Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

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  • swiper
    Legendary Zoner
    • Sep 2010
    • 33105

    Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

    Wood bristled when asked a question about how much attention he pays to any outside criticism he receives, then referred to an article written by WKBW’s Joe Buscaglia on Wednesday.

    In the article, Buscaglia wrote that “since the beginning of the 2014 season, the play of Wood – to be blunt – has not been good enough” and then documented some of the center’s struggles during one-on-one pass-rushing drills during Wednesday’s practice.

    Wood, who claimed to have learned of the column via a Twitter link someone sent him, said he found the article “really funny.”

    “Talking about how many one-on-one pass-rush drills I’ve lost, I’ll just let him hold that opinion,” Wood said. “I’m not even going to get into it, because that would make it seem like it was bothering me, but it’s not.”

    Wood professes to be his own toughest critic. That was apparent at the end of last season, when he talked about how the only spot on the roster he was worried about was his own.
  • Swiper
    Legendary Zoner
    • Sep 2010
    • 33105

    #2
    Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

    Hopefully bolstering the guards and getting a better scheme and set of coaches, Wood will return to the form he displayed before his 2011 injury.
    Last edited by swiper; 08-07-2015, 06:06 PM.

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    • Night Train
      Retired - On Several Levels
      • Jul 2005
      • 33117

      #3
      Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

      Joe B. is right.

      Maybe all the leg injuries have caught up to him but he struggles to anchor.
      Anonymity is an abused privilege, abused most by people who mistake vitriol for wisdom and cynicism for wit

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      • SpikedLemonade
        • Jun 2024

        #4
        Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

        Wood's play has declined for a few years now.

        He has never played at a Pro Bowl level.

        For that matter, he has not even played up to the level of his contract.

        If the Bills had a viable alternative, he would be cut because of his contract.

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        • Mr. Miyagi
          Lecter's Little *****

          • Sep 2002
          • 53616

          #5
          Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

          Joe Buscaglia is turning out to be a troll like Sullivan.

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          • SpikedLemonade
            • Jun 2024

            #6
            Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

            Yes, that is what Buffalo needs more homers. Sal, John Murphy and others are not enough.

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            • Swiper
              Legendary Zoner
              • Sep 2010
              • 33105

              #7
              Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

              Originally posted by SpikedLemonade View Post
              Yes, that is what Buffalo needs more homers. Sal, John Murphy and others are not enough.
              Chris Brown

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              • BillsImpossible
                Registered User
                • Mar 2013
                • 16206

                #8
                Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                Originally posted by SpikedLemonade View Post
                Wood's play has declined for a few years now.

                He has never played at a Pro Bowl level.

                For that matter, he has not even played up to the level of his contract.

                If the Bills had a viable alternative, he would be cut because of his contract.
                The interior of the Bills offensive line has not been good for years.

                The guard positions have been like a revolving door for way too long.

                Wood has never had the luxury of playing next to a Pro Bowl guard. If he did have that luxury, he would have probably been selected to the Pro Bowl by now.

                Throughout his entire career, Eric Wood has been playing next to the Kraig Urbik's, Doug Legurski's, and Chris Williams' of the NFL world.

                I think the additions of Incognito and Miller will be the best talent Wood has ever played next to on both sides.

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                • Mace
                  Haha...yeah you think so ?
                  • Mar 2013
                  • 20315

                  #9
                  Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                  I'm still not worried about Wood, if in the back of my mind I still wonder if he wouldn't have been a better guard than center, though he'll have a line around him now. And I don't worry about Buscaglia pointing out the obvious, would have been worse if he talked up Wood doing poorly, even early in camp. And I'm thinking Wood being bothered and pretending to not be bothered will only put a chip on his shoulder that maybe he needs to have in a rushing offense.

                  It all looks fine to me.

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                  • SpikedLemonade
                    • Jun 2024

                    #10
                    Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                    Originally posted by Swiper View Post
                    Chris Brown
                    "You and me are pals eh Bills?..."

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                    • SpikedLemonade
                      • Jun 2024

                      #11
                      Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                      Originally posted by Mace View Post
                      And I'm thinking Wood being bothered and pretending to not be bothered will only put a chip on his shoulder that maybe he needs to have in a rushing offense.
                      Wood was my favourite Bills player for his first couple of years but what Wood needs is not a chip on his shoulder but 10 lb chips on each of his butt cheeks. He has always been a little too light below the waist to be an elite Centre.

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                      • DetDannyWilliams
                        Nobody in Hawaii wears a tie.
                        • Feb 2013
                        • 4186

                        #12
                        Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                        news ratings

                        1) WGRZ
                        2) WIVB
                        3) WKBW

                        any

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                        • BillsImpossible
                          Registered User
                          • Mar 2013
                          • 16206

                          #13
                          Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                          Wood vs. Suh.

                          Bills won against Detroit last year. Barely.

                          Thanks to 3 missed field goals. How did Wood play that game? Anyone remember?

                          Wood and his new crew at the guard positions are going to face Suh twice this year.

                          I have a gut feeling that Incognito, Wood, and Miller are going to dominate that boy named Suh, and sweep the Dolphins off the AFC East Ship.

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                          • Boomstick
                            Registered User
                            • Oct 2008
                            • 443

                            #14
                            Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                            Originally posted by BillsImpossible View Post
                            Wood vs. Suh.

                            Bills won against Detroit last year. Barely.

                            Thanks to 3 missed field goals. How did Wood play that game? Anyone remember?

                            Wood and his new crew at the guard positions are going to face Suh twice this year.

                            I have a gut feeling that Incognito, Wood, and Miller are going to dominate that boy named Suh, and sweep the Dolphins off the AFC East Ship.
                            You'd get the "thank" from me just for the Johnny Cash reference... however you're right about Wood playing pretty goo against Suh last year.
                            Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.


                            Hello. My name is Shawn Spencer this is my associate Hummingbird Saltalamachia

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                            • better days
                              Registered User
                              • Jan 2010
                              • 22028

                              #15
                              Re: Buffalo News: Eric Wood reacts to criticism by Joe Buscaglia

                              Originally posted by SpikedLemonade View Post
                              Yes, that is what Buffalo needs more homers. Sal, John Murphy and others are not enough.
                              EXACTLY WHO are the others?

                              And Sal has been critical of EJ, so I don't think you can call him a HOMER.
                              Last edited by better days; 08-07-2015, 09:00 PM.

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