tom webster

He has been on the job three years and while this year has to play out nobody can tell me that this year's roster is not considerably better then last years and galaxies ahead of three years ago.

I'm no attorney but I think they have to walk a fine line with these settlements as it is illegal to pay someone not to press charges or testify but if the victim refuses to testify, how can the case proceed? I heard former DA Frank Clark talking about this. No DA wants to be put in a position of prosecuting a victim for refusing to testify but he implied that theoretically it was possible

And the rest of the dance is the employee blaming the boss. It's the circle of life.

I had a brief exchange with Wawrow about this as well. Being old school, I find it totally inappropriate especially the exchanges that happen as the night grows long and it seems that alcohol becomes a big part of the evening. On the other hand, I realize my opinion means little in the twitter world. I can't believe all the over reaction to the Whaley lied narrative. Every superior in every industry lies, or at least misleads every subordinate at some point. It is part of the job.

I respect your point but aligning themselves with Sammy Watkins or Rex Ryan, for instance, seems to make more sense to me especially if you want to tag onto the "new era." As far as your last paragraph, I get this and I'm sure that Russ would have and probably should have been the one to break the news but the sponsor has to know going in what the chances of something like this happening, especially given the rumors of a release during the off season and given the likelihood of a 34 year old running back not making the team.

I can come up with five campaigns before 9 am that don't require using a player that likely was going to be a marginal contributor at best. And if you are going to include players in retirement I can come up with 10.

I agree with this but you have to get consistent. You want to blame Whaley for decisions before he was the man but not give him credit for decisions during the same time frame. While the jury is still out on his job performance, I believe he doesn't get the credit he deserves because of what happened the nine years before he became the GM. This whole thing is really funny actually. A lot of the same people who talked about Whaley like he was a neutered puppet after the Ryan hiring now want to have us believe that he is the man secure enough to go rogue.

If anyone should be embarrassed it's whoever decided it was a good idea to base an ad campaign on a 34 year old running who at best was going to be a short yardage back and most likely be the third string running back likely to be inactive several games.

Don't really think this is a big deal. Player has to blame someone and Whaley is the easy target. Jackson is a lot more shrewd when it comes to PR then he is given credit for.

Sorry. Some of stuff in here has been so ridiculous, I misunderstood your post.

I have stayed out of this thread but if you are implying that if her friend was having sex with Kane's friend then the alleged victim was required to have sex with Kane......well, I am unable to say what I want without getting banned for a few days.

I agree with this sentiment and regret that sometimes I have been caught up in the bickering.

1) This year, I declared the drunk irishone the winner but he couldn't use the tickets. 2) Last year, the winner was dudacek. If I remember correctly he gave his tickets to a brother in law or that may have been a previous year winner. Quite frankly, I don't remember the other winners but if you care I'm sure you could find the threads in the archives. I have no problem with your questioning the validity of the contest but I'm sure others can attest to the fact that I have always gone out of my way to accommodate past winners.

With training camp less then 3 weeks away, I thought it was time to give this thread a little boost.

I do. I was one of those that left early. Just got to my car when I heard the roar.

This was actually mentioned in the Bylsma thread.

That would be me.

Torrie is/was head amateur scout. Devine is actually director of player personnel.

Sounds like Head Scout Torrie also let go

Sorry LGR4GM but this is one of my pet peeves. Ticket prices have nothing to do with other revenue or expenses. It is all supply and demand. If all the players agreed to play for free ticket prices would still be the same as long as the public paid the price.

What I see when I read this is that Buffalo hasn't really missed on anyone other then Russel Wilson in the last five years. Are we really going to blame them for passing in a bunch of stiffs? There is just a real shortage of viable QB's.

I remember JP Losman in what I think was his first pre-season game against Denver and Shanahan was mic'ed up. Losman threw a frozen rope right in front of him thoroughly impressing Shanahan. All the tools and not much else. I will have to watch Wilson more this season. I just can't remember too many passes from the pocket and especially outs but then again he doesn't need to throw much does he? Cue the "he should have thrown one less time......"

I'm still not sure that he makes defense respect the sideline out pattern that the typical NFL quarterback has always been measured by. I acknowledge that I haven't spent any time watching film, so correct me if I am wrong. No doubt that Wilson has evolved, hopefully Taylor can translate in game experience to do the same.

While I agree with you in theory, I'm not sure Russell Wilson operates out of the pocket om a consistent basis. Not saying that Taylor is anything close to Wilson but I think there are always exceptions to the rule.

The story of why he bailed keeps getting tweaked so I'm not sure "death in the family" is still the excuse. Either way, you are right, Geno did say he would pay him back.