DJasper Probincrux III

He could have, but that was never his goal in the first place. With Graham it's a pattern of behavior. When you treat people a certain way over a period of time don't be upset when they file your comments into a certain file regardless of your explanations.

I went 87 because the new car smell had worn off by then. In 86 everyone was still just happy he was here.

That was 1989 - and if the Twittersphere would have existed that season there would have been apocalypse

After the collapse and garbage play at the end of the 1987 season that caused the Bills to miss the playoffs it could have been asked. It wasn't but it could have been.

I did for a while but it's hard to wipe my ass with my phone/laptop so I stopped. +1

I refuse to reward him and his superiors by contributing to their click count. Being a douche to drive traffic is Graham and Sullivan's game and I'm done. They bring no value to the party. Graham is an ass, Sullivan tweets his approval, Skurski RTs Sullivan's approval. Giant circle jerk of mediocrity. Vic Carucci or Larry Felser do not ask that question in that way at this time. No chance.

So Graham has now moved on to directly trolling the players looking for content. That's a ridiculous, baiting question on so many levels and kudos to EJ for answering it the way he did. Well done Graham, we now more fully understand why nobody on the team feeds you anything. And to be clear I'm not at all satisfied with EJ's rookie year. However, since we all know the Bills WON'T draft a QB in the first round the question is rendered moot and is thus trolling. Next year maybe you can legitimately ask that. This year? Nope.

The Eagles have done this for years and at the end of the season, before the league year rolls over, they extend contracts of the players they want to keep and stick the biggest hit into the current year that is about to expire. They then have a big pile of cap space the following year. The Eagles for years have signed basically whomever they wanted in Free Agency, haven't had a problem with player defections and have been competitive save one year. If I could pluck 1 FO person from any team in the league it would be the Eagles cap guy. They do it better than anyone year after year. You'll see 2 Eagles WRs in Free Agency this year - 1. Riley Cooper who the Eagles won't pay big money after his off-field nonsense and who probably wants to get out of Dodge as much as anything. 2. Jeremy Maclin - coming off a torn ACL I'd bet the Eagles offered him a lowball extension that he declined to roll the dice as a FA. I'd be surprised if he gets big bank from anywhere and he'll probably end up staying with the Eagles on a low-risk Eagles friendly contract.

Rules are different for your own kid, but they are very obtuse. My wife was trying to have a contest for 12 y/o soccer players a couple years ago and went through the NCAA to make sure she wasnt unintentionally screwing them over. They were completely not helpful and would not give her a yes or no answer on whether or not she was doing something permissable or not. The general rule is if it's something you receive by being an athlete that isnt available to the student body (apart from equipment provided by your AD) it's against the rules. Anything. Take that in for a minute then remember these kids cant get jobs during the year and some of them are dirt poor in general. Then you'll get a better read on how the NCAA is truly dicking them over when they sell their likenesses to companies and sell shirts with their names on them and then dont give them a cut. I get that they're getting their education and their room and board for free and theres value to that but a regular kid on scholarship gets that too but doesnt owe the university big chunks of their time in return. The kid on scholarship can get a job and often does. The athlete can't do that because their job is playing their sport. The time demands are massive and last all year, not just their season. The concept of voluntary workouts is comical at best. EJ Manuel is am FSU Booster for life and as such can never give anything of value to any current FSU player or potential FSU recruit for the rest of his life. For example, he can't give Tyrone Wheatley Jr. a Christmas gift because he's a potential FSU recruit and EJ is a FSU Booster by definition. On the flip side Tyrone Wheatley Sr. can't treat the Canisius HS football team (for which his son plays) to dinner as a reward for their great season because he is a Michigan booster for life and they are potential recruits.

Players the Bills have drafted or signed as UDFAs since 2000. Marshawn Lynch, Nate Clements, Jason Peters, Andy Levitre, Fred Jackson, CJ Spiller, Lee Evans, Stevie Johnson, Eric Wood, Robert Woods, Paul Pozluzny, Kiko Alonso, Leodis McKelvin, Stephon Gilmore, Terrence McGee, Donte Whitner, Jairus Byrd, Cordy Glenn, Aaron Schobel, Kyle Williams, Justin Bannan, Marcell Dareus, Chris Kelsay, Alex Carrington, Aaron Williams, Nigel Bradham, EJ Manuel That's not too shabby. The biggest issue is we didn't keep hardly any of them. That and we don't really have a QB yet. If we just kept our own damn players we'd be decent - then we could tack on and build something.

Each team gets an equal share of the TV money plus 1 for the league. It works out to 125 million each. That's before they sell 1 ticket, hot dog, beer, shirt, parking spot or corporate sponsorship.

It's nice the kids are posting pictures of the illegal clothing benefits they've received from a Booster. ;-)

In a span of what 3 days? He's been beaten to the punch by Schefter, Rappaport, Ryan Talbot, and the New Orleans Pelicans play by play guy. 2 of the 3 30+ and 4 of the 20+ scoring defenses were in TEN, 2 of the 20+ and the 30+ run defense were in TEN. He had good years there too and talent does matter but he but up some crap as well.

I think we're overstating the accomplishment a bit. He had a top 10 run defense 6 times, it was under 20 5 times. He was #1 once. He was #30 once. Top 10 scoring defense twice, under 30 three times, under 20 7 times.

I'm tired of mojo. You want him that bad he's worth a draft pick. Otherwise you don't want him that much and are just being lazy.

He wasn't too sick to RT Skurski's work that said all was quiet about 15 minutes after they New Orleans guy started the Schwartz ball rolling. Nor was he too sick to post nasty tweets toward people who responded to his baiting of Cleveland with a link to his Tim Tebow tripe from June. He is useless.

Right, just like Jim O'Neil is still with the Bills. Washburn is Asst DL coach in DET. DL coach in Buffalo is a promotion, not a lateral. If they want him he's coming. It's like the O'Neil situation.

Buffalo's at times, though we did have Justin Rogers playing big minutes along side D'Norris Searcy at one point, and Detroit refused to bring pressure to help them out. 33 sacks in total. 3.5 by 1 LB, 4 by all of their DBs combined. Bills had 16.5 from 4 different LBs and 7.5 out of their DBs. Our pressure made people like Aaron Williams and Leodis McKelvin seem a lot more competent than they had been previously. Williams was even half decent at CB for a spell when we had injuries.

I'm reserving judgment until I see whether or not Washburn comes along. If he does I'm completely and utterly against this move. Washburn = wide 9 which requires quality LBs that we do not have. Watch Washburn's work in Philly in 2011-12, it was an absolute mess. A stat that folks will like to throw around is DET was 6th against the run. They were also 19th in yards per carry and had the 4th fewest rushing attempts against. Nobody bothered running because their pass defense was crap. They were 19th in yards per pass also, and 28th in sacks so why run? Another one is 3rd down conversion rate. Detroit gave up 290 first downs this year. 217 on 1st or 2nd Down. Detroit had 211 3rd down attempts and gave up 64 first downs Buffalo gave up 308 first downs. 213 on 1st or 2nd Down. Buffalo had 245 3rd down attempts and gave up 91 first downs So Detroit was better on 3rd down but worse on 1st and 2nd. Yay? They did give up 18 fewer first downs than the Bills did all told but that's not necessarily indicative of good defense. If you give up big plays you'll give up less 1st downs in total. Case in point, New Orleans gave up the least 1st downs in the league.

Yes, but you're increasingly in the minority. Younger fans by in large don't use this format for this purpose. When you're not growing you're dying.

Ok let's put it this way. There were 21 QBs who qualified for that chart subtracting Flutie. Glennon, Manuel and Smith would have qualified this year. That makes 24. Manuel is 10th on that list. Glennon's season (83.9) just landed him at number 5 with a team with no less turmoil and less weapons. If we're going to accept QB Rating as a valid measurement of anything which I don't then we also have to say that the Bills screwed the pooch by taking Manuel in round 1 while Glennon went in round 4. Again, to put in context of how useless QB Rating is, Mike Glennon is Jim Kelly at this point. Glennon's QB Rating exceeded all but 4 of Kelly's during his career. As for data that suggests Manuel was a 4th round pick you know as well as i do that such thing doesn't exist apart from the opinions of people who are paid to make such opinions. For the purposes of your position that's not a path you want to follow though because if I yield that Manuel actually is a 1st round talent based on his draft position then you must also yield that he was grossly outplayed by a 4th round talent in Glennon. This particular exchange is part of the reason i don't bother doing this anymore. I'm going after your data, you're going after me. "Grasping at straws" and "quibbling" are extremely condescending terms. You clearly aren't open to an objective argument. You're open for shouting down opposition and grouping everyone who disagrees with you into the same unreasonable pile. Fine. You win. EJ Manuel had a great year.

And why certain parameters like 300 attempts and the last 20 years were chosen. For giggles I looked up Dan Marino who played 9 games as a rookie in an era where passing was much harder. He had 296 attempts and his Passer rating was 96. If you take 1986 as Kelly's rookie year he had 480 attempts. His rating was 83.3. FWIW his CAREER rating was a shade over 84. Elway had under 300 attempts and his rating was 54.9 What I'm getting at it you can make numbers say whatever you want with the context you choose to put them in. As per passer rating EJ Manuel just blew John Elway's doors off. In fact, per passer rating EJ Manuel just had a better season than John Elway did in 1989 when the Broncos went to the Super Bowl (73.7) Having watched that team I assure you that the Broncos had nothing on offense except John Elway, not a thing. I seriously doubt that even EJs most ardent supporters would argue that he was better than a Super Bowl bound John Elway this year. QB Rating is a very very flawed stat for a variety of reasons.

No what it does is make you wonder about the accuracy of the data.

Not to call that list into question but Doug Flutie wasn't a rookie in 1998. Not even an NFL rookie.

You can buy every one of those other pieces on the open market if need be. You can very very rarely buy a franchise QB. You obviously need most of the things to win a Super Bowl but if you have no QB the other things don't matter. The QB is the golden ticket to being competitive. IMO - Manuel has done nothing to warrant the Bills NOT drafting another QB to come in and compete for the job. Honestly, you could make a strong arguemtn that the Bills took the guy with no future LAST year when they took a 4th round QB in round one out of need. This year and next have much better prospects and refusing to choose one while we still have a giant question mark at QB is risking 2 more years of stagnation and frankly that puts the franchise in jeopardy at this point.