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Consider that the schedule the team has next year could cost them a loss or two more over their natural production, and that Dick Jauron has a 3 to 5 game swing, and this team could be very very bad.

Why do you think he is a good coach?

If it is one more year and that's it, why was he offered, and agreed on, a three year extension? This is Ralph Wilson logic.

It might be for the better. Not just for the franchise, but for the city. If a franchise that can, from time to time, be a transit and tax burden on a declining area such as Buffalo does not have a commitment to bringing investment to the local area and only on turning itself a random profit, it no longer is really responsible for a city or its citizens to support the team. If the Bills are not willing to actively invest themselves not only in the profit of the Bills as a business, but also in the betterment of the community as a function, then it is probably better off for Buffalo and surrounding areas that both local governments and ordinary people have no other choice but to invest in other ventures. The local structure's hands are tied and some fans will pay no matter what happens. But it is no longer really responsible to do so. Everywhere around us, there is death and decay and dying, and we seem to blindly enjoy massaging, encouraging even, one of the prominent tumors.

This sums it up.

I am tired of being alienated by a franchise. I try to follow this team as a hobby because sports should be fun. Ralph Wilson, Russ Brandon, and this organization have squashed what should be fun. I don't really know if it is even morally (seriously, morally) competent or justified to be a fan of this team anymore and invest money and time and interest into them. I know there are those among us who feel a need (sometimes a vitriolic need) to encourage people who express doubt in this franchise to just go ahead and "get off the bandwagon", but as it is, there is not a team in this league that I would think it is morally incorrect to root for right now besides this team -- what they've done to this city and what this man, this owner, truly represents. I've never quit on a team, but it is getting incredibly, incredibly close.

I sincerely doubt any man dumb enough to allegedly give Dick Jauron a contract extension is this clever.

ESPN is reporting that he signed it yesterday.

Thanks for the link. I agree, to each their own. I will also just say though, you have a choice as to who you watch on Sundays, too. But I wouldn't leave the Bills, I'd just want them to be better than they are, and what they are going through is unacceptable. I have the same approach with WGR.

It is not a matter of "not liking" something. I like Sports Talk Radio. I like Buffalo Sports. In the same way that I do not like the way the Buffalo Bills have operated as an organization over the last decade, I like them and so I continue to watch them anyway. I like Sports Talk Radio related to Buffalo sports and so I continue to listen to it. I don't find that the only appropriate way for a consumer to be able to voice their opinion about wishing changes on something they like is to boycott it. If that is the only effective way to ever do anything in Buffalo, we are in big trouble. That way, madness roams.

I think the guy's name is Steve Saslow. I have e-mailed him before and he is very nice. I can imagine how frustrating it is though to do what he does. He puts a ton of work into his web-site, and has for ten years. Consider that over those ten years, the Bills have made a good case for being the second worst franchise in professional football, and consider that hand-in-hand with the time and effort it must take to put a site like that together and then maintain it, and I can understand how he can get frustrated. I like that web-site still, and mostly agree with his grades and so forth.

Yes. In all seriousness, without the vitriol of insinuating you wish bad things to happen to him, I will just say this: In evaluating the performance of Mike Schopp over the course of his career at WGR, he is about as bad as the teams he covers. And, if his job was held to the same standard as the Buffalo Bills or the Buffalo Sabres players, he should, too, be gone. He is constantly pandering to his guests, though I can pick out on a daily basis inaccurate, erroneous things that his interview subjects talk about on his program. If a caller to his show was to make the same points, he'd jump all over it, cut them off and have a coniption fit. Unprofessional. So then don't take callers. That is a solution. But the problem there is that Mike Schopp, being the ham and egger sort of communications host that he is, can not put together a meaningful show without the foundation of a caller base. So his only solution is to be as consistently incendiary as possible toward callers and about callers. Again, unprofessional. He seems to fail to recognize that he represents this community on the airwaves just as the players represent the community on the field.

I was a little sickened last week that they started to complain about how tough their job is. Then don't do it. You live in a region of over 1 million people. Many of whom are males who would give a foot to have a job that easy and fun.

I know it's been covered a thousand times before on this board and in other places, but it gets to the point where its a little asinine. Aside from the fact that Schopp has created some invisible, immeasurable separation between himself and "fans" (as though having a communications degree makes you something superior to a "fan") But today takes the cake. Maybe alongside getting rid of JP Losman, and this coaching staff, we ought to rally the community around getting rid of the utter abortion that is Schopp and the Bulldog on Bills post game shows. Yes, yes, I know it's frustrating to take calls from callers after losses who say the same thing for hours on end, but the demeaning nature of this show is unbecoming of the channel as a whole. Today's post-game topic? Mike Schopp has decided to defend the coaching staff because, "I don't see how fans can say it was incorrect to pass with JP Losman today, but incorrect to pass in the Cleveland game." There are a half dozen differences that are important in that scenario, of course, but here is a pretty important one that this professional, allegedly intellectually superior to his callers has missed: AGAINST CLEVELAND, WE DID NOT HAVE THE LEAD. AGAINST THE JETS, WE HAD THE LEAD. Of course, any caller is cut off and belittled before they can even get to that point (I am not referring to myself), but if Schopp can't even differentiate between something as simple as that, it is not a matter of whether or not he is entertaining, it is a matter of whether or not he deserves to be in a mid-major media market. sh-- can him. Send him back to the hills with his 14 listeners where he can get away with calling everybody stupid. There's plenty of room on the wagon out of town for this idiot, too.

Lol @ you for trying to be some kind of dickhead on an internet message board.

I believe that it is possible that both JP Losman and the coaching staff suck horrible amounts of gonad.

The problem here is what are fans supposed to do? They can't, as they can in other cities, vote with their wallet. Because at what cost -- the loss of the franchise? So what are they supposed to do? I am, by no means, condoning throwing things at people. That's flat stupid. But what can the fans do? You know what the city ought to do? It ought to play hard ball with the NFL, tell the NFL that Buffalo wants the rights for the city and its citizens to own the team similar to Green Bay, and since they aren't allowing this anymore, they need to make an exception. And if they don't, cry anti-trust. This franchise is terminally ill and it seems like there is nothing the primary funding source (its fans) can do about it except to continue to fund its death. That's not fair.

No timeouts makes this difficult. We should have done this the last two possessions.

Four-Five weeks ago who would have predicted that our season would be on the line against the San Fransisco 49ers with 2 minutes to go, with JP Losman at Quarterback and 3 points on the scoreboard?

This is the game. Stop them or it's over.

Is Lindell broken? Has he lost his mojo? What the hell is happening?

Well, we're getting plays and breaks no. No excuses.

WTF are you doing Kelsay? Don't celebrate the sack, fight for the fumble.

What is worse than going for it on 4th and 2? Let's go for it on 4th and 2 and waste a timeout.

This is a good drive. Just, you know, don't turn it over.