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    Will Spiller fall below the Maybin line?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    It's too early to tell, Spiller has 74 rushes and 24 receptions for his career. 98 touches isn't enough to judge him. Until they give him the ball on a regular basis it's hard to tell how good he is. Perhaps they don't give him the ball because he isn't good, but I have no way of knowing that for sure. Besides Jamaal Charles and Darren McFadden, other successful backs like Robert Smith, Thomas Jones, Priest Holmes, and Garrison Hearst had slow starts to their careers due to lack of touches.

    Delivering on expectations

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I never felt our pass defense was as good as the ypg ranking. We do not have any elite members of the secondary and I would say only Byrd is above average,

    but hopefully the young guys step up.

    No diss toasted Georgie, I like him alot and he may be above average or great but need to see him start all year for starters

     

    I agree. The ypg were low because the other teams ran all day on the league's worst run defense. The opposition threw against the Bills only 473 times all season, the 2nd lowest number of attempts against in the league, and they were run on 571 times, the most of any team in the league by a pretty substantial amount.

     

    If you look at other pass defense statistics you can see that the Bills aren't that great. Opposing QB's had a collective passer rating of 92.6, 5th highest in the league. The defense allowed a TD on 5.9% of the passes thrown against them, 4th highest in the league, and they gave up 28 TD, 7th most in the league. They had only 11 INT, 4th fewest in the league, and they only intercepted 2.3% of the passes thrown against them, tied for 6th lowest in the league.

     

    It's all here: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2010/opp.htm

     

    The Bills' pass defense is ok, but not elite.

    Start having some faith

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Being an optimistic Bills fan right now is like having battered wife syndrome. "This time it will be different." "He can change." "Things are going to get better soon." "He still loves me." "It's my fault." "Just give it a little more time and everything will be ok." "You just don't understand."

     

    I love the Bills and always root hard for them to win, but I just can't muster optimism for them anymore.

    Bills, and the AFC East

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I think we're looking at 5 to 7 wins, due to in no small part my inherent pessimism. The Bills have been atrocious against the run for the past two years. They addressed this in the draft but we don't know for sure if Dareus can play at the pro level, and we've been burned in the draft a lot lately. So until I see that the Bills have at least an average run defense I can't see them winning more than 7 games.

    For those that are worried about the O-line

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Which is exactly what I've been saying. This is why it is important to draft CBs and not OL.

     

    Think of it this way:

     

    Drafting OL in a passing league would be like building an Igloo in Florida. An Igloo would melt under the heat of the Florida sun. An OL would melt due to the speed inherit in a passing game. A DB is more like a modular building. It can be built out of just about any material that fits its environment.

     

    I don't understand the igloo analogy. If it's a passing league, don't you need a solid OL to block for the QB so he can pass?

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