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Sisyphean Bills

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  1. Maybe because it gives all the appearance of a transparent money grab in the face of a lockout work stoppage by the 3rd worst team in the NFL. It's like a line of breakfast cereal that doesn't taste all that good and isn't too healthy coming out in a new box that glows in the dark. They know the kids will want to try it when they run their Saturday morning commercials. (Oh and by the way, the boxes might be empty for a little while. Oh well.)
  2. Of course, the Bills did try their "woman shopping for a husband" approach on Wire and were trying to convert him from a LB to a S and it wasn't working out all that well. Atlanta decided he is what he is and lined him up at LB and he's been a steady player ever since. BTW, moving Kelsay to OLB is right on par with this. Maybe they should've tried to move Whitner to shutdown CB as well.
  3. Would you consider Ray Lewis, AJ Hawk or James Farrior great in coverage? Pos needs to be covered up and playing the Will (or Mac, the WILB), since he tends to play with his pads too high. What you really want is someone that has great instincts and great range. I don't think that guy is Pos, and given Buddy Nix comments about the ILB position, he might not either. (The Bills apparently use the terminology of Sam, Mike, Will, Jack.)
  4. The trend is so heavily towards passing across the NFL, that it is worth asking if it wouldn't be wise to, instead of chasing the trend, to go counter to the trend? The spread-option obviously uses the pass, but it can be a dynamic running offense and absolutely gash a defense for huge chunks of yardage (not unlike the pass). With the NFL defenses generally trending towards smaller and quicker, a quick hitting power run game might actually put an offense ahead of the curve. On the other hand, the Bills seem to like mimicking the latest trends.
  5. I prefer the method of listening to Kiper, McShay, et.al. and use a finger in the wind to measure the hype for setting a draft board. (Seriously though, you have some interesting ideas there, Arm.)
  6. It'd be the main reason to buy a ticket. Of course, hopefully the distraction of a football game happening concurrently wouldn't take anything away from the experience of watching the HD screen.
  7. Thanks for the link, JC. In the words of Buddy Nix, "I don't care what happen 'round he' befo'!"
  8. Second youngest team in the NFL, right? So much for those "small town" and "umpteen guys on IR" excuses as well.
  9. Zombo of the Chippewas!
  10. Isn't the goal to be the best though? What sort of aspiration is it to say, "Most teams have average drafts by definition, so if we're only a little worse than average we're really not so bad"? With respect to the Bengals, they are a Mickey Mouse organization. Mike Brown thinks that if it worked for his father, it is good enough. Paul Brown ran a very tight ship and wanted to scout his own players, so the Bengals continue to do it the same way, asking their coaching staff to do double duty and do most of the scouting. Obviously, it hasn't worked very well for them, but you're right that some of these teams that annually draft in the top 10 seem to stick with what isn't working. Is that Matt Millen over there?
  11. I know he isn't.
  12. Mildly strange (or pure smoke blowing), indeed. The OLB position was terrible last season, and you have other reports that the Bills want to build their defense around Posluszny. Then this.
  13. The facts are that they recruited pretty darn well at Tech. It just didn't translate on the field, especially with Mark Richt's total domination of the in-state rivalry.
  14. Let's start with a goal that's within the realm of possibility and work our way up. How about improving to the point he can line up, stay onsides, run down the field in his lane, and make a tackle or two on special teams?
  15. Not sure who that is. Noll? Joe Walton?
  16. Does he want out of Green Bay, are the Packers not happy with his work, or are the Bills going to offer him a promotion to be their DC?
  17. I had my sound off and thought I was watching a Lee Evans highlight tape there.
  18. "That'll never happen again," Reed told me last week. "You won't see an assemblage of players like that -- at least not in Buffalo. I know that."
  19. You're probably right. Maybin could be a mediocre player in the right system. Too bad that system has yet to be invented.
  20. They asked him to stop tweeting.
  21. Replace it with a "Declared Junior Bowl".
  22. Because the Bills stopped trying to play a classic 3-4 and went to a one-gap 3-4/4-3 hybrid. (They ended up not having the players to play either a straight 3-4 or 4-3.) There's no shame in it. Warren Sapp was arguably the best 3-tech ever. The Raiders decided they'd play him as a 5-tech and he was vastly less effective.
  23. Is it not interesting, Hopeful, that 4 "BPA" picks in the last draft were players that were projects for a 3-4 defense?
  24. That may seem pretty damn good in a few years.
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