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I had read that they felt the US team was purposely going low on Brodeur and that with Luongo being a butterfly type of goalie, he would have had a better chance of stopping 3 of those shots that got by.

And how did he get those numbers in the post Jughead time line? Was he in a nut house? Did he get them from someone in the nut house? Why did he go to Australia this time? Originally he went to find out where the numbers came from, didn't he?

You ended up with the Eris or the Droid?

The bad part about the droid is its weight and the manual keyboard sucks. Outside of that, I've been happy that I replaced my flip phone with the droid.

The nature of the problems they were trying to help probably had much to do with the decision to recycle instead of build anew. The famine in Africa was building in scope and in the consciousness of the western public over time. Having nothing to work with, they put together something which, while not perfect, certainly raised a lot of money for the issue. The Haitian crisis happened very suddenly. While it is prominent in the consciousness of the western public now, it that prominence will fade with time. Remaking something that was already there made sense since coming up with something new would take time. In this case, time is money. It was wise to give the women singers a more prominent role this time around since quite frankly, the men sucked. I guess these guys can rap but they certainly can not sing. In the original version all the singers had good voices except Springsteen, who sounds constipated. The remake blows.

Except the smoke monster had been seen at numerous locations around the island.

This is a silly exercise. There are no corner backs or safeties on this list.

You have to start by realistically assessing what you have.

But we are not talking about a great defense. We are not talking about the Bills defense under Wade Phillips. We are talking about Dick Jauron's weak front 7 defense.

Chan Gailey will be the Kay Stephenson of his decade. This pick is less inspiring than DJ, MM or GW were.

Flutie

Didn't say they were all home runs, but they weren't John McCargos either.

Polian rarely whiffed in the first round and picked high in the first round only one time, picking up Shane Conlan

It is not simply a matter of looking back and saying we should have taken this guy. People on this board expressed their hopes for picking McKinnie, Ngata and Orakpo before they were ever drafted. It is not about saying I'm better than the next person on this board. It is about well deserved criticism of the Bills front office. Who was the last first rounder that actually panned out for the Bills?

Most of the players people are talking about in this thread (Ngata, McKinnie and Orakpo) were high first round picks that the Bills had an opportunity to draft. In every case there were people on this board who wanted those players picked and bitched about those players being passed up for the Whitners, Williams, Mabins of the draft. I think they have every right to B word and say 'I told you so' for all the BS they put up with from the front office apologists here. I really haven't seen much discussion about the late rounders you mentioned, where things are more of a crap shoot.

How should a pro bowler be measured? Simply by number of sacks? Should it be a combination of sacks, QB hits and QB pressures? Should performance on running plays be included? Using a number of sacks allowed number seems awfully simplistic to me. To determine if he is worthy of the Pro Bowl, Jason Peters has to be compared to the left tackles in the NFC. Using the link that Thurman#1 provided, there are only 3 LTs in the NFC who allowed fewer sacks that Peters (Olando Pace (1) , Sean Locklear (1) and and Chad Clifton(4)). However if you look at the number of hits and pressures combined those player allowed Pace (6 hits 37 pressures), Locklear (8 hits 16 pressures), Clifton (4 hits 18 pressures), then Peters looks very good allowing 2 hits and 9 pressures. That probably explains why he is rated as the best left tackle in the NFC at pass protection and the second best in the NFC overall.

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I'd say the beginning of the end occured when Polian was fired. It was down hill from there.

Good thing that we're getting breaking news from "insiders". The average fan never would have figured this out for himself.

He will be back in three days.

One of the major purposes of the no huddle was to not allow situational substitutions by the defense. This is done not necessarily by running plays at lightning speed but by getting to the line quickly so the defense couldn't run in substitutes. Running plays at lightning speed will just lead to faster 3 and outs.

I think you will be pleased. I don't think the Bills will have the number 1 overall pick but an improved position, top 10, is highly likely. How many years have the Bills been "rebuilding"?

Yeah switching to a conventional offense will really throw off the Pats. I don't know how they could adjust.

That's easy. The Bills losing is clearly worse. If they won, people wouldn't be whining about it. Seriously, for the rose colored glass crowd like you, why do you even bother to open a thread like this? For most of its history, the Bills are a team that has struggled for mediocrity. The 90s were an aberration. They did little in the off season to improve. Any reasonable person would be skeptical about this team.

Schobel, Denny and Kelsay are hardly young and inexperienced having at least 7 years of experience each. I'd describe them more as mediocre and on the downside of their careers. Maybin is an over rated tweener.