Bill from NYC
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They have no right to be inside the establishment shining lights inpeoples eyes. They can patrol the roads and identify cars in a parking lot, but to walk into a place of business is not OK.
They over stepped their boundaries on this one, but who is going to get into the face of a cop.
Pete.
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Frankly, I wouldn't sign a contract for $3 per year. I have my standards. LS is afterall, a professional athlete. You do know that the vet minimum is over $300,000 per year. He was making $3 million a year. Ye Gods, man. Have a heart. TD can't be that tight that he only offered him three dollars! For a year?
Oh, TD, you must truly be the SoS.
I will give JM a mulligan on Pucillo - 'cause he was only in town for a couple of weeks. But he did install Pucillo as a starter at the beginning of training camp - mostly on the strength of the fact that he ended the previous year as the starter - or so he said and so it seemed. At least he made a big change in a big hurry when he saw with his own eyes in real-time what a turnstile Pucillo was.
McNally's knows what he's got now, and I've got to think he had a hand in bringing in every new guy that will show up here this year. Somehow I don't get the impression that there's a real "find" out there that JM's drooling over. Shelton certainly isn't that. I'm feeling better about the OL going into training camp this year than I did last year.
To me, LT is an over-rated position. What's nearly of equal importance is to have consistent blocking from your running back(s). It also helps to have a QB that doesn't play like his shoelaces are tied together and his wrist is tied to his stomach. JP III certainly isn't that either.
LT an over-rated position? Over-rated by who? NFL GMs? Must be, because it is the 2nd highest paid position in football the last time I looked.
Orlando Pace played LT in front of an Arena League QB and eliminated any and all blind side rush. Then he plowed open garage sized holes for his running back who unlike Travis Henry, was acquired in a trade for a second round pick because a GM believed him to be worthy of one. The result was a superbowl victory.
Btw, I agree that having a RB who is able to block IS important. The Bills proved this by winning football games when Travis Gump was extracted from our lineup.
That said, how you can place this as being equally important as a Left Tackle is beyond my comprehension, unless you would advocate sending the RB out to block for the Left Tackle as often as the LT blocks for the RB.
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The Cards are clearly aiming for the future and not 2005 to make their team real. If they had waited until June 1st to cut Shelton they would have distributed his accelerated cap hit over this year and future yeats. However, they chose to take the total hit this year and have more room next year and thus seem to be putting this year clearly into the rebuilding mode.
Arrington as the 4th RN taken in the draft and a big drop-off from the prospects the experts judge the first 3 to have will be doing quite well and better than most to be up to be the starting RB as a rookie. Even if he has the same rookie year success that Henry had (rougly 700+ yards from this 2nd rd pick or Julius Jones had in Dallas last year (800+ yards from this 2nd rd pick) it will be a long year at RB for the Cards.
I agree with the opinion Green seemed to have that they had better potential from getting Henrt who has produced 1300 yds plus in 2 of his 4 NFL seasons. i think he lost out on this deal and will now have it work out for him only if he gets lucky.
>>>>The Cards are clearly aiming for the future and not 2005 to make their team real. If they had waited until June 1st to cut Shelton they would have distributed his accelerated cap hit over this year and future yeats. However, they chose to take the total hit this year and have more room next year and thus seem to be putting this year clearly into the rebuilding mode.<<<<
Would you say the same about the Bills? TD could have cut Drew after 6/1 as well and had more cap space to spend on ufas in 05.
Personally, I prefer the TD method of cutting players early and not entering the following season with tons of dead money.
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I was just wondering what fellow Bills fans thought of the guy? A friend of mine who was a Jets fan told me last year that he would have traded Edwards for Gregg Williams in a heartbeat. I thought it was insane statement (my friend also thought the Bills gave up too soon on Todd Collins, but that's a whole other issue
). The Jets are constantly in the playoff hunt, and on paper many years, their talent might rank 3rd or 4th in the division. Now I don't think he is an great Xs and Os type of coach, but he is a leader who players respect. As a Bills fan, I have great respect for him. My hope is that Mularkey can become a similar type of coach. Any thoughts?
MM will NEVER be a similar coach to Edwards, nor would I want him to.
Edwards is a rah-rah guy who the players like, but he is anything but a field techician, and can be counted upon to lose a couple of games per season with bad clock management and questionable moves.
He has been given a free pass by the NY media. He once threatened a reporter. Another time he gave the owner an untimatum of sorts while the team was losing.
He made a statement, You play ther game to win," and he was quoted like Plato. Personally, I am glad. The jests will not get to the next level with HE.
As for MM, he is a pretty cool dude. He is calm and has it together on the sidelines. I like the perfectly timed trick plays and the 4th down calls. He was a rookie last year and it showed early on, but I expect MM to iron out the kinks and be around for a long time in the NFL.
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If Shelton, a LT, was any good, he would be commanding Jennings money. These guys are paid millions, and are hard to find.
I salute TD for not trading for him, and Badolbilz for apparently being correct while calling Shelton "a sub-par LT with a chronic ankle injury."
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Take-Out Bid for Travis?
Maybe a team will offer TD a quart of sweet and sour chicken, and a pint of roast pork lo-mein from a ghetto restaurant.
This would be more than we came away with on draft day.
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I am thinking that it wasn't JUST the playoffs, but the loss to Pittsburgh. That particular game may have been a BIGGER factor than merely not getting in the playoffs. It seems to me that there was a ton of personal embarassment for TD and MM, especially TD because he was ousted from Pitt in the dispute with Cowher.
The Bills Management took a HUGE gamble in turning over the offense to an unknown. If JP sucks, I am thinking that TD should be fired. If Mr. Wilson wants to give TD/JP 2 seasons, that makes sense too, but this team looks like they have a TON of talent and is in the hands of a qb who could just as easily suck as be good.
Even if JP is awful, the season can be salvaged if MM has a quick hook. I for one do NOT, under any conditions, want to see JP keep the Buffalo Bills from making the playoffs in 05.
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Did you guys ever get to see Kingfish up in Buffalo?
I saw them in a club in Nassau County many moons ago, a show I will never forget.
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My ideal seats would be upstairs, in the lowest row and as close to the 50 as possible.
I sat in the first row vs. Ariz. last season. MaGee ran back a kick for a TD and passed directly in front of me near the sideline. I was lucky to have seen him for two seconds, which I doubt. Seriously, the man was running THAT fast.
Higher up, you can see the wedge form, and it makes one truly able to enjoy ST play.
Jmo.
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Obviously, Wright was way too small, but I DID like the Wade Phillips 3/4. The problem (as I recall) was that virtually all of our corners went down at once.
After that, our linebackers were injured! Cowart, Covington, and Holocek seemed to drop at about the same time.
People rave about GW and his defense, but Wade would be my first choice to be the DC if I were a headcoach/GM.
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This is a very key point. I really like Schobel, but he always seems to try to outrun the OL around the corner, so good offenses just LET him run outside and deep, as the pocket flows inward and forward, allowing either a run up the middle or ample time for the QB to pass.
He needs to go to the school of BRUUUUUCE and work on that signature inside spin move. Sack City!
I couldn't agree more, but stunting and running inside of guys as huge as either PW of Big Sam can take about a month.
Seriously, I saw AS try to stunt a couple of times and there was simply no place to go. I think that with a smaller DT (anybody is smaller than PW
), there WILL be more stunts by the DL. As for a 3/4, I think that Big Sam views himself as more of a pass rusher than one to strictly hold his ground in the middle. Wasn't this the topic of his dispute with Gray last season?
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Right Guard on the Bills until CV came to town.
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It is a tough question that you pose.
I hate to say it, but I think that I would trade the 4 losses for 1 win.
I am quite fond of WNY and Bills fans in general, and the fact is that they/we deserve a superbowl win for being the greatest fans of any team in any sport.
That said, it was a great feeling to see your team take the field and have SO much condifence in them. I felt that way this season while watching our STs.
Today, many teams are just a few players away imo. Not to take away from the Pats, but their SB victories were not exactly routs. It all starts up front, and I am hoping that the Bills will be able to beat up other teams.
Good luck, until you play the Buffalo Bills.
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I am going to be going to grad school at the Univeristy of New Mexico in the fall and I am curious if there are any Bills fans in that area who can report on places to watch Bills games. I just finished Marv's book and found it interesting that he coached the Lobos for a couple of years way back, and also that he coined the phrase "Where else would you rather be?" there.
I dont know, but if you get in touch with Jennifer Wilbanks, maybe she can help you out!
Good luck with school!
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The Bills are impossible to predict. Chances are probably 50/50 that Losman will be good/suck.
If he is good, he has a ton to work with. Evans and MaGahee are extremely talented kids who will put up points.
If he sucks, it will be on MM to sink with JP or swim with Holcombe. I hope that MM will be wise enough to pull JP if his play costs us a chance to make the playoffs.
Hopefully, it will not come to that.
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first, i don't post daily, and secondly, i'm not a "basher" of donohoe, despite the fact that i have leveled a lot of criticism at him. i don't think in either/or terms. he's done a lot of good things, but ultimately there have been a lot of incorrect choices that have held the bills back. look, even factoring in the 3-13 season, they've been a sub-500 team since despite being in fine cap shape. how else can you judge the guy as a bills executive (note i'm leaving the steelers out of this, since i care not at all about that team's success).
If I may take a middle ground here......
dave, you are right. There has been plenty to complain about with TD at the helm, most notably GW and KG. These men were far less than adequate and it was TD who did hire them.
BUT, the 3-13 was worse than it looked. TD took over a team on which some of the highest paid players were the likes of John Fina, a washed up Henry Jones, Jerry Ostroski, Sam Rogers and a crippled John Holocek. It can take YEARS cap wise to clean up a mess like this.
TD has brought respectability back to Buffalo. There is of course a lot of work ahead. Personally, I think that if JP is a bust, TD should be shown the door. If JP can play, the team looks good from where I sit, and well coached to boot.
Jmo.
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This guy sued a woman for changing positions in the middle of having sex!
Stuckincincy is right. The world is changing WAY too fast!
I dont know. Wouldn't a simple "Thank You" be a more appropriate response?
I hope that not too many wives read this!
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I never thought this. Imo, Nate is clearly the more skilled and complete player of the two.
Winfield looks better on run support, but not by much imo and Nate seems to be clearly superior as a cover corner.
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I would agree with you if that were his role, but it was pretty apparent that it wasn't. Under last season's scheme the role of the DT on passing downs looked to be that of pushing or deflating the pocket, to which other attack positions would come free or the QB would be lead to a "desired" location. The team's success in both turnovers and sacks bares out the fact that this approach worked well overall.
I will give PW one thing....when he speaks of "busting up centers," this IS what he does. He is quite unselfish in that his role IS to enable others to make plays. Simon urged me to pay more attention to PW, and I did so.
That said, AD's comment is to also be taken seriously imo. PW, imo, is not a player who will very often give you the "key sack." I think that he is at his best when there is a blitz, and players can run past the blocker(s) that he occupies, but this is at the cost of downfield coverage one would think.
If you remember, I sat in the first row directly behind the Bills D last season. I am telling you, PW looks to weigh as much as Big Sam!
317????? He is closer to 360, and I am not exaggerating even a little. On the sidelines, he looks as if he can barely walk, and then he trots out to the field.
At his size and age, PW did well to sign a 4 year deal. I wish him well and thank him for the memories, but I am thinking that the Bills can and will fill his shoes, if even by committee.
Who is the toughest SOB on the Bills roster?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Coach Krumrie is probably the toughest guy in the world.
As for the rest of the Bills, I am thinking Sam Adams. Just picture yourself in a fight with Sam Adams and trying to injure him.
