Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Just curious does Don Banks and Heath Evans opinions also mean nothing. Evans apparently picked us to win the SuperBowl. LOL Funny how these guys know nothing, but in the other threads on Banks and Evans, they get all the love. Yeah I get it but is still very laughable ohhh...... "Clayton means nothing!!"

Hear he's out working on a deal with Tim Tebow!!

Let the Pats win tonight, get all the emotion out and come int oBuffalo nice and flat. Seems I've noticed over time Super Bowl champs often win the first game the next season, then go down hill after that.

I've always felt the problem QB's are having is the game has become too fast, and players too big for the QB's to keep up, but maybe it's also way too much of the "whatever dude" generation. I've said this before and I'll state it again now, we need Stepford QB's. The NFL needs to develop a program around this.

Don't kid yourself, so will Keven Sheppard (Think that was his name?) Oh wait, he's no longer with Indy!!

No! I think playing them second is ideal, let them get their emotion out of the way this week, then we play them week #2

Russ Brandon!! We all know he's still making all the football decisions at One Bills Drive!

Speaking of not being at the facility, I assume Kromer is also started his fall vacation too?? Hadn't heard a word about it, but wouldn't really expect much to be said. Yes he was cute, he saved a couple million $$ If that's what you call being cute, then you're truely clueless. I see in one of your other posts you came to just be an emotional fan. Well if you're that emotional to post just totally stupid completly off base things and then hide behind you're an emotional fan when everyone rips you apart, then maybe you need to stop posting as you can't handle it. Fan is short for fanatic and that's fine, but if you're not reasonable, expect to be laughed out. That's the difference here, you're a fan, Whaley is a professional and he acts like one by doing things that you call "cute" In other words it's just a normal day at TBD

I think we can thanks his wife for getting pregant as sounds like that was a big factor in re-signing. Everything I've read says the #2 QB gets about six snaps a week with the first team offense. I'm sure #3 gets less, but if we're starting at six and going down, not really much to lose there. So can't see it truely hurting him. Why becasue the coaches who've seeen just a bit more than you, feel Cassell is better.

Yeah, these guys do a good job racking up the Frequent Flyer Miles!

If they don't like him I think it's due to too often poor decision making. I will grant you he looked very good in the pre-season, stronger than Cassell. But not sure that isn't because he facing very limited blitzing and game planning. So in that situation he can look good. Meanwhile maybe in practices they did blitz all three QB's and really scramble things up and in those situations EJ looked totally lost. That may be why the insiders are saying what they are and why the coaches don't have much faith in him. As far as EJ's pre-season stats go, TT looked just as good, and again both looked great against limited game planning. So yes if the Bills offense flounders I will think of EJ's pre-season and come to the immediate conclusion that would be much better off as everything from the preseason equates 100% to the regular season. And I'm not an EJ hater BTW, just someone who's objective

While what you say is true, I have to agree more with Dean in that everything I've read is back up QB's get about six snaps all week with the 1st string. So based on six snaps each week, I'll take my chances on Cassel over EJ in that situation. I do think EJ looked much stronger than Cassel in the pre-season, but if you rate all three QB's as far as the basic tools go, EJ likely would come out on top as far as size, arm strength etc. In pre-season with limited blitzing and game planning the guy with the best tools may look the best. EJ, as most QB's looks best when no pressure, but in prior years gets rattled easily. Conversely I'm not completely sure that they didn't deliberately sandbag Cassell reps and just have him do nothing by 5 yard check downs though admittedly that is somewhat his MO. But again pre-season might be deceiving.

your correct if that was the goal, but in this case they kept the RB with more potential in Bryce. And also realize it may not matter as barring injuries neither would be dressed, so kept the player less likely to be upset with not playing and at a much smaller salary.

No not at all, funny how he pointed out how Jackson totally outplayed Brown. Well yeah since Marrone would never activate, wasn't too hard to do. There were other comments to in the article that were huge stretches, but great article for people who don't like Whaley. You can find truth in anything!! We'll never know what the deal there really was. I'm not at all convinced the plan wasn't to bring Polien in as a consultant but once he started plans to bring AJ Smith in, Pegula pulled the plug on the whole thing and Polien to save face, claimed he turned it down. Pugula wasn't going to get into a pissing contest with him so let that story fly. So blame Whaley for drafting these guys, but lets give Rex the credit for Richie. Statements like that really show me you would definitely qualify to be Sully's understudy. And sure finding a franchise QB is important, but if it truely is the most important, then over half the GM's in the league have failed miserably.

Any idea what actually happened to Thompson, what was the extent of the injury? I see Chandler also is listed on IR, another phantom injury??

No way, even if they end up at six wins, the Bills would be crazy to not resign him. People who knock Whaley for not doing more at QB make it sound like QB's grow on trees and every team in the league has a franchise QB except us. In the AFC the only teams that I could as solid at QB are NE, Pitt, Balt, Indy, San Diego; NFC; Giants, Dallas, Green Bay, Det, Carolina, NO, Atl, Seattle, You can then throw in teams like Denver, Philly, Az who took gambles that may work out or may not due to age or injury prone. Then there are teams like Cinn and Miami who have guys that each year do well enough to think you're set at QB, but bad enough to question if you should cut the guy, but they keep him because they too are smart enough to know it's very difficult to find someone better. Then there's the rest of the league including Buffalo who have someone who may turn out to finally be the guy, or in two more years the team will be looking again for their next franchise QB. Look at Tampa, three years ago Freeman was in the pro Bowl, now he's gone through three teams since and Tampa had the #1 overall pick. so to fault Whaley for not getting that great QB is a joke, if it were that easy, every team would have one.

So explain to me what players can get added to practice squad? As I understand it only players with I believe it less than 4 years are PS eligible. Players with more than 4 years exp who are released become UFA Therefore anyone with less than 4 years would go through waivers But if a player who went through waivers has to be added to active squad, then how would anyone ever end up on PS (as must have less than 4 years for PS)?? Either I'm missing something or the statement below can't be true as with what I wrote above there's no path to PS??

This isn't HS. Yeah he went to Clemson, Rex may watch their games a little closer than other schools, but if he doesn't have the talent, he's not on the team. It happens often with coaches giving other coaches jobs becasue they went ot their alum or are buddy with the coach at another school, but how many adults give any type of job other than maybe washing their car to their sons friend.

The comments made in the past year by think it was Henderson and also EJ makes it sound like the coaching staff of the Marrone era was about D-2 college level. Or may have been the coaches were fine, but Marrone's interference in giving different instructions than the positional coaches was the issue. Probably wouldn't be a bad move to bring Richardson back to the PS assuming he doesn't first sign elsewhere as at least he does know the system. But would still like to see them sign on actual experienced preferably inside guy for the active roster

O-line is the one positions where starters will play the entire game so agree depth isn't as big of a concern barring injury. But going as light as 7 or 8 is a bit of as risk for dealing with in-game injuries. Can one of our five TE's play line to finish up a game?? Do we send the injured OL player to the locker room and have them switch jerseys with a PS play and send him back out there to finish the game, a sudden injury healing. (You have to wonder if that's ever been tried, may have been an Al Davis trick) Plus PS players can't have more than what is it 4 years experience, so not exactly getting strong depth there. I agree that it's a good way to develop a young guy say like a Battle who may be a year away from being able to make the roster, but if all of a sudden you have two lineman get injured week one, you're in trouble the next week having to activate one off the PS. I'd like and kind of expect with their still open slot to see them sign a somewhat experienced interior lineman.

A friend of mine was doing a similar thing a few years back, not with a Slingbox, but something else that I had never heard of. Not sure of the working, but apparently, he could remotely change the channel so just to mess with his father form time to time, he'd call him up while the game is going on, they'd start talking about the game, and then he'd change the channel on him just to listen to his reaction over the phone. Worked a couple of times, then he caught on.

Kind of funny as the one thing almost everyone on this site agreed on is that we'd never carry 5 TE and 7 WR.

Or the opposite, the professionals like a Wawrow see the professional side of him as maybe he does write very insightful and stimulating articles. But he has a very petty side to him and doesn't take criticism well and personality wise just isn't suited for the social media age. Maybe a guy like him would be best to write his articles and completely stay off all social media

So I can fill you in on that on as I officiate HS volleyball. Generally they may talk about their nails, a text one of them got, who's going out with who, where the party will be this coming weekend, etc. And there's always one clueless coach in every league who will yell at one of the girls for hitting the ball out of bounds, "don't keep doing that" they say. Like the girl was aiming for the out of bounds! I bring that last point up only because of some comments from some of the Bills' players in the past few months, particularly O-lineman and EJ, it kind of sounded like the level of coaching they were getting under the Marrone era wasn't much better than that. I can see Goodwin either getting cut today to get down to the 53/54 or wouldn't shock me to see the team IR him. IMO He's not good enough this early in the season to put him on the IR designated to return list, not for a maybe #4 or 5 WR, so if the Bills do really see him as an asset as some people think, they may IR him, or they decide he is to brittle and cut him.

I'll pick last three cuts are O'Leary, Carrington, and Goodwin to IR wouldn't be surprised to see Bills pick up OL and cut Urbik, maybe even a 2nd OL and cut another WR