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When Sherman was there, he cowtowed to Brett regarding personnel decisions. Now Thompson is not letting Brett play GM and he is pissed. Wherever Favre plays this year, he will add to his career interception record.

The thing I question is how does Lynch generate 4 YPC and Jackson 5.2 YPC with 8 or 9 guys in the box all the time. Those averages are not bad. Run 3 times and get a 1st down.

Is he healthy? maybe the ploy to get a big spanking new contract BEFORE camp is because he is more seriously hurt than the public realizzes. Since he missed all of the off-season activities, whether he recovered from his serious groin injury can not be confirmed

You should be more worried about the health of Jason Peters. He has not shown to be recovered from a serious groin injury (gee- maybe why the Bills are stalling on the contract) He missed all of the off-season team workouts- making him more susceptible to additional injury. He may miss the start of training camp -- making him more susceptible to additional injury.

The size of the target was not a factor in scroring TDs last year. This is a easy cop-out excuse. The complete failure to even attempt passes towards the end zone is why they did not scorre TDs. They should have been attacking the end zone from the 25 yard line, BEFORE they got into the red zone - If they throw to the end zone from the 25, they will score and will not need the jolly green giant

This may be true year 1. However, it is likely something will heave during the winter and throw things out of whack. May be better to have the deck over the pool. Prevents kids from pushing off the pool sides when jumping in as well. Leave room for the winter cover. The deck overhang also provides good anchor for a ladder Also be carefull with concrete and posts. Don;t use pressure treated posts with concrete poured around the post. The wood will shrink and create gaps. If using a concrete footer, you need to anchor the post to the concrate with bolts and not just rest it on the footer. Since kids will jump off the deck in to the pool, there will horizontal and upwards foces on the posts.

We will see. My bet is that Reed will be on the field more than Hardy in 2008. Hardy may start in game #1 to save face, but Reed will get significantly more snaps.

I would agree its not all Fairchild. There is something seriously wrong with the run game. It's not all the OL either. For as bad as the tewam looked running the ball, the OL did work together fairly well in pass protection. While the low sack total is a bogus measuring tool, what was missing in 2007 were the constant jailbreaks from prior years. To me, this indicates the OL had some ability to work together and communicate. But if they could do this for the more complicated pass protection, why couldn't they do it for run blocking. My guess is something else is seriously wrong. - Part of it might have been not understanding what McNally was trying to do - was it zone blocking, was is drive blocking, did anybody, including the OL, know what they were doing? - Another potentially bigger concern is that the run game problems lie with our highly touted RB. Although he was a warrior and fought for the tough yards, were those yards so tough because he missed the designed hole? I got the impression that the OL was getting frustrated that Lynch was not where he was supposed to be. It seemed there were plays where during the play, a OL would siimply disengage, standup and seem to be looking around to see where Lynch was. Maybe I am imagining this, but something unexplained is going on with the run game - and it is much more serious than Fairchild callled a lot of bad plays. Is Fred Jackson a better RB to have a muchg yard per carry than Lynch? If Lynch was unable to fully grasp the running game, it may be a big reason why they did not trust him at all in the passing game. Simply replacing Fairchild won't solve this problem by itself.

Reed is the Bills most consistent WR and best blocker. They would be stupid to let him go until Hardy proves over the course of a season that he is up to the challenge. Even if figures out how to beat the jam, run better patterns and pick up the hot reads on blitzes - he still can't block.

This is what happens when a team waits to unload its unwanted talent. Istead of running around giving away vets in contract years too early and at bargain basement prices, you stay patient until the demand goes up due to an injury.

He does not know anything about offense - that's your excuse for Jauron??!! Jauron is the HC. He does not live in a cave. He is an Ivy league grad for pete's sake. He can handle understanding a few things about how an offense runs - especially since he defensed them all of his life. If teh team does not have audibles and are consistently getting stuffed, especially on 3rd down - then he is at fault for not mandating that teh OC institute an audible system, as simple as it may need to be. There is no excuse for incompetence due to stupidity on his watch.

Norv didn't need much in the way of audibles when Aikman's biggest job was to hand the ball to Emmit Smith. If Norv did not use audibles, then he is more stupid than I thought. You don't voluntarily hamstring your offense by not using a valuable tool like an audible.

Running the football. This is where the offense falls apart. I don 't think our OL is capable of mastering zone blocking. Waay too many times last year, linemen did not sustain blocks and move to the next level. Toomany times they wewre standing around to see who to block and to see where Lynch went. (probably the wrong hole) There may have been issues with McNally in implementing his scheme. Maybe our OL may not be up to the mental challenge of anything other than drive blocking the guy in front of them. We shall see - but a power running mentality is a necessity to making the offense be effective.

you can - until he proves he can beat you by making plays. His mere presence will not change anything on the field in regard to Evans. Same way teams will continue to stack the box until Edwards actually hit big plays to force them off the line.

in retrospect, Willie Parker turned out to be much better than an afterthought

not last year

having this guy be a scrub and still able to shut down Hardy does not help your argument that Hardy can beat the jam.

You would think the head coach would offer a little helpful advice. He is, after all, responsibile

chopped liver? not for the punt returners - but Bills kickoff return team is living off past glory since its 2007 actual performance was pretty poor. Bills ranked 28th on kickoff returns with an average 20.7 yds/ return. http://www.nfl.com/stats/categorystats?arc...amp;Submit=Find I guess there was a reason for cutting loose those special teams "stars"

a little early for replacement talk

I saw a stat somewhere that last year there about 38 passes in the red zone to players over 6'-'5". Only 16 were completed. Hardy needs to be more than tall to be productive in the NFL. He has 2 major flaws in his game which is why he dropped out of the 1st round. In addition to making the normal transition to teh NFL which takes 3 years, he has additional work to do. odds are that Hardy won;t contribute consistently in 2008.

trwding a WR would be a typical Bills move. They are not exactly overloaded with talent at WR- but trade away what we do have to create another hole on which to divert resources to. Probably should trade a couple of the WRs to really make a mess

being able to throw effectively down the field is dependant on a strong core, not so much just a strong arm. just like a pitcher, power is generated from teh legs and body, not just the arm Edwards will be fine. With the arn he has, he is able to deliver the ball to WRs in a position for them to generate yards after the catch.

so what's the deal? It is critical the Bills have their rookies in camp from day 1 to have any hope of getting production in 2008 - especially Hardy. I don't understand why the wait until the last minute

Don't remember those specfic quotes, but since Polian left, the Bills have had no one in the organization who recognizes and understands what makes a good NFL offensive lineman. Maybe they got confused and took offensive literally because we have had a lot of those. The overriding philosophy of the last 15 years has been a misguided belief that they can save cap dollars on the OL by finding cheap diamonds in the rough. The irony is this policy has consistently backfired and forced them to consistently overspend on marginal players to just field a team. It goes back to severely overspending for players like Fina, Brown on the downside of their careers and Ostrowski because they ignored drafting replacements and now the current $75 million collection of under-producing free agents. The latest abortion driven directly by the team's refusal to draft quality OL over the last 10 years ( 3 picks in top 4 rounds over last 10 years (44 picks) . and zero by the dynamic due of Jauron and Levy. It is clear that the front office has a huge problem in evaluating OL talent - it seems unfortunate that the problem won't be fixed until Modrack Guy and the gang are replaced. Maybe if Modrack spent a few days in Buffalo at his employer he could get up to speed on this issue.