The Big Cat

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If Chris Kelsay survives this blood bath then only one thing can be true: he has photos linking Ralph to the JFK assassination and/or 9/11 and/or the death of Anna Nicole Smith. -or- He really is a good player, and we now have three consecutive regimes (four if you count the one that drafted him) to confirm. But seriously, the former seems to be more realistic at this point.

Barnet: not a surprise. Wilson: a surprise

Right. It's further proof that their metric/ranking is for ****.

I agree. BUT It sounds like Pettine's defenses have always been DB heavy in the first place. How often will we run sets that require more than two linebackers? Plus, I'm sure we'll snake some guys in FA that can be stop-gaps. Only one other person who even rivaled his bleak incompetence: Aaron Williams But AW is 10 years younger, and played in a defense that relied on the players upfront to make his job easier. Not giving him a free pass, but that's the opposite of what ended up happening.

He was THE WORST PLAYER ON OUR DEFENSE last year. It's the right move.

Ryan Mallet--who finished 2012 1-4 for 17 yds and a pick (numbers that'd make JaMarcus Russel blush)--shouldn't be ahead of anybody.

The worst part of my week used to be the 10 seconds after Modern Family, when I'd be scrambling for the remote during the Cougar Town cold-open. It became a joke between my wife and I: No no no no no!! Turn it off, turn it off! FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST TURN! IT! OFF! What's great: I heard two other people say the exact same thing--my mom and Adam Carolla. Since I transitioned to Hulu Plus, the problem (thank God) has resolved itself.

Yeah, if that's copy/pasted from KOBills, then I'm having the damnedest time trying to interpret his double negative.

He's met with all the coaches already, huh? I guess him and Stevie have a different approach to those type of things.

Will Internet misinformation ever end!? Shame on you, Sage.

I don't hate on Jones. Just dreading the idiotic, negative spin.

I can't tell I'd folks are just giving the guy a friendly fare well, or if fans actually think cutting him was wrong because he can run block. Are we really gearing up for another Evans-decoy nonsense fest??

LOLZ...it's SO big. I feel like an !@#$.

I didn't mean for it to be so damn big!!

Hahaha, yeah assuming the tackler is one of the guys on who's legally on the field when the play begins! Flacco was telling guys on the sideline to basically run out and take matters into his own hands...

Anyone with Any TBD'er with half a brain has experienced the this existential dilema! It's part of the reason I want to blow my brains out for the weeks leading to the draft when all I read are INTERNET POSTS from non-football professionals chirping on and on about "fluid hips," "situational awareness" "quickness off the ball" "fat to muscle ratio" it is truly absurd.

Yeah, and though I was irked with Stevie, I kept thinking: what the !@#$ organization even allows this to happen? Ha, well, if we were to leave it at that, then we'd have no place to criticize any player for anything ever! Are you saying Fitz is accurate because he can throw better than you!?

Yeah, it's a difficult reality to stomach, particularly when the highly educated among us gladly collect our five-digit salaries and don't get to "play" our profession. The race for the Bills locker room leader is definitely heating up. But at this point, Stevie's on the outside looking in. And to your point about Bellicheat: I heard John Lynch tell a great story about his first day in the Patriots* film room: Hoodie was chewing out one of the players and Lynch smirked audibly, thinking Hoodie was just busting the guy's chops. He said the room went completely silent and everyone turned, slowly, to look at him as if to say--bro, are you !@#$ing high? He said the verbal shalacking that ensued was unlike any he'd had since high school... Now imagine Stevie played for Bellicheat and makes those comments... I'm hoping Marrone does what the last three regimes have failed at doing: set a precedent for professionalism and commitment that's on par with teams like the Patriots*. Everyone hates them, players and fans alike, but it's no mystery why they're consistently vying for a championship. They operate at a level Stevie could never comprehend.

I was referring more to when he ALWAYS gets run down. He's not fast in the open field, period. Also, I don't know how much more I can stress this: for me it's less of a "what if" scenario and more of a "you dumb ****, even if that's true (and it's despicable if it is) you don't !@#$ing say that on a nationally syndicated radio show. When are you going to learn to grow the !@#$ up?" Look, Stevie has been saying for two or three years now that it's "up to him to be the leader" he wants to "be a leader." Well, in this instance, he failed lesson one. Also, please keep in mind, that we have very very very limited access to these guys, so I don't think it's out of line to say that whatever behaviors we witness while the mics are rolling are probably magnified ten times behind the scenes. The guy just needs to get over himself. He's good. But he's not that good.

There's probably also a training program out there that would allow him to out run defensive backs. Once. In his career.

Satisfied? What else should we draw from this? He unabashedly declared: I don't follow the team's conditioning schedule.There was no remorse. There was no "ah shucks." Yes, he eventually. arrived at the conclusion that he's ready to work. Why he gets a pass for this--as we approach his sixth season--I don't begin to understand. Also, I'm not blaming Stevie for the Bills woes. That's just silly. But by his own admission, he didn't do everything he could do to make it better. And yes, there's a bit of inference here--based on the way he said it and his pattern of behavior to date--so please don't come back with "you don't know what he does and doesn't do." Stevie's own actions/words are a much better indication than what we as fans have never witnessed but hope to be the case behind the scenes.

We're done here. I understand that point, but what good is it being king turd? He's the best receiver out of Donald Jones, TJ Graham, Brad Smith, et al. FANTASTIC. The problem is he's NOT better at football than more than half of the league's other no. 1 receivers. So at what point is good enough good enough? When you're a professional athlete, the answer is never. When you're a professional athlete on a team that hasn't finished above .500 since they signed you, it's never times infinity. And Stevie's response indicated that he's satisfied with being what he deems good enough-- a great receiver on a ****ty team who's mediocre on a league-wide scale. How is that acceptable? For Bills players, for coaches, for fans, anybody?

Well, personally I think your making many assumptive leaps to arrive at your conclusion. And as far as I go, i'm not busting on the guy ( ) for not training. I don't profess to know what he does or doesn't do. I'm busting on the guy for what he so flippantly, proudly declared: I take that booklet and put in the drawer. I haven't worked out since before my rookie season. It's an insanely immature thing to SAY, true or not. It's unprofessional, it's selfish and it's unfair to the people within the organization who DO bust their ass. Great, he spends three or four seconds thirty or forty times a game "getting open." He doesn't get a free pass for that when coaches put in 60 hours and others are training their asses off.