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You're thinking it, I'm writing it. If this clown hit some woman with his car and left her for dead and can't even step up and take responsibilty for his actions days later, when the shock has worn off, he should be imprisoned. No question about it. If he's protecting someone by not talking, he is at the very least a pariah in the community and doesn't belong on this team. It's not worth it, IMO. This is not a victimless crime or a domestic issue, hit and run is the real deal in terms of sh*tting on your fellow man.
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Yeah, yeah...I know. He's not above the law, and I never said that he was. He'll be punished one way or another, but its not like he raped someone, or was caught buying crack.
Hitting someone with a car and leaving them knocked the hell out and possibly dead or dying is right up there with rape, IMO. Certainly worse than buying crack for chrissake.
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Say one thing bad about Buffalo: Cut off water supply and livelihood for millions.
You're the one whose all hot a bothered about the water issue. If you live in the southwestern US, the great lakes is not your water supply or your livelihood. I do feel bad for the people in these booming arrid regions. A lot of us in WNY make a living selling goods and services to the herds that gather around the sunshine holes down south, but if you want water from the lakes you need to move nearby. I'm going to guess the Rocky Mountains are also not for sale, but you can check with Colorado.
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I think he can only get better and learn from his mistakes and bad play.
We hope he gets better, but he might not. It's a mistake to assume that more snaps will help.
More snaps sometimes expose weaknesses. Two years ago JP was a top half of the league starter. It was assumed he could only get better. Last year, defenses reacted to what they had seen from Losman and the Bills offense in 2006, and between the injuries and Edwards taking time, JP was relegated to backup duty on the second worst offense in the league by seasons end.
Expect teams to pressure Edwards more this year and take away the short pass he specializes in, with the idea being that you will either knock him out of the game(injury prone) or force him to make the long throws he is not particularly good at. Kind of a "Chad Pennington" defense.
IMO, the Bills really screwed Edwards by not getting a TE to help him out. If there is one good deep ball Edwards throws it's the deep middle(not coincidentally the shortest distance between points), and a seam stretching TE could be the difference between him making it in the league and not. But, once again, the Bills felt there were higher priorities than putting the QB in the best position to succeed(which is actually the most important thing an organization can do, period).
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i believe there was a lot of talk about how gilbride changed his offensive philosphy and adapted it this year.
something he has never done before and certainly not with the Bills. it only took him, what, 10-15 years to figure it out?
Wrong. The guy ran the "run and shoot" at Houston then switched to a conventional offensive approach in Jacksonville and put together an excellent offense there. He didn't do a great job in Buffalo, but after his successful first year he lost 3 playmakers in the offseason, then Moulds got hurt, Reed dropped off and the OL sucked and the QB's confidence was shaken. He is not a great coordinator, but he is good and gets way too much blame for the mess while he was here.
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Real bum names from the 70's:
"Dirty Denny" Evans
"Flash" McKelvey
"Catcrusher"
"Flash" did not get his name because he was fast. Leodis is actually a good bum name. "Flash" McKelvin?
I think I have a mental problem, because I read a funny story about hobos and now I can't stop making up hobo names...Beancan Bill Ott
Corny Samuelson, the Swede
Shortfoot McKenna, the Risktaker
If David Duchovny was a bum
Philosophizin' Raymond Thomason (aka Ray the Mouth)
"Lights Out" Steven James (aka Narcoleptic Steve)
Creepy Jim Dunlop, the kid toucher
Arkansas Viggo Mortensen
Bummy McBum, the Bum's Bum
Crumb Jacket Charlie
Syphilitic Pete Hamilton, the Romantic
Connie "Goose Legs" Blanchard
Handsome Leroy Twoshirts
AJZepp and his Quaker Oats box drum
Possum-Eatin' Lana K
"Ol' Stinky" Bullpen, the unwashed statesman
Good Times Sketch Soland, the boxcar reacharounder
ieatcrayonz
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What's your favorite candy bar?
Mine will always be Twix.
Marathon (the old ruler shaped chocolate covered caramel)
Toffifay
Riesen
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Watching Scrubs tonight and saw theand started thinking about my alarm clock i have at home. I figure I've had it about 27 years now. I think it's the oldest electronic item I have in my house.
What's yours?
My alarm clock as well. GE digital with cassette from 1982. Not the oldest electronic item I have around, but remarkable because it's been in constant service for 26 years. I also have a toy laser gun from the 1970's that still works with the original 9 volt battery. They don't make things in China they way they used to make things in China.
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10 years into an NFL career there aren't many lineman who are near their prime. Prime for a lineman is more like 25-28. This isn't baseball, the physical nature of the game takes it's toll. Schobel is past his prime, but he should still be productive for a couple years because his high motor has never been run in January or February. Low mileage.
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Color me confused. I thought we were suppose to hate Omon because the pick should have been spent on an OL.
We get it, you think you're funny and you don't think people should be critical of the Bills, but rather critical of each other instead. Is it really necessary to hijack an innocent thread like this one?
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It is a different world now. I agree soccer will most likely never surpass football in my lifetime. But I feel soccer will grow in popularity from here on out most every year.
Soccer may continue to grow in popularity in the US, but I think worldwide it will decline. Soccer is to the world what baseball was to the US fifty years ago. As the standard of living rises for much of the rest of the planet, a good deal of those people will become bored with soccer and more interested in sports with more action, violence and variety of skill(like using hands, for instance).
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These could be 2 good special teamers. Considering the Bills lost a great core of ST's in Aiken, Stamer, Hagan, and Wire, special teams definitely factored in the draft...
What I don't understand is Fine is an H-back type, and Turk is disposing of the H-back. They already have a promising developmental player just like Fine in Derek Schouman.
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Too bad Malone sounds more like a Deadbeat Dad than a true father....
Scumbag
Karl Malone ain't all bad. He is very active in trying to find a cure for livabetes.
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But they're inarguably sub-average NFL CBs, getting beat like drums repeatedly throughout the season.
I disagree, McGee and Greer are both pretty good cover corners, but they are not well suited to play zone coverage. The problem is the Bills can't rush the passer, so Fewell is afraid to take chances in the secondary for fear of being beaten over the top. Then when teams repeatedly throw the ball underneath, those guys aren't physical enough to jump the routes or come up and jar the ball loose. McKelvin is talented enough to play any scheme, but his talent will be muted by zone coverage. Corner and Cox are pretty much zone corners.
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I disagree. You really want to believe that draft-day decisions in today's NFL should be made with a view towards how the team will look in 7-8 years? Seriously? If a team can get 5-6 productive years out of a high draft pick it should be viewed as a success. Some of those guys they'll try to extend and keep around, and some will move on for "greener pastures."
I "get it" just fine. I simply don't agree with guys like you and Bill.
You just don't want to face it. Yet.
It's the same schitt just with a different GM/coach. Jauron came in and wanted to bring back GW's small, penetrating DL approach to line play. The same approach that cost GW any chance at getting off on the right foot when he got here. They passed on the big DT they needed (Ngata) in round 1 of Jauron's first draft to pick a small safety who signed the largest contract in team history and has wowed nobody.
Two years later, they had to trade picks just to acquire Marcus Stroud, the same type of DT as Ngata, the guy that didn't fit their INITIAL approach......except an old, injured, drug suspended version. The flaws in their building plan are already quite obvious. Stroud will be out of the league in a few years and Ngata will be anchoring the line in Baltimore for another decade. Whitner is out of here at the end of his first contract.....and he's not anywhere near as valuable as a dominant lineman anyway.
When you have to stock your lines with guys pushing 30 years old in free agency you are just asking for upheaval every few seasons. When you can't win at the LOS, those perimeter players are all but worthless. Everyone was worried about paying a top corner on your team, that you used a #1 draft pick on, $8M per year. But paying some other teams one dimensional OG who has never been to a Pro Bowl $7M, or an underachieving also one dimensional OT from another team $5M, or an overrated LDE who doesn't rush the passer well $5M.........hey, that was WISE.
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You are not seriously arguing that paying NC the money necessary to keep him would have been a wise thing to do are you?
Do you mean wise like paying Larry Triplett $5M per year to do nothing? Overpaying Robert Royal and Peerless Price? How about drafting an undersized safety so high you have to make him the highest paid player in team history before he ever took a snap? Or even paying two huge free agent OL $12M per year to pass block only?
The Bills had a good thing going with Clements. A very young(26), outstanding in all phases of the game, DURABLE cornerback who Fewell had developed a pass defense around with remarkable success. Clements 2006 season got Kelsay and Schobel paid. Without him, their coverage sack opportunities went out the window in 2007, further exposing the lack of push from the interior. Pass defense went from 7th in the NFL to near the bottom. Yeah, not paying Clements was a mistake.
For years they've overdrafted corners, wasting that talent in zone schemes, and they finally found a way to truly utilize the best one they've had in 30 years, maybe ever, and they let him walk to save a couple mill per season. A couple mill they just might throw at a washed up, out of the league receiver like Peerless Price on any given day. Then, back to the trough they go in round 1.
Two years from now, when Schobel and Kelsay are petering out, Stroud and Denney are retired and the Bills are hurting on the OL we're going to wonder how the Bills went from having all the holes in the roster filled to being personnel bankrupt in just 2 offseasons.
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If that's the case, it's a GREAT pick.
Wrong. I'll give you an example: Sam Cowart was not a GREAT draft pick even though he really was a great player for a few seasons. Good pick high in the second round.....sure. But no longevity. Flozell Adams was picked immediately before Cowart, he is still playing and doing so at a near Pro Bowl level. THAT was a GREAT pick.
There is a reason why Parcells took Jake Long, high picks should be the foundation of an organization. The foundation should be guys who have a legitimate chance to be there for a decade. Guys to build around. The Bills don't get that. We are so used to drafting in the upper half of round 1 now that we don't view the 11th pick as a very high pick, but it is. The Bills went the entire decade of the 1990's with a pick that high only once(traded for Rob Johnson).
It astounds me how people can't see this. They are so patient about giving Donahoe/Marv/Brandon time to gradually rebuild, all the while ignoring the fact that if the coach doesn't work out, then it's time to rebuild again without ever getting a solid foundation in place.
The Bills are one injury away from complete collapse on the O-Line. They were a very healthy unit last year, like the whole team had been the year before that. Kirk Chambers is the top backup.
The D-Line has one pass rusher who is coming off a poor season by his standards and they are banking on an old DT with injury and suspension issues to anchor their defense. Yet here they are drafting another guy in round 1 who will not be on the team in 5 years regardless of health or production. And people wonder why every few years or so the roster seems bereft of talent.
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Kiper gives the Bills a B in the first round when at 11 they draft the guy he had at 10th in his mock and 19th on his big board.
Gives the Pats* an A and major ballwashing when they draft Mayo at 10th and he has him at 17 on his big board and 15th in his mock?
This guy is unreal. Where's the logic? The Bills draft a guy 8 spots higher than Kiper has him ranked and one spot after he projected him. The Pats* take a guy 7 spots higher than Kiper has him ranked and 5 spots before he has him projected?
How people take these clowns seriously is beyond me. But even more gross is that no one will ever say anything bad about the Pats*.
Draft day grades are about value. The Pats traded back, got extra picks and the guy they wanted. The Pats didn't draft well last year, but in general this decade they've found a lot of good players in later rounds so getting extra picks could lead to picking guys like Asante Samuel or Randall Gay.
The Bills just got the player they wanted. A "B" is a good grade, but part of the reason(beside bad coaching) the Bills haven't been to the playoffs this century is because they don't consistently get a lot out of the draft. They have a good draft, then two stinkers. More picks would seem to increase one's chance of success, but the Bills have been on the other end, either not trading when they could get extra picks or trading up and giving up extra picks to get guys like Losman or McCargo.
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what about Nate Odomes and JD Williams? Plus Henry Jones- those Superbowl teams put a premium on secondary
I'm not talking about the secondary, I'm talking about the pedigree of corners. Nate was a second rounder. He was the top corner on those teams. Williams was a bust. Derrick Borroughs was a Bill Polian first rounder, but had to retire prior to the SB run. Cornerbacks were NOT the foundation of the franchise when it was good. Not even close. And they weren't why they got beaten in those Super Bowls. You'd think the track reccord would speak for itself, but the organization remains fixated on the position. Counting JD.....6 corners in 18 years? The Bills defiine the 3 aspects of football as Cornerback, Defense and Special teams.
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Gotta disagree a bit here, BADO. We didn't play zone against NEs 3,4, and 5 wide sets. They would have beaten us WORSE if we did. But you can't against their spread sets so it's a moot point.
GO BILLS!!!
I'm talking about the past 15 years. In fact, they've been mostly zone coverage since pre-Super Bowl era, and went to 4 Super Bowls without a #1 draft pick playing at corner, and were beaten 4 times by teams that believed the best pass defense was a great pass rush. * Actually, I forgot JD Williams who was a bust as a #1 pick corner and not much help in the secondary.
And as far as last season, I gotta disagree on that one, NE couldn't have beaten the Bills worse than they did the second time last year. They scored a TD on the first 7-8 posessions.
My issue is that the Bills need to either pay their first round corners, or find them later like they did with McGee and Greer. If you use a first rounder on a guy, and he pans out, he should be worth retaining, even if you have to overpay because you waited until the end of their contract to renew them. The Bills are terribly thin on the OL and do not rush the passer well from the DL. Having a lot of corners is nice, but you build from the inside out and the inside ain't done. The Bills have had more success drafting corners on day 2 than they have lineman.
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Negative.
We've got a big body to play wideout. We don't need to spend a valuable pick on a TE because Carlson and Keller are gone. Bennett is good, but I don't think we should target him. I say we go after a Defensive End to help with our pass rush.
They got a big body, but they didn't get the big body to catch the ball in the middle of the field, bail Edwards out when teams blitz, and keep the safeties from cheating toward the sidelines. Hardy is a sideline receiver. He could be a great weapon like a Plax Burress and a perfect complement to JP Losman's game. Less so for Edwards. Edwards can really work the middle of the field, but the Bills just don't have a reliable target there.
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Ours not to reason why, BADOL. Just keep sending in that ticket invoice.
What's funny is that the team has actually, pretty much played zone coverage all that time. That's like drafting a TE in round 1 just to block.
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He's posting. That means he didn't throw the computer out the window.
That's better than I expected. Here, I'll prescribe some painkillers:
I bet he's actually kind of glad to get it over with. We won't need to go cornerback in round 1 for the next 3 years or so.
5 first round corners the past 15 drafts. Lost the previous 4 in free agency. That's how they do's it.
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A perfect example of the FACT:
We, and mock "pros", don't know SQUAT compared to the people who work for NFL teams.
The average pro scout is about the equivalent of a gymn teacher in terms of skill, and yet some people want to mystify the profession. If Mel Kiper ran the Bills draft for the past 10 years, this team would be no worse off. I'm not saying he's better than a pro GM, I'm saying there ain't much difference. The things a head like Kiper can't quantify when evaluating players.....like desire.....pro personnel evaluators struggle with as well. And in general, most players slotted in the early rounds by the "amateurs", end up getting drafted in the early rounds, so crapshoot that, folks. If it was that hard.....the Pro Bowl wouldn't be little more than a re-union of former 1st and 2nd round picks.
Lynch's Silence
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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If the police can prove something against Lynch or his friends in the car, I expect then he will show remorse and then you will feel better.