Kettle Creek Football
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I was going to start a poll on the topic but I really don't see the point.
Not even close!
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If Schopp was 1/2 as smart as he thought he was, he'd be a mole on Colin Cowherd's ***!
But, yes, we all know Spiller had a lousy year. However, that doesn't mean he'll never play to his potential. Look at Darren McFadden this year, being his 3rd year. It's too early to compare Starks to CJ.
The main difference so far, is Starks has played out of GB's desperation, but CJ's play was relegated behind FJ and ML.
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Er... d'ya mean will he suffer a couple rough injuries, miss all but three games and still get a team to believe he's the #1 QB available?
I'm sure that wouldn't stop "Chix"
I wonder if that's why we're hanging on to George Edwards?
LMFAO!
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Also, it will be interesting to see how Luck does next CFB season. Will he be another Locker or another Bradford?
Don't forget - he has TWO more years of eligibilty!
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This is great news - when we go 2-14 next year - he's ours in 2012!
Or 2013!!!
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There's no scenario that would interest me in Young, unless it's part of a three-way trade for Luck.
Agree, 100%
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Wait for Young to be released, then trade Fitz to the Titans for some picks. Then trade those picks, plus the Bills 1st & 3rd rounders, and first next year, to Carolina & draft Luck.
Or
Sign VY, trade Fitz & above picks to Carolina for #1!
(But for the record, I'd rather have Fitz than VY!)
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Excellent deductive reasoning, your Mother must be so proud!!!
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Oh man Fitz is an Apple fanatic? And here I used to think the guy was smart...
Obviously, he IS!
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Thanks. I just realized that. Getting old.
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I think each team that puts a claim in has to indicate which round draft pick from next year they forfeit. So the Bills might put a claim in for a 7th rounder, for eg, but if another team puts in a 6th or better, they would get them. I think.
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Both Flutie and Bkedsoe made the Pro Bowl as Bills and look how their starting tenures in Buffalo turned out.
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Just going by Mark Gaughn's article in the News today (nobody else seems to have brought it up), Andrew Luck will almost certainly stay at Stanford next year.
The biggest reason is that the potential lock-out will still be up in the air when college players have to decide whether they are coming out for the draft. If he figures there will be no NFL football in 2011, he will have all the more reason to stay at Stanford.
It is a perfect example of the Bills' bad luck that the year they need a QB and have a top pick to get one, the highest-rated one stays in school and makes the pick all that more risky (given the busts this organization has had.) Unbelievable!
John Clayton, and others who study these things, have the exact opposite opinion - 2011 may be the last "Big Pay Day" for NFL Rookies in the draft. A new CBA, and/or Rookie Pay scale may not kick-in until the 2012 season. Thus, it would make much more sense, financially, to come out and declare for the draft in 2011. This may be the last chance for a rookie to earn $10million/yr - $60+million contract, for quite some time. With the next CBA, and/or Rookie Pay scale, for eg., even the top draft picks may only earn $3million/year for 5 yrs. ($15million vs $60million + 1/3 to 1/2 of that guaranteed- easy decision).
Let's hope Clayton is right and Gaughn is wrong - at least in terms of Luck (or any of the top prospects for that matter) declaring for the draft.
Also, look how recent QBs stock has fallen, when they waited a year to come out for the draft - with Bradford being the exception. Matt Leinart, Tim Tebow, and Jake Locker, to name a few, were all considered to be candidates for 1st overall before they decided to return to school. Even Brian Brohm would have been better off had he come out a year earlier, in terms of dollars and cents.
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Just spoke to Mr. Wilson earlier this afternoon.
Story has been filed and should be moving on the AP wire shortly.
jw
Thanks, JW. GREAT STUFF!!!
I can't imagine Buddy Nix, nor Chan Gailey, (or Russ Brandon for that matter) are crazy about the info Mr. Wilson divulged.
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I don't subscribe to all of these Wilson-holding-the-team-back conspiracy theories.
They just don't hold water.
From a pure business sense, selling an inferior product decreases its value. When you are trying to sell something, you're trying to get as much value as you can for the product. Self-sabotaging your product because you want to sell it makes no sense.
What would make sense is if Wilson suddenly started pulling Snyder-esque spending on free agents to stack the roster to appear like a star-studded cast.
No.
What makes more sense to me, is that Buffalo is a small market team, competing against big market cities like Dallas, Washington, and NY. Population has been leaving WNY in droves for decades. Industry is gone. Jobs are gone. No relief in sight. Toronto, as 1 of the top 5 largest cities in North America offers promise. But the current product is not enducing love that far north of the border right now, either. They may support the Maple Leafs, but Canadiens are not that stupid after all to follow a team like the current Bills.
There have long been rumors of infighting between Polian and treasurer Littman and money man Overdorf. They were going to Super Bowls, so thankfully Polian had Wilson's ear.
Now that Polian is gone, I think Wilson defaulted his trust to Littman and Overdorf. They no doubt have heavily influenced Wilson into building on the cheap. I mean, 10 years of Modrak and we have nothing to show for it. This guy was supposedly responsible for building Philly back in the day. Now he gets here, and he can't produce one proven player in 10 years? He can't build anything resembling a team or core of players?
I think Modrak should have long since been relieved of his duties.
But I also believe that Littman and Overdorf are getting to Wilson and convincing him that due to regional economics, we need to be doing it cheaply.
IMO, if Littman and Overdorf don't see a team being sustainable in WNY, then I don't know why they just don't resign and go work somewhere else. Let somebody else take over. What good does imposing self-limiting beliefs have on an NFL franchise?
Littman and Overdorf doing it on the cheap has produced a team that is just that- a second tier team of nobodies.
You are correct. In the late '80s / early '90s, Canadians loved the Bills, now they hate them. Imagine if the Bills were a successful franchise - there would be bidding wars amongst Canada's wealthy to buy the team (never mind all of the US Billionaires who already are in the game)! There's a lot of $$$ in Ontario alone - not just in Toronto. But Billionaires don't want to buy a loser, they want to buy a turn-key operation that already has a winning structure in place. If the team was a first-class organization, then the value of the team would exceed a Billion dollars.
Anyone who says Ralph is purposely driving down the value of his team so someone else will buy it, doesn't understand business, economics, or pro sports. Also, when you consider how much taxes will erode the sale value, I'm quite sure a $100 million, to use the original poster's example, will be quite significant to the Estate's heirs.
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If you are old enough to remember going to War Memorial Stadium you ought to visit Ivor Wynne Stadium in Hamilton. Felt like I was in 1969 walking down Best St to a game. It was a trip. Ti-cats roll ok ver Edmonton 35-11.
Day one of the triple-header weekend over. Sabres tomorrow.
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PTR: It's not "Ivor Wynne" stadium, it's "Never Win" stadium!
oops, that joke hits too close to home for a Bills fan...
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Or at least more in their general direction...
Classic!
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That was such a ridiculous thing to say on Matthews part. When I read that I almost spit out my coffee! In the old days, editors used to walk in offices with smoke coming out of their nostrils & bounce the writers head off the wall for such nonsense. Now this crap gets printed.
Ummm....Matthews...NEWSFLASH: If all goes well, the Bills won't have a chance to get Locker. DUH!
And if all goes REALLY well, they won't even want Locker!
Not to defend BM, but my guess is he was being sarcastic with that comment, "if all goes well..."
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From what I read today, his nagging toe injury is still bothering him. That's what plagued him last year and pre-draft.
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don't care till we see it on the field...Greggo was tough and that didn't mean squat
That's the best point I've read in a long time. Also, Thurman Thomas said they used to have TVs when he played for the Bills.
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Why? He's not an actor.
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I like Cowherd and TG, too bad we won't find either of them on this board in the future.
But at any rate, I think the point Cowherd was really trying to make is that when our team loses, we shouldn't let it ruin our weekend, week, life, etc. I know a lot of fans who let their passion for their team actually interfere with their personal lives.
Simple as that.
(BTW, isn't it funny when fans say "WE" won, after their team wins, but say "THEY" lost, after a loss?)
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I was surprised TG was on here at all.
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A bit longer than that.
Like 40 years longer than that
Players we should have drafted
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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But let's say one of those picks happened, and the Bills had even one more win (or loss) that season! Then the next season the draft order would have been different which would have changed a lot of other teams' priorities/ picks.
This is such a ridiculous thread. Why bother?