yungmack

I'm sure, like me, you've read or seen several reports on the Bills draftees, and they're all over the place, particularly on Washington, Seymour and Williams. Last year they were scratching their heads over Darby and Karlos. Turned out fine in my book. So if these self-anointed "experts" disagree so much, I think I'll just leave my trust in Whaley & Co. And, FTR, do not underestimate the value of Blake's involvement with both Washington and Zimmer.

His record also shows he has mediocre to poor teams more often than not.

They locked up Glenn and Incognito, brought in Cardale Jones and added a new Williams (an absolute necessity after cutting another Williams), drafted a burner at WR, signed a number of UDFAs, added depth at receiver last season and off season...So I have to say your statement that "we did not add anything to help the offense grow" is fantastical, and flies in the face of reality. But such are the times we live in.

Your points are true, as far as they go. But this just seems like tortured logic. True enough, they didn't bring in a wave of new D players. But they didn't do that because they already had a great defense with a cadre of young players, mostly in their prime; it would have been derelict on the FOs part to expend a bunch of picks on the D when the O was in such a shabby condition, although the first pick (2nd round) was used on a D player, the very exciting Darby, so there's that. And, yes, there were injuries, the most devastating to KW and AW; you don't lose that quality of talent and remain quite the same. But the fall-off with their backups in there was not tremendous; their replacements were adequate enough. No, it was more than injuries; Mario apparently mailed it in for much of the season (and we have to ask "why") while Darreus and Preston Brown often seemed confused and misused and had less than career years overall. And, FTR, every team has injuries among their starters and even stars that impact the quality, including the Broncos who won the SB. Injuries are part of the reality of the NFL and the successful teams play around them. As I mentioned, the O had its share of impactful injuries yet managed to finish nearly in the upper third of all NFL offenses. Even the most fervent Rex supporters have to admit that the D play was a huge drop-off after the previous two seasons. But whether the disastrous year the D had was or was not Rex's failure is not what I was writing about in any case. I was focusing on the O, which had a season way above merely respectable yet for whatever reason continues to be disrespected by a certain subset of posters around here, finding fault with the QB, WRs, O line, etc., constantly proposing fixes for what they apparently perceive as a low-quality unit. And that's the point John from Hemet and others have being trying, without success it seems, to make, that the O is NOT some substandard collection of bums and incompetents; it's pretty darned good.

This. The Bills O was 12th in YPG and 13th in PPG. That's damned respectable. And they did this with TT, Shady and KW missing multiple games, Woody and Hogan with nagging season-long injuries, and so on. But the Bills wound up 19th in ranking, a huge, huge discrepancy that, in spite of all the apologists for Rex, has to be laid squarely on his and his D's ineptitude. So it's odd to me that there is a vocal group around here whose primary attitude is about how the O sucks, TT has proved nothing, the right side of the line blows, Woods is expendable, Roman needs to improve, and so on. You know the credo. I don't understand why some people are so averse to facts. But then again, as every election shows, there are just some folks who are so wedded to their pre-conceived biases that no amount of reality can change their opinions.

Actually Harrisburg.

Bills FO seems much more concerned about the RB position than, say, O line. Makes we wonder if they know something about Karlos, or Shady, that's not public knowledge. EDIT: Just read the article on him and he apparently can be a returner AND a receiver.

Hey, bro, don't be so harsh on Steinbeck.

he'd be working for NE...

Nhuk mam, that's what that sauce is called. It's like Vietnamese ketchup; it gets splashed on everything. Fish is rotted in the sun, with water constantly being poured over it until there's nothing left except the liquid. Smells disgusting when it's being made but it turns out to be just fine when you eat it. Still, when I want Buffalo-style chicken wings, there's not going to be any fish sauce on them. Frank's and only Frank's. And you best not dunk them in the bleu cheese: that's reserved for the celery.

Not singling you out here, but your post is representative of a certain vocal sub-group around here, about how terrible Miller is, how the right side of the line sucked, etc. Yet the offense had a stellar year in rushing and Tyrod had few sacks while having a good enough year that he is now seriously be touted as a franchise QB. I don't know, maybe it's just me, but there seems to be a disconnect between the opinion you guys hold and the actual results. If you figure in that Miller was a rookie who suffered some injuries, that Seantrel was suffering from a debilitating illness which is now supposedly under control, is it not likely that there's more than a decent chance both will be much better this season? Why so glum?

Your own statement makes one of the points being made by those you call "Rex haters." Can you imagine how, say, Belichick would have handled Mario if he quit on him? So what did Wrecks do? Nothing. The guy is a self-promoting bag of gas whose career as a HC has amounted to a couple of "close but no banana" years, and a much longer period of failure. He has been in decline now for years. No wonder he's a "Trump guy," another self-promoting bag of gas with a sketchy record of success. BTW, critiquing someone's output on a factual basis is NOT being a "hater."

Solid insights.

Don't you mean ROUGE?

Watched him with SC. Great add for the Bills.

Smoking fast, good hands, seems to run sharp routes. Anyone know how come he was still available? .

What I am suggesting is that he will do so poorly that they won't mind exposing him.

Whaley's first whiff this draft. Wasted pick who maybe...maybe...makes the practice squad.

No drug problems, no beating up women, no stealing from the dorms, no running with gang banger homies, no sexual assaults, no gun-carrying, no hangin' in Vegas, etc. The only thing the kid did was try to have a little bit of sex...with a woman even...and he now is seen as someone with serious character issues??? Man, there are some seriously uptight Puritanical prudish Moral Majority types around here, many of whom I assume are hypocrits about sexual matters.

Bills didn't draft him,he was grabbed off waivers. Best QBs the Bills ever drafted? Toss up between Kelly and LaMonica. That's an abysmal record.

Are any of the WRs available in the final 4 rounds likely to be an upgrade over the ones the Bills already have? Let's not forget Dezmin Lewis is still on the roster. Other than one pick for a QB, I'd use the rest of the picks on defense.

Are you Jerry Sullivan, sneaking in here?

No sense smacking Rex for the picks because...he ain't making them.

Aah, now I can relax a bit. Best DE pick since Bruuuce.

I bow to you.