dave mcbride
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And it should be pointed out that Pittsburgh called a HB Pass which failed, and called an *incredibly* risky WR-directsnap/flea-flicker on 3rd and 2 for which almost any NFL HC would have been positively skewered had it not worked.
If "creativity" involves a WR-directsnap/flea-flicker on 3rd and 2, I don't want any part of it.
JDG
they've been doing that for 5 years going without fail (since mularkey became OC there), and their record since then is 55-24-1. you can do it if other teams respect your running game.
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i think (hope) you're right, but i also think we should get an extra 6th rounder for having to suffer through bennie anderson. holcomb is the one wild card.
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one thing i will point out in manning's defense is that on a number of occasions, he has played exceptionally well coming from behind in the fourth quarter. losman has yet to do this. let's hope that he aquires this absolutely necessary skill next season.
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Marv was a ST's coach who hired a good ST's coach. Ted Marchibroda ran the Offense. Corey/Wade ran the D. Marv organized the team and worked the refs on Sunday. He was neither an O or D specialist.
Mularkey is here because his salary is on par with most Asst. coaches. In other words, a bargain. He should delegate like Marv and burn his playbook. I hate it.
it's not his playbook that's the problem. it's the talent (i.e, the lack thereof) on the offensive line and at the TE position. solve that, and he'll look a lot smarter than he does now. successfully replace teague and anderson, teach peters how to run block (if he can't, move him elsewhere), and infuse enough talent so that gandy can be a swingman/6th man.
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Like you said, the school tolerated this type of behaviour because of his value to their football program. I don't need him, so I don't have to.
For me, this was his worst infraction -
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/foo...-arrested_x.htm
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yikes! not to justify it in any way, but how old was he? 19?
what about that old line 16 will get you 20? he seems to have got off scot-free.
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Some speculation on whom Mularkey will hire as his new Coordinators.
Having just fired our entire defensive staff, I think that Mularkey's best option would be to look at the defensive staff from one of the just-fired Head Coaches - someone who will be looking for a new job because a new guy will be bringing in his own personnel, and who will be able to bring a handfull of asisstants with him. This could include guys like Gunther Cunningham (Chiefs), Dick Jauron (Lions), Larry Marmie (Rams), or a return of Ted Cottrell (Vikings.) Dom Capers will be mentioned, but I find it hard to believe that we would pay him, or that he would want to come to such an unstable situation. If Jim Bates (Packers) becomes available, I'd be very happy with him. Another intriguing guy to me, though, is Rob Ryan (Raiders) - a son of Buddy Ryan, and who also spent time on Belichick's staff in New England, including two Super Bowls; so far, however, he has been retained by the Raiders. Another interesting choice would be former Arizona HC Dave McGinnis, who is currently a position coach in Tennessee.
On the offensive side, Mike Mularkey is an offensive guy - so he needs to bring in someone who is going to work with his system. You can't just bring in a Mike Martz, with his completely different offensive philosophy. That's why its so odd to see Mularkey fire Clements, whom he brought with him from Pittsburgh. Although Mularkey doesn't know him, Bruce Arians is a former OC for Cleveland, and became WR coach in Pittsburgh after Mularkey left - so at least Arians was presumably familiarizing himsellf with the Steelers' offense during that time frame. Another guy Pittsburgh brought in after Mularkey left is Mark Whipple, who was a successful I-AA HC. Another possibility might be Chris Palmer, who was fired by the Texans and Dom Capers in September. If Mularkey wants to stay in-house, maybe Tyke Tolbert gets the nod. Further afield, there may be some U of Florida connections I haven't come up with.
JDG
great, great post, and i was just thinking about the same thing. i love bates, and think he would be great for the bills. also, on offense, the pittsburgh guys sound intriguing. as for palmer, doesn't he sort of fall in the same category as martz (i.e., a completely different philosophy)? he's also had a very bad run of late.
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No one knows how they determine compensation for sure, but consider this:
Phat Pat and Jennings vs. Fat Bennie, Gandy, and Holcomb.
16 starts + (I think) 2 starts vs. 15, 16, and 8 starts...
wouldn't be surprised if it's a wash, hope not.
Last year we lost Winfield + IIRC Dave Moore, picked up Villareal + Vincent, and got nothing.
ugh. i guess we may be out of luck even though our prime guys got signed and we picked up bottom of the barrel stuff. one question, though -- since gandy was a street free agent (he was cut before the end of the season by the bears), does that alter the equation? does anyone know the rules?
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writ...sive/index.html
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Pat Williams, Vikings, and Richard Seymour, Patriots. I did not see one game in which Williams, playing the nose, did not destroy the center that faced him. He also showed great ball awareness. And stamina. In sum: I have never seen a nose man have the year that he did. Seymour, who plays end in the base defense and moves inside when they go to a four-man rush, which is often, started out playing at the highest level of his career. Then he got hurt. He came back slowly and reached his earlier level around November.
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I know I mentioned the "timeliness" of Marv's quote in another post in this thread, but I also forgot to mention the other reason why this is relevant.
This whole "we are going after high character guys" is such utter BS and the fact that Marv mentioned it in his PC just further cements my image of him. As is evidenced by this thread - no one can even define what Marv means by "character", but it sure sounds good. Like a politician who is for education and for civil rights, who isn't going to cheer for that? Who says - "I want complete lowlifes on my team!!!"?
GG thinks character means (if Marv is consistant frm past to present) playing hard between the whistles. Does TO not play hard? Did Deion Sanders not play hard? Did Bryan Cox not play hard? Are these the character guys that we are considering or avoiding? Would Steve Smith find a place on this team? He does a lot of celebrating...
My point is - this whole "character" thing is equivalent to the CEO announcing the company will pursue "synergy". It's a buzz word that means squat.
The Buffalo Bills need football players who have more talent than the other teams and they need better coaches who put those players in positions to take advantage of that talent. It is really that simple. No string of corny cliches have ever beaten a football team...
i think the question now is, if the bills do well in the next 3 years, who will you give the credit to? to levy, or to donohoe because levy simply "inherited" the roster? if -- god forbid
-- the bills actually do well under levy's helm, i sense that this will be next rj/flutie-level debate coming down the pike ... -
he'll be fine - he's immobile anyway, and ligament tears aren't as big a deal any more (my understanding is that the surgery borders on arthroscopic these days). it won't affect his game. i assume he'll be in game shape by mid-preseason.
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one thing we're forgetting is that as time passed -- starting with the 92 season or so -- the players under discussion became (on the field at least) more like what levy advocated than not. thomas became more likeable and didn't celebrate. same with bennett and smith. kelly too. i think they had been humbled a bit after the redskins loss, and i think that the win against the oilers led them to believe in the myth about themselves that was slowly emerging. the point is, they became more likeable (on the field, that is).
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Bills picked Tony Hunter with their #1, and Kelly with Browns' #1
Reggie Rogers was the guy they were thinking about picking in '87 at #5. But Cleveland really really really wanted Mike Junkin, whose brother had an amazing career as a LB with Bills. Browns traded with Browns, and probably hoped that Rogers would still be there at #8. Fortunately, Detroit picked Rogers at #7, and Bills got Conlan.
i'm confused - do you mean the bills traded with browns? (you say browns traded with browns).
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And again, in the battle of minutae, the story is missed.
If we start getting into the game of judging off-field activities, then we may as well stop pretending about who the majority of the players really are. If we get out the microscope, then every single one of us should have the brain examined for cheering a bunch of wife beating cokeheads on Sunday afternoons.
spot on.
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felser. i strongly suspect that his long and tight relationship with ralph meant that he got the story first straight from the horse's (i.e., owner's) mouth.
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Holy crap... if you believe this crap then you are a bigger <fill in the blank> than I thought.
Cornelius Bennett stuck some poor girl in the can against her will, Jim Kelly threw drinks in women's faces, partied his ass off, and stuck small businesses with the tab for his failed restaurant. Bruce Smith never participated in training camp, was suspended for substance abuse, and was found asleep at a stop light (I also believe there is a famous picture on the bench with his hat sideways). He also celebrated after EVERYTHING he did. Thurman Thomas told some poor kid to go f' his mother (or something similar)... I'm sure the list goes on and on and on...
So if WM can even read, I expect him to throw the book back poor ol' Marv and call him a liar.
niiiiice. while i actually agree with some of what you say here, why do you so often have to resort to insults and mean-spirited rejoinders? i mean, really?
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it would be wise for mcgahee to read this passage from marv's book, quoted in the article:
Consider this passage from his book about when, during a visit to his office shortly after his retirement, he began looking at the photos on the hallway walls: "Those faces that stared back at me ... were a testament to the commitment that (former Bills GMs) Bill Polian, John (Butler), and I had made when we resolved to bring only men with solid character onto our team. There wasn't a 'look-at-me' showboat among them. There were no choreographed end-zone dancers who thought they were cute but really weren't. In fact, I don't recall seeing even one backward-baseball-cap-wearer up there. I never saw or heard any of our players indulge in degrading displays of blatant self-aggrandizement. All I saw were men who, if they wanted to brag, would have been justified in boasting, 'I came to play.' "
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sam adams comes practically free next year. just so you know.
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You need to ask Miroljub Jevtic, Ph.D. the author of "Al Qaeda in the Balkans: Who in the Balkans wants to destroy America?" that was cited in the reply.
By the way, here is his bio. Seems like he might be someone with some knowledge of the subject:
wildly conspiratorial vision of history is confirmed.
Saban contacts Dom Capers about position.
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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going to buffalo using this logic would only be smart if a) he doesn't believe in mularkey and doesn't like him personally, and b) thinks he can succesfully undermine from within.
that's hardly something i would like to see.