The Big Cat

Well, we can never agree that there was or wasn't a dearth of talent since I firmly believe it's a coach's job to make UP for talent. And in that sense, even staying with your supposition that talent was extremely lacking on the defensive side of the ball, Wanny's whole scheme was line up and beat the guy in front of you. So, even if we HAD ****ty talent, the scheme itself only COMPOUNDED the problem when, with the right coaching, the problem could have at least been masked. Instead, Wanny lined up the same guys, told them to do the same thing, whether or not it was working (most of the time it was not). So the players looked that much WORSE, thanks to the coach. And therein lies the crux for MY belief that with the right coaching, your claim that it's talent talent talent loses some traction.

If he can put the ball where ONLY his guy can get it 20+ yards past the line of scrimmage, that, IMO, makes for more than ample arm strength. Doesn't have to be zinging BB's out there... Basically this, too. Mallet came into a game last year (his professional statline still makes me lol) and threw an 80 mph dart to a receiver running a seven yard cross pattern. Inevitably, it bounced off the receivers chest, flew 20 feet in the air, and was picked off. Sometimes arm "strength" aint what it's cracked out to be.

Still waiting for your answer to what he did right.

Barkley makes several throws in this game that--IMO--demonstrate he has more than ample arm strength, and that he has the accuracy to put the ball where it needs to be down field.: 1:49 2:40 5:10

Look, Mrs. Wannstedt, this crusade you're on is noble and all, but at some point you have to deal with how unlikely it is that everyone in the universe is wrong but you.

Ding, ding, ding. And while Bills' fans hate to imagine this reality: Wanny not only cost Gailey his job in Buffalo, he cost Fitz his job, too.

I think Carrington is poised to have a monster year...just a hunch.

The couple times we blitzed we did well. Seriously, our success rate when blitzing on third was amazing. Third and short, third and medium, third and long, didn't matter. Conversely, our failure rate when we DIDN'T blitz on third down was also amazing. Third and short, third and medium, third and long, didn't matter. :wallbash:

Pats at home week one is best case scenario for beating them

@ HOME AGAINST THE PATS!? YES!!!

Y'all should watch the press videos on bb.com from today

Some 'intel' on Blatnick

Frank Summers?

Just posted this in eBall's practice thread: http://www.buffalobills.com/media-center/videos/Mario_Williams_on_Minicamp_Practices/6af24fec-787f-479e-9961-443abb220c33#nogo

It was sarcasm, bub. Also--Mario: "It's extremely different. I don't even know what position i play...I'm lining up everywhere but safety." http://www.buffalobills.com/media-center/videos/Mario_Williams_on_Minicamp_Practices/6af24fec-787f-479e-9961-443abb220c33#nogo

Notable "gone's" are McGee (no-brainer), Barnett (no-brainer) and Wilson (quasi no-brainer) There's nothing to suggest that Buddy would have stayed the course with these three bums, to Weo's point. To your point, I understand that. But Weo offered paradoxes aplenty by saying that Buddy Nix did a horrible job at picking the roster that the new defensive coordinator is now controlling after Buddy Nix did a horrible job of hiring the last defensive coordinator.

Struck me weird, also.

That's impossible, bro.

Wait. So does the GM make roster decisions or do the coordinators?

Don't even joke about that.

We must have the same Pitt friend...

Yup. Being a fan of a team is a completely voluntary exercise--it's as painful or as joyful as you care to make it. Ironically, the more the latter, the more the former. But still, i'm baffled when people treat optimism for your favorite sports team as some kind of deficiency. It's not like we're wishing cancer away or staring at the phone waiting for somebody to call and offer us a million dollars. No. There's virtually nothing at stake, because we're the ones who create the stakes. If you gotta hate, what's the point?

Haha, my response was going to be: time to change the batteries in your sarcastatron!

Amen

Um, yes he was. Get a game-rewind subscription. BALL DON'T LIE.