The key word in there was hopefully. I don't see why the chik-n-chit play calling or pouting wideouts would prevent the offensive linemen from doing their jobs. Just sounds like a weak excuse.
I'm not disappointed to see MW or Teague gone. I was never sold on either of them. Still, they did beat out other people for their positions on the team and there is no guarantee that the people who are replacing them are any improvement.
I see no evidence that the revolving door policy has been changed at all. How do you know that guys Marv is bringing in are going to work any harder or give you any more than the guys TD brought in?
If it is so simple, how come the Bills have such a hard time finding players who can do that?
And again, I didn't say you need Pro Bowlers to do that. You're the one who keeps injecting the Pro Bowl argument.
I don't think that everyone who does not believe the Bills have adequately addressed the offensive line situation believes that the entire line has to be made up of Pro-Bowlers. Many of us believe that in order to win a championship, you need to dominate up front first. Therefore, we need more that a line that is just good enough to keep us in games.
On what basis do you say Fowler is solid? Same question regarding Reyes.
To me the offensive line looks more like
Peters - promising but to early to say solid
Villarial - solid(if uninjured which seems to be a big if to me)
Fowler - ?
Reyes - ?
Gandy - below average
I'm skeptical that Levy has addressed the line situation any more seriously than TD did. In fact I'd go so far as to say that TD put a greater, more credible effort into it.
It was on the flight manifest. He also wrote a will that was included in the bottle of letters that was taken on the raft. Sawyer read the letters and was wondering "who the hell is Hugo?" I believe that Locke and Sawyer have both refered to him as Hugo.
I was a supporter of Flutie at the time but quite frankly, I'm not convinced Johnson vs Flutie was the deciding factor in that game and the Bills secondary suffered so many injuries in that game that they wouldn't have made it past through the next round.
The Bills had more seasoned veterans last year. You don't really consider Jason Peters to be a "seasoned vet", do you? How do you know that Reyes/Fowler will be any better than Anderson/Teague.
Most agile player? Not a chance. He was no where in the same league as Barry Sanders, OJ or Gale Sayers, just to name a few. Most agile QB? Do you really think he was any more agile than Cunningham, Vick, Tarkenton or Steve Young?
I am neither a JP hater nor a devotee. Don't you think you're asking an impossible question? Do you really expect any team mates on an NFL team to publicly say that their QB can't play the position, is selfish or some sort of a jack ass? Do you really expect them to say that about any other player on the team for that matter?