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Wouldn't it actually be the exact opposite? He had Calvin Johnson and Demarius Thomas (and Steven Hill? Or no?) and still decided to run a triple option offense! Couldn't beat rivals with 2 future top NFL receivers? If he had a "good eye' than doesn't he throw it to his best players, not run an Army offense?

Thank you. Lame nicknames that have nothing to do with a player's play or personality, just weak nicknames whose only defining characteristic is that it happens to be a word, just provide for more clutter posts to have to sort past on this board. And enough with the incessant claims that every backup on the roster is better than every starter, just spraying these claims all around the roster and in the rare time a backup does happen to progress to starter over someone, it's suddenly an indictment on management and supposed to make you look smart. Where is Hamden starting? Or does the NFL consist of 32 GM's who cannot evaluate talent as well as you?

In all honesty, it's your job as a father to set your kids off on the best path possible... so I often wonder what I should do with my own 4 year and 18 month old sons... I think we shouldn't be pushing this team on them, and making their sundays devastating for 16 weeks a year. Just as long as they don't become Pats fans, I did my job. I was 14 and that season was my first one really watching the Bills closely. I had been a Bills fan from the second Don Beebe knocked that football out of Lett's showboating hand, but growing up in a household of people who didn't like sports, and 1 tv, I just was never exposed to them. So in my 5x8 bedroom I would sit there with my small 20+ year old tv, holding the antenna wire onto the metal window frame every Sunday, all fall long. End of the Titans game, Rob Johnson loses his shoe and still leads the game winning drive... it was all my heart could take, I was so excited. But apparently I was meant to be a Bills fan, because I knew it wasn't over. I legitimately said a prayer that if they hold on to win this, I would be seeing him in church next Sunday. The rest is history, but I honestly can say that's the last time I ever said a prayer about anything or did anything at all religious.

Good thinkin. That will help me narrow down my guess, too.

Is this including KR and PR yardage? Or Net OFFENSIVE yards?

I think the Peyton Manning example doesn't quite apply here, because when the Colts went from Mora to Dungy, it was to build a defense where their offense was already elite, so they could make the next step. Caldwell, well obviously by then you have one of the greatest QB's ever by that point, if he went into Polian's office and said let's dump Payton and find a replacement, he would have been fired and replaced before he even walked out of the room. This angle of the response only works if you have a truely elite, franchise QB in place who has done some serious winning, like how Favre stayed, Big Ben, Eli, and Romo but he's on a constant hot seat, even though he's still a good QB. The only real exceptions here are 2 NFC West teams, the Rams holding the course with Sam Bradford as their guy despite a solid history of losing, and the 49'ers keeping Alex Smith despite a career of mediocrity. So far, these decisions have played out in completely different directions, with Smith obviously playing much better under new coach, and Bradford, from what I've seen, doesn't look too good, and the move for a new QB may be in the cards this coming offseason (even though RG3 was sitting in their laps last draft). How does that pertain to us? Well, is Rivers elite? If he is, he'll stay through a coaching change. If he isn't, than he's not worth us getting when he's available, isn't that what it boils down to? But what if he's just damaged goods, and when put in the proper system, can be, say, the #10 best QB for a 5 year period. This is reguardless of whether you think Chan is the one who can get that out of him. I personally do. I think a lot of you are forgetting how embarassing our offense was before he got here. The worst I'd ever seen. Our defense and special teams combined were a good bet to outscore our offense on any given Sunday. Then he keeps not even the starting QB but the backup to those teams, and we turn into an above average offense. So I think he can do more when given more talent at the QB spot. Right now Fitz has his limitations, as we ALL know, which is why we have our spread, horizontal passing attack. Screens, slants, hooks, receivers picking defenders for other receivers to get open, and Fitz has at most a 15 yard throw, the rest are gimmes of open guys that Chan's scheme has created. So stick Rivers in there, and perhaps the defense looking sideline to sideline within 10 yards of the LOS, now we have the arm strength to have to be defended 25 yards deep, sideline to sideline. That not only enhances the passing game, but makes Fred and CJ even better with less defenders in the box. I'm not really saying that Rivers IS the guy, but he doesn't have to be a Manning to make this offense go from being what we are now (what are we, say 15th bes statistically?) Into a top 8 offense. Now let's not talk about the defense.

I personally haven't seen much of Rivers, but have heard that he has been underwhelming lately, and I don't mean just this season. If San Diego falls out of it and loses their coach, it would mean a possible change at QB too since (most *ahem*) new regimes bring in their new QB too. Again, I haven't seen much of the guy, so can anyone tell me if he's playing at a level that would make us better? I don't want to just hear from the "OMG he sucks stay away from him" croud, because I'm sure he's at least Fitz's equal. I'm looking for someone who has seen enough of him to say would he be able to give us say 5 years of 3,500 yards per with 25-30 TD's without being a risk to lead league in picks like our boy Fitz. Can he run the quick strike spread offense with screens, that we currently have, and add an element we don't currently have, the ability to make throws consistently outside the numbers and downfield? Would Rivers be worth bringing in if he were to be on the block for, say, a 2nd rounder? Surely something would have to be done with Fitz' and his starter's contract if they did that, because we couldn't pay 2 starting QB's wages and watch Levitre and Byrd walk out the door. There IS the Nix connection, but not sure if that's enough. Me personally, from what I've seen, he could have the best physical tools any QB under Gailey has ever had since (didn't Gailey OC some for Broncos before he went to Pitt?) Elway maybe? However, I just caught the end of the Chargers/Broncos game, he got sacked on about his own 20, down by a score, with about 12 or 13 seconds left... and yeah sure game was likely over, but he just got up and walked off the field while the clock ticked away... he could have at least tried to get 1 more play off. So that kinda unimpressed me with him, Trent was booted after giving up throwing ball out of bounds or running out of bounds at the end of the first or 2nd game under Gailey, for admitting defeat, so maybe that wouldn't play for Gailey either.

Eew, hopefully they're his own... if not, that would explain why all the shotgun snaps and not letting him under center... I know, immature... *sigh* long day...

I'm not sure, but I hear Nick Barnett is available, maybe he could be an upgrade?

Ok, this is somewhat unrelated, but how great would it be to see this play happen on Sunday? Who do we have that can hit this hard? Bradham, Searcy and maybe Byrd i'm looking at you!

I'm not sure they tackle well enough for a baseball team, either.

You mean you long for? Loathe means hate.

Didn't Buddy just "come home from 2 week scouting trip"... perhaps in time to catch this kid play? I know nothing about him at all, but if he's a legit top 3 rounds QB prospect, certainly not unreasonable to think Buddy may check the kid out while he's in town.

Seeing how they're flip-flopping between Cassel and Brady Quinn, I would say this is shaping up to be a short marriage. The Cheifs will have a new starting QB come May 1st. We can safely assume the Bills will at least have a legit QB in the wings by the same date, with Fitz still on the roster, similar to a Titans situation with Hasselback and Locker.

Maybe you'd like to talk, first, with the Nba and their Toronto franchise, Nhl and their number of canadian franchises, and the MLB with their former Montreal franchise in the Nl and Toronto in the Al (although that one could technically be allowed because Canada is still in North America)

I believe that the Buffalo Bisons were the last team to achieve that feat, and then the team was folded after that year. I think that was 1925 or 1929, don't remember.

I don't see Schaub going off since they will most likely have a secure lead by half way through the 2nd quarter, and will be running 70% of snaps. Defense doesn't allow a big one necessarily, but just spend too much time on the field and swoon towards the end. Longest run of the day allowed is 23 yards. 255 passing yards allowed, 170 rushing yards allowed.

So Leodis knows how to wrap it up and prevent baby mama, and Tom Brady doesn't.

Are you talking about the Eagles?

Bills win decisively if played by today's rules, they crush them if played by 1990 rules, where different coverage rules allowed more contact, which keeps Welker from running free at will.

I haven't done any research on him whatsoever, but is he new to the game, or a very young player? His footwork on that 3rd catch was U.G.L.Y.

There's not just one holdover from the Jauron era... Mcgee, Mckelvin, Byrd, Wilson are from the Jauron era, and Scott was a part of the Jauron secondary, too.

2009... here's the vid. And for more on it, PTI discuss:

Kidney failure doesn't mean soon death, I work in dialysis and people live 10 years on it. This is most likely a combination of other problems (like his dimentia) that are leading to this. Side note, it's somewhat irresponsible of the media to oversimplify his diagnosis (kidney failure) as synonymous with "he'll be dead soon". People have kidney failure all the time, and if all you've ever heard is death quickly follows, you really have been done a disservice by the media. Many options are out there, multiple modalities of dialysis treatment, and even eventually transplants are options. All that said though, it's a shame to see this guy bad off.

I've been thinking that for a couple weeks now, but that's a pretty rough indictment, so didn't want to verbalize it... it awaits to be proven, and sometimes sacks come in bunches, so I wouldn't lose faith yet... but hold that thought.