loyal2dagame Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 Great post. As for Brady, if he magically appeared on the Bills roster this past offseason, you would be first in line to shake his hand. not me. i'd tell tom he sucks balls........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zazie Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 WEO I have yet to read a comment of yours that didn't make me cringe. Every word you post on this forum is dripping with stupidity, and to be honest, utter BS. So spare us your remedial commentary and get back to whatever it is you do to occupy your time between your meaningless and nonsensical forum posts. No seriously, I liked the fact that Bruschi had heart. But that is no reason for the world to pretend like he is some super all pro linebacker than can carry a defense. He has been mediocre at best throughout his career. If he had played for the Bills, all the "knowledgeable" fans on this forum would have demanded he be released or traded, but because he played for the almighty Patriots you want to act like he was Dick Butkis or something. Get real. He was better at his worst as a linebacker, than Kelsay has been at his best as a DE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyal2dagame Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 He was better at his worst as a linebacker, than Kelsay has been at his best as a DE while that may be true, you are comparing apples to oranges. you cant compare a god(teddy b) to a mere mortal(kelsey) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. WEO Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 not me.i'd tell tom he sucks balls........ Right, chief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orton's Arm Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 What a bunch of drivel. You fail to mention Losman was INJURED in preseason his rookie year. He had a good year in 2006, BETTER than any Trent has had yet. In 07 He was again INJURED & the offense was changed to suit Trent's strengths not JP's. I never said Losman was a great QB. Time will tell if he can improve or not. Yes, Losman was injured in his rookie year; a fact which doubtless slowed his development. But . . . he had practice time both before the injury occurred, and more practice time after he'd healed. And in between those two times, he still had the opportunity to do film study and to take mental reps in practice. His rookie year wasn't as good a learning opportunity as it would have been without the injury. But it was still a very solid learning opportunity. You'll recall that in 2007, Trent was a rookie; and that Losman entered the season as the starter. Are you trying to suggest that the Bills' coaching staff deliberately changed their offense to make it better-suited to their rookie backup quarterback, and less well-suited to their veteran starter? While that's certainly one possibility, I don't view it as being all that likely. It's true that the offense probably became more complex, on the theory that Losman should have a better mental grasp of it in his second year in that offense than in the first. And it clearly de-emphasized long bombs to Evans as compared to 2006. But there, it was a case of defenses double covering Evans to take away the one real threat Losman posed. Trent was obviously better-suited to the 2007 offense than Losman turned out to be. But how much opportunity did the coaching staff really have to make the 2007 offense more Losman-friendly? They could have simplified it to deal with his mental limitations. And they could have emphasized roll outs and QB runs more than they did, because Losman seems to do better on broken plays than he does as a pocket passer. The long bombs to Evans had been taken away by other teams' defenses, so it's not like the coaching staff had all that much opportunity there. And even with the other stuff, non-pocket passer quarterbacks who try to get by on roll outs and running plays may find a little success here and there, but overall tend to be easy to contain. Especially when they merely have Losman-type speed, as opposed to, say, Michael Vick-type speed. Please don't mention Steve Young here; as he was a very gifted pocket passer who, in addition, had good running ability. The Bills' coaching staff understood that if Losman was going to experience long-term career success, he had to become a good pocket passer. So they put him in a situation where he had to live or die by his pocket passing ability. That was the right decision. The alternative--to try to do other stuff to mask his weakness as a pocket passer--would simply have postponed the inevitable recognition of his failure as a quarterback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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