berndogg

I'm trying to think about the best way to utilize him in our offensive system. Wide reciever screens? Can you run a draw play/wide reciver reverse? If we put him at tailback would it be too obvious that the draw or screen is going to him? Will he block on field goal attempts? Can he make tackles on punt team? I really just don't see it. Steve fairchild and turk schonert have spent years getting our young players comfortable with the draw/screen punt/fg offense. Now you bring in a guy who has made his living catching passes down field and scoring touchdowns. It's just not a good fit. If the bills want to utilize T.O. they will have to implement an entirely new offensive system, one that includes downfield passes and touchdowns. We all know that having to learn a new offensive system every year is the one and only thing that has kept J.P. Losman from a hall of fame career . So why do we want to do the same thing to Edwards? I really dont like this signing.

I just watched his interview on NFL network. He said he wanted T.O. because he's a relentless competitor and a hard worker and that's the type of attitude this team needs right now. Eisen asked him a question about how T.O. eats up young quarterbacks and Edwards said something about how he wants to make the playoffs and go to the superbowl, then he said "I guess I didn't really answer your question at all, sorry about that" it was pretty funny. He also said he was at the playoff game in S.F. when T.O. caught that touchdown against the packers, interesting little tidbit.

After the T.O. signing I'll never say never again, and yes I would rather have cutler

Are the bills really at jacksonville for a 3rd consecutive season? Shouldn't they have to come up to buffalo every once in a while? I didn't read the rest of your post but I assume that's what you're mad about. And I for one completely agree, this is an outrage.

I think you missed the point of the tucker article. Tucker was saying that when you give a guy a ton of guaranteed money and a long term contract he can do whatever he wants because the team knows to cut him they'll have to take a huge financial hit. This is not at all the case with the bills and owens, in fact it's quite the opposite. If the bills want to cut owens mid season they can do so with almost zero financial or long term repercussions. Therefore, if he wants to have a future in the league beyond this year, he knows he has to be on his best behavior.

How is this related? You have a somewhat valid point, then you discredit yourself completely by throwing that in there.

I just turned 26 and am from a good family/neighborhood, am not even close to rich and I'm still PLANNING on doing some really stupid things for hoboken st. patty's day tomorrow. Luckily, 1)I'm white, so I probably won't get caught, and 2)I'm not famous so even if I do my job would probably never find out and 3) My job sucks anyway.

Maybe a modest 2 bedroom in brooklyn or queens, but no way you can get anything in manhattan for 500k

I agree that Grossman sucks, but he has had some success in the league, moreso than fitzpatrick. I don't want him either, but I'd rather have signed a guy whose proven he can play than a complete nobody. I'm happy we addressed the center position and I'm way more concerned about how we're goning to address the d line/lb positions than I am about back up qb. I don't want to get into an argument about whether cow sh*t stinks worse than dog sh*t by comparing grossman to fitzpatrick, but fitzpatrick stinks, there's no quesiton about it.

maybe just a tad

Perfectly put. Its way way way way way worse than grossman, worse than losman, worse than just about anybody. The memory of him that stands out for me was calling my bookie as quickly as I could to bet on the browns when he was announced as starter for the bungles. I honestly think he might be the worst qb in the nfl

Matt Flynn, Chris Leak, Matt Leinart, Vince Young, Danny Weurful, Jason White, Chris Weinke, Ken Dorsey, etc etc. etc.

But I do think it has a correlation with how potentially successful they can be. If a coach is an a hole, but the players respect him they'll still play hard for him and execute his game plan (see: Johnson, Jimmy), but if a coach gets on the bad side of enough players they'll stop listening to him altogether and that will affect the team's performance.

Or maybe he would've quit because he didn't enjoy modern training, or maybe he would've injured his back squatting, or maybe he would've done mixed martial arts. Who knows. I understand that there are other factors involved as to why the athletes are bigger and stronger today, but if you're going to make these comparisons it only makes sense to compare how good they were when they played, not how good they would've been had x y and z happened. The argument is somewhat ridiculous to start with, but when you start adding even more hypothetical questions it just becomes absurd.

No, because they were A LOT smaller, weaker, slower, and less athletic they can't possibly be better. I know there's more to football than that, but when the physical abilities are that different you really can't compare the two eras.

Considering they are bigger than the linemen and faster than the defensive backs of those days, I'll put my money on them. If you can take a blindside, legal hit from 275 lb guy who runs a 4.6, even in full pads, then I think you can handle a late elbow or low hit in less pads from a guy who's 215 and runs a 5.2

You sound like my friend who tried to convince me that Jim Thorpe was a better athlete than Kobe Bryant. His closing argument: Did Kobe ever win a decathlon? Side note: This friend is a virgin

Exactly. I hate when people get mad at a player for not living up to his draft position (not to mention the fact that there are 9 million different theories on exactly what justifies a player's draft position). Especially if its a player that works his hardest. Was donte supposed to do say "i appreciate the offer guys, but I'm second round talent, pick up an O lineman and call me in 30 picks or so".

Laurinaitis was a very good college linebacker, but against the faster teams he played against (the usc game this year and the lsu game last year) he looked like a chicken with his head cut off half the time. I do agree that we need to upgrade at lb, but I dont think he's the answer.

I would never take Wilfork, he's really the one player in the league I have a problem with. He goes out of his way to try to injure people by doing things that are completely unrelated to the game in any way. He makes the sport look bad by the way he plays, I don't think he should be in the league.

For the people that didn't see it, he gave a long speech about how much the team means to buffalo, how football isn't about making a profit to him, its about the fathers that take the kids to the game, about the competition and about the quality of life for the people in the community. He was talking about how crushing it would be for the team to leave buffalo and (i thnk he was referring to the colts) said its a crushing blow to a city when they wake up one day and their football team is gone. It might be wishful thinking, and I know its been said that the team will go to the highest bidder, but listening to him, I can't help but think he's gonna find a way to make sure the team stays after he dies.

I agree, go to tampa, sell the ticket, tampa is a fun city and I'm sure the atmosphere around the city for the game will be fun, watch the game on tv and use the money to pay for any expesnes associated with the trip aka strippers

I've gotta disagree on that one. Jauron's clock management/philosophy at the end of halves has been a consistent problem since he's been here. Inside of 2 minutes we get away from what's been working and go prevent d or kneel down O. This lost us the cowboys and broncos games for sure in 07 and maybe 1 or 2 others. I agree that he got the team to play hard every game in 07, but even with the injuries that should've been a 9 or 10 win team with good coaching. This year was just a complete coaching disaster in every sense of the word. Watching mangini and jauron duel to see who could find more ways to lose was beyond painful.

Yea, because the cowboys are known for getting the most out of their players, nothing says good coaching like a team with 20 pro bowlers (estimated number) who can't make the playoffs.

But when you get drunk and fall on to the train tracks at an nyc subway its good to have someone from NJ there to save your life