Sabres 2 Senators 1 F

by Steve

Ugh, yes for those keeping score at home this is two Sabres posts in two days. Well, the Sabres won, which is a mild surprise considering how the Senators are basically to the Sabres what the Patriots are to the Bills.

The Sabres dominated this game let's face it. Too bad Vanek couldn't put the punk into lake Erie if he was at Bay Beach (hahaha you like that reference?). God Chris Phillips for Ottawa was god awful. Myers didn't play great but didn't do anything catastrophic. I hope his success last year hasn't gone to his head.

Quick hits:

• Who is more over paid Craig Rivet (the captain by the way) Jochen Hecht or Chris Kelsay? Eeek
• Derek Roy FTW! Halla atcha boy when you see him in the street, two goals tonight. What time will he be on Chippewa tonight? I say 12:15 but there is a game tomorrow.
• Vanek, you make $7 mil score a goal.
• The powerplay for the Sabres was somehow effect and not effect at the same time. Where are the finishers on this team?
• Connolly and Ennis looked pretty decent.
• Why is Cody McCormick on this roster?
• Our captain and two assistant captains Craig Rivet, Jochen Hecht, Derek Roy. Makes you feel like you just chugged a warm Keystone ice doesn't it?
• I still say fire Ruff but the team was ready to play tonight just not ready to score goals.
• Did Pominville dress tonight?
• And... was Ottawa drunk?
  

Brian Roloff, keep yo head up, not making the Pirates may be a good thing...

Buffalo Sabres 2010/11 NHL preview

by Steve

Ugh, it is Buffalo Sabres season already? Call me in March..

OH wait, the Bills are already a joke, and we have no baseball or basketball team to root against LeBron with. FML.

In a nutshell, there are no gamers on the squad, the coach is a loser, the goalie is over paid and the defense may be great. Sounds like a playoff run to me.

But really, are Connolly Roy and Gaustad the worst top 3 centers in the league? Is anyone more over paid than Connolly, well, Guastad, is anyone more over paid than Guastad? Maybe Niedermeyer is the third center but he is 36 (in December) how great is he?

Ryan Miller is a good goalie. Too bad you don't need a good goalie to win, you just need goals. Vanek will get you goals if he is healthy but he is not a great all around player. Look at his assist statistics since his HUGGGGGE contract. He doesn't make anyone else better.

Lindy Ruff is shockingly back as the head coach. He is a career loser who complains about a lack of talent and always loses the big one. Two of the better goalies in the last 15 years is a lack of talent? STFU.

That reminds me, where is the owner. Has anyone heard from Golisano since he was going to eat that microphone? Oh yeah, he moved to Florida to evade state taxes, nice. He is a POS period. Don't even get me started on Regier and Quinn errr Darc/Quinny.

Don't get me wrong, the team will be good, perhaps even better than last year, but they are not a Championship caliber team. Not with undersized losers like Tin Can, Roy, Ennis, Myers (haha) and a pussy ass bitch like Gaustad. Then again anything to distract me from the tire fire that is the Buffalo Bills is a welcome retreat. See you disappointed in early May.

Assessing the Marshawn Lynch trade

by Steve

It has been 30 some odd hours since Lynch was shipped to Seattle for a 4th round pick and conditional 2012 6th round pick so it has sunk in. Now, as I understand it, basically, the Buffalo Bills used 2 top 12 draft picks for Cliff Spiller and a 4th round pick in 2011? Great job guys.

This has to be the most bumbling idiotic front office in sports the last five years. Marv Levy was easily a worse GM than Tom Donahoe. I have to honestly question whether Marv was even trying to make the team better. On paper it appears he was trying to make the team worse on purpose.

Anyone that says I would have complained either way is wrong. Who cares if Lynch was on the team after the trade deadline. They were awful with Lynch they'll be awful without Lynch. All this really does is force Spiller to touch the ball more and increase his likelihood of a catastrophic injury. Yeah, he'll be able to get more live action experience following blockers and learning to play in the National Football League. But he is a running back for christ sake. It isn't rocket science, run the ball.

If he was such an immense talent Lynch and Fred Jackson wouldn't be able to get on the field. That reminds me, why is everyone so convinced Jackson is far superior and clearly a better running back than Lynch? Lynch has more than double the touchdowns 700 more rushing yards and only 200 less receiving yards (remember Jackson is such a phenomenal receiving threat). They have played roughly the same amount of games and each have been in the league 4 seasons. Also Lynch is five years younger.

What could we possible get out of a fourth and sixth round pick? Another Ko Simpson and Xavier Omon? Ugh. I was never a huge fan of Lynch. Here is my immediate reaction when he was drafted " "Reach of the century. How do you trade Mcgahee to pick up this clown holy shittt" And after a day to think about it "As previously expressed taking a running back that isn't going to be dynamite in the first 20 picks of the draft is foolish. Lynch is going to be an average back in this league, and trading away an average back (Willis Mcgahee) and getting yet another average back is puzzling. Running backs are either elite or average 1,200 yard backs. Whether you get that in the 2nd or 3rd[round] or 12th over all doesn't matter." Words that could not be more prescient.

Let me reiterate, drafting a running back in the first round or at least in the top 15-20 picks is never a good idea. There are maybe a few examples of that being incorrect but that just proves the rule.

So great, we're stuck with a 29 year old mediocrity and a Reggie Bush esque tweener and an extra pick day three in April. How is this team better off?

Seattle Seahawks trade for Marshawn Lynch

Buffalo Bills fail, Marshawn Lynch was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a 4th round pick in 2011 and a conditional 6th round pick in 2012 per Jay Glazer and PFT:

Lynch will "play a lot" and "contribute immediately" according to Carroll. The Seahawks coach will pair him with Justin Forsett, a former Cal teammate of Lynch's. Forsett and Lynch remain close, as Lynch was at Forsett's wedding this offseason.

"He's exciting to watch and will bring a lot to this team," Forsett said.

A few other notes on the move:

1. Adam Schefter reports that the second pick involved in the trade was a sixth rounder in 2012 that can go to a 5th based on Lynch's productivity. The Bills also got a fourth-round pick in the '11 draft.

2. The Seahawks are now without a third and fourth-round pick in next year's draft. (They gave up a third in the Charlie Whitehurst trade.) Lynch is only 24 years old, but he's only signed through 2011. FOXSports.com's Adam Caplan reports that Lynch's rookie contract will void after '11.
The Seahawks rank 28th in total offense and 27th in rushing yards-per-game through four weeks.

More thoughts to come...

The Bills Are An Embarrassment to the City of Buffalo

-Coast

The Jets embarrassed the Bills and the entire city Sunday. I wasn't pissed about the game. I didn't even care that the Bills lost. I was just completely embarrassed to be a Bills fan. This game was the most one sided football game I have ever seen. The 56-10 game against New England was bad, but this was worse. New England was so good that season and tried running up the score on the Bills. The Jets starters only played 75% of the game and were up 38-7 seemingly effortlessly. The only positive was that this game wasn't on prime time national television. I am going to keep this brief because if I am not careful, I will spend about 500 words tearing up all 53 players on the roster and that could get out of hand.

The Bills deferred at the beginning of the game. Why would you defer when your defense allows over 200 yards rushing a game and is coming off back to back 30 point performances? It seems like a great idea to put your stellar offense in a 7-0 hole right away against one of the best defenses in the league.

Chris Kelsay, fresh off his 4 year extension, got blown up on just about every play of the Jets opening drive. He had a wide open shot at Shonn Green in the backfield and just whiffed. I don't need to talk more about Kelsay. Everyone knows how bad he is. The signing just proves that the organization is content with medicrity.

Evans had one catch for 6 yards in the game. His only catch came with about 25 seconds left in the 4th quarter, so it shouldn't even count. He has 10 catches for 94 yards on the season. He is on pace for 40 catches and 376 yards. He is currently on pace to make $23,936 per reception. How about that deal? The Saints have seven players with 9 or more catches. I know the Bills lack talent overall on offense, but in the third quarter I watched Evans on a series of consecutive plays. He ran a streak down the sideline on every single play. Is he being used as a decoy only? Why not use him in the short to intermediate passing game. The Bills should trade him. There is no point in having him on this roster. Would their passing game be worse if David Nelson, Steve Johnson and Roscoe Parrish were the three main receiving threats? Probably not.

The Jets had 273 yards rushing. In two games last year, the Jets rushed for 249 and 318 yards. The Jets have rushed for 840 yards in three games against the Bills. The Colts ran for 1,294 yards the entire 2009 season...the Jets would do that in 4.5 games against Buffalo.

Tomlinson played like he was 24 agian. He had 133 yards and 2 touchdowns on only 19 carries. That is 7 yards per carry. This was his best game since December 9, 2007 when he rushed for 146 yards. Tomlinson said after the game that some running backs don't slow down when they reach their 30s. LT, you're wrong, they certainly do, the Bills are just THAT bad.

Why won't we trade Lynch? Teams want him. He has some trade value. We don't need him. We are terrible at every single position so the more draft picks we can get, the better. I don't really get it. The Eagles are interested. The Packers were and probably are interested. Get a third for him and let's move on. Having all three running backs doesn't make our team better.

I don't have much else to say. The Bills play Jacksonville this weekend. I thought this was a winnable game until the Jags beat the Colts and the Bills looked like the worst team in the history of the league. I'd take Jacksonville and lay 10.

Jets 38 Bills 14 F

by Steve

Wow. The Buffalo Bills are beyond pathetic/embarrassing. I am not sure exactly what is beyond that other than the Bills and I know it is ugly. This game was pathetic from the onset. There is no point to breaking it down or delving into this one. It was just under the Patriots SNF game from 2007.

The worst part is there is no hope. At least after that game we were still 5-5 and Ralph wasn't yet 90 (he'll be 92 10/17). I don't even want to ask if things can get worse because what if they can?

Worst case scenario is they leave Buffalo. Right now that doesn't seem like that much worse. Perhaps after the numbing pain wares off that statement won't be true but jeez. This is bad.

Best case scenario is what, Ralph lives a few more years and we continue to be mediocre? Nah he could have a succession plan and we could hit on a QB next year and Chan could be fired and Parcells could be brought it and Maybin could realize he is an NFL player or at least was drafted to be one and and eh fkk it.

Jets @ Bills quotes and notes

"Sanchez isn't on Brady's level yet. You can blitz him. He's the key to their offense. If he's playing well, they normally win football games. If he's not, they lose. We know what we have to do." Donte Whitner
STFU Whitner

"Going into this year when you look at our linebacker corps, you say, 'Man, we're deep. We've got a lot of guys," said inside linebacker Paul Posluszny
Wha? Is Paul talking about the Buffalo Bills LB corps?

"[Keller is] tough to cover right now. He has made plays against some corners, safeties and linebackers. He's going to be tough, but we expect to compete well against him."
What leads you to this conclusion Whit-dog? Have you ever competed well against a tightend in your career?

"I know he's a pretty smart guy," Bart Scott said. "I don't want him to hit me with a book."
I hate you Bart Scott

All-Pro Darrelle Revis (hamstring) has already ruled himself out of this weekend and Calvin Pace did not travel with the team putting him out for Sunday as well. 11. C Nick Mangold (shoulder) is listed as questionable and LB Jason Taylor (elbow) as probable, but both played in last week’s 31-23 win over Miami with the same injury classifications. LB Jamaal Westerman (ankle) and T Wayne Hunter (shin) are also listed as out.

Run stoppers DE Marcus Stroud (ankle) and LB Andra Davis (shoulder) are both listed as out, as is top cornerback Terrence McGee (knee)

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