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Report: Bruins Owner Jeremy Jacobs Looking At Bills Buyout?
FLFan replied to Doc's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If I am not mistaken, the NFL has a rule about ownership of other sports franchises. If so, Jacobs would have to sell the majority share of the Bruins. This has been a stumbling block in conversations about him in the past. As for what kind of owner he would be, any owner who makes a commitment to keeping the team in Buffalo is a good owner at this point. Do not kid yourself about that. -
Neither beat anybody in camp. Both were understudy to Bledsoe. Brady stepped in when Bledsoe had his spleen ruptured and performed well enough that the Pats traded Bledsoe to the Bills before the next training camp. Romo got to play 3/4 of the way though the season because Bledsoe was stinking the place up and the Cowboy's were looking to the future.. The common theme is both were backups until given an opportunity to play. The Bills should give Brohm a couple of games this year to see what he can do.
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Jason Lacanfora is hardly a credible source. If any team would have a harder time than the Bills convincing a quality coach to come to town it would be the Redskins. Snyder is a disaster. A rich little fat man with a Napolean complex. The Redskins are a joke and a graveyard for coaches. He will pay big bucks though.
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The only realistic chance to win was to stop them from scoring. As low a probability as that may have been, did you really think the Bills were going to score with the garbage they had playing OL by the end? I think the only first down they had in the second half to that point was on the long bomb to TO. As it was, they only needed to gain another 10 yards or so in 3 plays and 30 seconds and could not do that. The defense played tough all day and that was the best chance. There was plenty of time on the clock to score a FG even so.
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Great summation PTR. The Bills had plenty of time. Time was not the problem. They had 4 plays to make an additional 10 yards they would have needed to try a winning filed goal and could not do it. 1 minute left, 2 minutes left - does not matter.
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He is not playing DE - he is a linebacker in Washington.
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Alex Brown unintentionally disses Jauron
FLFan replied to Kingfish's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Further proof that Florio is nothing but a hack. -
Could not agree more - opposite sides of the same coin delivering the same result.
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Certainly playing on the same defense as Haynesworth does not hurt, but I see quite a bit of the Skins living in the DC area and he is mostly playing OLB, only lining up hands down occasionaly. In what I have seen, he is effective when blitzing from the OLB position, totally lost in space when not rushing the passer, and no more effective than Maybin when lining up as a DE. I had hoped to see the Bills use Maybin more creatively to get him some opportunities to use his speed, but that is asking a lot of this coaching staff. Orapko does look stronger though, I would have to say. Maybin needs 20 more pounds of muscle.
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Since Maybin is being swallowed up by NFL tackles
FLFan replied to HelloNewman's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
The big difference here is that the Skins plugged Orakpo in as the starter from Day 1 (and he was in camp on time) while Maybin was relegated to back up/situational status from the beginning. (and missed over half of pre-season) Is this because Maybin sucks, or because our coaching staff refuses to allow a young player to take on a major role? The history under Jauron has been the later. Comparisons at this point do not mean much. The guy is only seeing the field for a handful of plays each week. It also may well be that he is much better suited to the role the Skins have Orakpo playing - OLB. Again, we will never know under this coaching staff. -
Like most other years in my 45 years or so of Bills fandom, I enetered the season with at least some hope - of a competitive if not dominating team and some enjoyable afternoons (and some frustrating ones) wathching the Bills. I was encouraged somewhat by the game performance on Monday night and the win the following week. It is clear now though that this team is in deep trouble and beyond redemption in the short term, and perhaps not for several more years under competent leadership, which itself is a big unknown. There is a silver lining to this situation for long suffering Bills fans. Just think of it this way. The sting of losing the team forever when the Old Man dies to well heeled owners with glistening new stadium deals and plenty of high priced corporate seat buyers awaiting in Los Angelas, or Toronto, or wherever will be felt far less. At least the short term pain will be over, to be replaced by the ache of loss and eventually fond memories of the good times. Sure I had hoped to enjoy Bills football in whatever time we have left, but at this point, perhaps it's death is the most merciful result.
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You really should not try to write when you are drunk.
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ESPN Insider: TO a fit in Chicago?
FLFan replied to BfloBillsFan's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Pure speculation by Schefter. It is what lazy reporters do. -
Bobby April at least seems to coach with some enthusiasm. The collapse of the special teams into completely undisciplined play is troubling, however. Are they that bad as players or is he simply unable to reach them? Whatever the reason, if it does not change he will be exiting stage left with the rest of these chumps.
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I also agree with the observations about Byrd and Wilson. Both have skills but the passion they each played with was impressive , though unfortunately, not contageous to the rest of the slugs.
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I appreciate the comments Bill. I agree 100%. TE is shot - any chance he had to be a competent QB is gone with this sorry excuse for a line. I can not see him getting it together now. I also see no additional wins this year. The Jets are likley to win by 40 points next week.
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Changing coach not the right thing to do, so says Wilson
FLFan replied to Talonz's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I am sure everyone would feel better if Wilson had fired Jauron this morning, but unfortunately, Wilson is right in not making an emotional decision after that debacle. Simply firing jauron does not solve anything at this point unless you have a plan. Who would take over? You can not bring someone in from the outside mid season, realistically. April has been the assumed choice, but the horrible performance of the ST this year does not speak loudly for his ability to change the course on an interim basis. He did not rule out making a change later in the season. The bye week makes the most sense. Not sure there are any good options which means riding out the season and hoping for a high draft choice and a decent QB falls to us. 1 and 15 is not a bad plan at this point. The season is clearly lost. -
OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: BILLS v. 'PHINS 10/4/2009
FLFan replied to The Senator's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Edwards is done. if he ever had potential, or the ability to play at an NFL level, the opportunityis certainly gone. he has shown today he has no business in an NFL game. -
OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: BILLS v. 'PHINS 10/4/2009
FLFan replied to The Senator's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
38 to 10 coming up. -
OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: BILLS v. 'PHINS 10/4/2009
FLFan replied to The Senator's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
One other thing - if the Bills do not fire Jauron tomorrow I will never watch another Bills game. I am done. -
OFFICIAL GAME THREAD: BILLS v. 'PHINS 10/4/2009
FLFan replied to The Senator's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I give up. I have maintained a positive attitude, believed they could turn this around, but this is the perhaps the most pathetic, poorly coached, uninspired no effort game I have ever seen. This is saying a lot since I have been watching this team for some 45 years. I am disgusted. I am actually looking forward to the eventual sale of this team and move to some other area. I have had it. It is simply not repairable. -
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TO: "They need to better utilize myself and Lee"
FLFan replied to Big Turk's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Understood, but the sad fact is that TE does not display that type of leadership. Who knows how he is in the locker room, but sometimes he should call out sloppy play and mistakes. We do not want a TO/TE war in the media, but that is not what I got out of that interview - just straightforward analysis and "we need to do better". I agree. It is about time sombody on this team stepped up and represented a winning attitude amoung the players. -
TO: "They need to better utilize myself and Lee"
FLFan replied to Big Turk's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
1. Because its true. 2. Because somebody on this team needs to show some leadership, and sometimes that means calling it like it is. I see nothing wrong here. He is not throwing anyone under the bus, nothing outrageous, very measured. -
Then you were not paying attention. The middle of the Bill's defense was noticeably weaker after he went out. This is a huge loss for the Bills with no adequate replacement on the horizon.