Sisyphean Bills

I was with you to the last sentence. Business as usual doesn't really support a dramatic turnaround. And when Ralph dies, all bets are off.

Well, at least he didn't overpay for Bledsoe. Throwing away draft picks saved money too.

Wined and dined? At the Rodeway Inn? http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews...e_New_York.html

Whew! Dodged overpaying another one. TGIF!

I remember Tony Romo handing out lollipops, actually.

Maybe his car, but not his house.

Are you a refugee from a basketball board or something?

I didn't see them on the thruway.

Yes, but Jenkins is a CB from Ohio State and top rated. And, we all know what a huuuge football woody the Bills have for secondary players from THE Ohio State University. It just may prove too tempting.

Egg-zactly!

Look at the stats and weep. The safeties make a ton of the tackles in the Bills defense.

You can never have too many CBs. Besides, we don't want to overspend and keep McGee next year.

Is Russ still working the phones to get Peyton Manning to Buffalo? And the lunch pail better be flat black.

Jenkins. http://www.nfldraftdog.com/2009_NFL_Draft/...olm_jenkins.htm "If not, Buffalo would have surely snatched him up before Leodis McKelvin."

BFD.

Ah, yes, musical chairs. That's a great party game. What did Pyrite Gal call these theories? Tinker Toys? But, yes, I can see why you'd want the smallest guy on the defense to be the core of a defense and sticking his face in there for likely 100+ tackles on the season. No chance he'd break down and your team would be fukked by losing one of its best cover guys.

As Jenkins might be there at #11, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

He's tall and he worked hard.

That begs the question though, when is it time and who is worth keeping at an average or slightly above average market value (we can take blowing the entire salary structure for 1 player off the table as that is clearly not a team building approach) for a struggling franchise that hasn't had success in a decade? Where would you start investing? If not with the guys that you've developed and who have played extremely well in your system, then where?

Let me get this straight. If I listened then I would hear things that were never said just like you did. Well, OK then.

It wouldn't surprise me one iota if Parker had Coles visit the Bills first as a bit of pay back to Russ Hardball Brandon. (Insert applause.) Brandon gets to spend his valuable initial FA time on Coles (rather than players that may actually be interested) and does Parker the favor of setting the market price. Coles and Parker never had any intention of signing but take the offer to others to match and when they find a dance partner, they sign. Hardball, baby! Comedic genius.

One other point is that the Bills own actions do not support the "we're all set and don't need you" read of the situation. The Bills openly pursued Greer before free agency and publicly said they very much wanted him back. They pursued him after the FA period began. They made counter offers and continued the pursuit right up to the last moment. Then, they immediately turned around and signed Florence before the ink was dry on the contract between Greer and the Saints. These actions are simply not consistent with a team that thinks it has all the bases covered without Greer. These actions are, however, consistent with a team that has had severe injury problems in their secondary and that plays the Patriots' high octane spread offense twice a year.

I thought my position on this coach was very well established. (Read: I totally agree and that doesn't change the fact that McKelvin is unproven.) To clarify earlier comments: McKelvin himself said he wasn't getting the defense. I don't know what Troy State does in their secondary, but it doesn't instill a lot of confidence. He's unproven at best and at worst he was buried on the depth chart behind Greer, McGee, Youboty and Corner last season for much of the year. He might be better than Greer, but who knows? The competition of having him beat Greer out for the starting job would be the anti-Jauron way of building a team. Who wants the stress of competition when one can set up a system that simply crowns players based on salary or draft position, right? Especially given the Bills second-to-none stellar draft track record. Finally, there are advantages in having Greer and McKelvin going forward over McKelvin and Florence. So, I'm hopeful that McKelvin's light goes on and all, but I'll wait for the egg to hatch before counting it as a chick.

Last year, in our "playoff run", they couldn't afford to get McKelvin out on the field. He might make a mistake. So, they played guys that were hobbled and lost games anyway. Everyone knows McKelvin has talent, but he himself even admitted that he just wasn't getting it and wasn't ready. You can blame the coaches if you want as well -- perhaps they really do not know how to design a defense around a guy with limited reps. However, it took at injury to get him on the field. It wasn't the 1st round pick status or the idea that they needed to work him in on snaps to prepare for the team's future because Greer was a UFA. No, that would smack of actual planning. It took Greer getting hurt and being unable to go to get McKelvin on the field in the defense. Anyway you want to slice it, McKelvin is yet another unproven guy the Bills hope can fill a hole. I also am hopeful that he can, but I realize he hasn't shown a penchant for disciplined play. Yet again, the Bills let talent leave, so one of the few positions with some depth on the roster becomes threadbare. At least they saved a few bucks.

McKelvin didn't start last year because he is a moron. If you want to win, you put the best football players on the field. You know, like Bill Belichick or Bill Parcells do? Not the highest paid, runs fast in his underwear guy that might be good if he can pull his head out often enough.