San Jose Bills Fan

I agree with B if the team believes they have big roster holes. I don't really agree with A so much. I think a team can go from 6 wins to 10 wins about as easily as it can go from 8 wins to 10 wins. JMO.

Possibly. Supposedly the Bills matched Jacksonville's 6-year $42 million $15 guaranteed offer to Poz two years ago (which if there was not a regime bias) means they valued Poz more than they did Levitre, who got 6 years, $46 million with $10 million guaranteed. Another possibility is that the Bills thought that they were closer to being a winner in 2011 than they believe they are now.

There's a question: whether they see him as an upgrade as a starter or as an upgrade as a reserve.

Maybe ChanOverChin was right about that veteran guard. Maybe the Bills didn't like what they've seen so far? June 4th is next Tuesday.

Maybe we could do a Kiko Alonso call and response along the lines of Marco Polo. Or perhaps some of the Dead Heads here (there's quite a few) can adapt Iko Iko to Kiko. Just some thoughts. Hey it's Friday and someone's spiked my Kool-Aid!

It's interesting to me that they did try to re-sign Whitner and Poz but they didn't bother with Levitre. Maybe that has something to do with the new coaching staff?

I'm not sure I fully agree. I can see a scenario where the team knows that this is the rebuilding year and chooses to evaluate the players to see what they have rather than sign veterans who might make the difference of 1-2 virtually meaningless wins.

I agree that there were probably no injury concerns but just as a point of accuracy, the Bills never made an offer to Levitre did they?

I was actually just trying to state fact. I like Buddy and hope that his work will be redeemed.

I'm sure he passed a physical, had no pre-existing conditions, and somehow just tweaked it. Most likely bad luck for Levitre and the Titans.

I don't understand some of the dynamics of today's society. Well I do but I also don't. There's been a lot of criticism of his throwing motion, etc. What would be the problem with him taking a year off from the NFL and just doing an intensive QB training? He worked for 2 weeks with Weinke and/or Testaverde this offseason? Big deal. The scout said that he didn't have enough self-awareness to realize and work on his weaknesses. So take a year off, work with Cutcliffe, work with Rob Johnson's Dad, work with Weinke again, work with Whitfield or Mastrole. Prove that you have the character and the perserverence and the determination. Hold onto your dreams and work towards them. It doesn't have to happen this year, especially when the world is tilted on its axis away from you. Let the distractions die down, work quietly out of the public eye this year and have your agent drum up interest next January.

Put down the pitcher and step away from the glass…

Fred Arbanas… good work fellas.

Friday's Practice Notes: http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-2/OTA-Practice-Notes---Day-10/2d6b694b-c49c-4d1a-9bb5-0215ab216e6c Marrone's Friday Presser: http://www.buffalobills.com/media-center/videos/

Undoubtedly. These guys know each other from the SEC and you can just imagine the smack going back and forth between the WRs and the DBs over the last few weeks. Rogers let the emotion get the best of him and he was corrected. That is very concerning. The only good receiver who had one good eye that I remember was Wesley Walker. Maybe this is why they signed DeMarco Sampson.

What posts are you replying to?

Pead peed?

Well 20 games over .500 in the last 20 years is not as good as 13 games over in the last 6 years. But all of that is irrelevant to me anyways. As I've butted heads with Hopeful on Bills vs Jets, we're Bills fans and we hate the team that beat us in 2 Super Bowls. Furthermore, the fact of the Bills suckitude doesn't give the Cowboys immunity from our criticism. I don't understand the scoreboard thing at all. Are we only allowed to criticize teams that are worse than us?

You could easily tell by watching the video that Watt was gonna be excellent. That 2011 NFL draft might go down as one of the greatest drafts ever and also one of the greatest defensive line drafts ever. Dareus, Aldon Smith, Watt, Robert Quinn, Ryan Kerrigan, Adrian Clayborn, Cam Jordan, Wilkerson, Cam Heyward, Nick Fairley, Liuget, Phil Taylor… all were first rounders. And many awesome D-linemen went in the 2nd and 3rd rounds as well. That would have been a good year to try and trade down but it was at a time when Buddy was totally against the idea.

Growing up my brother and I had a Tudor electric football set. The players on one team were all yellow and on the other team were all white. We painted green jerseys on the yellow players and blue jerseys on the white players to make it Bills-Packers as almost happened in Super Bowl I. Like everywhere else, lots of Buffalonians are familiar with the Lombardi mythology and the Packers are a lot of people's second favorite team.

Some would say the same about you Jimbo.

This reminds me a bit of when Mike Singletary benched Vernon Davis for taking an unnecessary roughness penalty which hurt the team. At the time, Singletary explained his benching of Davis saying that "no player is above the team." Davis has said that he's grateful that Singletary's discipline and tough love turned his career around. Possibly grandstanding by the coach. And/or a necessary message delivered to Rogers. I'll judge the action by how Rogers does this year.

Just saying that the writer assumes that Marrone has only been with the Jets.

Well let's see, Marrone played for the Dolphins in 1987 and the Saints in 1989. He then coached with the Jets from 2002-2005 before coaching with the Saints from 2006-2008. So that's 9 seasons in the NFL.

Yep. And he intimated that during his Wednesday interview: BTW, kudos for showing restraint CornerBlitz but this almost deserves its own thread (and I know you considered that).