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isn't daunte stallworth an FA?
he or wayne would look good for about 5.5-6 mill a year, our marginal cost on moulds (he has already been paid much of his current cap hit).
if we cut moulds, milloy, and williams we can sign a bunch of guys and will have huge cap room in the future.
a new WR could well be an upgrade, a new safety is certian to be an upgrade, and 2 or 3 new O linemen would be massive.
that said, i'd like moulds at a cheaper price.
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i remember when big pat and ruben talked to sam adams about coming in for us.
TD did a bad job ditching rueben, we haven't found a LG since.
TD did a bad job ditching pat, essentially adams was a compliemnt to Pat, so losing Pat also hurt adams ability to do what he does best, which means we just lost the middle of our line.
i think sam and rueben had their problems because of the coaches, gregg was canned and MM or at least TC will be canned this year, so we hung out our best big men because of our bad coaches who we are ditching anyhow.
i am a let arrival on the kill TD bandwagon, but what is said above is true, he just makes too many mistakes that together show a lack of direction.
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in typical plian fashion he has never been without very good to great WRs, a GREAT RB (the worst RB he ever had as his starter was Faulk!), a solid O line and a good O coordinator.
the bottom line is polian has the best QB, but he also makes sure his O has every single tool they can.
they might lose edge, and they might have to lose wayne and some linemen, but he spent the cash on skill positions primarily and got value on quality big men.
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tought to say how good someone is without having to consider the quality of the team around him.
one thing i can say, our O as a unit is BAD.
we have shown ability to run, but can't seem to run now (i think having bike mike hurt/done doesn't help).
bledsoe was great for us one year under the gilbride O, was bad the next. he was just about average under MM/TC and is doing great now in dallas.
Henry was great under gilbride's O, sucked under MM/TC.
If you look at ST Lou, they lose all their top WRs, O linemen, go through 5 QBs (green, warner, bulger, martin, fitzpatrick), different RBs, lose their damn head coach and STILL have a great O. Same thing in denver.
i think it takes a bunch of good people running the show to get the results we are looking for.
the first thing we need to do is fire the coaches on the O side of the ball.
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i got a 360, no freezes (yet).
MS will dump money and developement into it until it is a success, the xbox was horrible to start but got much better.
the ps3 LOOKS awesome from clips i have seen, but doesn't exist yet. i doubt it is going to be on time and deliver on the crazy specs that have been thrown around
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If the Bills hierarchy is like most organizations, top execs like TD depend on the assessment and recommendations of the managers in the chain of command. In the case of the D-line, that would be Krumrie and Gray. Obviously, both thought the young guys were capable of filling the hole left by PW's departure. And perhaps more importantly, indicating that SA still had something left in his tank.
Contrary to what many posters believe, TD doesn’t make personnel decisions in a vacuum. If Tom’s performance in addressing the D-line has been mediocre, part of the blame has to fall on Krumrie, who’s something of a sacred cow around TSW because of his appealing personality/history as a player (Gray already gets his share of blame here, so I won‘t repeat that effort now).
If I remember correctly, Tim Anderson was drafted because Krumrie liked him a lot (e.g., he wrestled TK better than any other prospect during his OSU workout). I’m not mentioning this to slag Krumrie specifically--the same thing applies to Mouse McNally on the OL--just to point out that TD does not make decisions unilaterally. In the scouting area, this also applies to Tom Modrak and his team.
TD is the ultimate buck stop, but the collective underperformance by management/coaching/scouting has been the biggest disappointment for me this season.
i agree.
fire them all
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stroud and henderson (who i wanted us to take if peppers wasn't there with the 4th in 02) were 2 players i always liked. the jerkwires got them both too, bastards!
i really wonder how good leftiwch is on that team, they have weapons and a great D, but their o has pretty much sucked.
i think there back up is good tho (for a #2)
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i just got a big tv and so did my buddy.
if you get a projection (DLP or LCD) you will have to see the viewing angle in the place you plan on watching it, i personally err on the side of quality over more inches.
i got a panasonic plasma HD 42 incher, i couldn't be happier. i play my new xbox 360 and what not on it and watch all kind of football. not cheap but a nice thing to have.
my buddy got a 32 inch Acer LCD tv. at its price it is far and away the best value i have seen. Acer make great computer kit and this TV is no exception, but since they are a low cost producer without a strong name in TV you get a great value.
watch out for ED vs HD and if you are getting a projection TV, ask if you can bring it home and see how it looks while you are in your house. you'd be surprised how the viewing angle can alter the image.
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i like the ideas, but i still think we can salvage mike williams if the price is right.
if we keep him at RT we have a guy who can still improve and is a very good run blocker. we will still have peters and gandy so if he goes down we have people to take his place.
i'd go after hutch and bently, and also look at the other good interior guys coming out.
Gandy/peters, hutch, bently, preston, williams would be a VERY solid line and the best in buffalo since a guy named jim was calling his own plays
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i always was a massive pat williams fan. i tried to justify that williams was let go because he signed for too much, I head he was getting 24 mill over 5 years.
what was his contract anyhow? i think he is clearly worth 24 mill over 5 years, he has played at a pro bowl level for years, he just didn't get credit for it.
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i think JP gives Ds fits when he runs and should do it more.
when he gets that happy feet look i always yell at my tv for him to take off, but i think the mic on my tv is broken. he never listens.
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Just a couple of general questions:
1. Is our economy driven by production or consumption?
2. Which country consumes the largest per capita share of the world's goods and services?
3. Is that good or bad for the world in general?
4. How does driving wages and benifits down in the US affect the answers to the above questions?
OBTW, answering questions with counter-questions = failing grade
1. both of course. if you want to make a chicken and egg argument out of it demand drives production so you might say consumption drives the economy, but you can't have one without the other.
2. Canada consumes more resources per capita than the US. The UEA prolly tops all, but if your point is that the US consumes more than other nations, sure.
3. It is good for the world. The world is better off for the US being a productive economy. if you are getting at resource scarcity and environmental impact, sure that is an issue, but it is superior to the alternative of (more) poverty.
4. Wages don't decrease in a vacuum, and not all wages decrease, and wages decreasing isn't exactly a bad thing. if innovation, outsourcing of unskilled labour and competition lower prices of goods more than wages, then one's lower wages are worth more.
did i pass?
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way to keep your head in the sand on things you'd rather not bother to think about.
i didn't mention ceo salaries, i certainly haven't said big business is good in fact i did write about pork, cronyism, big business digging themselves this hole, but since you can't see beyond the edges of your copy of the daily worker.
and economic ignorance isn't independant thought, it is just wrong.
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I see it more like this (Just me)
2 OL (Og's) - 1 might be here if Williams can learn the position
2 DT's
1 safety (Baker is already here)
0 WR (as long as EM reworks his contract again)
1 LB (Fletcher's eventual replacement, plus Crowell can fit in somewhere once Spikes returns)
1 Corner (this would be 0 if Nate doesn't ask to be the highest paid in the league)
1 OC
seconded
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our coaches do suck, we should see if we can draft some.
i think it is pretty clear that MM is not a good offensive mind.
anyhow, i'd like to see this as our O line next year:
Peters/Gandy, Hutch, Bently, Preston, Williams/Peters
i could also see us just getting one of the 2 fa guys and plugging someone else
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i am starting to like JP, but i still think we need to run a more young QB friendly scheme, it's not like we are tearing it up with our current mess of an O.
anyhow, yeah this is clearly a rebuilding year, but i wonder if TD and MM et al are good enough to get it done.
i also think JP needs to run more, 3-6 more carries a game would open stuff up for us.
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walmart sells gas as a loss leader, they want you to buy products in their store and try to get you there with gas.
the idea that walmart walks into towns and shuts them down is silly. all they do is move out bad business.
they aren't exactly a monopoly, they can't just raise prices after "shutting down" bad business. they have a tough time competing with other large retailers and with internet and specialty shops they don't exactly have a whole lot of room to increase prices because they "eliminated" competition.
you sound like you just walked out of a mike moore movie, you are missing the forrest for the trees. sure it sucks to work for walmart, and if you can't afford to shop anywhere else AND you just happen to live in a tiny hamlet that has no other business (which means you are very rural isolated place) then maybe you should consider moving.
crying over the terrible society we would all live in if the entry level positions at the least discriminating employers don't pay a multiple of what they otherwise would is a bit like crying about how the dragons under the bed will eat you if you don't get your new playstation game thiw christmass. it's wrong and is borne of a sense of entitlement.
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player wise it is the oline,
but overall i'd say it is coaching
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I guess you are right, they can't. The game has already begun, we will just have to see how it plays out.
(Blue part)Wal-Mart is the largest company in the country (and I presume the world). They turned the volume up on this race, the sure the hell can turn it down even at the company's expense?? Call that fiat if you want.
What I mean by that is that they are effing people in the process. Not that they created the atomsphere but, they really turned up the heat on others. Just as that first farmer begins to exercise his cows on common pasture. Fine, if he is the only one. Not so fine if more farmers jump in and begin to use the same practices in order to compete and survive. By that time it is too late and the arrangement is ruined.
Do you see this?
no,
your common pastures analagy is backwards.
the only thing walmart is doing (beyond jockying for position with the government which is the other side of the union/minimum wage/worker pork equation from the government that costs the consumer) is trying to compete as a business and manage their work force.
they aren't effing anyone, if you don't want to work there then don't. walmart employs the least skilled, least experience people in their markets. they do so in order to keep costs down so they can sell products at the cheapest price they can.
the common pastures analagy might apply AGAINST your position.
minimum wages, unions, and so on SEEM to support workers, but in order to attempt to offset it (or just for politicians to play the game really) the government provides pork and tarriffs for corporations. this is where the tragedy of the commons can occur, everyone is trying to beat each other out for the helping hand from the government. what you end up with is underemployement, inflated wages for some people in unproductive unskilled jobs and inflated costs, a lack of innovation and a stagnant economy.
if you want to see what would happen with more unions and protectionism in the US, look to france, italy or germany.
if you want to see what an equal effort in macro policy does, look to japan.
the solution is less government intervention, not more.
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the reason why the trade would make sense is if pennington is cooked it will still cost the jets a bad cap hit to ditch him.
if they trade vilma for rivers they won't have to pay the massive bonus that rivers got when he signed as the high pick that he was, so they can manage to fit him under their cap.
obviously the best thing for the jests is if pennington is OK and the get bush.
SD may well get a top 10 pick for rivers because he will come with a good contract (bonus and first couple years money has been paid allready)
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you know chuck dickerson was making comments before about how our O is setting up JP to fail.
we are giving him too many reads and not just letting him make a decision quickly and then run if it isn't there.
rothlessburger, favre, and mcnabb all had simple game plans in when they started so that they could have a chance to do what they do best, i think our terrible coaches are not doing this with losman and it is costing us.
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Who sets the wages here, Wal-Mart or labor?
Just because the governement gives assistance doesn't mean that Wal-Mart should lower it's wages so its labor can take advantage of them. It can of course and does.
So you are telling me that Wal-Mart purposely pays people less because they know that they (their labor) can feed off the tit of the governement and the taxpayers?
Again, who sets the wages? Why would Wal-Mart go below that threshold and continue to drive things down. Aren't they harming everybody by being that dishonest?
And don't say that is what the market dictates. True it is what the market CAN dictate. Why cross that line and head down that destructive path?
Wal-Mart is in control here. They are bound to nothing, except what is best for them.
Not sure if you are in the US or not? Special interests will always defect from what is best for EVERYBODY and get theirs.
Wal-Mart is propagating a classic "tradgedy of commons." In the end we all suffer, trying to keep up with their race. Usually, the first ones to defect will fare the best though.
you still have things backwards.
walmart is a business and sells to consumers who won't buy from them if they just magically set their prices to whatever they'd like without considering what people on the other side of the transaction would accept. of course they'd like to charge more but they can't
on the other side of their business, they can only pay workers whatever the workers will accept. they'd like to pay as little as possible but can't because people won't work for free.
your point of walmart
"Again, who sets the wages? Why would Wal-Mart go below that threshold and continue to drive things down. Aren't they harming everybody by being that dishonest?
And don't say that is what the market dictates. True it is what the market CAN dictate. Why cross that line and head down that destructive path?
is silly.
what is that supposed to mean?
do you think walmart can just dictate labour prices by fiat alone?
what the hell destructive path are you on about anyhow?
walmart can no more just lower their wages paid any more than they can just raise prices on their goods: they can but they have to bear the impact of their decisions.
the same way that ford and gm are shutting down plants in north america because they agreed to silly wages and benefits any employer will answer to the market if they f@#k up.
you are pointing your finger in the wrong direction when it comes to tragedies of the commons.
individual market players will be corrected if they make an error and will pay for their own mistakes. when you have pork and worker handouts in the form of unions and subsidies to corporations, you have things like gm going out of business and american unskilled laborours surprised that they are losing the job a child could do to people in far off countries who will do it better and cheaper.
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I never said that slavery SHOULD still exist. I said that slavery WOULD exist. Big difference. It (slavery) in the world exists today. When compared to other eras... Slaves in the world today are the cheapest to attain than any other period.
This isn't about what is best for me. I was talking about what is best for the EMPLOYER. Isn't the best thing for them to pay their labor as little as possible? Go back and reread my post. I thought I made it clear. I am sorry for not making that clear.
no
the comment i made that you responded to with your working for free nonsense was that people deserve to get paid WHAT THEY CAN.
this means they "deserve" whatever they can get. the piont is there is no such thing as a fair wage, because if you are willing to accept the job then you are willing to accept the wage.
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Mark Gaughan article
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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i don't think we have been bad picking D linemen, or really O linemen. I think we have good value for the 2nd rounders we have pumped into the Dline (not great, but they look worse with the chumps at DT). I think our problem is just NOT spending any high picks at all on interior D linemen and only 1 in 5 years on the O line at all.
I am pretty sure if TD and co really stepped up and decided to work on drafting and signing linemen we could be MUCH better right after this offseason.
Let's hope I am right and they do want good lines.