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something has to be there...to be destroyed.
His catch streak ended, and in 4 games, he has 8 catches for 158 yards and 1 TD. Since he's allegedly "all about the stats," you'd figure he would have blown up by now.
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Don't pat yourself on the back too much now, the season is only 25% over, still lots of time for him to implode, and it will happen.
No it won't. Hear me now, believe me later.
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Thanks for the reponse, interesting read. I'd certainly share a lot of sentiments on Peters. However that last point at the end ... I think he's very good, but I don't think he's ever going to be a dominant tackle like Ogden, Jones or Pace (if a player struggles with motivation in one aspect of his career I worry about it recurring).
I think that your assessment of Peters if a fair one. That and his attitude are what probably made the Bills look to move him instead of paying him almost 1/12th of the salary cap.
Admire your honesty. I think sometimes people are too keen to give young players a free pass. Bell has given up 6 penalties from my memory which is a terrible ratio (first 3 games). His pass blocking is pretty poor as well and right now I don't think he's NFL ready. That said sometimes the only way to get players NFL ready is for them to take their lumps and learn from it. In the first three games I wouldn't say he faced any defender that was elite at getting at the QB which would be a worry considering there will be tougher tests.I don't think anyone is giving Bell a "free pass" so much as we know he's green and needs more playing time/experience. And he's playing next to a rookie as well.
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Seems like a lot of surprised people. Many of us knew he wouldn't "destroy the team." And if he did, who gives a freak?
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It wasn't a "common contract dispute." Peters couldn't handle hearing the Bills tell him that he'd have to wait for a new contract. So he decided to holdout until the day before the season started, played like a chump during the season, and then informed the Bills that he'd just play-out (probably poorly) his existing deal and be gone. So basically on Peters' end it was "pay me now or you'll get no effort on my part." The Bills played it right. And time will tell whether the deal was a good one for either club.
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Butler's been injured each year he's been in the league. I don't think it was a stretch to believe he'd get hurt in 2009, especially when he's facing better athletes at DE and/or OLB. It's like making plans not to have a decent backup QB with Edwards as the starter.
Bell was not ready when they pressed him into duty. He's struggled, but the idea we're depending mightily on a guy who hadn't played organized football previous to 2005 is weird
Butler missed his rookie season (2006) recovering from a college shoulder injury, played all 16 games in 2007, and missed 3 games last year. And this year he got rolled-up on, which no one can predict. The O-line situation is bad because they lost Butler early and then Bell got injured. Any team missing its starting OT's will struggle, but Edwards' play just compounds it.
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Doc, what about garlic pills?
Can't hurt. But try the other suggestions first.
Do you feel a sports drink like Gatorade is as good as water?Water is the best. You'll get enough electrolytes in the food you eat.
Exercise, meditation.Yes, forgot to mention exercise.
Easiest way to lower your BP is to stop watching the Bills
Most definitely.
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Avoid sodium, drink plenty of water, sleep well, and decrease stress.
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I hope he's not ready to play by October 18th. Then again, it might not matter.
If only the Bills could trade low draft picks for a real QB.
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A-ha. I think I see what I maybe didn't communicate well. I believe Ralph is "inspired" to pay players (whether the player is good or bad is irrelevant) because of the salary cap. The salary cap really helps set market values for players and the bean counters in the organization, Littmann and Overdorf, have to acknowledge these values. They really have no choice because of the way the NFL operates these days. More precisely: it could be argued that it looks like the Bills are turning back the clock to operate much like they did in the pre-Bill Polian era in some respects. At one time, the Bills were sold around OJ Simpson and were pretty much a laughingstock and not competitive at all. Sound familiar? The Bills will drop some coin here and there on T.O.-like free agents (it does help their marketing and meeting the salary floor to blow big chunks of cap space on rent-a-mercenary types), they'll draft a Tim Tebow for the "Wow!" factor, and continue to milk the fans.
No, I understood what you were trying to get at, but we'll just have to agree to disagree. I believe Ralph will fire Jauron at the end of the year. Whether he hires a big name coach, I don't know.
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Not sure what your point is. The salary floor is real. Teams are required to spend money on players. They are not required to spend money wisely on players. Frittering away $18.5M on a so-so guard burns cap money. Whatever they blow in guaranteed money is cap money. Wahoo! They spent a small fortune on Dockery and Walker and that did indeed help them get between the salary cap and floor this year with plenty of dead money.
Like I already said, they gave him a Steve Hutchinson deal. Hutchinson got the same money the year before. The problem is Hutch is a great player and Dock is a so-so player.
Yes, every dollar squeezed out by driving player payroll down helps the bottom line that year. That doesn't mean Ralph doesn't have to spend any money. Nor does it mean he has to fork over good money after bad. It doesn't mean that eating a coaching staff's payroll and hiring a new one is cheap. Nor does it mean that it isn't Ralph decision as to what sort of ROI he's getting for the outlay he's already placed on the table for the current coaches.
More to the point, Ralph has not been cheap on paying the players since the late-80s. He threw pretty good money at T.O. this year. He has always been tight when it comes to paying coaches however and has made exactly 1 marquee coaching hire in 50 years. The Bills are near the bottom overall in coaching salaries. There is no floor to coaching salaries and no cap and apparently Ralph has never had much/any motivation to pay for a big-name coach.
I agree with you about Ralph and coaches. I don't know what his hangup is with hiring a name one, although it's possible that name coaches don't consider Buffalo a prime gig, just like a lot of players cross Buffalo off of their list of places to play.
However Dockery was given his contract not because the team needed to get above the salary cap floor, but because they thought he was a good player and needed to overpay to get him. They gave him a 7-year contract with $18.5M guaranteed, expecting that he'd play well enough to at least stick around for at least 4 years. As it turned out, he played worse than so-so and was cut after just 2 years, meaning that Ralph wasted that $18.5M. The salary cap had nothing to do with it, outside of Ralph not wanting to waste more of his money on Dockery. And I doubt anyone would have gone as crazy had the Bills kept him, than what they'll do if he keeps Jauron another season.
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Analyze what Huizenga did in the context of moving away from a bad regime (Cam Cameron HC, Randy Mueller GM) and look at is strictly as a business decision for future success. Huizenga decided to invest 27M into hiring Parcells, firing his whole staff, and then paying for the people Parcells advocated for.
Miami, as I admitted, caught a lot of bounces. But paying 27M to turn around a franchise is what he felt necessary, and he's a wealthy man. RW won't even spend 8M to fire a horrible HC and then the requisite amount for new front office talent.
As a business decision, Huizenga's $27M might have been a good investement. On the other hand, it might have been a wash, or it might have been $27M wasted. No one knows if Ross was going to buy the team anyway and/or what effect hiring Parcells had on purchasing/price.
And last year, a LOT of bounces went their way. But if there's no long-term sustained success, basically the only one who profited, possibly, is Huizenga. And he made a lot of money anyway, from what he paid for the team to what he sold it for.
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Cowher has zero chance of happening (he'll be HC of Carolina next year). I'd go with Shanahan. He's had Belichick's number this past decade. But I wouldn't allow him to be GM.
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Wayne Huizenga, before selling the Dolphins to Stephen Ross, hired Bill Parcells to clean up the Dolphins at the end of a 1-15 season in 2007. Parcells advocated firing the entire coaching and front office staff. Everything. And then he hired an entire new staff. This reportedly cost 27M dollars. Forgive me for not having a link, but I recall starting a thread about the cost to win.
And guess what happened? That team Parcells built went 11-5 in 08. Sure, Miami got a lot of bounces their way, but Huizenga sold the team and made a significant profit.
The point is, it's a business, and Huizenga made a decision just prior to selling the team. RW plays marketing games, doesn't build a real football team, and depends on gimmicks (TO) to sell tickets. All the while, the team languishes in mediocrity, or perhaps worse this season.
Huizenga didn't plan on Brady missing the season, Favre getting injured, or Pennington falling into their laps. And this season is proving to be a major disappointment for them, with Parcells probably quitting at the end.
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The Dols, despite their win over the Bills, haven't become winners. And a lot of times, a new head coach brings a turnaround in his first season, but sustaining it proves a lot harder.
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The Bills decided to not pay him $4.5 million more and cut him. I'm not going to debate you about water that passed under the bridge. I'm already on record that paying Dockery a Steve Hutchinson contract was a very bad move and for any number of reasons.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsi...al-with-sk.html
Also, there is one large difference. Dockery was a player. The Bills are contractually obligated under the CBA to spend up to a minimum. Wherever that cap money goes.
Jauron is a coach. His contract comes out of the operating revenue of the franchise. Right out of Ralph's pocket, you might say. There is a distinction, and Ralph, even at 91, knows it. You might recall that when talking about the Toronto deal, Ralph was quick to say that none of that money would ever go towards player salaries.
The Bills have never been close to the salary cap floor. And it's not like they paid Dockery based on it. He got $18.5M, which ideally was supposed to be for at least 4 seasons. He didn't last more than 2. That $4.5M saved goes into Ralph's pocket and can be used for a new HC. So it's the same deal.
But wait, I thought that the owners had the players by the short hairs and a lockout wasn't going to happen?
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Um, not so fast. Dockery was cut because he was due a roster bonus the next day. Money had everything to do with it.
But, yes, there is no way they can "get back" money already spent.
Dockery may have been due a bonus, but his contract called for $18.5M guaranteed. So in his 2 years with the Bills, that's what he made. It's little different from eating Jauron's contract with $9M left.
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The Patriots are well-established cheaters. That much is undeniable except by those who are Pats homers or have no clue (see this thread for proof). How much more outside of the illegal videotaping and HGH usage does any sane/reasonable person need?
As for the refs, if you were to take a poll, the vast majority of NFL fans, if not coaches and players, would say the Patriots get favored, whether in things that are called for them, or not called against them. But I'm sure that's sour grapes, just like the videotaping and HGH.
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If the money owed were an issue, Ralph would never have agreed to get rid of a guy like Dockery, who was given a large signing bonus, and fired after just 2 years.
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You must be some sort of pats troll.
You are correct.
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F that story. Really who the hell can get that mad that they tried to land him and couldnt. Go back to 2005, AFTER Brees had proven himself as a stud QB, he is a free agent. The Bills elect not to pursue him via Free agency, and draft JP instead. Talk about a commitment to losing.
Wrong. The Bills drafted Losman in 2004. Brees was a FA prior to the 2005 season. There were serious concerns about his shoulder, hence the reason Miami (where Brees really wanted to go) didn't sign him.
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We also could have jumped up to get Big Ben, and he almost fell to us anyway. But how would he have fared in Buffalo? I doubt he'd be the superstar he is today.
The Bills tried but no one was willing to trade down. And Big Ben probably would have been a superstar in Buffalo. It's not like he has a great O-line in Pgh and they won the SB again after his OC left.
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Do you know where Mike Sherman is these days? He's where Jauron probably will be soon. It was six of one...
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This has already been discussed, but SD had Brees and drafted his replacement because he looked bad for the first 3 years of his career. I doubt it would have been any different in Buffalo.
Anyone notice DJ has TO very calm despite our slow start
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Thanks and likewise. I just wish the team was doing better. The mood around here would be a lot nicer.