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Kirk Chambers. How did you guys miss Kirk Chambers?

i'm happy with dareus, but gabbert will be a top ten nfl quarterback. not this year and maybe not next year, but he has the stuff. strong, accurate, and tough. one of us will be wrong and i doubt it's me. saying "he sucks" shows little football sense.

university of ethiopia!

i don't quite get how the bills were supposed to address the shite D and OL in the same draft. they allegedly went after clabo and didn't get him. which OLineman did we miss? the green bay kid who went late in the 1st round? can't fix this mess in one or two drafts. nix is doing fine.

this should have all been in-house. fred jackson is wrong in this situation. his position on the depth chart should be between him and the coaches. and the K isn't great, but it was quite a windfall for him a few years ago. either party can ask to renegotiate a K (i know everyone knows this), so i'm not down on him for that.

i remember that time as well. yes, the board would have crashed. think of what happens when we don't sign clabo.

all this brings to mind william s. burroughs's 'word virus' and the lyndon johnson story (don't know if it's true) in which he directed his campaign team to spread a rumor that his opponent copulated with pigs. they said, sir that isn't true. lyndon said, 'make him deny it.'

i was ten or so and i was insistent that the bills pick up earnest gray, a wide receiver for the new york giants. i had his football card, he'd had one great year, and i had heard of him.

Bell was really only abused once last year (by jared allen), otherwise he went from a bit less than average to above average. with a healthy offseason, i expect him to be more like average to occasionally dominant this year. He did fine against the bears. Pears might get get it eventually. he's better than wrotto or howard, which isn't saying a great deal. he was okay against the bears.

above is a proper sarcastic/smart response to a really silly post. how are teams going to prep for the brad smith wrinkle to the offense? preseason is all they have to work with. throw some stuff out there, let them work on it. switch up. maybe never use him at all, less time they devote prepping for fitz.

this is right.

are you trying to get someone's goat? the d. bell to RT thing is ridiculous.

i quit smoking using snus. same addiction, healthier, less obnoxious form. smokers now annoy the hell out of me because there is no escape from the smell. never realized how that shite carries. but we're talking buffalo. i smoked in the pool room at the old pink last time i was home. at the mohawk as well. lots of people smoke. it isn't that hard to have an open air pen someplace. i've never heard of anyone not going to the ralph because of smokers. heard from plenty who won't go because of drunk polacks.

there were a bunch of early eighties rbs that got hurt early. can remember billy sims, william andrews, and wilbert montgomery off the top of my head.

i just want to add that scouts can be snippy clique bitches. i've mentioned before that i scout baseball in taiwan, and the atmosphere ranges from professional and cool to monkeys throwing feces. depends on the time of the year mostly. scouting in any sport is an inexact science and the vagueness of it all leads to a bunch of insecure guys acting like they know more than everyone else. sources get inflated, news gets mangled, rumors become truth, etc... i think 'audibles' is interesting sometimes, but their 'sources' really don't like nix. i remember him being referred to as a 'joke' when he was hired. they probably ask the same five or six guys for opinions and they all have axes to grind. the best scouts i know in baseball wouldn't give out little snippets like that. they don't need to make other people think they're clever or rip on fellow scouts. bad scouts out themselves eventually. and if you are a good scout, you want lots of bad scouts around. makes your job easier. you would never rip on them. at most, you might sing their praises if anyone asks. i'm betting nix makes this guy look silly over the next couple years, but there is no accountability since he remains anonymous.

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it would be very strange to have losman back. he was a cool guy, but probably not clever enough to be a nfl qb. and i reckon it would create too much of a fuss to be worth it to nix and gailey. i still wish the guy the best of luck. no qb should go through what he went through with the idiotic coaching. i honestly think that jauron would have ruined johnny unitas. too reckless, you know.

maybin has to be number one. he looks like michael jordan trying to hit a curveball. kelsay is awful in the 3-4, not so awful in the 4-3. stroud was awful. torbor was slow and pretty close to awful. bad might be a better term. i agree on corner. he really can't cover in the slot and that is supposed to be his forte. ayodele is very torbor-esque in terms of slowness, but he can tackle when they run into his small box of range. cordero howard is an atrocious right tackle. you might add him over torbor. hard to say. good thing is that all those guys, save kelsay, might be gone by september assuming there is a season.

in taiwan, it is lonely. i've never met another bills fan here. the games are on at 1 a.m. and my howls fill the night air. in hawaii, there was a small bunch that hit the east side grill sunday mornings. good people, but the place was populated with steelers fans and we had to watch the steelers second string beat bledsoe and co. on that fateful sunday. not fun. been with th bills since 1981. i was seven and remember that season. i remember joe cribbs looking visibly dejected when chuck knox decided to kick a field goal near the end of a must-win game. that could have been 1980 near the end of the season. but anyone who went through kay stephenson and hank bullough before the superbowl years will never leave the bills. the kelly era was effin' great.

those were fine years. they really were. that clip was like a pleasant acid flashback. flutie is still my favorite post-kelly qb, though i am high on fitz. how is andre reed not in the hall of fame? if dareus is half of bruce, then i'll be happy. they don't make 'em that fast, agile, and powerful. aaron maybin's first step my arse.

so we are slowly reassembling some remnants of the polian era along with a bit of new blood. i'm all for that. we are moving the right direction.

this is the sort of highly intelligent response that belongs in a different forum. but all right. i suppose there is no need to bother reading the childish team america comments that are to follow. should have known better than to respond in the first place. so fire away with your "you hate america", "you are a terrorist lover" drivel and rub each other. do an imaginary high five. it's just a shame you have to pollute the football forum with this childish nonsense.

i seriously suggest that the moderators move these sorts of threads to another forum. yes, it is a story about a football player. however it is primarily about politics and such. i post on the stadium wall because it is not supposed to be about politics here. while i love shooting the breeze about football with most people on this board, i also detest the politics of just about everyone on this board. can't stand the 'thank you troops' stuff or jingoist rhetoric. i realize i am in the minority, but there are different forums for a reason. i promise i won't ever go to the politics board and harangue people for their misguided beliefs. so pretty please with sugar on top, move threads such as this to another forum.

what should he lose "true blooded American"? the guy lost some bucks because he opened his mouth and said something the sheep don't compute. what else should he lose? can you give an answer that i wouldn't get from a mafia thug? probably not.