Feels like I just passed a $100M gall stone. Ahhhhh.
Feels like I just passed a $100M gall stone. Ahhhhh.
Historian (03-10-2016)
You just can't make this up.
Now the Phins will have to make a decision on Oliver Vernon and Cameron Wake. Wake had more sacks in half as many games as Williams and Vernon had more sacks and three times as many tackles.
Looks to me that the Dolphins would have been better served signing their own players.
I was banned for calling Yardie a coward, by DB, in a tread about women’s issues happening right now in America. Nothing better than republican men silencing women’s voices, especially in the Buffalo Spin zone!!
Historian (03-10-2016)
Bert, that is ... ehrrm ... irritating, to say the least
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This is the best post in this thread. (I edited it down for brevity)
I haven't commented on the Mario situation, because I was taking a little time to digest it all, while focusing on hockey, but the crux of the matter for me, was that you could take more than a handful of names over the last sixteen seasons, and replace them with "Mario Williams".
Some examples:
Drew Bledsoe
Terrell Owens
Lawyer Malloy
Derrick Dockery
Kawika Mitchell
Then there's the draft picks:
Donte Whitner
JP Losman
Willis McGahee
Chris Kelsay
Leodis McDumbass
CJ Spiller
Torell Troup
Aaron Maybin
Then there's just the plain bad luck:
Kevin Everett
Look at some of those names. Players we went "all out on. Think about not just their performance, but the alternatives that we did NOT take because of them.
Mario Williams is just the latest in a very long string of splash signings, all in the name of selling tickets, to cover the fact that this has been a very bad football team.
The irony, in my mind, is that despite all this, ticket sales are again reaching record numbers. At this point I don't think anyone even cares about what goes on on the field.
They're just there for a party.
I'm with Coastal on this one, because of the pattern. Everyone misfires once and a while, but sixteen years of it, in the era of free agency, is unconscionable, IMO.
At some point even the Pegulas are going to tire of it.
The front office needs gutted, as does the scouting staff.
On a personal note, when your kid asks you, "Were the Bills ever any good?" it's kind of sad.
As bad as the '70's were, we at least had some successes.
The last twenty years have been painful...not to mention costly.
Last edited by Historian; 03-10-2016 at 06:14 AM.
coastal (03-10-2016)
Kind of humorous that the best post in this thread still had to be edited.
Here's the worst post in this thread, the very first one. It also includes the worst sentence in this thread, which is also the very first one.
Why would someone who was 'bombed with hate' somewhere else post the exact same thread here? What would be the point? This whole thread has been a big jerk off.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to understand that the front office of a team that hasn't made the playoffs in 16 years has made some bad decisions. However, you can't fault the current front office for making the decisions that were made 8 years ago. They should be criticized for the more recent bad decisions.
Topas (03-10-2016)
And that's the whole point to this thread. Just the latest in a long line of high profile misfires.
Go into the thread I just bumped up for you, and read my post #82.
These are the people I'm talking about. (and the service numbers come right out of the 2015 media guide) not Rex, Doug, etc.
This is part of the power structure that has been in place since at least Polian.
Joe Fo Sho (03-10-2016)
If every player we sign is going to have to carry the weight of 16 years of missed expectations, then naturally bitterness and threads like this are going to result.
He was brought it to get sacks and he did. He was brought in to improve our defense and he did. When he stopped doing that, we cut him.
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YardRat (03-10-2016)
Yeah, she throws temper tantrums when she doesn't get his attention and considers this a positive thing? It's childish, like you allude to...that's obvious.
So it really comes as no surprise that coastal NEEDS his attention as well...thus this thread going on 1,500 posts. He had one on the Range that was gigantic too. Why? "Look at me. Look at me!"
If you get attention, that makes you very important and special, right? Doesn't even matter HOW you get said attention either to "those people" apparently.
Last edited by feldspar; 03-10-2016 at 01:01 PM.
You're missing the point... which is suprising to me because you're one of the smarter posters out here IMO.
first and only question and to address your statement about Mario being brought in for sacks and please answer this as honestly as you can (putting aside all of the BS in this thread)... was it wise for a franchise without an NFL playoffs starting caliber QB to make a guy like Mario, who had to that point in his career promising but inconsistent production, the highest paid player in the history of the franchise and the highest paid defensive player in the history of the game... to as you put it.... get sacks?
My answer to that is no and throughout this whole thread I've provided snipets as to why.
honestly I can't figure out why this is a hard concept to get.
YardRat (03-10-2016)