DonInBuffalo
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Bud Carpenter was and still is the Bills trainer.exellent point. Adam Schefter made a terrific point about the Bills and Seahawks in that teams that get hurt the most frequent and suffer injuries tend to have the worst records. not rocket science. that said, teams with the healthiest, all be it, less talented ones do the best. just see Denver, though mcdaniels probably has a lot to do too.A highly overlooked thing with the bills is that we lost our trainer a few years back to the Bears the year they went to the superbowl. It was the guy before Bud Carpenter and Rusty jones I think. does anyone remember who?
i think its imperative we get a trainer in here with a good track record to help keep some of thees guys healthy. even if that means "supplements." hey at least we know they are trying then! ok kidding on the last part...
Rusty Jones left to go to the Bears about 4 years ago:
http://www.chicagobears.com/team/coach.asp?coach_id=18
The person who replaced him certainly appears to have been groomed to replace Jones:
http://www.buffalobills.com/team/coaches/j...c1-c310b8c79991
He started out as an assistant for a college program, did that for 2 years, then got promoted to the lead role for 4 years. (all sports) Then he got hired by the Bills and worked under Jones for 4 years before Jones left. He even went to the same college as Jones.
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I just skimmed through Marv's record. If I added right, he was 0-4 with the Chiefs and 11-12 with the Bills. Based on that, I certainly wouldn't be surprised if some coaches had winning records.I don't want to play devil's advocate too much, because in this case we're essentially referring to the devil...
BUT... I guarantee that no coach has a winning record against teams with 11+ wins. Think about it. After that, I implore you to look up a more meaningful stat...
compare his victories between teams that finished 4-7 wins, vs. 8-11 wins. That will net you a real undeniable discrepancy.
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I might have missed one game here or there, but this is as damning a "Dick-stat" as you'll find:
Record vs. teams that finished the season with
10 wins: 4-9
11 wins: 1-13
12+: wins: 0-17
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They're dead last in run yardage allowed per game. That might have something to do with their pass D statistics.
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"quality football" implies they don't want an expansion team. If Davis claims some sort of territorial rights, I would expect that to get laughed out of court. LA is almost 400 miles from Oakland, and nobody put a gun to his head and made him move the team back to Oakland when it was in LA.
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The Bills sell out most games because they adjusted their ticket prices to what the market will bear. Over the past several seasons prior to this one, they tinkered with the prices. They raised the prices on some good selling seats, such as the lower-middle portion of the upper deck. They lowered the prices of tickets they were having problems selling, such as the upper corners of the upper deck. If they raised the prices by $20 across the board, that would raise the price per seat for season ticket holders either $160 or $180, depending on the Toronto schedule for that season. They would definitely sell fewer season tickets, and there's no way they would sell out all their games.
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Of course the Bills traded their 3rd round pick to move up to take Levitre.Carolina traded their 2010 1st rounder to SF (who picked one choice after the Bills took Byrd) in order to move up in the 2nd round to get Brown. it's thought that Buffalo could have made that same trade and still would have had the opportunity to take Byrd in the 3rd. -
It's almost beyond foolish to try to judge a QB's potential based on one specific statistic in a single game.
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Maybin is undersized and very young. It was pretty much a given when he was drafted that he would need an entire offseason of conditioning (as in after this season) before he would be ready to compete for regular playing time. This is not uncommon for linemen on either side of the ball. Denney and Bell went through the same process.
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I just noticed AVP sitting on the bench going through pictures with Trent. I think that's a good idea. I never liked the idea of the QB not having a coach on the sidelines to talk to.
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The OP is total nonsense, essentially claiming that if the NFL refused the highest bidder then the whole thing could get tied up in court with some other 3rd party being able to somehow acquire the team. Just using basic common sense, if the NFL refused the bid of a prospective owner, and that got taken to court, either that prospective owner would win, in which case the highest bidder would acquire the team, OR they would lose, in which case the NFL would award the team to the remaining highest bidder. There's no plausible legal scenario where the team would somehow become available to anyone other than the highest bidding team that the NFL approves, or somehow prevails in court if the NFL refuses them.
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If the Bills were to run a Wildcat, this seems like a good combination:
Jackson at QB
Evans and TO at WR
Nelson TE
Lynch and Reed at some sort of slot/backfield/motion
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He probably never considered it because it's total nonsense. Most teams use a "cash to cap" financial model. It doesn't matter where you draft. Everybody spends the same amount of money.This is an interesting point that was brought up by a caller on WGR the other day...Wilson is not firing Jauron because he is too cheap to eat his contract, which in relation to most coaches contracts is small potatoes anyway..probably in the neighborhood of $3-4 million for the 3 years...
However, is Jauron actually costing Ralph more money by continuing as coach than he would if he was fired and replaced?
How many places in the draft is Jauron causing us to move up by still being here? How many places in the draft has Jauron cause us to move up by finishing 7-9 year after year? Factor in the ramifications of paying a player drafted in the top 5, versus paying a player drafted out of the top 10 or further down the draft, and Jauron's contract is small potatoes in comparison. Factor this in for multiple years, and its a no brainer. If Jauron would cost Wilson 3-4 million to fire, he could potentially be costing Wilson 15-20 million by staying in added draft pick salaries...
just an interesting way of thinking about the whole thing, one in which Ralph probably never considers...
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I was just re-watching the game. On the pass that Royal dropped early in the 3rd quarter, he apparently noticed at the last minute that Byrd had him lined up.
I wouldn't be surprised if for all practical purposes Byrd will continue to start when everyone is healthy. He's just playing too well to keep off the field.
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There's a time and a place for everything. Generally speaking, it's always wrong for players to publicly criticize their coaches. If there are problems, they should be addressed behind closed doors.
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I've been thinking along the same lines. Of course, all the rumors about Gruden coming to Buffalo to take over during this season were total nonsense, because he's under contract to ESPN. However, that's obviously not a full time job. He might be a candidate for some sort of consulting role.
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The Bills don't run a "hurry up" any more than the Colts do. They just run a no-huddle to limit the defense's ability to substitute. If you look at their time of possession in relation to how many plays they run, they really aren't going noticeably faster than the opposition. In most of the losses, they've run substantially fewer plays than the opposition, because the offense didn't do a good enough job of staying on the field, and the defense didn't do a good enough job of getting off the field.
To follow up on your "what coach" point, what coach in his right mind would come to a team that doesn't even have a GM? It's arguably a worse situation than Oakland. At least Al Davis knows something about football.
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. They were running a defense very similar to the dime setup that Wade Phillips used for so many years here. 4 "linemen", where some of them might be LBs, one "dime LB", your nickel CB and SS up near the line on a WR/TE, and 2 safeties deep.Hey Don, TIVO is good to have. I don't have that luxury. Thanks for that. Are you saying the SS was in the box and there were 2 guys deep playing FS? If so then I have a bit more faith in the kid. From the 2 seconds I could see that angle on TV I didn't see those safeties 15-20 yards off the LOS so I couldn't see them.
They didn't have 9 in the box, more like 6 and a half. The 4 down linemen, at least one of which was a LB, plus one LB lined up more/less in the middle, and a SS across from Nelson, along with another DB across from Reed. The Bills have a blocker for every defender, and all of our blockers are bigger than the people they're blocking.Ok, so I'm partially retracted on the statement, but not fully. Don't you think he should have audibles into a quick slant and seen where that could take them. If you see 9 in the box I don't see how a running play is the right call. The pass setting up the run is the appropriate call when down by so much if I'm not mistaken.I would certainly hope they have audibles for slants, but that wouldn't have been a good call on the play in question. Shortly before the snap, the 5 underneath cover defenders dropped about 5 yards off the line of scrimmage, with the ones in the middle dropping a little deeper to form an umbrella. That's an ideal setup to cover slant routes.
Slants are good "hot routes" when a LB is blitzing, because you know there isn't a LB on that side to be in zone coverage helping out the CB on the inside.
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I went back and looked at the play, and you are mistaken. The play you are describing was 2nd and 14 from the Bills 4 yard line with 9:46 left in the game. I froze my picture right before the snap. There's only 9 Dolphins in the picture, which means there are 2 safeties deep. They were lined up in a 4 man front, with a DB opposite each of the 3 WR. The SS and one LB were also in the box. So they were playing dime cover-2. Edwards made the right call.We've all heard the reasons for Trent's demise, and some of it may be legit, but last night I officially gave up on him as a starter for this team. Can anyone else remember this play yesterday?It was about 8:30 in the 4th quarter and it was 2nd and 12th and T.O and Evans were lined up one-on-one with the box stacked with not a safety deep. Trent audibles to the line and then the WRs and then promptly hands off the ball to Fred Jackson for a 6 yard gain.
That's it, I've had enough. I could say his confidence was lacking previously, bad coaching, but this was 100% his call deep in our own territory with a shot to put the pressure on him. He didnt' want the pressure. Now I wouldn't have cared if it was his 3rd INT (this was before his actual 3rd), an incompletion, or 5 yards off the mark and he missed. Nope, this is not a leader of a football team.
I've been hoping against hope after his performance in Washington his rookie year, and his first game against the Jets where he did pretty well considering the circumstances. He was hitting slants in stride, and playing like he had a high ceiling.
As others have said it may have been coaching, it may be in his head, and frankly I don't care. I want a QB who leads. Go watch that play and tell me how anyone sees him as leading this team. I'm not a negative nancy, but that was a pathetic excuse of a play by a gutless QB. Throw a freaking jump ball softly about 20 yards and put the play on your and the WR.
Trent's a nice guy, doesn't particularly care about football and is not a big fan of the sport, and I'm sure he's in it for the money. I wish him well, but not as the starting QB for this team. I have never seen such a gutless audible in all of my life.
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You would be very surprised by the amount posters on this board who think the players are all that matter.
Coaching is everything, a great coach can take a team of nobody's and turn them into a contender.
I disagree. You need both. You need good talent evaluators to bring in quality personnel, and good coaches to take advantage of that talent. On top of that, the talent evaluators and coaches have to be on the same page.
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I think what he was trying to say was: When the team plays that poorly, everyone should be concerned about their job status.
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In case you had forgotten, the players all belong to the NFLPA. They have a contract which stipulates what time teams are required to give players off. In a normal work week during the season, all the players get Tuesday off, period. Nobody "puts in time" on Tuesdays; it's against union rules. (except coaches, because they don't belong to the union)To me, if I perform poorly in my job, I work harder to make up for it. If that means I spend a Sunday before work Monday putting in the time, that's what I do. I also believe in rewarding myself if I do well and Maybin certainly hasn't done well. Like some of you said however, they have lives and if that's how they want to spend their time, so be it. Florence didn't seem to crazy about it though.On a side note, if he's out partying until 3 in the morning he's not going to be all that fresh for Practice Wednesday. Whatever, if they lose to Cleveland Sunday I can start making tee times on Sundays again.
Done typing, again. For now. hehehe
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The Bills are making plenty of money. Last time I saw solid numbers, their annual profit is in the neighborhood of $30 million. The TV contract pretty much covers the amount you need to pay the player salaries. It's almost impossible for a team that sells out most/all of their games to not make money.Just because they are under the cap, doesn't mean they have all this free money just laying around. The cap is just a figure that is set by the league, but it doesn't mean that all teams have that amount of cash coming in -
The point is the Bills encouraged him to be lazy. He asked to discuss an extension after his first pro bowl season, and the reply from Bills management was essentially "No, we won't even discuss it." Peters is easily the most talented LT to ever wear a Bills uniform. It's not even close. Brandon handled the situation like a cheap businessman who doesn't know jack about football.I think the Bills rightfully were worried about paying a historically lazy player 10M per year as he admitted and they knew he played for money and admitted he lost concentration last year thinking about a contract.....B Bellichick would release a player like that in an instant. However, Peters was/is a good to very good player depending on his attitude. Paying a guy with that type of attitude is scary as I can see him in a year and a half just lazy and unmotivated and then swallowing 30M of a contract......I think that was the problem. They had no problem paying big money to Evans or some players who dmeonstrate professionalism. I owlud have liked JP to stay but he would not have played as well for us....certianly better than whatr he had today. When he played motivated like two-three years ago he was a lot better....that's the problem, you just don't know what you will get from him. Too bad as he has a lot of talent
What happens with Scott and Whitner coming back?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Byrd stays at FS. He's simply playing too well to keep off the field.
Whitner moves to SS. Wilson has looked good primarily because they were playing such inept offenses.
Scott, probably the best S against the run, gets on the field in a variety of packages:
- in the goal line package, probably Byrd comes out. Range is of limited use with such a short field.
- as another poster mentioned in a different thread, they used a nickel package with Bryd at FS, with Whitner and Scott lined up about 5 yards off the LOS in the New Orleans game.
Essentially any time the offensive personnel and/or the down & distance give them the opportunity, they'll put Scott on the field and take out one of the LBs.