dave mcbride
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point taken, but you just know deep down that the guy is an ass. it's written all over everything that issues from his piehole.
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perhaps someone who was taken in the first round and paid millions of dollars despite tearing apart his knee a couple of months before the draft and who therefore should have expected to be drafted in the third or fourth round? that's the sort of person who should be happy to be playing in buffalo.
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http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/The+W...hispers2023.htm
"We hear that Bills RB Willis McGahee is not happy in Buffalo and wants to play in Florida, preferably Miami."
hey willis, you ignoramous, miami already has 2 good running backs.
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http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/The+W...hispers2023.htm
"A B i l l s insider says that owner Ralph Wilson has been unhappy with the team’s direction since last April’s draft. Word is, Wilson believes the selection of WR Roscoe Parrish was a luxury pick that his team couldn’t afford, considering it had more pressing needs along the offensive and defensive lines."
Also, check out this bit on former all-world LB julian peterson, who suffered an achilles tear:
"It’s starting to look like Niners OLB Julian Peterson, a free agent at the end of the season, might not be back in San Francisco next year. We hear Peterson’s asking price currently far exceeds what the team’s management might be willing to pay, especially considering his uneven play this season."
something to think about with regard to spikes.
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http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/The+W...tm?mode=afceast
"Word from Buffalo is that the locker room is starting to fall apart, and head coach Mike Mularkey’s one-game suspension of WR Eric Moulds was his attempt to regain control. However, we hear that there are a number of players who believe the Moulds incident was blown out of proportion by the coaching staff and that the respected 10-year veteran’s punishment was too severe. This was the latest incident that has led many of the team’s veterans to lose respect for the coaching staff. We hear Mularkey, billed as a players’ coach when he was hired two years ago, angered some veterans with his decision to start young QB J.P. Losman earlier this season. He also lost some respect with his clumsy handling of the Sam Adams situation. Adams had practiced all week and then was told when he arrived for the team’s Week 12 home game vs. the Panthers that he would be inactive, so he left the stadium. Finally, we hear that many veterans have been upset with how lightly many of the younger players have taken losses."
Willis -- are people talking about you?
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I don't know about everybody (or anybody) being safe. Things have not only gone bad, but they've gone spectacularly bad on so many fronts that it's going to take a massive amount of willpower from Ralph WIlson to keep himself from lopping off some heads.
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As for next year, I'm not sure what the hell to think.
I like Donahoe's long succesful drafting history and would prefer him to be around for another year to see if he can finish what he started. But with all the screeching Ralph might be too worried about his bottom line to view continuity as a positive.
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For now I'm just going to ride it out, see what kind of development we see from the youngsters and continue to hope that they at least go down fighting over the last 3 weeks. When this awful misery is over, then it will be time to decide whether it's worth blowing the whole mess up and starting from scratch or whether we'd be better served to work with what we've got.
Cya
Simon: you must know that donohoe is without a doubt going to be fired in january (assuming he hasn't been already)? honestly, i'd say the chances are about 100%.
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So who do you like as another DT? What we'd need in the 3-4 is another Pat Williams. Tim Anderson, Bannan, Sape, also Edwards -- one or two (three?) of those guys is then gone, and probably none of them are 3-4 tackles (maybe Bannan is FA after this year anyway?). I agree our personnel at 'backer is better hinging on a healthy Takeo, and LBs are cheaper to come by anyway than DTs. But going to 3-4 really does mean we have to sign/draft a can't miss two-gap DT, and a very good backup, and then add another LB or two, in addition to eating Adams' cap hit.
We might be better served by just getting that two-gap tackle anyway and seeing if it helps Adams excel again, possibly transitioning to 3-4 or including it in our packages for the following year.
i'd like to see a high first round draft pick taken on a huge DT.
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If he is still there at #3, the Bills would have to consider taking him. He has enough arm and enough mobility to succeed in the NFL. His intangibles and leadership are off the charts. The Bills would be in a good position because no one would deal with the 49ers at 2 because they can't take a QB and teams would know a deal could be had with the Bills at 3. It would be a nice position to be in. But somehow the Bills will manage to screw it up and win a game.
the bills will lose to denver and cincy, and it'll come down to the jets game. i'd take the jets at this point. they're playing harder for their coach.
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no offense, but he does appear to rainbow it a lot, and that was evident in the orange bowl (to me at least). the throws look good because they're on target and his receivers are wide open. however, i just don't see the throws on a rope, which is what may end up being his undoing in the nfl. carson palmer had a much stronger arm.
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Underwhelming?
You can't find 3 teams that had a better drafting record than Pittsburgh from about '86-'99.
Donahoe was head of scouting/GM from about '86 to about '99. During that time there was only a single year when he got to pick higher than #10. In chronological order, here's a list of players he picked up:
Brent Jones
Merril Hoge
Gregg Lloyd
Hardy Nickerson
Rod Woodson
John Jackson
Dermonnti Dawson
Carnell Lake
Eric Green
Barry Foster
Justin Strelczyk
Leon Searcy
Levon Kirkland
Joel Steed
Darren Perry
Jeff Zgonina
Chad Brown
Brentson Buckner
Lethon Flowers
Brendan Stai
Earl Holmes
Orpheus Roye
Alan Faneca
Hines Ward
Deshea Townsend
Kris Brown
Joey Porter
and Bettis was a draft day trade.
I've asked this question a dozen times over the last 4-5 years and still nobody has been able to find a single team that produced the same number of HOF'ers, All-Pros and damned good players over that stretch.
simon - his one big flaw to me over the years has been his inability to solidify the qb position. it's the most important position on the team, and the best one he's ever nabbed is neil o'donnell. and he chased him out of town after the 95 season. the point is that a guy like ron wolf can strike out on a lot of picks, but landing favre (who he traded for) makes up for just about everything. and of course, he didn't strike out on everything. polian digging in his heels and making sure that kelly came to buffalo was the key to their success; without kelly, they would have been an ordinary team at best.
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and complained loudly to the national media when he was hired by the texans one year before they actually started playing and without the usual grand tour for desirable coaching prospects because he was hired before the 01 season ended. i'm not saying he's incompetent, but 1-12 doesn't look so good.
the point is that he scored once with cowher. nothing has panned out since (although i'm one of the last half dozen who believes the jury is still out on mularkey).
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haslett has won one playoff game, which is more than any bills coach has won in the past decade.
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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.
another sure sign of TD's imminent demise
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because he's set to have a huge cap number next year and, based upon the play of other people returning from achilles tears, will probably see a significant decline in his explosiveness and therefore his productivity. the question is, do you want to tie up 6 or 7 million (or whatever it is) in a middling player? guys (and positions) who rely on explosiveness for their game are pretty much never the same after an achilles tear.