Somewhere, you gotta think that Highway Hunter now has a Ginormous bullseye on his good for nothing azz.
Hunter gets way too much hate from everybody. He's an average - not great - but average RT whose deficiencies are amplified by the quarterback playing behind center. Any halfway decent QB would make the appropriate adjustments at the line as to ensure that Hunter doesn't get put into a position to fail each snap.
It's called bringing help people. I know it's a pretty foreign concept with Schotty never doing it in obvious spots in pass blocking. Good blocking TE drafted anywhere from the mid rounds on will take a lot of the sting out of one guys pass rush. If not you can always lineup Conner as a last resort on the right side.
Actually that was the 'Reggie Bush' sweepstakes year. PPL assumed bush would go #1 overall so when the Texans tagged Mario it shook things up a bit. That was the year the Raiders came into the Meadowlands late in the season and threw the game to help keep the jets out of reach for Bush. 6 years later I think the Texans made the right call. Mario signed to the biggest defensive contract in NFL history and Reggie looking for a team. Or a Kardashian sister, can't remember.
Oddly enough the first 3 picks of that draft are now on their 2nd or 3rd teams while the 4th pick has started every game in his career for the NY Jets.
I think it just makes our OL look even worse (mainly Hunter) and tells the FO that we need a RT in the draft or free agency and if a stud OL (DeCastro or Martin) falls to us in round 1 we need to take them
The problem for opposing offenses is that the Bills just don't have Mario Williams. They also have 2 top notch DTs: Marcell Darius and 2010 Pro Bowler Kyle Williams who was hurt last season. Chris Kelsay, a typical run-stopping LDE who's better in a 4-3 than 3-4, is the likely starting LDE. Double teaming Williams leaves the other DLers to wreak havoc on the offense. Super Mario has never played with a pair of DTs as good as K Williams and Marcell Darius. Keep in mind, too, that the Bills have a new DC in Dave Wannstadt, who has long been a top defensive coach in the NFL. He's unlikely to fail to find a way to take advantage of any offensive weakness.
Read somewhere that the Bills plan on using Mario as a 4-3 LDE, meaning he'd line up against the RT...
That might be so. It would force teams to either move their LT or try to have their RT and the TE stop him. I suspect he'll move around, too. Wannstadt is a scheme defense guy like Rex Ryan, and they both fine-tune their schemes to bring their best guys against the offense's worse ones. The Bills' aim is to get pressure only rushing 4 guys like the Giants do. It's the surest way to neutralize a certain NE QB.
