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No, YOU don't HAVE to care, but the OP seems to, so don't be rude. Just don't post.

I've wondered for awhile this and I'm sure there is a very good reason for it, as GM's, coaches, and personnel guys are always looking for loopholes, but say Mario Williams suffers a dislocated shoulder or torn labium, something serious where they will miss some significant time but not a slam dunk season ender like ACL/MCL tear. It's the 3rd preseason game. What a team would be most likely to do is bite the bullet and leave him counted as one of the 53, and ride it out kinda like when Poz broke his arm a couple years ago, and was out for probably 6 weeks but never went on IR. The other option is to put him on the IR and lose him for the year. My question, and point (yeah I actually have one) is why would a team EVER put a player who is injured in the preseason and might be out significant time, if they can just place the player on the PUP list and have them sit until regular season week 6 and not take up any spot on the 53 man roster, re-evaluate him for 2 weeks since he can't play until week 8, and if a no-go, THEN IR him? It would seem smarter to do this, and then the players injured in weeks 1-6, when you have no other real options for a seriously injured player, you would have to IR those players, but know that you may have a second wave of rehabbing players to be hitting the roster mid-season. For example, Mario has his injury I gave as the scenario earlier, which probably leaves a combo of Kelsey, Merriman, and one of either Batton/Moats/the kid from USC who was a late pickup last year and played extensively last game... Moore was it? So your second string guy, Kelsey now takes over but week 5 breaks his ankle, done for the year. Now your on to your 3rd string guy as your last hope for the bulk of the season, to put on any pressure to the qb. Especially with injury prone Merriman as that option, you could very easily be down to #4 on the depth chart in a hurry, than we have Moats/Batton as our pass rushers, for the same results as last year. HOWEVER, if you had just put Mario on PUP, we get him back in about 3 weeks, for a playoff push, instead of losing him for good. Why don't teams ALWAYS do this, in the off chance that player heals quickly or they suffer more significant losses at a position than anticipated, they at least aren't screwed from then on? I know a few years ago I remember someone starting off on PUP and working their way back onto the roster, but this is very rarely utilized. Don't even remember who that was, Bryan Scott perhaps?

How much of a kick in the groin would it be if it were a Press Conference to announce 2 things... 1. Buddy is stepping down, and 2. Fitz tore his ACL playing pickup ball with Suggs and Peters.

Not from Buffalo, actually never been there. Just love the Bills and the whole feeling of Buffalo. Sorry, didn't want to hijack the thread, or single you out by any means, it's just something that gets under my skin to say that people like me don't understand this or that... sure some don't, but just making broad generalities about any groups of people are sloppy and makes the person making the claims come across as ignorant. Sure, there remain segments of the population that are still safe to trash on, such as white people, males, obese, ugly, young, and i'm sure there are others, and i have theories on why that may still be seen as alright, but it just bugs me. The stupid guys on commercials who can't wipe themselves without their wifes guidance, the redneck white guy who only talks about his shotgun, pickup truck, and beers... the young man or woman who doesn't know anything except for pop culture from the last 10 years... c'mon. Don't sell yourself short by jumping on another of these worn out cliches, you can do better than that...

I'm 27 and know exactly what all those things are, and not from using them. Just because we weren't around doesn't mean we don't know what it is. I'm pretty sure you probably have a working knowledge of what the cival war, great depression, world wars and black and cival rights movement even though i'm to assume you weren't around DURING those times, either.

Actually, best case scenario he steps in for an injured Fitz like week 10 or so, when our schedule let's up a little and we were. 500, and he helps us get into playoffs, and next offseason we trade him away for a 3rd or 2nd rounder because a GM sees his 5-2 or 6-1 record this year and thinks he's more than he is. That's best case scenario. Worst case scenario goes much the same, only we don't trade him, instead keep him and have a destructive QB controversy.

How did the Bills only get a C on addressing their needs? They have a starting QB in place so anybody else they picked would not supplant him, and all of the Bills other picks were pretty much exactly in order of our strength of need. No more CB need apparently. No more LB need (possibly). Traded up slightly to aquire the last quality WR that GM felt was on the board, so it was addressed. Completely addressed the OT need. Interior lineman given a pick. Short of trading up in the 4th and therefore not addressing another position later in the draft by losing the pick to trade up, for a player like Cousins, we addressed every major neeed and fortified another not urgent but in need of competition, Guard. We should be at least a B+ for needs, probably in the A's. *Edit* hmm, apparently everyone else felt the same way I did, but I just happened to take 3 days typing my response haha

Just pulled up the Flutie vs. Jags '98, and enjoyed the quick view of the Jags DC Dick Jauron watching Buffalo march down the field and see Caughlin literally hopping mad... haha. I don't miss that guy, so glad our team has the polar opposite attitude now, away from the "it's hard to win in the nfl" crap...

He didn't say no, Buddy was never interested, and said so in a press conference right around that time, saying he's never been a McNabb fan.

To answer your question with a little research and personal opinion... 2002 1- DE- Dwight Freeney or FS- Ed Reed 2- C- LeCharles Bentley 3- RB- Brian Westbrook 4- QB- David Garrard 5- DE- Aaron Kampman 6- S- Ryan Clark 7- LB- James Harrison 7- LB- Bart Scott 2003 1- WR- Andre Johnson or DE- Terrell Suggs or S- Troy Polamalu or CB- Nnamdi Asomugha 2- WR Anquan Boldin or DE- Osi Umenyiora 3- TE- Jason Witten 4- CB- Terrence McGee 5- T- David Diehl 6- QB- Tony Romo 7- S- Quintin Mikkell 7- TE- Antonio Gates 7- CB- Leigh Bodden 7- RB- Fred Jackson 2004 1- CB- DeAngelo Hall or QB- Ben Roethlisberger or DT- Vince Wilfork 1- SS- Bob Sanders 2- DE- Jared Allen 3- RB- Michael Turner 5- WR- Wes Welker 6- OT- Jason Peters 2005 1- LB- DeMarcus Ware or QB- Aaron Rogers 2- WR- Vincent Jackson or RB- Frank Gore 3- RB- Darren Sproles 5- DE- Trent Cole 6- DT- Jay Ratliff 6- QB- Ryan Fitzpatrick I'm not gonna do Millen's o6-o8 drafts until he was fired Sept 2008, but you asked :-)

Hmmm... I wonder what the "E" stands for..

Dwayne Bowe is from LSU and half the fan base is dreaming about him...

We traded a 3rd and 5th for Stroud. I think the 3rd is a pick we got from Baltimore for McGahee. I THINK it was a 3rd and 5th...

1 more lower body injury, and he won't be able to... (Sorry, probably not even accurate, just wanted to get a line in)

RALPH IS CHEAP!

We didn't have McGahee when we got Lynch, we had Freddy and like Anthony Thomas or whatever his name was, from Chicago. Ugh then we drafted Dwayne Wright too in the same draft... what an awful job of knowing what you have on the roster and wasting picks to already areas of strength. Oh well, it's what we signed up for as Bills fans.

Ralph is Cheap?

I know Buddy is very much into measurables, and many of the top rated LS's this year just have too short of arms... it has to be considered that the LS's have to be able to reach the ball if it's on the ground, right? I'm just hoping we don't reach for a workout warrior LS who snaps through a brick wall, but can't remember the playbook to save his life. ST's coaches are running more and more complicated snapping plays, we need a guy who can show he has it between the ears, gotta get at least a 35 on that Wonderlic!

They are? Take Brady and Gronk off that team, and they are a 4 win team... maybe. Below average defense who did the same thing to tebow that our "terrible" defense did.

So would this kick Moats off the roster, or would he bulk up for DE? I don't think he has a place as a 4-3 LB, but I'm no scout. If Bills go strict 4-3, no hybrid, of our current defensive guys, I could see Moats, White, Scott, Troup, Heard, and probably Merrimen not being fits. Maybe Troup loses 15 lbs and can stick. I think Davis and Morrison are on the final years of their contracts so don't even need to consider them. Maybe Batton can slide inside to MLB, he seems to keep the play in front of him alright, could be a more agressive DiGorgio type... I'd hate to see us flip flop schemes trying to chase fads, but we will have to wait and see on what Wanny can conjure. If he is the devensive version of Gailey, Chan found some pieces for his offense from hasbeens and never weres like Roscoe, Stevie, Fitz, the entire offensive line... maybe Wanny can do that with the defense, S. Johnson, Kelsey or Carrington can be the Roscoe type, a middling veteran who breaks out, and we find valuable contributers in formerly fringe roster players like Stevie was in someone like J. Rogers, White, Searcy, or even Coleman. I though I think if Coleman has any chance of making a roster it's on a 3-4, but I think the Giants grabbed him and put him on their PS roster when we cut him at the end of camp, and I think we had to 53 man roster him from them to get him back... if I remember correctly. Could be wrong, the Giants could have just cut him...

I count 8-10 wins before I even factor in what Indy might be and before even factoring in both jets/pats game. If we can get the defense straightened out and have the offense take another step forward, we're sitting good for next year. Not because we're way better, just because of an easy schedule.

This might have been talked about in the other Edwards out/Wanny in thread, but I'm just wondering if anyone would have any insight on it... does Wanny have any "his guys" types, paybe a LB coach or something, he may look to bring in, or do you think he is being hired as part of an existing coaching staff? I can't see no other changes being made on the D side of the ball. DB coach though (George Catavolos) may or may not be the problem, but I know he was thought of highly of enough to be retained from DJ's staff... and honestly there are a couple obvious changes, not necessarily easy, that need to be done... -Put actual pressure on the QB for 20% of the passing downs -Teach McKelvin to turn his F-king head when the ball is near and the WR is obviously going for the ball -Either get rid of Florence or teach him that 2 pass interference penalties are not a good thing -Realize that it's not a terrible idea if we part ways with Mcgee, his best football is behind him and you don't hold onto DB's near the end of their careers, they get you beat. However, I can't say for sure if the combination of Williams and Rogers are enough to replace him. May need a FA or top 4th rd. Pick given to this area.

I almost wish that they DO represent the AFC in the Superbowl just so that the Packers or Saints absolutely obliterate their terrible pass defense with their awesome offense, something to the tune of 52-13. Maybe even Bellicheck would retire in embarassment after stomping off the field.

Well we got a 4th rounder and possibly cashed out on one assett after a decade of drafting high and selling low. Good. Combine that with a possible 4th or 5th rounder comp pick, plus what was it we got for Lynch, a 6th remaining? Not necessarily top draft picks, but those extra picks bring us up to 10 picks. This front office hasn't been terrible of late of finding functional players in mid to late rounds the last 2 years or so.

There was a point in the halfway point in the Miami game where there was a controvercial call on the field (was it running into the punter?) Where the ref was coming over to Chan to explain the call to him, a guy standinb next to chan must have been dogging the ref all day, and the ref lights into him... has this been brought up by anyone else? If so, sorry, didn't see if, but if not does anyone know who that person was? Looked like a player...