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How many team's are resting key starters this week? Imagine 2 more weeks of resting star players. Of course, they'd expand the roster to allow for more injuries, but then as was stated, you're just continuing to water down the play on the field. So, count me in the definite No category. The league needs to understand a basic fundamental of life... too much of a good thing is not always a good thing. The current season is plenty long enough. Now with Sunday night, Monday night, Thursday night, and occasional Saturday games; and it's hard to even see all the games any more. The Monday night game has lost a lot of it's luster in recent years. It's simply not the marque match up that it used to be. Why? Because its no longer the single prime time game of the week. In essence, it's become just another game. Adding 2 more regular season games will similarly lessen the importance of each of the weekly games. Kinda like baseball... lose a few game in May and who cares, it's a long season. Then there's the silly argument in Mark Guaghan's article this morning; that 18 games are needed because the league needs more money to pay the players, and no player wants a pay cut. But, what he's missing is that the players won't get a pay cut if the schedule stays as is; in fact, if we go to 18 games they'll all get nice raises. Most importantly, the owners can completely control how much the players make... if they'd all just agree not to pay every young rookie more and more money each year. But there will always be some guy willing to over pay, I guess. They're letting the players dictate their salaries and its gotten out of hand.
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Just watched both coaches press conferences
Dan replied to 1billsfan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Key point being overlooked... most of the Bills starters are another team's backups. -
Easley update in case you missed it on the homepage
Dan replied to Beerball's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Sorry, but it's a little too early for 2011 puff pieces, for me at least. I' m still lamenting at how bad we were in 2010 and how there seems to be little hope for the future. -
Exactly... a good play action can be an average QB and a below average OLine's best friend. But, we almost never use it. Why? The Pats* would have bitten all day on that on the first drive when we had 1 and goal. Play action to Fred and hit the TE after he releases from his block... so many teams do that and make it look easy. I'm not sure we even have that play in the book.
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While, I can very much agree with you. My concern is that it's extremely rare that you see a successful team that has the HC serve as the OC, too. Maybe Gailey keeps the play calling duties; but I contend we need a better OC than Modkins. Maybe I'm wrong and he's a genius behind the scenes; but that would be a surprise to just about everyone here - I think. Also, Gailey needs someone to challenge him more with his play calling. Not necessarily during the game. But, someone needs to ask him why he's chosen to abandon the run so quickly all season. Unless you have a top 5 QB, you can't be successful being as unbalanced as the Bills have been in many of their games. Furthermore, he's not just passing; he's going with all wide, no RB sets. So, the defense can completely forget about playing the run. Why not at least run play action? It's confounded me all season. While I can agree that we certainly need more on the Oline; I'd say the DL is in far worse shape. So, I wouldn't be upset if we drafted a RT either. I don't think our RB's are nearly as bad as we think they are; I just think they're under utilized. In Sunday's' game, Fred had 5 rushes on the first drive and just 8 runs the entire rest of the game. IMO, that's not so much they Pats* shutting down the run game as it is Gailey shutting it down. In 2009, the Bills scored 25 touchdowns (28 FGs); at this point, we've scored 33 TDs (16FGs). So, we're getting more TDs but fewer FGs than in 2009. So, I'd call that an improvement. Now, I'm not saying our offense is great or set; I'm just saying it's better. Which is partly while I say we need a better OC, in addition to my comments above.
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The entire thing has been a joke since they decided to put the HOF in Cleveland, over Memphis. Without Memphis, the blues on Beale, Sun Studios, Stax, and of course the King; rock and roll as we all know it does not exist today. They decided then that the whole thing was about money, not about rock and roll. But, what they missed was the half a million people/year that visit Graceland that could have easily added the HOF to their list of sites to see. Poor decision making back then, followed by poor decision making in regards to, not only, who should be inducted by how they're inducted. The whole thing is a mess and stands in complete opposition to what rock and roll is and was. Reading up on the induction process is all you have to do to see how bad it is.
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No. Our run defense is horrid. I would also add, as I've felt all season, that they need to bring in a new DC as well. George Edwards is in way over his head. Yes, we need more talent on D. But, let's look at it another way - the offensive players changed very little; yet we added an offensive minded coach (Gailey - who really knows what Modkins does). The results was an improved offense in 2010. On defense, they added a few role players with only one real subtraction (Schobel); in comes Edwards and the defense is much, much worse. So, it's not all just on the players. The coaching staff should and does share plenty of the blame for the horrendous year this defense has put together. I'd love to see them bring in a real OC too. But, that would be asking for entirely too much; I know.
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Minny-Philly game postponed until Tuesday.
Dan replied to Beerball's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Yep. And gotta love how FN in America is trying to make it seem so much worse than it really is. The NFL blew it and panicked. Calling a game because it might be a blizzard. Pathetic. -
He's abandoned it all season long. It's been my biggest grievance with Chan and the offensive play calling... he's as pass happy as Martz or Gibride have ever been.
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Minny-Philly game postponed until Tuesday.
Dan replied to Beerball's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
No, they just decided to wait until the snow is gone and the sun can come out and make everyone nice and toasty. It's complete crap to call a game because of too much snow. I guess the Browns/Bills game a few years ago was ok... but now it's not?? Come on. -
Does anyone actually think the Bills will beat the Pats*
Dan replied to Dan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm starting to agree with Dean. That was horrible. -
Minny-Philly game postponed until Tuesday.
Dan replied to Beerball's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Big difference there, though. The pansy league is now postponing games because they don't want to play in cold and snowy weather. Pathetic. -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
Dan replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I take mine straight up.. bitterness included! -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
Dan replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Can't you wait another 10 minutes to start a dozen and one threads complaining about how bad the Bills are? -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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one cup of apathetic insanity coming right up... -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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Got 'em right where we want 'em... for the greatest comeback in the history of histories! Time to pull out the secret play. -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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I'm glad I'm not the only that's noticed that. Sometimes, I really think Chan outsmarts himself. -
Minny-Philly game postponed until Tuesday.
Dan replied to Beerball's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Goodell's plan is now complete. The NFL has officially become a pansy league. It was bad enough when they made it illegal to hit a QB. Then they make it illegal to tackle. Now they're postponing a game because it's going snow! Un friggin believable. Can you imagine what pansy rules will come out of the new CBA? It's pathetic. -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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I agree. But that was a damn hard hit on an outstretched receiver. SO I can give him that... but not some of the other drops. As I'm seeing it.. the Pats* are hitting A LOT harder than the Bills and it shows. Just once I'd like to see the Bills try and punch the Pats* in the jaw rather than the other way around. -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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To win, the Bills need (1) to be near perfect, (2) outplay the Refs bad calls, and (3) get heat on Brady. So far, they haven't done any one of those. -
The Official Gameday Thread: Patriots* at the Bills
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Stevie got nailed by Mayo and dropped the ball. Really good hit by Mayo, so I can't blame him. Still sucks though.. would have been a 1st down. -
Brohm should start last 2 games
Dan replied to I hate the Bills !'s topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Absolutely, there's nothing out there on the interwebs to suggest that Chan and company don't like Brohm. In fact, all evidence (he made the team and moved up to season-long #2) suggests they're quite satisfied with him, IMO. It'll be very telling, to say the least, to see what they do in the draft regarding the QB position. I really can't see them bringing in a FA to backup Fitz. So, whether or not they draft someone could say everything about what the feeling is towards Brohm. -
Brohm should start last 2 games
Dan replied to I hate the Bills !'s topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'm sorry, probably didn't explain myself well enough. I agree Trent was shot, here. They almost had to get rid of him. But, they also had to have some confidence in Brohm as the backup because they didn't bring in someone else. In this league, it's almost a matter of when, not if, you're gonna play backup QB. So, you've got to have some level of confidence in your backup. Therefore, I think Chan is fine with Brohm as a backup. -
I could very much agree with both of those statements. To think that firefighters, who are issued full face respirators as part of their gear and trained to use them and use them routinely in their job, would not use PPE and have respiratory problems seems nonsensical. All I can say from being there is that the stress and unique circumstances of working on the pile were unlike what most people experience in normal circumstances; therefore, I can live with some measure of "understanding". So, I don't completely disagree with the compensation fund either.
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Brohm should start last 2 games
Dan replied to I hate the Bills !'s topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'd suggest it's a little of both. Yeah, they almost had to cut Trent. When you have a marginal starting QB and bench him, the last thing you want is players second guessing the decision when you're 2, 3, 4 losses down the road and the former starter is sitting over there saying he's healthy and ready to play. So, you get rid of him and remove all doubt that you're moving forward - for better or worse. However, they had to have some amount of confidence in Brohm to think he could be a viable back up. Otherwise, you don't make the cut or you go and get a backup. You just can't go through the whole season with someone you have zero confidence in as your backup QB (unless you have Manning or Favre starting because they never miss a game). So, they had to like what they saw in Brohm enough to make him #2 and not bring in anyone to challenge him for that spot. Personally, I fully expected to see Brohm starting by the bye week. But, Fitz has been a very pleasant surprise and is making it awful hard for anyone to unseat him. At this point, I wouldn't be upset at all if they went into next season with Fitz and Brohm #1 and #2, respectively, again.