as much as i dont want the bills to sign vick. im still kind of sick of people complaining about him.i just feel he did his time in jail, now let him move on with his life. theres worse criminals on the streets then him.

While I do think Mike Florio has been taking quite a few shots at us, I do think the way this team has been run the last 8-9 years has made us an easy target. With all the mistakes made over those years, I actually understand why we are the butt of many of the national experts jokes. However, I do feel that we have had our best offseason in that time period. It is going to take some on field success before we get respect. The old phrase respect is earned, not given bodes true. My personal opinion, I think we are going to have a great year and make the playoffs. I think we will no longer be the target of all of the negative criticism that is unwarranted.

and I have ripped him on this space before. I did praise his article posted earlier Wednesday about a rookie wage scale, (see this fanshot posted by MRW) but on the whole his work does not impress me. I am fond of calling his website “ProFootballGuess.com” due to the constant conjecture which it spews. (John Henderson to the Bills? Roscoe Parrish to a Steelers team with no cap room?) People on these boards have called me out saying he has “good sources” and is “often right”. To that I say: “even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while”. With all that being said, I don’t think the Florio is wrong about the Bills any more often than he is wrong about other teams.

Give me John Clayton any day, Mike Florio is not fit to carry Clayton’s laptop.

Florio has been decisively anti-Bill ever since TO signed with us (just look at all of his articles/rants against TO that have come out in the last months). And apparantly he also thinks that OBD doesn’t know what they are doing when moving Walker to LT, explaining all the "Bills are interested in Levi Jones" articles. I’m guessing that he now thinks that Trent isn’t a good enough QB and that because we chose to take a chance on Owens (which almost everyone but him agrees is a good move), that we should also take a chance on Vick.

It just goes to show that he doesn’t look past the surface when it comes to the Bills. And most of his opinion pieces on the team show a deffinitive biased against us IMO. Maybe it’s because of TO, maybe he’s just a Pats fan, I don’t know. But he deffinatly does not look at our team with an unbiased point of view.

Honestly, who gives a crap? Florio is nothing more than a rumormonger and pot stirrer. Sure, it’s nice when he provides info that isn’t available anywhere else, but the second he starts giving his opinion is when he loses me. He’s going to do anything to stir up some controversy and increase readership, and I don’t blame him for that. Whether he hates the Bills or not is irrelevant in the grand scheme of his, so why should we care?

Florio is a simple hack. why does anyone care what he says?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2-E5R-dVGM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprofootballtalk%2Ecom%2Fcategory%2Frumor%2Dmill%2F&feature=player_embedded

see what the big deal is? This is what Florio does…speculates….and just like most “analysts” he is wrong more than he is right. Florio doesn’t just “stir” the pot, he’s well connected in NFL circles and while it seems most people get agitated by him, I really could care less cuz the information and juicy nuggets he offers are well worth multiple daily stops over at his website. I would say

1) Vick won’t play QB anywhere he goes. He is perfect for running certain packages, playing a “slash” role and he would welcome that cuz he has no choice. No one is asking him to replace TE

2) Yeah the Bills paid T.O. fair market value. But T.O. is a known side show circus and he is 35. Who else would have done that? We’ll never know. But the Bills took on RISK in bringing in T.O. and when some rube posted a “should we go after T.O.” fanpost 99% of us “credible” bloggers said “no way, the Bills would never do that.” So it opens up the door at least a 0.001% chance on Michael Vick

3) You truly don’t believe using Vick as a subpackage guy running a wildcat or as a “slash” type player wouldn’t help an offense? Sure if asked to be a pocket passer for 60 mins of an NFL game he will struggle, but to use his best asset, his legs, and occassionally use that cannon of an arm, you truly don’t think that would help an NFL franchise? I strongly disagree

4. This is where I agree. Bills face may not embrace Vick, and that is where the decision I believe is made easy. Having Vick and T.O. would be such a side show circus that it would distract from Edwards development and from the product on the field. The sum has to be greater than its parts. That’s hard enough with T.O., it would be nearly impossible with Vick AND T.O.

Florio is doing his job. It’s complete reasonable speculation IMO. But that’s all it is….speculation

To stay on point with this topic…

Mike Vick was an average QB two years ago. He was always a dynamic player and was fun to watch. After two years away from the game he will be less than average at the position. Who on our roster would he be an improvement over? Whose job would he take? T.O. was a huge upgrade for us. Vick wouldn’t be so unless he is gonna play linebacker or russ the passer, I will pass on Vick.

As for Florio, his contacts around the league are second to none. He said T.O. was coming here before any other national media did. He is great with that stuff. His opinions are generaelly just to get attention. Is he credible? Yes. Is he any worse than most other guys? Not really but he does mock and use curse words more than most national guys.

Florio doesn’t hate the Bills. This is just the price you pay for signing TO. If a team in a similiar position had signed TO, then Florio would be treating them just like he treats Buffalo.

Well, that fixed that – sorry, folks, but I had to delete roughly 80% of the comments on this thread. Quite frankly, I don’t have the time to sit here and nit-pick the entire thread to try to keep discussions in line. I appreciate the folks who tried to keep the Vick topic related to Vick, and am not holding it against anyone that the discussion devolved into ethical and religious topics. Those do not belong here.

Carry on…

And now he says that the Bills signing TO was the 6th best move of the offseason….