dave mcbride
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2002 was a horrible draft. there are always going to be guys who pan out, but the number of guys who were busts was very, very high. charles grant for NO should be added to the boldface names, by the way. duckett should be dropped - the only place where he's not considered a huge disappointment is fantasy football. napoleon harris is also terrible and should be dropped. haynesworth has also disappointed, and ashley lelie has not been nearly as good as expected (although he seems to be doing ok this season). kendall simmons has been a pretty good player for pitt, so i'd add him.
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would larry allen have been worth a #4 overall pick? i think so. let's hope mike williams can reach that level.
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So let's say we win the division with Holcomb. We do this because everyone else in the division sucks. We enter the first round of the playoffs against...???
It amazes me that people are so desperate to be in the playoffs that they'd sacrifice the development of a quarterback so they can spend a Saturday afternoon watching their team get the ever-loving snot beat out of them.
It amazes me that people are so desperate to engage in wishful thinking about the future that they'd sacrifice the season at hand so they can spend a weekend in April and the month of August fantasizing about a Bills Super Bowl victory that will happen in some unnamed season to come.
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Maybe, but at least I can read.
Put me in the camp of people who think Favre has been overrated his whole career. Throwing long bombs that your WR comes down with isn't great QBing. Dante Culpepper is the same deal....look at him now without Moss; he's terrible. A great QB is a guy who makes the right play at the right time given the particular circumstances. IMO, putting Favre in the same category as Elway, Montana, and Marino is a joke.
between 1995 and 1997, favre put together one of the greatest 3-year runs for a qb ever. i saw a lot of those games, and he was unstoppable. he had some other great seasons besides those ones too.
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At best WITH PW, the Bills were looking at a playoff berth, but no way were they going to win a SB. And it's entirely possible that PW declines next year given his age, but still saddles the team with a huge cap hit. Plus if they signed PW, they don't sign some of the other UFA's and probably don't get McGee locked-up.
you really think the bills are going to compete for a super bowl in the next 3 years?
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The problem isn't the loss of Williams, it's that they didn't put the proper complementary player in the lineup next to Adams.
Adams is a bigger/better version of Williams, a one-gap penetrating tackle who can make plays against the run and pressure the QB. Ideally, the team would have replaced Williams with a big CHEAPER two gap NT type instead of playing with two left feet like they have been the past year two years. Two very big and powerful left feet, but nonetheless, not a well coordinated pairing as they showed time and again against good running teams that took advantage of their disdain for gap control.
Give the Bills a stout NT, and London Fletcher and Angelo Crowell would actually look like decent LB's and Schobel and Kelsay would actually get a chance to just fly upfield on 3rd down without worrying about who's covering for Flapjack Anderson.
Instead, the Bills DON'T have that player, and so they ask Adams to play two-gap and do the dirty work to pick up the slack for the absolute garbage scrubs they've been marching into the lineup next to him, and he ain't down with it. Either way, it doesn't work, and it's a tricky spot for the coaching staff because Adams defied them last year and turned in a season the Bills haven't seen from a DT since Ted Washington's 1997 contract year.
hmmm, badol. i pretty much always defer to you, but this strikes me as sophistry. you're arguing that the fact that williams is gone isn't the issue - it's that er don't have the right guy next to your boy - and the guy you've been plugging since the end of the 01 season - sam adams. don't you think it's about time that adams did what he was freakin' told? and don't you think it's time to recognize that williams was a good run stopper??
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you said it, brother! as for getting us a guy like that, turns out we had one last year. he was too old and would have created cap problems, though.
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aside from the very sad news about the father of a great and likeable former bills player, there's this. i read elsewhere (from dr. z) that williams absolutely dominated olin kreutz last week. but he's over 30 and a drag on the salary cap!!
http://www.startribune.com/stories/503/5707611.html
While Williams looks to his family for comfort, it's his family that marvels at what he has been able to accomplish on the two Sundays since Mayfield fell ill. In that time, Pat Williams has 12 tackles, two quarterback hurries, a pass broken up and has made life miserable for opponents. Williams, 33, actually has been doing that for the past three games since the Vikings switched to a 3-4 defense.
"My family doesn't know how I do it," Williams said. "Concentrate going back and forth and then playing good on Sundays, too. . . . [but I get] all the pressure out, my anger and everything. I leave it on the field."
Williams easily has been the best of the five major offseason acquisitions the Vikings made on defense. Signed to a three-year, $13 million deal after eight seasons in Buffalo, he is second on the team with 40 tackles and also has a sack and six quarterback hurries.
"I can't picture too many nose tackles playing better than he is right now," defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell said.
Neither can Williams.
"I think I'm the best nose tackle in the league because I can run," said Williams, dubbed "track legs" by some teammates because of the athletic build of his lower body. "There isn't any nose tackle playing like me because nose and three-techniques are different. Everybody can't play nose. I watch film all the time of guys who are at nose and are getting blown out of there."
Williams dismisses suggestions the switch to the 3-4 is why he's playing so well and said the key to his success is that he simply doesn't respect any centers no matter what their credentials. "I figure I'll destroy every guy that gets in front of me," he said.
Williams did exactly that for most of his Oct. 16 matchup against four-time Pro Bowl center Olin Kreutz of Chicago. That accomplishment left Williams unimpressed.
"I don't respect none of them, it don't matter who it is," he said. "The media wants to blow them up, they go to Pro Bowls, you all want to bump the guy up. Kreutz, he ain't nothing but a joke. He's been a big joke since he came in the league. I've never respected that guy."
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2005
1 32 32 Logan Mankins G Fresno State
2 3 20 84 Ellis Hobbs DB Iowa State
3 3 36 100 Nick Kaczur G Toledo
4 4 32 133 James Sanders DB Fresno State
5 5 34 170 Ryan Claridge LB Nevada-Las Vegas
6 7 16 230 Matt Cassel QB USC
7 7 41 255 Andy Stokes TE William Penn
2004
1 1 21 21 Vince Wilfork DT Miami (FL)
2 1 32 32 Ben Watson TE Georgia
3 2 31 63 Marquise Hill DE Louisiana State
4 3 32 95 Guss Scott DB Florida
5 4 17 113 Dexter Reid DB North Carolina
6 4 32 128 Cedric Cobbs RB Arkansas
7 5 32 164 P.K. Sam WR Florida State
8 7 32 233 Christian Morton DB Illinois
2003
1 1 13 13 Ty Warren DT Texas A&M
2 2 4 36 Eugene Wilson DB Illinois
3 2 13 45 Bethel Johnson WR Texas A&M
4 4 20 117 Dan Klecko DT Temple
5 4 23 120 Asante Samuel DB Central Florida
6 5 29 164 Dan Koppen C Boston College
7 6 28 201 Kliff Kingsbury QB Texas Tech
8 7 20 234 Spencer Nead TE Brigham Young
9 7 25 239 Tully Banta-Cain DE California
10 7 29 243 Ethan Kelley DT Baylor
2002
1 1 21 21 Dan Graham TE Colorado
2 2 33 65 Deion Branch WR Louisville
3 4 19 117 Rohan Davey QB Louisiana State
4 4 28 126 Jarvis Green DE Louisiana State
5 7 26 237 Antwoine Womack RB Virginia
6 7 33 244 David Givens WR Notre Dame
2001
1 1 6 6 Richard Seymour DT Georgia
2 2 17 48 Matt Light T Purdue
3 3 24 86 Brock Williams DB Notre Dame
4 4 1 96 Kenyatta Jones T South Florida
5 4 24 119 Jabari Holloway TE Notre Dame
6 5 32 163 Hakim Akbar DB Washington
7 6 17 180 Arther Love TE South Carolina State
8 6 37 200 Leonard Myers DB Miami (FL)
9 7 16 216 Owen Pochman K Brigham Young
10 7 39 239 T.J. Turner LB Michigan State
thanks, darin. that's pretty impressive. one my closest friends is a pats fan though, and he thinks they really struck out this year, particularly with regard to the free agents they signed. the 2003 and especially the 2002 drafts are spectacular. in 2002, a year after they won the super bowl (which meant they drafted very late), they got 4 highly productive players with 6 picks - graham, branch, green, and givens.
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How about *eight* 1st and 2nd round picks on QB-RB-WR in those ten years.
A huge reason why we aren't a playoff team yet is that we invested heavily into a Bledsoe-Henry-Moulds-Reed football team, and then ripped it all out in favor of a Losman--McGahee-Moulds-Evans-Parrish team that has not yet fully developed.
The fact that there is only *one* player on this team from 2000 (the last time the Bills won in Foxboro) speaks volumes about the upheavel Donahoe has put this team through.....
Everyone wants to call this Year 5 of Donahoe, but really its just Year 2 of Mularkey - and we look an awful lot like a second-year-of-a-rebuilding-project football team.
At this point Donahoe has taken the mulligan for Plan A, so I figure we'll have to wait around through at least next year to say if Plan B pans out. If Plan B flops for the rest of this year and next, I can't imagine that even Ralph Wilson will stick around for Plan C.
JDG
excellent post. i've got nothing to add.
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Very nice...you make a sarcastic remark about Pat Williams to which I replied
and then you complain that I am comparing these washed up guys to Eric Moulds....
At the time of release, Bruce Smith, Ted Washington all were still marquee
players and went on to have good years with their new ball clubs...In fact
TW was the architect of the 13-3 Bears team....But after thier 1st or 2nd years
of release, these players bottomed out and stunk up the joint....
My point was PW might be playing well this year...but he is clearly on the
wrong side of 30 and is not going to give this ball club 4 full seasons, the money
they were going to pay him....
People keep clamoring that PW should have been re-signed...yes...but at
the Bills terms...not on PWs terms....
if you like being somewhere between 6-10 and 9-7 every year but always on the cusp, this is a good strategy to follow. as for ted w, he's playing sensationally for the raiders this year and should probably have been the mvp of the carolina-ne super bowl.
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he must have gotten it for turning the other cheek so much on sunday night:
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20. Buffalo Bills (3-5)
A decent, serviceable QB, that's Kelly Holcomb. But that zero-yards hitch pass on fourth-and-8 at the end of the Patriots game? Well, the guys with all those fourth-quarter comebacks to their credit just don't do that. What comes to mind is Bill Walsh's old comment about his QB at the time, Steve DeBerg. "He plays just well enough to get you beat."
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That list isn't even half of it. It's a good start though.
- They made up a stat for him called "hits" and gave him like 60 of them
- Added to his tackle numbers to make him look good
- Several wonderful lines such as "Man, everyone is just rooting for Tedy, even Buffalo fans."
- Several times playing the song "Hero" with closeups and clips of ol' Tedy
- One time they put the camera on Bruschi and only Bruschi in the middle of a Bills offensive play
don't forget "shad" williams. or mcgahee dancing too much and needing to improve his vision (i.e., his strongest asset).
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I used to complain and think it was stupid to take Willis out on third downs, as he's clearly our best player, and he has some hands, and allegedly could block, although he has disappointed me a lot on that topic. However, now watching Shaud for a few games in that role, he's pretty darn good at it. His kind of running is actually better for draws and screens and dump passes than Willis's style, because he accelerates faster. It's a nice little change of pace against the defense. He has genuine football talent and is pretty good at knowing where the marker is and getting enough yardage for the first down. And he has the ability and speed to break a long one. He's had a darn good year and continues to impress me.
Now if we could only fix the 34 problems with this team. 3rd down back and this particular coaching decision is not longer one of them for me.
agreed, and i see him becoming a pretty good kevin faulk like player in the next couple of years. not this year - he's not there yet - but he's showing the promise to be really reliable in years to come.
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i agree with king - there wasn't nearly enough coverage of bruschi last night. they also didn't credit him with enough tackles either. they only gave him 11; i counted 16.
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especially when it's too painful to think about last night.
it's officially the midway mark of the season for drew bledsoe. just as in 2002, his team is 5-3, and he has some very good stats. what do people think his stats will look like after week 17? here are his current and projected stats:
SPLIT CMP ATT YDS CMP% YPA LNG TD INT SACK RAT
2005 156 244 2019 63.9 8.28 70 13 6 20 97.4
Projected 312 488 4038 63.9 8.28 70 26 12 40 97.4
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woah there! some of those teams may have been mediocre -- the rams, the seahawks, the bengals -- but they weren't mediocre because of their offenses. they were mediocre because of bad defenses. the rams and seahawks were among the best offensive teams in the league last year.
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1000 yard rusher = a guy who averages 62.5 yards a game and doesn't get injured.
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Stick to hockey dave
Considering they played and lost to the Pats by 10 (in wk 1 before their injuries), Eagles by 3, Chargers by 13, Chiefs by 6, I think what he's saying is that the Pats, Eagles, Chargers, and Chiefs played them better than Bflo did.
He's also hinting that the Pats, Eagles, Chargers, and Chiefs are better than Bflo. Hardly an earth-shattering revelation IMO.
the bills had a better record than the chiefs last year. there's no reason why they shouldn't be better this year. i also think turner was saying another thing as well: we shouldn't get too excited about this victory, because we were basically playing a talent deficient bottom feeder.
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you hear comments like this:
'Raiders coach Norv Turner , when asked to discuss the quality of Oakland's win, said a mouthful regarding the viability of the Bills when he replied, "They've done some good things in the last couple weeks to get themselves going, but I'm not sure they're as good as some of the teams we played earlier. Even though it didn't start good, I don't think we ever got uptight. I don't think we ever got concerned and we played that way."'
when a longtime respected coach and coordinator known for being tactful says that, he's really saying that buffalo really is a lousy team.
when i hear things like this, i find it hard to fathom how donohoe continues to get a free pass from some of the better posters here. it's five years. they're no good. they may find themselves in first place next week if they get lucky against the pats, but no one should mistake them for being any good.
if i can engage in absolute pessimism for a moment, i deeply fear that losman is going to be a bust. i've read too many comments by scouts, etc. in lenny p's column and pro football weekly going back to the preseason to not be worried. now those guys are wrong all the time, but i am concerned. he looks pretty bad so far, and if he goes back in in a couple of weeks in the mopup portion of the season, he's going to have a hard go of it. i remain hopeful, but i'm also pretty worried. and i get the sense that the bills' brass is pretty concerned too.
TD has done some bad things but...
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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and to show you how hard these things are to predict, everybody - and i mean everybody - lashed out at cincy for drafting levi jones as high as they did. these things are really hard to predict. as for williams, he was playing pretty well this year but unfortunately got hurt. there isn't a player in the nfl who wouldn't have been hurt on that play in tampa.