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...can I stop hoping that this will happen... Or do I need someone to gather some ponderous list of stats to show how many starters this coach has inherited and how many starters he's inserted into the lineup as the factor as to why he can't coach a W (hell, i'll take a TD- 3 games without a TD brings back memories of 2001!).

I'm using this one today. Australia is at risk of losing the cricket to South Africa, potential for a first time 3-0 series white wash. The team has been bad (some players have done their bit, but the TEAM has been bad). With luck, it will rain and "wash-out" the play creating a draw. Questions surround the future of almost 1/2 the team. How to answer these difficult questions, "Obviously, a really interesting day weather-wise."

More in the Casey Hampton= Joel Steed type of drafting search. "Where do they keep finding Lbers?" kind of question. You get the picture.

Maybe the same can be said for corners... do we bring back Ken Irvin now?

I'm just glad now that Richmond Webb got outsted...phew, who saw that coming

They draft a particular type of player, with a focus on the lines and defense. Bingo They refuse to overpay aging stars. they simply draft a "clone" player that fits their system. Bingo They rely on their scouting and drafting and occasionally supplement via free agency. Bingo They are always in a cycle of changing their defensive scheme every few years so they often have a "square peg round hole" situation with players. Bingo ...I endorse this post...

Kelsay has a decent enough first step, it's more he engages and can't disengage to get by. Also he has too few moves to unsettle a tackle. They drop back a step or so and lock on. Schobel is quick, has a nice lean and rip to the outside, but can't square off that edge enough to be more productive as strength is needed to do this- hard at 110kg, the tackles lean him around. But he is or was quick and does get low on that edge. Denney's 6'7", can get into the passing lane and stick up a mit. Terrific. I'm not sure why someone's teaching him the spin move when it's employed to the outside, how much longer can it take to get to the QB when you take the longest route possible. He's not fast enough when he gets going. I'd say coaching is really lacking here. Denney should be a 3rd down left end- period. If you don't get there, stick your hand up. Move him into DT if you like, but stick your hand up. Really obvious passing downs too. Actually, don't employ a 3 point stance, just stand there with your hands up and wave a lot... Kelsay needs some moves away from the tackle not straight into him. Has no real lean like Schobel. Once he gets going it's too late! Sit down in the off season and show him Bruce Smith's highlight reel... it's long and should take him to training camp! Schobel needs more lower body strength- shorten that corner. A few more counters- how many years has that been a request? He can beat a slow tackle to that corner, lean and get there, but if he gets caught, it's a long ride ticket to the outside. ...strength training's an issue- is that taking us back to Rusty Jones again. Damn. Can we sign BS as a defensive pass rush coach. Wasn't Jim Jeffcoat around here awhile back in some sort of coaching matter after playing... or was that elsewhere I'm thinking. The attention to detail to the pass rush looks to an outsider as just- bad. I remember watching Derrick Thomas under Schotenheimer and how Marty was coaching him on setting up the tackles with different techniques. I watch some of the rushes and am confused as to what the intent was. Maybe the offense scores too quickly for that to occur... d'oh. I went there!

Australian Rules Footballer blew out his knee in preseason and returned to the field and played at the same level, 6months later. New technique, less trauma, quicker and stronger healing. ACL reattached with artificial material rather than part of the hamstring (semitendinosus) tendon. Wonder which technique Bills will use? Hopefully not the same medical team in charge of making decisions about Schobel's foot, but the ones involved with KE injury.

We need a friggin' Demarcus Ware.

Peerless

Add that to the Falcons of a few years ago. Brady Smith, Patrick Kerney, Shane Dronett and Travis Hall.

The Cards from memory have been in a pretty consistently tough division with Giants, Eagles, Dallas and Washington for a number of years... Some Superbowls have come from here, must be like 8-10 and nearly 20 times as suited up opponents. Wonder what other divisions rate?

My bad, i've always thought Chris Collinsworth both as a receiver and then as a NFL retired professional commentator were the dumbest things in the history of the NFL.

A scuffle? They guy tried pulling his team mates head off. It was pretty ugly. He was bending his head back deliberately. I'm glad someone stood up for a team-mate. One in- all in. ...the helmet throw only went 5 or so yards and that was funny- he was so mad he couldn't throw a helmet, he had every right to be mad.

NONE. Absolutely none.

That's a lot of players to add in 1 year that will be quality and a contribution. We also have to figure in that some of "our" guys are getting to that point of natural atrition in skills set- speed particularly and accumulation of injuries and will need additional replacements. I get your point though of having a coach want to install a system. What i don't get though, is that a coach can't be flexible within that system to utilise available skill sets and take advantage of what he's got. It's like a perfect storm, balancing FA, draft and retirement of players that you ultimately get the perfect guys for your perfect system... you just gotta be more flexible and creative than that.

It still amazes me how someone like Parrish who runs a 4.37s 40-yard dash, recorded a 36-inch can't get either open or a ball and a guy like Ricky Proehl (a very good reciever...) for example looks HoF. Can you still motion in the NFL? Hardy at 6'6" 200 can't get a ball- here's a guy who can run a 4.47 40 yard dash, 18 reps on the bench press at the NFL Combine, jump 37 inch vertical leap, blah, blah, blah but can't buy a reception. Just can't. Can you run a slant from the slot in the NFL? Is it these guys or is the coaches who can't sit down and come up with a game plane to get the balls to receivers?

Wow, does Duke get blown up on that run play and nice lie down blocking- nice. Seeing so much single coverage, why were not more passes completed... d'oh ...again, do we have play action. Can we audible out of plays! Some pics i guessed the play before seeing the pic following... wasn't that hard and no- i didn't see the game. Nice touch on the pass to Evans, what was it, 10 or 15yards short of making the corner, ouch. It's very late... Great Pics.

He gets upfield ok, but can he do anymore than lock one-one with the Tackle, then square up the hips to the tackle and try pushing him back to the QB. Watch Joey Porter's sack against Peters and see him gets his hips outside of Peters and beat then beat him outside- switch step style. Watch Kelsay fire upfield, lean in, lock up, square up and get pushed around the play... Does Kelsay have an inside technique- perhaps if he didn't always have the outside rush he'd do better with a hard inside play. But is there more, is there an outside technique for that matter... or another trick... something (in all seriousness). Is it him or line coaching? I've seen Denney do some strange rush techniques from time to time as well. For that matter, why was a 6'7" Denney covering Brown out of the flat?

Buddy inside or out?

I think he may be referring to an Olin Kreutz type center...

1 year per club Karl, about right on form!

I appreciate the frustration with losing, that's healthy. Just how you manage it needs to be addressed. Personally, I'm tired of waiting for the Bills to improve during off-season. So that when they play in preseason games I don't constantly read, relax it's just the preseason. The same mental mistakes are carrying over into the season. It seems each off-season is not a building block for the next. That somehow the guys go home and forget that they were NFL Professionals. Week 1 was a treat, but look how the Hawks have done. They're 2-10! We nearly lost in Oakland (3-9), had a good win in Jacksonville (4-7) and got a win at St Louis (2-10). It's not just new coaches either. Guys forget how to run block, run routes, pass rush... We got fooled in the 4-0 start. When watching, i wonder how the Bills are going to score. There appears no method in their madness. It just doesn't change week in week out, you never know what product you'll get- the progression or regression. You just want maybe 1 player each year to step up and take over this team. That's not coaching, that's individual. Ok. Maybe not a Ray Lewis, but maybe a Ronnie Lott guy... someone take this Bills by the Horns and step up. That's my rant and I'm off to work! But they're the Bills and I've flown further than most to see a 3-13 side, so i'll see some more, unfortunately at times...

...ok, successful HC at college, JC, High school or weekend pick up games amongst friends...

Can either Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd or former Victorian State Premier Steve Bracks apply?