Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

[Dr. Lecter]

Here is hoping that better days knows who the thread refers to....

Christie's

1. Merriman. Wow. If he can stay healthy he will be a stud. Big if I know.

2. Antonio Coleman - Very impressive. He might have played himself onto the team

3. Kelvin Sheppard - For a guy in his first extensive action he was quite impressive

4. Reggie Corner - some nice pass break-ups

5. Bruce Hall - the guy is not going to make the team, but he runs hard

6. Brian Moorman - the MVP is back in fine form!

Dempsey's

1. Reggie Corner - when not breaking them up, he was toast

2. Cordoro Howard - words can't describe how bad he was

3. The rest of the Oline reserves - My god.

4. Tyler Thigpen - but to be fair he had about .23 seconds in the pocket

[better days]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Didn't Dempsey hold the RECORD for LONGEST Field Goal 63 yds for MANY years? He also played 11 years. You think that is a scrub?

In other news, Youboty was cut by the Bucs.

[Oaf]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

4. Tyler Thigpen - but to be fair he had about .23 seconds in the pocket

To be fair, when he 23 seconds, he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

Would add Hairston, Aiken to your list there.

[Dr. Lecter]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Didn't Dempsey hold the RECORD for LONGEST Field Goal 63 yds for MANY years? He also played 11 years. You think that is a scrub?

In other news, Youboty was cut by the Bucs.

He missed a 23 yard field goal on the last play of a game in 1979 that the Bills lost to Miami 9-7.

**** him. He was scrub when he was with the Bills.

[psubills62]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

I didn't get to see the first team (i.e. Merriman), but generally agree with this list. Sheppard was pretty decent, I liked his ability to wade through traffic on the one play and stop the runner for no gain. Didn't especially notice Coleman, but did hear his name after I missed a play. Hall looked very good, and I think White would do well with a halfway decent OL.

The backup OL was pretty bad. Hairston wasn't awful, but did allow a sack - somewhat inconsistent from the little I saw of him.

[BuffaloBlitz83]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Spiller had two nice runs on his only carries!

[Bmax]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Mansfield Wrotto...Played like a school girl tonight .. Perhaps a name change is needed....

[Meathead]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

dempsey was a cripple and cripples cant be made fun of, cripplecist

[YardRat]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Tommie No-Toes!!!

[X-Era]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Here is hoping that better days knows who the thread refers to....

Christie's

1. Merriman. Wow. If he can stay healthy he will be a stud. Big if I know.

2. Antonio Coleman - Very impressive. He might have played himself onto the team

3. Kelvin Sheppard - For a guy in his first extensive action he was quite impressive

4. Reggie Corner - some nice pass break-ups

5. Bruce Hall - the guy is not going to make the team, but he runs hard

6. Brian Moorman - the MVP is back in fine form!

Dempsey's

1. Reggie Corner - when not breaking them up, he was toast

2. Cordoro Howard - words can't describe how bad he was

3. The rest of the Oline reserves - My god.

4. Tyler Thigpen - but to be fair he had about .23 seconds in the pocket

IMO, here is some adds/changes

Christie's

Hairston- Did a great job for the most part, playing almost the whole game at LT. He did have one play where he missed his man.

Justin Rogers- Had a few decent plays

Bruce Hall- Looked quick and found room to work

CJ Spiller- Nice looking runs for extra yards in limited time

Kamar Aiken- Made a few impressive plays. Looks tough.

Dempsey's

Kelvin Sheppard- He made maybe one or two plays alone. I continue to see him pile jump or be out of to many plays. For the most part he is either a non-factor or just a late contributor... For a guy we needed to supposedly start.

DaNorris Searcy- Has done nothing at all in preseason.

Nick Barnett- Again is way too quiet and isn't making many plays at all.

All the WR's not named Aiken- Even Stevie had some drops. No one else could do anything of note

All the OL reserves not named Hairston

Now, someone remind me why Leonard Davis isn't better than Colin Brown or Cordaro Howard. Or why Flozell Adams isn't better than Mansfield Wrotto.

[zone]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Merriman looks unreal, but he plays like Bob Sanders did with Indy and I don't think he can stay healthy playing like that every play but wow is he good. He literally Supermaned the RB after chasing him down from the backside of a play.

I agree Sheppard looked instinctual and fast to ball.

Aiken looked really good, he was the best receiver on the field last night.

Thigpen was awful and I actually liked what I saw from Brown. I wish he would have gotten more PT this pre-season.

[Jan Reimers]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Now, someone remind me why Leonard Davis isn't better than Colin Brown or Cordaro Howard. Or why Flozell Adams isn't better than Mansfield Wrotto.

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[Ickybaluky]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

Now, someone remind me why Leonard Davis isn't better than Colin Brown or Cordaro Howard. Or why Flozell Adams isn't better than Mansfield Wrotto.

I think a lot of older vets like that will have to wait until after week 1 to find a job, when their salary for the season is not guaranteed. With guys who have been cut there is a question of whether they can still play, and teams don't want to guarantee their full salary for the season.

[DraftBoy]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

I didnt watch any of the game last night, too busy with CFB. I did follow the tweets though and I heard our first team OL played surprisingly well, but the backups were horrible.

The CBS rapid reports guy blasted Hairston saying he could be a decent RT, but in no way is a LT. Lines up with my report on him. Potential RT but not LT. Sounds like some people thought he was better than that.

Saw Easley and Stevie both had drops, not sure how catchable the passes were. That **** has to stop though.

Merriman again looked beastly which is good.

Thigpen blows

And other than that it was just a fourth preseason game.

[X-Era]

Re: Christie's and Dempsey's - Lions at Bills

I didnt watch any of the game last night, too busy with CFB. I did follow the tweets though and I heard our first team OL played surprisingly well, but the backups were horrible.

The CBS rapid reports guy blasted Hairston saying he could be a decent RT, but in no way is a LT. Lines up with my report on him. Potential RT but not LT. Sounds like some people thought he was better than that.

Saw Easley and Stevie both had drops, not sure how catchable the passes were. That **** has to stop though.

Merriman again looked beastly which is good.

Thigpen blows

And other than that it was just a fourth preseason game.

Personally, I think Hairston has quicker feet than he gets credit for. But, I do not think he could ever be a starting LT at this point. Gailey blew that up a bit by talking about him playing that spot in college and then playing him so much at LT in this past game. Could he swing to that spot as a backup? Maybe. He isn't as stone footed as some. But, what I do think, is that he could easily be pushing for the starting RT role before the season ends.