dpberr
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He's a pretty big DB.
Yet another guy who buys a Glock because they are "cool" and so "gangster" and whoops, managed to put a round in his leg because he's had little training and carries it around chambered in his sweatpants.
If idiocy was punishable under state law, looks like it's about a two year sentence.
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I dont quite get the pessimism on the Colts. Sure they lose Manning...They still have Reggie Wayne, Joseph Addai, Dallas Clark, Pierre Garcon, Austin Collie and SUPER BOWL WINNING QB Kerry Collins.
While they might not make the playoffs, expecting them to go 3-13 or worse is quite ridiculous in my opinion. I put them at 9-7 or 8-8 without Manning.
Three things lead me to the belief that the Colts will probably pull off a 1997 San Antonio maneuver here and land Luck.
1. You need somebody to get the ball to those receivers. Collins hit a wall last year. Couple that the offensive line is used to Manning taking the majority of snaps from shotgun and Collins rarely did in Ten.
2. Addai needs holes to run through. People complain about the Bills line. Indy's isn't all that hot either. It's a combination of aging players and stopgaps with no depth. At all.
3. The defense is alright, but injury plagued. Outside of Mathis, Freeney and perhaps Brackett, it's an average defense that's injury prone.
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I'd say yes they are. There isn't much to the Colts after you take away Manning. Indy has a mediocre *team* with aging stars that's in cap hell, especially if Manning can't play anymore.
That's a team that's primed to crash and burn.
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I thought the Forbes article was lousy. Didn't just give you a list. No, it had to be a list in pictures.
I don't buy these numbers. There are teams with debt to their eyeballs, and that's why they played hardball with this most recent contract.
So what that the team is worth X. If you want to buy the team, you really want to take on all of the existing debt too? To me, a mountain of debt degrades a team's "worth" to a buyer.
Debt is the 800lb gorilla that Forbes and the NFL doesn't want to talk about.
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I wouldn't want a coach that doesn't want to and expect to win.
What's the purpose of playing the game or following it for that matter without that specific expectation?
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Acquiring Sam Young and getting Roosevelt back into the fold are two sound moves. I'm glad to see them.
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I think watching the Bills defense this weekend will make you think you're watching the Bills defense of the early 90s.
It's full of pissed off players all with something to prove and it's being run by one of the bigger off-season acquisitions in the league in Dave Wannstedt.
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My offense pick: Ryan Fitzpatrick. I feel this is the year he'll cement himself as the franchise quarterback. The continuity with the staff and receivers bodes well for a successful season.
My defense pick: Nick Barnett. Provided he's healthy, he'll produce similar to 2007. 100+ tackles, few sacks, couple interceptions. The 2011 defense personnel mirrors, and in some ways, improves upon, the 2007 Packers defense.
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I always got the impression that for whatever reason, cheating on your wife is one thing, and cheating on your wife who's pregnant is another, crossing a very big line for those in the media and the NFL. Little doubt in my mind he's being blacklisted by both.
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The Comeback is my vote. Blockbuster game. One of the best in the game's history.
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Tom Nutten
John H. Davis
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Manning is in that territory now of wondering if football is worth it. Spinal surgery is like doing a pull on a car frame. It's never quite the same. It's slightly weaker than it was. If you're Manning, do you wonder if you're one hit away from very serious injury that doesn't last a week or a season, but a lifetime? He's made a ton of money, and has a future in broadcasting and media after football.
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They will be the Spurs of the NFL. Bad enough just one year to draft another once in a generation player. Without Manning, the Colts aren't that good.
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Overall, I'm not sure any team knows what it has until the second game.
That being said, considering the run defense is what led to many of the 12 losses last year, and the upgrades to it, I'd say yes, the Bills are improved. I don't see teams running on the Bills like they did last year.
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He better make it to the practice squad.
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The Bills and Titans both surprise this year and have another showdown in Nashville in the playoffs on January 8, 2012.
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At ESPN, lazy journalism gets you the same paycheck as putting effort into writing a story. So why not just go the lazy route?
Clayton has been mailing it in for years now. Research is hard.
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I don't think anybody knows what they've got until the second week of the regular season.
Preseason is all about experimenting with different players, plays, schemes, line calls, etc and trying not to give away regular season strategy to the battalion of opposing team operatives there filming the game and taking notes about what they see.
First week of the regular season, every player on every team is stoked just to be out there and gives 150% effort.
Second week games, things "settle" a little.
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I've been impressed with Aiken and Heard.
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My vote is for Corey McIntyre, although I'd hate it.
I think Chris Kelsay is a possibility, especially if someone pops up on the waiver wire that is better suited in the 3-4.
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Too bad he plays center. He's not cut out to be a guard. He was moved from the guard position, where he wasn't all that great to center, where he flourished in the 2006 season.
It'd be counterproductive to move Wood from center at this point. That'd only mess up Fitzpatrick and the o-line as a whole as that position makes the line calls and adjustments.
The preseason continuity in this instance outweighs any benefit from bringing in a new guy. It's probably the last position you want to tinker with with only a game left in preseason.
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No team in the NFL has *addressed* their offensive line.
Half the NFL has offensive lines that are marginal to barely adequate in quality. (See Ravens, Baltimore/Eagles, Philadelphia, Patriots, New England for starters)
Those teams have worse lines than the Bill with more at stake. Those teams will only go as far in the playoffs (which they expect to make) as their offensive lines keep the QB from being massacred.
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We're really in a no-win situation. The Patriots are a team in decline, and while it's been slight, and there will be no catastrophic drop-off, the team is coming back to the AFC pack. Dynasties are circular in shape. The time on top is brief, at most a decade in the NFL. You spend the rest of your time either declining to the bottom or progressing to the top. The Patriots have been at the top for a decade. They don't have much left in the tank.
So, if we win, I see the media narrative shaping up to read the Bills win is evidence of a Patriots decline more than evidence of an improving Bills team.
I think the Bills need to pull off victories over NE and NY before the media would take notice.
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Outside of the starters, Kamar Aiken has been one of the more impressive players at camp fighting for a spot. I hope the Bills keep him. Never can have too many big, strong receivers.
The Bills won today because....
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I didn't wear the colors today. No Bills hat, not even a Bills t-shirt. The SO pointed out that the weekends I didn't wear the colors last year due to having to be elsewhere or doing something else besides watching the Bills in the red, white and blue....they won.
It worked today.