Charles Romes
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Giants d was in decline if not disarray before fewell got there and he turned it around. As another poster put it we could not keep fewell because he had the stink of jauron on him.
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My research shows that a current player (Henry) was on the top of the board the last time the Bills were 3+ over .500 past the half way point:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041229085558/http://www.twobillsdrive.com/
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They did one game like this...it did not poll favorably. I gurantee, as much as people whine about the announcers, if they really went without announcers, ratings would plummet.
That game was a reaction to a single out of this world bombastic announcer who became loved after he was gone
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I get so mad when people talk domes. I would rather us play outside in front of temporary bleachers at best and Jefferson than in a phony dome. It doesn't even look like real football.
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Boston Globe has us in first place as meaningless as that is this time of year.
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Why the patriots had a medical examiner on staff anyway I don't know.
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Believe it or not, the Bills only have one on the list.
Rob Johnson is the all time career NFL leader in sack percentage by more than a point.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/pass_sacked_perc_career.htm
How can he not be on the list.
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He beat the RB for that one. Count me less than impressed.
Yeah snuffing out the opening drive of a top conference team and setting the tone for the game by doing exactly what a legit pass rusher is supposed to do is not impressive. For all the improvement in the Bills its infuriating that we were a competent defensive staff away from making a memorable leap this year. Now we have a wiffed disaster #1 and a premature release with the same player.
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There was a guy that held down a starting corner job for almost a decade from the late 70s to mid 80s.
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I've seen enough of Martin (was targeted on Fitzy's int Sunday & fell down). sure he makes a play here and there on ST, but I'm willing to bet there would be little fall off with Aiken. Martin has bounced around and hasn't stuck anywhere & Aiken is a young (UDFA siging) sitting on our practice squad? The kid's about 6'1" and around 215....pretty good size! He ran a 4.45 @ UCF's proday and in the preseason performed really well...something like 5 catches for 100 yds, and I think all of those cathes were for 1st downs...He looked to run crisp routes and was able to get good seperation...I'm not sure what the eligibility rules are with retaining the ability to PS him next year IF we activate him for a couple games while Nelson heals up...Anyone?
I am a big fan of Aiken. He has the look of a prototypical #1 receiver. I agree that he should be playing ahead of Martin and that Martin should be cut. I also thought Aiken should have been called up before Roosevelt. It should be noted that these comments are coming from someone who thought Brohm should be playing ahead of Fitz because he looked more like a #1.
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For your information its a very common trait of long suffering Bills fans to predict that they will lose while hoping for the best. It helps ease the pain a smidgen to not get your hopes up too high and to be able to tell yourself you were right after they lose. It doesn't mean that Boomer didn't give a pronounced fist pump or more when Fitzy drew the Eagles offsides to clinch the game.
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In a league that markets the "superstar", nobody wants the team of misfit toys doing anything awesome and crashing that party besides all of us Bills fans.
Detroit is palatable because they have "stars".
The NFL and the national media would be horrified at having a team comprised of castoffs, 7th rounders and UDFAs making the playoffs, and heaven forbid getting to the Super Bowl. It would rip apart the time-space continuum and put a hell of a dent into the NFL's embrace and marketing of superstars.
The NFL, on the surface, embraces parity, but not to that extent where a bunch of Average Joe's can beat Globo Gym.
This team and its fans will never have a shortage of motivation to do well.
The Saints were pretty much a patch work team embraced by the media and especially so because they were in a small market suffering hard times. They took a shot on an injured Brees after Miami passed on him for Culpepper (the modern day curse of the Bambino). Their whole championship roster has always been filled with castoffs, low round picks and UDFAs. Their only name high first rounder never performed close to his selection number.
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I know I'm going to take some flak for this, and that there will be no shortage of people willing to write comments like "we're 4-1, be happy," or "a win is a win. It doesn't matter how you do it."
But a method of winning that will work over the long haul is fundamentally different from, and superior to, a method of winning that will soon fizzle out. The Bills' method of winning seems to be in the latter category.
Against the I-95 teams the Bills have played thus far (Patriots and Eagles), the Bills had nine takeaways and no giveaways. And yet, despite that insane +9 turnover differential, the Bills won both games by the skin of their teeth. This means that the Bills were significantly outplayed in the non-turnover aspects of the game, and needed all of those nine turnovers to eke out wins.
What happens when the Bills fail to achieve this kind of ridiculously one-sided turnover ratio?
Statistically, a good turnover ratio is highly correlated with wins, for obvious reasons. But teams' turnover ratios tend to change significantly from one season to the next. Two seasons ago that worked in the Bills' favor, as there were games Byrd won almost singlehandedly. His turnovers made the Bills' record better than its talent level would otherwise have dictated. Last season Byrd's turnovers dried up, and were no longer available to mask the team's overall lack of talent. That's why the Bills went 4-12. This season the turnovers are back again and (in combination with KC's implosion) are the main pillar of Buffalo's fast start. I do not believe that attaining turnovers at this ridiculous pace is sustainable, any more than the insane pace Byrd set during his rookie year was sustainable.
This should not be taken to mean that all is gloom and doom, or an implication that the team will never amount to anything. What it does mean is that Nix's rebuilding process is not as far along as the Bills' current record would seem to indicate. This team needs to play better in the non-turnover-related aspects of the game if its current success is to be sustainable. Maybe some of that can come from younger players already on the roster learning to improve. Byrd himself is a good example of this: he's playing better this year than last year. I also suspect the Bills will need at least one or two good drafts before they can truly become one of the NFL's top teams.
Who cares - If you are a non-turnover assisted 1-4 and legitimately close 6-5 you wind up 7-9 and miss the playoffs. If you are a turnover-assisted 4-1 and legitimately close 6-5 you are 10-6 and often get in the playoffs.
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As other posters have indicated good riddance. A rotten stupid song. The theme it replaced was one of the great sports themes if all time and I'm looking. forward to it being featured again.
dene dene dene (pause). dene dene dene (very long pause). DA DA da da......
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The Colts keep losing starters...to the tune of 2-3 a week. They have to be considering throwing this season into the can and looking at next year. What if, and it is a huge if, they are picking first next April and nab Andrew Luck to sit behind Manning for a couple of years?? Talk about good fortune - they go from having 12 years of a one franchise QB to potentially another decade of one of the best college QB's to come out the last 20 years.
And they don't have to pay him 80 million dollars...they will get away with paying him third of that for 4-5 years.
My question to you is: if this were the Bills would you be OK with throwing 2011-2012 season away to get the #1 pick?
Maybe your draft order should not be a function of just your last year but a function of a rolling window of time like the last five or ten years.
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Perry Fewell was a better D coach . . . at least he was aggressive, the defense has regressed under the current coaches and system. I say, if we get run (and thrown) all over again this week, time to make one of your courageous moves Chan - fire Edwards, give Wanny the job!
Perrys work in 09 where half the d was on IR and the offense couldn't make a first down was amazing. The offense had to react to Fewel's schemes. Not the other way around.
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Face up to the fact that we were soundly beaten in that game. It's that simple. There were many opportunities to come back from the call. We won the turnover battle by two with a pick six no less and still lost. It is not necessarily a good thing to have your record be way ahead of how good you are. That only stops you from addressing areas in need of improvement. So let go and move on.
After posting this I realized I disagree with myself. The '90 Bills won two early games they had no business winning and they ended up "growing into" their artificially inflated record, behaving more like an 8-1 team than a 6-3 team later in the year. Now I can't let the call go.
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Face up to the fact that we were soundly beaten in that game. It's that simple. There were many opportunities to come back from the call. We won the turnover battle by two with a pick six no less and still lost. It is not necessarily a good thing to have your record be way ahead of how good you are. That only stops you from addressing areas in need of improvement. So let go and move on.
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Where are people getting this "drop percentage" data. I can't seem to find it. I want to make sure I'm using the same date everyone else is when I perform my own analyses. This team may outscore enough opponents to stay mathematically alive into December. After they are eliminated, or sooner, Aiken needs to see the field.
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I've learned a very valuable lesson, and I hope that I can keep learning it.
Ever since I could really understand football, I was a Bills fan, but I wasn't originally from Buffalo, though I did move there in my earlier years. My Mom worked at the old training camp facility (SUNY New York) back in the late '80s, when the Bills were then an up and coming team. I started watching football, and then the Bills got REALLY good a couple years later, and I was hooked.
I lived and died through the four Super Bowl losses, the Music City Miracle, and countless other dreadful moments with the Bills. (Why, oh WHY did Bruce Smith decide not to take a flu shot during that 1995 campaign when I thought we had a really good chance, with that defense especially, to go back to the Super Bowl. But, instead, Bruce Smith gets the flu, and the Steelers just run the ball to his empty spot. The victory against Miami the week before was the last time the Bills have won a playoff game.)
However, I moved to Florida in 2006, (and had been living elsewhere through military commitments and such beforehand) and the Bills were smack dab in the middle of starting to become REALLY awful. The Bucs and Dolphins were near here, and I started watching them, along with the Bills. During the "great collapse" of 2008, I turned my back on the team for good. I figured that Ralph was going to move the team, anyway, or someone would once he died. I didn't see the Bills doing anything more as an organization ever again, until such move was complete. So, I started pulling for my Florida teams, though I still do love the Gators. I had taken notice week one when the Bills destroyed the Chiefs, and then again when they came back against the Raiders.
Last weeks game, though, was the stuff of ages. It was as if the football gods, for one day at least, decided to right an awful lot of wrongs that the Bills have been suffering. And, it taught me a lesson. This is the NFL. Tough it out. Stay with your team because the only thing that you can count on is change. Bad teams can get better really quick in this modern age of football.
The Bills might go anywhere from 16-0 to 3-13 this year, but either way, I've learned my lesson. I'm back...I'm home, and I'll never leave again. If the team moves out of Buffalo one day, we'll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
I hope to be welcomed back by the fanbase here, and I'll stay a regular on the forums, and I deserve some ribbing for leaving in the first place..and I'm prepared to take it!
GO BILLS!!
Don't beat yourself up. Sounds like your heart never left.
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Spiller brings a ton to the table......guess you missed the Raiders game where he had 60 or so yards on 5 or so touches.....Spiller is a beast, worst idea ever...
In a sea of bad games where spiller looked expendable, he looked to have unlimited potential in that Raider game. Had a markedly reduced role against the Pats. I trust that Chan had a good reason for that.
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Dude, do not watch the game during your friend's wedding. I know you love the Bills, but one game is not worth losing a friend over. And since you said he is not a sports fan, he won't relate... so he will never forgive you.
That's what DVR is for...
"One game?" If we knock off the pats Sunday to officially turn the franchise around and RFA misses it he will bever forgive his friend. There's no reason RFA can't go to the wedding and watch the game. The friend will be too busy to notice anyway. I would definitely go in with at least two technologies. Keep and eye on the TV map. This game will get a lot of airplay so you may be able to watch it on a portable digital antenna TV. They go for $30 on line but if its too late you'll have to buy it at radio shack for $60.
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The advantage Roosevelt has over Aiken is he's not a rookie and actually saw real game action last year. However if Martin keeps dropping passes, Aiken may get his shot.
I'm particularly concerned that if our cast of overlooked and undrafted wideouts keep putting up big time numbers, other teams will be more interested in what Chan and Buddy have cooking on the practice squad. Aiken with a few preseason video clips is much more of a target now than three-drops Martin.
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I would have liked to see them elevate Aiken over Roosevelt. More upside and Chan is not afraid to take risks. I am also more worried about Aiken being claimed by another team than Roosevelt. On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to see Roosevelt play himself into a permanent roster spot. He doesn't make a lot of mistakes. The best of both worlds would be to cut Martin who is going nowhere and elevate both Roosevelt and Aiken.
Most overrated players in the NFL
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The most overrated historical player is reggie white. I still cringe when someone tries to put him in the class as Bruce. I mean you could watch them both play on the same day most of their careers.