Meathead

i had dinner with coy wire once and he told me that the nfl requires everyone to go through an investment seminar to try to teach players how to manage their money so that they dont end up broke. coy said most of the players paid no attention, they joked around during the seminar, played with their phones, or simply slept at their desk, they couldnt wait for it to be over owens says he was too trusting. maybe. but if youre going to invest some of those big bucks why on earth dont you just invest half and put the other half into bonds - exactly like small time investors are councelled to do. the obvious answer is hubris and greed

all those people look the same to me

well done ignore the fact that most people dont get it, still well done ralph is cheap

the brady puuunt the brady puuunt thats the way it became the brady punt

current nfl rules favor the passing game so much that you only need one top level player on the entire team - the qb. indy, gb, no, and the cheaters have been proving that for the last decade its kinda silly. no other sport rewards one position the way the nfl does the qb. i wish they would do something about it to put more emphasis on the other 21 positions. until they do its pretty much a ninety percent proposition that if you have an elite qb you go deep in the playoffs and if you dont youre **** out of luck

if the swedish bikini team offered to pump you dry would you? oh no i think im fine ill just have to decline second.easiest.question.ever.

NY Jets players bash Mark Sanchez, say they want Peyton Manning and GM Mike Tannenbaum should trade young quarterback away. A season torn by discord and dysfunction prompted several key Jets players and members of the organization to paint a sobering picture of Mark Sanchez, a polarizing figure within the franchise’s walls. They raised serious doubts about his ability to lead the Jets, questioning everything from his practice habits to the organization’s coddling of him to how much of a role he truly played in the team making two consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances. They also invited the opportunity to replace Sanchez with Peyton Manning. The consensus among players who spoke to the Daily News was that, at the very least, the Jets must sign a legitimate veteran backup to push their young quarterback. “We have to bring in another quarterback that will make him work at practice,” said one player. “He’s lazy and content because he knows he’s not going to be benched.” http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/ny-jets-players-bash-mark-sanchez-peyton-manning-gm-mike-tannenbaum-trade-young-quarterback-article-1.1004395#ixzz1jCLTHaVu hes sooo finished there too bad. i was looking forward to watching him f sh up for the jets for another season

were all bruthas man

tommy thigpen?

you had it coming

if gruden is a blowhard then who would be a blowsoft?

when he got all those picks as a rook i said sure as hell he would come back and get no more than two the next season and true to form he got one. hes a good player but lets be honest, he was living the charmed life as a rook, with wounded beach balls fluttering like butterflies right into his breadbasket. and lets not forget, he was a nightmare tackler, bouncing off guys like he was made of flubber since then he has DRAMATICALLY improved his tackling to the point he is now a tackle machine. hes still around the ball a lot and in position to make plays. he has great recognition and routinely runs up to stuff plays behind or close to the los hell yeah we should resign him. he looks like a very solid player if not a star in the making

nix didnt say evans couldnt run middle routes, he said he wouldnt in hindsight its perfectly clear why the bills moved evans - they planned to run a middle passing offense with tons of picks and screens that required the wrs to block. evans obviously didnt want to do that at this stage of his career. the bills totally won that trade, not so much cuz evans got injured cuz you cant predict that kind of thing but because their offense was a total mismatch for him and because evans has been ineffective in balt even when healthy i was disappointed in the trade when it happened but i said i would give nix the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise on this. and as it looks now it appears obvious buddy fleeced the nightclub murderers err i mean ravens

red headed white males

first one thousand yards rushing game in nfl history

you sure those were beard hairs?

aw crap ive been assuming wed pick ahead of them but forgot about sos but thats right dang

cities like chicago also get ridiculous amounts of money from their huge corporate base for their luxury boxes that are literally a hundred plus times what the bills can get here face it, the bills need the stadium full, which chicago could play in front of empty seats as long as their boxes were full as long as thats the case, which is likely forever, non-sellouts will be blacked out in our large stadium

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i predict i dont care

outside of about three teams each at the top and bottom, the other twenty-six teams are all in the same boat from one season to the next you can get anywhere from five to eleven wins, easy in one season the bills went from one of those three teams at the bottom with no chance, to a surging middle of the pack team that if it hadnt suffered devestating injuries to its very best players would have at least been playing games with playoff implications these last few weeks regardless of the disheartening collapse, this team still made major strides. another off season of drafting and free agent additions should put them squarely in the upper middle of teams fighting for a playoff spot, and an outside chance at a division title one good effect of the injuries is that all the very young players are getting max playing time, and that will pay dividends next season as some of them become key reserves or even starters so really, wins and losses for this team dont matter at all right now. there is no truth to momentum carrying over one season to the next. there IS truth to learning how to win, but you can get those lessons just as well in defeat as in victories, perhaps even moreso i will root for them to win when my butt is in the chair on sundays, but when the game is over and they have lost, its probably even better

with all the evidence piling up how bad contact to the head is for the brain its astonishing that anybody would call the nfl 'soft' nostalgia can be a wonderful thing, but when it makes you ignore vital scientific evidence then it becomes a dysfunctional obsession. just because grandpa smoked a pack a day and lived for eighty years doesnt mean its fine for you to do it the nfl is cracking down on head impacts, as it morally should. the nhl is behind the curve but even in their typical kicking and screaming and maddeningly inconsistent way they are as well given all we know theres no way we shouldnt be dramatically changing that portion of the game. they are both very violent contests and will stay that way even when we remain fully committed to not turning any more of our sports heros into ticking brain time bombs

ive been saying all along fitz isnt the problem after today im starting to wonder maybe he is just brutally bad. at this stage in his maturation he shouldnt be that bad no matter what the team around you looks like. the receivers did their usual dropping of too many catchable balls, but on too many throws fitz was just awful i cant believe im saying this but if he doesnt turn it around in a serious way the last three games i think they have to consider taking the out clause they built into that contract and cut him prior to next season. theres no way you should pay him even middle of the road starting qb money if he cant play much much better than hes shown since signing his extension. i dont care if you have ugandan midgets and herbert the pedophile with a walker on family guy playing wr, you have to play better than fitz has recently. three out of the last five games have been terrible, with today being one of the worst games ive ever seen any qb play. just thoroughly unacceptable

whatever happened to fat grumpy old white guys for defensive coordinator?

wow. i figured fans flipping the fk out would have waited until at least training camp the only effect the bills losing out from here will have is accelerating george edwards firing. hes the only coach/front office guy who is clearly over his head and has shown almost nothing positive regarding what he has control over. i cant believe he hasnt been fired already, hopefully he wont make the end of the season chan and buddy are completely safe. the progress the team made from the middle of last season up until this collapse was enormous. granted, the collapse is a huge blot on that record, but still overall there has been very very visible progress. we all knew depth was a serious problem on this team and with yet another season of devastating injuries that depth was exposed. fortunately the collapse started prior to the worst of the injury situation so they cant totally use it as an excuse and will have to learn from it, but injuries were definitely a huge factor to what is sure to be an extended collapse through the end of this season i doubt they lose all remaining four games, after all they have been right in the last two, and that after an epic three straight slaughters by mediocre teams, so they obviously have some character and responded reasonably well to the devastation. wins at this point are meaningless, but playing well in losses with such a young and talent challenged squad is a real good sign. i will root for them during the games but when all is said and done they would be better off losing all four, but more likely they will end with six or seven wins even if they lose them all canning gailey or nix would be epic stupid at this point. even with such a massively disappointing finish, this season has brough some enormous positives - fitz has definitely ratcheted up his game. he will never be elite, and isnt paid like it, so just get over that. but hes done what i thought he couldnt do and raised his compl% into the mid 60s, and that was with receivers who drop an inordinate amount of balls they shouldnt. fitz is a middle of the road starter who at least twenty teams wish they had as their quarterback. he is not the problem here and should continue to make incremental improvements and hold down the fort quite nicely the next few years while they search for their next attempt at drafting a young franchise hopeful - offensive line is much much stronger headed into next season. wood/levitre are approaching probowl level. hairston has been impressive when healthy and could be the answer at lt. pears has exceeded expectations and is nothing less than a solid starter. bell will compete for both tackle jobs and provide excellent depth if nothing else. they really dont need to spend high picks on the line if they dont want to. thats an awesome improvement over where they started the year - spiller is legit. he will be a good starting rb. the only bad thing about that is it likely spells the end of freddie in bflo. he will demand a big raise, which no nfl will give him at his age, he will demand a trade, which nobody will give the bills anything for a back his age, and he will be released. if hes smart he will accept the moderate raise the bills offer him, but thats just not the way it plays out when a 30+ back hits his prime late. you can see the end coming a mile away unfortunately. but spiller is ready and will be a good one next season - stevie established himself as a middling wr1. thats good cuz he showed he can do it without evans. its bad because he also showed hes not the dominating wr1 that every teams wants. fortunately that gives the bills some leverage, no team is going to give stevie the huge contract he wants. and the bills can just wait on him accepting their offer or just franchise him, which stevie would hate cuz it gives him no security long term. ultimately i think stevie realizes he has a good thing here and will take a reasonable deal for his skills. the next big problem is finding a real wr2 cuz donald jones sure aint it. maybe we will get lucky and brad smith will just assume that role. hes looked real good the last couple games, with some specialized training and teaching he might just be a very good answer there - chandler is a for real option at TE. once he learns you cant let a pack of guys hold you up and strip the ball he will be even more valuable. i dont have to tell you how huge that is for the perennial team with no te we have had here for over a decade - defensively the only obvious success is dareus who will be a stud for a long time. but the benefit of having all those rookies playing extended time down the stretch will manifest itself next season. williams, rogers, searcy, sheppard, moats, batten, heard - some of those guys are going to emerge as real ballers. we wouldnt have found that out as clearly if they werent thrust into the main rotation but they were and some of them are going to remain starters when the dust settles next september - overall maturity wise, this season cant help but make them grow up. now whenever stevie is tempted to talk about the superbowl like theyve done anything to deserve talk like that (they hadnt) those ridiculous words will burn on his tongue even before they come out of his mouth and do harm to the team like they did. now he will stop acting like a clown rolling around in the endzone at a crucial time in a key game and instead focus on being the steady and mature leader he needs to be. its going to be really uncomfortable for the entire team walking around all summer with at least nine size twelve cleats shoved firmly up their asses, and thats a really good thing so really, with another round of solid drafting and some more good free agent acquisitions this team really should be a division contender next season. if they can manage to let the dolphins slip by them they will also have the advantage of a last place schedule. this collapse has been epically disappointing, but personally i think the future still looks tremendously brighter than it did before the season started. they are on the right track and if they come back next season as focused men (instead of the giddy boys they were this season), i honestly think they have a real good shot at the playoffs