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Good signing. He has played well. More stability is a good thing
may not be the best lineman in the world but has been as solid as anyone else on the line this year, so may as well keep the ones who are playing the best.
So, we criticize them for signing a stable part of the line? If you can, in any way, point to Erik Pears as one of the problems on this team, I would listen.
Come on OP at least make sense with the criticism.
Pears was going to be a UFA after this year. Do we really want to let him walk and have yet another hole to fill??? Some people here are just ******ed...he needed to be signed. He's played decent and we have large holes to fill on defense. The last thing we need is another hole elsewhere to have to fill.
A good FO would sign Pears then either sign another RT and use Pears as depth or let Pears stay at RT and find an upgrade at RG.
But, the Bills will sign Pears and use injuries as the excuse for the OL problems this year so they don't have to spend any money beyond that.
The original 5 Olinemen weren't the problem. Not having depth was. X-era and I brought this up back in July/August. That's a valid criticism. But criticizing them for signing a Tackle who's playing decent is NOT!
The original 5 Olinemen weren't the problem. Not having depth was. X-era and I brought this up back in July/August. That's a valid criticism. But criticizing them for signing a Tackle who's playing decent is NOT!
Yeah, well, everyone on this board wants to re-sign every FA that we have. I just wonder how we're going to win by re-signing the same old guys.
We have two seasons' worth of Gailey and Nix drafts with very little to show for it. In terms of FA's that they've brought in, Barnett and Chandler have been good, Dwan Edwards and Brad Smith have been decent, that's about it.
What this team should do is lock up the talent they have, then add talent through FA while using the draft to build depth and get talent for the future. What will actually happen as long as Ralph is pulling the strings is that they will re-sign a young guy like Pears and use that as an excuse to not do anything else about the position in FA.
Then, one of two things will happen: Pears will either hit a slump, or someone on the OL will get injured, forcing a re-shuffling of the entire OL because we have no depth. If Pears isn't the one who gets hurt, he'll be held back because he's getting moved all over the place.
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