Mr. WEO
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Me too. I really liked this guy coming out of college, I can't believe how disappointing his career has been.
Got it done, Buddy!
At least he was hailed as "a reliable backup" in Minny.....
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4 awesome te's on the bills? 
Yup---so awesome, we added Klop instead of Watson.
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I am very optimistic about last years draft and our coaching staff. the players are on board with the staff and thats 1/2 the battle in the NFL. We have young talent and will have free agency ...next year to fill key holes. The future of the Bills is looking good and this year we just might be a surprise team. So yes ... we are rebuilding but its only going to be one year. Sit back and enjoy watching this team develop because there are future stars on the team learning on the job....I agree that this team is putting the pieces together , I am convinced he will go to work on both sides of the line in next year's draft. We have very young players that are locked up, and this organization finally has a vision. Exciting times!
These were posted in 2006.
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the Bills are walking the correcct path at this time.
they are not going to be very good for the next 1, probably 2 seasons. But they will stock up on linemen and linebackers in this draft. Next year we will take Locker or another top QB and probably a WR or 2.
at tht point the FAs will be brought in to complement the established core.
Established core of recent draft picks?
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I think I can safely say that every fan sides with the fans. Beyond that however, we should be siding with the owners. Siding with the players only ensures prices will continue to rise.
Regardless of side, ticket prices will always increase. Most ticket increases add relatively little to overall revenue for most teams. The Bills total ticket sales represent only about 15% of total revenues.
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Browns sign Benjamin Watson
Posted by Michael David Smith on March 12, 2010 7:05 AM ET
Benjamin Watson is a Cleveland Brown.
Watson, a free agent tight end who played his entire six-year career with the New England Patriots, has signed a three-year deal with the Browns. As first reported by ESPN's Adam Schefter, it's a $12 million contract with $6.35 million guaranteed.
A league source who confirmed the deal to PFT says the $6.35 million guaranteed will be paid out completely in the first year of the deal.
The 29-year-old Watson played in all 16 games for the Patriots last season, starting seven and catching 29 passes for 404 yards and five touchdowns.
That's OK, we just resigned Klopfenstein---to bring our total to 4 awesome TE's.
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Were you snared?
No, not really. Just pointing out the poster is crying about something that is widespread and happens every year---despite his just stumbling upon it.
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The OP didn't mention he left without an offer, there was no link to tell me he left without an offer, and I didn't scour the internet looking for 9 "Antonio Bryant signing/TO not given an offer" articles. The only logical conclusion I could come to (again assuming the Bungles had a clue) was that TO turned down their offer, hence they turned to the B-lister Bryant.
You should look both ways before you crossed the street. If you looked even at one article (they all came from the AP), you would have known what we have been discussing in this thread.
While I'd be willing to agree with you on the last part, Deion is but one of their analysts. And if he were as much of a clown as you suggest, none of the other guys (surely even you wouldn't suggest that none of them watch game film of the teams about which they're commenting) would be taking his word as gospel. The fact that Mariucci said/agreed with the comment that TO is "open a lot of the time," considering he's not a clown, he and TO have no love lost for each other and he's a former coach and a guy who WOULD watch every snap of every team, speaks volumes.I'm going to let you keep going with that one. Clinging to Faulk and Sanders for credibility.
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Oh, the irony! What is "obvious" in WEOland is very different from what's obvious in the real world. Like claiming you know better than people who actually played the game and now get paid to analyze it. That was definitely "another classic."
And what's also obvious is that TO is still a better WR than Bryant. Well, to most. And as an aside, congrats on getting that GM job with the Bungles!
Again arguing against statements I never made in order to salvage some poorly made point. Sure, maybe hiring Bryant wasn't a great move (never said it was, doc). But what I did say is that it was obvious that since reports all said he left without an offer, the interview was a courtesy to OC and their shared agent. There is no other logical conclusion.
And yes, I am on an island with my belief that Deion Sanders does not review the (even condensed and prescreened and cliff noted) film of every offensive down of the Buffalo Bills to declare TO open "all the time"---and that I think Sanders is a clown placed on TV for comic relief and not as a cerebral analyst. Caught me.
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Yes I typed Todd Collins. Have you seen him play since he left Buffalo? Like in 2007 when he played the last 4 games for the Redskins and threw 5 TDs and 0 picks with a 106.4 rating. In the first playoff game against Seattle he threw for 266 yards in alosing effort. Or in the Giants game this year when Campbell was sucking as usual. They put him in and he goes 2 for 4 for 57 yards. Then they put Campbell back in who resumed sucking. You can see hightlights fromt that game here: http://www.nfl.com/players/toddcollins/profile?id=COL694708
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm tired of losing. Maybe you're OK with sucking along with rookie QBs. Seems many on here want another one. 3 times a charm I guess. Unless you throw in RJ too. Then it's 4. Seems like some of you are afraid to go for it. Acquire and put the best players out there this year. Screw developing rookies. We'll worry about 2012 in 2012. There's no guarantee a rookie will ever develop. But Todd, Kyle, and Jake are already developed and ready to start right out of the chute. They don't have to learn how to play in a non spread offense, how to read defenses, or get used to the speed of the game.
Again, wow.
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The only logical explanation in choosing Antonio Bryant (you want to talk irrelevant on the field) over TO is that TO turned down Cincy's offer. It's actually fairly obvious.
Another classic.
You have always struggled with the obvious. And this one was so obviously wrong on its face, yet you couldn't resist jumping right in.
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Correct. It was not "cheating."
StarCaps was OK with the NFL. This happened years ago.
Its not even a PED, it an OTC weight loss supplement. Incase you have noticed the Williamseses are fat.
Wrong, except the last statement.
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How is it cheating? the NFL approved it, now they want to ban them for it. !@#$ em. I sue the **** out of the NFL
You're not one to let fact get in the way of your conclusions, but consider this:
Starcaps is a diuretic and a PED masking substance.
All players and their agents were warned against using this product by the NFLPA BEFORE the Williams boys were busted.
Regardless, Williams was contractually prohibited (by the Vikings) from using any diuretics, banned or not, to meet his weight requirements.
So he willfully did use a diuretic, and instead of using a League legal one chose one that masks steroid use. The only logical conclusion is that he used PEDs.
I don't see how the League loses this one.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/nf...sts-mar-10-2010
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The interesting thing to me is that among the seemingly numerous areas of Bills FA inactivity, seeking a #2 WR is prominent to me on the list.
Its hard to read motivations into this and even remotely be accurate (not that it does or should stop us armchair pundits) but the Bills have a clear need (one they exacerbated by saying bye to Josh Reed) and actually have $6 million in salary cap room committed to the position last year which even if they utilized it in part they should be able to get talent which in a good year for them would threaten to equal TOs 09 output for the Bills.
As the Bills have not yet officially said adios to TO in the same manner they have actually told other FAs like Reed, it does not seem unreasonable if you were the Bills to guesstimate that the market for TO is at worst the $5 per year Cincy apparently used to attract him to visit another small market cold climate (in the modern Internet and easy travel world I think the market size question is a factor but often not a determining one for many FAs) city.
Can TO come back?
I think it is doubtful actually as he would likely need to accept a serious contract downsizing that in terms of his attempts to market himself to VH1 and such would make this effort harder. However, a long term backended deal which has a large size but small cash to cap payout might work.
Depends on the options and in a WR rich draft there are too many wildcards to say without some real inside knowledge.
You think TO turned down an offer in Cincy?
No way. That interview was a courtesy to OC and his agent.
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So Ben admits something happen - Just no intercourse. According to him the girl bumped her head.
Seriously folks - if your engaged in some type of sex act - and right after the other party goes to the hospital with an injury and then the police - acting hysterical.
You would be arrested.
certainly not allowed to leave the state.
Really? On a story of a bathroom knob cobbing that caused a closed head injury?
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Why in the world would someone write a column about winners and losers in FA when FA is only a week old? Why?
Because it is to ensnare idiots into thinking it means something. I bet his editor told him to write it. No self-respecting journalist, especially Vic, would write an article about FA winners and losers this early on purpose.
Must be a lot of pushy editors out there.
http://www.sbnation.com/2010/3/10/1366919/...-winners-losers
http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d8...mp;confirm=true
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/marvez-early-fa-win
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/358161-...son-to-be-jolly
http://thefastertimes.com/football/2010/03...ssible-rapists/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-f...o&type=lgns
http://cippinonsports.com/2010/03/09/nfl-f...ers-and-losers/
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=pfw-...w&type=lgns
I'll stop there. They do it every year.
What was your point again? Oh yeah, why would they write these articles? Oh yeah--- "to ensnare idiots into thinking it means something."
Looks like you were right.
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What's everyone crying about?
We DID sign a FA---an O-lineman from the Raiders. How can that go wrong?
This new Bills regime is really going where no other has gone before.
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Just so you know, Smith was scheduled to be the starter for Baltimore the year they drafted Flaco. He got an infection and went on IR. He did not lose the job to Flaco. Flaco got the job after Smith went on IR.
The point is meaningless. At some point Smith's infection cleared yet he was still on the bench because everyone was convinced that Flacco was better.
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Yep - a good college QB. With OSU...a perennial powerhouse (recent bowl games notwithstanding) with overall talent on both sides of the ball, year after year. They are a desired destination for high schoolers, and have the advantage of drawing from a State that's one of the high school football hotbeds.
His pro stats are minimal. But he's been on their team for 3 years and knows their system. My guess is that if somebody came up with a really generous offer, they'd trade him. Otherwise - keep him.
The bolded part is the only important fact.
The NFL has pretty much ignored OSU QB's for a reason.
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Fits the system ????????? What system? Have you listened to Coach Gailey and his offensive guy at all? He doesn't run an East Coast. North Coast whatever. He sees what he's got and builds an offense around that.
Sounds to me unfortunately that he thinks he can win with what we've got what or we can get in the draft. Or maybe he's workin' something else. It's still early.
I do like the Delhomme and TO thing though.
His "offensive guy"?
No, I haven't heard that guy say anything yet.
In fact, I thought we were pretty much guaranteed that guy wasn't going to be saying much all year.
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exceptional post that points out what would seem to me to be the obvious point here. you have highly competitive people who covet the opportunity to lead a franchise. you probably have on average 2 or 3 positions available in a given year, you have former head coaches who want to coach again, you have college coaches who want to make it at the pro level, you have the hottest/shiny-new-penny def/off coordinators ready to step up. and to boot, you can make a few mill a year if you get the job. i wouldn't think you'd have to post it on monster.com to garner some interest.
i think two issues are at play here. the media being the media, speculating on the front side about what someone may or may not be thinking (Shanahan would NEVER go to Buffalo!) and opining on the backside whatever way they want to spin it (Shanahan would NEVER go to Buffalo because _____). the second issue is that fans react emotionally to business decisions that must occur on the business side of the NFL, when all in all it's just business. True--some teams do it better than others (and Ralph hasn't done a great job blending business with wins), but Ralph would be a frigging moron to ever lose sight of the business of football.
OK, let's stipulate that every man in America would love to be a HC in the NFL. There's your 15 ("or more") calls a day.
But really, you mention "former head coaches", yet none were interviewed by Nix, other than CG. No college coaches were interviewed. One coordinator was interviewed (not counting Fewell, who was a token interview). Unless, like the other poster, you believe that all of the rest of the former HC's, college HC's and coordinators were interviewed in total secrecy and their identities will never be revealed (really??), you have to ask yourself why Nix would say such a silly thing? And why punish the press for calling him out on it?
Also, logic should tell you that if over a hundred guys have requested interviews with the Bills, why are they all turned down during a weeks long search that settles for a guy who hasn't been an NFL HC in 10 years and who was just fired as OC the season before (a scenario that has never happened in the NFL before)?
If Buddy got all riled up about the press calling out on a foolish claim, he's got a pretty thin skin. It doesn't bose well for him given the team he's inherited.
Stop blaming "the media" for other people's mistakes.
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African Americans dominant the U.S., from our music, to the sports we play, and now we are starting to dominant politics. This makes cacucasians very nervous because of the oppression that they continue today. This is why writers like King have a double standard, because if everything was equal between the races, blacks would dominant everything!
One day the chicken will come home to roost, i hope the racists out there will one day learn they're lesson!
Yes, just in NY alone, we have Charlie Rangel and Gov. Paterson "dominanting" politics right now.
I'm black and I'm proud!
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Yes to TO. NO to LT. RBs we got. WRs we don't. Then sign a real QB like Delhomme or Todd Collins or Kyle Orton. Work on the lines. Emphasize the run game. Get the new defense to get off the field on 3rd down more often. We might have something. Playing for the last WC spot late into December. Could be fun.
Delhomme or TODD Collins? Come on! You need to go to bed earlier.
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What on earth is silly about that assertion? I would be shocked if the number of phone calls wasn't higher. Bash the Bills all you would like, but with the number of unemployed coaches out there (big name and the no names alike) I have no doubt they were fielding at least this number of calls a day. Save the "Bills suck" "Bills are a joke" rhetoric because there are only 32 of these positions available and a lot more candidates that that vying for them. Regardless of what you think about the state of the Bills, to be a HC in the NFL is still a coveted position, WITH ANY TEAM. One that immediately makes you worth millions more...
The press were downright dumb in the instance.
PS. Really, who cares about his font size?
I'm not bashing the Bills, so calm the f**k down.
We've already heard from many of the "unemployed coaches" and they didn't want the job.
If you want to believe that Nix was fielding more than 15 calls a day, yet he only interviewed, what, 2 guys (one who he just fired!)---go ahead.
The claim that the press is out to get Nix because of that goofy press conference is just dumb.
That's all I'm saying, so relax.
Interesting point by Colin Cowherd
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Oh you mean because they will no longer be "paying 60% of thier revenue to players"?
hahahaha. Good one!