Bill from NYC
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I always get the two confused. You are correct. Cleeland was taken with the next pick, and I was flipping out!
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1) I thought the Bills were stupid for drafting Sam Cowart. I wanted Cam Cleeland or Tra Thomas.
2) I hated when TD traded for Clements. I was screaming for Hutchinson, who may be the best OG in football, but I was still dead-ass wrong.
3) I demanded Steinbach over MaGahee.
4) I thought RJ was literally great. To this day, I have to shake off visions of him doing well. The kid had amazing abilities.
5) I did not think that MW was capable of putting together a couple of consecutive good games.
I will not list my correct statements, except 1.....Travis Henry. 'nuff said.
And I will share credit here with VABills, Alaska Darin and SDS.
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Do you think that he is a bad coach? I dont. His DEs are out to injury, as is a starter in the defensive backfield, and perhaps now a DT. His OL already sucked and he lost McNally, yet they still have 5 wins.
I would say that is pretty good. What do you think?
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>>>I'm glad he's speaking out to say 'Hey, drugs are bad.' Not many people who do that these days.<<<
Are you glad when politicians speak out and tell kids, "Hey, abstain from sex?"
Tell the truth, please.
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for all the talk about jennings being injury prone, he's actually missed about 6 games in four years. it's a myth, basically. he missed a few in season one, one in season 2, and 1-2 last year (i can't remember exactly, but no more than 2), and none this year (although he was knocked out of a game by a concussion). as for the mental acumen of ruben brown in assessing other players, i wouldn't rely on it. jennings is an excellent LT who we should slap the franchise tag on if necessary. we have no - and i mean no - other realistic options at securing an upper tier LT. walter jones and orlando pace are not coming to buffalo. beyond them, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel or praying that a second round draft choice succeeds. the bills aren't in any cap trouble at all and should be able to easily afford it (especially since they won't have any notable dead money next year).
Dave, although I can easily see why you would want to keep Jennings, here is something to consider if you will wrt using the "Franchise Tag."
JJ would instantly become the highest paid player on the team. He would make condiderably more than Spikes, and perhaps double what Fletcher is paid. Jennings is good, but is he THAT good?
Talk of using this tag on Jennings eerily reminds me of when Jerry Ostroski made almost as much money as Bruce Smith, and Fina made more. it was wrong then and would be wrong now.
Jmo.
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Agreed. Despite last night, I am thinking that seattle is not THAT bad, nor are the rams. We did also beat the jests. Yes, the best team in the NFL kicked our asses. What exactly does this prove? That we are not the best team in the NFL?
Who said we were?
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Fine, but we must strongly take into account the quality of the posters that he posts against.
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Would you call Thurman a "dominant" player? I would, because he was very good at every phase of the position, and I will call him a great receiver.
In that sense, I think WM has the potential to dominate. If he really does have another step, his running will rival that of Corey Dillon, and he can already do everything else.
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Your point is well stated. The only thing I disagree with is that imo, you make too much of the "quality of opponents." Have the jests beaten top teams? Not really. Do you fault them? You can only beat the teams that you play.
Also, remember how far they have come. The Bills were losing to so-so teams, such as the jags. A better example is the raiders. Imo, the raiders are worse than the rams or seattle, perhaps the equal of ariz., and only a tad better than miami. They beat us, and now we are beating better teams than them consistently.
The above is why I think that too much emphasis is placed on Drew. Surely, he has not changed SO much to be the sole reason for such a turnaround. Imo, MaGahee being in (and Henry being out) is a more prominent reason for the new found success. MW playing well cannot be over-stated, nor can the return of the Lawyer, who is playing better than he ever has in Buffalo imo.
In summary, I think that injuries will probably dictate who starts in 05 as much as anything else, and things will work themselves out. I also think that it matters far less than many of us believe.
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Try looking in Lot 1 at a home game.... if you ever make it to another home game, ya bastage. I'll even buy your beer.
Seriously, though - first thing I do after I park the car and drag the cooler out of the trunk, is head over and hit up BADOL with the questions I've been saving since the last time I saw him...
I do the same thing, but this year I got to badger you first.
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ICE will surely get the "last laugh." He has set himself in a position where if the Bills lose ONE FOOTBALL GAME, he can come here and post that he was "right." If the Bills march to the superbowl and lose, he will blame Drew and pose once again as "Dr ICE."
Actually, I think it is kinda funny and I hope he keeps it up.
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I have a lot of respect for McCain but I gotta say he is jumping in the boat before checking for leaks first on this one. Baseball needs to get its act together but I don't think this kind of thing is the answer. Why not just do what the NFL does? They test for steroids don't they?
Steroids, secretly condoned by both owners and the players union, saved baseball. It was a dying sport after the strike. Suddenly there were genetic mutants hitting 60 plus homers.
I agree with stuckincincy. This is the sports equivalent of the "smoking ban." Though NOT an exact comparison, to me this strikes of a publicity hound politician posing as a "do gooder" while not addressing real issues.
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The only thing wrong with Mikey is between his ears. The guy is a 400lb teddy bear. If he ever gets a mean strak he could dominate for the next ten years, but he won't. Just not tough enough imo. He will never reach his full potential. I hope I'm wrong about him but thats how I see it. I was at the game yesterday and was about twenty rows behind the Bills bench. I was watching him after he came off the field. He was sitting by himself on the bench until a trainer finally comes over and he goes behing the bench to the bike. He gets on and never once pedaled the freaking thing, just talking to the trainer. He then goes back to sit on the bench. Then about 10 minutes later they cart is ass off to the lockerroom.
For 2 1/2 years, Big Mike played poorly imo, but, for the last several games he has been dominant.
I have always expected a lot from MW because of where he was selected. He is in the upper echelon of salaried NFL players, and is only now starting to earn his keep. I hope it continues, because winning football teams need dominant blockers, and there is no getting around this.
What I will do is retract the bust label. It is (was) starting to look as if he is coming around. I also think that I tended to blame him for mistakes that were sometimes the fault of another particular player. Since this other player was benched, MW's game has improved dramatically, but then so has that of the entire offense.
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Another victory or 2, and you will be back on a Bledsoe crusade, as you were for years.
Your crusades are tiring and inconsistent.
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Henry is worth little more than a used condom, and Drew is not young. For this, Ariz will hand us a top receiver, and a top 10 pick?
Nice try.
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Mcgahee is great......but not that great...
Could it be a new coach, new system and the players geling with it....
Could it be a new coach learning/progressing with coaching ingame....
Could it be Milloy coming back....
Could it be the benching of Reese.....
Could it be our special teams, coming through game in and game out...
Could it be Mcnally getting this OLine into shape....
Could it be Bledsoe playing with more confidence......
Could it be our WR/TE's not dropping every other throw....
Mcgahee has been apart of this turn around, no doubt but he wasnt the only factor....I do still think we would be riding the same success with Henry in there too...
This team(offense, defense & special teams) has improved as whole, throughout this season....
>>>I do still think we would be riding the same success with Henry in there too...<<<
Thanks for the football discussion, but I respectfully submit that the above assertion is absurd.
Travis would be falling on his stupid ass, missing blocks, dropping passes, running wrong routes and the Bills would be in a battle with the phish for the basement if he were the starter instead of MaGahee.
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What substantive facts do you cite that indicate that Henry is a cancer? He certainly has not been productive as a player this year, but not being good enough as a player and being a cancer are two different things. On the contrary, in the past Henry drew lots of praise from teammates, fans and even was the lead pictuire on TBD prior to the resurgence of WM. Because he demonstrated the ability to play productively through injuries such as a fractured bone while in the process of gaining over 1300 yards for the season TH proved himself to be as far from being a cancer as a player could be.
This year in conjunction with the downturn in his play, he has drawn praise from his teammates for keeping his mouth shut and being a good soldier when a better player took his job.
I don't think he is a cancer at all. Perhaps you are using the word in a different fashion than the way it is normally used by most fans and you mean that someone is a cancer simply through not being as good as another player or just being unproductive.
If the latter is what you are referring to it is correct for Henry's play this year but differs in terms of how folks use the phrase cancer. By that definition Bledsoe would be considered a "cancer" when Brady took his job abd he ran the Brady offense well enough to win, though not well in the AFC championship game. In tat case, Bledsoe won virtually universal praise for the manner in which he dealt with Brady rolling over him and in my view Henry deserves nothing but praise for the way he has dealt with WM's play far outstripping his production.
I concede your point. Cancer was the wrong word. "Loser" was however appropriate.
Again, check out the sack and W/L stats.
Travis can run, but he is bad at every other phase of football. If you disagree, please point out what else he does well. Blocking? Running correct pass paterns? Not falling on his stupid ass? Catching the football?
Please. He is more responsible for the 0-4 start than was Bledsoe.
The guy is a flat out bad football player, and to those of you who think he will bring us a 3rd round pick, enjoy your pipe dream.
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I think that most of us are going to be totally surprised in the next draft.
Imho, the Bills will grab a running back in round 2. Like it or not, Henry is a cancer that needs to be cut. Again, look at this season. The sack stats and W/L stats tell the story in games in which TH started.
Right now, the Bills look good enough to go after the "best player available," but backup RB is a vital slot to fill when we rid ourselves of this loser. The good news is that RBs seem to need less time to develop.
After this, I am content to sit back and hope for more OL, dbs, and perhaps a lb.
So there it is...the first time I have ever wanted someone other than an offensive lineman with our first pick.
Disclaimer: The above does not take injuries into account.
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That game scares me as well, and I will take it a step further.....
If the Bills win their next 3 and are healthy, we will kick that big pittsburgh rookie's ass!!!
GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One football thing you were DEAD ASS wrong about
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Remember Corey Loucheiy? I can now look back and laugh. Did he LOOK like a great RT or what? I remember being at RWS and watching him take the field. He just looked like a pure stud, ready to kick ass! He even went to Stanford, right? One would figure that he was smart and strong.
The problem was that he was unable to play football!
Loucheiy was the equivalent of a LB built like Cornelius Bennet who sucked as a LB.
Wow, it is pleasure to watch Bills football players block a little for a change, isn't it?