In an article from yahoo.com, it talks about how the Bills have the worst defence and so they make a point, with Aaron Maybin.

“It’s quite possible that Maybin is the worst player in the NFL”

“There’s a good chance Maybin will be inactive again this week”

He’s only in his second year, and was a first round pick. And they aren’t even playing him anymore? Well look at this, it makes sense..

“After a year and a half, he hasn’t gotten better. If anything, he’s regressed. Maybin has 21 tackles in 21 games. He has no sacks. This season, he’s been on the field for 66 plays, with few tangible results.”

“The Bills gave Maybin a $15 million signing bonus after his holdout in 2009. That’s not the sort of return on investment that made capitalism great.”

Thats terrible. 15 million signing bonus after holding out. Maybe he knew something. Now he’s not even getting playing time. But 21 tackles?!?!

“Maybin was the 11th pick of the 2009 draft. He’s already been moved from defensive end to linebacker, but hasn’t found his role in the Bills’ new 4-3 scheme. Coaches won’t put him on special teams and undrafted rookies are getting more playing time than him.”

What is with this guy! Now check this out.

“Maybin is definitely being discussed heavily in the Packers draft room.”
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/43030947.html

Before the 09 draft, there were players talked about who may be picked by GB. THANK GOD we took Raji.

It’s very interesting to see something this bad. I dunno but I find it real bad, with all the stats and the money and place he was selected.

Maybe its the move to LB that screwed him? Either way, that is considerably terrible.

I decided to post this and do a bit of research on all this because of our situation with Hawk. Maybe it hasn’t been so bad, but before I go out tonight at a Halloween social, I wanna share some comments related to Hawk.

Hawk started off pretty decent in his career. 119 tackles, 3.5 sacks, 2 INT. Looked like he was on track. Clearly much better than what Maybin has done. Hawk was a 5th in 2006, Maybin was a 11th in 2009. Hawk had 6x more tackles in his first year than Maybin has over 21 games. So Hawk isn’t the worst at least.

But then you see the numbers drop. 06-08 he started all 16 games. But 06 – 119 tackles, 07 – 105 tackles 1 sack, 08 – 86 tackles 3 sacks, 09 – 89 tackles 1 sack.

Numbers are really dropping. But 2010 he’s already hit 60, 2 INT (not much to both his INT this year though lol)

He’s average 10 a game though – through 7 weeks he’s started and played in 6 games (he sat all game that one week).

Maybe things are picking up for him again? But the other thing is stats don’t show it all. All the plays he misses. If they can get him to move more fluid with a better presence of where the ball is going, he’d do much better and be more dominant. He hesitates too much and waits for things to come for him and doesn’t attack. And then he gets beat.

I’d love for Hawk to be able to turn things around. He showed promise in his rookie season that he’d be the player he was anticipated to be especially with the strength he showed. But since then it’s like he’s veered off the road a bit and needs someone to turn the steering wheel back on track. He’s making plays, but he’s missing a lot of plays too.

He’s on pace for almost 150 tackles. And that is more than enough to expect from a linebacker. Although his last 5 games, he’s averaging about half of them solo tackles.

The leader in tackles this year is Jerod Mayo, drafted in 08. Too lazy to look at what spot but he had a very similar career to Hawk, minus the drop off. 128, 103 respectively, and now he’s at 72 so far this year in 6 games. Just 12 better than Hawk. No INT and only 2.5 sacks in his career. He’s gotten a ton of tackles each week, and MOST are solo tackles.

I just wanted to point out how our situation with Hawk is looking. Maybe he can turn that corner and be one of the better Linebackers in the league if he can crack down and make all the plays that come his way. He gets a lot of them, but then lets a lot of them go by him. And his coverage. No comment.

There is still hope for Hawk, because it looks like its getting better, but it better happen cause we could really use his help.

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Is-Bills-linebacker-Aaron-Maybin-the-worst-playe?urn=nfl-280632

The Packers’ blog over at jsonline is a great place to go for injury updates, interviews, and day-to-day operations stuff. Unfortunately, one of their best guys (Greg Bedard) just left to work on a paper in Boston, but it should still be pretty good.

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Hope the new guys can step up and have an impact.

They were down 4 late, and only survived thanks to a DPI call at the goal line on a 46-yard throw.

The Jets, for the most part, haven't been a real high-scoring team, and I think the Packers D can hold them to ~20 points. I guess I'm agreeing at least partly with your prediction: if the Packers can score 24+ points, the Jets will be in trouble.

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