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BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Ellis Lankster was drafted by the Bills this past April with very little fan fare. The seventh round selection from West Virginia (former Bills great Darryl Talley’s school) was not expected to make the 53-man roster and at best would compete for a practice squad spot. Still not bad for a kid who played his first two years of college ball at Jones County Junior College.
Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
First time I saw that video...poor guy. Seems very polite, though, addressing the media as "sir" most of the time.
He seems like a playmaker. We're putting young guys in the secondary, but guys who are known playmakers (Byrd, Lankster). I'm really hoping they can bring a different aspect to a defense that seems to be lacking some of that the past few years.
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Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
I don't think someone that is hoping for a professional sports writing gig should take pot shots at their subject's perceived disability, tick or what have you. JMO.
Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
He may have problems speaking to a group in public, but he certainly appears to be doing a pretty good job of learning how to play cornerback.
I remember seeing him at West Virginia, particularly last season, and I was so unimpressed by what I saw that I was disappointed when the Bills used a draft pick on him. There was one game that stuck in my mind--I forget who it was against, forgive me, I'm getting old!--where the WVU pass defense was utterly helpless against its opponent and Langster seemed to be getting beat almost every other play (at least that was the way it seemed to me). He looked horrible in coverage, although he hustled and didn't give up on plays, even when his teammates seemed to.
But, he looked like a different guy when I saw some clips of him in the OTAs and, then later, playing in the preseason. Everything about his game looked better than it was in college. Which tells me that, indeed, he has been working hard the way that he said that he was.
Hopefully that hard work and improvement has continued since the end of the preseason. While I don't think that Henne and the Miami receivers pose that big of a threat against the Bills' secondary this week, I do think that the depth that the Bills have in the secondary will be tested this season, especially if they have any more injuries in the secondary before the bye week.
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Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Did you really have to put the editorial jests at the speech impediment, Pat?
Originally posted by Pat
While he proved in the preseason that making plays in limited opportunities was a strength, unfortunately he also demonstrated that speaking to the media was not.
Originally posted by Pat
I don’t think Bills fans will like ummm.. Care as long as he handles Miami.
Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Originally posted by CTBills97
I don't think someone that is hoping for a professional sports writing gig should take pot shots at their subject's perceived disability, tick or what have you. JMO.
Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Seriously... Dude CLEARLY has a speech impediment, but seems VERY humble and polite.
It must be EXTREMELY hard for him to have to face the media and speak. ANyone who has ever suffered from a stutter or tick can tell you that nervousness makes it MUCH worse, and they work VERY hard for years to improve it.
Please don't take shots at the guy for it. It's really not funny at all.
Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Originally posted by LifetimeBillsFan
He may have problems speaking to a group in public, but he certainly appears to be doing a pretty good job of learning how to play cornerback.
I remember seeing him at West Virginia, particularly last season, and I was so unimpressed by what I saw that I was disappointed when the Bills used a draft pick on him. There was one game that stuck in my mind--I forget who it was against, forgive me, I'm getting old!--where the WVU pass defense was utterly helpless against its opponent and Langster seemed to be getting beat almost every other play (at least that was the way it seemed to me). He looked horrible in coverage, although he hustled and didn't give up on plays, even when his teammates seemed to.
But, he looked like a different guy when I saw some clips of him in the OTAs and, then later, playing in the preseason. Everything about his game looked better than it was in college. Which tells me that, indeed, he has been working hard the way that he said that he was.
Hopefully that hard work and improvement has continued since the end of the preseason. While I don't think that Henne and the Miami receivers pose that big of a threat against the Bills' secondary this week, I do think that the depth that the Bills have in the secondary will be tested this season, especially if they have any more injuries in the secondary before the bye week.
I don't remember Lankster in particular, but was it perhaps the bowl game against UNC? Hakeem Nicks did whatever he wanted in that game, as did a couple other receivers I believe. I knew Nicks was a good receiver, but that game really vaulted him into the first round, imo. Especially when he made the catch behind his back.
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Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Originally posted by LifetimeBillsFan
But, he looked like a different guy when I saw some clips of him in the OTAs and, then later, playing in the preseason. Everything about his game looked better than it was in college. Which tells me that, indeed, he has been working hard the way that he said that he was.
He was a bit inconsistent in the ps. Either he was making big plays, or screwing up badly. All we can hope for is big plays this time.
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Re: BSD - Bills’ Lankster Will Be Like Ummm… Active Sunday
Originally posted by ZacGriffi~82
Yeah, it's pretty simple. If you want to be considered a professional reporter, don't act unprofessionally.
1- Who said I want to be a "professional reporter" ?
2- In all due respect to him, I have no desire to be another Chris Brown. BSD is not 100% homerism based Bills news. If people want nothing but straight news 24/7, they can go to Buffalo News, Bills.com or wherever else
3- The post also cited Lankster as a very classy person.
4- Sorry, but the internet for better or worse has changed the way some thigns are reported and the topics that are covered. If I wanted to do nothing but report straight news with no edge or at least attempt (futile) at humor or sarcasm , I'd have attempted to go the print publication route.
(Having said that, the post has been taken down, I do, for the most part listen to the majority of readers--and I also spoke to someone with the Bills this morning who politely asked that Lankster not be ridiculed, which I gladly obliged. In THIS case, Lankster has done nothing wrong on the field or off it to warrant any jokes and/or criticism. People like T.O. any many others however, are fair game)
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