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With the way the Bills are playing, Dump is a very apt title




A few things I have on my mind.

- I can honestly say that I saw this season coming. That said it is still kinda tough to stomach. I claimed and still stand by the fact that all I want to see this year is improvement as the season progresses. Well, it should be very easy to improve over this garbage we have been seeing. I have gotten to the point where I don't even care if this team loses or not. I just want to see them be competitive.

- Spiller has to touch the ball more. Brian just posted something about this and I totally agree. Why draft a guy that high and then barely give him the ball?

- Does the national media remember how bad Mike Vick sucked before he went to jail? I understand that he is playing very well right now, but he did that at times with the Falcons. I keep hearing all the same stuff. "Nobody has his ability", "Nobody changes the game like him", and my favorite, "He is the hardest QB in the league to plan for." All of this very same stuff was said about Vick before he went to jail. He also stunk for long stretches of time with the Falcons. Do they think that his time in jail made him a better QB? I bet he will have some good games, earn himself a starting job somewhere, then start to play poorly just like he did in Atlanta.

- I want to say thank you to Tim Hightower, Donovan McNabb, and Clinton Portis for having good games for me and picking up Chris Johnson's slack to help me win my FF game this week.  I also want to thank Ryan Mathews and Mike Turner for getting hurt and not returning to their games. If Kevin Kolb and Shonn Greene had given me anything better then the combined -1 they gave me last week I would be 2-0.

- Am I the only one who thinks Lee Evans is vastly overrated? I know that he is held back by the crappy offense but when I hear somebody say that he is a top talent at WR in the league I can't help but wonder if we are watching the same guy.

- speaking of Bills WRs, is there any doubt that this team needs at least 2 veteran WRs this off-season? I am not saying that WR is a top need, not by any stretch, but it is clearly a need.

- Is baseball still being played? I haven't cared less about baseball in a long time. It isn't even because my team stinks, they have stunk many times before and I have still cared. I simply have zero desire to watch any baseball what-so-ever.

Just another great fan opinion shared on the pages of BuffaloRumblings.com.

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- Is baseball still being played? I haven’t cared less about baseball in a long time. It isn’t even because my team stinks, they have stunk many times before and I have still cared. I simply have zero desire to watch any baseball what-so-ever.

Hold on Eric, just 1 more month before the NHL is back, then we can start arguing over who is the best team again, your Rangers or my Habs.

Starcraft II: the ultimate sleep depraver.

by CanadianBillsFan on Sep 20, 2010 11:53 AM EDT reply actions  

And then we can watch them battle to be the 8th seed in the East again :D

by UZ on Sep 20, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

good zing.

SABRES.

Fatang Fatang.

by NeverendingOptimism on Sep 20, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

lol, not this year, my Habs are going up!… to 6th ;-)

Starcraft II: the ultimate sleep depraver.

by CanadianBillsFan on Sep 20, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Micael Vick

Never played for Andy Reid before, I honestly believe that Andy Reid can win with any QB, we could trade Trent Edwards for Michael Vick styraight up and Philly would come out on top of the deal becuase thats how QB friendly Phillies offense is.

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by PaullyPforPrez on Sep 20, 2010 12:06 PM EDT reply actions  

No, Trent Edwards is so bad that even Andy Reid wouldn’t get 200 yards a game out of him.

by UZ on Sep 20, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

You are so wrong,

There's not a wide receiver who is fast enough, that J.P. Losman can't overthrow him on a fly pattern.

by The Buffalo Kid on Sep 20, 2010 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

You are hardly the only one who thinks Evans is overrated

He has been for going on 4-5 years now. It’s laughable to consider him a top WR. He’s a good deep threat, which may not even be the case any more, but hardly better than average anywhere else. $8-9M a year for that is pretty funny.

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Sep 20, 2010 12:16 PM EDT reply actions  

Im with you guys........

not a big fan of him………but he has plenty of fanboys who went gaga over him and JP (let it fly) Losman

June Jones is my daddy.

by norcaliangelsfan on Sep 20, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

Vick/ Evans

Totally agree on the Vick hyperbole in the media…it’s out of control. As far as Evans goes, I totally blame the QB for his stalled career. He has talent and he has produced in the past. I think Edwards destroys everything he comes in contact with and we won’t truly appreciate how bad he was until we’re a few years removed from him. Evans is the first WR who couldn’t produce consistently because he has a sub-CFL talent pitching him the ball.

"There's only one C.J. Spiller." -Buddy Nix

by Port Royal on Sep 20, 2010 12:35 PM EDT reply actions  

So he should be called Trent "Black Widow" Edwards

Right?!?!

~K
"As the governor of Louisiana once said, the only way Chris Kelsay can lose his job is if he got caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

by Kurupt on Sep 20, 2010 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

Well I honestly think that Evans was overrated before Edwards came onto the scene.

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by sireric on Sep 20, 2010 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions  

Vick

Though i agree that he is vastly overrated…..When he was in Atlanta he didnt have the weapons he could have if given the philly job. His best player in Atl was Alge Crumpler. Roddy White was very green and not the reciever he is now. But with Jackson, Maclin, Celek and McCoy i would venture to say that maybe even Trent would be an acceptable option at QB.

by kelly502 on Sep 20, 2010 12:44 PM EDT reply actions  

On Board -

Eric, nice post (congratulations on the knighthood, btw).

Was at the game yesterday. Kind of a fascinating study, really. The Bills got a decent amount of pressure on Rodgers, esp with Clifton in. But he just has a better sense of things happening on the field. He rolls out of trouble, rolls up in a collapsing pocket, finds guys who are wide open even when the play breaks down (sometimes right off the snap!). TE always seems surprised when the pressure arrives, misses a lot of open receivers (he missed an open Johnson and Lynch several times on underneath routes) and tends to run into the pressure. He is slow on his reads – the one long(er) pass to Parrish was there for 3+ seconds before he threw it, and the play where SJ got mugged by Nick Collins. he was open from the far hash all the way across the field until TE threw it to him on the near hash.

I think TE just doesn’t have the sense of the game, he doesn’t process fast enough, to carry this kind of team. I think he’s a career back-up, unfortunately. I was surprised he survived the game, though. And the 2 INTs were not on him, definitely. But the fact is, GB does not have a great line – esp the OTs – much like BFLO. But their QB makes it work to the point where people say the GB offense is ‘unstoppable’ while our offense makes people laugh. So to all the folks who ask ‘is it the line or is it the QB?’ the line doesn’t help, but I think the root of the problem is the QB.

I think Evans is at best a high #2 WR. He is NOT a #1, never has been, never will be.

Vick will never be a top flight QB in this league. Consistency will always be a problem, and it is awfully tough to block for him (even with a nice showing this week, he was sacked 6 times!). A true talent, sure. A rival for, say, a Matt Ryan or Flacco? No.

Baseball? Latin America’s pastime? Not interested.

Lastly, I am not the least bit surprised with this season. Just looking at the roster before we started had to make you say “Uh-oh”. I honestly hope Gailey will continue to experiment with the offense, although I still think Freddie should be getting the ball a lot more. Spiller – I don’t know. His mere presence out there just makes the play more predictable. “3rd and 19? Spiller in the slot? Betcha its a screen!” And it is. I originally said 3-13, and if they don’t remain healthy, could be worse. But I’ll be watching next week, if for nothing else than to have something to say for my next post.

The only time I felt really bad was when the Bills would get stomped on a 3rd down and some of the Packers fans said ‘I feel sorry for them’. Not good. Oh, and when Trent ran for the sideline after 4 yards on 4th and 11 before the 2 minute warning. That kind of encapsulates what I think he stands for.

by T McGee on Sep 20, 2010 12:55 PM EDT reply actions  

I completely agree on Spiller.

I think Lee Evans is a pretty darn good WR. I’ve criticized him in the past, but mostly only when people try to say he’s a top 10 WR stuck in a bad situation. I think Evans is an elite deep threat and that ability opens up the sidelines for him to find success on outs and digs. There’s a reason why multiple offensive coordinators have kept him over by the sideline.

Whether or not Evans is a number one WR depends on your definition. The comparison I use is an ace in baseball (see how I worked in baseball since you mentioned it?). Is a pitcher an ace because he’s a stopper in the rotation or because he’s simply the best pitcher on his team and one of the 32 best in the league? Lee Evans isn’t a true number one WR. I don’t think it’s tough to come to that conclusion considering that his game is kind of limited. I think he’s definitely one of the 32 best WRs in the league though, so he’s kind of a number one in that regard. It’s not just in Buffalo that Evans would be the number one guy.

Another way to look at that might include pass catching TEs though. Even adding the elite weapons at the position could push Evans out of the top 32 receivers in the NFL. If I were listing them, he still might sneak in though.

I agree on Vick as well. But in the same way that Evans could be considered a number one WR, I think Vick is a starter. I think Vick will be starting for somebody next year because he should be starting. The rest of his career will be that of a stop gap though. He’ll bounce from team to team starting a year or two then getting relegated to the bench when some young QB is ready to take over. If the Bills were to draft a mobile QB this year, they could do a lot worse than Vick as a stop gap. I’d prefer my team go nowhere near him and his unthinkable crimes though.

SFC: Were you excited about Clausen dropping to the Bills pick? Or did you have a feeling that the Bills wouldn’t pick him anyway?
Galliford: Both, like when that hot chick waves at someone she knows standing behind you.

by kaisertown on Sep 20, 2010 8:05 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

I’d prefer my team go nowhere near him and his unthinkable crimes though

rec’d for my dog :(

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by J2 on Sep 21, 2010 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions  

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