DanInUticaTampa

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I think this is something a lot of us forget that your real identity is shared with us and the rest of us can say anything we want with no risk or consequences. I know it would bother me a great deal to be put in a spot where I had to explain the actions of others to someone, especially people I work with. And in a public forum like this, there is more at risk for you than just your self respect. This is a public forum, and anything you say about your coworkers or your employer could be seen by them at any time. It is just a terrible spot to put people in. Especially over something as stupid as a twitter box.

I agree with a lot of this. Especially when someone like Chuck Knox makes like 3 threads in 10 minutes on the same subject that no one takes his side on, and he doesn't even bother replying to his own threads. Yet he is allowed to do it over and over.

Just like every other successful company. Pretty much every major business and a lot of small businesses use this as a marketing and PR tool. Attacking ESPN for using it is just odd when everyone from mcdonalds, CNN, amazon, Sports Illustrated, Wall Street Journal, and everyone is using it to grow their businesses is using it as well.

Referencing what people are saying is "childish?" So, yeah, if a player says on twitter "injury has healed. I can play the next game" it is childish to use that to explain that a player is going to be able to play the next game? Come on..... His commentary was NOT on twitter (maybe as a subtopic). It was specifically on ESPN's main page being "flooded" with twitter stuff. And there isn't ANY twitter stuff on the main page. If you go to the nfl part, it is a small box towards the middle of the page and it is about the same size as advertisements. He was making it seem like twitter was plastered over all the articles and all over the page. And that is untrue. What he was complaining about was one little box and he made it seem like it was all over the main page. It just isn't true. I am not a huge fan of espn, but he was just wrong in saying this stuff was flooding the website.

Flooded on the main page? I never seen this on the main page before, So i went to espn.com and it isn't on there at all. If you click into the NFL part of ESPN, there is a small box in about halfway down all the way to left side that is like the "twitter box." It takes up next to no space and .... it's twitter! it isn't meant to be journalism. It is meant for marketing and public relations. It is meant, in this case, that tv personalities can market their articles to their fans when new material arises and to have more contact with their fans. It was never meant to win a pultzer prize or to impress people. It is for marketing and PR only. I mean, seriously. You are annoyed about a little box on Espn's nfl page? There are ads bigger than this little box! http://espn.go.com/nfl/ I mean, go ahead and look at it. That little box is what is bothering you? That little box on the far left half way down is "flooding the main page" to you? good lord.

Schouman was trent's favorite target when he was on the field. So he would seem important to our passing game if trent is our starter.

we are a run and checkdown offense. it is going to be amazing.

It sucks being in the AFCE.

Well.... first off, welker won't be a huge problem this season since he will be hampered by his injury and should miss some good playing time. And any QB we took was going to take at least one year to groom, and probably more. So there was NO QB that could win for us now in the draft (most likely) so drafting one was very urgant since this QB class was so.... underwelming. People can say we should have drafted clausen in the 2nd round because all these pundits say he is the 2nd best QB in the draft.... well, we have a QB on our roster that was picked in the 2nd round just 2 years ago..... so one would assume he is more developed than clausen with the same upside. So.... not picking a QB until later wasn't a big deal since there really wasn't a good option. and LT in the 6th? pretty sure we took one in the 5th. Although that position is dishearting, I went into the draft with the mindset that we equally needed a LT as much as a NT, and I had a 99% feeling we weren't getting both and picks 1 and 2. So I wasn't too disappointed when we grabbed an NT and not an LT within the first two picks. But I was pleased that an NT was picked, and a lot of the picks did address the "trenches" that people always say is the end all and be all of football. Fact is, we did address the trenches (mostly on the defensive side) and we got a lot of players that seem to be low risk as in work ethic and talent, which I like. Was the spillar pick a luxury one? probably. but if he plays really well and improves that passing game a lot, I won't complain. If he sucks, I will just shake my head as usual at this organization. I just can't say the spillar move, or any of the other ones were bad until I see the results. I can't say the picks are bad just because they didn't match up to what I prefered. And as far as QB goes..... I really don't have a huge problem with levi brown. We can complain all we want and wish we were more like NE. But if the Bills drafted a punter in the 5th round like NE did, even if we didn't have a punter, this board would have gone nuts.

We were told that we would have 4 QBs going into camp, we have our 4 QBs. no one else is getting added.

You mean videos of him running inside are not proof that he ran inside? Hell, if he has videos of him running on the inside, that should just make it more valuable since inside runs tend to be shorter, so they are less likely to make it on the highlight reel. Well, I know you have a rule where highlight reels don't count but... In that florida state game in the middle of the video, he ran inside 4-5 times, and that is just the highlights. So I assume there are a lot more runs on the inside for smaller yardage, but it is hard to prove without having the entire game at hand. So i guess what matters is how much "a lot" is. He is obviously capable of running inside, since any highlight reel has him doing it at least once in each game pretty much. I thought it was the general word of mouth that running on the inside has always been his weakness, but he silenced his critics his senior year when he proved he could run on the inside, but still had a lot to improve on to be a true inside runner. I mean, the rotoworld guy saying Spillar can't run on the inside when he can score TDs and has plenty of runs on video of running on the inside is just a huge stretch, since he obviously CAN do it. Is he great at it? No. Is he even good at it? Probably not. But he can at least hold his own as an inside runner. it just isn't his strength, and one of his weaknesses. Doesn't mean he can't do it.

He didn't "put a lot of input" into the offensive system. He created it the whole thing from top to bottom. Gailey even said that he himself is going to be the OC and modkins was going to be OC in name only. He said so right on camera.

The main thing I disagreed with was Brohm being a bust. He hasn't been given a real chance yet to be labled a bust.

I think if Levi Brown is ever going to start an NFL game, it will be in his second year at least. Unless there is some miracle that happens. I have hope for Brohm, just because he is a high draft pick who hasn't really had a lot of playing time. So .... maybe some hope for him. I think i do expect though. Whoever the QB is this season, we are going to see them handing the ball off an a lot.

And then there was that time we drafted a 1st round RB when we already had a productive 2nd round RB on the roster.... and all this happened in the past nine years . I mean, I know buffalo has wind and needs a good run game and all.... but it gets a little crazy. If Nix and Whaley weren't brought in as a "new front office" I would be pretty much upset as everyone else who is pissed. Since this is the first year they are in control, I can just shrug my shoulders and just hope for the best and talk myself into thinking they are just cleaning up the mess the others left behind. But that is really just thinking to get me to watch next season, especially in case there is a one year hiatus for the nfl in 2011.

I think this coaching staff should have a good idea after preseason how far along Brohm is and whether or not to start him, or if he could replace edwards if he regresses. I don't think gaily is a genius of an offensive mind, but he is probably the best offensive mind we have had in a long time. So I am hoping he will handle the QB situation well and get the most out of whichever one he starts. So even without a big change at QB (or LT for that matter), I expect noticable improvement at the QB position. Though it will probably still suck and we stick to running the hell out of the ball.

haha, I have to admit, I got a few good chuckles out of the article. The main point he seems to make is, Spillar isn't going to be a great fantasy player..... and I don't give a damn about the fantasy nonesense. What matters is if what he does actually helps the team win or not.

It isn't that he can't make those throws (maybe), but he won't even try

Ill be a place kicker and they only have to pay me a $200 a game and $100 to show up to each practice. I will save them millions! We just wont be getting any field goals. But the extra points will be a lock.

If we had like some super duper magical coach of QBs like gruden or mcdanials, I say he would be worth a cheap contract. But...... I would rather have players that we don't have to force to work.

Well, since this happened a long time ago and nothing else has happened since, or made the news. I assume he hasnt caused any trouble.... I don't see any other issues unless they happened to him when he was like 15, which is ridiculous when players are doing much worse things as adults. If he had any legal trouble, the media would have found it. And any other social issues would have came out as well, since the national sports media is scrutinizing the whole thing.

I was thinking the same thing. Didn't we already know about Hernandez's drug test fail?

because he has only had one year of playing time before suffering an injury, has had time to learn routes, recieved a lot of tips and help from owens, he is young so he has a lot of potential, or how about all those other good stuff? Or how about young recievers usually have their best seasons after 2 or 3 years of development? take your pick. He isn't a sure thing of course. But there is plenty of upside.

I think he is trying to upgrade the team at any positition he can.