Yard Monkey

All of those "ifs" that would need to happen for a 7th round draft pick? Seriously?! It's not worth their time, effort, hassle and embarrassment to do all of that for a 7th. They will have better success with their UDFAs since they have many more chances versus just 1 (or 2) 7th round picks.

See, that's just it. If he were truly "elite" there would be no question. There would be no dispute for Polamalu or Ed Reed, but for Byrd there is plenty of dispute.

It's really quite simple. CB is one of the highest valued positions in the league..Safety is one of the lowest. Byrd is also not elite....he's very good, but not even close to elite. The Bills have been trying to trade him for a year with little interest from other teams.

I love the clueless comment inferring that Russell Wilson had any chance of getting a ring THIS YEAR without THAT defense

Why?

A bit of a dramatic take! Neon Deion would have done an interview like that back in the day when all players were class acts that you seem to recall... Plenty of others were jackasses in that era, but would be filtered by the teams or media which is much harder to do these days with all of the media outlets and quite frankly fan demand for stories like this.

This post has a lot of rules. Need to consult with my attorney before responding

Dareus was benched in the first quarter for violating team rules per coach press conference after the game

Haven't seen it mentioned but Luck was also picked on a seam pass to Rogers who appeared to half ass the route allowing the DB to get in good position. He also didn't fight for the ball...

I know you tend to have a negative bias against the Bills, but Manuel was nowhere and I mean NOWHERE near as bad against the Stealers as Geno was against the Bills. He and the rest of the team might have been flat and lackluster but he was by no means a turnover machine and completely inept like Geno was.

Amen. Way too much praising the Pats* in those early posts in this thread...wtf!

Thanks for pushing to link this to an old thread so I had to read through pages of speculation and nonsense before Gilmore's injury when all I wanted to see was the official announcement and fellow fan reaction. You seem to be one of the chief thread police on the board from what I have seen which is why I'm directing to you. ...like when Mario was signed and the official announcement and reaction started on page 100 something! Please start new threads when major topics change for those of that are not on the board all day hitting refresh, but come to the board daily (for well over a decade now!). Speculation in one thread, then "it's official and react" in another

They must have had a lot of money shot their way

What do the analytics say? Has anyone run this through the TSW data model yet?

Incredible! Only made a safety available for an interview...not even Brady. After the AFC championship game. Way to lose with dignity!

I always liked it, as well. Quite often you would see the punts with lower hang time busted for big returns....

Plus its an aggressive move.....certainly puts the Jets on "defense" (pun intended).....whether he gets the job or not, the Jets have all kinds of damage control issues to react to from just the fact the Bills made the request and apparently let it go public. Great move if they don't do anything else with this guy!

Because he's not good enough.

I think many if you need to prepare yourself for the fact that Choice will get a fair number of touches tonight. It's not all going to Spiller even without FJ

That was one of the best QBd games I've seen for the Bills in a long time. Glad to see someone else thinks this, as well. Thought I was crazy continuing to read the crap thrown at Fitz on here

Ditto. Rough game. Rough season Nowhere near what we saw last year. Think the move to olb is not working for him

Name an NFL coach that hasn't been fired or resigned. You might be able to come up with 1-2 names out of ~50 that have been NFL head coaches over the last decade.

I agree with your points. Nice to see a well thought out post that just doesn't blame it all on Gailey or Fitz! Getting really sick of the consistent oversimplification from most of the posters in here these days...

Gues you missed the fact they were putting 8 or even 9 I the box. Was anyone paying attention?? I don't care how good your running game is bit you CAN'T run against that consistently. They were daring the Bulls to throw. You can argue how well they executed the pass plays but the play calls weren't so bad

Ha! That had me laughing...too true...