ndirish1978

Buddy described the type of pass rusher he is looking for in his presser- 6'4 or 6'5 240-250. I do like your guy, but I think we're done drafting undersized guys.

Voted 30x. Come on guys, let's get him the win

I don't disagree with your sentiment. However, I don't believe he conditioned the statement and I really don't see the trade coming. They keep talking up Naaman and have indicated Brad Smith will be playing a lot more receiver. We have gotten more production out of our late rd draft picks and UDFAs than we have our early ones. We drafted Hairston and Searcy in this year's 4th rd and Easley last year. I don't believe Nix is willing to trade away young prospects, even for a receiver in his prime. Again, I would like to bring him in myself, just not convinced we'll do that. We've all seen the national media's ignorance when it comes to this team in the past. Most likely, they saw we have 2 guys on IR, Jones is out for 4-6 and assumed we needed a WR so they reported we are interested. But, I hope I'm wrong.

I thought that was hilarious

I agree. I disagreed with the decision to move him inside, but Chan did state that if he were moved outside again he would probably stay there. I hope he supplants Kelsay or Merriman as a starter, really like him and his potential.

I think the most relevant point to this discussion lies in a quote from Buddy Nix from two years ago"we do not trade draft picks, we will try and accumulate more when we can"

Yeah, I read that and came back to remove the post. Too late!

Maybin was released weeks ago http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d821f5db3/article/former-firstround-lb-maybin-cut-jets-claim-four-off-waivers

1- Peggy would always remember how her mother told her she was "born with a pom pom in her hand" 2- Like mother like daughter 3- The apple doesn't fall far from the tree 4- Touchdown sends woman into premature labor

+1, beat me to it!

NO

That's his new nickname as far as I'm concerned. Chan "Warlock" Gailey

I guess Aaron Williams in the 2nd wasn't as bad as a lot of us thought it was! Makes me think Buddy knows what he's doing. Another thing I love about the FO is they aren't afraid to start UDFAs and late round picks over higher drafted players. Normally I'd be pessimistic and say "yeah, but that's cause our team is so bad, we start guys off the street", but players like Jones are actually being effective against other teams. This team has a lot of upside.

Really? I don't know I'd go that far. I'd say was simply decidedly average. No terrible flaws, but no real areas of great strength.

Not skepticism, incredulity. Don't be snarky cause you had a dumb idea and people shoot it down.

Ugly, should have been sacked 3x

Wooohoooo! I'm on my Stevie Johnson!

Hey what was our starting OL alignment? I missed the first drive and just wasn't paying attention last one. Is it: Bell, Levitre, Wood, Urbik, Pears?

Yeah. But I count myself in that group, so I thought I'd be a hypocrite and not insult MYself.

FYI, posting things like this in an open forum are more likely to lead to those sites getting shut down. Especially if the person making the request has a total of 3 posts since 2006.

I understand that. I truly do. Offense, especially the offensive line, is the one group that benefits most from time together. Missing OTAs and mini-camps adversely affected more than just UDFAs as most journalists would have you believe. The fact is, in getting larger up front, we essentially assured that only 2 players on the O-line would be returning to their old positions-Bell and Levitre. Urbik and Rhinehart haven't had a full offseason with the team, as they were mid-season acquisitions. The O-line is BOUND to look terrible this early in the year for that fact alone. Bell's play has been poor and that has created even more instability. You think this is the same old bad team? Look at the depth chart from 09. The year before Nix as GM and Chan as HC. I put stars next to the players currently starting for us at the same position. QB- Trent Edwards, Fitz, Hamdan RB- Marshawn Lynch, Fred Jackson, Dominick Rhodes WR- Evans, TO, Josh Reed, Parrish LT- *Bell, Chambers LG- *Rookie Levitre C- Geoff Hangartner RG- Rookie Wood (went on IR) RT- Langston Walker, Butler TE- Derek Fine, Nelson, Schouman DE- Denney, Kelsay, DE- Schobel, DT- Stroud, Johnson DT- *Williams, McCargo ILB- Pos, Thomas, Buggs OLB- Ellison, Corto, Bowen OLB- Mitchell, Palmer, Nic Harris CB- *McGee, Harris, CB- *McKelvin, Youboty CB- *Florence, Langster SS- Whitner, Wilson FS- Ko Simpson, Bryan Scott We have exactly 2 player on offense returning at their position as opposed to TWO years ago and that may become ZERO if Levitre replaces Bell at LT. On D we have 4 people returning at their positions. Those 4 are playing, solid football. All I'm saying is. PLEASE, give the FO the benefit of the doubt. There have been a LOT of changes and I think they're almost all for the best.

Continued... 1- Every time Pos makes a tackle, half the people on this board will whine that someone else paid him 7M a year to leave us. The other half will laugh about how it happened "10-15 yards down the field." 2- The offense will struggle and people will blame it all on the o-line, not impatient running or bad timing in route running. 3- People will talk about who will be starting at QB by X week after Fitz throws a single bad pass. 4- People will complain we didn't sign so and so, who we may have offered a boatload of money and just didn't want to play here anyway.

Did you watch the draft. Please spare me your ignorance. When he took over Buddy laid out his plan and he hasn't deviated from it. 1- He said we would build through the draft. That we wouldn't be a team likely to trade around our draft picks, but would always look to acquire more. 2- He said he's not looking to make big free-agent splashes and prefers to re-sign productive players. 3- He said the process would most likely take about 3 years and he understood that would frustrate people. Last year they drafted for offense and those guys have yet to step up, but there's nothing that we can do about that. This year's draft was clearly predicated no fixing the defense and they have done that. The worst thing a franchise can do is hang on to and overpay players who has passed the prime of their careers, or never produced. We got rid of Whitner, Maybin and Evans this year because they were unlikely to surprise anyone with a productive year. I don't understand how 2 months ago people were saying we should get what we could for Lee, then turned around and acted like the sky was falling when we did.

Anything he writes after this qualifier is not an apology: "However, before going any further if for no other reason than my sanity—– what I published was NOT completely untrue. Though my erroneous coining of the word “steroids” is emphatically wrong, this was more than just the “routine” border incident most of us have experienced ourselves." He's saying, yeah I lied and said steroids, but I wasn't really lying. He is apologizing so people will stop berating him on twitter (which they have not) and to try and salvage his "reputation" (which is non=existent). After all the swagger and bravado he was exhibiting on twitter after the article ran I'm not buying this. He obviously didn't realize he was going to catch so much hatred over writing this garbage, got flustered by it all and is hastily trying to get out of the doghouse. If you go to Chan's video interview on the official website, the one where he talks about Torbor to IR, Moran asks him a question and Gailey responds "we don't get to talk about that." Moran, immediately self-conscious for no reason asks "I don't get to talk about it?" and Gailey looks at him like he's growing a second head cause the response was so out of left field. Eh, or maybe you're right. I don't know the guy, so I don't really feel the need to forgive him because I don't care about him as a person. I think he's slimy and disgusting and I'm not feeling bad for the crap he's taken or forgiving him just cause he asks for forgiveness after writing an article that had the potential to mess up someone's career and really screw the team.

Nowhere in that rambling, incoherent schlock, did I actually see an apology. All I read was a person standing on a soapbox and pretending to be magnanimous to all his haters by giving a half-assed justification for writing what he wrote. Hack writer, scumbag person (read his twitter post stating "if I'm lying may my eight-year-old daughter get hit by a car") and all-around loser.