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agree. particularly point 3.

that is a brilliant release. the guy would have to learn a bunch, but i really like that throwing motion. better than mallet by plenty. no way that guy lasts to the 2nd round. looks a bit rivers-esque.

you might be right. history doesn't inevitably repeat itself though. i get you, if i had to bet money i'd probably bet on your scenario coming to fruition. but there is not, as yet, enough evidence to make a definitive decision.

i ran into marcus allen outside kelly's short-lived sports bar downtown. my friend asked if joe montana was coming back and marcus said, '**** man, i just don't know' and walked preety fast. that guy had long legs. good posture. did say 'you too' when i said 'take care', so he wasn't a complete prick. and my friend's question was stupid. and we were on mushrooms, though at the tail end of the trip. a vicarious story, my dad was the buffalo raceway and gave fred smerlas a winning pick. smerlas and haslett were there. fred smerlas picked up my dad's two hundred fifty pound friend and jumped up and down.

relentless. it has been blown up. fitz was curiously left standing. this is a good thing.

all heath shuler did was make plays. the guy was a stud. IS a stud. where is he? someone wake nix up to sign heath shuler. and robbie bosco. that guy made plays. yes, he was probably mormon. GET OVER IT! irrational faith (and what is faith if not irrationality) it has no bearing on his ability to read defenses. there are entire towns that worship him. The bills haven't shown any balls in years. the only solution is to go shuler, bosco in Fa and the best available TE at 3. doesn't matter if they don't go to harvard. grow a beard. get a wonderlic. i want some horses. not some damn pony like they use in mexico.

statistically the d was better under fewell, but it wasn't good. fewell had better personnel for his system and it had been in place for a couple years. but it wasn't good. it was probably never going to be great. edwards didn't do anything to show he is a keeper. but the personnel was god awful. the secondary played much more man to man and was found wanting. i'm not saying that i wouldn't rather have mike nolan or wade, but personnel (in relation to the D we're trying to run) is a problem. if we throw a few more real players in at LB and DE and it still isn't working, then it is clearly 'head of edwards' calling time. until then, i'm not sure and you shouldn't be either. and i think there is no basis at all for saying gailey wouldn't make the move due to his pride. just read this. could have said +1. instead of reiterating.

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watched that game at casa di pizza or whatever that place is called on elmwood. best sunday afternoon ever. i honestly never stopped thinking we had a shot. houston was probably the only team in the league that could have given up that lead because they ran the run and shoot and couldn't run the clock down.

i could picture brohm giving a similar presser after every subsequent start he is fortunate enough to get in the future

writing off may be drastic, based on the circumstances, but backup at best. i didn't like his inability to read the D. when one side of the line is overloaded, you have adjust the protection. fitz does this routinely. brohm just doesn't seem aware enough to be a starting qb. he made a couple good throws. that's it. no 'qb of the future' stuff on display today.

i am looking forward to seeing george wilson next year. he has much better ball instincts than donte. he doesn't play the run as well, but, allah willing, we'll draft some linemen and our linebackers can start making tackles instead of our safeties.

yup. brohm just doesn't see defenses. he didn't see blitzers, didn't change the protections, and didn't unload the ball when he had to. yes, the line didn't play well, the receiving corps is decimated, and he threw a couple nice balls. but he is backup material at best.

watching that fumble and spiller idiotically trying to cover the fumble instead of knocking it out of bounds showed me that spiller and johnson are two of the dimmer bulbs on the bills. fingers crossed that they learn from this year and get it together in 2011.

you would take tim tebow in a redraft? wow. bulaga at 9? wow. iupati at 9? wow. glad you're confined to a message board.

'very good' is a gross overstatement. davis and bulaga both have serious lapses. they average at best right now. better than wrotto, mind you, but not 'very good.'

bet anyone a buck we trade down if we are at 3.

we could offer whitner, mccargo, AND maybin. no way they turn down three first round picks.

i guess it wouldn't be a tragedy. of course i hope i they end up drafting around ten and pick up some extra picks from whichever sucker thinks newton is must have.

That's fair. I reckon Evans comes down with some of those shots down the sideline. He was definitely forcing things today, but he always forces things a bit and they usually work out. the fumbles were uncharacteristic. Like I said, I wouldn't take anyone in the draft over Fitz right now. Maybe Luck, I suppose, but that isn't happening. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt as far as cold weather capabilities go for now.

yup

First, you have to be good team period. There are good teams that fold in the cold, but I don't remember any bad Bills teams beating a much better team just because of the weather. At least not recently. I did go to the Cowboys game in '84 or some such when Greg Bell broke off his 80 yard TD run to start the game. We held on to win that game against a team we had no business beating due in large part to the evil weather. Still, you need to be generally good before being a good bad weather team. Maybe that's obvious. Second, we need a group to stay together and go through the winter a couple times. Kelly and Reed might have been used to playing in bad weather, though Jimbo had a few years in Miami and Houston, but Thurman certainly wasn't. Our leading receiver went to school in Kentucky, Spiller went to Clemson, Nelson went to Florida, etc...They'll learn to play in this crap eventually, but they look as uncomfortable as the '81 Chargers in the cold right now. You learn by doing. If we make some FA pickups, I hope they come from teams that can play in this crap. It is something to keep in mind hen drafting. It's a damn good thing Aaron Rodegrs got to freeze for a couple years in Green bay before having to make plays. I wouldn't pass on a sure guy just because he is unaccustomed to bad weather, but I would count on him having a period of adjustment. I do think we have something going. Today's game showed how far off we are from the beating the Patriots, not how far off we are from putting a playoff team together. It is little consolation to anyone that the Patriots did the same thing to the Jets and Bears, but you have to keep that in mind. Everyone knows we need more on D and a legit tackle. Fitz worried me today because he really doesn't look right in bad weather. I don't think Cam Newton is the answer. I'd give Fitz one more year to see how he progresses.

you're off your rocker. how many cycles have you been through? this is the first time the team has been headed in the right direction in twenty years. chan gailey knows how to coach. you are right that wins and losses are ultimate barometer, but they aren't the only one.

that's probably why he ditched WNY.

the only redeeming thing i saw in the game was how fast williams comes out of his stance. he went into the backfield on a few plays but nobody else did anything. spiller isn't ready for primetime and i think a number 9 running back should be. that being said, i think he'll be weapon down the road. if next year is mediocre, then that pick looks like the dolphins taking ted ginn. can't fault the patsies for going for it on 4th down. wasn't the ball on the 28 yard line? no real shot at a field goal and a punt would have been odd. donte's coverage on gronkowski was laughable. it really was. he simply isn't big enough to cover a good TE. not so hot hot with mediocre TEs either. fitz played poorly. i still like him. steve johnson needs to catch that 4th and 12 pass. yes he got hit. he still needs to catch it. probably wouldn't have changed the outcome, but the bills had a shot to make it 14-10. bills-giants superbowl. i had flashbacks. belicheck's D went out and slammed reed on his crossing patterns at every opportunity. it was the time i ever saw reed rattled. the whole bills receiving corp except for roosevelt was rattled today. can't blame nelson though. fitz put him in a terrible position. this was the first time i've seen gailey outmaneuvered by a defense.