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http://buf.scout.com/2/238621.html

 

brown was cut to save on the cap

 

Stand corrected on the mechanics, but Brown was willing to renegotiate his deal to stay with the team. The Bills said no. That worked out very well for the Bills LG spot since that time.

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Marcellus Willey had a good year or two with SD but never was quite the beast he was in Buf.

 

Maybe a lot of the FA take this route..... Take steroids or HGH early in their career until they get their FA contract. Once they get the fat contract they stop the juice because of the long term side effects. They last a year or two or three but never meet past performance and then that's it. Sometimes injuries set in and they don't heal so quick without the juice.

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This is true. He refused to play in his last game as a Bill - @ Dolphins. Scumball move.
It was @ Pats (31-0 reversal from game 1), but agreed, what a POS. :rolleyes: Ruben.
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At one time the LT position was a very important position in pro sports, but there has been a drop in the quality of game changing RDEs since then...

 

Reggie and Bruce played for great teams. Other great teams of the time; who competed with them in the division, conference, and SBs, had to have great LTs to attempt to counteract both of these players...In today's league, yes there are good defensive players, but the most dominate right now seem to be LBs...a tough stout and overall good OL is what's currently relevant in the league...which does diminsh the need for a true outstanding LT

2 things:

1. Last year had quite a few 15+ sack defenders but out of the OLB position in a 3-4, which still falls on the tackles for blocking.

2, Reggie was a left end, meaning he faced Right tackles who were/are generally less proficient than the left tackles at pass blocking.

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It goes a ways back, but Will Wolford and House Ballard did just fine after leaving the Bills during FA. Their leaving (along with Polian) was the beginning of the end of the Super Bowl era.

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It goes a ways back, but Will Wolford and House Ballard did just fine after leaving the Bills during FA. Their leaving (along with Polian) was the beginning of the end of the Super Bowl era.

 

Wolford did very well. Ballard was just adequate.

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This is true, proving that either Gandy is a better LT than Peters or that LT is the most overrated and overpaid position in pro sports.

 

 

Or that any position on the field can be filled with a below-average journeyman and the team can still win a Super Bowl - providing that the other guys on the team bring some truly extraordinary things to the table. Trent Dilfer, for instance. Or, gee, I don't know, just picking one out of the blue, Kurt Warner, whose extraordinary ability to get rid of the ball unbelievably quickly and still get it to the right place may have made Gandy look much better than he actually is.

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John Parella played well for San Diego for a number of years.

 

 

 

Yeah. Parrella was cut, but I always thought that was a big lost opportunity for the Bills. Though they said he didn't fit the Bills system at the time.

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Yeah. Parrella was cut, but I always thought that was a big lost opportunity for the Bills. Though they said he didn't fit the Bills system at the time.

 

Parrella was cut after he really quit and didn't have his heart in the game. I read that he had changed his mind about playing on the cross-country drive and rededicated himself to football.

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At one time the LT position was a very important position in pro sports, but there has been a drop in the quality of game changing RDEs since then...

 

Reggie and Bruce played for great teams. Other great teams of the time; who competed with them in the division, conference, and SBs, had to have great LTs to attempt to counteract both of these players...In today's league, yes there are good defensive players, but the most dominate right now seem to be LBs...a tough stout and overall good OL is what's currently relevant in the league...which does diminsh the need for a true outstanding LT

 

 

 

Somebody already said it, but it's worth repeating. The best pass rushers still line up across from the LT, though many of them are now called LBs instead of RDTs.

 

Lawrence Taylor was an LT too. Still made a hell of a handful for Bruce Smith.

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