Dawgg Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 did I post something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Damn, and here I thought you were going to tell us what they had in common. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Just like Milloy departed the Pats to join the Bills right before the first regular season game with full knowledge of the Patriots' playbook, Fast Freddie may provide the Patriots with a similar advantage this week. 761237[/snapback] Right, because an experience veteran QB of the defense and a young, marginal WR/ST player have the same grasp of their team's approach.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true_blue_bill Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Just like Milloy departed the Pats to join the Bills right before the first regular season game with full knowledge of the Patriots' playbook, Fast Freddie may provide the Patriots with a similar advantage this week. 761237[/snapback] I dunno, you can run so many different plays out of the same formation I just don't think you can really gain that much info. Besides, if this was really such a great advantage, don't you think every team would do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udonkey Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So he's going to show the Pats how to effectively bobble a punt return and fall on it for a 3 yard loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Senator Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So we should sign Bam Childress? Bam Childress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 They can probably glean a little from him with tendancies of the WR corps, basic offense but how is this anything BB can't see for himself? You don't honestly think coaches show players all 52 cards in their hand --- especially when they know ~30 of these guys will be cut or on other teams!? There's a reason why they run vanilla schemes in the preseason. As an analogy, Shakespeare, etc. would give each actor only his own lines and the lines buttressing his lines for cues. That way, any one actor could not go elsewhere and get paid to replicate the Bard's play. I imagine it's the same concept here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramius Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Just like Milloy departed the Pats to join the Bills right before the first regular season game with full knowledge of the Patriots' playbook, Fast Freddie may provide the Patriots with a similar advantage this week. 761237[/snapback] So what exactly do they have in common then besides nothing? Unless Jonathan Smith suddenly became a multiple time pro bowler who was a team leader and a highly respected member of the team? Last time i checked too, bills players werent shocked by this move either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 This isn't even CLOSE to Milloy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunBillsBacker Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Seriously, do the Patriots even need that kinda advantage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ (not THAT RJ) Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Just like Milloy departed the Pats to join the Bills right before the first regular season game with full knowledge of the Patriots' playbook, Fast Freddie may provide the Patriots with a similar advantage this week. 761237[/snapback] To add to this discussion, allow me to re-post something I added to another thread: .... really, people, do we think that Freddie has such a photographic memory that, deep in the bowels of the Pats training facility, he will divulge the entire Bills playbook? Please. I can see it now, dim lighting like in 24, Belichek and Freddie... BB: Now Fred, about the playbook FF: Um... yeah.... on this play, I was supposed to run fast down the field... BB: Good, good... *smirking as he makes notes* And on this play? FF: Um... yeah.... I was supposed to run fast down the field... BB: *cackling with evil glee* I knew it! Mwahahahahaha! And on punt returns? FF: Um... yeah.... I am supposed to run fast down the field... *Cut to commerical as the clock ticks toward opening day* If the Pats crush the Bills on Sunday, which is quite possible, it will not be because of Fast Freddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rico Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Seriously, do the Patriots even need that kinda advantage? 761265[/snapback] Probably not... I'm pretty sure the main reason they signed him was to return punts, he can be one of the best in the league. Any intel that he can give them on the Bills is just a bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ganesh Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 So what exactly do they have in common then besides nothing? Unless Jonathan Smith suddenly became a multiple time pro bowler who was a team leader and a highly respected member of the team? Last time i checked too, bills players werent shocked by this move either. 761257[/snapback] I think the real reason for SMtih going to Pats is that Belichek must have been impressed at how he returned the Punt return for TD against the Patriots... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Angel Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 These Coaches watch so much tape and breakdown there breakdowns of players and plays, they probly know when each other has to take a sh--. Frddie left a week before the pats game Milloy came like two days before, the bills havent practiced since there game with the giants, freddie should know notta about the gameplan for the pats game as monday they should implement that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acantha Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 700 players were released this week. If this were a big deal, the whole league would be screwed come week 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Angel Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 The pats need depth at the reciever positon and they know freddie can make plays and return punts it was logical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Damn, and here I thought you were going to tell us what they had in common. 761239[/snapback] Well, seeing as Dawgg... well, dogged it, let me provide the proper analysis: Jonathan Smith and Lawyer Milloy share a common letter - "a" in their first names, AND Two common letters - "m" and "i" in their last names. Although some would place a special significance to the fact that the shared letters in their last names are both: together (i.e., next to each other - as in side-by-side) and in the same order (i.e., "mi"), I subscribe to the notion that it (the cojoining and ordering of the two letters) is pure happenstance. A further examination reveals the "M" in Lawyer's dipthong is capitalized, whereas the same ligature in Smith's is not. This clearly reveals Milloy's superiority and therefore events surrounding his acquisition must be considered of greater consequence i.e., more important than the events surrounding Smith's demise as it were from The Bills roster. e.g., a bear is more important than a bear turd. I respectfully submit this in the faint hope that it will unburden the concerns of many that the Pasties will get such an emotional lift - and The Bills suffer such an emotional let down that we will have lost the game before the opening coin toss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob in STL Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Just like Milloy departed the Pats to join the Bills right before the first regular season game with full knowledge of the Patriots' playbook, Fast Freddie may provide the Patriots with a similar advantage this week. 761237[/snapback] No way. Are you comparing a Pro Bowl veteran (Milloy) to a marginal 6th WR/ST player (Smith) that was still trying to learn a new offense? Bellichek does not need Smith to come up with a game plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Well, seeing as Dawgg... well, dogged it, let me provide the proper analysis: Jonathan Smith and Lawyer Milloy share a common letter - "a" in their first names, AND Two common letters - "m" and "i" in their last names. Although some would place a special significance to the fact that the shared letters in their last names are both: together (i.e., next to each other - as in side-by-side) and in the same order (i.e., "mi"), I subscribe to the notion that it (the cojoining and ordering of the two letters) is pure happenstance. A further examination reveals the "M" in Lawyer's dipthong is capitalized, whereas the same ligature in Smith's is not. This clearly reveals Milloy's superiority and therefore events surrounding his acquisition must be considered of greater consequence i.e., more important than the events surrounding Smith's demise as it were from The Bills roster. e.g., a bear is more important than a bear turd. I respectfully submit this in the faint hope that it will unburden the concerns of many that the Pasties will get such an emotional lift - and The Bills suffer such an emotional let down that we will have lost the game before the opening coin toss. 761298[/snapback] The evidence is irrefutable! I haven't seen such a credible in depth analysis since someone posted that Loose Change video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UConn James Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 The evidence is irrefutable! I haven't seen such a credible in depth analysis since someone posted that Loose Change video 761306[/snapback] And before that was Oliver Stone's "JFK." Preach it, Nanker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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