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No creativity....TERRIBLE!
Secondary playing soft and scared. Too many receivers open underneath. On 3rd down they played 3 yards behind the first down marker and gave away a first down. Just a joke.
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Dareus played a great game today, he was shedding blocks and making tackles parallel to the line of scrimmage. He's not a pass rusher, at least not yet, he's a defensive tackle and he's good.
I bet if he turns that belly flab into muscle, he will be a great one, including a pass rusher. Bruce Smith went from good to HOF by conditioning to Rusty Jones's methods.
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It shows that our coaching staff is blind to the talents of its players. They throw away a high draft choice who actually had some talent after all.
It shows that Maybin was NOT a high round draft choice. Situational players should not go in the high rounds. The Bilkls coaches being unable to use him the way the Jets have is an embarassment to them. However, his check with the Jets is a lot less than the multi mils be got from Ralph.
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I keep hearing people make excuses for Buffalo being injured, with rebuttals that injuries are no excuse, RE: 2010 Packers. My question is this: Why does Buffalo always seem to be one of the leaders in the NFL in injuries, guys put on IR. I'm not talking out for a few weeks, I mean out for the season. My observation is, yeah, we have little depth on both sides of the ball, but damn! We seem to have guys go down all the time. Is this a coincidence? Is something wrong with our strength and conditioning coaches? Do we not know how to tackle? Fall right?
I watched Fitz today be off the mark a lot, with (I almost hate to say it) Brad Smith making a few nice plays to bail out what could have been a disastrous first half. Nelson caught a slant today with his ribs clearly exposed and (this time) he held on after a big pop. Spiller missed a cross when the ball was behind him. Fitz' lack of accuracy cannot help, but that doesn't explain injuries at every position.
Thoughts?
Donahoe/G. Williams were dumb enough to let the best strength and conditioning coach in the NFL go, that is Rusty Jones. We had better conditioned athletes under him and several players swore by his methods (rather than swearing at him). Do you think Dareus would have a flabby gut with Jones around? If Dareus can do the conditioning and weight loss that Jones had Bruce Smith do, Dareus might become an impact player (rather than impacted).
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I think he's going to be great over the last six weeks. The only reason he's not on the field is because Jackson beat him out. Fred was having an OJ/Thurman type season, which puts him in some elite company.
CJ has done what the team has asked him to do. I think he's looked fine in limited action. Let him touch the ball 20-25 times a game and he'll start breaking a few long ones.
I'm hoping CJ will do to the Jets what Roland Hooks did to the Patriots in 1977 a week after the Bills were blown out 56-7 by Seattle and OJ was injured and done for the year. Hooks ran for over 200 yards and beat the upstart Patriots in eloquently simple Schaeffer/Sullivan/Foxboro Stadium. This place made Rich/Bills/Ralph Wilson Stadium look like "JerryWorld" in Arlington TX.
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Buddy Nix - lack of player depth, extending Fitz midseason, drafting and signing gimmicky free agents instead of positional needs like -ol, linebacker etc. Overall mediocre to poor drafts. Really the only player that is starter material is Dareus.
We are in a lot of trouble folks. The sad thing is, as bad as our defense has been our offense is just as bad and our head coach does not seem to be able to utilize many of players that we consider to have "potential".
1. Injuries aka lack of depth
2. George Edwards is awful as DC. Defense has played under its ability all season. Turnovers early in the season masked problems. CB's today were out of position and lost. Too many receivers left wide open in coverage.
3. Need a conditioning coach. Do we lead the league in players on IR?
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You know who forces those Mistakes?
That is all.......
Media must be NFL Network driven. Both NBC and ESPN showed virtually the same highlights and post game and it was all about the Eagles. Little about the Bills (FJ's 49 yd scamper was trivial!?). The post game shown on both was Reid and Vick moaning. No Bills post game. Someone is fixing the networks. ESPN wouldn't have done that in the 90's.
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The ref was going to throw a flag onto the field, but he got scared and checked down to a line judge
HaHa! Probably the same ref who checked down to the field judge who blew the call on Stevie's catch.
Humor aside, if that hit on Edwards wasn't a PF, then nothing is (unless Brady gets hit).
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Here is the precise moment he lost his mind.......
youtube.com/watch?v=yjpANEVexhY
Was there a flag thrown on that play? I didn't see one.
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RIP Al Davis
The NFL was lucky to have you
I second that. And will add that the AFL was lucky to have him as well. Because of Al Davis and other AFL owners, the AFL merged from a position of strength, something rare when a competing league merges (i.e. WHA).
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http://sports.yahoo....t_over_dolphins
The Miami Dolphins made Trent Edwards(notes) an offer after working him out earlier this week, but the quarterback turned it down.
I assume he saw state of their Offensive Line and decided it was better for his health and career to wait and take a chance of playing some other time. I think 'unemployment' is author's hyperbole rather than actually collecting since he would need to justify turning down offer.
This guy was never the same after he suffered a concussion against Arizona. He can't assess the play situation as it develops fast enough to both be effective and prevent getting pummelled. He had his run in the NFL. It's time for him to take what he has, and move on with the rest of his life. Hey - Stanford degree (if he has it, or will get it) is nothing shabby.
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Cruz clearly thought we down and gave up, not a fumble. Feel free to look up the rules concerning this.
It was a judgement call and a poor one. I don't recall, but I didn't hear a whistle before he released the ball, which should make it a fumble. He made no motion before he released the ball indicating that he gave himself up.
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It is almost no longer fun. How do you call a personal foul for a WR knocking a man twice his size on his butt!? Granted it was behind the play... But this is no longer football. Head on a swivel
Absolutely - you'd think these refs are corporate lawyers rather than football players. That knockdown was nothing. Let the players play football. Too many games are being decided by refs. Not just Bills yesterday, but the Cardinals had a game stolen from them when they ruled Victor Cruz "gave himself down". What!! He fumbled. He didn't quit! What garbage! I guess someone needed the Giants to win.
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The O and D play deflated after the Stevie Johnson blown call. That call was a classic momentum changer. It shouldn't happen, but does. Had we come on and scored even a FG on that serties its a good chance we win.
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I'm pretty happy we don't play the Lions this year. That said I think it would be an awesome matchup.
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My guess is if that match up happens, the Mayan armageddon predictions for 2012 will happen with exactly 00:01 left in the 4th quarter.
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Another article to savor on our 3-0 high, before we settle down and get down to the business of going 4-0.
The 'Something Has to Give' Bowl
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204831304576593242806858486.html
Somehow, the link was inserted.
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I was waiting for somebody to start this thread.
Say what you want...Schopp is looking more than a little silly now. Of course, if we only go 15-1, he will be "right".
All the media employed Bills bashers should be eating their words with with a stick of dynamite stuck somewhere..Sullivan especially, and more so the Albany Times-Union writer )term used liberally in her case) who mocked Albany Bills fans and Buffalo in general.
This day feels like opening day 1980 when the 20 game Fish Monkey finally came off our back.
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I've harrassed the program director at CBS 6 in Albany for years now and he hates hearing from me. He has always told me that it's the programming department at CBS in NYC that decides what we get and I say that's a bunch of Crapola!!!!!! Yeah, I too am in a bad mood about the Gish article. I wrote her a nice article (no profanity) telling her what a moron she was and that she was insulting anyone who was a fan of Buffalo (Not just the team). What a stupid comment to suggest Buffalo might as well be in Canada! (Like the Penguin said in Batman Returns..."And your nose could be spewing blood!")
I suggested she find a way to insult the local Patriot fans next week!
Go Bills!!!
Gino in Saratoga
He is full of crappacola. I still remember when WNYT used to run a call in fan poll in the 90's to let the fans pick which game got broadcast. I believe its shared territory for the Bills and Jets (and perhaps New England). My guess is WRGB didn't want to air a game the same time as the Giants.
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Mainly Jets and Giants. I would say the Bills are the 3rd team, and Pats 4th.
The Capital District coverage is #1 Giants and #2 goes to whoever is doing best between the the Bills and Jets, #3 the Pats, and #4 the worst of Bills and Jets. During the 90's, the Bills were usually a solid #2, and the Bills were often shown over the Jets or Pats for the local AFC game. Once the Bills started slipping and the Brady Bunch came to life, the Bills coverage became less. It also helps to have a reliable TV sports anchor. Roger Wyland on Channel 13-WNYT has been a friend to Bills coverage. If the Bills play progresses upward, their Albany coverage will as well.
Now I can give another reason for dropping the Times-Union. First they couldn't deliver the paper, now they mock my team and fans. It's The Daily Gazette (Schenectady) from now on!
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Nothing an opening day win can't cure. All this negative talk is making a Bills 2011 demise a self fulfilling prophesy.
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Interesting that you should use the term 'track star' - OJ was a track star. He also sucked his first 3 seasons, 'til Lou Saban returned to Buffalo and built an o-line and offense around Simpson.
Spiller gets more than one season to prove his worth, and you can't even begin to judge his talents while he's running behind this pathetic o-line.
Spiller and Jackson played behind the same O-line and Jackson outperformed him, in other words there is an apples to apples comparison and Jackson wins (at least in 2010). OJ's first 3 years were unproductive, but he was still the number 1 back. I also watched him play then, and he showed more than Spiller has (No offense to CJ, given OJ is a hall of famer). You don't have to believe me, but Lou Saban saw enough thru a fractured o-line to know that building around OJ was the best plan going forward. I don't see anyone building an offense around Spiller right now. Perhaps in time, but right now Jackson looks like the go to guy.
A track star? I think we're underestimating the talent that Spiller has. I had the luxury of watching him for 4 years at Clemson and he is nothing but a football player.
Give the guy some time to be able read the shambles of the line that he has infront of him. Jackson has had 4 years to learn how to react in a similar system without much talent on the front line. By week 6 this year all of the people who thought of trading this guy will be eating their words.
Spiller's playing in the NFL, not at Clemson. The NFL knows how to neutralize talent that flourishes in college. I hope your last line is correct, but I wish we saw more consistent production from Spiller in the 2nd half of last season. Jackson can give you several consecutive productive plays, something Spiller needs to show.
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Read Sullivan this morning and then read the comment by Chris Krueger below the article. Absolutely destroys Sullivan and he's 100% right. What does Fred Jackson think? That he's gonna go to another team and get 300 carries? Every team in the league uses a platoon system. Of course he's gonna end up with more carries than Spiller this year. They're going to try to win, which means they're gonna give carries to the back that is producing. But of course Spiller needs the touches in the preseason. I have the organization's back 100% on this one. Just as long as they don't trade him.
Jackson is pissed, not a "huge baby". What he's upset about is all the mixed signals he gets from the FO. He's outperforming and being paid less than the guy next to him. For what he's done for this team, FJ has every right to be pissed and want to know where he stands. His reward for having a decent year at RB 2 years ago was to have an immediate replacement drafted. I would not expect someone who worked so hard to become an NFL starter to be anything but insulted and upset over that pick especially when there were so many other immediate needs. I can't believe anyone would expect FJ to just smile, take it, and roll over on command. Fred Jackson wasn't given what he has, HE TRULY EARNED IT. No one who does that just rolls over.
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Its time we trade Spiller. RB is supposed to be the easiest position to transition into the pros but he is making it look difficult. Now is the time we should trade him before we cut him next year like Maybin. Nix needs to admit he made a mistake and do the right thing by getting a competent WR or tackle in here.
More people than you think believe you in that a Spiller trade may be a good idea (though not for a 4th rounder a la Evans). I suggested a Spiller trade a few months ago and got spat on by the amateur experts on this noard. This thread is comparatively mild for the identical subject matter. Extrapolate further, and the same posters blasting the idea of a Spiller trade will be blasting the FO for not trading Spiller sooner to get more value in a trade.
Unfortunately, the Spiller pick is looking like the McGahee pick of years back, a luxury pick that failed to address a critical need.I like Spiller and his speed, but as one poster says, he needs a wide openning to be effective. In other words, he needs the door openned for him, while Jackson can open doors himself. It's a track star versus a football player.
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Clearly if someone isn't pessimistic on the Bills they think the polar opposite and expect the Bills to make the Super Bowl.
I know that anytime anyone says, "It's only preseason," I assume that they expect an undefeated record out the Bills in the regular season. Simple logic really.
I remember the Bills going 0-6 in pre-season, then 9-5 regular. Also, I remember teh starters and whole team tanking the final pre-season game of 1991 and Levy apologized to teh state of South Carolina for their horrible play (played at USC Stadium), and then went on their second Super Bowl. You would've thought regular season disaster after those, but didn't happen. I wouldn't predict an epic season is lurking, but total 1984-85 - esque disaster, not yet either.
Players you think Chan Gailey Is Not Getting The Best Out Of
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The entire defense is one where the whole is less than the sum of the parts. And its been that way all season. The first half the offense and timely int's bailed them out. Injuries and lack of turnovers exposed them. That first TD to Fasano was classic out of position play. Three defenders watched Fasano run past them. In excusable.