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I'm expecting Galley to dump a heck of a lot of or present players and add a boatload of people that we haven't heard of from the FA pile. The Pasties have a lot of cast-off players (Morris at RB!) that somehow Bellycheck gets performance out of and they are always in the hunt. Galley is an old seasoned pro and talent evaluator- he will mine suprising gold from other people's trash heaps and everyone will be slapping their heads saying that they knew that guy was undervalued. The draft should be for quality players with upside and potential. I'm expecting a mild trade down in the first round and then picking one of the top 5 OT's or a NT in the first. Let me serve myself another glass of Kool-Aide.

I see the following: Levitre (LOT), Wood (LOG) Hag © Cog (ROG) Bell/Meritt (ROT) They will trade down a few spots and take NT in the first round of the draft.

Actually, he is used to being NAILED behind a horrid Bills O line and spending time in the hospital.

So.... I'm in shape. The shape is round. And its locked in.

http://www.buffalobills.com/media-lo...f-bd237371fec7 Watch the press conference and pay special attention to JP being asked if there was a helmet communication problem AND JP's unexpected comments about confusion about the playcalling: "..."this is an in house game and you won't get anything out of me" . There are also some reports that some players were slamming their helmets to the ground when the Bills punted from the SF friggin 35 yard line. My read on JP's statement (I watched the video several times) is that there was serious disagreement between the coaches on what play to call and that was the reason (not the headsets) for the timeouts and confusion. There seems to have been an argument while the play was being decided and then an overruling and new play called in to the QB. It looks like this was brewing for quite a while this game and involved game strategy as well as individual plays. Some plays may have been called by someone which went against the Jaruon gameplan and set the stage for later blowups. Players seem to have been involved as well- not in deciding the plays but reacting to what had been called. Players are probably favoring certain coaches (I imagine that we have the HC, the OC and the QB coach as possible factions) and maybe even getting into cliques- supporters, complainers and quiet neutrals. To Losman, he has been shunned by the coaches for so long that he is just sitting back, not taking sides (as if they cared about what he thinks) and waiting out his time to get the hell out of Buffalo. He didn't "rant" in the news conference about it, (some poster here used that term), abut brought it up, somewhat unexpectedly as the questions from the reporters got closer to that area. I think he thought that all this must have been very obvious to the public and the reporters, He wanted to head off his having to answer any questions about it. He seemed concerned or scared that if he got pressed on the topic, worried he might say something that would let the in-house dirty laundry out in public. He certainly doesn't want to be see as a trouble-maker or vindicative to the coaches (who have screwed him!)- especially since he will be looking for a new job in a few months. Crash and burn amoung the coaches and serious disagreement about the strategy of the team seems to be in the air. Much more is going on then we know. That's good because we need to clean house and start over.

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Right. First FULL season. 2nd NFL season. He played most of last year as the starter. If you look around the league, there are several rookies who have figured it out by now. Stop making excuses.

REFERNCE???

Can we loan the gun to Jaroun?

It is not his mental state. That's just an excuse for him. He beat up on some really poor teams early in the year, who did not figure out the dinky offense and didn't have the people to defend it even. Now he is showing why he lasted until the 3rd round. Now we are seeing why Jaroun has a losing record.

TE throws short passes to people who are running at a constant speed in one direction. It really helps if it is early in the pattern, so he has memorized where the defenders are and can go thu his reads & options quickly. He is good there- his quick release and short range accuracy is very good. If Evans is the primary receiver on a suprise fly pattern and has beat his man, he can throw a long rainbow pass and drop it right into Evans hands. Works sometimes. He becomes inaccurate when the early throws aren't there and he has to pick up and try to throw to people who he hasn't been tracking. He has trouble gauging their speed and direction. Hence all the throws high and behind on even fairly simple crossing routes. He often can't figure out where the defenders are and defenders out of his cone of vision surprise him. He is pretty poor on the medium range passes, throwing on the break. He has to lock onto that guy and that guy only and his ball doesn't have a lot of zip on it, which allows the defender or someone watching his eyes to break on the ball. He knows this and we don't seem many attempts. If the play lasts that many seconds, he rather check down. Unfortunately, these short passes are not of the Jimbo-to-T.Thomas type. They are late and a DE, LB or safety has reacted to the RB or TE standing around patiently, so there's not much running room after the catch. With Jimbo, TT snuck out of the backfield, caught the ball as he was accelerating downfield and had some open air in front of him. ... What has happened is the other teams have taken away the short stuff and have extra defenders watching him, breaking on the ball and popping up in strange (to him) places. The novelty is gone and the defense against his limited play-making is simple to implement and very effective. He knows it and is NFL toast. Its not that he suddenly lacks confidence in his ability (a favorate TE groupie excuse), its that he knows he is not good enough to be successful with what he does and the other stuff (that requires more downfield stuff) is (at least right now) beyond him. Some approximately accurate quotes: "We didn't practice against that this week" ....."sometimes what you see is not really what's there".. suggest he is a unused to doing the downfield stuff. At least Losman, for all his faults and shortcomings expects to work there. I would be surprised if can develop his skills out of where he is now and get to the next level. I have been doubting that the dink&dunk would be a viable offense ever since last year. I was hoping it was an early phase and the offense & TE's comfort level beyond that would improve. Guess not.

We have drafted DB ( 1st round CB, safety, 3rd round CB, safety, plus two holdovers have developed into good starters). We don't need DB's. We need interior o-line and defensive line upgrades. At LB we have Bowens and DiG returning & maybe Crow back (?). For TE we will see what we get out of Fine and Schoman- maybe get draft some ex-basketball power forwards. But DB? no need for that now.

If I remember correctly, Edwards did start the game. He lasted 3 plays. He is supposed to tuck the ball and take the sack like a man, rather then trying to play superhero when he is late in getting the ball out on a naked blitz. gotta blame him for that- he very likely could have fumbled or thrown a INT there. Edward is a very good QB and much better than Losman and maybe even most of the QB's in the league- even right now. BUT Whitner is full of XXX on his comments. Two games ago, the defense kept us in the game and gave the ball to the offense six times on the Bills 40 or closer to the endzone than that. (result was 1 TD and 2 FG's). Against the Cards, they let the Cards score on their first 6 possessions. Losman doesn't play defense. Whitner is making excuses for their poor showing against the Cards.

I disagree with the "#43 market" claim. It depends upon how you count the surrounding area. My estimate is #38 (http://www.neweconomyindex.org/metro/major_cities.html) but for football purposes its much larger. The Buffalo metrolpoltian area is about 1.1 million and Rochester is 1. million. If you add some portion of Toronto at 7.6 million to these it is in the top 10 or 15. So that's one think I think is in our favor. Also you have to look at the teams that already exist and what areas they serve to see where the owners might even think to put a team without screwing an existing frachise and having the new team fail due to losing competition to an exisiting fan base. For example, Dayton and Columbus Ohio are top 50 metropoliton areas, but do you think that they would support another NFL team instead of the Bengals, Browns and Buckeyes? Sacrmento California is big, but close to the 49ers and the Raiders. Flordia has 3 NFL teams and is a hotbed of college football with usually 4 top 25 teams. Look at the following list and think of where a "good" move for an existing team might be: 1 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, N.Y.-N.J.-Conn.-Pa..... 20 MILION..................2 NFL 2 Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County, Calif............................... 15.8 MILLION...............NONE 3 Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, Ill.-Ind.-Wis.......................................... 8.8 MILLION............... NFL TORONTO 5.5 MILLION CFL & BILLS 4 Washington, D.C.-Baltimore, D.C.-Md.-Va.-W.Va.7.2 MILLION.......... 7.2 MILLION..............2 NFL 5 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, Calif......................................... 6.8 MILLION 2 NFL 6 Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City, Pa.-N.J.-Del.-Md. .................. 6 MILLION NFK 7 Boston-Worcester-Lawrence-Lowell-Brockton, Mass.-N.H ... 5.8 MILLION. NFL 8 Detroit-Ann Arbor, Mich. ............................ 5.4 MILLION NFL 9 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas...................... 4.8 MILLION.......... NFL 10 Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, Texas....... 4.4 MILLION.. NFL 11 Atlanta, Ga............ 3.7 MILLION.. NFL 12 Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Fla 3.6 MILLION NFL 13 Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton, Wash. .. 3.4......................NFL 14 Phoenix, .2.9......NFL 15 Cleveland-Akron, Ohio .... NFL 16 Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.-Wis. ... NFL 17 San Diego, Calif. NFL 18 St Louis, Mo.-Ill. ... NFL 19 Denver-Boulder-Greeley, Colo NFL 20 Pittsburgh, Pa. NFL 21 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Fla. NFL 22 Portland-Salem, Ore.-Wash. SEAHAWKS fans? 23 Cincinnati-Hamilton, Ohio-Ky.-Ind. NFL 24 Kansas City, Mo.-Kan. . NFL 25 Sacramento-Yolo, Calif. RAIDERS & 49ERS fans 26 Milwaukee-Racine, Wis. NFL 27 Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, Va.-N.C. REDSKINS Cougar fans 28 San Antonio, Texas. COWBOYS, TEXANS 29 Indianapolis, Ind. NFL 30 Orlando, Fla. .JACKSONVILLE, TAMPA BAY , MIAMI 31 Columbus, Ohio CINCI, CLEVELAND, buckeyes 32 Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, N.C.-S.C. . NFL 33 Las Vegas, Nev.-Ariz. ????CARDS??????. 34 New Orleans, La... NFL 35 Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah ???? DENVER cards???????? 36 Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, N.C. CAROLINA 37 Nashville, Tenn. .. NFL 38 Buffalo-Niagra Falls, N.Y. 1.1 MILLION THE BILLS 5.5 +1.- + 1.1= ?? BILLS 39 Hartford, Conn. GIANTS JETS 40 Austin-San Marcos, Texas . COWBOYS, TEXANS 41 Memphis, Tenn.-Ark.-Miss. .. CARDS, TITANS SAINTS 42 Rochester, N.Y. 1.0 MILLION.... THE BILLS..THE BILLS..THE BILLS..THE BILLS 43 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C CAROLINA 44 Jacksonville, Fla. . NFL 45 Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland, Mich.. LIONS 46 Oklahoma City, Okla. COWBOYS, RAMS 47 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Fla FISH, JAGS, BUCANEERS 48 Louisville, Ky.-Ind. bENGALS, COLTS 49 Dayton-Springfield, Ohio BROWNS, BENGALS BUCKEYES 50 Richmond-Petersburg, Va. REDSKINS There are only two places that scare me. One is the desert and the other is LA. A move to other places with sizable metro areas would really be impinging upon an established team. We're pretty safe because if you count Rochester and even A FIFTH of Toronto you get the Buffalo "metro area" up to 3.2 MILLION or so which is #13 in size. This beats the desert but not LA.

By the way. I hope my evaluation is WRONG and the Bills can dominate with what they are doing, or Jaron surprises me and can get some other styles out of the offense and defense. If I was able to figure these things out 95% correctly I would be doing something else for a living.

He can learn 3 plays from 3 formations and shuddle in and out. Enough to get him on the field and make the other team take him into account.

I'm becoming tired of his philosphy. He seems to play not to lose rather than to win. Try to keep it close and hope the other team missteps, the defense gets a TD or the special teams get a TD. On offense, the plan is to nibble away with a short passing game. The O-line is big slow guys who can move backwards and form a central pocket, if there is a straight ahead pass rush with a few D-linemen gap filling agains a running game. They have to be able to get their hands on the D-linemen to control them. That gives Edwards a chance to check over 2-4 receivers and do a pass within 5 yards. The counter that we have seen the defenses do in the last 4 games is for the defense to cover the WR's short (no quick open receivers) and do an agile stunting pass rush with a blitzer, which forces the O-linemen to defend in space. They're not good at this and Edwards is getting rushed, sacked and starting to get hit hard. A counter to this type of pass rush would be a classic running game but the O-linemen are too slow and not nimble enough to block the D or linebackers, who flow around them and often hit Marshawn in the backfield. Nor are the fast enough to get out in front of a screen. Jaron has built a one-trick pony and people have figured out the one trick. I am interested to see what happens the next few games. Losman is not going to help here at all, because he is not a short pocket passer and no one can make a living by constantly sprinting out or rolling out. On defense, last year we were the undersized, swarm to the ball, bend-but-don't-break gang. People ran over them at will. This year we seem to be in transition to bigger people (Strout, Michell, Poz). They played great against some of the weaker teams on the schedule, but were helpless against the Cards. I don't know who will show up next week. We needed some adjustments last week and the coaches didn't make them.

We need Jackson because there is not much behind Marshawn. Lynch needs to not be the only RB, as he will wear down and get injuried.

They were publically asking for a 1st, or a second. We might get away with a third and swap of 2nd string QB's.