Big Turk
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That WAS our two minute drill.
ROFL....sad but too often true...perhaps thats why they couldn't score at the end of any half last year....too many times of the QB going to a knee to end it or a few runs up the middle by Lynch or Jackson...
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Also would like to say that while Losman has had some nice throws, I have seen enough to remember why he can't be our starter...
way too many of the completed throws off target forcing the receivers to either slow down, adjust or come to a complete stop to get the ball caught instead of putting it where they can continue in stride while catching the pass...
the worst was the Lynch throw where instead of getting 4 or 5 yards he ended up losing 4 yards because he had to jump and and turn around to catch teh ball, landing at a dead stop and giving the DB plenty of time to get up the field and make the play. The pass to Jenkins over the middle to convert a 3rd down was pretty bad too...the guy was wide open and he threw high and behind him and only a nice spinning catch by Jenkins resulted in a first down catch...he is looking pretty decent tho...definitely seems to be getting rid of the ball quicker, but just doesn't seem to be able to put the ball where its needed to help get some serious YAC...
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For a team who didn't score on any drive at the end of a half, it seems very strange that the Bills would just pack it in when they could have gotten some much needed work on their 2 minute drill...I mean lets face it...these guys aren't exactly the early 90 Bills in terms of scoring...
Not sure why Jauron would be so conservative in a game that means nothing...he is coaching like he would during the regular season when up by 17 at the half and not in a preseason game...
Anyways, just a little surprised they didn't try and run some plays to see how they did...
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you've never done any research on the subject have you?
No but my mom has been in medical research working on steroids at a world-renowned medical institute that has a nobel prize winner as their president for the past 30 years....would you like me to get her personal opinion? Is that enough "research" for you...likely you wouldn't even know the substances and compounds she was working on so it would be pretty pointless for her to give you a dissertation on the subject anyways...
Lets save the smart comments...
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Rich Gensler just busted on Hardy on the radio pre-game. Kind of questioned his desire and heart. Said "I am not saying he is faking the injury but his reputation in college was not the best work ethic."
So let me understand this...Gensler would like Hardy to participate in a meaningless preseason game and risk tearing is hamstring which would mean a minimum of being lost 8-10 weeks?
Firsthand experience lets me know that hamstring injuries are among the most annoying inuries of all. I played soccer in college along with a lot of other intramural/pickup sports with guys in the dorms. Hamstring pulls feel fine after a few days of rest, but if you go back and try and run and play sports, within about 10 minutes you re-pull it, just a little worse than before. You rest, let it heal for a few days...feels fine...go back and try it again and the same thing happens...
Eventually after having this happen for about a month, I was running and made a quick cut playing football and heard what I could only describe as taking a phone book and tearing it in half...I fell flat on my face about 5 feet from the endzone, screaming and writhing in pain, the other players on the field were like "WTF was that sound!?!?". The muscle started cramping and spasming and the pain was almost unbearable. I ended up being carted off the field with a torn hamstring which took about 2 months to heal(and this was only for a partial tear). Obviously I didn't have NFL caliber trainers working on it everyday, so that probably meant an extra 2 or 3 weeks, but still...muscle tears are no joke...
The moral of the story is that hamstring injuries are no joke and they feel fine after a little rest, but any type of strenuous activity or hard running is going to result in a repeat injury that gets more serious each time it happens...much better to rest and wait until you are absolutely sure it is healed properly as sometimes even waiting a week or 2 weeks isn't enough time and you will reinjure it again...Kudos to the Bills staff for not risking a potential longer term more serious injury for a BS game that has no meaning...
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Being reported now that Merriman has 2 ligament tears...both PCL and LCL...
Saying that he will be out for the year at minimum and the Chargers are preparing for the worst case scenario that they are going to find it is bone on bone contact on the knee, which would require microfracture surgery to try and create scar tissue, and could very possibly spell the beginning of the end for his NFL days...At the very least it would mean that he would probably return as a shell of his former self and would no longer be the force he was, but merely another guy in the league...kinda like what happened with Spikes here...
Is it possible steroids were solely responsible for this? Very unlikely...an NFL source said that there are "lots and lots and lots" of players who are playing without a PCL these days...Did steroids contribute to this? Noone knows, but it definitely did not help him...steroids wreak havoc on your body...they create thousands of times the amount of testosterone that normally is found in the body...obviously its not good...we already see what happens with natural conditions when too much of a substance is found in the body...too much sugar means diabetes...too much sodium leads to high blood pressure...too much thyroxin from your thyroid means you rarely sleep, have endless energy and act like you are amped up on the equivalent of a thousand cups of coffee...it just logically follows that a huge overdose of testosterone in your body is going to do serious damage over time...
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no Parrish either. guess they are trying to solidify that JP and our offense wont cause any QB controversy
Yep..guess McKelvin will be getting lots of time on PR duties as well...
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I seem to forget...what round was Jason Peters drafted in?
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Golic said 7-9 Greenberg said 7-9 and Kasilias said 6-10.
Schmucks, but they do think the Jets are going to the playoffs.
Those guys are one of the biggest jokes on the air. If they took callers they'd be demolished and they know it.
I think its funny how because Favre had a good season last year noone talks about how the 5 seasons before that were pretty bad...
IMHO, he has a much better chance of repeating one of those 5 seasons at age 39 than he does at repeating last years...
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Zonta, I already predicted he will report by next Wednesday but you can second it if you want to!
Unless Peters is an absolute moron, he is not going to sacrifice game checks...
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What would happen? Is he on some sort of inactive list? Does he still take up a roster spot? How does this work?
At all of junctures in the offseason - minicamps, training camp, preseason games, now back in OP, his (agent's) lack of communication is absurd.
I figured when they came back to the Ralph that we'd at least hear from him.
He would lose his game check of ~ $187,500 for each game he misses and if he does not report by a certain date in the season, he doe not get credit for a year of service on his contract, meaning that next season he would still have 3 years left. Basically him not reporting = professional suicide. It would be very dumb of him to throw away about 2 million dollars or so to "prove a point", while still having the same problem next year...
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I seriously think that the Bills might have the best return game in the history of the NFL...most teams would die to have 1 game-changer on special teams...we have 3...
So now the Bills will put McGee and McKelvin back on KR's...who are they gonna kick to?? Before they could always try to kick to Josh Reed or Jackson if they were back there...now their only option will be to kick it short to like the 25 or 30 and hope they can't pitch it back to one of them...
That seriously might be most teams strategy...give the Bills the ball at the 35 or 40 yard line instead of putting it in the hands of McGee or McKelvin and take a chance they go 90+ with it...
Then they have to worry about punting it to Parrish...
Opposing teams special teams coaches are gonna be the most tired people in the stadium on game day cause they aren't sleeping the night before...
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I did not have the luxury of re-watching the game, but I on my first view, I was concerned again with our inability to open any kind of holes for the running game..regardless of how many people were on the line, the O-line HAS to be able to open up SOMETHING SOMEWHERE for these guys to run thru...
The Ravens were among the most predictable in the NFL in running the ball and having 8 in the box played against them a few years ago with Jamal Lewis, and they still found ways to get it done...
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Tough not to put a healthy Larry Johnson up there...they'll give him a massive number of carries to try to keep games close. They'll still suck, but Johnson should put up huge yardage numbers.
Johnson is clearly on his way down...historically once an RB hits about 380+ carries in a season, they start declining pretty rapidly...he not only passed it a few years ago, he shattered it, and look what happened last year...
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I haven't heard much about James. It really wouldn't surprise me that much to see him cut - he doesn't have a track record with this coaching staff, unlike veterans McGee and Greer, and no draft resources were invested in him, unlike McKelvin and Corner... It seems to me he was brought in as a guy who is trying to rehabilitate his career, and if he doesn't impress the Bills can let him go without too much of a negative impact.
If Youboty plays well in some more preseason games but not well enough to secure a starting spot I would expect the team to entertain trade offers for him. IMO he'd have to play well enough to unseat Greer to make the team opt to keep him vs. trading him.
I fully expect that McGee, Greer, McKelvin, and Corner will be on the opening day roster. Then, if they want a fifth, whoever performs better out of Youboty/James.
Especially since they can cut him without having to pay any of his salary other than his signing bonus, which I am sure wasn't that much...
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I believe this year will be a good tell on how good of a coach he is.
I agree...there is no question this team has enough talent to be a 10 win team if the right coach is handling them...we will see if he is the right coach I guess by the record at the end of the year....
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Put me in the camp for getting him the ball more. He's electric. Turk wants an offense based on YAC and that is something Roscoe does very well.
I seem to remember him doing pretty well with the ball in his hands on the second or third play from scrimmage against the Jets one time....
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I am, and I did last year, me and my brother got there about 15 minutes before midnight figuring that it wouldn't crowded but it was absolutely mobbed.
Oh yes...Madden...
I am sure they added all these cool new features on how you can add fans into the game while ignoring realism issues such as players accepting 5 million dollar signing bonuses when IRL they would be closer to 25 million, allowing you to pretty much sign every star player under the cap even after you cut people. Not to mention the old, muffed punt returned for a TD that has not occurred in an NFL game for probably like 15 or more years, if it ever has(not sure if you were ever able to return a muffed punt for a TD).
Then there is the issue of players running 3.5 40s in game or accelerating from 0-top speed in like 2 strides...
I gave up on Madden a long time ago because while its flashy eye candy, the overall realism is just not very good...
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What kind of cut on a foot would lead to being hospitalized overnight?
one that got a staph infection?
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what do you think Jauron's record would be if he had Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Smith, Cornelius Bennett, Andre Reed, Darryl Talley, James Lofton, etc on his team?
Do players make coaches great or do coaches make players great? Are there any coaches that have been considered truly great that didn't have top level talent to surround them?
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James Hardy!! nice!!
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Lighten up Francis. If they look like this in 4 weeks, then panic. As Marv said , the aim of pre-season is not to win, but to assess personnel.
Right now my assessment is our personnel suck
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was it really necessary to throw a freaking laser to a guy with noone within 10 yards of him??
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Hey...whaddya know!! ANOTHER supposedly sunny day that includes thunderstorms, downpours and hail!
Never have seen so many "sunny" days in 1 summer that have included torrential rain..perhaps the worst summer in memory in Buffalo for me...
Game thread -- 8/24
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I agree he looked pretty good...I am just saying that over the course of a season those type of throws end up killing the team and stopping drives when they happen 8-10 times per game...