Wraith
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Lost amid the chaos of today's events is the news that Alex Van Pelt has joined Turner Gill's staff at UB as Quarterback's Coach and "Passing Game Coordinator."
This is a pretty interesting move. He's somewhat of a local hero and we've known about his coaching aspirations for a while. I will miss him in the booth with Murph next year though.
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I looked at the game stats and Clements led the team in tackles. I'm not saying this makes him great corner, but based on the stats it looks like he may have been more involved in run support today.
I don't think he's an elite corner and he definitely needs to keep his mouth shut, but it's hard to tell from an individual game how good a player is.
That's what's so perplexing to me. He seems to be so much worse in coverage this season, yet he's still putting in a great effort in run support and tackling in general (for the most part). I can't explain it.
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What??? "You can't get those three years back-let it go." Hear I am thinking that players are evaluated each and EVERY YEAR that they are under contract. The guy had a decent rookie year and while he had some good games this year he's had some bad ones also. Trust me, he is not what the Bills thought they were getting when they drafted him in the second round in 2002. Also he's in a contract year which shows me he's just about the money. He will not be kept. I think Reed and the other great pick by TD that year will be shown the door and after TD opens it for Mike and Josh he'll walk threw it behind them!
All about the money? Hahahaha. Everyone else is thinking it, i'll say it. You're an idiot. Merry Christmas. If he was all about the money, wouldn't you think he'd perform as best he could throughout his cheap rookie contract so that he can get a large contract when he hits free agency for the first time? You honestly think he dogged it that badly for the last few years then decided to turn it back on for the money?
Think people, think.
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....Except Clements was out there getting burned by everyone, including 4th/5th stringer Kevin Walter on more than one occasion. Then include the fact that he's been eaten alive by the likes of Rod Smith, Keenan McCardell, and David Givens in recent weeks and the real picture starts to appear.
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OR, you could look at the first quarter, when he also wasn't on the field, and the passing game looked the best it had all year. Drawing credible conclusions from last weeks game is difficult at best.
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Losman to Evans.........AGAIN!!!
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On that fumble, Clements got BUUUUUUURNED badly but did make a nice play by punching the ball out from behind to cause the turnover. McGee recovered.
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TD LOSMAN TO EVANS!!!!!
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Also Losman did a beautiful job to look off the safety.
It was a nice touch pass hit him in stride.
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Yep, another great game. This was a pretty thorough victory, too, against what is supposedly a pretty good Niagara team. It's really interesting watching this team develop it's identity after losing the identity that had been established over the past few years.
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Yeah, the team looks great so far. Very interesting team dynamic now, with an interesting group of freshman. I was at the Canisius Home Opener and it was pretty intense. The upcoming game against Niagara promises to be nuts.
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Being a mechanical engineer, I have a little insight into this so-called "equivalence" matter. Really, the comments already made here have been exactly right for the most part:
The measure of the rate at which a body, velocity, has no direct relation to the mass of said body. Fan in San Diego is right.
Equivalent velocity is not a scientific term. An amateurish television producer with a dynamics text book could be taking a stab at comparing the mechanics of a baseball and a football, though.
For example, they could be comparing how much effort the QB/Pitcher must exert to propel the balls a certain velocity. They might be saying that the effort a QB put into throwing a football a certain velocity would have propelled a baseball 90 mph. This seems, likely, because they are usually talking about how hard a QB throws when they refer to this "stat." To summarize, they could be saying "Given how fast the QB just threw the football, if they were throwing a baseball from the mound to home, it would be travelling 90 mph." This uses the equation F = m x a (acceleration).
They might also be comparing how hard the ball impacts the receiver. This is not a measure of the force imparted on the ball but rather the momentum of the ball transfered to the receiver. Momentum, as I said above, is M = m x v.
Finally, they could be talking about how much time the receiver has to react to the pass as compared to a batter reacting to a 90 mph fast ball. This would be determined by how fast (velocity, not acceleration) the ball is moving and the distance between the QB and the receiver.
It's hard to make an exact determination given the amatuerish quality of the statistic.
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Force = Mass x Acceleration
Momentum = Mass X Velocity
It's all about the Mo, baby.
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Alright, that was one Kelly Holcomb - Joe Montana comparison too many. Do you honestly think Holcomb is even worthy of being mentioned in the same sentence as Joe Montana?
It would've been a cold day in hell before Joe Montana, perhaps the greatest quarterback ever at just finding ways to win, would give up on 4th and 7 and throw a two yard out to a triple covered receiver.
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Man I loved those state lines.... They were actually counting the number of hits he made?!?! Good lord. Last time I checked, HITS MINUS TACKLES EQUALS MISSED TACKLES!!!!. Hmm, let's consult the replay, I think Bruschi may have jumped in on that gang tackle at the last minute, AMAZING!!!
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When I hear comments like that, it tells me you're not a true dyed in the wool old school football fan. I've heard "casual fans" (usually football challenged and disinterested women)say how much they like the dances. I guess when you can't grasp the basic concepts and rules of the game, those silly little softshoe numbers are probably your favorite part of the event.
Those sort of antics are best left for the idiocy of WWF wrestling.
Football does not need comedy added to it. It is arguably the greatest team sport on the planet and having it's integrity compromised by those celebrations rubs me the wrong way. It also makes the participants look like total fools.
What's always amazed me is how athletes like Deion Sanders try so hard to be ultra cool, and then he does the f'ing gayest dance since the Cristina Ricca bowling alley scene in Buffalo '66. Deion's faggy little dance against Buffalo a few years ago now lives on in commercial ads as the computerized image plastic faced Burger King.
Maybe Willis's horsey act will be computerized and turned into an Arby's commerical. "Want some horsey sauce with that sir?"
So what you're saying is that the way you appreciate football is the only way football should be appreciated? Isn't that a little self-centered? You're right, they might not be a "true dyed in the wool, old school football fan." But that doesn't automatically make them any less of a fan, as you go on to suggest derogatively. Frankly, the way some of you try to classify people as greater or lesser fans is trivial and silly anyway.
How were they defining "hits" last night?!
"With the 8th pick in the 2006 draft, The
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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So how many draft picks do we have? All of our 7 picks, plus Tennessee's 3rd is all that I'm aware of. I've read in this thread about multiple second rounders and compensatory picks and all that. Are these just mistakes, typos, and conjecture, or do we truly have additional picks that I'm not aware of?