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FightClub

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  1. Went ahead and fixed that for ya
  2. Fitzpatrick as starter, Huard as backup. Cut Captain Checkdown.
  3. Bills will start a modest 2 game win streak up in Toronto against the Jets. They travel to the Chiefs carrying the "momentum" of 1 - 11 record and beat KC to go 2 - 11. That's it, that's all I got. Can't get to 3. 2 - 14 season with no wins at home (sorry all you season ticket holders).
  4. I am telling you, Fitzpatrick is a much better quarterback...
  5. Can I get more people behind the Fitzpatrick for starter campaign now that we've seen another Edwards debacle?
  6. Yep - that's because he does.
  7. Every year I say I am not going to get a team for FF....then preseason happens, I see how bad the Bills are going to be, and I know that signing up for an FF team will help bandage the wound (unlike the Bills, my teams are perennial playoff teams - I may have only won the whole thing once in 12 years, but I just about always make the playoffs - come to think of it, that's all I would wish for the Bills)
  8. Based on this, ignoring this post is probably best...Young came into the worst team of this entire group, the Tampa Bay Bucs. Ignorance is right.
  9. I agree with your assessment of Edwards. I saw a marked change after the concussion against the Cardinals last year, which eventually settled into the above behavior. He's scared to play now. Believe me, I'm not picking on him - if I got hit that hard I'd probably still be down - but the fact is that he is an NFL QB and highly paid to play the position and playing scared will not get it done.
  10. Everyone who is bashing their head against the wall regarding the original post needs to realize that Fitzpatrick is the better quarterback. It's very clear. Yes, the coaching staff will react the same way as you all seem to be - sit on their hands the whole season watching Trent crash and burn and check down and then next off season make a change. Fine, that's the way the Bills have handled these issues the past several years - you're right, it's worked out so far. I haven't been behind Trent since some of the gutless performances I saw last year after coming back from the injury. With Fitzpatrick, there will be some mistakes as we saw last night, but at least we'd see the attempts down the field. Needless to say, I'd be behind the move, but I agree it will never happen with this staff.
  11. Great. Please just keep him off of television now. The last thing I need is that guy commenting on anything. Be a good boy and try to just leave quietly and not let anything hit you on the way out. Thanks.
  12. Ravens still a likely landing point for Pettigrew
  13. My board for Pick 28, in this order: 1. Brandon Pettigrew, TE 2. Michael Oher, OT 3. Eben Britton, OT 4. William Beatty, OT 5. Peria Jerry, DT 6. Everette Brown, DE 7. Michael Johnson, DE
  14. This is my favorite, except that I would replace Eric Wood with either a real guard or a safety
  15. True enough - I always hated him too. BUT - what amazes me is that people don't hate Moss more? Come on, I've always hated both of these guys, but always Moss way more. Never seen T.O. quit, but Moss quits all of the time. Even has admitted it himself. As a fan this is way more egregious than a player who can't keep his mouth shout when things aren't going well because he wants to win so bad. Just amazing to me.
  16. Now let's get a LB who won't quit on the team
  17. I am astonished that NFL Network would put this game on (showing right now - Tuesday night 8 - 9 PM est). It is the clearest and most blatant example of NFL refs "leaning" (as in, cheating) for a particular team that the NFL had a vested interest in advancing. They just showed successive plays before the half where the refs basically gave the Titans a field goal by reviewing a play that gave them a first down in the last two minutes of the half - when just before, they had not reviewed a clear catch by the Bills inside of 2 minutes that would have put them in field goal range instead. And, of course, we all know that even after all of this, we still had the game won until they allowed a forward pass with no penalty call on the final play of the game. Unbelievable - showing it again is like admitting it. I would think they would "destroy the tape" on this one.
  18. I just hope he shows some heart this year. Having the sack to ask for T.O. to be on the team is a good start. Last year, I never saw a QB show less heart after getting a concussion than Edwards, which really disappointed me because to that point, I was firmly in his camp as a franchise QB for the Bills. At this point, based on his reaction to getting a concussion last year and then going all timid on the team and on the field , I view him as a stop gap only to the next QB we draft. I hope he proves me wrong.
  19. Exactly. I just peeked on a Pats* message board and yesterday they were talking about how getting Owens would give them the best WRs on a team ever and today some guy puts a post out there that Moss, Welker and newly acquired Greg Lewis are all better than T.O. Funny how quickly their opinion of the guy changed...
  20. I agree that this whole thing really is astonishing. I also agree that I would not have been in favor of this at almost any other time in this franchise's history. But, (and this is amazing because I swear in the car this morning I was going to post these thoughts before I had any concept that we really would go after T.O.), I believe this is the right time for this franchise to begin thinking this way. Let me explain what I mean and where these thoughts come from. Earlier this week I posted in a thread where someone had given up his seasons and compared the Bills to his favorite baseball team, the Pirates (in a negative way). I am actually going to instead compare the Bills to my favorite baseball team, the San Diego Padres. Being a suffering Padres fan is nearly as bad as being a suffering Bills fan. But notice I say nearly. Why? Because even though I'm sure the impression out there is the Padres have as little success as the Bills, it's not true. [b]Did you know the Padres have made the playoffs three out of the last four years[/b]?!? (I count 2007 as in the playoffs because they were tied for the wildcard and played a playoff game to get in - they did "lose" to the Rockies, but since Matt Holliday never actually touched the plate...but I digress). What's my point? Well, my point is that the Padres are also a small market team that seemingly enters each year with no chance of making the playoffs, but often they do make it, or are least competitive. Compare this with our Bills, who have not made the playoffs, in, what, 11 years? The difference between the Padres and Bills is that the Padres take risks on players that are past their prime, or have issues. Look at Greg Maddux being on the Padres the last few years. Though clearly past his prime, he helped make the team competitive. Sure, they were overpaying a guy past his prime, but it paid off in certain ways. Look at Milton Bradley, a noted headcase like T.O., who the Padres had in 2007. Sure, he ended up imploding as everyone expected, blowing up his knee while arguing with an umpire, but before that - he was the best hitter on the team for a while. And the whole reason the team got as far as the play-in game with the Rockies was because he was on the team. This is all to say, I think signing Owens at this time is the right thing. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If things implode, then they implode and he's gone next year. But this team was so irrelevant, so assured of losing, that the only way to get out of it in this small market mode is to take risks like this. With the NFL headed to an uncapped year next year, I think we are going to see this more and more from the smaller market teams like our Bills, similar to what we see in baseball.
  21. I am working on a project and went to dinner with a group of people the other night. Long story short, though conversation, three of us realized we were all from Buffalo, even though none of us live there anymore (meeting was in Atlanta). After a few minutes' discussion on which high school we each went to, the conversation quickly shifted to the Bills. Every one of us said that this past season was the season that broke us, and reading this thread I see there are many more devoted fans who feel exactly the same as we described to each other that night. I'm still a Bills fan, I'm still excited about the draft, and I still check here every day for more free agent news. But...I just don't care as much anymore, and that's a real problem for the Bills, because if those of us posting in this thread who probably have had the most true passion for the team over the years stop caring, and become just casual fans, they are going to be in worse trouble than they're already in. They are going to notice less merchandise being purchased, seasons being canceled, and so on. I hope the management starts to realize this and does something about it, but my confidence is low.
  22. thanks, somehow I missed that. Given that, I would opt for trading for B. Waters (3rd this year and conditional pick next year) and probably sign Kevin Jones as the draft pick given away is probably the one I would have used on a RB
  23. Free Agency OLB - Keiaho (1st choice) or Cato June (2nd Choice) WR - Toomer (1st choice) or Coles (2nd Choice) G - Brandon Moore The rest of the holes (DT, DE, SS, RB, TE, backup OL) should be filled through the draft
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