dave mcbride
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I don't mean to imply that JJ was actually coming to Buffalo. I was just intrigued by the fact that this board had JJ to Buffalo ruimors on it earler in the week and I tune in to Fox at the halftime and they are talking about it.
JJ was a clusterf*@k at Miami and am not really sure that I want him here.
not so sure he was a clusterf*@k in miami. he took over a team on the wane and made 3 playoff appearances in 4 seasons. that's not too shabby, especially considering the perch upon which we are sitting.
regardless, it ain't gonna happen. no chance.
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the offensive and defensive lines are where the game is won. we suck in those areas.
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I don't see how this report expresses Eric Moulds or Eric Moulds' spin doctors interpretation of the events in any way. How does one infer that this is not just management's side of the story?
Truly, one should ask who is best served by airing the dirty diapers like this?
Is it Moulds or Moulds' people? Hell no. Moulds looks like a prick given this account of the events. He looks no better than a Terrell Owens.
Is it in the Bills best interest? Now that depends. If the Bills organization is interested in keeping Eric Moulds happy and a contributor on the team, even in the short-term, it doesn't make much sense to paint him in as a me-first chump.
On the other hand, if someone knew he had to make a decision with respect to paying Eric Moulds and had already made up his mind that Eric Moulds wasn't worth the coin, then leaking information that Moulds was a no-good bum of a player greases the public relations skids for when the hammer comes down on a player that has been a good performer over his career, a fan favorite, and reportedly well-liked and respected in the locker room.
just to extend the conspiracy, tom modrak.
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wow.
if there was any doubt, it should be dispelled: the bills are a profoundly untalented team.
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sam aiken sucks. just had to say it.
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He's a bust because he was expected to be an elite player, someone that wanted to excel at his profession, dominate the game, and become a leader on the team. He was the first lineman taken in the draft. The guy was expected to be a rock at LT for a decade and a player the team could build around.
What the Bills got was a guy that never played a down at LT, isn't even in the starting line-up, can't beat out a TE at RT, and can't even beat out a complete stiff at LG.
How is he not a bust?
'Cause he threw a couple nice blocks once in a while? The "blind squirrel" defense is just pathetically flagging when it comes to defending someone like Mike Williams that the Bills had such lofty ambitions about.
couldn't be better stated.
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Yes it sucks.
Really sucks.
Tough call on Mularkey. Liked what I saw last year and understand the shlt he's had to deal with this year (rookie QB, OLine injuries, moronMoulds, OCoordinator needing bumpedetc.). But watching the sloppy execution, excessive penalites and some lackadaisaical play and you realize this teams is just poorly coached right now.
I'm not sure iof I'm ready to can him, but he's not doing a good job and is certainly on a short leash.
Cya
1) It was a post referencing last week and if you had the ability to recognize the similarities and post it, it would have stayed.
2) It will be merged eventually, so don't start your crying yet.
re mularkey, if the next gm comes from outside the organization, he has to go -- people should be able to hire their own guys. if modrak becomes gm, then i guess he stays.
i'd honestly be very surprised if there isn't a high level firing this week after that game.
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Because he thinks like a rational human being at times, and thinks, as I do, that Moulds has been a great player for 10 years and mostly a great teammate and a great Bill, and that he made a monumental mistake last Sunday that is intolerable. But it shouldn't ruin his career here. And that the one game suspension for his brief, heinous, one-day snitfit fit the crime.
dog, i agree with you about pretty much everything in this case, but i have to ask: did mort report that in the 2 weeks before the miami game, the bills front office told PFW that moulds was losing speed, and did he mention that presumably that same front office leaked to a number of publications that moulds was going to be cut? just asking. because if he didn't, then his reporting is prima facie biased. that surrounding context stuff is definitely part of this story. of course, if what he said did in fact happen, than that's pretty bad stuff on moulds part and in no way should moulds be excuse.
by the way, someone should be fired this week after that performance today. that's what organizations do.
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decision by Ralph (linky) Wilson? I mean to me this would be a step in the right direction. Yeah yeah George Seifert at the airport...... Proven he is and eager to get back in the game? (My best Yoda voice)
Sorry it's from another meesage board, but I couldn't ignore this one.
this is the most ridiculous thing i've heard in some time. is george seifert going to be the defensive coordinator?
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Yeah, all those teams lined up to give this fine player a starting job once he was released by the Bills.
Btw, don't use stats, because according to the stats RJ was a better QB. Hell, according to the stats RJ was a good QB.
I watched the games. I watched the Bills offense average 14 points per game with Flutie at the helm. I watched the D hold teams to less than that many times. You can credit Flutie for those wins if you want, personally, I'll give the nod to the D.
you can make that argument re 99, but there is no way you can make that re 98 or 2000. he was damn good in 98, and in the games he subbed in 2000, he was 4-2 and racked up great stats.
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Right...And in a QB's case if enough Teams remove you from their Draft Board, and few more Teams move you way down, only a couple Teams are left with QB Needs...Those Teams take other QB's and a guy like RJ slides all the way to the 4th Round...
RJ was the 1st Player taken on Day 2, which is usually an indicator he slid a little farther than expected...And regardless of how his career fell apart, there were QB's taken ahead of him that did almost nothing in the NFL...At least RJ Started Playoff Game...
Anyway...Obviously something kept quite a few Teams away from RJ... But like a previous post mentioned had he gone to Buffalo instead of Collins it's pretty easy to make the argument that based on the way they developed, RJ was a better value overall...Then again so was Kordell Stewart, but I digress...
AVP was better value than todd c.! plus he's a pretty good color guy.
my favorite thing about collins -- he might go 10 years with the chiefs without ever throwing a remotely significant pass. that's amazing. remember, he's a vested vet now making something approaching 1 million a year. that goes a long way in KC (and in Buffalo).
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He won't get in but Schobel warrants consideration just look at his stats compared to other other DEs in the AFC
For those too lazy a quick list:
2nd in Solo Tackles
6th in Total Tackles
5th in Sacks
Tied for 2nd in Ints
Tied for 4th in Forced Fumbles
Tied for 4th in Passed Defensed.
I think Terrence McGee also gets consideration as a kick returner in my eyes as does London Fletcher.
schoebel is entirely deserving. he's having an excellent year, and he's been consistent - it's not as if he racked up 5 sacks against the titans (or a similar team) to pad his stats.
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this probably should go home, but i do have to add that flutie definitively did not suck for the bills. 47 tds, 30 ints, and an over-7.0 ypa is pretty damn good. plus there is the 21-8 (i'm including just give it to 'em as a victory) record thing (not all his doing, i know) ...
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sometimes i just have to step back and remind myself, "this is deep RJ territory." it's a dark, dark place, man.
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Or perhaps he didn't have as great as a senior year as scouts had hoped and fell down the draft charts. Not to mention sometimes if a player begins to fall in the draft other GMs are relunctant to take a guy. Part of the reason he was taken by the Jags with the 1st pick in the 4th was because all the positives you mentioned about him despite them having their QB in place when they traded for Marc Brunell prior to the draft.
i think you're partly right, but as it so happens i paid exceptionally close attention to college ball and the draft that year and the word at least in the LA media as i recall it was that there were questions about his attitude, football intelligence, and the quote-unquote fire in his belly. the local LA papers and many other places had him going anywhere from late 1st (the most common slotting) to late second. everyone knew he had a killer arm and good athletic skills.
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According to this article the Trojans were down, 38-31, with less than a minute to play. Quarterback Rob Johnson scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak to bring USC within one. USC Coach Larry Smith opted for the two-point conversion. With 41 seconds left in the game, Johnson's pass intended for tight end Yonnie Jackson was intercepted by UCLA linebacker Nkosi Singleton and the Bruins held on to the 38-37 win.
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keep reading the article:
This time, the return of John Robinson almost guaranteed a victory for USC.
Late in the game, Johnson found himself in a similar predicament, only this time the Trojans were down, 27-21. With under two minutes remaining in the game, Smith elected to prove the Bruins had a mild case of amnesia and tried another pass to the tight end.
This time, Bruin linebacker Marvin Goodwin was the recipient of Johnson's pass intended for tight end Tyler Cashman.
Once again, the big play went the Bruins' way and so did the game that cost USC a Rose Bowl berth.
"I feel like I let down every `SC fan and the team," Johnson said after the game.
In the months that followed, alumni and students also rested the blame on Johnson's arm.
The next two years saw the Trojans fail to come within striking distance late in the game.
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None more evident then our win against the Ravens in 1999
Flutie ran for 17 yards on a key fourth-down play, then flipped a 5-yard touchdown pass to Jonathan Linton with 1:35 left Sunday to rally the Bills to a 13-10 victory.
Flutie threw three interceptions in the first three quarters to help Baltimore build a 10-3 lead. But Banks threw an interception and lost a fumble in two straight series, setting the stage for Buffalo (5-3) to snap a two-game skid.
you are correct, but i really don't think anyone knew at the time how great that ravens defense was. they were dominant by the end of 99, and the best ever (in my opinion) the following year.
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Yeah that game that he brought USC against UCLA back with less than than a minute on the clock was horrible. I mean he threw an INT in the end zone that caused his team to lose but his coach choosing not to go for 1 and tie the game had no baring on that loss. I've stated my beliefs in another Flutie thread but here's a thought. What if the Bills took RJ instead of Todd Collins in the 2nd Round? Would he be so hated, I doubt it as he might of developed and we might have taken Tra Thomas (a LT we have lacked regardless of our QB) with the pick we traded to get RJ for. But yeah RJ proved to be far worse than Stoney Case and Eric Zeier too (some of the other QBs that went earlier than RJ in 1995 not named Todd Collins ).
wait a second - that was not a 2 point try. sc was down by 3, and john robinson tried to win it with a minute left with first down on the 2 (the right thing to do). that ucla team he played against his junior season was in pretty much entirely inferior to sc that year, yet they still lost because of that really bad INT he threw to marvin goodwin. no way should ucla have won that game, but they did, and went to the rose bowl as a consequence despite the fact that wayne cook was their qb. plus he did the same thing again the following year against a *worse* bruins team, yet had keyshawn to throw to. keyshawn did get to enjoy his rose bowl but it was a year later with a true no-name at qb. your point about collins is an excellent one, but as it turned out i really don't think any of those guys were particularly worthy. i guess it was a bad year for the sleeper mid-round qb. it happens.
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Ok Granted I see no overall value to the drafting of a rt at the #4 spot in the draft, and yes at times seems to displacy competency instead of a all around nasty attitude that is coveted in offensive linemen.
However I don't see how is on field play is a bust? Case in point other then the new england game our running game for lack of a better term has been below average, where as when Mike Williams was playing rt, we pretty much seemed to be able to run at will. So why then cut Mike Williams or label him a bust if he's our best run blocking linemen? Why not put Mike back at rt?
honestly, i simply think that he got hurt this year, and unfortuntately this was the year that he had to show his stuff.
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clearly, you didn't watch the games. he was truly awful in every big game he played except for the freedom/carquest/whatever bowls that usc ended up being relegated too after chokes against the top dogs in the pac 10 & ND. 0-3 against ucla and 0-3 against ND in really bad losses will do that to you. also know that he had the best passing talent (including the pass blocking on the o-line) in the country for 3 years going. there's a reason he dropped to the top of the 4th round, and it wasn't because of physical talent, which he had in abundance. in fact, i watched the draft that year and one of the local stations set up shop in his apartment. he had expected to go in the first, but it didn't happen. i actually felt bad for him; it was pretty depressing.
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he played well in buffalo while he was here, and when he left he went to a bad team and he was 39 years old. it's a miracle he's still in the league. plus i have this kooky notion that belichick knows more than we do. also note that he didn't go headlong after johnson when he was cut by spurrier/danny snider in 03.
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Yeah it meant mothing to the Colts who as recall were playing for home field advantage throughout the playoffs and also started Peyton Manning and drove 72 yards on 10 plays for a field goal by Mike Vanderjagt and 3-0 lead on their opening drive which tells me they really didn't want to win. But if you really want to argue gushing facts then if it meant absolutely nothing then tell me how much more was the perfect game Dougie had against Seattle worth for the Seahawks?
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/JohnRo00.htm
i wish i could include his record in big college games, but it isn't available.
The Positives....
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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shows you how decisive special teams truly are. under martz in st. louis, they've always been terrible, but they're a playoff team almost every year (excluding this year).
teams that draft kickers in the first couple of rounds are crazy.