The Big Cat

Starts missed by defenders in 2014 ~ 12 Starts missed by defenders in 2015 ~ 35

He didn't play in a "Rex" defense in Baltimore. He was there in 2011/12.

Also seems unlikely to be KW since: It's KW He was out for 10.5 games That leaves Graham. Which wouldn't surprise me.

That seems to be the obvious choice. A slight implication, though, that there were others. Who are the "older" guys? Mario KW Graham Leodis Manny Am I missing any?

“Last year, I was trying to stay away from confrontation a little bit with some of the older guys,” said Brown, who finished with 120 tackles, two interceptions and one forced fumble last year. “But we’re all grown men and we can deal with it. So I need to take charge. If people get their feelings hurt — and we’re winning games — I’d rather win games with people running around with their feelings hurt. Let's focus all our attention on this quote. Shall we?

Sucks that we're the only team in the NFL that can't stop Brady and Gronk. WTF is wrong with the clowns coaching this team?

First off, Goodwin is far superior to Graham...when healthy. The latter being an immensely prohibitive qualifier. But he IS NOT as bad of a football players as Graham. Period.

TJ Graham may have been one of the worst professional receivers of the past decade when it came to tracking a deep ball. This coming from a Bills fan who spent a couple years watching Donald Jones.

Well, thanks for flipping on the light so we could watch the Rex Sux Roaches scatter.

Well, at the very least, he's created another opportunity for the entire organization to be victimized by this whole !@#$ing affair. God, I can't stand these people.

Rambo replacement? YardsPerPass 2:12pm via TweetDeck After a real quick watch of the all 22 of the MIN/ATL game, Blanton looks like a deep S rather than a box one... Rambo replacement

If he backs up AW and we find someone for Graham to backup, safety just got deep.

Can't complain when a safety known for his tackling replaces Duke Williams.

What did you have in mind?

http://www.dailynorseman.com/2015/1/21/7870319/taking-a-look-at-safety-robert-blanton

We need at least two more. This would be a start, I guess.

Sounds like everyone here is good and ready to sign off on precisely what his contraband activity was. In all likelihood, it wasn't mission critical. In which case he's a dunce. But none of us know that. I'm guessing a dunce doesn't get his salary doubled by a company that gives him access to super secrets, though. Good to know he's in his 30's. That firms up that narrative, at least.

For all the "I told you so moments" he can relish in.

They "figured out" how to draft a GOAT QB in the 6th round.

Ha, that'll be tough unless you're in Nogales, Mexico, brother. But Happy Birthday, GO BILLS

Yeah, I was too lazy to crunch the Brady era records.

Knock yourself out: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nwe/head-to-head.htm

If every team could throw the ball 60 times a game effectively, they would. Brady/Edleman/Gronk are an unorthodox trio, to say the least. I think you're being hasty calling it a "weakness." Roman calls a risk-aversed, QB friendly offense. At least he has. But he's also always had developmental guys. One of the following his true: Taylor is unable to go over the middle Taylor is unwilling to go over the middle Roman doesn't run routes over the middle. I'm not so bold as to sign off on a single one of these (sound familiar, Rex haters?). Why? Because: Taylor is a running threat, so teams station a guy in the short center field to spy him. When they mixed/opened it up in week 17 for Sammy, they did A LOT of stuff over the middle with success. When he did go over the middle in other times (think game-winning strike to Clay (x 2 (he dropped one of them)) against Houston, he HAS been successful Given these factors, I think it's wrong to say TT "can't" go over the middle. Or is "weak" over the middle.

You say that as if it's measurably worse against the other 30 teams.

Yeah that was definitely an area for improvement for them. Not news: The Pats* offense stayed good. On defense they lost a huge piece. I didn't see anyone jumping for joy about it. So why should we cower in fear when a good offense gets marginally better? At issue is the degree to which they got better. Count me as someone who's not all together alarmed by it.