Mark Long Beach

Guess they're not worried about our running game. I think they really wanted to see which of the receivers could play well in game situations. Who could handle the bumps & hits from DBs.

Even if we have a youngster who might develop into a good 4th safety, there isn't any competition for that roll. Nix doesn't want a player to win the roll by default.

IMO we have 4 locks + a slash lock Johnson, Graham, Nelson, Jones We kept 5 receivers last year (+1) with all of our options CJ, Fred, Chandler, FB/HB I'm not so sure that he goes for a 6th WR this year. That means one spot open for Easley & Hagan, with Hagan right now a little in the lead. Last few cuts on this team are going to be hard this year.

past results count. Lindell has been a good kicker. So do present results. If Potter is clearly better he wins the job. The coach/gm has already raised the possibility of keeping two kickers so if the results are close maybe they do keep two and have a possible transition year to see if the guy is good enough to win the job outright.

Thanks man!

How about a 2000 yard season to cap it off.

I'm still partial to the WMDs.

I think you meant week ONE!

I thought it was all about what car you drove.

It's early, but it's nice to see some of our new pickups doing well (Anderson & Tank). Regarding Tank, IIRC his instincts and quick/aggressive play were considered his strong suit. Isn't he considered a little undersized/strengthed? It'll be interesting to see how his play holds up when we get to full contact. Can he still show as well? I'm curious how he'll do in coverage. It could really limit his ability to be on the field. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited by the guy. I love intensity in my linebackers.

Who knows? We haven't had that problem that's for sure. Our D has been bottom of the barrel over that timeframe. So bad that IMO it has had a profoundly negative effect on the offense. Statistically we STILL managed a middle of the road offense. So with a defense that actually gives back to the offense instead of taking away from it??? Hope Springs eternal, but there are a lot of reasons for optimism.

I believe that he's about an "average" de that had an above average salary. But he was one of the better players on our team and far and away the best DE we've had for a couple years (sadly). Keeping & rewarding our better players is essential to building a better team and what Nix has us finally doing. Thank God.

That's pretty awesome, btw.

Pretty Sweet!

I liked Lee as one of our receivers. He was one of the few reasonably bright spots on a long sad decade of Bills teams. When we traded him, he was getting close to the end of his career, but likely still had the potential for 1-2 good seasons. MANY people here reasonably questioned why we would make that trade. It sure looked to make us worse in the short run. If you believe (as I do) that Nelson was talking about Lee as one of the position leaders who didn't buy what Gailey was selling, then the answer is clear as to why we traded him. It doesn't make him a bad person, a bad teammate or a bad player, just the _wrong_ player for this new team being constructed by Nix/Gailey. To me, this clears up all doubts as to why the trade went down. You want everyone in the boat rowing the same direction as hard as they can. I like Lee, I miss his great home-run strikes, but it looks clear that it was time to move on.

Jeebus, I'd claim to be too poor to pay for clothes too.

Not only that, he called out Troup & Carrington by names even though the questioner didn't directly use them. So it IS a little more of a calling out than was "necessary".

It's just real hard to give too much credit for people not liking a draft pick the instant they heard it. Especially for players with less name recognition or who play an out-of-favor-position-of-the-day. For a kick re-read the comments about the second round draft pick of Byrd who's arguably a top 10 safety in the NFL. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/87947-round-2-pick-42-jairus-byrd-cb-oregon/ Lots of people instantly hated that pick. I don't give them much credit at all.

yeah. And it matches up with the Coach's/GM's indirect words (and actions) as they shipped out Evans. As listed in a post above, there really wasn't any other receiver who could have been the head of the receiving corps.

What's even more amazing is that this is in the wake of several other DUI arrests and it STILL makes no difference. I really don't have a lot of sympathy for stupidity.

Is it wrong that made me laugh out loud?

from my reading of what that he's charged with. It basically means he pulled a gun on someone and threatened that person with it. The VALID defense is to say that it was in self-defense. No idea what the circumstances are in this case, but unless it's clearly self defense it's pretty stupid on his part.

I call it the Bobbitt rule.

a little overly harsh IMO. The stats aren't meaningless, we passed on all of them. But yes, the data should be separated a little more to differentiate 3 & 1-2 vs 3 & 3-5 which as you said are very different animals.

likely a high second to boot. Shrug, too much potential, not enough production for my taste.