Assuming you mean he had the full authority for the pick, which I don't think McD has, he's taking BPA with the exception of RB.
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I'm not finding much more on the preseason results or even schedule. I would bet the answers you are looking for were in the newspapers of the time. You would be looking for the Buffalo News and/or the Buffalo Courier Express sports sections from August or late July of 1971.
Also, I stumbled across a reference to an article: "Bills Impressed With Welshman", Associated Press Report in Abilene (Texas) Reporter News, August 11, 1971
Here is a newspaper archive link to the page, the article is on the lower left. Maybe you can do their free trial and read it. I tried saving the image to my computer and blowing it up, but it was unreadable.
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Here's a small piece of the puzzle. From a Green Bay Packers history site is the box score from a 1971 preseason game. It lists a Grant Guthrie as having kicked for the Bills. If we can track down the other preseason games, it may prove he was in training camp. I know you said he never played for the team, but I'm assuming that means regular season games. If he had any stats in a preseason game, he would have had a contract.
(EDIT) I found on ebay a ticket stub from the August 29, 1971 Bills at Atlanta preseason game. I'll keep digging around for stats, but it's friday afternoon and time for BEER! I'll see if we can piece together the preseason schedule and stats for 1971 and see if your guy pops up. We'll see if we can come up with team pictures/rosters or anything that might have him.
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Athletes have canned cliches to help them through interviews. I'm thinking Terry needs a bus ride with Crash Davis. Terry, repeat after me, " We have high expectations. We give our coaches and executives the authority to make decisions and we back them up with significant resources to the best of our ability. We expect results. We will hold those decision makers responsible for the results of their decisions and we don't need to apologize for it."
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has no one said John Fina?
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OJ, in a white bronco.
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I'm a no on Chad Kelly. A franchise QB is among the rarest things in pro sports and is easily the most coveted/most searched for thing in the NFL. If the kid had it, there wouldn't be 29 teams taking a pass on a visit. Particularly for a guy that could be had cheap. Even if you have your guy, you could sit him and trade him in two years for a high draft pick.
I just don't think he pans out skill wise, I really have my doubts about his off field decisions going forward and the last place he should be is here in Buffalo in Jim's shadow. People may argue that here is where he has the most support, but here is where he has old bad habits and knucklehead friends to find trouble with. I think he has a better chance of developing with different scenery.
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Obviously their isn't QBs to be found outside the draft... The ones you listed are garbage. Eli wasn't really traded in the sense he just refused to be a Charger. Brees is the only one...
Bledsoe wasn't a starter, he was a backup QB that started for the Bills. The Bills have lots of that. The Patriots laughed when we got him.
The Packers didn't draft Brett Favre, did they? And Bledsoe was a starter for eight years before Brady came out of nowhere. He didn't pass for 44,000 yards from the bench. The Patriots didn't make a genius move, they made a lucky one.
The point may stand, that the Bills haven't done enough to get THE guy. If they had done enough, he'd be on the roster. All I'm saying is, just looking at draft picks doesn't show the whole picture.
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How many did they trade for? Bledsoe and R. Johnson were acquired to start. T Taylor was a FA. What was Flutie? FA acquisition? You may still have a point, but QB's are found outside the draft, too. The NYG traded for Eli, the Saints didn't draft Brees. The question is, how many shots did they take at a starting QB? I don't consider Levi Brown to be one, but Bledsoe certainly was.
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The ones I find fun are either when an actor fools you completely or when you see two people at the same time on different shows. Damian Lewis from Homeland and now Billions was also in Band of Brothers. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw him in an interview speaking in his natural British accent.
I'm a fan of Showtime's Shameless. It's good clean fun. There is characters named Kevin, played by Steve Howie, and Kevin's wife V, played by Shanola Hampton. Well, Steve Howie played the dumb son-in-law type role on Reba. While watching an episode of Reba one day, I see Steve Howie and, yep, there's Shanola Hampton in a guest spot. Same two actors, different roles and different shows. For me, it doesn't count if the actors are stars and work together by choice.
I also get a kick out of the same actor playing different roles on the same show, Colonel Potter style. Judy Greer played two different roles on Two and Half Men, for example.
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New place looks nice. I'll try to keep it that way by not saying what I think about the new communications guy, Derek Boyko. It's like they want people to throw a certain type of object onto the field.
Need more travel advice - This time Dallas.
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Rick's Chophouse in Mckinney has some great steaks. You're in Texas, get a good steak and some good Mexican food. Just remember if you or your friends like to get rowdy, roughly every third person you see is concealed carrying a gun, so be polite.