dave mcbride
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McGee's size and tackling issues would be a major liability at FS at this point of his career. He may make the switch at a future point, but I find it hard to justify your proposed secondary would have been superior to what the Bills had.
Plus, it's nice to argue in a vacuum that Bills should have resigned Winfield to a cap hit of about twice the amount that Vincent commanded, and ignore the impact on the other spots on the team. If Bills signed Winfield in the previous year, you don't know if you have the cap space to get Villareal, and you almost certainly wouldn't be able to keep both Clements and Winfield. If you had a choice of the two, which one would you keep?
Of course, you also don't address the Bills cap situation in '03 and whether TD actually had the room for Winfield's extension.
Getting back to the Jennings dead horse, he is a left tackle, but not a franchise left tackle, and does not deserve a franchise LT money. Please tell me how much better he is than Bob Whitfield, Stockar McDougle, Matt Willig, Victor Riley, or Pork Chop Womack? They're all available, and will cost a lot less than JJ.
gerry, i agree that he's not a franchise LT, but have did you watch bob whitfield last year (03)? he was hands down the worst starting tackle in the league.
on an unrelated topic and not directed at you, let's not exaggerate the injury-proneness of JJ. He's played in 52 out of 64 games since he's been here, and has never missed more than 5 games/season. honestly, for the nfl that's not that bad.
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the point is getting to watch an enjoyable regular season that ends with a possibly exciting playoff game of which no one knows the outcome until afterwards. call me crazy, but as a fan that is far more preferable than suffering through a dreary7-9 season (buffalo's average this millenium).
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as a fan of the bills - a team that hasn't made the playoffs this century - you might want to steer clear of this line of argument ...
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but along the way they're in the playoffs every year and in position to compete for a championship. that's a lot more than i can say about the bills. btw, i'm not one to say that donohoe is cheap. i do think he's got a problem when it comes to maintaining continuity, which requires paying slightly more than is necessary to keep your own guys. a team is a lot more fun to follow when you've got a long term core of players.
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so what?????? why are people obsessed with penny pinching???? this is a freaking sport, a hobby! the bills are in no cap danger even if they were to give law a giant contract. as a fan, i have no problem with the team being up against the cap every year. look at the frugal az cardinals for the alternative ...
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Travis has no choice. He really cannot pout this entire year and threaten to sit out, or not perform 100% when he does get a few carries and expect to get ANY money as a FA in 2006. His teammates are going to have no sympathy for him, and again, it is much different when you're trying to force a trade or have something in your hip pocket, like sitting out a year. Travis doesn't have that anymore. he had that last year. Once the season starts, they are not going to trade him, especially if Willis gets hurt or they don't have a reliable back-up. Travis may be dumb but he will be able to see that. Sulking works or is allowable in certain instances. It happens all the time. He has nothing, absolutely nothing to gain and virtually everything to lose if he does it this year.
aha, dog -- you assume travis is a rational actor, and have fallen into the trap that plague rational choice theory. he's not a rational actor -- he's a highly emotional and immature slow blinker (remember the unreported "learning disability" the bills found about to their chagrin after he was drafted?). from all the evidence, foresight is not a gift of his. he will without a doubt be a complainer, malcontent, and head case, and any thought that he'll put that his negative energy aside in order to secure his future might want to take a look back at his past behavior: picking up the lolita at the gas station, allegedly refusing to suit up, spewing off to the press on multiple occasions about the mcgahee situation, exposing his delusions of grandeur to a florida based reporter ("i'm a top five back"), and -- last but not least -- blowing through hundreds of thousands of dollars so quickly that he signed a chump-change extension to cover his freaking summer living bills. stop deluding yourself, dog!!
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what a horrible move by the skins. patten was clearly on the outs in NE, surpassed by branch and givens. at this stage of his career, he defines "just another guy." i don't know how much the skins spent, but i have no doubt it was too much. that team is laughably pathetic. since i despise them, i must say that i love it.
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since most teams have figured out how to manage the cap, you don't really see teams waiting until june 1 to cut guys anymore - they do it by march 1. as a consequence, there really haven't been any notable june 1 guys in the past 3 or so years.
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If I may throw some props at Dave McBride who threw out the idea that Pat & Sam dominating the number of snaps may have hurt the Bills' defense.
With Pat gone, you will likely see more of the committee DTs, and the improved speed may actually help in the pass rush department andf the line will definitely be fresher late in games.
The only downside I envision is making Bills more vulnerable for runs up the middle, as none of the subs are as good as Pat in occupying space & blockers, which would leave the undersized Fletcher in a bigger bind.
why thanks, gerry! it does seem that they're high on anderson, and he'll be a guy to watch come the preseason. i'm really curious. the one thing i've wondered about that pick is the fact that immediately before the bills selected him, randy starks went. starks was projected higher than the third in every draft prognostication i read, and he had a very solid rookie season.
my memories of ron edwards aren't particularly good -- in 02 (his second year) he was a real weak link. maybe he's improved (i honestly didn't pay much attention to his game this year), but he's never really impressed in the past. can anyone shed light on either of these guys?
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He did. Last year he missed a few game due to neck and hamstring problems.
my mistake - i thought it was something else.
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Would you rather have the Bills roster at this point or the Raiders? I think the Bills have a lot more upside.
Defense: advantage Bills
Special Teams: advantage Bills
RB: advantage Bills
QB: tie (we don't know what JP can do)
OL: tie
WR: slight advantage OAK
DB: advantage Bills
LB: advantage Bills
GM: advantage Bills
HC: advantage Bills (homer pick, but I never liked Norv)
oakland's offensive line is vastly - and i mean vastly - superior to the bills. their WRs are significantly better too - whatever you think of moss personally, he made the offense of the vikings one of the best in recent history, and is quite honestly the best wr i've ever seen. porter is a stud as well.
i'll take al davis any day over donohoe. a crank, to be sure, but he knows talent and has the super bowl appearances and victories to show for it. the head coaches are about a draw, but i do like mularkey.
it's hard to predict what will happen next year, but it does seem that raiders are putting the pieces in place. we'll just have to see. as for the bills, there's somethign about this team in the donohoe era that screams not quite ready for prime time. maybe that'll change, but i expect some big bumps next year with losman. of course, i hope i'm wrong. again, we'll see.
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Not that we need to keep all free agents, sign all free agent, but in a salary cap era, ya snooze, you probably lose. And drafting.....
You grab enough Josh Reeds, Ryan Denneys or have an entire draft like 2000 (I know Donahoe wasn't here) that will kick your team in the ass for a bit.
i gotta say, chalkie, there's little that irks me more than when fans adopt a bottom-line penny pinching mode and think it's good management. i'm not saying that donohoe is screwing up this year - it's way too early to tell - but this is a freaking sport, a hobby, and i want the bills to win doing whatever it takes - overspending if need be. jeez, some people treat the bills' offseason like wal-mart pricing strategies.
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there seems to be a marked drop off in interest in the guy. a number of teams are now on record dissing henry - tampa bay, arizona. the raiders are getting a guy they think is better, lamont jordan. i can't see miami trading for him in a million years. plus, judging from the combine, the draft will be loaded with good rbs. presently, i'd put henry in the 20-23 range for RBs, and he's got enough mileage on him that you pretty much know he's not going to get any better. if you're drafiting a rb in the second round, you're expecting that there's a decent chance that the guy can be a top 10 guy. teams know they can't say that about henry. anyway, if the bills can't get anything for him - which i do doubt (i do think they'll get a 4th or 5th rounder) - they pretty much have to cut him. he's a cancer and takes up a valuable roster spot for a guy who can play special teams and who will come cheaper. i'm not saying that's going to happen, but if it did, how ironic - for both henry and the bills.
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You know it will end at some point! Milloy came off as an ass in that interview a few weeks back, but essentially, he was right...team loyalty does not normally go both ways in sports. Guys like Brown, Law, Milloy, etc etc have helped the Patriots become a model franchise, both on and off the field. Once the players start wanting their piece of the pie, they are shown the exit! It almost seems that the Patriots will unravel internally, rather than on the field. As a Bills fan, I would like to see it sooner, rather than later....
i think milloy was right, but pro athletes always end up sounding like jackasses when they use the "feed the family line," as if they're fighting for survival at the local homeless shelter. if i was an agent, i'd tell my client NEVER to use that sorry line.
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Oh DAYUMMM!!!
There goes a huge chunk of their cap room. Still sittin prettier than we are but that is huge. I think it is easy to see old Tuna is sweating bullets right now. I believe it is "put up or get the fu!! out of dodge" this year, and I guess he sees it too. He seems to be runnin a "now" scheme, not a 5 year plan.
the last time i checked, the tuna took a team to the playoffs one year ago. the last time the bills did that was in the previous millennium. also, the guy has loads of playoff appearances and 2 SB victories. give the guy some goddamn respect.
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last i checked, the raiders have made the playoffs twice since tom donohoe came on board, and have one super bowl appearance. they may well have had another if not for the tuck rule. also, the last time i checked, the bills haven't made the playoffs since the john butler days, and haven't won a playoff game since january 1996. the raiders are signing playmakers, and are putting the lie to the specious notion that the cap is all restrictive.
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Nice Article On Free Agency
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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i would venture to guess 3 or 4 at most. no more than that. again, let's not exaggerate (a pronounced tendency among posters here). he missed one game this past season. that's very solid.