Sisyphean Bills

Well, that would make sense if the Bills had never heard of the Inactive List, which is where other teams keep starters that are temporarily injured until they are back and ready to play. But, despite some assertions otherwise, the Bills didn't have more than 8 starters injured. Or maybe they don't know that they can add and subtract players from the practice squad during the season as injuries happen so that they can find the right balance for drills if, for example, they lose depth at FS.

Didn't they cast Pos to the IR almost instantly last year? Seems like maybe there was a precedent that a starting LB that is going to miss a few games is easily replaced and should just be put on IR and lost for the year. My guess would be that Crowell either felt nothing or felt something awry in his knee but thought he could play with it. The knee got worse and he finally decided to get it checked and cleaned out. At that point they discovered it was much worse than anyone thought going in and recommended he get it fixed while they were there. Sometimes it is not easy to predict an injury will happen months in advance.

The true genius is having an owner that knows more than the football people around him.

This just proves that Parker's strategy was all wrong. Peters should have showed up, started acting like a disinterested malcontent, and asked for a trade and he'd already be a top paid NFL LT for some other team. "There is no such thing as a reach." "Dick/Marv know how to build a team. Trust 'em."

It may be "company policy" as you say, but it is a slogan as well. It is a slogan because the Buffalo Bills may not have to cave in to Peters' demands (obviously), but they absolutely positively do have to deal with the holdout. Sure, they may not want to, but Peters and Parker are clearly telling them, "deal with this, buddy." In essence, a company may have a policy that they want to be profitable. "We want to make money." That doesn't mean that the marketplace has to oblige. The problem is that this is a disagreement between two parties and because one side overtly dresses itself in a mantle of "official policy" does not mean the core problem is fixed or that the other party is 100% wrong. In fact, it seems like both sides are being rather fugtarded from the outside. How the phuk do they expect to work through any of this at all if neither side is willing to sit down and discuss it?

Isn't it pretty clear that Peters, no doubt seeing some of the other deals made by the same team to lesser OL, feels that he didn't get a good deal? I agree that he has no one to blame but himself (and his agent) for the last deal he signed; but, saying that doesn't make his bad feelings go away. Still, it is not totally unreasonable to throw the kid a bone, is it? The "we don't negotiate with holdouts" is a nice slogan though.

Maybe you can explain why the Patriots bother to pay a 6th round pick more than veteran minimum then.

Agreed about the trade. Do you really think the Bills will stick it out for a year or even two? Of course, Brandon has no track record at all on these things and I rather think Ralph and/or Littmann is the man behind the curtain again (this has deja vu all over again written all over it), so you may be right. Still, I'm not sure how it benefits the Bills to play hard ball and let Peters talent atrophy for a couple of years. His value to the Bills diminishes greatly, either as a player or as a trade, if this thing becomes that protracted. As far as uncompromising "tough negotiators," I doubt many agents will be any more afraid of the Bills after seeing them throw Peters away in a demonstration of futile stubbornness if it goes down like that. I could even see agents steering their clients away like in the bad ol' days, simply telling anybody that the Bills draft to flip the team the bird, and re-enter the draft the next year. (FWIW, I'm not saying the Bills are not trying to work a deal with Peters, but the public perception of a situation that amounts to "letting their best player rot for 2 seasons at home" will not be that the Bills are masterful at working out their problems.)

I'd say it was more than one, but either way that's at least one whole season more than Jake Long.

I second that. Required reading for any archaic NFL front office types that think it's just about "5 fat guys."

Maybe he means compensation picks in the draft?!? It's kind of sad that many assume that if a player has a good year in Buffalo, he's as good as gone.

Hard to go wrong with a guy dubbed "The Next Leonard Davis."

I think we better stop the Patriots at least 1 time before dipping them in bronze, here.

It's all about the funky chicken.

Of course, watching Smith's game plan of playing patty cake against the Patriots was a thing of beauty. For a Patriots bandwagon fan.

DT, dude.

I dunno. Wasn't there a team that stashed an All Pro LT on the PS once?

Does that factor in neck length? Lock him up on Moss all day. 16 chickens for sure.

Not disputing that. Bill Dooley had a very good program though. Under Beamer and after joining the Big East (more $$$ than being an independent), the Hokies program went from very good to a national powerhouse level.

No problem. Crap happens.

Merton Yourbooty.

But, but, he sucks!

You are looking at the stats standing on your head. More points given up and more yards given up mean a lower overall defensive ranking.