PromoTheRobot
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Who needs Eli Manning. Let's draft Marcus Vick. We can trade for T.O. too. Maybe Lawrence Phillips is still available.
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We all know the Pats will win the Super Bowl. Face it. The entire playoffs, heck - the entire NFL season is just a charade to make it look like someone else has a chance. What's more, the Pats will win next year, and the next year, and every year from now until doomsday.
Are the Pats that good? No. They just win, like a rock falls to the earth due to gravity. It just happens, like a law of nature.
It's all to punish me. What did I do? Eat a baloney sandwich on a friday? Skip sunday mass? Drink some of the priest's wine when I was an alter boy? Who knows. I just know that they win so I can suffer.
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I think this article sums up my thoughts on the Levy situation best. I haven't compiled all of the reasons why I like the decision, I just felt this organization needed a "True Leader". This article provides most of the reasons why I feel good about the decision. The great thing is that it comes from a respected National journalist, not the pessimists at WGR.
Anyone who knows Levy respects him, and thinks he will do a great job. It's only the journalists who only know what they read on other people's websites that put Levy down.
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Yes, I was talking about the Jagwads, not his precious Patriots
We all expect that kind of knee-jerk response from Pats fans. If someone isn't giving their team a 24/7 tongue bath, they get all pouty because their team isn't being respected enough.
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Garrard now in...with 9 minutes left. Nice adjustment by Del Rio. (sure) DId you see the look on his face?
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Are the Pats that good, or does every team that plays them catch a case of the stupids? This is a 12-4 team? They look more like 4-12.
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Ice cold shooting dooms them. 74-74 at the end of regulation. They lose 84-82 in OT. Missed a 3 at the buzzer to win it.
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Cage could have beat Nrthern Illinois on the road, but missed the shot at the buzzer. This game has been neck-and-neck the entire game, with no team with more that a 3pt lead.
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Knowing Marv's philosophy on playing rookies (or virtual rookies) JP will not be starting. WIll it be KH? Only if we don't sign another veteran QB.
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There is also some thought that the Bills want to avoid looking like a complete coaching carousel. What decent coaching candidate would want to join a team knowing they could be fired in one season?
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I don't know where this Marv thinks MM can do the job comes from. Marv said himself that he barely knows MM, talked to him a few times on the phone and during pre-game pre-season interviews, hasn't watch the tapes of the Bills games or looked into the team in any detail, and has just been little more than a casual observer the last few years.
You have a point there, but looking for hard facts in a press conference is tough. I'm sure there are things that Marv is not going to share with the public. He wants MM to look standing on his own feet, even if in reality Levy is holding his hand.
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People forget that Buffalo was quite a good basketball town when the Braves still played. WIth all due respect to the rickety Buffalo Rapids, I think if UB continues to play well, maybe making the NCAA's, The city will start to get interested, maybe to the point where they could fill HSBC for games. Their schedule is missing any glamour opponents this year, but maybe in future seasons, UB can bring in a name school for a big arena game.
Above all, I hope the school relaizes what they have in Reggie Witherspoon and signs him to a long and fat contract.
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UB has a chance to tap into the football mania of Bills fans, especially withthe AVP connection. If they start winning, I'll bet they will sell out every game, especially if they can play home when the Bills are on the road.
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UB has two tough ones coming up: Northern Illinois and Toledo on the road. But the Ohio game looms large. I would love to be at Alumni Arena for that one. I do understand that FSN Ohio will televise the game, if anyone gets that channel.
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One of the things TD accomplished was a brilliant job of filling the stadium. That's extemely impressive considering the product on the field. I also agree that we're not as far away as people around here feel. I doubt Spikes will ever be the same player, and think LB's are a little thin. The lines still need improvement, but going back to a 3-4 might help the D-line. I digress.
When the flap with the signs blew up, I think TD lost that ability to fill those stands because of the backlash. That's where he probably lost his job. After 5 non-playoff years and the sign stuff, the fans lost confidence in Tom Donahoe. Ralph wants those seats filled, and TD is no longer trusted around here. He had to go. Levy will keep the seats filled till a better GM comes along, and the seats will be filled next year.
I buy my seasons because I want the Bills to stay in Buffalo. There is nothing that TD did to convince me.
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It's pretty obvious now that Donahoe was a "Captain Queeg." Probably even walked around the office, ballbearings in hand, wanting to know who took the strawberries.
(Now THAT'S a reference you'd have to be closer to Marv's age to get!)
One Bills Drive was a bad work environment under TD. He had to go.
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Repeat after me...we need linemen....we need linemen....
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Having visited Buffalo the last few days, I got to hear and read the reaction to Marv Levy. Sadly, our two most prominent media outlets (GR and The News) chose to spin what transpired toward the negative.
Jerry Sullivan was his usually sarcastic but charming self. Schopp and the Bulldog were climbing over each other to see who could be more appalled. Even the affable Bob Matthews had misgivings.
What everyone seems to miss is that Levy is the last guy in the organization, besides Wilson, to have worked with the Bills when they were an elite team. He knows what parts go into making a team like that.
Levy also comes from a time, a time that predates most of us, our parents and grandparents time, when charecter was valued. All the great teams had character from top to bottom? Name one NFL team that had a bunch of showboaters that ever won it all?
Levy will have one job in evaluating talent: He will look for character players. Modrak and Guy will find them, chart them, and video them. Levy will tell them which ones have the fire.
Wilson? He just wants to be told what his team is doing. Something that Donahoe, incredibly, never did. No owner should find out stuff about his team in the papers. Levy speaks Wilson's language.
Mullarkey will be under the heat lamp in 2006, but I honestly don't think he would still be here is Levy didn't think he had some potential. Enough to put his rep on the line for him. Mullarkey would have to completely crash-and-burn for Levy to give him the hook mid-season.
So count me among the optimistic. Maybe the Sabres have a lesson for us. How many thought Lindy Ruff and Darcy Regier should been fired ages ago? Who looks smart now?
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Give Marv some credit. He's putting his rep on the line backing MM. If Levy thought MM was not HC material, he would not still be here.
More likely Levy sees Mularkey as talented but flawed. Levy's job in 2006 is to see if Mularkey can be molded. There would have to be a colassal f***-up for Levy to sack MM mid-season.
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Marcus Vick is the perfect fit.....
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The next uni Marcus Vick will be wearing is an orange correctional jumpsuit. He'll be the star of Longest Yard III.
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