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Today someone asked me who I think the Bills’ Starting RB will be and why.
As I mentioned once before, it’ll be Willis McGahee.
I’m not going to knock Henry for his smaller size (5'9" 215 vs McGahee at 6' 223), because I believe that Henry is probably the stronger back proportionally.
However, it isn’t simply that McGahee outperformed Henry during but a single preseason outing (vs Denver).
It’s about which of the two came into the game giving a damn. Which of the two came prepared.
Henry thinks he simply deserves the starting job because he's Henry.
If he has any kind of spine to him, he'll have seen the way McGahee performed and then find himself motivated to be better himself.
In the end, McGahee will start.
Comments (7)
I just read your analysis r... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Tom Donahoe | August 21, 2004 5:12 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I just read your analysis regarding the status of our starting running back.
Thank you for the laugh,
Tom Donahoe
1. Posted by Tom Donahoe | August 21, 2004 5:12 PM |
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Posted on August 21, 2004 17:12
2. Posted by Tom | August 21, 2004 10:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Of course you're TD. Yet you weren't smart enough to go read the full article and make your reply there.
You're too dim to make a meaningful rebuttal and too gutless to comment using your own name.
To be either stupid or spineless would be pathetic enough. To combine both traits in a single individual proves that God has a malicious sense of humor.
2. Posted by Tom | August 21, 2004 10:02 PM |
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Posted on August 21, 2004 22:02
3. Posted by Nalin Mittal | September 1, 2004 5:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ha!
If you honestly believe McGahee is the better RB, then you know nothing about football.
Travis Henry is a proven commodity. A guy that will play through a broken leg if has too. He has the respect of his own teammates and players throughout the league.
McGahee might one day be a great back, but Henry is one now.
3. Posted by Nalin Mittal | September 1, 2004 5:49 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 17:49
4. Posted by Tom | September 1, 2004 7:00 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Any simpleton who has to rely upon the very childish "you don't know anything about football" as the backbone of his "logic" would be better off keeping his mouth shut. Opening it only proves his utter inability to think critically.
After your witty and cutting opening you go on to argue by simply repeating points that I already made on Henry's behalf. If you'd been smart enough to go read the full article before running your crap-sucker, you'd have known that.
If Mularky starts the guy who averaged an eye popping 2.5 yds per carry through the preseason (and that's was Henry’s average when he was healthy), over a guy who averaged 3.6, then he has no business being an NFL head coach. You start the guy who gets the job done. Henry isn't that guy right now.
You look doubly stupid when you should already know that Henry is having problems with his ribs. The same area he injured last year.
I've already commended his toughness, but he will not be physically able to perform at his highest level. Last year, playing injured, he still kept his average at an acceptable 4.1 yds per carry and scored 10 TDs. But he also coughed the ball up 7 times.
When McGahee is capable of matching, even exceeding those numbers, and doing so with a lower risk of fumbling, it makes no sense to start Henry ahead of him.
Henry is a good back with potential to be great if he can ever stay healthy, which is looking to be a very questionable prospect. He's not great yet, but that is irrelevant. “Greatness" is a moronic argument. If Henry is “great”, then McGahee must be greater, since he’s averaging better than a yard per carry more than Henry.
The better, healthier back should be the starter. The better back, the healthier back, right now, is Willis McGahee.
4. Posted by Tom | September 1, 2004 7:00 PM |
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Posted on September 1, 2004 19:00
5. Posted by Bryce Winthrop | September 13, 2004 4:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Most of McGahee's carries in the preseason were not against first string defenses. This makes his YPC (which is your sole basis for starting him) skewed and less relevant. First string defenses know that Henry is the better back. Ask Keith Bulluck of the Tennessee Titans who has openly said Henry is clearly better.
Oh, but you probably know more about football than Bulluck -- since you are a fledgling sportsblog.org writer and he is merely a starting linebacker for one of the NFL's top defensive units.
You're a dolt. That's clear to anyone who can read.
5. Posted by Bryce Winthrop | September 13, 2004 4:54 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 16:54
6. Posted by Tom | September 13, 2004 6:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Your brilliant observation stops holding water when placed against the cold, hard facts of yesterday's game.
Henry was so impressive yesterday that he racked up an amazing 75 yds on 23 carries. A jaw-dropping average of 3.26 yds per carry.
McGahee ran 9 times for 31 yds, a 3.44 average. So he's the better back vs first teamers, too.
Kind of makes your appeal to authority look like mindless dreck, which is, after all, exactly what it is.
Of course, you being such a genius it's amazing that you couldn't figure that out before you came in to run your crap-sucker.
Learn to think for yourself before you spout off next time. Might help keep you from looking like the moron that you are.
Probably not, but it's worth a try.
Of course, your entire whining tantrum is pointless, since it looks like ineptitude is the result regardless of who carries the ball for Buffalo. 3.26? 3.44? That's the best the Bills can get out of two guys who are assumed to be potential superstars? Pathetic.
6. Posted by Tom | September 13, 2004 6:29 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 18:29
7. Posted by Tom | September 13, 2004 6:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I find it amazing that "Nalin" and "Bryce" share EXACTLY the same IP address!
64.81.56.176
Computer ID
dsl081-056-176.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net
Is it difficult to continue walking upright when you have no spine?
Just remember to make up a new name before you respond, that way you'll trick everyone into thinking you have a whole group of Bills fans up in arms that I dare name McGahee the better back.
What overwhelming cleverness you do possess.
7. Posted by Tom | September 13, 2004 6:40 PM |
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Posted on September 13, 2004 18:40