dave mcbride
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my strong understanding of that TN playoff game is that wilson ordered the coaches to play johnson, and philips/pendry et al. wanted to start flutie. my understanding is also that this is was key in the rupture of wilson's relationship with butler and smith. you can spin the 2 playoff performances all you want, but the bottom line is that flutie v. miami lit their very good secondary up like a christmas tree, allowing eric moulds to have the greatest playoff receiving performance in nfl history (240 yards receiving) while flutie himself averaged a whopping 10 yards per passing play:
21 completions 36 attempts 360 yards 1 td 1 int 4 rushes 29 rushing yards 1 fumble
(that's two turnovers, not five)
johnson, on the other hand, performed well at the end of the game against a good TN defense after looking miserable for 3 and half quarters.
10 completions 22 attempts 131 yards 0 tds 0 ints 3 rushes 9 yards
1 turnover (fumble) that resulted in a Titans TD
spin away ...
p.s. - flutie's numbers came on the road against the nfl's third ranked defense (miami in 1998) and johnson's numbers came against the nfl's 18th ranked defense (TN in '99)
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You can try to revise it all you want, Flutie played excellent football in 1998, and Rob Johnson took his demotion like a man, even when Flutie was wasting the best defense in football with his often terrible play in 1999.
In the Bills toughest game of that year, Johnson put the Bills in position to win a playoff game on the road, a position he was put in because Flutie had QB'd the team poorly in several stunning losses against inferior opponents that season.
But being the prick that he is, he somehow found the gall to publicly blame the loss on Johnson. It's hard to quantify how ridiculous that was. Twelve months earlier Flutie had turned the ball over 5 times and fumbled the game away at the goal line in an inexcusable playoff loss to a mediocre Miami team. But as little sense as his self-promotion made, it turned the whole QB situation into an absolute firestorm that tore apart the fan base and split the lockerroom in half and ended up sweeping Wade Phillips and much of the success and continuity the franchise had developed right out the door.
I like to watch Flutie play, but anybody who doesn't see what a weasel he was, and the damage he wrought to the Bills(after being hailed as the salvation of the franchise) is completely blind to the facts.
my strong understanding of that TN playoff game is that wilson ordered the coaches to play johnson, and philips/pendry et al. wanted to start flutie. my understanding is also that this is was key in the rupture of wilson's relationship with butler and smith. you can spin the 2 playoff performances all you want, but the bottom line is that flutie v. miami lit their very good secondary up like a christmas tree, allowing eric moulds to have the greatest playoff receiving performance in nfl history (240 yards receiving) while flutie himself averaged a whopping 10 yards per passing play:
21 completions 36 attempts 360 yards 1 td 1 int 4 rushes 29 rushing yards 1 fumble
(that's two turnovers, not five)
johnson, on the other hand, performed well at the end of the game against a good TN defense after looking miserable for 3 and half quarters.
10 completions 22 attempts 131 yards 0 tds 0 ints 3 rushes 9 yards
1 turnover (fumble) that resulted in a Titans TD
spin away ...
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oh yeah. the la market has proven to be soooooooo profitable for nfl teams these past 40 years. the bills are very profitable, far more valuable than their market size would lead one to believe, and possessing a quite good stadium situation. they're not leaving. there are at least 5 teams lined up in front of them.
p.s. i suggest you take a look at california voter support for public funding of stadiums the past 15 years. there is none.
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SO CAL.. WTF?? All I'm bringing is the truth... there's no conspiracy. Ralph has taken inventory and completed his introspection. His done as well as he can here and there is no point in playing games with the salary cap to field a SB team... No one sells or buys a SB team. A new owner wants to buy a team at a reasonable price and then take advantage of PSL revenue, Luxury Suite revenue, the potential to own or have a stadium funded, naming rights to a stadium, etc. all of the revenue streams that a new owner won't have to share with the other owners. Revenue streams that aren't and will never be in NYS... those are just the facts.
Burt not to worry SoCal... the new owner could relocate to your neck of the woods (LA, Sacremento) and you could be a lucky season ticket holder. I can just visualize that stadium. Domed, adorned with 10,000 luxury suits, 20, 000 general seats for those who can only afford to pay $20K for a PSL and antoher $35K for a season ticket instead of $1.5M for a luxury suite. Concierges on every level, bikini clad ushers, valet parking, helicopter pads, a small airport with long runways, separete entrances for Vips, politicians, and movie stars, wine tasting kiosks, Dom perignone vendors throughout the place. Plasma monitors all over the place, wireless internet access in every seat.... Oh what a glorius stadium. The naming rights can probably be had for a measley $20M/year... How about Sony stadium... or WB stadium, or The IPOD DOME.
I'm telling you now... this team is being prepared to be sold, not to win a SB.
oh yeah. the la market has proven to be soooooooo profitable for nfl teams these past 40 years. the bills are very profitable, far more valuable than their market size would lead one to believe, and possessing a quite good stadium situation. they're not leaving. there are at least 5 teams lined up in front of them.
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What choo talkin' 'bout?
I've been screaming for years about the piss-poor attention to the OL that TD has paid.
During one point in last year's training camp we had 13 Tackles and one "Guard" listed on the roster. Even Teague was listed as an OT. Until this offseason TD has brought in mostly OT's to fill every available position on the OL. Only recently has he brought in Guards. He brought in one Center and that was a walk-on FA from Louisville that didn't make the squad. This has been a pathetic showing by TD and it's been a long overlooked area of need.
in retrospect, the worst personnel day in bills team history the last 15 years was when the bills got screwed on the will wolford deal under the old franchise player rule. the whole imbroglio led to a change in the rule. in 13 years, they've never come close to replacing him. they finally replaced house ballard with mike williams, but williams is no better than house, who just happened to be an 11th round pick.
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I predict that one day the NFL will conduct classes for new rookies on the "Travis Henry - don't let this happen to YOU!" case.
Dumb as dirt, run-from-the-po-leece fast, signing with a Dumbkopf agent for less than market value, getting balls deep in a 14 year-old, playing your heart out in a losing cause, and losing your starting position because you've been outflanked by a shrewd front office that senses you've shot your best load sometime in the past, and then suddenly, there's a new stud in town.
Must be something to be on the downside of your career when you're 26.
He'll be broke by the time he's 30. He's beginning to remind me more and more of Dwayne Thomas.
you give dirt a bad name!! there are some living creatures in it! a bag of rocks is more like it.
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not that this should ever change your opinion (and i'm admittedly a dem who thinks she's doing a great job), but she now has some of the highest approval ratings for a senator in recent NY history - the high 60 percents. that's from the NYT/CBS poll and the Quinnipiac NY state poll ...
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not to me. rob johnson was a chump at usc, a chump while living in a hotel next to buffalo international, and a chump at his short-lived post-bills stops. he really represents the kind of player i most dislike - physical talent undercut by a milquetoast and robotic personality and a profound lack of gametime intuitive smarts.
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perhaps, but his argument was based on his belief that he was manifestly superior to rob johnson. in retrospect, it seems pretty clear that he was right.
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UB - BA - '88
UCLA - PhD (US history) - 1998
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So if Parcells was such a smart guy- why did he run his playoff QB, Quincy Carter, out of town and replace him with the 42 year old Vinnie and bring in the broken down Eddie George for $3mil / yr and big name, no production Marcellus Wiley- has beens who led the Boys to a big 6 win season?
he didn't want george - that was all jones. as for quincy carter, did you see any of his games in 2003? with a credible qb, that team would have won 12 games easily. he's absolutely terrible.
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edge performed very well against the bills in buffalo in 2003, as i recall. he's an excellent, excellent player who could have rushed for 1800 yards this year if the offense wasn't so wide open.
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I just realized that there is a link for "Today's Top 10 Posters." I was frickin' astounded by the number of posts per day some of you all write! And Alaska Darin is by far the most frequent poster with 89 posts today! 89! Second place was stuckinciny with 39.
Do you make money posting on this site? How is this possible. That's incredible.
very amusing. btw, imho V is better than gravity's rainbow ...
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As you all know the packers announced Farve will return....which makes packer fans happier then if they had won 1 million $$$$, but with all the Farve returning talk, the Packers did something very quietly on the side or should i say in the background as the fans celebrated.
They released their best defender in Sharper. This is a team whos secondary already was a joke but now might be the worse in the NFL with the release of Sharper. The packs front office did this with greta timing....how can you be upset about that news when farve is returning? I give the packers credit since now they might have the worse defense in football while the vikes have improved greatly.
But hey its ok cause Frave is playing one more year behind a terrible oline. very good heads up move by the packs except they are really gonna suck with or without Farve.
all teh storys in Gb papers tomorrow will read....FARVE BACK FOR FINAL SEASON....and on the bottom of the article it will say......News and notes, the Green Bay Packers release Darren Sharper on Thursday who was their only good player on the defense. LMAO
i like the pack and love favre and also agree that they're losing good players. that said, with favre as qb - my all time preferred qb - they're good for 8+ wins no matter how sorry the rest of the unit is. plus they remain excellent at the skill positions. btw, sharper didn't have his best year last year, and the team probably knows more about his injury than you or i ...
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http://www.footballoutsiders.com/ramblings...cat=16#comments
Even with the additions on defense, the big free agent story in Dallas is obviously the acquisition of new quarterback Drew Bledsoe. Dallas signed Drew to a “three-year, $14 million” contract, which in reality is a two-year deal with only $5.5 million guaranteed. It’s really hard for me to say this, since I’m no fan of Drew Bledsoe, but for a quarterback with his pedigree – only two seasons removed from a 4000-yard, Pro Bowl season – Dallas signed a great deal.
If Bledsoe is going to be a successful quarterback anywhere in the NFL, it will be in Dallas. They should have a top-flight running back in Julius Jones, a very good-to-great pass catching tight end in Jason Witten, and, most importantly, an offensive line that has ranked in the top half of the league in adjusted sack rate for the past two seasons. With the reported addition of Pro Bowl guard Marco Rivera, the line should give Bledsoe more than enough time to get off a pass. Bledsoe is also rejoining Bill Parcells, the coach under whom he had his most success. The Tuna has a history of getting good performance out of veteran quarterbacks who have been left for dead (see Vinny Testaverde version 2.0 and, to a lesser extent, Vinny Testaverde version 3.0).
But Drew Bledsoe isn’t the first veteran quarterback to struggle for a few seasons later in his career. Let’s check out some similarity scores to see whichquarterbacks since 1978 have been the most like Bledsoe’s 2002-2004 over a three-year period, to see if we can learn anything about what we can expect Drew to do over his likely two-year stay in Dallas.
(The Football Outsiders method for computing similarity scores was introduced here, if you would like an explanation. This list compares Bledsoe’s three seasons to the listed player’s three seasons, one by one, and then takes the “harmonic mean” of the three similarity scores. That’s a fancy math term that means that the players that come out as most comparable are the players with a similar career path, not the players whose three year totals are most similar to Bledsoe’s three year totals. The listed years here are the third year of the examined period. )
Lname FName YEAR TEAM POS G COMP ATT PaYD PaTD INT
Mitchell Scott 1997 det qb 16 293 509 3484 19 14
Testaverde Vinny 1998 nyj qb 15 259 421 3256 29 7
Lomax Neil 1986 crd qb 14 240 421 2583 13 12
Everett Jim 1992 ram qb 16 281 475 3323 22 18
Esiason Boomer 1995 nyj qb 12 221 389 2275 16 15
Everett Jim 1996 nor qb 15 267 464 2797 12 16
Kelly Jim 1995 buf qb 15 255 458 3130 22 13
Jaworski Ron 1984 phi qb 13 234 427 2754 16 14
Ferguson Joe 1983 buf qb 16 281 508 2995 26 25
Brunell Mark 2002 jax qb 15 245 416 2788 17 7
Look at that. Vinny 2: Electric Bugaloo is Drew’s #2 most similar player. For the most part, this isn’t that great of a list for optimistic Cowboy fans. You never want to see Scott Mitchell as the #1 most similar player to your new starting quarterback. Boomer Esiason, Jim Kelly, and Ron Jaworski were never close to their old selves after the seasons listed here. We’ve all seen how well Mark Brunell has played the past two seasons. However, there is hope on this list. Neil Lomax was a Pro Bowl quarterback in 1987 and had threw for over 3000 yards the next season in 1988. 1992 Jim Everett still had a few solid seasons left in the tank, although by 1996 “Chris” was feeling the effects of his infamous attack on Jim Rome.
Of course, Lomax and Everett are also the youngest quarterbacks on the list, with only six and seven years of experience respectively. I’m not sure if they make the best comparison for a 12-year veteran. If the past is any predictor of future success, my initial reaction in favor of the Bledsoe signing will turn out to be yet another time where I’m wrong.
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if parcells is such a joke, how did he have the foresight to hire belichick numerous times? putting together a staff is possibly the most important task a head coach faces. as for him having lost his reputation, the last time i checked, the cowboys won 10 games and made the playoffs a year ago despite having an arena league-level qb (quincy carter). and the last time i checked, the most recent time the bills performed such a feat was in the last millennium.
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Travis Henry may be in Buffalo whether he likes it or not. Nobody is giving us anything for him. He is under contract. His stupid ego may clash but put his ass on the bench. Some team will get an rb injured and then we will be able to trade him. If he raises too much of a stink, suspend his ass or stick him on special teams. The Pats put starters on special teams--last time I checked they are the champs. If Travis had half a brain he would accept his fate, be a professional, play out his contract and go wherever he wants. Maybe a dose of humility is what he needs. The lack of interest should make him feel fortunate that he is earning an NFL salary. Something tells me that his IQ is somewhere between a beet and a cabbage. Let's see him earn the money he is making now in the real world. The more he pisses and moans, displays a rotten attitude, the less likely other teams will sign a second tier player. Randy Moss didn't exactly have the league knocking down his door.
Your thoughts...
i'd happily take a 6th rounder for him - we can always use another kevin thomas-caliber player. if nothing else, that sort of player will be more useful than a bitter travis would be next year.
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i would devote the remainder of my thin sports interest to rooting for them to finish 0-16 and ignoring every other team in the league. after a couple of years of that, i'd never watch a sporting event in my life (i've already ratcheted down to the nfl only).
Flutie To Be Released!!!
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p.p.s. - in 1998, miami's pass defense was ranked 6th overall, 6th in yards per pass play, and #1 in interceptions
in 1999, tennessee's pass defense was ranked 26th overall, 27th in yards per pass play, and 18th in INTs