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Let's see... Last year 9-7 This year...better OL, RBs, TEs, WRs....theoretically better coaches/coaching, QBs....same Defense and ST. Sure, 10-6 is obviously our ceiling this year.

I think there might be a bigger link between not swimming and drowning.

Nothing new in that article.....and why would you expect anybody to be happy?

I concur. He sounded like a true Aussie.

No worries on that. I think however you are reading more into that string of events(RB starting nods and RB acquisitions) than what was actually there. As I see it, we had a 1st round RB who was starting....Fred was an UDFA. The 1st rounder faltered so Fred took the reigns. The new HC Gailey was not convinced that Fred could do what he wanted(and/or he fell in love with CJ) so he drafted another 1st round RB. Fred then showed that he actually could do the job, and held the 1st rounder out of the starting role for 2 more seasons....till he got injured. After that the team went with the multi-back philosophy sharing the starting job with Fred and CJ for several more seasons(which was shown to be very beneficial to both RBs). I see nothing that points to FJ being unjustly overlooked through his career....apart from maybe his very early years where he had much to prove. Side note: Time stamps aren't any good as people are in different time zones(Melbourne Australia here). Post number works best I find.

What I was saying was that, contrary to what you wrote, they certainly did give Fred the #1 nod.Fred surplanted Lynch as the starter during the 2009 season and carried on as the undisputed starter through the 2010 & 2011 seasons.

Wow.

It's good to see people who know their Bills history. (Try looking at 2009-10).

You really need to stop asking open questions and then refining them after you get an answer.

This pledge/poll should really have been done weeks before the starter was selected IMO.

Yes, it does. As much as I can determine, the gameday payments that a player loses due to suspension come off of the team cap. Josh Gordon as example only has a $564K cap number for the Browns in 2015.

The only way that this makes sense is if at the meeting where they(Rex,Whaley,coaches,Pegs) decide on the cuts, Fred was not one of the cuts that they decided upon....but then went and cut him anyway. That is going rogue. Alternatively, Whaley, with the big picture in mind, held firm in the meeting and despite perhaps strong debate from several others it was decided that Fred should be one of the cuts. That is not going rogue. Sometimes I think that members of the media don't actually use inflamatory and incorrect language on purpose....instead they are simply too ignorant and stupid to know the difference.

After looking a fair bit at the numbers, I tend to have 4 categories. #1 overall, #2-#36, #37-rest of draft, and undrafted(which are really impossible to factor).

Romo wasn't drafted so he doesn't get factored in. There have been more successful undrafted QBs(Warner, Romo) than late round drafted ones(Brady) in the last few decades.

Yeah. Who'd want one of those?

Purely based upon draft history, if TT becomes a franchise caliber QB, the Bills will be extraordinarily lucky. It virtually never happens that a low round drafted QB becomes good....even with years of learning as a backup. Luckily "virtually never" is not "never" and TT has shown(IMO) that he has a very good chance to buck those odds.

I thought I was pretty clear. Virtually nobody has said that they think EJ has higher than a 50% chance to become a franchise QB. Therefore, if all you have said was that you thought that EJ has less than a 50% chance.....why are you constantly in arguments with people who feel the need to defend EJ(against you). You have obviously said more than just that simple 50% statement.

If that were all you had said you wouldn't have gotten so many arguments as there would be less than a handful around here who ever believed that EJ had higher than a 50% chance to become a franchise QB.

How is it that you can see that other young QBs around the league might not be garbage because of your above reasons(short time, need to develop, no weapons, bad coaching), but up until very recently you have assessed EJ to be garbage and rejected those very same reasons?

I think that those that believe EJ is most likely going to fail(and is still not as good as Cassel) will find this logic difficult to comes to terms with.

I'm pretty sure the Pats will save around $4M from Brady being suspended so they could easily justify paying Cassel.

He never definitively stated he would keep 3....just that it was looking highly likely(at that point). I imagine that when Rex said that he was not wanting to cut EJ as he could see potential in him.....and after EJ showed himself to be actually better than Cassel, there is no reason to keep the more expensive vet.

But wouldn't it be more logical to simply keep the better FG kicker (Carpenter) and cut the KO specialist (Gay)?

But what about actual FGs? Do we go on 4th or punt every time?

That comment, "source informed of the team's thinking" was in regards to Rapoport. Either Rapoport also has a source, or his "source" is Glazer(and subsequently his source).