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Robinson dropped his head and led with his head. Sure looks like he did it intentionally to go for the big hit.

Robinson led with his head. He did not have to drop his head regardless of what the offensive player did. He led with his head and actually dropped his arms. Well it kind of does matter if you are hitting the guy in the chin with the crown or your helmet since you have at least some padding taking the blow and he does not. It also makes a difference if you drive the other guy into the ground and cause his head to bounce off the turf. Sorry to hear about your blindness.

Watch the link provided on page 1. Stop it at 46-47 seconds into the video. First contact is made by his helment on Maclin's chin with his head down. It was a dirty hit.

Your comparisons to diving are irrelevant. If you want to convince people of your POV, make relevant comparisons and site some applicable stats. You do know that jumping 50 ft into water is not like hitting concrete don't you? You do know that this is an exaggeration to make people understand that it is not harmless, right? I mean if you were given a choice between falling 50 feet into a pool of water or onto a block of concrete, you wouldn't say "makes no difference" right? Seriously? Which injuries are you talking about? What is more serious than paralysis?

If Dunta Robinson had put his hands and arms forward, he probably would not have been flagged. He dropped his head forward and led with his head. Same as Kevin Everett, Dennis Byrd and Marc Buoniconti, and they all ended up with broken necks. Continuing to compare diving to football is stupid beyond belief.

Bad comparison. If I dive into the water I bring my hands above my head and my hands break the impact with the water. Yes, body position is an issue but that is part of the point of tilting your head back. Tilt your head back and your back will arch. You will make more contact with your shoulder pads or sternum and distribute the force better. Tilt your head forward and the entire force will go down you spinal column. God did not intend for you to run at full speed head first into someone weighing 200+ pounds who is running at full speed in the opposite direction. God did not design our bodies for football. That all works good for relatively small object like a nut, bolt or wrench falling from some height but if you drop a 200+ pound anvil onto someones head from a couple of stories high, he will die, hard hat or not.

You have that completely backwards. If you spear someone, there is nothing to transfer the force of that impact to your shoulder pads. The force is completely transferred by the vertabrae in your neck causing compression fractures. This is what happened to Kevin Everett, Dennis Byrd and Marc Buoniconti. Keeping your head up will allow more contact with your padding and more distribution of the force. Well it isn't particularly smart for a running back to do that but they are primarily trying to get their pads lower, to get more leverage and get more yardage. They aren't trying to hurt someone. While it may not be a natural reaction to lift your head and smash your face into an oncoming obstacle, running into an obstacle as fast and hard as you can is not natural either.

Aren't you being a bit premature anointing Fitz as the best QB ever to play the game?

Sanchez was rated 17th.

Freddie Jackson wasn't the 9th overall pick in the draft.

True. I didn't see the play but it seemed to me that Maybin always tries to run up field thinking he will turn the corner. The linemen at the NFL level simply stay with him and prevent him from turning that corner. The linemen aren't so much having their way with Maybin so much as letting him run up field all he wants.

If this franchise ever turned things around, maybe you wouldn't hear so much of that. 11 years without making it to the post season will do that to a fan. Quite frankly, given the number of high first round picks this team has had in the last decade, having one Pro-Bowler really isn't asking for much. Instead, only 4 are left on the roster. That is truly pathetic.

This may be the best move the Bills could make to win the Andrew Luck sweepstakes. He can't run behind this line. He can't help pass block, so Fitz should go down early for the season.

Well he said in the article he was holding steady at 240 but wants to get back to 255-256.

The Whitner and Maybin picks were obvious blunders when they were made. CJ Spiller was a luxury pick for a team that couldn't afford the luxury.

I'd be surprised if Spiller ever rushed for 1500 yards in a season in the NFL. He just doesn't seem like an every down back. He looks more like a poor mans Reggie Bush and Bush has never run for 600 yards in a season.

Oh nonsense. I never hated Lynch. I was more critical of Nix for drafting Spiller when the RB position was the only one settled on the team. And since Nix did draft Spiller, he should have traded Lynch on draft day so he could have gotten a pick immediately. I was never a big fan of Poz but that again goes back to the front office. I thought it was stupid to let London Fletcher, a man who proved he could play, stay healthy and was a team leader, walk in free agency. They created a hole where none needed to be created when there were plenty of holes that needed filling on the team. This is a recurring theme for this organization and it hasn't stopped under the new management. Again, it goes back to somebody has the play at those positions. Addition by subtraction rarely works and doesn't fit in this case.

Donahoe was gone after the 2005 season. Nate Clements, Willis McGahee, Lee Evans and Marshawn Lynch could play. Donte Whitner, John McCargo, Marshawn Lynch and Aaron Maybin are all the result of the Levy/Jauron regime.

Yes I meant Whitner, thanks for the correction. In my first post I never brought up the linebackers. PromoTheRobot brought up Poz. I agree that Barnett may actually be an upgrade but given how bad the LB corps was, wouldn't Poz and Barnett be better than just Barnett? I didn't think the numbers between Jacksonville and the Bills were all that different. I though Poz went because he didn't like the system being installed here. I'm skeptical that Spiller will be anything more than a kick returner and a situational gimmick.

I'm not a big believer in addition by subtraction when it comes to players, though it is certainly valid when it comes to those who evaluate talent at One Bills Drive. The RB situation is thinner. Even if you don't like Lynch as a person, he was a hard nosed, punishing runner. If Jackson goes down, what faith do you have is Spiller? He was a liability last year because he couldn't pick up the blitz and when he was on the field, the opposing team knew he was getting the ball. Poz wasn't great but he was the best of a group of LBs misfit for the system the new coaching staff chose. There is a reason why Nix wanted him back. Whitner again wasn't great, but his problems were he was drafted to high and had to high of an opinion of himself. I was down on him since the day he was drafted, mostly because I wanted Ngata, but has his replacement been proven to be better?

Not saying much, is it?

On the flip side, the receiving corps is weaker than last year, the running back situation is thinner than last year, the offensive line is a mess, the secondary is probably worse than last year. 8-8 is possible but with a few injuries, so is 2-14 and Andrew Luck.

Looks like he used a combination of where they drafted last year and how he feels about the QB situation, hence the reason that the Bengals are the only team ranked below Buffalo.

Oh stop taking away the excuses for a never ending rebuilding season.

I mean that immediately after every draft I have never seen you speak in less than glowing terms about every pick the Bills have made. Have you ever criticized a pick? I was at a draft/poker party for Bills fans when Maybin was picked. Everyone was stunned and sickened by the pick. Even his highlight real showed him getting dominated when he wasn't playing second tier teams.