ConradDobler
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Way to call the defense, GREGGO!
I wonder if he came into Washington beating his chest the way he did here? "I don't care what happened last year, my Tenessee defense was #1 in the league."
Man, that guy was such a tool.
Glad he got Gray too. The scum also rises.
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And now the hex of the x-Bill syndrome?? I hope so b/c that means we are turning around with Marv!
Remember during the 90's glory days when Bill's FA that signed elsewhere were snakebitten almost as bad as Glen Davis (1st basemen traded for by the Orioles... I'll get back to his story later...)??
Nate Odomes in Seattle
House Ballard
You guys remember any others??
Don Smith went to Miami and promptly injured his back.
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Peter's took most of the media blame for it but watching the Holcomb sack, it’s hard for me to pin the fault on Peters. It’s a zone blitz that’s coming at a balanced 4 WR set, leaving us 6 blockers. Our FB is on the right side of the play but when a Panther LB and DB break inside to overload our line Shelton jumps the inside while Peters does what he’s surely supposed to do in getting a shoulder in the DE and passing him up- over the top- where the FB should be to take the second shot at him. Villarial gets in front of the blitzing LB while Shelton chooses a guy 45 pounds lighter and stops the DB. The reality is that if Shelton does what the play is almost surely designed to do by getting in front of Peppers who’s already been chipped effectively, Peter's ends up properly keeping the second blitzer out of the backfield and Holcomb is given the time necessary to exploit the passing zone behind the Carolina DE who’s dropped on the right of their line. It looks like we have exactly the right set and spacing to protect against this blitz, yet Shelton's error blows the whole thing up and allows the media to leave the impression Peters did something wrong.
I've only got VHS EP speed here to watch this, but isn't there an open receiver just a bit downfield from where Peppers vacated, that could have both taken an easy thrown pass over (Peppers) head, and negated the pass rush to boot if KH had only looked to his right?
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Yeah, Wyche is a question mark. He was pimped last year as the answer to JPs youth/inexperience and basically slinked (slunked, slank ?) off into the night, with very little culpability thrown his way, although I bet there was some mention here on TSW.
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The same Dr. Argovitz who later owned the Houston Gamblers and signed Jim Kelly out from under the Bills? You can look at it two different ways: either the Bills' tight pursestrings made the USFL an attractive alternative, or the USFL was willing to overbid for players in order to make inroads vs. the NFL in general.
I remember reading somewhere that Kelly and his agent (not Jerry Argovitz) were at OBD ready to sign his original contract, when the secretary buzzed in with a phone call for Jimbo, with a higher offer from the Gamblers. Probably an urban legend.
If only we could blame them for Hank Bullough.
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It also didn't help that Cribbs' agent, Jerry Argovitz, was a silent partner of a USFL team. I believe that he was indicted for this. Argovitz also represented Billy Sims, IIRC, and used the same tactics (agree to a contract and then ask for more) to get him into the USFL.
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And don't forget "The ball went right through Eddie Robinson's hands, he had a sure interception" plus all the sound bites of Kevin Gilbride.
I hated it when we ended up with those three losers.
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Pyrite Gal used to be Fake Fat Sunny. The poster (IMO a guy) derives his user name from the opposite of the nickname of someone in the Bills front office. Back in the TD era, TD somehow was connected conceptually to either Eminem or his persona "The Real Slim Shady" - hence its opposite "Fake Fat Sunny". With TD gone, that moniker would no longer suffice, so from one of Marv and Ralphs first press conferences, where Ralph referred to the two of them as "The Golden Boys" (a take off on TVs The Golden Girls senior citizens) "Pyrite (Fools Gold) Gal" was born - just another opposite.
And it's Occams Razor - not Shaver
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Could someone please tell me what OTA stands for? I'm usually pretty good at this alphabet soup stuff, but this one has me stumped.
Thanks!
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buftex - "Much as I loathe the guy, "By a Nose" is definitely the most interesting Bills book I have ever read. It is the first/only real "insiders" look at the Bills that I know of. I know, Kelly had a book, and Marv had a book, but Kelly's is pretty much just a recap of his career, little insight into the "behind the scenes" stuff. Marvs' book is a good read too, but not real juicy....I read it before Marv was named GM. I feel like, listening to his press conferences, he has been repeating it over and over...anyway, hate the man (Smerlas- I do!) but read "By A Nose" if you can find it."
Another good one is "They Call Me Dirty" by my namesake and Vic Carucci. Although Dobler also played for St. Louis (Cards) and N.O., it covers his years here during the Knox era pretty well.
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I'm not sure what this means, but after seeing this thread yesterday, I found a copy of "By A Nose" while cleaning out some old boxes in the back bedroom. Serendipity? Evil Portent?
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My problem (won't call it "hate" - that's reserved for Miami/NE) with Flutie was his effect on our OL. Offensive lines thrive on discipline. With him running around back there, play call be damned, they really couldn't block as a unit, because Flutie just improvised. I think some of the problems RJ had were due to this lack of OL cohesiveness caused by playing in front of Flutie. Besides, he was too short. In order to throw 20 - 30+ yards, he had to get the ball way, WAY up in the air, which let the DBs close on the target before the ball arrived.
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He had 3 more years after Buffalo:
1986 SF .......... 14 152 590 3.9 5 35 346 9.9 0 5 30
1987 SF .......... 11 70 300 4.3 1 9 70 7.8 0 1 12
1988 IND/MIA.. 13 5 21 4.2 0 0 0 0.0 0 1 0
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Cribbs, like Thurman, also ran behind a pretty good OL made up of Devlin, Borchardt, Grant, Jones and somebody else (cough). He hit the hole quickly, but if he was even touched behind the LOS he often went down in a heap. Did have a pretty over-the-shoulder catch 'n run from Fergy in the flat, though. Still liked Robb Riddick better, even though he never came close to the production Cribbs had.
Cribbs:
Season Team Games Rush Yds Avg TD Rec Yds Avg TD Fumbles Points
1980 BUF 16 306 1,185 3.9 11 52 415 8.0 1 16 72
1981 BUF 15 257 1,097 4.3 3 40 603 15.1 7 12 60
1982 BUF 7 134 633 4.7 3 13 99 7.6 0 5 18
1983 BUF 16 263 1,131 4.3 3 57 524 9.2 7 6 60
1985 BUF 10 122 399 3.3 1 18 142 7.9 0 5 6
I believe that he spent '84 in the USFL under the influence of Jerry Argovitz, the Svengali dentist from Houston (his agent) who was later indicted for also being a part owner of a USFL team.
Not to muddy the waters too much here, but the above is another reason that Ralph had the cheap tag put on him. Cribbs would make contract demands, and the Bills would agree, then Argovitz/Cribbs would raise the ante. This went on until the Bills said Enough! and Cribbs went to the USFL, and Ralph got called cheap. It went this way with Kelly and Cousineau, too IIRC.
Edit: Cousineau went to the CFL.
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Canada does have the Trailer Park Boys.
"Sunnyvale Bills" has a nice ring to it. Ricky for GM!
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What are the girl's thoughts on all this? "Ooooh honey, you're more worried about college than about me?" If so, time to take a hike. Tell him not to let the little head do the thinking for the big head.
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Politicians, Accountants, and semantics. (Or Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.)
Littmann said the Bills may lose XX million dollars next year. What he didn't say was that they would be XX million dollars in the red. Anyone here from NYS knows the drill, "Politician Z lowered taxes by 10%" No he didn't! He took a 25% tax increase and changed it to a 15% increase (which is what they had in mind all along). For the Bills to go from a ~ $15m profit to a ~ $5 - 10m loss implies a swing of (minus) $20 to 25m. Not likely.
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I know in years past, he has worn a clear or lightly tinted one. Have the powers that be let him go with the dark one, or is it just a preseason thing?
Nice.
Predictions for next roster cuts
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Great. More rum and Coke on the screen.