Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Anyone have any idea where RW would have fell on the list? I'm assuming pretty low compared to many of these guys.

While I'll agree that his play didn't look very good, but as has been pointed out our running game went down the tubes once he got hurt. So maybe not nearly as bad as most of the wanna be scouts here think he is.

The things people believe is amazing. As they often say, "If it's stated on the internet it must be true!" That being said, I do agree that Overdolf may likely have turned off players in the past with low offers and not willing to meet halfway, however anything he did or said was based on the marching orders he was receiving from Littman and RW. I'm sure if TP tells him to spend money like a drunken sailer, he'll do that.

Supposedly Whaley also wanted them gone, think it was Carpenter in particular.

One advantage of the Pats winning is it's always hard to repaet, even to make the playoffs, so that bodes well for the Bills's and als othe rest of the AFC east.

Until you know what happens in FA kind of waste of time. Personally I'd draft QB and RB 2nd and 3rd, that's based on assumption that they signed one or two FA guards. If you really feel there's no QB's worth the 2nd or 3rd round, then I'd likely go with the TE idea

I think many of the reasons stated caused it, but what mayu have put it over the top is that Jet's have received alot of bad press over the years, most deserved to some extent. Naming Marrone as head coach with the stories of him quitting, being over controlling, trashing the Bills on the way out, a whopping 9-7 record, would have been ripped pretty good in the press, they didn't want that. They wanted a big splash hire though in the end really didn't get that much in Bowles either, but at least nothing to knock.

I think Hughes is going to price himself out of the Bills market. You can only spend so many $$ in one area of the team. Unless a team that signs him has a real good D-line around him, (which if they did, they'd have the same issues as the Bills would with paying him) likely by around November, whomever signs him to a big contract will be regretting it. I think one of the backups the Bills have could replace him with maybe a small drop off when he is playing next to the Williams brothers and Marcel, and an up and coming group of LB's behind them. I'd prefer seeing them sign two guards, Yesterday the guy from Chicago was mentioned as not costing a fortune, sign him and either the guy from SF or Green Bay. Between Dixon, Brown, and Jackson, you have a good group at RB, but need the real star. Unless you can sign Demarco Murry or someone of that caliper, I'd rather take my chances in the draft. Put a good line out there and easy for a rookie to go for 1200 yards. Look at the 5th round pick from Washington 2 years ago. So I'd sign in FA two guard/center, a QB, bring back Spikes,, sign a tall WR, I hear Mike Williams may be available, some mid level depth in the secondary, if you can find a real good TE, great if not draft one. I'd then use my second and third round draft picks on RB and QB in no particular order. Yes! I think it's more of a fact that the two teams have very good to great defenses around him. Would the team be better with Revis than without, sure, but I'd rather spend the money elsewhere. The last 5 or 6 games of the season, one could argue the Bills had a shutdown secondary, that to me is a better situation.

There I fixed it for you. Yes they could be the team with the most loses, but you have to get there to lose them. Do you somehow derive that this means they are a terrible team are a terribly run organization. Statistics like this are about as insightful as someone predicting it will .likely snow again in western NY in 2015. Absolutely true, but meaningless!

Unless we make a large improvment at QB, I'd put my money on the Steelers. Though I do thinkat least one of either the Bill's - Pats or Jet games will be prime time Sunday and/or Monday night.

That's one thing I always wondered, how weathy was RW compared to TP?? Probably never know as RW's money was all private, so no idea how much he had tied up in charities, etc.

Also a decent singer if you like thta type of music.

The way this whole thing went down with him, I can't help but wonder if the issue really wasn't that Terry P wanted to bring BP in as advisor, all of a sudden BP is talking about bringing in a new GM, etc. at which point TP told BP hold on, I never agreed to this, I just want you to advise the current people in place. BP didn't want to announce I turned the job down becasue they weren't going to give me complete control, so instead blamed it on being too big of a task for him. What was stated publicly just doesn't make much sense to me unless there was more too it. Will also be interesting to see if anything changes at all with BP after Saturdays HOF vote?

I feel like Bradford has a longer resume of playing time and shwon he can play, but also a longer resume of showing he has trouble staying healthy. That being said, I'd be OK with Bradford, and maybe Sanchez as an additional backup

So you feel it's the stupidest thing is sports, but you want to know all about how they determine things?? And it's worth starting a thread on it. Do I got that right??

I think in all these Whaley Q&A's he did including the one on Bryce Brown, kind of highlighted there were issues between him and Marrone on players and their usage. Not saying which one was correct, but will be interesting to see what happens with some of these guys next season. Whaley was being professional, but reading a bit between the lines, in particular in the Brown interview his comments about getting on the field, were pointed at Marrone.

Yeah I kind of feel bad for him based on things stated by Fred Jackson makes it sound like the issues may have been more with Marrone than on him. One thing I do wonder about. There were many here my self included that felt if Marrone stayed he needed to dump Hackett, but many also thought and commented that "he'd never fire his buddy Nate" Well from everything being stated about Marrone now, I think he'd have fired him in a second if it saved his own skin and kept him employed.

To me the big question will be Belichek has the rep of being the one guy who can always figure out how to beat the other teams scheme. So will be interesting to see if he dismantles their D

Here I fixed it

This has got to be the last straw for him in Seattle. He's not worth the distractions.

Yes but he's not an UFA today when the comments were made. Not sure what the rules are exactly on players that are to become UFA. Some are signed a few days before the deadline so I'd think comments made my another teams interest could drive up the price tag, therefore tampering??

After watching I needed to take a Dramamine ! Particularly the 1st one!

I'd also be a bit worried though about Ryan's comments on Sanchez and seems I recall similar comments he made this week about another player??

Not even to develop the Stepford QB?? Some may argue that's how Brady found his wife! I agree with you there is more arm and leg talent, but unfortunately I don't think the mind has kept up with it. Once in awhile the guy with the brain does come along ala Fitzpatrick, but then the arm isn't there.

I've thought about this same subject quite a bit myself and do feel that it's a major concern for the league. I also agree that they need to do things to make it easier for QB's to succeed. The problem to me is the game and players have all got too big, and too fast, Teams particularly defense have too much time to devise game plans to confuse the QB's It's too easy for a team to take an upcoming opponents offensive plays and plays create a file of certain types of plays for example. 30 years ago doing that with film may have taken a team a week to compile that, now with computers they can do it in a couple of hours and get it to all the players I-Pads within the same day giving them too much time to analyze the upcoming opponents weaknesses. While the QB's can have the same advantage themselves, it just doesn't help them enough as one person is just not able to process all the extra info. I don't like most of your suggestions only because I want improvements that would only help QB play. Having to only game 8 or 9 yards for a first down also helps the run game, they don't need help! I would go rather drastic though but so think it needs it. My first choice would be to develop a Stepford QB. If the league can do that, all the issues immediately go away. If that's not possible then I'd consider some other ideas like: Adding a 12th player to the offense but with limited abilities all aimed at helping pas blocking to give hte QB's more time to look over the field and less worries about blitzes , I'll call this position the "body guard", he can only line up 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and can never go up to the LOS so as to prevent him from helping with run blocking . He can not touch the ball except to fall on a fumble. He's strictly an extra blocker. I'd only allow two defensive players to blitz on any play. The blitzers are designated by their number so all the QB would need to look for is two guys and you know these are the only two guys who can rush. They can be anywhere on the field, you likely would have 4 or 5 players with the correct numbers to be blitzers, so they could be the LB or the safety, or a CB, but only two of them can be on the field at any given time. It would add little value to make it easier for the offense in the running game, but would make it easier for the QB to improve his passing game and also this "Body guard" would know who he;s looking for. Instead of hearing the QB yelling out "53's the Mike", now you'd be hearing "62 is the blitzer!" I'm sure many will think I'm out of my mind, but I do honestly think it is a major problem the league is facing and it seems to be getting worse not better. Because of this I do think it warrants some rather drastic changes to the game and rules. Really, then how come 20 teams can't find one? The only way half the teams have one is they got lucky and one fell into their lap more than they truly found the guy. Romo, Wilson, and Brady are examples of that If their respective team really had known how good they'd become they would have drafted them in the 1st round so as not to miss on the guy. But they took them where they were projected to go and got real lucky.