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Coach Marrone, have you seen my white cane and blacked out glasses?
They're right over there next to Robert Woods, who just got blasted helmet to helmet, there, Stevie Wonder!
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I heard the official explanation was that the referee, head linesman and back judge all had the Bears in their survival pools.
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Yea stats are great but did he pass the eye test? Lol
I thought we weren't supposed be able to see his slow eyes because of the visor that would prevent him from looking his teammates in the eyes, thereby diminishing his leadership capacity, rendering him impotent.
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Good:
Woods making plays
Team resolve
FredEx
KW interception!
Victory!
Bad:
McKelvin playing ten yards off on all 3rd and shorts
No spy on Forte
Still with the penalties!
Little pressure on Cutler
Still with the three and outs
Ugly:
A good number of those penalties were BS
Picking up an offensive holding flag (after hitting KW in the face with the flag)
Well, at least we're 1-0 and the Pansies are 0-1. If we had some better execution, we could have dropped 30+ points on Chicago. I'd like to see them tighten it up and bring their A game for the Dolphins.
GO BILLS!
Was just about to mention KW's interception. Watching him undercut Bennett for the ball had me choking on my beer cuz of a half shout half laugh maneuver. It looked SO funny. Reminiscent of the Sam Adams TD to me.
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Jessica Rabbit is a Sarah Parker?
Matthew Broderick is banging a cartoon character... say whaaaaaaaaaat?
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Negativity
Win or lose come this Sunday
I guarantee it
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The STAR? What a joke that article is. yea brady gets up at 6am and cleans toilets. Please.
Huh? The Star? You're using the Star to make a point? That's worse than using Wikipedia. Far worse.
During Desert Storm some of my soldiers were interviewed by a reporter from the New York Times. The reporter had a canned, incendiary quote written before the interview and asked if anyone was willing to have it attributed to them. One of my naive young privates - who never said anything like the quote - said the reporter could attribute it to him. When it hit the papers, a PR firestorm ensued.
If a reputable newspaper like the NYT does stuff like this, what low journalism standards can we expect from the Star?
To me, Brady is just a football player. I have no opinion of him as a human being because I don't know him personally. All I know is that he's a good QB who plays for the wrong team.
Are you seriously condemning my use of an obvious tabloid rag article to poke fun at Tom Brady? I could care less if the only accurate facts are the names, given that it paints a picture of Mr. Bundchen as a p-whipped nancy-boy. It's funny (at least IMO).
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Sporting a pretty big beard todayMeh. The Brazilian beard he's normally sporting is 5'11" and looks better.
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This should temper your new respect a little...
http://starmagazine.com/2014/07/21/gisele-tom-a-house-divided/
**meow**whipcrack**
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I gotta think refs will be expecting that. Personally, I'd like to see a lateral to an assistant coach who would then make the flag toss.
GO BILLS!!!
I heard they were going to bring in Jesse Palmer to throw the flags, but he was afraid they would only give him 48 hours to learn the system before deciding whether or not to cut him, so he turned down the tryout.
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In all this talk about Orton, I am still puzzled by the Tuel cut. Not really questioning that he isn't up to being on the 53 roster under ordinary circumstances. But these aren't ordinary circumstances. Right now, the only QB with Bills experience and familiarity with both the players and the playbook is EJ. So imagine that in the first quarter of the Bears game, Manuel is knocked out. In comes Orton, with like a week to learn the playbook and the apparently tightly timed receiver routes, and what do you suppose that's going to look like? And what if, God forbid, something happens to Orton? So, yeah, Tuel isn't very good. But he does know the plays and the players so for at least the first month, it seemed a no-brainer that he'd be on the bench "just in case." Cutting him seems as irresponsible by the FO as not going after a solid backup in the off-season. The first month of the season is going to be very much "hold your breath" time.
Unless someone plucks him from the practice squad and puts him on a roster, I would imagine they'd just bring him up to the 53 man roster if EJ or KO was injured. While it wouldn't solve the problem of what to do in game at the time of injury, I don't imagine having him on the active roster at the that time would solve much, either.
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A team that feels they will be a playoff calibre team that has horrendous backups will pay $5 mil for the only decent backup available(who is also one of the best backups in the league). If the backup needs to come in at any point, it means that the playoff chances for the team are not thrown away. That is worth $5M.
No QB who is looking to be the starter would settle for $5M/year. Even Kolb would have gotten $8M+ had he ended up becoming the starter.
It seems to me that you suffer from confirmation bias on this. The Bills had no realistic backup QB. In any normal season this would be a problem, but with what appears to be a very good team about to take the field for the first time in a decade, they needed a good backup QB......so they got one(and had to overpay for one).
Sure, there is a chance that EJ regresses to worse play than last season.....but do you honestly think that the Bill's FO is thinking that a likely scenario? Do you honestly think that they further thought that Orton would be good enough to be the starter needed to get them to the playoffs? If EJ falters long term this season(benched or injured), it will be devastating to not only our playoff hopes but also to Whaley & Marrone's job security.
What's this? Rational thought? B word, I'm so turned on right now I wanna have your babies.
(No offense to Mrs. Dibs if there is a Mrs. Dibs).
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Thank you for clarifying your position. I would say the critical distinction between you and those like you, and me and those like me, is that I do not believe it is too early to tell that EJ will never be a good NFL QB.
He has done a wonderfully consistent job of being the same EJ throughout his career and what we have seen so far is what we get. Take it or leave it.
Will he improve a bit over time? Probably! Will it be meaningful improvement? No.
Who knows; he might morph into a game manager type who won't kill you with bone headed play. But I want so much more from my starting QB than that. Don't you!?
10 games plus a preseason, and this is your assessment?
Drew Brees, 10 games... Make the assessment...
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Whaley originally intended in 2013 to ease him in and play the veteran Kevin Kolb. All that changed with Rubber Mat-gate.
So now we have Orton and EJ is still struggling some. Would you be upset if they made EJ #2 and let him continue his development backing up Orton who would start?
I don't know how much of a learning curve there is to the Bills offense, or how quick Orton can pick things up. But considering the pressure on Whaley not to flush the season and have Cleveland get a high pick, and the fact that he was willing to let EJ ride the bench before he was forced to play him, and his willingness to flush Lewis and Tuel, I think that this could happen.
I agree that Kolb was meant to be a measuring stick to know when EJ was ready to play, especially given that it was widely recognized that he was raw coming out of college. I think the coaches will give EJ every opportunity early on in the season to maintain the starting spot while Orton learns the offense, however if he falters I could see them going to KO as a stopgap, possibly in game if EJ is sucking it up, possibly for a game or two for EJ to get his head on straight.
My reasoning is: 1) the FO needs to win this season, or they're out 2) expectations on EJ are sky-high, and are likely to affect his play to some extent, regardless of how he appears to be embracing them 3) KO's play should be "overcomable" by EJ as he progresses if he really is going to be the franchise QB. Ultimately, I think KO gives the team the opportunity to have some patience in developing EJ in season while still maintaining some expectation of making the playoffs.
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Yep. Orton/McCown/Fitz are all the kinds of guys we should have had around last year: capable, durable, but not long-termers. Kolb was missing that crucial second element and it cost the Bills dearly.
Consider the luxury the 49ers were afforded in retaining and building up Smith before pivoting to the QB they believed in long term.
Not only did Harbaugh get to evaluate his talent better with an experienced QB, he wasn't shackled to the performance of an unheralded young QB.
No new coach/GM tandem should put themselves in this situation unless they have an Andrew Luck in the fold. They had a perfect situation to start from with Fitz under contract, and botched it doubly by signing his more fragile, less capable counterpart in Kolb while eating Fitzy's dead cap money.
To the point about Fitz, I truly believe that leaked hoax/phone call killed any shot of Fitz renegotiating his contract, and therefore returning. It was not flattering. I think this probably forced their hand with Kolb. No less inept, maybe a bit less shortsighted, though.
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I'd appoint Kiko Lord of Funk, and let the good times roll.
If not for the whole being dead thing and all, that title would be bestowed upon Rick Jaaaaames, B word.
I'd sit bare-assed in Jerry Sullivan's seat in the press box after a shower-free weekend, then smirk with glee every time I saw him at a press conference.
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getting the top pick in the second round, which is only one pick away from the superbowl winner !!!
Huh... seems like someone poured lemonade on my Wheaties. Nope... uhh... my mistake. It's urine.
I'm looking forward to fewer posts espousing this sentiment by season's end. Cheers.
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Legursky was not great. But after the Colin Brown project, he was an "upgrade".
That's kind of like upgrading from a Ford Pinto to an AMC Gremlin because at least the Gremlin didn't explode when it stalled and was rearended.
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You just knew clicking the thread title would amount to squat. Did it anyway like a dummass.
I would have preferred to have been "pixylanded."
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Do you really want to bring in the QB that the Eagles are auditioning Thad Lewis to replace????
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That's the bottom line here. If the OL is solid, the running game should flourish and EJ is usually fine when he has time to throw. Not great yet, mind you, but fine. If the line is solid, we'll actually get to see if EJ develops as hoped. But make no mistake about it, the Bills running game should be the driver for their early success. If that falls apart, Orton is probably doomed as well.
Of course, if the OL plays well and the running game is good, it is still good to have Orton in case of injury.
This, plus a defense that should dominate (assuming that pass coverage fares better than preseason would indicate).
I agree, the FO's goal was to put a team around EJ that would give him the best chance to develop into the QB they envision he can be. Even among his most ardent supporters, I don't think anyone is calling him a finished product... only among his detractors.
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You mean the same guy who it took more than a year to get a backup QB?
No kidding. How he could not have foreseen the career ending injury of Kolb or the absolute implosion of Lewis is inexcusable. And then to replace Lewis with a former starting QB with a 0.500 W/L record on short notice... time to get out the pitchforks and light the torches.
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Is he the scourge responsible for this horrible turn of events at the QB position? At the end of last season, we thought we were in good shape between EJ, Tuel and Thad...8 months after Downing is hired, EJ has regressed, Thad is cut and Tuel is fodder for the Practice Squad. Don't know this guy, however, he is the only thing that has changed at One Bills Drive since the end of last season...
Lest we forget the mess he made of Palmer in just over 2 days.
Round 3: Sale of the team
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I'm guessing that actually having insight into sports management must not be a prerequisite for having a penis, otherwise there is no way in hell Gleason would have an instrument to write his column with.