Webster Guy

you have to be mean to play these sports. especially guys in the trenches. the advantage of a head coach like Rex is he'll handle Richie better than anyone, and the guy has a chance to clean up his reputation and kick some ass while doing it. now get lupati and a good young running back and EJ can be good in there.

If Stevie doesn't drop that pass against pitt we don't have Dareus pick in the next draft. Good ol butterfingers. Put him in the percy harvin category of awfully poor drama/production ratio. we have an incredible 1/2 with Woods and Sammy.

No, he loves the game. Doesn't need the money, or more trophies. He loves to compete and play football. He has the rest of his life to golf and goof off, the dude can still chuck it. He had more yards, better completion percentage and better qb rating than Brady this year. How in the world does that mean he should retire?

Well said Daryl. It's disturbing that we had the first pick of any qb in the WORLD two years ago, and it looks like there may have not been a single one eligible that year who pans out to be a good nfl qb. I always hear people say the NFL has so much parity now, but it's pretty much the same teams every year, the ones with great qb's. You really have to bottom out AND get lucky on who is coming up from the college ranks that year. We could go another decade or more without getting a good QB if we keep hovering at 500 every year.

the rings WANT to be found......

Getting slammed on message boards is part of the game, even if you're right on. I posted how we should have played EJ in the second half of the NE game when they put in their scrub qb because Orton wasn't going to be here and we needed to get EJ some experience after sitting for 10 games an observing. Pretty much everyone said I was an idiot, we play to win no matter what, developing a qb is stupid and that I should take my own life. I hate posts that tell people not to slam other people. I don't usually slam anyone but I definitely reserve the right to. It's like the one protecting Tim Graham, somebody said his feelings were hurt so he left the board. I say if you can't take anonymous critics telling you you're an idiot then you really are one. Laugh it off people.

this makes sense to me too. Roman is going to take one look at our Oline, and pick up the phone to his boy Lupati. I would rather see Searcy AND Hughes AND Spiller walk if thats what it took to sign the guy. Look, we don't have a great qb and we arent going to find one for next year. We have a great D, and the worst Oline in the league. If Roman is going to design a run first offense he needs to start with the big fella's, and Lupati makes us instantly better.

we need a young, tough rookie rb. ray is on the decline and even though he's likely to be a model citizen from here on out, our money needs to go into the Oline.

I'm just happy he's gone. I hope he does well down there in Jax, they need some help or that franchise is outta there sooner than later. Doug is focused on improving their Oline, now we have to do the same thing here. We will never win a championship without a great qb, but in the meantime we can have a lot more fun watching these games if we get an offense that racks up some points.

so marino and kelly sucked too i guess. and calvin johnson and adrian peterson. peyton is one of the most dominating qb's ever. definitely getting older but hardly overrated. whenever I see a "guess who" type link i never click on them. i hate those 'click through' whores. i would put Byrd in there for sure. a few years ago I was afraid superMario was among them because he started pretty slow for us, but he's been great. the biggest surprise Bill for me has been Whitner. I always thought he was too slow in coverage and too much of a liability against a decent TE but he's had a good post-Buff career and found the pro bowl a few times since.

in other news, my grandma thinks marrone was a decent guy. offseason doldrums

Wilson is strong too. And there's no risk of handoff fumble. My point of the whole post is everyone was crying for Lynch, but 4 out of 5 times this year that play didn't work when they gave it to him, and the guy isn't a great short yardage back. It's like everyone is assuming that's the no-brainer play. The Pats stuffed him for a loss on many occasions and if they did it again on the next play you have to burn your time out which limits your options on what you can run the next two plays.

they couldn't run run pass with one timeout and 26 seconds on the clock.

We should know as Bills fans, Marshawn Lynch is being overrated as the short yardage master by the rest of the football community. Everyone is acting like it was such a no-brainer. He was only 1 for 5 at the goal line this season for the Seahawks. He isn't great at the one yard run and never has been. His strength is yards after contact and a shifty, unorthodox power running style but only if he gets the hole or catches the ball in space. His weakness is dancing behind the line, unsure of what to do when there's no hole, which there wouldn't have been if they'd handed him the ball in that situation. On the first drive in a 3rd and 1 situation they tried Marshawn and he got stuffed behind the line. I think the same thing would have happened. Throwing the ball on a Russell Wilson rollout where he could see everything and just throw it away if there was nobody open would have been a better play, or even a Wilson sneak on a quick snap, but Marshawn wasn't getting in. The Pats had their goal line big boys in, and they were ready for Lynch. That's why the OC and the head coach called the pass. The coaches real mistake was burning a timeout with 2 minutes left because they couldn't get in the personnel and run a play in despite having 30 seconds to do so. If they had 2 timeouts down there, then they could have tried a run without burning their last timeout. Because they only had one left, it meant they HAD to throw a pass at least once if they didn't get in on the run. That was the real issue here, poor game management by Carroll and/or the OC.

the seahawks were lucky to even be there in the first place they beat a lame panthers team who had a losing record looked awful against the packers, who gave away the game then when the coaching needed to come through on the 2 min drive to win the game they called 2 stupid timeouts, got to the 1 yard line by a fluke bomb catch, and tried to get cute with the last play and threw the whole season away. Carrol is such a weenie. USC fans must have been cheering after all the mess he left there, then getting to see a coaching error cost Petie a championship.

he was will cost too much money to keep if we would also like to extend Dareus next year. it doesn't make sense to tie up half of your money in your Dline, unless the money is just going to be sitting around and not being used to pick up free agents on offensive line and possibly quarterback. I just don't see us spending huge dollars on a situational pass rusher when our offensive line is among the worst in the league. The Shep trade was great and paid off for us in a big way but it's over now. Rex doesnt need Hughes to be great on D, but Roman needs a line to run his offense effectively.

i just feel sorry for the guy. born with great strength and quickness but a low IQ and no social skills. the media and nfl should just leave him alone on these interviews. the fact that they keep showing it on TV is the perfect embodiment of todays media: content is meaningless, what gets the most clicks and views is top priority. pathetic.

If we have a good plan to spend serious money to improve the Oline, and there's enough left over then I hope we keep CJ. If we're going to battle next year with the same guards we had this year, then we don't need CJ and he won't want us anyway. If there's good run blocking upfront there's nobody I'd rather have running for us.

Completely agree, with the one addition that we need to at least have a blindside guard that is good. We let go one of the best offensive guys in the league in Chan, and one of the best guards in the league in Levitre, and never replaced them with anyone capable, then expect our young qb to go out and do better than .500. My hope is that Roman and some big money will entice Lupati to come and be a Bill. He would make us instantly better in the run and pass, and is a smarter way to spend money than resigning Hughes. meaningless stats. Not sure where you get Orton and Fitz being backups considering they've started 100 games between them, but either way, everyone knows backups have the early success factor for their first few games before anyone has film on them. That's why EJ very nearly beat the Pats in his very first NFL game, and why lots of backups can pop in and do well for a few games, but would worsen consistently as teams compiled tape and game planned against them. Best example this year is Sanchez with Philly. Also a starter who took his team to two divisional championships. Not bad for a "backup".

Hmmmm. Well take a look at the playoff teams and their qb's, then take a look at the head coaches around the league. You won't see any that "consistently outperform" anyone else, unless they have a great qb. As far as owners go, Irsay and Al Davis are probably the worst of the lot, but when they have good qb's they still win and when they don't they stink. Just like the rest of the league.

marrone resigned from his job before he was let go. its a class move by Terry. pegula had Rex in his sights all along. he got one of the best NFL coaches for a 5 year deal, and improved his team. if i owned the team, i'd have played it the same way Terry did. he liked whaley better than marrone, and one of them had to go. we upgraded in a big way, now just hope Pepper Johnson comes back to his old spot on the staff, which looks like it might happen.

Because they got suckered by Byrd. Brees is going to have to do a major restructuring or he's gone.

i could stick my head up a butchers ass, but i'd rather take the bulls word for it...... no wait...

the only thing good i've ever heard anyone say about Hackett is that he's got a lot of enthusiasm. he and marrone took Cuse to a .500 team with a very good college qb, which isn't really much of an accomplishment. he lacked inventiveness and game calling skills (from my limited viewpoint on my couch). get the guy into a college scenario where his skill of being enthusiastic can help recruit good high school players. he'll be more rewarded in a job like that by developing young players in the sport he loves. the NFL isn't where he belongs anyway. i'd go play for the guy if i was a high school standout.

Rooting for the Colts yesterday and watching Green Bay give away a superbowl berth, there were so many situations where we all kept saying "man our defense would have had that" or "boy these guys have zero pass rush compared to us...." For the past two years our D has been great fun to watch, and the defensive rankings obviously speak for themselves, but you never really know how special our defense is until you watch other teams (even playoff ones) get steamrolled. I promise to never take the B-lo defense for granted anymore. There's a good chance Rex will have the D even more badass next year too.