DanInUticaTampa

at this point in their careers, heard is better than pat. Especially when you throw in the suspension that has been talked about for years now....

it isn't like merriman was doing much when he was on the field. And we kinda did get healthier. we swapped an injured merriman for a well rested, injury free Coleman.

this has been the thing with nix. So far, the only thing he seems to have done right, is the Gailey hiring, which so far looks ok, but there is still a lot to prove on that one. Nix's first draft looks horrible right now, and although his 2nd looks WAY more promising, we haven't seen enough. And the other thing about Nix's 2nd draft, gailey obviously had more say in it with senior bowl players getting picked. So if this 2nd draft works out, it might be more credited to gailey than nix, to a degree. The only FA signings he has done that I like are barnett, edwards, and davis (the guy sucks in coverage, but he was an upgrade and at least not a scrub). Though he did find a lot of nice cast offs to plug in holes.

chances are he will never log back in to see it anyway.

it's hard to win in toronto.

I am leaning more towards troup than williams. but that might be just wishful thinking.

I think it is a little bit of both, but I think it leans more toward the players. We have been bad against the rush for years now and We didn't really have much of a player turnover from last year. We got barnett and dareus as the only 2 that have started each game. They are gonna have to upgrade some more players for this defense to be serviceable. The ones on the outside being the biggest a liability. Whether it is the 4-3 DEs or the 3-4 OLBs, those positions need to be addressed bad. Kind of makes you wonder how this team would have looked if they went another way with that maybin pick. Those players on the outside have been bad for awhile, and it isn't like they ingored it either. they just have done a good job at filling it. And by "they" I mean the franchise in general, not specifically gailey/nix. I think it would be best for us all for the stache to take over completly.

eric wood would be up there imo. but dareus is the best in recent memory for 1st rounders go with rookie seasons.

kyle should be back since there was a small chance he could have played in the last game.

I would gladly take loyde for a reasonable price. My only problem is that is contract is up after this season... so if we want to keep him longterm, we would have re-sign the guy. And that wont be easy since we have (or should) work out contracts for stevie and fitz, and rework jackson's contract. COmplete 4 major contracts in one offseason doesn't seem like something the bills front office could really handle. I guess it is great that williams has his worked out, but there is a lot to be done to secure this team's nucleus and continue building on that.

The offensive line, even the depth, is looking pretty good. sucks harriston got hurt, but hopefully he or bell can play the next game. but harriston looks like he will have a roster spot here for a long time.

For every game this season I watch at a bar, the bills won. For the cincy game I listened on the radio at home, and for the giants game I watched it at home. I guess I have to be at the bar for the skins game.

Mckelvin was barely in there, and when he was, he didn't do anything that bad. The defense as a whole has played how it has all year, minus the turnovers. The defense needs some type of spark to make it work. sheppard should probably be starting unless we are playing a team that is heavy on the run. I like florence, but he didn't do much to show that he deserved to start over mckelvin today. it sucks that mckelvin can be consistant. if he was, he would be a decent starter. maybe this lit a fire in him not starting. and we need Kyle back bad. this offseason though, we need to upgrade the OLB position. Aside from occasional plays by moats and sometimes kesley, those guys aren't doing anything for us. And man do we need a deep threat on offense. evans probably wouldn't have been that helpful for us this year, but jones/easley being out is killing us. gotta find a deep threat this offseason that can stay on the field. other than that, this team is a hell of a lot better to watch than previous years. they got a lot of work to do, but they seem to be heading in the right direction.

I think the 2010 draft is still shakey. The one out of that draft that looks most promising is moats he seems to be pretty much what the bills expected out of maybin. Carrington looks ok. Troup I haven't been impressed with. And spiller has seen limited action, and shows he still has a lot to learn. This most recent draft looks a lot more promising. And I think that gailey had a lot more say in it, with there being a couple senior bowl players that we picked. But out of this years draft, dareus looks like the real deal, sheppard has shown more flashes than troup and carrington combined, and harriston proved himself well in his first start. Nix's first draft is hard for me to judge. The spiller pick was a bit questionable, and now that spiller hardly touches the ball, it seems more questionable. I do still feel that if the raiders didn't pick mcclain, that we would have. which sucks, because I would have loved him a lot more than spiller. I don't hate the spiller pick, but the jury is still out on him. And then for carrington and troup, I didn't get the "small school" thing that year. kind of came out of nowhere. And I knew very little about them. for me, the best I can say for a lot of the 2010 choices is that it is too early to call them a bust. though carrington has shown some nice flashes and can develop. and it is too bad easly can't stay on the field, because the gems these guy find at WR that go undrafted/later rounds is impressive. Really makes you wonder what a they can find with a 4th round pick when they find someone like nelson undrafted. But this whole thing with young players starting reminds me when we had an entire roster of marv's new young players with like edwards at QB, whitner, poz, mr. "im worth millions," lynch, etc, and now the team has none of them. So just because they are starting doesn't excite me. They actually have to play well during that start to give me the wow factor.

I agree, somebody has to be screwing up. But that doesn't mean it is automatically williams and dareus. They are not the problem with the defense. the problem is on the outside of the defense, not the middle. the middle of the defense is amazing. Just the fact that barnett can drop into coverage so often is evidence that williams/dareus are doing their job. with the outside, all those players need help with the rush by bringing in safties to help them out. Williams and dareus are fine, and blaming them for other players' mistakes doesn't fit.

I would have to agree with that as well. We have definently faced better offenses than defenses this year.

The oline is def playing better than expected, but I hope they still try to upgrade it in the offseason. one thing that might factor into is that we havent exactly played many good defenses. Oakland has some good players up front, and the bengals D is great (and gave us the most trouble) but the pats*, eagles, and chiefs don't exactly present a tough matchup for any oline. But as for the eagles D, the oline did a good job with Babin. This oline is playing pretty good, but I think we could use upgrades if we want a superbowl type of team. I am also thinking wood might be having a probowl year so far.

It is obvious all the big running plays are away from the middle. not just williams/dareus, but barnet right behind them as well. all the problems with the run defense are on the edges. Merriman has been servicible, but I thought the front office was crazy for thinking he was the answer to their pass rushing troubles. He has played a lot better than expected and it is nice to see him on the field, but we need to upgrade that. Kelsey has had several nice plays, but when teams run at you that often, you better has at least some good plays. carrington is nice on the edge, but he doesn't seem to be good against the run. The edges of that defense need work. And it is hard to judge our secondary.... mkelvin is hot and cold. The guy either has a great game or a terrible game. But they seem to be tackleing better and better each week. people who hate on williams for not tackleing on plays that are away from him are being ridiculous. that would be like a jests fan hating on revis because he isn't intercepting the ball because the ball is being thrown away from him. williams/dareus taking out the middle of the field is just has important as revis shutting down the number 1 reciever for the jests.

keyword being "win."

pretty much. roosevelt caught a lot of mild passes, but they were able to shut us down prety much. we need someone to run deep. Jones has a lot more potential than evans, but the one thing I miss about evans is he drew double coverage pretty often. I hardly see anyone double cover jones. and on the flipside, one think I like about jones way more than evans is the guy is a fighter. when fitz threw that int in the redzone, he didn't just stand and stare. he knocked it out of the defender's hands. He worries me that he drops too many balls, but in all honesty, I think we are going to need him this season.

absolutly

amen!

pretty much should end the discussion with the whole argument. And I really don't understand why people think that people who make their living as a public figure wouldn't have consequences for saying something contraversial. it happens all the time. it has nothing to do with freedom of speech. if you make your living off the public, then your pay goes way down once you do something the public doesn't like. it isn't like a normal job where you can say **** at a bar and go in the next day an no one has any idea that you ran your mouth.

You shouldn't have to provide examples when something is common knowledge. why are you nitpicking at something so silly? and why would you ask for examples when you have already heard of such examples? If you are trying to prove a point, stop beating around the bush because no one cant get what you are trying to prove except you want "examples" of things you already know exist.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=calls+bush+hitler and this one pretty much has every bush/hitler comment ever http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html