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It's an echo...

It would certainly help rectify the 16-page limit on the 'ignore users' feature...

Meh. A fart in the wind...30 seconds later, no one remembers what it smelled like.

Not to be a heretic or anything, but.... No question, Williams is a nice player. But I've focused on him quite a bit the last few years and noticed that he seems to "guess" a lot about making penetration from the DT position. He looks great when he guesses right and shoots the proper gap, but also takes himself out of the play an inordinate number of times when he guesses wrong, opening up a massive hole for RBs to run through and exposing his LBs to OGs blocking on the next level. In other words, the positive plays seem to get offset by the negatives...which is why the inside running game has been so effective on the Bills for several years now. Now I know everyone likes Kyle because he's a high motor "bowling ball with knives sticking out of him" player (a description a scout pinned on him in his draft year), but it's maddening to watch these huge inside holes open up and see Williams slanting on the other side of where the play is going. Has anybody else seen this, or am I just imagining things?

Hey, Morton's is a great steakhouse! They got a good meal and probably spent less than a $1,000 to talk to the guy. Worth the effort and it also shows they're not in panic mode by simply throwing a wad of cash at him. I get the sense the FO and HC know this is a rebuilding year, and while nice to have, Davis probably wouldn't have had much impact on the W-L record in 2013. If he only wanted a 1-year prove contract, then both sides probably made a rational decision.

With all due respect, it stopped being fun -- from a TSW perspective -- a long time ago.

Save your breath, 'dog. You'll never convince the "Anyone with a Street and Smith's draft guide is a better judge of talent and/or a more qualified GM than Buddy" crowd of anything. The only recourse is to mine the TSW archives and dig up pearls of 'wisdom' from some of these same posters about past drafts. It's a real hoot, if you have the time to waste on such things...

Only 999! Who'd be the holdout??

"Of course, whether Buffalo takes Nassib, Geno Smith, Matt Barkley or someone else, whoever's under center will certainly be better than Fitzpatrick." Breathtakingly stupid statement in an overall badly written article. Lori Chase could do a better job in her sleep than this ball wash...

Jim wasn't the first guy to have a business go bankrupt. And the vendors at his nightclub (if they're still around) will get pennies on the dollar the next time one of their clients does the same. That's business...

No way! That's a great party song. Here you go, no question about it : http://music.yahoo.com/video/gangnam-style-183500552.html

Rothlisberger weighs 245 and is built like/as strong as a LB.

Here's the study that provides many of the underlying stats cited in that report: http://upoj.org/site.../v19/v19_07.pdf While it makes some interesting points, the thing that pops out to me is that the players who suffered an achilles injury were already in decline (as far as their power rating) before the rupture occurred (charts on pages 3 and 5). So was their performance decline due to the injury itself or just a natural part of the aging process (the average age of a player sustaining a rupture was 29)? Only three tight ends were in the group of 31 players sampled. For that matter, only 5 RBs and WRs were studied--since they make a big deal about the recovery success of these positions, that number seems too small for statistical analysis. Too bad the study doesn't name names and show whether the players in their sample were scrubs or stars, as well. Also, I have to believe there have been a great deal of advances in surgical technique since the 1997-2002 period of the surveyed NFL players. EDIT: Here's something from PFT when our old friend Jason Peters suffered his injury: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/31/typical-time-of-return-from-ruptured-achilles-is-11-months/ "Schwartz said about one-third of NFL players who suffered ruptured Achilles tendons never played in the NFL again, although it's possible that many of those were marginal players who weren't good enough to make a roster, or older players who decided to retire rather than go through the grueling rehab needed to get back on the field after such a serious injury."

Glennon's body type will never be confused with Flacco. Flacco's a LB playing QB...his body can take the NFL pounding. http://www.nfl.com/c...e-flacco?id=382 Glennon's a twig ready to get snapped... http://www.nfl.com/draft/2013/profiles/mike-glennon?id=2539275

"...the YouTube channel of North Korea's official website" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9939715/N-Korea-video-shows-Washington-under-attack.html Something about that sentence just gives me the giggles. So does the passion of the voice over chick on the video.

Best compares to Flacco???! Whoa Bucky, step away from the crack pipe...

Like most high profile agents, Rosenhaus would undoubtedly like his client to stay in Washington with RGIII, rather than step into an unsettled QB situation in backwater Buffalo. The 'premium' the Bills would have to pay to make the deal happen would need to be pretty high. Otherwise Rosenhaus would probably get very creative in structuring a long-term deal with the Skins after using the Bills as a stalking horse. http://www.hogshaven...nner-with-bills http://www.realredskins.com/rich-tandlers-real-redsk/2013/03/need-to-know-friday.html

Yep, ignorance is bliss: http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/freeagency/?year=2013&position=7 With Rosenhaus as his agent, he'd be a tough 'get' for the Bills. He might be a prime candidate to sign one of those one-year 'prove it' type contracts that would set him up him up for a big payday in 2014 if he has a good year...

"Davis insisted that he complied with the terms of the court’s order but admitted he had been at nightclubs while Chaka was present. “It’s just, the city’s so small, you’re going to run into somebody,” Davis testified." Willis 2.0??!

Here's something to think about, however (sigh): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/03/18/video-of-fred-daviss-club-incident/ http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/local-news/redskins-fred-davis-legal-mess-harassment-suit-restraining-order.php

One more busted drug test and he'd face a year-long suspension as well. That said, he be a great target for a rookie QB to lean on...

By all means, revel in your disgust with the Bills and continue to spend time bitching about it here!! I'd never deny you that pleasure. I'll even agree with you that the Bills have been, are now, and will continue to be a dysfunctional franchise under Ralph's ownership. Negative post after negative post won't change that, however. IMO, Buddy's plan was a sound one at the time and only 20/20 hindsight makes the 2010 and 2011 decisions look like more in a long line of failed plans. You disagree. Fine. But who, given where they were drafting in those years, should Nix have taken as his franchise QB? Tebow (25th) or Clausen (48th) in 2010? Locker (8th), Gabbert (10th), Ponder (12th), Dalton (35th) or Kaepernick (36th) in 2011 (and don't say everybody knew Kap would be a star, so Buddy must be a dunce)? Weeden (22nd) in 2012 (Wilson at pick 75 is another 20/20 hindsight guy who benefited from the solid team that surrounded him, IMO)? Who did Buddy pass on that would have been a franchise guy in Buffalo from those three drafts? http://www.pro-football-reference.com/draft/QB-1980-now.htm

Well, there you go again (sorry, Ronnie, don't roll over in your grave). You said everyone but Buddy follows the path of "QB first, then talent acquisition." Now you're modifying it to "QB first, only when it works out, then talent acquisition." Nice. The moment drafting an NFL QB becomes a 90%+ certainty, you be sure to let us know...

Yeah? Hows it working out for the Browns (Weeden), Titans (Locker), Jags (Gabbert), Vikes (Pounder), Panthers (Classen), Raiders (Russell) and Browns again (Quinn)? Other than the lightning strikes (Kap and Wilson), the only success stories I see are the Falcons (Ryan) and Ravens (Flacco). Maybe throw in the Bengals (Dalton), although the jury is still out there. Even Newton had some flies exposed this year on a mediocre Carolina team as did Bradford in St. Louis. Must be nice to be an All Pro cynic, 'tho...