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Good Lord that's a lot of bench spots. I'd accept the trade even though I agree Wilson is similar to Cam & picking one to start every week could be a headache. But Sanu is useless, you're never gonna play him.

Brady's career in reverse. http://grantland.com/features/bill-barnwell-conference-championships/ Pretty amazing what getting lucky in the early part of your career does for your clutchness reputation.

Calm down Mrs. Wilson. You're a huge fan, we get it. If you're going to take the < 25yr olds who are 'candidates with a long ways to go' that literally, there are dozens of other guys that could be in the discussion as well. Some more deserving on his own team, like Earl Thomas.

+1. Peters, Wilfork & Vinateri are all major reaches. You can quibble w/ someone like Revis but I can at least see a reasonable argument if he plays for a while longer.

You'd rather have Brown. Hope you don't have to count on the Bills running game though.

I like his demeanor too. He looks in to the game but not in an over the top Kurt Warner/Jameis Winston "look at me and what a great teammate I am ESPN!" sort of way.

Mostly wrong. They can't cater to the public too much or the few professional heavy hitters will hammer the opposite side. Sharps vs Squares. The Bills have been a favorite of the sharps this year while the public squares have been on the opponent. This game will be the opposite. And the RBs don't matter that much.

It was only a half year. Except for the snow game vs Miami the offense was putrid in the 2nd half of that romanticized 2002 season.

That's great. You can look at JPs 2006 11th rated passer season and find reasons to believe in what you're hoping for. He was a project we reached on and it was a surprise to nobody outside 1&2 Bills drive that he never amounted to even a quality backup. And like JC said, different offense & different era. But never mind career trajectories.. My point was, when you say "why are these excuses granted for X but not for Y", the implication is that their levels of play are equal, which clearly it's not now.

Also not for nothing, sacks are big plays because they kill drives. But there aren't any drives when EJ is launching sideline fades seven yards out of bounds so, at least from an opportunity cost standpoint, the sacks aren't a killer negative.

Because the fresh QBs ceiling for a game appears to be the veteran backup's floor - ~250 yards. That's kind of a big difference.

I mean, people who never played or coached the game are often right to criticize coaches who are largely way too conservative. This was obviously not that. Like someone said they have Drew freaking Brees. I wonder if the idiot caveman reporter would've hated NE lining up in empty backfield on their own 7 last week protecting an 8pt lead (maybe the Lions actually had their best pass-rushers on the field).

I agree but there's a third element you need to have in modern football that we're getting now that involves competent QB play for whom 300 yards isn't a huge deal (it isn't in general, but it has been for the Bills).

They also forget how unimportant RB's are, particularly with our OL. At least against a team like the Jets, it might not be such a bad thing if it convinces Hackett to run into a brick wall less.

I am more "process" than "results" oriented than most. But if you had to write a script for barely escaping an "easy" game and not feeling bad about it, I think it would probably involve turning the ball over 4 times. Lets just move on.

Don't beat yourself up over TE matchups. I know Walker has been good but as long as Cameron is healthy I think he's good enough to just play every week.

Fans of all teams generally think their skill players are better than they are and their OL is worse than it is. The 2014 Bills aren't the best example cause the perception of both is basically true. I mean arguing Spiller > Oliver isn't quite the same as being a Josh Reed apologist. Peyton Manning is a FA again before the season and can pick any AFC team. Nobody has a QB. His life depends on winning a SB. All teams wear Penn St uniforms and are coached by John Fox and play in Iowa, so weather/tradition/coaching/lifestyle are not factors. There's a bunch of teams in the same tier as the Bills imo but you're gonna have a tough time convincing me they're not in his top six of choices.

Hopkins helps but I still wouldn't do it.

As a general principle IDK how you use Seattle for a road game. Or Cleveland or Arizona for that matter. Id go Bills or Packers.

I think Hunter is the easy one. After that maybe Stewart if he's healthy. Bolden brutal matchup, Patterson cannot run a route. I confess to knowing nothing about Holmes.

Let's say people complain the strike zone is too small. So MLB makes it bigger. Batter gets rung up for looking at a pitch over his head. Complaints ensue. "Zomg make up your mind hypocrites!". I mean c'mon. NFL refs suck at picking their spots to "call more strikes ". Watkins & Cook took pitches over their heads. Woods was interfered with on the Houston int way more than Stevie was vs Carolina last year. Somehow they call the one in the year there was no " point of emphasis ". They suck at their jobs. I know it's tough and they're human, but I don't need to hear Mike Carey bragging about their made up 98% accuracy.

Can anyone think of a call in any sport that should be made more than it is, but whenever it is called it's bogus like 90% of the time? Thats been OPI to me for as long as I've watched football. I mean I think intentional grounding should be called more but at least when it is it's usually the right call (even if it inexplicably takes eleven minutes of begging, pleading, and lobbying from DLmen and coaches). I honestly think if they just had a secret meeting to never call OPI ever (so WRs didn't know about it) it'd be better than it is now.

Truth. The Bills offense failed to score 20pts in at least five, maybe six road games in 99. Somehow it was a surprise we didn't light up the best D we played all year in the playoffs. Vinateri pulled an Alex Henery in Foxboro for a W. There was a home game vs the Giants towards the end too where their entire secondary was injured & we couldn't throw worth a lick. And that Jags team we beat 17-16 was an offense team. As mentioned he was good vs the Roughriders though so there's that.

Indeed. Fortunately the Broncos/Packers games aren't 'till December. So they have some time to sort out how to stop the running games of teams with HoF QB's who don't give a f*** about their running games.

Hate all you want but he's been ahead of the curve on this one. Teams have hired, and are hiring 'Football Outsiders' and 'Football Prospectus' types. I won't quibble that he sounds extreme sometimes. That doesn't mean he's not closer to being right than a lot of coaches. It's a joke that in 2014, there is any speck of confusion on what to do on 4th down in the 4th Qtr down by 16pts. It should be drilled into every player's/coach's/waterboy's head that punting is not an option there. But coaches regularly punt away any remote chance of winning, while going balls to the wall with their starters in the game down 20pts with 10sec's left trying to get that garbage TD. It should be the complete opposite. But fans all just go along with it because that's how the meatheads have always done it.