Charles Romes

Has anyone actually seen Kolb play - He is about as anti-clutch as they come and he gets sacked all the time. Fitz was anti-clutch granted, but at least he didn't get sacked all the time.

Sounds like Marrone got this idea ("play like a Buffalo Bill") by watching HBO's Hard Knocks with the Jets that one year where Rex Ryan was telling everyone to "play like a New York Jet" - I would expect our coach to come up with some original ideas for motivating the players rather than stealing them from the Jets coach by watching a TV show all the fans have access to. I also thought Marrone went a little too far in calling attention to how great he was by citation to his little motivational victory at the press conference. I want Wins, I don't want coaches putting gold stars on themselves at press conferences. Thumbs down IMO.

I agree with the shaped like a circle comment. I saw his interview on the Bills site. Man, he just seems to be getting fatter and softer. He looks easy to push around. I don't think you can compete in today's NFL letting yourself go like that. Petrine should be screaming at him to not leave the weight room.

It was funny per the recent Elway to Marino 30 for 30 that a receptionist error 30 years ago also caused the bills to lose Kelly to the USFL.

Northern Pike

Maybe I'm the only one but I liked the pro bowl just the way it was. The badness of the football was actually helpful in terms of weaning you off the game before the long offseason. Checking in to see one or two bills helmets on the field was all I needed. With free agency and the draft there is plenty of interesting material to talk about. The network airing the game could make it into a free agency/draft show with the game as a backdrop.

Lame. QBs are trained to have their helmets mismatch the direction of their eyes so the side helmet camera will generate useless data. Unless you couple and resolve that data with retinal direction tracking data tracking the direction of the QBs eyes. Sounds like trestman is using dinosaur age technology.

I think you hit the nail on the head. For all his faults including weak arm fitz was hall of fame worthy in terms of getting rid if the ball and it certainly masked OL deficiencies.

The franchise has done nothing with high first rounders for more than a decade. So even if Manuel falls flat on his face its no different than other years. Lets go back a few years. Williams total bust, Maybin, total bust. Mckelvin, fifth round trade value, whitner, let walk. Dareus, teetering. Even Cj was a flop since we let a top 3 nfl back leave for a song. I don't understand where the pressure is.

Moulds never held the team hostage with salary demands and in his prime extended for significantly less than market so good players could be signed. We are taking about an all time great Bill.

I remember the wizard of oz getting panned on the flacco reach at about the same place in the draft. Flacco did not even play fbs and has become one of the greatest playoff QBs of all time.

Sometimes you strategically avoid imposing additiinal competition on your apparent starting QB. Like NE not signing a vet when Brady went down.

I love all these posts citing Rogers as part of a dominant WR corps. Reminiscent of the posts of 2011 listing Dareus,K. Williams, and.....JASPER as part of a dominant interior DL roster.

Cordy Glenn saved Nix's job.

Yeah it was a riot watching the team try to work in Parrish year after year until they finally gave up. Then chan tried for a few more years.

I'm surprised that you didn't say that the increased traffic resulting from Manuel pick blew up the board. The site went down when the pick came in.

Franchise in the balance. EJ. Please.

Rookie first rounders are cheap now. They have the best set of guards in the league now.

Tony "gonzales" Hunter in '83?

You need a big arm to succeed as the Bills QB. Period.

I don't think Manziel is capable of having a down year. In the games I have seen he has been on another level.

Arizona in 12 had the worst set of tackles in NFL history. That's why there is a shread of hope Kolb can be serviceable.

Wow. Not many obvious winnable games. I'm thinking stack the lines in draft. Manziel in 14.

Last year the whole D game plan was as follows 1. assemble a D line that looked good on paper. 2. (no further steps)

Toronto game v. NE