colin

i have said nothing of the sort. the fact of the matter is you need 5 o linemen to play well together, and a super star at one position doesn't help much if you have a good at another. furthermore, what we fans thought was a goof in gandy is playing pretty well overall for the cards. o linemen almost totally across the board are simply not the athletes that d linemen are. so to make it clear for you -- we need a good line as a unit on O, the particular stand out talents of one or two guys isn't that important, while we objectively do need some superstars in the secondary, dline, and at skill positions.

the problem is wanna be know it all football fans are reactionary. they (on this board especially) react to the o line being under heralded in general to assuming that all that matters is line men, and that secondary players (like our pal bill in nyc) are useless, should not be drafted, and are wimps. the bottom line is what you need out of your o line is effective blocking as a unit. it does not matter who is a stud and who is an overachiever, all that matters is how they play for you in your O. the giants don't have much talent and have a good line, and the eagles have a ton of talent and have a good line. there are many ways of doing it and your scheme will often dictate the kind of guy you need. now LTs are hard to find, and their scarcity has caused them to be very expensive, but the fact that gandy is good enough for a team that at worst will be 2nd in their conference should tell us that our idea of what is a good lineman isn't all that valuable. what is always important is talent on D, and playmakers on O. all the teams left have good if not very good Ds, and good if not very good QB play, with 3 of the qb's left being pro bowl franchise guys. they all also have highly paid skill players on the O side of the ball. and what should really smack people in the face IS THE SECONDARY. philly has a ton of talent on the secondary and went out and SPENT HUGE MONEY on another corner. the raves have a stacked secondary, pitts has a very good secondary, and zona has a high paid stud safety and 2 highly drafted corners. all the mouth breathing and hand waving about "DRAFT TEHZ LINZ" is just so dumb. every position counts, but what you see more often is ok offensive linemen over achieving and studs in the secondary and at skill positions.

jeez guys, you don't stay away from a great pass rusher because they are small. derrick thomas was undersized. i dunno about his other foibles, or how he projects, but if he is a bit too small and great on the edge, you sign him.

nope, i get 12 to 1 if the iggles win it all

i hope and expect the iggles will rape the cards. they are tortured fans and i will make money

i get 12 times my money if philly wins the bowl. go iggles!!

the cardinals remind me of the giants last year -- very aggressive and can put a ton of pressure on people.

hardy did show an ability to be a target in the endzone, he just needs steady improvement. if he gets involved for 30 or 40 catches that could be 7 or 8 tds.

i'm hoping for bmore @ sd and philly @ zona for the conf finals!!

balti is super lucky those ducks into doubles weren't picked, and that they got some flukey fumbles. they gave up like 250 in the first half alone. that's not good.

if we get a passrusher and some kind of playmaker on O in FA then i'm totally fine with a great safety to make our secondary super charged.

whatevah you nay sayers. the bills were running better, they made bigger holes and our backs got hit less in the back field. we put up 161 on NE in a game where in many instances passing was not an option against 9 in the box with our best lineman and running back out. that's a very strong performance and confirms that we were not running better just due to opponents not having as good run D, but because we were just running better. we have lots of horrible things wrong with our o, but at least we have some run blocking and tough backs to work with.

not pleased at the moment, but i'm going to look on the bright side. 1 we can run the ball. we can run it on NE with 9 in the box and our best lineman and running back out. 2 we are fast on d. add in a pass rusher and we might be special 3 young qb and one very good playmaker on o, at times very good pass blocking 4 the best special teams. lets hope we get it done

+1 that's the key right there.

vermiel and dungy have reps as real players coaches, but they are brutal in practice wrt how much the push their guys. they also are not affraid to replace guys at any time.

while our interior line could be better, since we can run the ball well on anyone i think the issue is more about our big play and scoring ability. we need a playmaker on O. i agree about our OC, it really is just terrible.

stop that!

sadly it looks like this is the truth here. remember moulds would rescue rj, van pelt, and flutie? he would get a ton of yards and break games open no matter how bad we were.

the use of your and "alot" in this thread makes my eyes bleed.

i think the biggest roster issues for our team are 1. play maker on O. we need someone besides evans. i like winslow jr, but we need a good big body stud play maker. 2. pass rush. we need at least one more player (and aaron to come back healthy, if he can) in there who can get after the passer. peppers would look good in blue, lets throw the bank at him. 3. line backers. i really think our linebackers are about the weakest unit on the team. ellison should have never seen the pitch with crow playing (god that sucked), mitchel is ok, and poz isn't a tenth of the player his ball washers make him out to be. i think #3 relates to my next point strongly: we have done damage to our team drafting players for special teams. parrish, mclovin, mcgee (although the last 2 have other abilities and i think mclovin might be very good soon) are all on our team in large part due to special teams play. our safties, linemen, and other LBs are all good or very good special teams guys as well, but the cost is our depth is crap and we are too small up front. the bottom line size of our front seven is lacking, and i think that's in part because we have so many of them in special teams.

given that we won't be likely to seek out top guys, i'd be very happy with haslett.

these guys are a sick joke. jp is just terrible.

one thing i'm not a fan of --- we seem to always give up on the run at some point and go to all passes late. sooner than we should, and in some cases when we have plenty of time.

A FLAG ON NE?!?!?!?! IMPOSSIBLE!

i have to agree with the nay sayers, we need better coaching. the problem is who are we gonna sign? who is out there that will come to the bills that ralph will pay? as bad as he's been, we could do worse than dick.