Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Blitz pickups are always the toughest thing for running backs coming in from college to understand, so no no surprise there.

Actually I think on a bad team it takes longer. If you put him say on the Jets' D-line,if he makes some mistakes the guys around him can hide them Plus as an opposing offesne, you'r more worried about the other guys, there's no one on the Bills D except maybe Williams that you need to worry about. So everyone takes someone one on one. Easy to make a rookie look bad. D linemen seem tto take longer to develop with the exception of a guy whose main job is pass rushing. I recall Bruce Smith having trouble fist few seasons particually against the run.

So until next Friday is there anything preventing Luck from changing his mind and deciding to leave college? Let's assume on Tuesday JH announces he's leaving Stanford, can Luck change his mind? The deadline to declare is the 14th I know. I'm assuming you have to fill out papers ot state you're leaving for the NFL, but owuld imagine you do nothing if staying??

I take the CG statement with a grain of salt. He's somewhat trying to cover up for what's happened the past year with going back and forth and taking a half a year to figure out the 3-4 wasn't working. so now he's trying to sell it a smart way to play. I'm certain they will select players, FA, or draft picks to go in one direction or the other, likely 3-4. Wil lthey sometimes go 4-3, probably, but that's also likely true for every other team too.

I can't believe he'd sign with anyone unless he's promised a shot at he starting position. To do that again could set the team back with a QB competition. I'd be worried about how je'd handy a back up role. I could see him being another BillyJo Holbert who doesn't even study the play book. Not sure how much thought teams even give to back up vrs starters style being in contrast. If you develop a team to be most effective around Fitz strengths, how would it then do with Young in there. Granted switching mid game do to injury etc, could creat a difficult time for defensive game planning. To me this is nothing more than some hack who know's little of anything about Fitz, sucess or lack there of, depending on your view, seeing a team that only won 4 games, has a QB who wasn't a star, and right away stating that's the most likely place for him to go to. If you do a search you may find a dozen other articles predicting other teams he'll sign with.

Actually I think that was one of Kelly's weaknesses, he tried to do too much. I've said it for the past 20 years, in the first SB agaisnt the Giants, if Kelly had given the ball more to Thomas, I'm certain we'd have won that one.

Could day the same thing about Spurrier, how'd that work. Ther were others too. Just because he has "connections" doesn't mean he can coach.

I'm not certain of that. Philly had a better all around team built around the QB. A defense that likely was going to give the offense a shorter field, better receivers and O-line. I think one of Fitz strengths is his ability to make average receivers look good by being able to find the open person. Could Vick have done that as well, kind of doubt that. Defenses could have more game planned to stop Vick from running and may have more easily shut him down. He may have been better, but doubt he would have come close to doing with us what he did in Philly.

Did I miss something? I suppose it would be nice if Mimai fired the coach first!

Now that's the most shocking news. I didn't think anyone would have much good to say about AJ these days. I think he may have on more year to go deep into playoff or both him and Turner will be gone. Sounds like he's the one GM with an ego bigger than most players.

It tells me the Bills don't think Poz is worth that much, so they want ot see where things fall out with new CBA as tha will estabish likely salary for mediocre type players.

Well $20,000 is huge to someone living on welfare. Not sure how you did you math but 20 hours per week X 14 weeks per semester X 2 semesters= 20 X 28 =560 hours. That's around $35 per hour. Even at 52 weeks which they are not putting in 20 hours every week of the year, would still work out to $20 per hour. Not sure what your point even is?? Are you saying that's too much or not enough ? Yes an $80,000 tuition gift for 4 years is alot, but without htese kids the schools wouldn't be making millions, If you've already given him $20,000 a year, what's an extra $1000? Make it $21,000 so he has some walking around money. As someone else posted, when people pay money to watch you do a lab, then you're right, giving these kids free tuition is enough. Until then as long as the schools are making millions, giving the kids some walking around money isn't so bad. If things were more reaosnable, maybe there'd be less cheating.

Yes they are given a huge amount of money in the form of tuition. But it does seem kind of crazy to bring these kids in, many who have no money to their name, give them free tuition, but you want to go home for Christmas, and you can't afford the plane ticket,; Oh well too bad, you're on your own. They have free meals at the training table, but you want to go to the movies on the weekend or to a party, again you're on your own. They are not allowed to work so hard for them even to make money. Well they could sell their game tickets, but not allowed to do that either. Personally I think they should be paid the same hourly wage as anyone on work study gets paid for every hour of practice time they put in. I believe they are limited ot 15 hours per week by NCAA rules, so give them 15 hours of pay for that. Spring practice again, pay them for their time. If you ask most kids, they'd rather not practice, but the coaches require it. The more they practice, the better the team plays, potentially giving the school more money. So pay the kids for their time practicing.

Cleveland let him go, not surprisinf as MH wanted to bring in his own guy. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Cleveland-Browns-fire-head-coach-Eric-Mangini-010311

totally agree!! If they don't want Luck there will be plenty of others wishing to trade with them. The problem is it's hard for a team picking much lower than 5 or 6 to be able to offer enough in return. But likely thye'd get some team offering a bunch of picks and they are like the Bill's in that they need many players. So would make sense for them to trade dow na few spots coule likely still get a number of good players. For us to move up to that spot would likely cost us our 1st three picks, maybe even more.

So likely if the Bills were to trade down from their #2 overall a team drafting: Postion Give up 6th overall Their 1st, 2nd, & 4th 7th or 8th Their 1st, 2nd, & 3rd 9th Their 1st thru 4th 10th or lower Their 1st rthru 3rd and likely next years #1 I'd make an of these trades in a sescond if someone wanted to.

No It's $350 a year, which is the same as the full Sunday Ticket, though it sounds like with full Sundayt Ticket you can threaten to cancel and get a better price. This is availablwe for people who can't get DTV mostly becaseu of where they live, tall buildings, etc. To qualify, you need to answer three questiosn: Do you currently have DTV? If you do then get regular Sunday Ticket (which likey woud be a cheaper option anyway) Can you receive DTV at your current address? If you can then you need to get DTV and then regualar Sunday Ticket Have you ever had DTV at your current address? If you did, then obviously the asnwer two the second question would be yes which again means go buy DTV So if you answer: "No, No, No" You qualify. I think it's a case of "Don't ask, don't tell" As long as you answer no, they don't really look into it very much particually the second question.

Hey look at my options. Without Sunday Ticket I could have watched the Panthers every week. Actually that would be a pretty good marketing tool for DTV to use in many locations, including western NY. "What choice do you have?"

So one year of Sunday Ticket To Go online under the belt. How’d it work? Was it reliable? Worth the money? I live in North Carolina, far enough away from the Panthers not to be affected by any blackout rules, but close enough that local Fox station show’s all their games home and away. This past season there was not one Bills game on shown on local CBS station so without Sunday Ticket wouldn’t have seen any Bills games this year. I watched every game except two weeks where I was out of town on Sunday. While I purchased it mostly to watch Bill’s games, I did also watch some other games not shown on local TV. Today for example was watching Washington–Giant game and also Jax so could watch TE. I also didn’t want to have to deal with online feeds that either had very poor quality, or would disappear after an hour or so. I recall last year as season wore on, the feeds became harder to find. Only one time do I recall watching on a pretty good quality feed. From reading some of the posts, sounds like this year was no better, maybe worse? First 6 to 8 weeks had some issues with buffering, stream not available. If I had more time I may have called up and canceled the entire thing, but didn’t want to waste time being put on hold. Last half of season it worked pretty well, little if any buffering, Bills games were always available to watch. There were a couple times I wanted to watch the end of some other game and wasn’t able to view it, “got “Stream Not Available” error. I’m assuming that meant too many people were trying to watch that specific game but was pleased overall A couple features that didn’t appear to work that I wish did (and am hoping by next season they will make these features available: You can watch in standard (approx. 4” high X 8 “ wide picture) or full screen mode picture size. You also have the option of selecting picture-in-picture or game mix which allows you to watch four feeds at once. However neither of these works in full screen mode only, so if you select the game mix, you’re looking at each screen size being approx. 2” X 4”. No way to expand size so makes it rather frustrating to use this feature Would be much nicer if game mix worked in full screen size. The first couple weeks of the season in the upper corner, there were a couple of “DVR” buttons to select recording of game. Cool!! Except the buttons didn’t work at all. After first couple of weeks, buttons disappeared completely. Would be nice if this feature worked next year, even just a re-wind or pause button so can watch a play again if you wish. All things considered would I purchase next year? More than likely yes I would. Quality wasn’t as good as watching on my HD TV, but was pretty good and would give it high reliability after first few weeks where it seemed bugs were being worked out. Would hope by next year they improve bandwidth and maybe add these features as described above or other things but overall was pleased. I wish there was a cheaper reliable alternative, until that happens, will buy Sunday Ticket to Go.

I'd think with a year under his belt, Levi would be just as good a backup as BB. Best case would be to pick up a backup for Fitz and leave Brown #3 or draft someone else and cut LB and B

Our O-line has looked pretty bad the last couple of weeks since injuries too a couple of started down. For the first ten weeks of the year, we had pretty much the same line every week, one exception being RT, we hade one change. Last month or so have gone through what six different starters??

Speculation is they'd do like the NHL did and have a wieghted draft. We wouldnt necessarily be picking #4 again, but good change we'd have a pretty high selection. However I have a some doubts about them using a system like this as the draft is ushc a bigger part of team turn around in football as compared to hockey. The league may feel it would just be too much of a benefit to weak teams. Maybe they do an "S" curve to a team like Buffalo would again have the 4th pcik, but then in round #2 their pick would be the 4th last, round #3 4th from the top..... and so on..... PS How's I-40 look on your end??

Yeah but it's not really Nix's call. He can suggest to Chan that maybe we need a better DC. But unless Chan agrees and wishes to dump him it won't happen. The only option Nix would have would be to then fire Chan over the issue. Kind of what RW did to Wade when he claimed Wade wouldn't fire the ST coach when RW asked him to. So RW then tried to claim Wade quit, so he didn't have to pay him. That worked well!! The defense had no players so are you going to bame that on Edwards? People also like to talk about how players won't want to come to Buffalo. Well firing the DC after one year while fielding a terrible team won't do much to help attract coaches either. I agree with many other posters, he likely will get a pass, unless it'sreally felt he was over his head and Cahn wants to make a change. Will be interesting to see what happens, but based on what as fans we see, he does NOT deserve to be fired. If he is fired it's likely for what goes on behind the scenes.

Actually I thought the really dumb play by Cinny was on 2nd down. 1st and 10 on the 12, completion in bounds to the 4, 2nd and 2. Cinncy clocks the ball, now 3rd and 2. Next two plays imcomplete, with 10 seconds left Balt gets the ball game over, Balt wins. I can understand clocking the ball and giving up a down if on like 50 yard line with 50 secs or so to go. You need a number of long yardage gain plays to score anyway, so one more or less play won't likely make that much a difference. But on the two yard line, you have a better chance of scoring with three tries as opposed to two downs. Totally stupid. But that's the NFL today! QBs won't whipe their own nose without thaving their coach whispering in their headset on how and when to do it. Whatever happened to calling two plays in the huddle like the old days? Seems every QB has to play "Peyton Manning" and spend five or ten seconds pointing at the defense, tapping the side of his helmet, then again point at the defense touching his thigh, then he can only snap the ball. Granted you may be running a more limited options play, but the defense also doesn't have time to get set, no sub packages, etc. Seems to me a fast play would give the offense the edge in that situation. BTW, I absolutely don't however believe Cinncy was in any way trying to lose with any of the plays mentioned. It's just coaching in the 21st century and poor play by Palmer. If they wanted to lose on purpose, they would have ran the ball when they first got posession and never passed the ball and be anywhere near the end zone.

I think the other thing that's happened the past couple of weeks is the injuries on the O-line have caught up with the team. Today there are two guys starting with a total of one game experience between them. Even Wood (while looking pretty good at it) is playing a new position. The past couple weeks even Fitz didn't look at good as he was earlier, maybe due to weaker line play of late. I think they were OK with Ulbik, but once he went down and the revolving door at RT made one more turn, things just went down the drain. If Ulbik can come back healthy next year and draft a good RT (or sigh a FA) plus give Bell a year of working on getting stronger, I'd go with that line, plus with maybe GH, Wang, Reinhart, and Wrotto as subs. Or maybe pick up a better backup FA lineman.