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If first possession of the overtime ends with a field goal, the scoring team will have to kick off and the other team will have a chance to either answer with a field goal or with a touchdown that would win the contest.
If the first possession ends with a touchdown, the game will be over. If the opening possession ends with no score, the overtime will proceed as it has in the past -- with the first team to get on the board winning the contest.
Personally I would love to see a game go to overtime. I like the added element of strategy that this offers to the game.
I like the change. It's good for the game.
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It's not a lack of interest in Cowher. His demands are just too high and a little unreasonable. He wants to run the show completely. He want to bring in all of his own people. On the sidelines and in the front office. Most teams either have a GM or want to hire their own, not have Cowher hire one.
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Still Beastmode. That was one helluva run.
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The player that needs to be cut the most is the same player who has needed to be cut the last three years. He's also the player we keep giving contract extensions to. Chris Kelsay.
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I'm quite offended that a 7-9 team is in the playoffs. 74 yards.
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Isn't he the guy who got banned for ruining the Tim Graham thread?
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So does Luck change his mind if his agent can broker a trade between the Niners and Panthers?
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Lol.
Or he could pull an Eli and refuse to play for them, forcing a trade to the Niners.
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While many will argue Miller is a reach at #3, he's a very good football player and represents the very best this draft has to offer at the 3-4 OLB position.
17 sacks last year. 10 this year despite an injury early in the season. The Butkus award winner has a bright future.
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Yeah, I mean who can argue with a guy who saw Cornell Green get run out of Oakland and promptly sign him to a $3 million per year contract?
You guys are ridiculous. Is there any platter of BS served up by OBD that you won't gladly accept?
Just like Tom Modrak was a genius because of his role in building the Eagles pre-2001. Yeah...they've really missed him since he's been gone. Modrak did not build the Eagles; his association with a good personnel department build his reputation (which is now it tatters everywhere outside of Ralph's office and this message board).
Let's hope Whaley works out, but let's not give him a pass because he was once associated with the very successful Steelers' personnel department.
A number of factors resulted in the Bills acquiring Green. Butler's sudden and unexpected retirement, the lack a good free agent tackles and the way the draft shaked out. Rather than start 6th round picks, they thought they'd try their hand with him. It didn't work and they promptly cut bait.
I'm not annointing Whaley as the next great GM. But he's certainly worked his arse off to get to where he is and has been directly involved in the building and shaping a winning program.
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I think his ego is getting so big that he would never go to a team (no matter how much $$) without a top 10 QB in place. My $$ is on him staying at Stanford and working some package deal with a team that brings him and Luck in 2012. Good for him I suppose but he is starting to bug me.....
He's a great coach who has rapidly turned around a bad program and groomed one of the better QB prospects. He's done well and is the hot name in coaching, and as such he is getting a lot of looks. What ego? His phone is ringing off the hook with teams offering him in excess of $7 million a season to coach.
Also, teams with star QBs generally don't have ongoing head coaching searches.
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Keeping with Ralph's "promotion from within theme", Whaley will succeed Nix as GM provided he isn't poached by another team. But Whaley knows what he's doing and I'm excited he's on our team, brainstorming with Nix, improving our team. He'll be an excellent and worthy GM when the time is right.
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Total disaster. Embarrassing too. Keep your coach but make him twist in the wind, publicly recruit and flirt with other coaches, then keep your coach but not tell him you've kept him.
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I'll be so relieved when a rookie cap is official. The players should get the same size slice of the pie they're getting now but they need to divert the outrageous rookie wages to the proven vets. Too many busts have set franchises back years and years. Glad it's coming to an end.
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Was so long ago, I can't remember the exact date.
Winter of 1993, my dad had seasons's tickets to the Sabres back when they played at The Aud. A seven-year-old lets_go_bills was at the game. During the 2nd intermission we went to the restaurant in the arena. Sure enough, Jim Kelly and Kent Hull were there too, enyoing food and drink. Our waitress asked me if I knew who that was, looking to Jimbo. Mortified, I didn't say a word. She handed me a card that said "Reserved" on it, those cards they put on table at restuarants. She told me Jim wanted to meet me. I looked to my dad for reasurance and he encouraged me to go say hi. Slowly, I walked over, clutching the card in my two hands. Jim and Kent looked at me. The sheer size of Kent terrified me. I was so scared and nervous. Kent told me to come on over and told me to say hi to Jim. Jim asked me what my name was and I told him. He said it was nice to meet me, shook my hand and signed his autograph on the card. I said bye and walked back to my dad. He thanked the waitress and we paid our tab, returning to watch the rest of the game.
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With the first pick in the 2011 NFL Draft the Carolina Panthers select..... A.J. Green, Wide Receiver, Georgia
I can definately see that happening. With Luck out, they may give Clausen a chance and give him a stud to throw to.
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This impacts us at #3 though. There is no QB worthy of a top 5 pick IMO. What will Carolina do now? This is interesting.
Although not shocked at his decision, I am a bit surprised seeing how his HC is flirting with coming to the NFL. Maybe Harbaugh is gonna stay at Stanford. Maybe Luck truly did want to complete his degree. Maybe his advisors told him the chance of a lockout is too great and he'd lose a year of football. Maybe he wants a nation championship or a Heisman. Interesting decision because he was far and away the top prospect and virtual lock for #1 overall.
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Good. This means we may have a shot at him next year.
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Bowers, Fairley and Miller. These three front seven defenders are all worthy IMO.
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LGBills, good post. I agree w/ your it totally. You gave real good arguements. Yes, defense first. Besides, one of the best ways to help an offense is to have a defense that can put the offense in good field postion, by forcing turnovers, sacks, 3-and-outs, what have you. Sure, our offense has some holes, but not as desperate as our D. Once agian LGB, good arguements. Just my opinion.
Thank you sir.
I can't recall the last time we beat the Pats. Tom Brady is unbelievably good. He's the only thing that keeps them going. We need to draft defenders who can pressure him and stop him. All AFC South teams drafted pass rushers because of having to face Manning twice a year. We need to do the same to Brady. Then and only then will we beat the Pats.
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Who was surprised by Fitzpatrick's well below-average play? I mean, I wasn't surprised to see him have an 80 quarterback rating, with a nearly 1:1 TD to INT ratio, and sub-58% completion percentage...
Another sarcastic and uninformed Bills fans.
Don't get me wrong here, I'm not naive enough to think that after five NFL seasons Ryan Fitzpatrick is suddenly going to become a franchise QB. Far from it. He's not the guy and never will be. He's a really good back up. But he's been serviceable under Gailey's tutelage. He's made the team fun to watch and we were better off with him in the lineup. He makes some errant throws and frustrating picks, but he also makes some pretty great plays.
1:1 TD to INT ratio? Check your facts. In 13 games: 23 TDs, 15 INTs and 3000 yards. Good for an 81 QB rating. I found that surprising. Don't you?
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Sorry, but the QBs are what win you the championships now. This is line of thought is old hat, that defense wins championships. QBs are setup to succeed in the NFL. I'm all for Good defense and the Bills fixing theirs, via draft and Free Agency. Alot of this could have been fixed have the Bills went after Julius Peppers and Carlos Dansby last offseason, but the powers that be thought they were so smart and knew what they had. Nix and Gailey obviously failed in the 2010 offeason. It's now the 2011 offseason and now they must come out swinging to turn this thing around. I'm all for the Defense, but if Andrew Luck comes out and is sitting at #3, you take him no questions asked. QBs score the points and win the championships now!
Please read my post carefully.
I'll reiterate. Luck is the ONLY Franchise QB in this draft. And he may not even declare. If he does, he's not falling to us at #3. Won't happen. Trading up is too costly and also won't happen. That means Mallett, Locker and Newton remain. I am not sold on any of them and they are not worthy of the #3 pick. Fitz has been decent enought to the point where we can put off drafting a QB for another year and not have to reach or gamble on one this year. But don't get me wrong here. We still need a Franchise QB and getting one is the only way we can move forward and win a championship.
QB is the most important position in football and it is a QB driven league. No doubt. But anyone who watched the Bills play this year knows that the worst part of our entire team was the defensive front-seven. They got gashed on the ground all God damn year. They barely ppressured QBs and generated poor sack numbers. This has to be fixed and this is the year to do it.
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As great as players like Amukamara, Peterson and Green are, we don't need CBs and WRs. We need front-seven beasts. I'm talking about guys like Bowers, Fairley, Quinn, and Miller. Any one of these guys can contribute right away. We need to boost a porous run defense that ranked dead last this year and has been a major Achilles heel for this team for a number of years. Front-seven players are what we need and they are plentiful this year.
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that worked in the 70s and 80s, but it isn't so true anymore. The NFL is a QB driven league. If you look at the vast majority of teams that have won the super bowl recently, they almost all had a very good QB.
Pittsburgh, New Orleans, New England, Indianapolis, NY Giants, etc...
In fact, of the last 18 super bowl winners, only 3 of them had QBs that you could say were average to below average(Tampa Bay, Baltimore, Washington)
Bottom Line: if you want to win a lot of games in the NFL, get a very good QB...
Yeah, I agree. Problem is, there's only one Franchise QB in this draft, and he may not even declare. Since Fitz has been good, we can put off drafting a QB for at least another year or two until there's one we really want. I'm not sold on Locker, Mallett or Newton.
Is anyone else surprised by the lack of interest in Cowher?
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Agreed. He can't have it both ways and quite frankly, it's not even possible.
Coaches coach. They belong on the sideline and should just focus on that.