Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

It is getting tougher to get deals than it used to be since ATT bought them out it seems. I just dumped DTV so will be looking at other options for this coming year.

One other issue you didn't even mention, assuming TT doesn't sign the tag right away,is that it also ties up the Bills from signing other FA's as this money is now committed to TT

Was there something I missed?

I'm not trying to compare against other Bill's GM's, but more against league wide. How's he compare against say Ozzie Newsome, whoever is the Steelers GM and Green Bay. Those are stable teams with same people for a long time. Even comparing to Bill Belichick would be interesting as his drafting record isn't thought to be that great for all the success the team has had. Or even to teams in the middle of the road, maybe a Detroit, Giants, etc, how'd the Bills GM's stack up against them? To me, that's more meaningful.

Seems in today's day and age of draft trades, would take much more than what the Giants gave up back then. Thought I do think post draft takes leverage away from the team moving down as you have much more limited trade partners.

I've often thought Marv was terrible, you've put numbers with it that tend to agree, but what's the average for all other GM's to compare against before I label him bad.

That only works if other teams are also requiring the same. Which implies you'd have to wait until after March 16th to sign him assuming he then finds out every other team in the league is requiring the same of him. The problem with that is I'm sure some team or teams will make offers without any injury provisions. I'd be shocked if he'd agree to something like that prior to the start of FA period, unless he truely wants to re-sign in Buffalo and no place else.

I don't think he's saying forget about QB, instead first fill the other holes, then go out and get the QB Sure as would just about every Bills fan out there. But if you look at the past 25 years or so of drafting, shows the odds are much better at getting the next Ryan Leaf. So how will you feel after going 0-13, then 2-14, only to figure out in year three that this guy is no good. So now you still have the same holes to fill and go and get another QB I won't be devastated either way if they do trade up or they don't but do realize there's alot of risk in doing it, and there's a better than even chance it doesn't work out.

See he has his Doctorate from Nebraska, where did Carpenter has his Doctorate from, can't recall??

Got me thinking, you often here of the HC serving as the OC, for whatever reason can't recall nearly as many HC serving as DC? Anyone recall it happening?

What I got from this, over a 16 year period, there were only 18 QB's drafted that were labeled as a success, less than one a year and 44 failures. Granted as was pointed out, your scale is rather subjective, but someone else isn't likely going to end up with either only 5 or 35 either. It's not going to change a whole lot, overall your selection is pretty good, certainly passes the smell test. So for all those screaming we need to trade up to get the franchise guy, the odds of success isn't very high!

Hide the Woolite! My other favorite skit from the movie was the part "What happens during erection", think it was Tony Randell who played the mission commander. "Damm it who pressed the frown button!"

And also Ertz not falling down at the 1 yard line. His extending the ball for the TD could have cost them if ruled incomplete. with a 1st and goal, could have ran it down to around 15 seconds, then kick the potential winning field goal.

Ever watch the movie "Everything you ant to know about sex, but were afraid to ask" Just sayin!

Nah!! BB explained to him exactly what to say and do to prevent that from happening. After all, who else has any experience in this sort of thing but him. He'll teach him how to do it and even avoid losing draft picks.

Last year for the first time Miami made the playoffs, along with the "everybody gets one" Thursday night game, they also had one Sunday night game, one Monday night game, plus a 9:30 AM game from London, 4 games with national attention.

Most of the players the Bills have let go or traded were more likely gone for off field issues. What no one knows is what Cordy Glenn has or hasn't done off the field which no one outside the locker room has any idea about. He seems like a nice guy and everything, haven't heard anything about any issues, but it's also possible the Bills felt CG could have played this year but he didn't and that may have turned the team off. Obviously myself or no one knows if there's anything going on behind the scenes, but all this talk of not moving him for anything less than two 2md rounders, if he does go for low return value, could be due to off field stuff going on.

I do think this is a big factor. IMO there are maybe 1/2 dozen QB's that are really worth the money they are paid, Brady being one of them. Look at Seattle, they won on Wilson's rookie contract, once he signed a big deal that ate up to much of the cap, (and others on the roster too) they've struggled. If you can win with a cheap guy, you're way ahead. My hope the beginning of the season was that TT would play well enough to keep around on a cheap contract and would leave enough $$ and draft picks to put a real strong team around him. Unfortunately that hasn't worked out and while his % of cap hit is real good, he just can't play at a starting QB level in the NFL.

The first time I looked at your screen name, thought it said BigBLuff which would have been fitting as I think that is all this is on Washington's part, a big bluff hoping to get some team to buy this rumor and offer them a high pick. But doubt any GM's are dumb enough to fall for it and it really complicates things too much for Washington and too much risk.

Really doubt it when you consider the short life HC often have. You want to make sure you have the best staff around you as if you don't and things regress, you'll be out of work just like this guy was. Does that mean that their paths hadn't crossed prior and as a result had developed a friendship, quite likely they did, but the hire is because he thinks he'll help the staff, not just because he's a friend. Unless of course it's Rex hiring Rob, but even there, I'm sure Rex thought Rob would be a big help.

Seems to often be the problem. If you're smart enough to play QB in the NFL, often you then don't have the physical skills, in his case arm strength. Flutie was a height problem.

I'd consider trading one of the 1sts to move down all the way to a #1 for next years draft, plus maybe pick up a 2nd and maybe 4th this year, and have two #1's next year.

Yeah Oceanic, you're paying for the view. If you go before 4:00 it's the lunchtime menu, then it's a decent price for decent food. But they don't take the view away!

I'm usually heading the other way when passing through heading up to Midland and Concord, but do drive by that corner. Next time by I'll look for a Bills flag or something.

I'm just south in Monkey Junction. Well when you say 10,000 homes it has to be either Brunswick Forest or Compass Point. I've been down here about 10 years now, quite a few Bill's fans around actually, part of it due to many people from WNY who transferred down here with Corning. Even in my little development, there's at least 3 Bills fans that I know of and none of them work for Corning either. Tough to get any kind of decent wings down here though, but there is a good place for Beef on Weck. Wow I've driven right by that intersection many a time from 74 up to 601 . 218 kind of sucks actually to drive.