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Charlie Whitehurst Should Be Worrying About JP Losman, Not Matt Hasselbeck
If this is the case, the Seahawks should be the ones worrying!
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You fail to note the success rate of 1st and 2nd round picks at QB. While slightly better it's hardly considered a lock. The bottom line is that any QB you draft has about a 50-50 chance of succeeding in the NFL.
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You could probably extend that to pretty much any position too.
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Warren Moon and Jeff Garcia were undrafted.
Going way back in the day Roger Staubach was drafted in the 10th round.
Staubach was a Naval Academy student, and IIRC he had to serve some time (4 yrs I think) in the service after graduation before he could play in the NFL. No doubt that was what brought him down so low in the draft.
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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.
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He then went on to say he thinks Bradford is a good kid, has better accuracy than any QB he has ever played with in the NFL, and he thinks he has a good makeup to be successful early in the NFL.
I guess that COULD be interpreted as a compliment....
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IMO are D is not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. The D was just on the field almost double the opposition. They were gassed by the 2nd half because the O could not sustain any drives to rest our D.
This.
And the O couldn't score, so the D had to be practically perfect. With a decent offense, the D would look much better.
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These type of articles always kill me. We're still two months away from training camp, and they are dooming and glooming.
I'll bet at least 3 teams on this list make the playoffs this year and have what will be considered a successful season.
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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
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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!"
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I thought I saw him at the airport with a "George Siefert" sign last week....
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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....
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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.
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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.
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Truth is we had a couple of good ones since Kelly. Unfortunately we haven't had a great like Jim Kelly in 15 years.
It's worth noting that the last QB this franchise really developed was Joe Ferguson. Kelly cut his pro teeth in the USFL and came to Buffalo as a more or less finished product.
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Our owner is 91, and unfortunately 91 year old owners pass away more frequently then 60 or 70 year old owners.
You mean more than once?
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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?
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Lives in lake Norman, near Charlotte
The REAL question is - does he have a dog and has he been walking it lately??
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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.
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Coaching is also an issue, as poor technique contributes to injuries as well. You won't avoid all injuries, but properly conditioned athletes with sound technique are less likely to get injured.
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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.
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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.
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...
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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...
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If we're picking prototype qb's, I'll take a Peyton Manning type hands down.
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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.
JaMarcus Russell
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Now THIS is funny!!