LaDairis

I did not agree with trading for Losman. In this, the "salary cap" era, there is usually a Brad Johnson floating around for a filler, and this year could be filled with vet QB UFAs - Kitna, possibly Culpepper, Harrington etc. I just think a team should use the Draft to get immediate help and use FA to get a QB. Experience matters most at QB. The Bills spent a Second and a Fifth and the 05 First for Losman. The two year result of that is not promising. The whole idea of trading up for the rookie QB without decent pass protection is arse backwards. You fix the OL first, then get the rookie QB if you insist on having a rookie QB. TD has done some good things but, overall, he has not gotten it done. The whole scheme doesn't seem to be very well thought out either. TD also has a fetish for warm weather college players like Big Mike (Texas), Losman (Tulane), Willis, Roscoe and Everett (Miami) as if the "climate change" aspect is to be ignored.

Chris Henry just pulled a Chris Henry... http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9099235 " Bengals rookie receiver Chris Henry was arrested on traffic and marijuana charges early Thursday morning, but later practiced with the team" "Well, then, how do you judge yourself against other golfers?" "By height..." Khalif Barnes gets help just about every play and gets torched when he doesn't. Jax switched to a quick throw scheme to accomodate him. The dumbest Jax fans are touting a no stat effort by Freeney. Go look at the tape of that game. Barnes, when left one on one, gets burned so fast it makes your head spin. Freeney should have had a sack/forced fumble (called an incompletion) on the one play the entire first half that Barnes did not have help. Adam Terry is terrible. Alex Smith cannot block and does not have deep speed. Matt Roth is coming on. Bryant McFadden is a good man cover corner. Roscoe has talent and was not a bad pick, except for the non-need issue. The 2005 NFL Draft was HORRID at the OL position...

Alex Smith, the TE, would not work in Buffalo, because he is a terrible blocker. He is used in two TE sets and goes out most plays. Yes, he gets his share of throws, some of which turn into stats, which impresses the heck out of those whose understanding of football is parroting box scores. Alex Smith was a reach in round 3 and would add virtually nothing to the Bills. He is not a burner deep threat either. TEs block. Blocking is important, even if it doesn't show in the box score.

Vince Manuwai is terrible. The Colts roughed him up pretty good on Sunday. Pete Prisco started the hype on this kid, but has recently retracted it. Manuwai is on the verge of being benched for sukkin. Jeff Backus is not a good answer at OLT. He is overrated, but nowhere near as overrated as Vince Manuwai. Instead of fantasizing that every single listed UFA will immediately decide to freeze his rear off for pennies in Buffalo, perhaps the Bills ought to find out what is on their roster now. Preston may not cut it at OG. However, he surely cannot be worse than Teague at C. I would also like to see Geisinger get a look, even if MM doesn't. How in the world could Geisinger be worse than Bennie? How about, for the final few weeks, the Bills look at this OL: Gandy Geisinger Preston CV Peters and then we can fantasize about how every single UFA superstar is just dying to live in Buffalo for a bargain contract...

Jeff Backus is not a top caliber OLT and one of the reasons why the Lions offense cannot get it together.

Bush is terrible at blocking and will have trouble being an NFL feature back. LenDale is the best pure feature back in college football.

A minor point if I may... BLOCKING is important.... A "#1" TE is usually the best blocker, and remains inside when two TEs are on the same side. Jason Witten and Dan Graham are two "#2" TEs who put up huge numbers with Dan Campbell and Fauria as the "#1" TE doing mostly blocking last year. Witten's numbers fell as he moved to "#1" this year because that required him to block more. The Bill offense relies on two TEs doing a lot of blocking, in part because the OTs are so bad. Vernon Davis is a "deep threat" TE with awesome speed. In the Bill offense, he would be a "#2" because he is not a good blocker and lacks size. Davis and Mercedes Lewis are really "large WRs" playing college "TE" where they go out most of the time. The Bill offense could really use a receiving TE threat, but the "#1" TE in this offense must be a good blocker, or it all falls apart.

Which surely explains why you are such a big fan of Everett...

Yeah, amazing how that works. We should have traded up for Kellen Winslow II... Steve Emtman stunk too...

Losman will be a bust unless he gets some protection. There is an order to going with a rookie QB (or a functional rookie at that). 1. FIX the OL first 2. THEN get the young QB What the Bills are doing is 1. Throw the young QB to the wolves without protection 2. Make sure whatever you do, acquire BIG OLs even if they SUKK... 'cause BIG = GOOD - right??

How should one judge a tight end?? Just parrot the receiving stats... Blocking - who cares? The announcers do not talk about blocking. How many times did Euhus help contain Peppers?? Who cares - only receiving stats count...

That's a really poor analysis of two injured players. Campbell and Euhus were both doing fine last year before both got hurt. Neither has been 100% this year. I guess only Everett's injuries count. Or, more precisely, Campbell and Euhus must be healthy because they are in uniform... Inuries are just like timeouts... according to those who have never played a contact sport...

I think the Patriots would trade their First and Second round picks for Mike Williams. The 49ers would trade their entire First Day for Clements. The Seahawks would clearly be willing to trade Walter Jones for a Fourth Round pick. There is no way the Saints would try to keep Bentley, so we get him for a cheap deal. And, oh yeah, sign Hutch too because he doesn't want a lot of money or anything like that... Just remember, folks and fans, the key to success in football is size. You really don't need to know anything about a player except his size. Hence, my first move is to move Peters back to TE, because, while he is large for an OT, he is even more large for a TE... like he is HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Draft 1a - Ngata - never seen him, but he is large and the gurus are talking about him... 1b - Leonard Pope - TE is 6'8" and hence that is all you need to know 1c - Reggie Bush - not large, but he is fast 1d - Marcus McNeill - man, he is large 1e - Max Jean Gilles - yeah, he is large TOO!!! 2a - Matt Leinhart - good value in Round 2 So, we'd have QB - JP, Leinhart, Holcomb RB - Willis, Bush TE - Peters, Pope OT - Jones, McNeill OG - Hutch, Bennie (y'all must be wrong about Bennie, 'cause Bennie is BIG!!!) C - Bentley DE- Peppers, Strahan DT- Ngata, the Big Show from the WWE (man is he BIG!!!!) ... and hey, no stepping on my sandcastle!!!!

I remember Moore playing the nickel-backer in preseason as a rook and getting an impressive sack against the Eagles - beating Runyan outside. Moore was incredibly quick, agile, strong, and effective off the edge pass rushing. Moore was to college football what Freeney is to the NFL at DE, but 225 does not cut it at DE in the NFL. Moore really screwed his ankle, I believe, against the Jets on a kick coverage early his rookie year. He had bone frags and should have had surgery. When he came back eight weeks later, he looked like an immobile deer in the headlights. Then he got shot in the offseason. Injuries happen, and the failure of the Corey Moore draft choice was much more of an injury issue as well as an "off the field risk" issue as opposed to a "sukk" issue. There is a difference, and football injuries often are not "just like timeouts..."

Corey Moore looked great at LB before he ruined his ankle on special teams in his third game. Freeney had 30 pounds on Moore and was going to play DE or 3-4 OLB. Moore was strictly 4-3 OLB.

Roscoe saw plenty of snow while with the Caines... just not that kind of snow...

"Justice is decent, but like you said, overrated. " No, I said he sukks, and I stand by that. What is impressive about Justice? A: he reportedly runs a 4.7 40... and the announcers talk about him a lot... and his name is cool... Yeah, that really helps him block of the edge... SnakeOiler, just parroting the offensive production of the Trojan offense is a sure way to never get a clue. In order to assess Winston Justice, one must watch Winston Justice, not parrot and assume. I have absolute contempt for football parrots who have zero understanding of the game and get "their" "opinions" by blindly parroting announcers, stats, and gurus. I will watch Winston closely in his Bowl game. He clearly was not 100% against FSU earlier in the season. If he is now, that is great news for the Bills, because that puts two OLTs in the top 10...

Yeah, the fact that the Jags are 7-3 proves that the Bills should have drafted Barnes?? LOL!!! Got it!!! The Chargers must have struck GOLD with Phil Rivers as well... The real Jax story: playing... Pitt without Big Ben. Rams without Bulger, Holt, and Bruce. Jets without a QB. The Jags have had it very easy...

The hype in Jax about Barnes is similar to the nonsense on this board about Peters prior to Sunday. Barnes gets help on just about every play, and since he has been in there, Jax has gone to a quick throw strategy. Barnes is not allowed to go one-on-one for 4 seconds with a DE because if he did, Byron would get hit.

The pass protection must improve or JP will never develop. That being said, if the Bills get a top 10 pick and no OL justifies that pick, I would attempt to trade down. This Draft is deep at LB and RB, two areas the Bills don't really need a lot of immediate help. Ferguson would be the obvious OLT of the crop. However, he must prove he is healthy enough to justify the pick.

Winston Justice is the most overrated player in the history of college football. The guy sukks. He regularly gets beaten off the edge. He is not a dominating ORT run blocker. He is a documented character case. The left side of the USC OL is all world. Winston is the sole liability of the five. Marcus McNeil is loved by exactly the type of morons who loved Mike Williams. What does McNeil offer? Hey, he is large. That's all you need to know to watch certain idiots just fawn over him. Want to see what David Pollack did to McNeil last year?? Who cares, he is large... Ferguson lacks power and has been injured this year. He is, however, a genuine OLT pass protector of Top 10 caliber when healthy. Eric Winston is playing on a surgically repaired knee and is not the player he was before the surgery. How do you tell talent from the Draft?? A: just pick the biggest guy the gurus are talking about... which was Big Mike several years ago...

For the past two weeks, this board has been flooded with all sorts of parroting that Peters was just about ready for Hawaii. When some of us attempted to suggest that Peters did not play that well and usually got TE help, we were slammed for not parroting. Peters has plenty of experience blocking off the edge against speed rushers. Yesterday, it was quite clear that Peters himself lacks the quickness to handle that assignment...

Yeah, the minor issue that Herndon got safety and lb zone help most of the time and Champ did not escaped the stats. When a team has one ace, the other corner usually gets help. What King has is the instant ability to assess where the ball is going and explode to it. All great corners (and WRs) have that, and you can't teach it, just like you cannot teach being a great centerfielder. Size and 40 times can be very misleading at the corner position. Jammer of SD is a great example. While he is better now than he was his first two years (when he was regularly targeted and exploited), he still fails to properly adjust to the ball a lot. He was another pick right around Mike and McKinnie, with a similar outcome...

There is no question that the contracts of the Top 5 picks makes most of them more liability than asset. Nobody wants to trade up to pay a rookie who has never played an NFL snap top UFA dollars. That being said, there is absolutely no excuse for not looking at Geisinger at OLG now. Bennie is a disaster and should also get the axe. Where will that leave the Bills? That's right, with absolutely no experience at OLG unless Geisinger gets some...

From KFFL Bills | McGee misses practice, questionable for Week 11 Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:28:43 -0800 Buffalo Bills CB Terrence McGee (hamstring) did not practice Friday, Nov. 18, and is questionable for Week 11. McGee may not play.