LancasterSteve
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So how is this place special to you?
Because of good friends like You and so many other really good, good people; some of whom I've met and many others like yourself that I hope to someday meet. Like You I also miss the "posters" of years past who for what-ever reason choose not to or cannot share their their thoughts with us anymore. I sometimes wonder how ______ is doing and have sent PM's with never recieving a reply. So sad in a way and leaves one with an empty feeling, a void if you will in the fabric of our lives.
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A 2 for oner (-: IM happy You are doing OK Glenn. Easy does it. I remember from mine...ancient history it seems; that I was not to bend or lift anything heavy for like two light years !! Little incission..hmmm mine went from ying to yang and used cat-gut to sew me back up. Hurt like hell for days and was a 10 day stay in the hospital. Like I said ancient history. You take care
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Every highschool teenaged boys dream and they say this BS
"We’re going to do whatever it takes to help the young man get through it.”
Ya friggen freaks tell the kid sex is bad and scar him for life
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Happy Birthday John. I appreciate your writing and opinion
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Pro Football Wekly in their draft guide said he has had 2 major injuries; broken bone at the head of his fibula in left leg and torn ACL in Corp's right leg. Needs to bulk up to survive a pounding and get physically stronger with his arm strength. Suited for a backup role in a dink & dunk West Coast offense. Average arm strength. Needs maximun protection in the pocket to be effective as escapability is just adequate.
Supposedly is a very good touch passer with a quick short-armed release who played in a pro style offense. Confident and was team captain.
Could be an eventual PS player but view this signing as merely a QB to take snaps in training camp. All teams bring in "camp fodder" to run the scout teams and once in a blue moon a diamond in the rough is discovered. We can only hope this is the case with Aaron Corp.
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Ive been flipping back and forth from NFL Network coverage and ESPN coverage of the NFL draft. Especially in todays coverage but good god ESPN's coverage is BEYOND HORRIBLE. They just bicker every 5 seconds and they stopped caring about the picks in the 3rd round. They don't even show the announcements like they do on the NFL Network. They should be ashamed of themselves.
ESPN is a joke, notice how they always go to break when the Bills are picking or have other BS about other teams when the Bills are about to pick. Same every year so I watch the NFL Network. DVR'd ESPN but axed the whole BS after I checked out what little Bills talk there was on the Gilmore pick.
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Russell Wilson: Wisconsin QB. Is only 5-11 so draft stock is hurt by that, but think he can play at NFL level, and will be a lower pick. Probably take him a few years, but think will be a good qb in the league after spending a few years developing, and if goes to right team becomes a legit starting caliber QB.
Hmmm....whats that QB's name in New Orleans ?? Drew Brees...thats it and think he's shorter than 5'11" You know I think he is pretty darn good. So maybe you have a diamond in the rough with Wilson.....Then a while back was this kid named Doug Flutie who I had the chance to talk with on more that a few ocassions. We were talking eye to eye and IM just a shade over 5'8". He was pretty darn good also. Then there was this QB that won a couple of championships for the Bills. He wasn't 6' even though the programs said so. He was at our house when he was thinking about getting into politics. Same height as my 5'10' father. His name was Jack Kemp. Today there is no getting around a players true measurables. In the 50's 60's into the seventies it was common practice to release as much dis-information as needed like hieght, weight and speed (can't remember the year the league switched from the 50 yard dash to the 40; could be 76-77. I do remember one of the college coaches asking me what my 50 time was in HS. What counts is guts, arm strength (think quick out not down field and football moxie...that is football brains. All the great QB's have these "football brians" with built in sack clocks as a bonus. You can throw out the window all the ideal this or that as long as the kid can win. Heart to get up after getting clobbered and brains so it doesn't happen often.
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Did Joel Bushbaum get fired for making bad draft picks...or did the GMs? The difference lies in the accountability and having to execute.
Well many teams valued his advice FWIW. When Joel Bushbaum passed away all the teams top brass attended. This was no off the wall draft guru. He knew his talent especially in later rounds and was very well respected in the NFL. I first heard of Bushbaum thru John Murphy back when he started out on WBEN raidio. Well John's and my path happened to cross a few times and one time I asked John about who is this Joel Bushbaum and John Murphy clued me in. At first there was newsletters and then ProFootballWeekly hired him and put out a draft guide later. This was all before the Internet as we know it today. Heck who had a computer in 85 when I got my first Ourlads Guide ? BTW their first guide was in 83 and would sure like to have that one ! And Kiper took the draft mainsteam in 84 on ESPN but before that you could call him at home. Draft info all seemed to blossom at once from multiple sources which was like bread from heaven for us draftniks !! It wasn't easy getting info on players and maybe thats why I appreciate all the info thats at anyones firgertips today. These are the people who got this whole draft ball rolling so maybe I've said a prayer for Joel Bushbaum from time to time.
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How many of last year's playoff teams, when they were drafting in the top ten over the last five or six years, have used a top ten pick on a LT? None. Andre Smith of the Bengals is the only player in last year's playoffs to have been a top ten pick on the offensive line, and he is a mediocre RT; he's certainly not the reason for Dalton's success.
The Lions drafted players like Suh, Stafford, and Calvin Johnson.
The Texans drafted on the defensive line- Okoye and Mario Williams; the time they drafted 11th overall, last year, they picked up the excellent J.J. Watt at defensive end.
The Saints drafted Reggie Bush- a bust, but a key part of their system for years- and Sedrick Ellis, one of their better defensive linemen.
The Broncos drafted Von Miller, a Pro Bowler and a key part of the defense that led them to a playoff spot last year.
If you want to stretch this to the immediate area out of the top 12, you get guys like Ryan Clady, a Pro Bowl LT drafted by the Broncos at 12. He, however, is the exception, not the rule. The idea that Kalil is a "safe" pick is absurd; there is no such thing as a safe pick, and LT has proven to have a high bust rate, if anything; see the history of top ten LTs over the last six years.
Good teams don't draft LTs in the top 10. They draft disruptive defensive players or playmakers/QBs on offense, and shore up their offensive line in the end of the first round when they make the playoffs (where a number of very good LTs have been drafted recently).
I hope the Bills stay away from Kalil, let alone Reiff.
All good points, thanks. I think all the angst over the LT position (me included) have their roots in the Bills loosing Will Wilfork to Indy years ago. Since then the Bills have been serviceable at best at the LT position.
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I don't know, I thought the same thing...several months ago Chris Brown was commenting on Jonathan Martin...forward a little... he chose Martin in a mock draft for the Bills on NFLN...
He played in a pro style offense...
He's a smart headsy player....
"After protecting Stanford QB Andrew Luck throughout his college career, LT Jonathan Martin is a possibility for the Bills at 10th overall. "Coming from Stanford, he's going to be a highly intelligent guy," assistant GM/director of player personnel Doug Whaley said of Martin. "He's a competitive guy. He's a guy that has a chance to play both left and right tackle, so the versatility makes him very intriguing."
I'm on my phone, but if you want to copy and paste the link...
Edit: http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/rapid-reports/post/18684839
I take what any of them say with a grain of salt as the smoke will ony get thicker te closer we get to draft day. The thing that bugs me about Martin is his feet. A LT has to have good feet and see Martin at RT and not LT. That what happened when Tom Donahoe drafted Mike Williams. Donahoe and a few others went to Texas to work out Williams and came away convinced that he could make the switch to the left side. Well as we all know in the end he couldn't even cut it at RT and it was because he just didn't have the feet. Buddy won't make the same mistake.
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Two weeks ago, the idea that either of these guys would be available at #7 was absolutely insane.
But only a couple days away, it's actually plausible.
- I've been inclined to think the Vikings are bluffing in hopes of a trade down. But their statement that "we play Aaron Rodgers, Matthews Stafford and Jay Cutler six times every season" is actually a legitimate reason to take Morris Claiborne instead.
- If Minnesota takes Claiborne and Cleveland takes Richardson, that leaves the Bucs with a dilemma. They very likely could take the BPA in Kalil even though he isn't their biggest need. Or they could trade the pick to someone that takes him. But it's not crazy to think they reach for a bigger need like Luke Kuechly. Or a trading partner could move in for Fletcher Cox/Ryan Tannehill.
Would it really be a huge stretch to see the draft go like this?
1 - Luck
2 - Griffin
3 - Claiborne
4 - Richardson
5 - Kuechly
6 - Cox
7 - Gilmore
8 - Tannehill
9 - Brockers
Hey your take on it falling this way is as valid as anyone elses. Those are all very good players except that QB's like Tannehill are always pushed higher that the tape warrents but thats the nature of the NFL Draft beast.
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The right thing to do would be Kalil. The Bills would take Blackmon. It's hard for me to believe otherwise.
One thing is certain, it would cause consternation and debate for a long time. I remember Buddy Nix telling a group of us at the draft lunchon last year after all the speeches and ra-ra stuff was over that this team needs playmakers and he basically stated much the same thing this year if I remember correctly. Then you add in his comments that more depth for tackle willl be added in the draft. Of course Nix could do a 90 in his thinking and grab Kalil.
Do I think any of this is a realistic senerio ? of course not but like I said before its Silly Season and only takes one GM to have brain fart to blow the whole thing up.
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If that is the choice, then Buddy can either run to the podium to pick Blackmon or fall in with the Browns (Adrian Peterson) and the Fins (Matt Ryan) who also passed on game changers to pick an LT in the top 10.
Is this a serious thread or a gag?
No gag intended but "serious" sounds like such a downer. This is after all what many including me refer to as "The Silly Season" GM's scouts, draft plundits say this or that and the whole world bounces and the Stadium Wall goes into meltdown.
Just a sidebar Buddy Nix is just as good at muddying the waters as the best of them. As he told me once "I like to stretch the truth at times" with his broad smile beaming.
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I saw this mock....and my first thought was...you know... "all the guy does is watch film. He could be right. And, I hope he is. Why wouldn't we want to be sitting there at 10 with that choice?".
Then, I thought, "all the guy does is watch film". He doesn't coach players, have to pay players, have to manage them, play with them, or fit them into a gameplan. (I'm not a big fan of trying to fit players into a scheme, rather than designing a scheme around players, but, you have to start somewhere.)
So, I dunno. If all you consider is film, not character, not team needs, etc., it's interesting...but I don't see how it's much use as a prediction tool. Not that prediction is more important than interesting for fans.
Yep interesting and Cosell's take is as good as anyones guess. As far as just watching tape bit; you know GM's used to ask this guys opinion and all he did was watch tape after tape from his NYC flat. IMO he was one of the best ever. His name was Joel Bushbaum.
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If this were to happen as Buddy Nix stated it would be a "no brainer"
http://nflfilms.nfl.com/2012/04/23/cosell-talks-mock-draft/
IMHO it would be Blackmon and I have been beating the drum for franchise LT for ages, much like my friend Bill in NYC
Who would You draft???
Oh and Greg Cosell works for NFL films and is well respected in the league
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Maybe you do. I take the time off now to go up to Buffalo for the draft party, so I'll be off from Thursday 'til the followin' Wednesday.
But, I do echo your sentiments. I miss the old format, too.
Yep I miss the old format also my friend. Really looking forward to seeing You again. The fieldhouse is OK I guess but much preferred Dave n Busters for the Draft Party. Heck even the Clubs at RWS were better IMHO but we gotta roll with what the Bills provide. Another thing the Bills stopped doing is having some scouts at the draft party to talk with. Going to ask Nix about that when I see him again
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I called DirecTV to make sure and the representative confirmed. There's two packages. $199.99 for all the games (including Game Mix) and $299.99 where all that they add is Red Zone and mobile and PC access (which I never use).
I watch every game at home if not at the stadium so I'm going with the $199.99 package.
If there was an emergency and I had to leave my house during the game I have dvr so I can just record and come back and watch it later.
Thanks made my other post before I saw yours
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Another nail in the coffin for coax cable delivery companies. I switched to DTV last year, and am happily rid of Time Warner and their crappy product.
Dat true !!! Switched to Direct TV 6 years ago and will never ever go back to cable...EVER !!! Cable here in Lancaster was always going out. Customer service was always a joke out of downtown Buffalo....dishonest and rude and for GOD's sake get some employees that can speak in intelligible English. Just the opposite with Direct TV, especially customer service which has always been top notch.
Good deal on the NFL package but have a question. When they mention mobile devices, is that just limited to phones or would that include laptops or ipads ? We will be in Puerto Rico for part of the season and local TV never broadcasts any of the weekly games; let alone the Bills so I have to come up with a way to get my Bills fix. Where we will be staying there is no Direct TV or ugh cable (so no high-speed internet, only dialup internet)So I will have to go wireless thru AT&T I guess unless anyone can give insight on another internet option. Thanks
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He wasn't just carrying Skittles, but Reese's Pieces and a Mars bar, too.
I think you are wrong. Can't be a Mars bar. I haven't seen one of those for sale in years
Now I can see that a box of Good n Plenty could be mistaken for a gun 
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A kegtapr siting. Excellent. The only person we're missing now is Cigar Mark.
Just talked to Mark. He's doing OK
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The Bills are awesome. They pick the lowest rated receiver in free agency. I'm sure other season ticket holders will notice the tight wallet by the bills and act accordingly with seat renewals.
From what I was told last December; better than half of Club seats are up for renewal. Been in contact with all who sat around us and not one is renewing their club seats.....sad but it is what it is after 10 years of no playoffs. No matter how much of a splash the Bills make in free agency many people have just given up on the Bills.
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I Thought it was Playboy adviser.
No it was Penthouse and the name of her forum was "The Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander is 68 and living in Amsterdam
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When are we ever talked about with big free agents?
He will be a target of ours if he hits the market. Trust me.
While I like the idea, no way in Hades does Littmann let Nix to spend the bucks to sign Williams and he calls the financial shots now. The only race the Bills will be in, is the race to spend the least on player salaries in the entire NFL.
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http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/bills-nfl/article693970.ece
Just give it to a Toronto station, the Bills will be there soon enough.
plaxico burress
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I hope the kid makes the final roster