Nostradamus
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TT and his teammates made more for Ralph than Ralph ever paid out.
This is still true today.
To the contrary, I would say that todays cast of characters are doing everything they can to KEEP Ralph from making $$. However, the loyalty of Bills fans is admirable, though unrequited and misguided. Hence, Ralph gets his dollars. And we get chickensh*t football rammed down our throats.
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Hardy blows, I hated the pick when it was made and even more now...then again I hated the Whitner, McCargo, Maybin and Byrd picks as well
Ngata, Mangold and Oher would look pretty good on this team wouldnt they? easy to say now but a lot of us mentioned these names before the picks were made as well
You're right though. It makes you wonder if those picks were some kind of deliberate sabotage to kill ticket sales and help justify the eventual relocation of the franchise. All those picks were completely against the grain and have worked out dismally. There is absolutely no logical explanation for why fans like us have a better idea how to run this franchise than our management.
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From Sullivan's column this morning...
MIAMI — Trent Edwards seemed surprised, almost flustered, when the media asked him questions about other NFL quarterbacks Wednesday. Hard as it is to imagine, he hadn't even seen a replay of Brett Favre's amazing last-second throw to Greg Lewis to beat the Niners.
"You guys are asking me these football-related questions," Edwards said. "I didn't see that game, either. I didn't even see highlights. I didn't watch any of it. I'm sorry."
Now I'm by no means a Sullivan fan but, if not football, WTF are they supposed to be asking Edwards about???? Ask him how talks are going to have Dakota Fanning cast in the Twilight sequel - New Moon - and I'll bet Captain Checkdown has all the poop...
Is Dakota Fanning cast in 'Twilight' sequel 'New Moon'?
This crap has gone on long enough - especially after Tim Graham's insightful analysis of Trentative's long game, or lack thereof. I'm ready for some Fitzpatrick.
I can't believe he is not sitting on his couch eating cheesy poofs and watching endless reruns of Sportscenter. Where do the Bills find these guys??? Edwards clearly has no commitment to his craft.
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I guess it just has to be the coach for me. I can't get past Jauron which leads me to believe that they really can't go anywhere until he is gone. I mean..they are only 1-2 and playing Miami!! I am more excited for the Sabres tomorrow night and they play 82 Games!! Maybe it goes back to how they lost to the Pats....All I know is something is not right.
You're right. I have never felt this pessimistic about Bills football, despite the fact that there probably is at least more young talent on this team now than any time over the past 10 years. 10 years of bad football is just too much, and I think fans are just worn down from having their hopes dashed year after year. While I will continue to support the team, I'm not going to pretend that this chicken-sh*t we're eating is in fact chicken parmesan.
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There is probably a good reason they aren't signed. Face it, we knew we were in trouble at the tackle position ...big trouble...at draft time. There were five good tackles and we didn't go after the two that were available. The obvious choice, Michael Oher is doing a great job at right tackle for the Ravens and is being touted to move to left tackle. We went for a defensive end when we had good defensive ends.
They felt Maybin could be someone special at end, and took a calculated gamble that they would land the relentless pass rushing end that is so rare in the NFL these days. I have no problems with that. The pick that makes me sick to my stomach is Byrd. With many starting quality linemen still on the board, they reached for a slow safety whose ball hawking skills mean little if he can't keep up, literally, with the rest of the NFL. That was a luxury reach pick that will plague the Bills as soon as this Sunday.
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George is a converted WR, who filled in decently at safety. He does a fine job, when called upon, but Byrd, Whitner, Scott are lifelong DBs who excel at their positions. Scott plays SS, and George really isn't suited for that. So for Wilson to see much time at FS, that would mean that Whitner or Byrd are on the sidelines, for the most part.
George is a good guy to have on the team, IMO, so I'm not putting him down. He has good speed and ball instincts. He is a fine backup and a terrific ST guy.
Forgetting about Whitner's pick six last week and Scott's int, when exactly have either of these 3 excelled?? While I agree that they may all be slightly better than Wilson, you are making them sound like the second coming of Ronnie Lott. To this point in his career, Whitner and Scott have been adequate safeties, and there is not nearly enough information to judge Byrd one way or the other.
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Sadly I bet there are several reports like this on a lot of football players....it does not make it right
While Stevens is is definately the disease.....he isn't what is creating the problem.....schools, coaches, teachers, prosecuters, etc who give wait to someone because he is a "rising football star" is a load of crap....perhaps had he been punished along the way maybe he doesn't continue to do ths @hit?
A lesson for those college girls out there and I have conversations with my daughter who isn't even old enough to drink yet.....NEVER drink out of open containers that you did not poor yourself at parties.....NEVER. And there is no thing as a male college friend....college guys dont usually dont like to be in the "friend zone"
I don't know... it worked out pretty well in "The Hangover."
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Sadly I bet there are several reports like this on a lot of football players....it does not make it right
While Stevens is is definately the disease.....he isn't what is creating the problem.....schools, coaches, teachers, prosecuters, etc who give wait to someone because he is a "rising football star" is a load of crap....perhaps had he been punished along the way maybe he doesn't continue to do ths @hit?
A lesson for those college girls out there and I have conversations with my daughter who isn't even old enough to drink yet.....NEVER drink out of open containers that you did not poor yourself at parties.....NEVER. And there is no thing as a male college friend....college guys dont usually dont like to be in the "friend zone"
I don't know... it worked out pretty well in "The Hangover."
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Losing on a fluke pass at the end of the game, or fumbling it away like we did?
Bills, because they played so well preceding their meltdown, and the game was on such a large stage that the loss was that much more demoralizing.
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Perhaps the Erie County DA should investigate all the players using cell phones when they pull out of OBD on to public highways!
Those are Vehicle and Traffic Law violations which are handled by the town prosecutors... who are not affiliated with the Erie County District Attorney's office.
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Ah... Yes you can if you can. Under the U.S. constitution you have an absolute right to defend your property. Case and point in DC a few years back there was a Reporter columnist who shot an guy on his porch. He was trying to break in and was shot and killed. The court ruled he had the right to protect his property and shoot the man. The gun was his son's who was on leave from the Navy and legal. I forget all the details
I don't know what Constitution you're reading. The fact of the matter is you can only defend property with reasonable non-deadly force in New York State. However, you do have an absolute right to defend yourself and your family within your house, without having a duty to determine whether an intruder is after your property or the people inside your house. So, in your above example, the court may have ruled he was entitled to shoot the intruder, but only because of the possibility of danger to the occupants inside the house.
Clearly, that rationale doesn't apply to a bunch of knuckleheads vandalising a lawn outside the house. So, Mclovin could have come out and used reasonable force against said knuckleheads; ie-doing to them what Brandon Meriweather did to him last night. However, rest assured that had he shot said knuckleheads, he'd be looking at manslaughter charges.
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I bet my house April told him to bring it out and get the clock moving under 2:00 no matter what. He did exactly what he was correctly told do to.
Of course I doubt he was told to try and run somebody
over.Bringing it out with :50 left probably wasn't the brightest idea though.
Bringing it out was fine... running head first with no notion of ball protection with that time left was disastrous, and shows what kind of player he is. When you draft brainless monkeys, thats what happens
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Detest him. Cost us the game. What a jagoff.
He should die... end of story
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2009 Bills: Doing something no one thought possible...
Making people feel bad for Terrell Owens
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Maybe Money Mabin is hurt or got smoked up and can`t pass his physical? I`m sure the Bills are offering what he should get.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I could practically hear the conversation:
Maybin: Gee, since I'm so hurt and practically useless, maybe I should sign this contract in front of me for 27 million before they find out I'm useless and I don't get any $$$$ at all.
Agent: Nooo Aaron, since you are hurt and useless, this may be your only contract, so we are just going to sit back and wait for them to pony up 28 or 29 million! After all, this may have to last you the rest of your life.
Maybin Ohhh, now I get it. Could you pass the bong please?
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Great drive.
This O-line unit did an excellent job providing Fitzy with protection.
For all the talk about Fitzy having a noodle arm, he put some real zip in throwing those slant routes and hitting receivers in stride.
Tasker made a good point about how the no-huddle could benefit the Bills in the red zone due to defensive fatigue at the goal line.
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Roscoe better be careful with these fumbles his roster spot is not as much a lock as it has been in years past.
Yeah, especially with the way Bruce Hall and Rhodes have shined returning punts in the preseason as well.
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I dont think "Ill Will" was the point to the post. Its more of the Bills did the right thing of letting JP go. I do wish him the best of luck as he is a class act. The NFL game was a little too fast for his mind to process. Maybe in a year or 2 he will be back. Until then best of luck to him. I do agree the one comment was uncalled for.
Anyone who refers to Loserman as a class act has never seen him at the Snooty Fox on a gameday weekend doing his best "Bruno" impression.
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Buffalo has over 13 mil in available cap and decided to stay with Ellison so perhaps he is not as bad as many of you might think.
Trent is not a weak link, he is a strength in my opinion.
Coaching is questionable at best.
The weak link is probably depth at Defensive end, Linebacker and Left Offensive Tackle
Let me take that back, not sure we even have a starter at LT but that brings me back to the 13 mil in cap space.....perhaps nothing is as bad as most fans believe......
Or perhaps the organization is not as competent as you might believe.
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it isn't like walker hasn't played LT for us before and hasn't butler played RT his entire college career?
These aren't exactlty positiotns they never played before.
Roscoe Parrish was also an all state quarteback in the state of Florida when he played high school football. But I don't think this team would improve if we traded Trent Edwards and inserted Roscoe into the starting line up.
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Well played.
We need more of your kind here. There are way to many Buffalo Bill jock sniffers here who get angry at actual unbiased and unfiltered evaluations of certain players. Donte "The Bust" Whitner is one of these players. Maybe it's because they don't want to admit that they were initially right when Whitner was picked and all Bills fans collectively said "WTF?!", but then soon bought into the Whitner myth while tearing down the NFL pundits calling him a major reach.
Dude was indeed a major reach, he sucks on the football field, and he's been tasered for being a belligerent drunken mess out in public. Sorry, but I don't ever remember a "star" NFL player being tasered before.
I think some of these Donte jock sniffers are his facebook buddies or something.
Whitner reminds me of the old fable about the emperor who had no clothes. An entire community of Bills fans says this guy is good, that he could be elite, etc. And everyone conveniently overlooks the fact that his only highlight reel plays consist of him being draped over the back of some 260 lb 4.9 forty running caucasian tight end in the end zone.
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Spencer in Ellicottville, N.Y., can't "understand why every sports writer in the nation is on the Bills' case for shipping off Jason Peters." Spencer reasons that the Bills will be better off without Peters because they went 2-0 without him last year and 5-9 with him and he was "getting burned by rookie defensive ends almost every week."
Tim Graham's Response:
You can be upset with Peters' contract demands and the way he forced his way off the team, but I will never understand why fans channel their anger into rationalizing that he's no good. That's the definition of sour grapes (one of the most misused phrases, by the way).
Peters was Buffalo's best offensive lineman last year. He led the Bills in point-of-attack blocking, according to analyst KC Joyner. Peters went to his second straight Pro Bowl because opposing coaches and players consider him one of the league's best.
Yes, Peters gave up too many sacks last year and took a big step back from his sublime season in 2007. But he was better than most. You're flat-out lying when you state he was abused by rookie defensive ends. Peters lines up against elite pass-rushers every game. That's what left tackles do.
As for your suggestion the Bills were better without Peters on the field, the records you gave are not only misleading, but also wrong.
The Bills went 2-1 in games Peters didn't play. Their victories came over the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos, teams that went a combined 12-20. They also lost to the Patriots in the season finale minus Peters.
My Take
I know we talked about this before and my thread will probably get merged, but I totally got to disagree with Tim. I think you will also agree that the Bills should have been 3-0 with Peters not in the lineup (should have beat N.E. just once again got out coached by Bellicheat)
First, I think that the POINT OF ATTACK statistic by KC joyner to be a mis-leading STAT. In fact I hate the P-O-A statistic, I believe it an irrelevant and somewhat doctored stat, you may disagree and that s fine.
2nd, I am POSITIVE that Jason Peters was NOT our best o-lineman last year. (just look how the line did when he did not play) I would say that award would have went to Brad Butler, with Langston Walker finishing a close 2nd. I mean, remember how Peters got abused by Joey Porter? Two Years ago Peters was the man, but not this past year.
And then there is always that SACK stat. Like it or not, Peters yielded 11.5 sacks last year. That was the most of any Tackle in the league, weather you believe in that stat or not. There is no doubt Jason Peters should NOT HAVE MADE THE PRO BOWL?
Thats my take guys, let me know if you agree or think that I am way off?
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I can remember, without doing any research, at least two rookies who beat Peters clean for sacks last year. Groves from Jacksonville and Anderson from Miami beat him clean. So, in this instance for Graham to assert that the original poster is 'lying' is certainly irresponsible journalism on his part. Peters was being beaten regularly for sacks last year; it just so happened that occasionally, he was lined up against rookies when it happened.
That being said, I do agree that Peters is extremely talented and, when he wasn't getting abused last year for sacks, he was playing pretty well. Further, one of the reasons he gave up so many sacks was that the Bills offensive scheme was designed to not give him any help, and he probably was matched up single-teamed against defensive ends more than any other left tackle.
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3 weeks of OTA's and still no playoffs?? DOOOOOMED!
PTR
I think the problem is when there is a 10 year
track record of negativity and failure, it is easy to sense doom, whether or not it is really there.
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You need to take the class, as well. He only signed a one year deal. The rest of your post is speculative, and does not follow any definitive logic. It is as if you are trying to read his mind. I'd avoid that.
The OP said this statement "sealed the deal", it doesn't. It really is a nothing statement, as he only signed a one year deal, and likely has NO idea what will happen next year.
In fact, I teach a class on logic for the LSAT. And the flaw that you now exhibited is the hypocrisy in saying you would avoid trying to read his mind by interpreting his statement... and then doing the exact same thing yourself. Maybe, he meant nothing as you insist by reemphasizing that he only has a one year contract... or maybe he is stressing that point to demonstrate how unlikely it is that he would be here for more than 1 yr. I think, he, like most people, would naturally be upset about being denied a rental property that they want and applied for. His twitter statements are reflective of that displeasure, and that the fact that he is being denied is reflective of Buffalo's small town mentality and how far he now is from the bright lights. But I agree that it is an inexact science to gauge people's feelings based on little snippets of conversation.
The difference is while I concede that I'm not sure what the statement is indicative of, you are quite certain that it is a Nothing statement because your logical skills must be so vastly superior to other people's.
Bills move to LA??
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Let me preface this by saying that, admittedly, this information has roughly 4 layers of hearsay to it.
Let me also preface this by saying that I am repeating what I heard verbatim, and, based on my knowledge of at least some of the people involved in this communication, I think this narrative has sufficient reliability to be posted on a message board, if not the New York Times.
Anyway, I was in court yesterday, where I work, when the conversation turned to Eric Moulds and his pending legal matter. The conversation then segued into the current state of the Bills. A prominent and seemingly very straightforward DWI defense attorney that I know said he had had a conversation with one of the Brinkworths, who I believe are prominent developers in the community. One of the Brinkworths told him (the attorney) that he had spoke with Golisano about the possibility of purchasing the Bills.
Golisano said that he HAS approached Wilson about putting a group together, but Wilson completely froze him out. Wilson supposedly said that he was already negotiating with a group called "Industry of California" about the prospective sale, (and presumable relocation) of the franchise.
I understand that this post may be met with skepticism. However, it's my opinion that the circumstances of this information ARE reliable, in that every link of the communication is with people who really would have access to this information. In other words, there is no "my cousin has a friend who is a bartender that poured Jim Kelly a drink...)... that kind of thing.
I post this knowing that I may open myself up to flaming, but with two objectives. One, I know that as a diehard, I would want one of you to post this info if it was at your disposal, and then it would be up to each individual poster to decide whether or not the post was credible. More importantly, I'm hoping that the Tim Graham's of this board would further investigate to see the validity of this info.