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Johnny Hammersticks

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  1. The 2010 draft was a piss poor draft. If you can't get 3-4 starters out that group, that counts as a bad draft to me. They have to do waaay better starting tomorrow night, if they want to get out of the cellar. They should know this, but it is the Bills. You know, the guys who are too smart for us and know what their doing.

     

    Obviously Tom Modrak is god and we're just pee-ons compared to his knowledge of scouting talent. :wallbash:

     

    Your logic, IMO, is pretty ridiculous. So the barometer for a successful draft class is finding 3-4 immediate starters? Do some research, and find some teams that got 3-4 immediate starters from the 2010 draft. I'll wait.....

  2. I was checking out Don Banks' "Wes Welker Watch List", and the Bills selected 3 players off of last year's list: David Nelson, WR, Danny Batten, OLB, Levi Brown, QB.

     

    It seems that the Bills are trying to get back to selecting small school players like they did in the late '80s. In your opinion, which of the players from this year's list might the Bills select in the later part of the draft?

     

    Darrin Walls, CB, Notre Dame

    Schuylar Oordt, TE, Northern Iowa

    Mike Smith, OT, Nebraska

    Matthias Berning, OLB, Central Michigan

    Brandyn Thompson, CB, Boise State

    Byron Stingily, OT, Louisville

    David Carter, DT, UCLA

    Ryan Hill, CB, Miami

    Marc Schiechl, DE, Colorado School of Mines

    Kris Durham, WR, Georgia

     

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/don_banks/04/15/wes-welker-watch/index.htmlhttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/don_banks/04/15/wes-welker-watch/index.html

     

    I could see the Bills taking a late-round/UFA flyer on Schuylar Oordt. Also, Darrin Walls is an interesting developmental CB with his combination of size and speed. He's an aggressive tackler.

  3. Draft him to do what, play cornerback? He's a gimmick player in the NFL, and not a very good one at that.

     

    Tyrod's a better passer than most give him credit for, and his physical gifts speak for themselves. As a previous poster suggested, I don't think that he will ever be a starting caliber QB in this league. I can see him, however, being a good back-up QB/gimmick player. If any coach can utilize Tyrod...it's Gailey.

     

    Another suggestion for a possible mid to late round QB pick would be Ricky Stanzi from Iowa. He has excellent size, is a good character guy, and improved every season at Iowa. Could be a steal in the 4th - 5th round.

  4. JH, you suggest that maybe our lack of agreement on "stress" might be semantic. But I still disagree.

     

    In dark moments like the ones you mentioned and others like the Super Bowl losses, The Music City heist, etc, I was never stressed.

     

    Mad? Yes. Unhappy? Yes. Sad? Yes.

     

    Agree to disagree...I suppose. Much respect to a good poster.

  5. I doubt it. Even though I would question their judgement, over the years I have learned to live with the Bills lack of judgement & nothing they do would surprise me.

     

    & to Hammersticks, do you go to any games? Do you have season tickets? Do you put your money where your mouth is? Because if you do not go to the games I do not consider you a fan. How do you like that?

     

    Wow you really got me good Gordo!! You're stressing me out bro!! Actually, I would be more offended by your questioning of my "Bills fan credentials" if you could actually string together a coherent thought into a sentence.

     

    Just for the record, Gordo, I went to my first Bills game when I was 6 years old, and my family had season tickets from 1987 to 1999. I'm 32 years old now and not one season has passed where I have missed attending a game in Buffalo. I have also attended games in New York City, New England, Charlotte, Baltimore, and Miami.

     

    So...Do I put my money where your mouth is? I'm not sure what you mean by that, but taken in a literal sense, no I don't because money is very dirty.

  6. Let's try to break this down.

     

    One litmus test for "stressing out" would be something that caused you to have a hard time sleeping.

     

    But even that has to be qualified…many kids have a hard time sleeping on Christmas Eve because they are excited about Christmas morning…but I wouldn't call that stress…I'd call that excitement.

     

    At any rate, I read and post here virtually every day, I have the NFL Sunday ticket, I go to as many Bills games as my location/income allow, I have Bills merchandise and bumper stickers on my vehicles and I wore my Bills garb to the Oakland Coliseum…so yeah…I'm a true Bills fan.

     

    But I don't lose any sleep thinking about the Bills. Without going into details, I have many more important things to "stress out" over.

     

    No matter how excited I get about the Bills, it's all in entertainment and fun…and if you take an academic approach to the subject like most of the people here, it's also pretty damn interesting to watch and evaluate an organization over the course of many decades.

     

    So stress? Nope…no way.

     

    Excitement and interest? Buffalo Bills Football is atop my entertainment world.

     

    It sounds like we are all quibbling about what to name the human emotion we all feel when it comes to our favorite sports teams. Whether you call it stress, excitement, exhilaration, arousal, whatever...you are feeling some type of emotion related to the Bills. Sometimes these emotions can be positive in nature, sometimes negative. I don't know if the true "litmus test" for stressing out would be losing sleep at night.

     

    When Stevie Johnson dropped that pass in the endzone, losing the game against the Steelers, were you stressed or excited? When Ray Lewis stripped the ball from Shawn Nelson, effectively stealing away the game in overtime, were you excited or stressed? When the Bills blew other tough games against the Bears and the Chiefs.....how were you feeling exactly? I surely wasn't excited. I was feeling pretty negative.....call it what you want.

  7. His take on Jake Locker is interesting. I don't know if I'd go as far as to compare him to Favre, but he does raise some good points regarding the type of offense they ran at Washington, Locker's lack of protection, etc... If Jake Locker played for a team like Auburn or Oregon, would his stats look very different, and would we be talking about him as the #1 QB prospect?

     

    I'm not a huge fan of Gabbert....at least not in the first half of the first round.

  8. Anyone on here who says that they don't stress about the Bills is either lying, or they're not a true fan. Although I don't lie awake at night worrying about who the bills will pick in the draft, I do have concerns (given their history of draft blunders) that they will make a poor decision on Thursday night. These decisions affect me because I am a huge fan of the Bills who hates losing. When I watch games on Sunday, and I see our team get clobbered once again, I get stressed about it. It makes me angry, and yes....a little bit stressed.

  9. I wouldn't be opposed to bringing in Vince Young, but I highly doubt he would come to Buffalo to be a back-up QB. If anyone is assuming that VY would come in and immediately unseat Fitz as the starter...I think you're sorely mistaken. There are other teams (i.e., Oakland, Washington, Arizona) that he could go to and immediately compete for the starting job.

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