sigh as well …………meh. just pathetic

When you’ve got cap hits of over $20M total on your DE’s (Johnson included here) and you get a grand total of 9 sacks between the 4 of them, you are doing a TERRIBLE job of evaluating talent. Sigh

meh

so true – so true. The sentence of the day award goes to K

Lynch alone rushed 72 times to the right for 379 yards, 5.26 yard per carry. I’d say Walker did just fine run blocking. Walker only gave up 3 sacks. Walker clearly does not belong on this list.

If Dockery gave up only 1.25 more sacks than Faneca and Hutchinson (and they’re Pro Bowlers), how was he that terrible?

Can you blame coaching for McCargo or Crowell? No.

Hey Rumblers – Does this article not SCREAM underproduction as a result of POOR COACHING??

Some yes, some no. Mostly, it just screams poor talent evaluation, but two of the guys were hurt this year, and several others were backups.

I dont get why so many ppl are down on our coachs. We rose in EVERY important category this year, EVERY SINGLE ONE! Some rather drastically too! That IMO tells me that the coachs are doing a good job… or at least a decent one.

Ok DJ is deffinatly not the best coach in the league, but he is in no means the worst either. I think the Bills’ biggest problem this year was lack of execution. How many blow coverages, missed blocking assignments and just plain stupid moves did we see from our players this year? It’s not the coach’s fault if the players don’t run the play properly, it’s the players fault!

And I don’t think that it’s coincidence that the players that messed up the most plays end up on this list either. The Bills have too many players that are just there for the paycheck (Kelsey, Losman, McCargo, Parrish, Dockery…)

I think the Bills have much bigger issues than bad coaching, and to blame the coachs for the bad playing is just dumb.

I did it this year and for his paycheck he delivered nothing this year. Plus the timing of his surgery was unnecessary. He has been bothered by this injury for years according to him. WHy not take care of it last January?

I think Reed was money for this team when they needed him to be. He was their third down guy and he never entered my mind to be put on this list.

Marques Colston ($ 3,142,810) – 47 rec., 760 yards, 5 TD
Justin Gage ($ 3,128,480 ) – 34 rec., 651 yards, 6 TD
Joe Jurevicious ($ 3,062,500 ) – 50 rec., 614 yards, 3 TD
Reggie Brown ($ 2,960,708 ) – 18 rec., 252 yards, 1 TD (played 7 games)
Josh Reed (2.925M) 56 rec., 597 yards, 1 TD
Mike Furrey ($ 2,906,240) – 18 rec., 181 yards, 0 TD (7 games)
Michael Clayton ($ 2,856,947) – 38 rec., 484 yards, 1 TD
Javon Walker ($ 2,834,293) – 15 rec., 196 yards, 1 TD
Ernest Wilford ($ 2,505,640) – 3 rec., 25 yards, 0 TD

Of this list, who do you want on your team? Don’t even think I cherry-picked. I took the 4 guys above and below Reed on the cap hit list from USAToday. Colston and Gage are the only two I take over Reed.

If you are smart and Trent is the QB you want Reed on my team.

How many starting WRs in the NFL made close to 3 million last year and didn’t catch more than 1 TD pass or gain at least 600 yards like Reed?

Obviously there weren’t many starting WRs who caught as few TDs as Reed did. But Deion Branch, Chad Johnson, Roy Williams, Plaxico Burress, Chris Chambers, Amani Toomer, Ronald Curry, Jerry Porter, Drew Bennett, Kevin Curtis, Roscoe Parrish, Joey Galloway, Andre Davis and Reggie Brown all had a higher cap number and fewer yards than Reed. That list also doesn’t include players on IR like Nate Burleson and Joe Jurevicious. So of the 40 WRs who had a higher cap hit then Reed, 16 of them had fewer yards then Reed did.

And that is just the salary cap. Javon Walker, Antwaan Randle El, Erenst Wilford, Brandon Stokely, Patrick Crayton, Donte Stallworth and Reggie Williams all signed contracts with a bigger per year average then Reed and had fewer catches and yards then Reed did.

Considering that Reed missed a few games and the Bills were in the bottom third in the league in pass attempts, I don’t know how you can consider Reed to be overpaid. He is what he is, he is a decent underneath possesion receiver, but he is also compensated like one.

I thought you were just about past your Josh Reed hate issues. Guess not.

Let’s see, Josh Reed made $2.925M per TD, Lee Evans made $3.94M per TD. Ouch.

Why won’t you just give Reed credit for what he is? A good, underneath possession receiver. It’s too bad he didn’t play 16 games. His stats would have projected to 69 catches for 735 yards over 16 games. That’s not bad for a #2 WR in a horrendous offense.

linked to our offense’s futility just as much as Turk Schonert, Steve Fairchild, Duke Preston, Melvin Fowler, Robert Royal, and JP Losman- he’s just as overmatched in his role as those whipping boys are. He just isn’t good enough for that role no matter how much Bills fans like him because they identify with him because he’s short, slow, and untalented. He may be a nice guy like Chris Kelsay, JP Losman, and Dick Jauron, but he’s had his chance to succeed and he’s simply not good enough period.

There’s a lot that I disagree with in those four lines, man.

The only true-blue link to offensive futility in Buffalo is inconsistent and rarely excellent quarterback play. Bottom line.

I really think you’ve got an obscure view on Bills’ fans opinions of Reed. We don’t like him because we identify with him. We like him because he has made clutch plays and has a good rapport with Edwards. He’s not a “fan favorite” by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, and I can’t fathom where that perspective would even come from. He might be the 15th guy on most Bills fans’ “favorite Bills” list.

You also seem to completely disregard the notion that Reed wasn’t signed to his current deal to be a starter. He’s kind of had to assume the starter by default role thanks to the Peerless Price trade, the release of Eric Moulds, the slow development of James Hardy, the ill-advised re-signing of Peerless Price, etc. etc. Bottom line on Reed is he’s not a starter, and shouldn’t be treated as such.