Langston Walker facing old team

[DBrown77]

Walker came from the raiders right? I guess their garbage turned into our gold.


wasn't he a turnstile there?

[SquishDaFish]

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Yea thats what I heard. But he will turn the DEs back to the damn sidelines for Buffalo this weekend. Pancake block there asses

[Mr. Miyagi]

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He was also their LT I believe, as Gallery was playing RT.

[SquishDaFish]

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Wasnt it the other way around?? Gallery as the LT and Walker as the RT?

[gr8slayer]

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Walker played 13 games at LT if I'm not mistaken.

[Ingtar33]

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Walker was a competent lineman in Oakland. the problem was that line was garbage.. it made him look much worse.

[gr8slayer]

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Walker was a competent lineman in Oakland. the problem was that line was garbage.. it made him look much worse.

He didn't do himself any favors.

[TigerJ]

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I wonder if the Raiders will be surprised at how good Walker has become with solid coaching and placed next to other competent linemen.

[LifetimeBillsFan]

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Langston Walker played some LT for the Raiders his rookie season when he stepped in after their starting LT was hurt.

He was, then, moved to RT for a season and performed pretty well for a second year OT. Then, they tried to move him to OG. He was very unhappy about that, but reluctantly made the move. He only played a few games there before he was moved back to RT due to another injury.

His final season in Oakland he was the starting RT for the whole season and was credited with giving up 10 or 11 sacks. However, what those stats do not show was the fact that, that season, the Raiders had two offensive line coaches--one for the tackles and one for the interior linemen--who were making the line calls on every play. According to an article on an Oakland website (that I posted the link for when the Bills signed Walker), the two offensive line coaches didn't like each other, didn't talk to each other, and often would make different calls for the players that they coached on the same play--so that the offensive tackles would often be doing one thing while the interior linemen would be doing something entirely different, so that the offensive line was never really moving in-synch, when the ball was snapped.

It was such a fiasco that a number of their linemen were extremely upset with the organization by the end of the season because they were getting the blame for the confusion that was caused by this rift in the coaching staff.

Oakland tried to keep L.Walker, but he, having the worst stats of their offensive linemen and getting a lot of the blame for what went wrong, wanted out of the confused situation and signed with the Bills.

Given all of that, it was hard for a fan to know what the Bills were getting when they signed Langston Walker. Was he the "turnstile' that he appeared to be his last season in Oakland or was he the talented but improperly used big man that the Bills' coaches told us that he was when the Bills signed him?

After seeing him play and watching him on clips on the BB.com website, I think that this has been one of the best free agent signings that the Bills have made in recent years. His ability to flip back and forth between RT and LT in that heat down in Jacksonville last Sunday and still play a pretty good game was certainly impressive.

I'm sure that he will be looking to have a good game on Sunday against the Raiders.

[SquishDaFish]

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Thats what I thought LTBF. Thanx.

I knew he played RT last season for ****land

[Raideraholic]

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Walker came from the raiders right? I guess their garbage turned into our gold.


wasn't he a turnstile there?

Bills are going to need to give Langston walker help this week. There is no way he blocks Derrick Burgess. D Burgess routinely abused him in practice.

[mush69]

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I'm quite certian that Walker will have an exceptional week. After reading of all the turmoil that he came from in Oakland. I'm sure he has a thing to prove. Throw in the fact we are home in the cool weather, Peters will have more reps at LT and Walker can just concentrate on RT.

Walker IMO was a "diamond in the rough" at Oakland!