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Really? If anything, Tebow gives that wildcat a legit throwing option. He could throw 50% of the time out of it and be effective (e.g., with short, or one-read throws). And once he starts throwing, it will be even more effective as a weapon.
I don't think there's been a wildcat run in the NFL by anyone could throw half as well as Tebow.
You could be right about your last statement but that's not saying much. Tebow will, based on last years stats, probably complete less than 50% of those passes, even if they are simple. Stopping the run is the key. If they are doing that those quick short passes will be easily defended, and he is a very iffy downfield threat. If he thinks the Bills will not be prepared for this he should be sadly mistaken. They still have to make plays, but I like Buffalo's chances. More bluster from sexy Rexy.
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What's next - Tebow dating Anderson Cooper?
My thoughts exactly. Fortunately for Sabchez, he at least does not have to compete for the hot woman with Tebow.
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Perhaps we should be more concerned if all of our late round picks were making the roster, as it would be indication that our existing talent is subpar. Coach Tuesday, my good fellow, YE OLE is with you on the the 1st/2nd/3rd rd. guys. Nix needs to be hitting on those more than not. But when you get into 5th, 6th, 7th, UDFA's it becomes more of a numbers game. Bring in a pool of these guys and maybe you hit on Fred Jackson or Stevie Johnson. However, there's a reason that these guys go late in the draft and if their talent level is such that they're going to automatically make your roster, that speaks to where our talent level has been in past years when this team hasn't been good.
Look at who New England drafted in the 5th-7th rounds from 2010 to 2011: Marcus Cannon, Lee Smith, Markell Carter, Malcolm Williams, Zoltan Mesko, Ted Larsen, Thomas Welch, Brandon Deadrick, Kade Weston, and Zach Robinson
Only 4 of those 10 picks have seen any playing time with New England. Lee Smith we poached from them much like our late round picks are getting picked up off waivers this year. I simply use New England as an example, but you can find similar situations with many of the perennial powers in the league. Aside from the rare exceptions when a Kyle Williams type falls through the cracks, if players of Mark Asper caliber were making any significant contribution to this team, we would rue the day. It would be shades of Jamie Nails and Marcus Spriggs all over again, gents!
Exactly right. The point I was making in my previous post. If it were the Bills claiming Mark Asper, a 6th round pick, off waiver a week before the season, we would have reason to be concerned. This has been the case far too long, but no longer is. Progress.
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Time will obviously tell, but it was not my expectation this year that all the Bills draft picks would make the team. What you should expect after 3 years is that enough quality depth is being built that it is difficult for low round draft picks and undrafted free agents to make this team. This was not the case 3 years ago - they all made it- whether they were ultimately NFL quality players or not. Some people on this board seem to believe that each and every draft pick should be a sure fired winner. The fact is it is always a crap shoot and any team that finds more than two or three quality long term contributors in any given draft is indeed very lucky.
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What i find amusing is people on this board make posts such as, everyone likes his name and if you know the game of football and watch him you see hes' lost. I have watched every preseason game and i am now watching the lions game less than a quarter left, i only played inside lber for 9 years through high school and as i am expecting the guy to not play well in this game, i am watching him make plays when hes' on the field, he has great football instincts and he doesn't wait downfield like alot of linebackers he gets of his block and goes to the line and makes the hit. In my opinion he got the shaft here, he might or might not turn out to be a solid pro but i am expecting he will, i think they blew it on him. Bradham as previously stated made it for his special teams skills as did White they must prefer that more in a backup, but in my opinion he turns out better than Sheppard, hopefully i am wrong because Sheppard is here and hes' gone. His skill set, speed, instincts, and sideline to sideline capabillities blows Sheppard away, if he was our 4th rounder he'd also still be on the team.
As a disclaimer every year i like most others don't like some of the Bills' cuts and i have been wrong before. I also liked the play in this game of Aiken, he looks like a real confident receiver that fights for the ball!
Did you watch any of the games, that is a generalization, he is not slow footed and doesn't play stiff you have no clue in my opinion!
I did watch the games and watched Carder closely in the Detroit game. I was unimpressed and not at all surprised he was cut. Every year the fans here pick out a favorite long shot and this year it was Carder. I do not profess to be an expert at evaluating NFL players, but I saw nothing in his play during the preseason to indicate he was worth keeping. Just did not see it.
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We're not supposed to complain about wasting low draft picks. But we're supposed to celebrate when we trade Pro Bowl running backs for those same low draft picks.
So I guess your point is you would rather have Lynch than Fred Jackson, right? Otherwise, not really sure what your point is. Lynch was not a good performer for the Bills when he was here. The bills also got a 4th which turned out to be Hairston I believe. 6th round picks do not always work out. Sometimes, players who you might like to bring back on the PS get claimed.
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We are a paying a price, however small, for keeping 4 QB's and 3 kickers
Cutting Heard has nothing to do with that.
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I'm not sure Moats has outplayed Morrison. Tough to say.
Morrison seems to hit his run fits very well to my eye.
And I think they keep McKillop regardless.
Really just going by the fact that Moats seems to have landed ahead of Morrison on the depth chart. You may be right about their relative play - I cannot say I have paid that close attention to it. I do think this is more about Morrsion than Shepperd. They have a surplus of LBs and they need to figure out who can play where. They are going to end up cutting someone they would like to keep at this position. Fans seem to be very down on Shep, but I do not think the coaches are.
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This has nothing to do with Shepherd. Moats has outplayed Morrsion for the outside spot and they are trying to see what Morrison's value is. Can he back up both spots? If not, perhaps they keep McKillup.
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Simon, under what circumstances have you met Shawne Merriman? You're the one getting "personal" about a post that was never directed at you.
"A former Buffalo Bill who you've never so much as met?"
How about a former Charger who had a rep around town for being a real a***ole.
You act like the guy was with us for ten frickin' years! -Merriman came here hurt, and pretty much remained that way the whole time!
Anyone can make noise, and act interested when it serves their purpose. IMO, We were never more than a paycheck for a guy who had little in the way of options at the time.
Either way, -I have ZERO interest in trading barbs with anyone over a guy like that. I just hope one day you get to see Merriman for what he really is.
You are a complete dick.
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There is great value in what Potter can bring. As someone else has pointed out, Potter also seems to have potential to be our kicker for the next 10 years or more once he learns how to kick FG in the NFL. It will be a very tough choice. The Bills are already going to have to cut some good football players at other positions. This is one less roster spot for a WR, DB, DL, OL, or LB they would like to have for the future. Keeping Potter would be a real luxury.
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With Gailey's desire to spread them 5 wide on many occasions? I doubt they only keep 5 wide, with none of them being good ST'ers (coverage)... Figure at least one of Easley, Roosevelt, Martin also makes the team.
I would be surprised if Martin does not make the team. He is great on special teams. DeHaven gets this one.
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It's true. And the Titanic had a very nice last voyage except for some minor water leakage issues.
I'll bet that you can't name three impact players that were injured on the Bills last season?
I'll start you off:
Woods
K. Williams
I don't count McGee because he's literally injured more than he's not and if the team's relying on him then shame on them, he's a self-fulfilling prophecy regarding injuries.
Name one other impact player that went out for the majority of the season?
Many of the players on last season's injury list were hurt in preseason or in camp even, and a bunch wouldn't have even made the team otherwise. They were backups.
Meanwhile, look at teams like Houston who made the playoffs w/o Schaub and Mario. Did the Bills have players like that missing? No.
The injury thing is highly overrated if all you have are depth players on IR.
The Bills problem wasn't depth. Their whole roster is depth caliber players. The problem is and was starters.
Even this season they're starting at least one OLB spot w/ a player more suited to depth. Sheppard may turn out to be nothing but a depth player as well, he wasn't very good last season.
They have mystery meat at CB, both spots.
Fitz has been a backup and the experiment to try to turn him into a starter is coming to an end this season.
Half the OL are depth players. Glenn's mystery meat.
All of the WRs and TEs besides Johnson are depth players.
The assumption with this injuries argument is that the team would have been good and made the playoffs if not for the injuries.
I'm just curious which playoff caliber players were on IR last season?
As to Gailey, the man's a dunce. I'll say it now, this is his last season head-coaching in the NFL, as it should be. If he makes it to next season it's only because there's not enough heat on Nix.
You have an interesting style. Throw out a bunch of unsubstantiated opinion and dare people to prove you wrong with facts. I will not bother to point out the number of starters on IR as well as depth players on IR, or certainly not argue the value of these players, as your premise seems to be since they all suck it does not matter. This would be laughable if it was not so intellectually bankrupt. Instead it is just sad. Beyond that, nothing you have posted on this topic bears discussion.
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I always feel bad too when a team pays out 10 million for a lot of suck in return. Whose fault Nix or lights out? You be the judge.
And why do you care what they paid him? Is that salary coming our of your pocket? Or are you going to argue that they could have signed somebody else with that money? Who did they not sign or could have signed if not for Merriman? Thats retorical by the way because you do not and could not know. As the Bills showed this year, whatever they were paying for Merriman, or Kelsay or anyone else was not a hindrance in signing free agents they targeted, when they wanted to. Merriman was a chance that did not work out. Big deal. Move on. It would have been great if it had worked, but it did not. Still a great move by Nix in my book, even if it did not pan out.
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Having said that, trying to make any positive judgments is baseless embellishment.
Defensively this wasn't the Pats, it was Ponder & Co. They were 3-13 last season.
People are going to keep pushing this off into the regular season, but if the first unit cannot show some competency next week in however many plays they log, sorry, they're not going to just pull it from their tailpipe on opening day.
I'm very concerned. So far this offense hasn't even proven that it can play against a first team D. So what if it's "vanilla," these games are a measure of talent v. talent. Both defenses faced were below average last season. Their offenses were about the same.
I simply don't share the optimism that so many are feeling. I see a gain of Mario, a reduction in play at the corner spots, weakness at the LB unit other than for Barnett, a marginal #1 WR and a bunch of 3/4/5 type WRs after him to fill in and start at #2, and a soon to be QB on the outs and contractual albatross. That's not a recipe for improvement and net gain in performance.
Ho- hum
Well then, since the offense is basically the same offense that couldn't do much of anything including get out of its own way for most of the season after the first few games, I think we already know what kind of talent we have there and there isn't much reason for it to have changed significantly from last season to this one.
The only positive change on defense, or the only significant change, was Mario, and we know what kind of talent he is. Anderson is fine but hardly an enormous plus-up.
After that, we lost Drayton Florence and replaced him with a rookie. I'm not sure I see that working well this season.
So if all people are looking for is a talent assessment, then we already know what that is. Great DL, one good LB, one good S and then a bunch of players that pose as starters on D.
The worst part about it all, Gailey is still the coach. If you ask me, that's what's going to cause this season to stall.
Instead of breaking the bank for Mario, the organization should have spent some coin on a proven GM and Head Coach.
The LBs were terrible tonight on the 1st unit. The DL generated pass pressure, but the back 7 was horrid.
Not that the receivers were good, they stunk too. But hey, look at their pedigrees. This is just one more exercise in applying turd polish. They should have made a move for a WR in Free Agency, not having done so is going to cost us. Nelson's the most proven one there and he's a 3rd type WR, not a starting caliber WR. He's a slot guy too. It's also not like Johnson requires double coverage or anything.
Every year we look and hope that this is the year, but we really know what's going to happen, the same thing. There are way too many positions featuring no talent on this team to make the playoffs. I think we'll see Young (or Thigpen, Smith, or whomever) starting at some point midway through the season.
We've seen absolutely nothing to indicate that Ftizpatrick is in position to take this offense and step it up to even average, much less more than that. This season is going to be an extension of last season, nothing more. We might win another few games over the 1-8 finish, but it won't be many. Gailey obviously doesn't know what he's doing.
No matter how we look at it, the 1st team O still hasn't score a TD against a 1st-team D yet. It's only been five or six drives, but still, they haven't even come close.
Even more "ho-hum" than your previous post. If you are worried the sky is falling, I suggest you buy a helmet.
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Bringing someone in? Seems a weird time for a cut unless Buddy saw a need to address.
No point in wasting reps on a guy they know will not make the roster.
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Not sure why people do not think this is helpful. Certainly, like all Senators, Schumer knows that anything worth doing is worth doing in a public way. However, it can just as certainly be very helpful to the cause of the Bills and those who want to keep the Bills in Buffalo to leave no misunderstanding in the NFL's eyes that a very powerful Senator understands that there is a relatively simple and painless way to help ensure the Bills' future in Buffalo. Goodell is not likely to miss the implied consequences of displeasing the Senator, nor miss an opportunity to curry favor for his business on the other hand. Very shrewd politics by the Bills and Schumer. Well done.
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Three years of Shanny-Ball and their O-line still sucks. Compare that to Chixley.
LOL.
Not so sure. Granted it's the first preseason game but on the other hand, this is a guy they are planning to start as a rookie… so he might get more PT than a veteran starter would typically get.
According to the Shanahan this morning, quoted in the Washington Post, Griffin will get 12 to 20 snaps in the Buffalo game.
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I wonder who the father is
Beat me to it. Probably a turkey baster.
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No idea? Really? Do we need to go back and revisit who the WRs on the roster were two seasons ago? Lee Evans was far and away the veteran leader of the squad. It's actually more of a leap to suggest it wasn't Evans Nelson is referring to.
Furthermore, I don't see any problem with what Nelson said. It's ancient history, and would be a different story if we was talking about the current situation. And besides, he didn't say the "player" (cough..Evans) was a bad guy or bad player -- just that he wasn't buying into what the coaches wanted to do.
I agree completely. No doubt this was Evans. In fairness to him, he did "grow up" in a highly disfucntional Bills organization with many coaches and QBs. Let's also remember it was Evans who on more than one ocassion publcially advocated for one QB or the other in their on-going search for the best of their mediocre QB options. He also clearly was not buying into Gailey's system. It is no surpirse to learn that Evans was viewed as detrimental to team chemistry and obvioulsy further explains why he was shipped out.
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I know there is a lot of love for Roosevelt here but he just is not good enough. Aiken can still go PS so that will probably be his fate. Possibly also Session. Martin is atough cut because of special teams ability, but I am expecting another player will step up to this role and leave him expendable. Tough break for Clowney but I think he is camp fodder.
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Trent and Losman were thrust into starting QB roles on bad to mediocre football teams and had no good coaching. With no OL, they were doomed to fail ere more so than have a chance to succeed. By the time they went on to other teams, their play and reputation were already scarred.
For example, Jauron decided to run a no-huddle offense, when they had absolutely no personnel to run it. Teams like the Steelers ridiculed our offense and suggested that we huddle a bit to perspire.
Trent had many good throws under pressure..so many good wins in a comeback spot. The teams were just not very good.
I don't buy the excuses. Yes, the Bills we're not very good around him, but Edwards was just plain awful. He had his moments, but for the most part he looked tentative to just plain scared. 3rd string QB in the NFL at best.
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My only interest in the News is the Bills and Sabres coverage. I will miss the Sabres coverage - the Bills, not so much. There seems to be enough NFL content everywhere that the News is not really adding much value there. I cannot see it being worth $2.50 per week.
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I was just a bit shocked to find out you were posting from the year 2015.
Subtle humour I am afraid will be lost here. If you ignore they guy who came out from under the bridge, perhaps he will go back there.
We just lost a WR, so the Bills sign a RB???
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If he was he would not be on the practice squad seems to me.