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notwoz

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  1. TO's history is that he's a pretty good soldier his first year (so far that's been true in Buffalo). It's the second year and beyond that he turns into a prima donna. That said, I'd be quite happy to see him come back for another season. What's the probability that he will return? My guess is somewhere between no way and probably not. That equation depends on which other teams might be interested in him.

  2. Owens was not running up the score. Jackson was. They could have taken knees at that point.

    Actually I liked Jackson's score. Or more accurately, I like the attitude in going for the score. The Bills had their collective foot on Miami's throat and decided to stomp on it.

    If the score were 31-14 before Jackson scored, I would have thought taking a knee might have been appropriate. But with a 10 point margin at the time, the Bill decided to go for it and end any fantasy the Dolphins might have had in staging a comeback.

  3. The problem is that if you want those coaches, you are not going to be able to bring in that top-notch GM....They just cannot co-exist.

     

    If the Bills cannot hire any of these coaches, they need to then hire a excellent GM and let him bring in his HC.

    that's the name of the game. Get a GM who knows football and how to put football talent together into a cohesive unit and how to hire a coach who can fulfill that vision. Then you have a fighting chance.

  4. I'd rather take a flier on Perry than bring in a known quantity, if the part we know is that he is not a winner.

     

    Why does this name keep coming up??? LINK: http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b1Gqa

     

    F!

    My guess is that Haslett's agent is working the phones with every number in is Rolodex (OK I know I'm dating myself by using Rolodex). But Haslett's agent has a real good incentive to get Haslett a job, it's called money.

  5. Frankly, compared to TO's behavior in the past, I think he's been a model citizen in Buffalo. He's had plenty of opportunities to complain about not getting the ball and has been, for the most part, pretty quiet. Sunday we saw a glimpse of why the Bills signed him. Is he past his prime? Quite possibly. Is he still a force? Probably. What was his motivation for helping Wood off the field? Who knows, but I interpreted his actions as a show of support, literally and figuratively, for an injured teammate. So as far as I'm concerned, the Bills should try to re-sign TO for another year.

  6. I'm not all that convinced that Shanahan is what the bills need. I would much rather have them decide on a GM as soon as possible and let the GM pick the coach. Having a coach with a GM beholden to him is a recipe for eventual disaster and that is what would happen if they pick shanahan and appoint a "shanahan" GM. As usual the bills are going at this bass ackward.

    That's the ticket. Find a GM who: has a vision of what is required to build a successful franchise, knows how to evaluate talent that fits into his vision, knows how to assemble that talent into a successful team, and finally, knows how to pick a coach who can carry out that vision.

  7. I'm listening to WGR and hearing Jerry Sullivan's nasal whining about how awful everything about Buffalo is, and I'm tempted to punch my computer. The endless droning negativity is maddening. Then it hits me: maybe we all collectively will ourselves to fail? Failure defines us. If there was nothing bad happening, we'd have nothing to talk about. We only relate to failure.

     

    Two days after firing Jauron and most everyone is already writing the Bills off. We don't even wait for someone to be hired to doom them to failure. We condemn everyone in advance. I'm really starting to think this is partly mental....a WNY-wide depression that wills everything we do to fail. :lol::(:(

     

    Am I wrong?

     

    PTR

    You're not wrong, but the issue is a larger one, and that's the WNY economy. Actually it's the NY State economy as well. I live in the Washington, DC, area and the whining about the local football team with the racist nickname is as bad as the griping about the Bills. But the big difference is that when the local football fans drive to work on Monday morning, they may be p*ssed about the 'Skins, but they're driving their BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes, Lexuses, etc. on their way to their decently paid to way-overpaid jobs that are the beneficiaries of being in the proximity of the federal government. Even during the recession when the area lost jobs and foreclosures were spiraling out of control, there were still a lot of people with good paying jobs -- contractors, "consultants," military, government, etc.

     

    In Western New York, the economy is contracting. Well paying jobs with promising futures are at a premium, there is no federal government to provide a steady stream of income for every defense or high-tech company that puts out a shingle and a bid for a government contract.

     

    If by some chance, Western New York could revive its economy, you'll see that the dark cloud hanging over the sports team usually lifts on payday.

     

    And as a WNY expatriot I really wish the economy would pick up -- I'd love to come back home.

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