colin

i flew up to buffalo to see the faketriots visit. as bad as the rush was (very bad) the secondary was worse. guys letting moss go inside to cover no one outside, just dropping off of coverage with the ball in the air, and the best was wilson pulling a highschool flag football mistake move of stopping and just jumping straight up about 5 yards shy of where he could be. if personal mistakes were rare why were we so horrible in coverage?

you put your players in where they can make the greatest impact on the game. if leodis can have hester like moments, he can change the game on a return. he's a natural at it, so he should avoid getting hurt. deon was a natural at it too, never got hurt doing it really.

god this made me mad under butler. we let ted washington, thomas, reed, and bruce smith walk because of big contracts to holecec ostroski parker fina reimersma flutie rj and we let marcelles wiley go cuz we were in cap jail too. bruce smith, phat pat, washington, wiley would have made an INSANE front 4 throw cowart and any 2 draft picks behind them and you have a monster front 7. :<

i think the point that bill (who i like but bugs me with this!!! STOP IT BILL11!) is missing is that DBs are generally the best immediate impact rookie performers. you need 4 at all times and up to 6 on D at once -- so a new guy can contribute as opposed to a qb or rb or even DE who needs to displace a guy to play at all it is a speed and instincts position -- that's easy (by nfl standards) to judge in ncaa ball and project to nfl skills they play on an island much of the time -- makes it easy for the rook to jump in and play speed and confidence rule the day -- perfect for the young top rated kids also, they have the ability to make game changing plays instantly, and stop them. a tight game can be blown open on a big pass -- DBs are what stops that. also a db can pick off a pass and bring it back. your whole D on passing downs is dictated by your secondary. if you don't have corners and DBs you are limited in what you can do, showing and disguising coverages, and if you don't get pressure you get picked appart, but if you blitz you are exposing your backfield and at some point will get opened up for a big play. a great wr can destroy a dominant d, but outstanding db play can eliminate or limit that wr's ability to make an impact. philly, balitmore, and the giants played extremely aggresively in the secondary against moss and for the most part took what might be the best player in the game out of it. new englands 1st and 3rd bowl wins, along with pitts and indy all came down to huge interceptions at the right time for their teams. no guard and very very few tackles are worth what a true top cb is (we got a guard and a tackle for what nate clements got).

we've rebuilt our entire secondary with the exception of mcgee. that's 8-11 guys in total bill. the free agents we got were lower tier cheap ones. we let vincent, milloy, and clements go. we've spent picks or signed big FAs in every position with the exception of WR until round 2 this year.

if you were a dog i'd pet you biscuit!!!!! the 11th pick on a guard who what, might start at RG? maybe move someone to C? if we keep 9 men out of the box we can run block just fine -- we need talent on our d and that's what we went out and got. it's just laughable that every highly rated OL is just assumed by fans to be able to come in and be a probowler right away, while secondary players on D are all just chumps who are a waste because all that matter is the pass rush which of course means the front 4 should be able to get there before anyone has to even cover. DRUGS!!! THIS BOARD IS ON DRUGS!!

exactly. LB's had a gap picked out and just had to run downhill on most short running plays against us. a good medium pass WR would have torched those a couple times.

i think there will be lots of directional and placed kicks to prevent the TD, if mclovin in on the pitch then he might make a 35 yard line type start be more like a 48 yard line type start. and if our D is good we will be forcing a lot more punts -- roscoe will be able to share the load.

WE NEED A PASSRUSH, AARON AND KELSEY ARE CRAP, HOT POCKET!!!! i think having wilson, greer, dipizza and ellison behind them, and williams and tripplett between them (and no healthy back ups for much of the season) really helped our ends. bottom line is it all friggen counts and upgrading our depth and starter at every single level of the D is gonna help everyone. i expect 40+ sacks and plenty turnovers.

you see a C in the draft that would come in and play well enough to improve our run on 3rd and short to warrent a pick? think having zero passing threats in the flats due to smurf WRs might have gotten the box stacked? and with THE SAME LINEMEN AS LAST SEASON we had tthe 8th rated pass rush in the nfl in 06. this is with one extra great corner and 2 good LBs. now we have 2 new (as poz was hurt) lb's and we added a stud corner. it all counts bill, including the secondary. how can you say that we had good corners last season, we had street free agents back there. when a team with 3 pro bowlers on the OL and a pro bowl QB spreads you out with 4 or 5 wide, you need to cover. you need to make plays against the pass in the secondary. last year the oline was good, not great but good. last year our secondary was HORRIBLE. not bad but horrible. putting the 11th pick into a decent o lineman who can't even start for your team at his natural position is a horrible move compared to the top corner in the draft who projects to being a day one stud and starter. they are all football players bill, even if they aren't huge 300 pounders.

OF COURSE!! i mean our o line did let up the fewest sacks in frachise history -- so they are ok at the least. or corners were TERRIBLE last year. we schemed and did things up front to try to stop the passes (and did fairly well against the long deep bomb) but every 3rd and long it was just a matter of watching the cb cut the wrong way or just get jumped over for the ball. 2nd and 3rd wr's had career days against us all year.

i've got a feeling last year was an off year for many of our D players (line especially) and this year will be a lot different. kelsey might rack up 6 or 7 sacks and some big plays

WHAT ABOUT BACK UP OLINE?!?!?!?! ONLY IDIOTS WOULD PASS ON A GUARD PROJECT TO CONVERT TO A TACKLE!!!11 IDIOTS!!!

i hate teams and players contextually. i hate the ones who play us. i'll always hate the pats. i don't hate for example the titans for the music city, or the skins and boys for the superbowls. i hate front runners and other homos, but really i hate teams based on the here and now, not on a legacy.

ware would be a more natural 4-3 end over merriman. both are awesome players.

big thing for me is he can play runs to the weak side straight up. he can jam a lead blocker, he can just come at the runner even and manhandle him. our little munchkin wlb's had to run ahead of the backer and cut his legs to make the tackle, and could never take on a block with positive effect. they were just physically outmatched. kavika not being a liablity in coverage is big too. it means we can do the same type of stuff we like to without giving him massive help, all while having a much bigger and more physical front 7.

i really hope dick and pals show tape of wilfork elbowing jp, and of them throttling us at home before the first pats game. they de-manned us, and they should lose their luster in our player's eyes. i want to see brady, moss, and wilfork on carts.

no. lets send them all to africa where they will pull the mr mcgregg (simpson's ref) scene from last king of scottland. after that i will go on a million steroids campaign and chest kick them all to death.

rate = per capita

WHAT IS OTW!?!?!?1//1?!?!?

bmore = almost double the murder rate of buffalo!

bmore = 6 times the murder rate of nyc

um, yeah it is a bad place. one of the worst cities in america. one of the highest murder rates, poverty, shrinking population, property crime. bad.

oh, kewl. i thought it was octogenarian transexual wonderland -- but i log in there like 7 times a day and didn't see anything.

otw?