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You've got it about Fitz and Fred. It isn't really Fitz' release so much as that his pre-snap reads are excellent and he has great trust in them. He knows where he is going with the ball before it is snapped and is unafraid to sling it in there. He is what he is: a very cerebral QB with less than elite physical tools.
Sacks, while often brought up on the board, are a meaningless statistic. Ben Roethlisberger takes a ton of hits and sacks but he's led his team to championships and extending the play is just part of his game. Aaron Rodgers has taken lots of sacks in prior years and is in the top 5 this year. Trent Edwards didn't get sacked much. Curtis Painter hasn't been sacked much this year, yet that hasn't helped the Colts to a single win.
You're being greedy asking for sacks. Heck, generating enough pressure to cause the QB to have to move one of his feet an inch or two would be worthy of a note home.
Are you saying they drafted a "waterbug" to try to convert him into a battering ram?
I guess that makes about as much sense as playing Spencer Johnson with his 5.2 40 speed at OLB.
It's actually kind of sad to compare the Bills line performance to other NFL lines. A Bills running play featured guys trying to zone up and double team a defender and both being blown backwards. The Broncos, for example, could run the same play and lineman where getting to the second level and McGahee was 10 yards down the field before a defender could wave bye-bye at him.
PS: I know it's a banged up OL, but they were getting their ***es handed to them.
To be fair to Spencer, he looks to be giving it everything he has; but, who is the unmitigated moron that has him playing OLB? It makes as much sense as, say, starting Wes Welker at NT so Vince Wilfork can cover Lee Evans running fly patterns.
As I pointed out in a different thread, Nix has "completely gutted" (quoting Why So Serious?) the Bills by elevating the depth of the Jauron years into starting positions and back filling the roster with his guys. In other words, even the Bills traditional Just Replace The Batteries approach to franchise rebuilding could be argued to be slipping, if one truly believes that the depth on the roster cannot step up and is highly suspect as Buddy Nix himself suggested.