Kelly the Dog

Not sure if this has been posted but good sign...

Cool. Love me some Shady. Hope he doesn't show his appreciation and buy all his linemen jewelry.

I think people put too much stock in that Charger game. If he played the entire game, up to four of his ten interceptions may not have been his fault.

I think I would rather take my chances with Foster and I hate him now.

I think it's more than two accrued seasons for up to three players. So a guy who wasn't activated the first couple years then played the next couple on active roster as a backup could be. I'm not positive but think that's how new rules work. Didn't used to be that way.

It's funny because that's exactly what I thought. And my immediate next thought was that the Ravens would know this too and sneak a safety over looking for just that play. Or Nate would get killed because he only had 1.9 seconds to throw. Probably not. But if it's a disaster he will. I'm sure he is not going to throw five INTs. But it could be a Tom Savage situation.

No, I hope he does great. I am just saying what I see. Last year i feared that he didnt have the arm strength to do well. If you have it it doesn't mean you are good of course. But if you don't have it you cannot succeed in the longboard run under any circumstance. I didn't know for sure if his arm was too weak but what I had seen of him never disproved that. There were a lot of people that said he has adequate, and if that is true, I believe he can succeed. Then when I watched him in preseason and regular season last year, to me, my worst fears were shown. He couldn't do it. Yes he can complete some passes, of course he can, but he had a rag arm and I was down on him. Then they started him, I couldn't believe it and it was the worst half in NFL history. The snow game doesnt count for anything of course because it was in that weather and arm strength was thrown out the window, although we won the game because Joe Webb threw a deep ball. But I don't count that game. In the playoff game the weak arm reared its ugly head again. This year, in the preseason he has played great. There is no denying it. Fantastic. And we were told he has more zip on the ball. BUT, and it is a big BUT, he didn't really throw one pass that negated his death knell or allayed my fears. He completed out patterns but he didn't show me the lowest requisite amount. I have been watching NFL football for 50 years. He threw one pass in game three that showed a little zip but I'm not sure enough. I need to see more to be convinced. Some guys improve arm strength. Brady did substantially. Most guys can't. If Nate CAN, which is an unknown, then he has a chance to be pretty decent because there is a lot to like about other parts of his game. I like the guy a lot. I like his attitude. He just hasn't shown he can throw well enough. We're going to find out soon. Oh, and he doesn't handle the rush well or throw slant patterns well. So there is that.

I read that the Ravens are coaching their DBs this week to not jump the out patterns TOO early, you might run past it before it gets there. There is some merit to that. But he never really had bad mechanics. There are a lot of guys that have them and they try to fix them. There are another set of guys whose good mechanics break down too often, because of the rush and other factors, which is a totally different animal. Josh falls under that category much more than the the first one.

Or Brad Marchand.

They didn't last year. The coach let the OC talk him into playing Nate because of what he saw in preseason and practice and then it was a disaster because of the exact reasons he was a fifth round pick. Then they did little to add weapons or protection for the offense. He succeeded in preseason and training camp becaus guys like that CAN excel in that situation with rubber bullets and three-quarters speed.

The only way to really work on mechanics, once you get them down which he already has, is under a rush when guys are coming at you and you have to get the ball out. Like in games.

He always did that. The problem is he telegraphs it, he's a one read guy for the most part, and doesn't have the zip to get it there fast enough against starting defensive when the game is played at full speed. And doesn't handle the rush well.

Peterman is best throwing picks to the outside but fear not, he can throw them over the middle, too. In fact, slant patterns are where he is most inaccurate.

How exactly is he supposed to do that when he will not be in many if any practice situations that require it? There are no game like or even scrimmage like practices during the season and the second string guys don't participate in what little they do.

Yeah, well, often times trying to get two things done at the same time gets you neither.

One of the many reasons to start Allen is because there is not a lot of practice time during the week at all because of the rules, and very little time to do anything except prepare your starters for the next game. The Bills made it a point to have Allen on Daboll's hip during a lot of training camp but there just isn't time to give him any reps or real practice. If he is the starter he gets all the practice time, too.

That is the other huge downside. I am not going to predict it will happen because I want the Bills to win so much. But it's possible that Nate will get killed because of his arm and not being able to handle the rush. And have to be benched again very early. Then McD will have to apologize to the team again like he did last year. I don't think it's likely but it's surely a distinct possibility.

He was actually Fitzpatrick Pennington Edwards III. A blue blood. Too stuffy for me.

It will just be , "Why did you throw that !@#$ing ball?!!!!!!!!!" 10 times.

If he had Fitzy's arm, which is weak, he could be Fitz. But it's weaker than Fitz. That's his problem. Fitz could wind up and get it there sometimes. Nate unfortunately can't. It sucks because if he did have slightly better arm strength he could be pretty good.

I think it's crazy but go Nate! I hope he lights it up. I fear the Ravens play tight on the WRs on every play, bring 8-9 in the box, take Shady out of the run game and dare Nate to beat them over the top. I imagine he will make a bunch of short completions and hopefully lob some over their heads. Possible some clever play designs to get McCoy or Ray Ray or Murphy the ball in some space, or even Croom/Thomas can get them to break one and get clear sailing. That's the only way I see this working well.

Not the same but even worse. The Bills drafted PK Gary Anderson in the seventh round out of Syracuse in 1982. Great college kicker. They played him in the preseason and he missed almost every kick including an extra point or two. They felt like they had to cut him because he couldn't make anything and they did. The Steelers picked him up immediately on the eve of the season and made him their kicker without ever having seen him up front or working him out and cut their own kicker. Anderson of course became one of the best kickers of all time, played with the Steelers for 13 years and then for four other teams and is the second highest scorer ever.

I bet if tomorrow he changed his name to Webb Davis no one would know or notice the difference. Pass.

Good point. I think we should sign one guy to a nine million dollar contract. Or else nine million guys to a one dollar contract and let them fight it out. Or else something somewhere in between.