KOKBILLS

Want to trade HC's?...

It was awfully embarrassing for a team that continues to have what "experts" feel are good to great recruiting classes almost every year... 4th in 2013...6th in 2012...26th in 2011... Hoke has one foot in the grave and the other is on ice...There is absolutely no question he can't match up with the better coaches in College football, let alone the Big 10...

GREAT!!! This is such good news... My Wolverines need him in the worst way!!!...

Good stat!!!

I think that's almost a given...Though Marrone is going to have to show on-the-field improvement to cement his position...I really don't see any way Brandon or Whaley go...Though Brandon may get a different title...

I'm good friends with 3 Seahawks fans... All 3 live in Washington... They are all so happy and hopeful it makes me sick...

You had to know it would happen sooner or later right?

As I've stated on more than one occasion here over the past couple decades...I'm a bad person...

The Bills traded Lynch after Drafting Spiller... Just saying...

Sounds good to me...

I'm scared of that Jets game...I think the Jets D could make things really hard for the Rookie QB...But then again if the Jets O can't run vs the Raiders improved D there is always the chance they lay an egg and it's a toss up...Because when the Jets look bad on offense, they look REALLY bad... I like Pittsburgh this week...I think the Steelers are an average team...They win week one vs Cleveland and I've still got all the powerhouses in my pocket... BTW...I won my survivor pool last year...I got VERY lucky though...VERY lucky...

Very cool...

He was sliding big time in my 12 man FF league...I thought about it...Glad I passed now...

Well... The Bears were last...dead last...in the NFL in Rushing yards per attempt allowed in 2013...And to give you an idea of how bad they were the 31st team was a half yard per attempt better than the Bears... So...Yes...The Bills will need to get good blocking on the inside...But if 2013 is any indication that Defense can be run on BIG time...The Bills Defense was thought to be weak vs the run last year and we allowed .9 yds less per attempt than the Bears last year...I really don't see why we can't run against the Bears...But I do agree that if we can't we're dead in the water...

This topic is interesting to me... In 1990 I moved from Rochester to Charlotte NC and they got the Panthers in 95... Initially...though I knew it was great for the city...I had this unnatural hatred for the Panthers...I really don't even know why...Of course as a BIG fan of local sports talk radio, and also someone who was in his car for 75% of every day, it was impossible not to keep up with the Panthers...But I never liked them...I kind of routed against them... Then in 2010 I moved back to Rochester and my favorite College football player to watch that year was Cam Newton...And the Panthers get him...Plus my 15 year old Nephew is a huge Panthers fan and we are very close...So...I've softened on the Panthers quite a bit...I like them now...They're kind of my 2nd team now...I'll be able to follow them a little more when i move to Wilmington NC in Nov...

Our ability to run the ball effectively on first down... Hackett's philosophy on Offense depends on it... They have to average at least 4 yards on first down running the football...

Bradham looks like a different player out there... Just in time too... He was one of the best players on the entire team this preseason... How nasty would this LB group be if Kiko was healthy? Two years ago it was arguably the Bills weakest position... I still worry a bit about this group in coverage... But otherwise the future looks pretty darn good at LB in Buffalo...

Thank you John...

Can we not just merge this entire forum into one big EJ thread? Congrats to the players that were voted as Captains btw... I think it's very interesting that Graham and Spikes were voted on...No question they have come in and made an impression on their teammates...

This is just getting well beyond tiring... For the life of me I can't understand why some Bills fans want to cook the kid before he even gets an opportunity to show if he deserves to be cooked...Can't we...at the very least...wait until this thing plays out? Heck, can't we at least wait until one Regular Season game is played?

"Coming out..." still resulted in Sam being Drafted into the NFL in the 7th round (right about where he should have been Drafted based on his Combine and Pro Day...SEC DPotY or not, the NFL is a HUGE jump)... Better than 50% of players Drafted in that round manage to stick on an NFL rosters...So "coming out" did not cost the kid anything... From the moment the kid was Drafted the hype machine went into full throttle...NFLN and ESPN were all over the Rams facility like bums on bologna sandwiches the minute Sam was Drafted...Oprah wanted to do a Reality Show staring Sam that quickly got nixed...The NFL and the Rams had no idea the show had been planned, and after a quick meeting it got shelved...Wonder why? Then we got the almost daily reporting of Sam's progress at Rams Camp including his showering habits...Teammates were having to answer the dumbest questions ever...All this on a team that already had good depth at DE... If you want to blame anyone for costing Sam his initial NFL shot blame the media and the absolute endless agenda pushing circus...The Michael Sam story is an important one, but there are limits to what NFL teams are willing to put up with...The saddest part of this whole deal is that Sam did not get to have full control over his own NFL destiny...And besides being a little naive to the length some would go to prop him up as the face of a movement that is completely undeterred by the possibility that it could actually hurt his NFL dream, he really did nothing wrong...

I think you're thinking of his Stanford teammate Trent Murphy...

It's all good...And what Bills fan does not remember the incredible Kirby Jackson!!!

Easy there...Not that Kirby needs me to say anything...But that's my boy there...At least add a wink or something...Your take was valid...Is the insult really necessary to advance the conversation?...