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johnnychemo

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  1. Not to split hairs, b/c you make a fair point, but if memory serves (and it may well not) we lost Reimersma and Centers as well as Price, which hurt the offense in that Bledsoe was good at spreading it around to the open targets. Without having to show as much respect to the pass catching ability out of the backfield and the TE position the D could put a lot more focus on the wide outs.

     

    If memory serves, Reed dropped a hell of a lot of passes that year too. I always believed the pressure of being the #2 guy was a bit much for him. I'd still take him as the role player he was the last couple of years though.

  2. Looks like another long season...

     

    Week 1 Buffalo vs. Miami - LOSE

    Week 2 Buffalo vs. Green Bay - LOSE

    Week 3 Buffalo vs. New England Patriots* - LOSE

    Week 4 Buffalo vs. NY Jets - WIN

    Week 5 Buffalo vs. Jacksonville Jaguars - WIN

    Week 6 BYE

    Week 7 Buffalo vs. Baltimore Ravens - LOSE

    Week 8 Buffalo vs. Kansas City Chiefs - WIN

    Week 9 Buffalo vs. Chicago Bears - WIN

    Week 10 Buffalo vs. Detroit Lions - WIN

    Week 11 Buffalo vs. Cincinnati Bengals - LOSE

    Week 12 Buffalo vs. Pittsburgh Steelers - LOSE

    Week 13 Buffalo vs. Minnesota Vikings - LOSE

    Week 14 Buffalo vs. Cleveland Browns - WIN

    Week 15 Buffalo vs. Miami Dolphins - WIN

    Week 16 Buffalo vs. New England Patriots* - LOSE

    Week 17 Buffalo vs. NY Jets - LOSE

  3. I have been totally perplexed by the Bills strategy over the past year(s).

    First drafting Maybin when there were other choices.

    Firing the OC right before the season began.

    Hiring Chan Gailey.

    Not being even semi aggressive in free agency.

    I can honestly say I don't know what to expect from these guys.

    Logic dosen't apply.. I have no idea who these guys are going to draft.

    I haven't been overly impressed by Nix and his we can't do it all in one year attitude

    when other teams have a we want to win now attitude. I'm willing to give Nix a chance

    by seeing what type of product he puts on the field. The new regime dosen't seem to show the

    urgency to make this team a winner anytime soon. I hope I am wrong.

     

     

    I think the Maybin pick has Jauron's fingerprints all over it. The coach got the guy he wanted in the end.

    OC was Jauron's call as well.

     

    Chan Gailey? Gotta wait and see how that pans out, but I'm skeptical myself.

     

    Free agency - are there really that many free agents you are dying to see sign with the Bills? For any top notch talent who could basically write their own ticket (and how many of them were free agents this year?) the recent history of the team would be a tough selling point, and these guys don't seem to have the "drive a dump truck full of money up to 'em" mindset (A Good Thing) either.

     

    I would say the new regime has to undo a decade's worth of decay, and it ain't gonna happen in one offseason. You are looking at 2 seasons (minimum) of bottom dwelling mediocrity before they can beef it up (the right way through the draft and younger players) to be contenders.

     

    The more they try to quick-fix it, the longer it will be before it finally gets done right.

     

    This is the first time in a long time I've seen the Bills look like they've got a decent plan and the stubborness to carry it out.

     

    That said, I'm willing to give them a the benefit of the doubt until they fail miserably, then sit back and say "I knew it all along!" :w00t:

  4. Clausen looked good the one time I saw him (against Stanford).

    But even if they draft him and he turns out to be a bust . . . well, at least they swung for the fences with their 9th overall pick. Which is a lot better than bunting, as they did back when they took Whitner.

     

    Whitner is more of a check swing foul into the catchers mitt....

  5. I'd be more inclined to believe the concussion at AZ broke him if he didn't play so well against the Chargers his first game back. Maybe there was a setback after that game related to the concussion that wasn't reported or something, but to see him play well right after coming back from the injury then tank makes me think there was something else.

  6. its a tough call. I think Bulaga is going to be sick at the next level. But its a QB league and good ones are hard to get your hands on. If you have the chance to get what you think could be a great one, you really have to take it. Not sure whether we think Bradford could be great or not, but if we do.... A team rarely has that opportunity.

     

    This. Yes its a tough call between the two, and there's probably no "right" answer, but I'd go QB.

  7. worked perfectly in that situation. Steelers identified a couple of in-house guys, who happened to be white. They brought in Tomlin, probably partially per the Rooney Rule, and he blew them away.

     

     

    HUGE assumption....how do you know he wasn't a legitimate candidate from the start?

  8. Start Hamden, let him play the first half, then put in Brohm. Takes the pressure of Brohm, as he's not the starter and not likely expected to do much more than dip his toe into the deep end of the pool. In other words, treat it as a preseason game. Put in Johnson and Hardy too. No reason not to.

  9. I think we also saw a little of the Kelly gunslinger attitude in him, and after Todd Collins, Billy Jo Hobert, Rob Johnson, Doug Flutie, and Drew Bledsoe, we were looking for a guy who had the attitude. Unfortunately, he couldn't back it up on the field.

  10. Let me proffer another possibility, albeit convoluted and far-fetched...

     

    Maybe, just maybe, it's because he was just signed four weeks ago, on November 19th (2 days after Jauron's firing), and might be trying to learn the names of his new teammates while assimilating the playbook.

     

    I know, I know...that's just too far-fetched - please just forget I suggested it.

     

     

    Too obvious. :thumbsup:

    Add to that the point that this offense is likely history come January and do you want to cram it down his throat for maybe one or two games at the end of a lost season and I think we may have figured it out...

  11. It's the first domino my friend. Nobody freaked when Hitler rearmed a disarmed Germany...nobody thought much when he amassed troops at the boarder....so, he steamrolled Poland - no big deal....the rest was history. Those who do not learn from it are doomed to repeat it. I know this is nothing this like rise of the third reich, but revolutionary change starts under the radar. The undercurrent you need to pay attention to is the league is slowly being handed over to the power owners...

     

     

    Hitler already?

    Talk about overkill...

  12. While I like TO as a Bill, and I certainly noticed him helping Wood off the field, I've always thought Buffalo was like a purgatory for him. If he keeps himself behaved then after one year he can look to a contender and his agent can say "See look, he's a kinder, gentler TO. He spent a year in Buffalo, train wreck that it is, and was a model citizen" to try and get him a ring before he retires.

     

    Funny thing is, he's got way more legitimate beefs with this team this year than he has had in the past.

  13. Jeff Fisher wants Bud Amdams to let him out of his cntract and wants Ralph Wilson to sign him to a long term contract for one reason, and one reason alone.

     

    Man Bear Pig!

     

    Excelsior!!!!!!!

     

    I kinda feel sorry for him. I don't think that Jeff Fisher has any friends.

     

    If you play the interview backward, you can hear him confess to killing Kennedy too.

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