DrFishfinder

Really? I can be had for medium dollar.

1. The Bills will get repeatedly penalized for "Looking at the QB's Knees in a Threatening Manner". Ed Hochuli will pull a "foreign object" from his pants and knock out Aaron Shobel, all the while wildly protesting his innocence to the cameras. 2. Edwards will be picked off while throwing to Owens. And Evans. And Reed. And Parrish. And Johnson. And Moss. And Fitzgerald. And Simon and Garfunkel. And Oprah. And Vladimir Putin. And Stephen Hawking (Rush Limbaugh will be called for interference on this one, the heartless bastard). 3. Edwards' will be sacked near the 5 yard line, the 6 yard line, the 7 yard line and so on and so forth. He will be sacked on the sideline, the locker room, the parking lot, the airport, his home, church, Oprah's house and at Simon and Garfunkel's reunion concert. 4. Fred Jackson just may have a 50+ yard catching game. I may win the Nobel Peace Prize, flap my arms and fly to Paris. No, not Hilton, you pervs. 5. I expect Welker to amass such incredible yardage, NFL statisticians will have to use so many zeros, there will be a zero shortage that will last well into the next decade. We will actually run completely out of zeros. The song will be renamed "Saved by urrf". James Bond will just be "7". There will just be 1 Dalmatian, or maybe 11 Dalmatians depending on how you look at it. McKelvin will take the opening kickoff, run the length of the field, through the end zone, out the tunnel and never be seen or heard from again. He will show up occasionally as a shadowy apparition on Ghost Hunters and speak from the spirit nether regions through the guy who does the Sham Wow!!! commercials.

Agreed that Edwards had some stinker games.....too many. But with championship caliber teams, when one unit falters, the other unit picks up the slack. Buffalo's D does NOT have the depth or ability to make up for offensive mistakes. The D gave up 7, 8 and 9 minute 4th quarter game killing drives. Neither has the offense shown the ability to march down the field and score to make up for a defensive lapse. The offense was worse than the defense down the stretch, but at this point, neither one has the ability to cover for the other. Unless either the offense or the defense shows the ability to be able to take over and dominate the game, this team has to have all cylinders firing, all of the time.

SuuuUUUuuure. Where was this rule when JP was eating the turf 16 times a game? Sheesh.

At this point it's Edwards/Fitzpatrick/Hamdan. I haven't heard anything about the Bills getting rid of Hamdan. The Bills aren't going to carry 4 QB's on the roster, so they would have to get rid of Hamdan and bring in Thigpen which would bump Fitz to #3. Don't make sense no how, somehow.

A center from the draft is going to get himself and TE killed. He isn't going to have the experience or feel for the speed of the NFL, which every drafted player says is the hardest thing to get acclimated to. Boo hiss.

I think we're all tired of hypothetical. I mean, hypothetically, the Bills should have done a bazillion things and hypothetically they shouldn't have had a 3rd consecutive 7-9 and hypothetically after starting 5-1 they should have at least made a friggin run at the playoffs and hypothetically............ At this point, we're all in such a major fricking snit that it's either make the goddam playoffs or innocent pets, kitchen appliances and HDTV's will be in serious trouble. I'd take Welker for sure. Even trade for Reed, Johnson and Jenkins - straight up. He is the ultimate check down guy when the deep ball isn't there. The rest, I dunno for reasons previously stated. Moss is getting a little long in the tooth, Galloway's teeth are even longer and the Bills let Aiken go to FA.

This is akin to liking a slightly better engine in an otherwise crappier car. But honestly, until the Bills offense and Edwards makes real use of the receivers on the team, it's a hypothetical question. At this point, Brady/NE Receivers VS Edwards/Bills Receivers isn't even comparable. That may change this season, and I hope it does, but until then NE rules that particular roost.

Exactly how bored are you today?

I don't think McQueen is in the same class as Newman and Stewart. He was a decent enough actor, but not in their league.

I don't think that at this stage of his development, Edwards is going to get too much more power behid his throws. Some maybe, but not a lot. He can get the ball fairly deep, but it's not going to be a frozen rope, it's going to have some degree of arc. The issue is going to be timing more than arm strength. And that issue was brought up several times during games by the broadcasters. Edwards was waiting for receivers to get open, rather than throwing to where they should be open. And that happened on 6-8 yard pass plays too, not just deep ones. If Schonert can get Edwards and the receivers to get in sync with the routes and timing, the passing game will be better than it was during the 1st half of the 2008 season. If not, it will look like the 2nd half of the 2008 season. Not strength, timing.

I don't think so. At 5-11 and 195 I don't think he will plug a real need on offense that Roscoe Parrish can't fill. We need a TE and DE more than another WR.

Spewage? This whole thing is causing me irkage. With all due respect, this is about the goojillionth thread on a player we are not only not going to get, we are not even going to talk to. Time for ceasage on this threadage.

I've seen some mock drafts that have the Bills taking Maybin in the 1st round. They've said he has the best 1st step off the snap of anyone.

Agreed. Bialy is just as negative, if not moreso, than any of the posters here, including yours truly. He really writes like a neighborhood hack and rarely has anything new to say that hasn't been beaten to death already. Boo hiss.

....or.....you can whine about the whiners, which is just going to incite more whining. It's gotten difficult for a lot of people to root for the team to get better when the organization has stepped on one rake after another for the last 9 years or so. Everyone's blowing off steam and will continue to do so until this team cracks the playoffs. Regardless of the bitching and moaning, if the posters weren't fans, they wouldn't be here bitching and moaning.

Could probably say that about some Presidents and their Veeps, too.....not that I'm going to mention any names whatsoever....... We've beaten the DJ thing to three different deaths, but I'm not sold at all on Schonert at this point. The offense looked bewildered and out of synch all too often in the 2nd half of the season and we really don't know where the blame for that belongs. My hunch is that DJ is probably more of a hands off guy than a micro manager. He may have cut Schonert considerable slack because it was his first year as OC. That won't wash in year two. Owens will have a meltdown by game 2 if the offense looks as lost as they did at the end of last season. I don't think the FO wants that kind of spectacle to be blasted all over the media, especially since it could backfire and chase more Bills fans away than the Owens signing has brought back in. Therefore and thusly, I think that the spotlight the Bils have aimed at them by signing TO is going to put Schonert on the veritable hot seat to have the offense not only ready to play, but to take advantage of TO starting from game 1, play 1. If Schonert has the same problems as last year, Jauron is not going to have many options to fix it. He's a DC by trade and I'm not aware of anybody in the wings waiting or with the capabiity to take over if Schonert flops. Jauron knows he's a goner with anything less than a winning season. But it's really Schonert's offense that decides his fate.

Draft picks are not going to adequately protect Edward's blind side, especially with Dockery gone. No to a trade for picks.

While there is no guaranteed benefit to this, there is definite liability to a lack of it, which translates to, "Every man for himself". I'm not sure that Owens will ever be "one of the guys", but this is is a move in the right direction.

I didn't get to go over game tapes, so I really can't say if Evans was or wasn't double covered during every play of every game. And live coverage doesn't focus on the WR who isn't catching balls. So I base that opinion, rightly or wrongly, on what I saw during games and what sportscasters and sports journalists have said ad nauseum; Evans was double covered consistantly. You don't think Evans is a #1. Fine. He is and has always been a deep route receiver, not an Andre Reed over-the-middle guy....that's Josh Reed's spot. I think we will see Evans have a better year because of TO. Either way, I am done with the "Evans Is/Isn't a #1 WR".

Not even one nanosecond of hesitation on that: Reed. Unless the Bills replace Parrish on punt returns, he stays on the team. But he is not going to see a lot of action as WR.

I said no such thing. I said that with TO in the lineup, Steve Johnson is likely to get less playing time than he did this past season. The Bills are not going to grab TO and put Johnson on the field so he can develop. That's what is called a foregone conclusion. Evans is not going to be doubled every single play next season, the way he was all last season. Clear?

It's hard for Evans to play like a #1 when he was the only legitimate deep threat and smothered on every single play. Johnson seems to have the potential to step up, but he's not going to get a lot of stepping room with TO on the field. In fact, he will almost certainly see less playing time, not more. This is going to be interesting. On paper, Evans should finally have single coverage instead of double. He hasn't had that luxury in a while. Will the ball be going to the guy who gets open, or to the guy who gets all the media attention? This will be interesting.....

I'll say the same thing that I said when I taught software, "All programs work on paper". One would hope that TO energizes the entire team. One would also hope that Jauron doesn't step on rakes all season long, as he is prone to do. Pats are going to be very good with Brady back. My Yami is a well coached and disciplined team. Jets will not the same team next season with whoever is the QB. I don't think we will do any better than beat the Jets twice and split with NE and My Yami, and that is a VERY optimistic guess.

It was a big problem last year, but not the biggest problem. Virtually no pressure on opposing QB's Consequently got shredded by the passing game Allowed 7, 8 & 9 minute game killing drives Didn't change a thing, even when they were getting torched by other offenses (Fewell or Jauron, take your pick) The fact that that the defense was way overshadowed by the putrid offense does not let them off the hook. Without any legitimate QB pressure, the same thing that happened last year will happen this year. That being said, if the team fixes the lack of a pass rush, the defense should be able to do a respectable job.