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Hey! No fair.

The 2013 Defense ended up being bad against the run but solid against the pass. The end-season rankings were run D # 28, pass D #4, Overall D #10 So, this D overall is well below the one in 2013.

If you have the firepower, you get into a shootout. But most teams dont have that so.... You play ball control Offense and keep the ball away from him.(and score ofcourse) On D, you depend on your front 4 to provide the pressure and cover gronk with LBers, no cheating by the safeties, stay with your assignments. This is just off the top of my head. We are hobbled enough to not be able to do what I suggest on Offense but at least on D, there should have been different things done to limit the damage.

Sorry to hear about this, John.

I am surprised you think that. I think Woods is a better blocker and route runner than Hogan. He is a borderline #2/very good #3. But Hogan IMHO is one below him on each. And I liked Hogan...

Actually I am not assuming Woods is gone. Money can make people do strange things but in some ideal universe, if Woods takes below market price, that woukd be a pretty fearsome threesome. And haven't you said earlier that the bills will have cap space next year? Edit - making this move may help negotiations with Woods next year

Right. So the numbers have to of course make sense but it almost immediately takes the pressure off to draft a WR early. We would be set at WR for a while

I think Watkins, Woods and TSmith will make a great receiving corps. Do you not see woods as coexisting with Torrey Smith?

Your critiques are a borderline obsession and your opinion about the Bills performance almost always circles back to TT. This is a crusade, plain and simple. I am NOT going to get sucked into discussing the pros and cons of TT's game with you. I normally don't call out posters but continued unnatural focus on TT brought on these posts from me

Frankly, your obsession and dislike if TT is getting tiresome. You keep hammering this point in different ways, hijack threads and keep trying to make everything about TT. And please don't go on your 'but am I wrong' angle. If you haven't been warned get, you should be

Imho, Fitz's days as a starter are over

Or you could remind us of how Parker flipped Whaley over and gave it to him in the rear regarding Jairus Byrd. Remember you berating the FO for 'failure' on that negotiation ? How is that turning out for you ?

What a pathetically incompetent display by both teams

Other teams are his biggest fans and advocate continuity

Is 100% certainty real ? In the offseason, I came to believe that he will be100% for 2016. No more false hopes. Please give me a Cliff notes version - how much do you believe the '100% healed in 2017' prognosis is ?

Sounds like you are becoming Hopeful again. I wont look at PCs to form an opinion of a man who I dont know personally. His on-field play and dedication to the game will go a long way in showing us if he is capable of turning his life around. Clearly, as is obvious, he is a fantastic talent and can be a totally dominating and disrupting force in the middle. Unfortunately, he has been off the field quite frequently. In a few players, past history is surely a predictor of their future. But others have reformed and led productive careers. It will be a tough decision for a front office considering moving him and frankly I wouldnt fault them for whatever decision they make. He did come into the league at a young age and perhaps never matured enough to put his health and career above recreation. Compound that with the personal events that happened and its easy to see why he ended up where he is. Lets see. I say a decision needs to be made in the offseason when he doesnt have the games to prepare for. His play this season and what he does in his idle time during the offseason will be an excellent pointer to the future.

Reggie Wayne blames the GM http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000715677/native/reggie-wayne-blames-front-office-for-colts-struggles?akapp=mobile&akview=phone&akvideo=on

Zach Brown TT Woods

Too often teams are left reaching for a QB because they have forced themselves into a corner over the previous years. The Bills were no different that year. I am glad we got EJ in a trade-down. No way for us to ever know, but he may have been gone by the time we picked again, to a team equally desperate for a QB. For all the trading that Whaley doee, he should have traded for Alex Smith and let EJ develop at his own pace. That was the mistake in my mind. BTW, I also think that picking Cardale Jones was the type of move that the Bills should have been doing a long time back. Using a mid round pick for a prospect.

Every team in the NFL can point to good spots of talent. Perhaps the Bills have a higher percent than normal. But the inability to make a consistently strong team is a fault and I cant see how anyone can argue against this. I have seen excuses - no one can predict injuries, immaturity, etc etc. But after years of futility, when and how do we turn this team into one without excuses ?

That he is not a #1 or #2 is beyond doubt. But, are you going to sit there and say that the Bills wouldnt be better with him on the roster ? I have ragged on Whaley for his penchant for not retaining players without an adequate plan. This is another in his line of bad roster decisions. There was a strong concern regarding the Bills WR depth in the offseason and the Salas, Powells of the world were offered as a counterpoint. How does that look right now ? And it is evident that it wouldnt have taken a whole lot of money to retain Hogan. Are you making a case against adding competent players to the roster cos the QB wont use them anyway ? Every position should be kept as stocked as possible especially when it doesnt cost a whole lot extra.

But in that case. there wont be a tie now will there ?

Nice !!

Classy post.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic but I am not on board with this 'play fast' idea. With our D being unable to get off the field, the last thing they want is to have the offense shorten the game. I realize the effects playing fast has on opposing defenses but that is a risky proposition for the Bills as they are playing right now. First they have not shown the ability to sustain drives. That is Lynn's first job (along with scoring ofcourse). Secondly, the D has enough issues with rotational depth on the D line that being winded compounds the problem. This is similar to the stupid decision by Hackett to start his rookie season and rookie QB with a no huddle offense which didnt have the horses to run it.