May Day 10

The media just needs to get out of the way and let the team finish 7-9 every year.

This is the most amazing part of this, really. It is remarkable how this franchise has dropped anchor in the mediocre zone. And why I cant take people seriously when they say that we are 'close'... they have been right here, give or take a few games for going on 2 decades. They beat almost all the bad teams, and lost to all the good teams. Its the same movie... and we are going to see it again next season

In the process of absolving whaley of the coaching hires he hasnt been able to get along with... you need to put brandon front and center.

I have a 00.033881317890172014% Probablilty. so yeah, 1 in 2,951 sounds close. Celebrate!

this is my biggest complaint with that station and why I listen about 1 hour a month now... Here is the topic. Who do you want as the Bills' QB. Bulldog, you take this side, Schopp, you take the unpopular opinion, let's take callers for 3 hours. It is exhausting to listen to. The callers are the dregs of our fan base.

when I was a kid, Art Wander yelled at me more than my dad

He was a pretty solid safety

So Russ Brandon has no influence on the football side, yet he unilaterally hired the head coach in 2013... and also, Doug Whaley, the GM had no say in the head coach in 2015. Only the owners who had owned the team for 2 months? No other input? Whaley had no input on the HC, and Brandon is a marketing-only guy cannot co-exist.

or maybe the collaborative structure is constantly destined for failure, dysfunction, and drama.

Right on. Its year one again... but in a couple years, brandon will pull the same accountibility shell game with whaley and promote monos as gm to maintain the status quo. We will be at year one for what seems like the 20th try They so need someone from the outside to change the course once and for all. The shell game we have witnessed for about 11 or 12 years needs to stop

The Bills aren't a good team. I do not believe the Dolphins are either. Eeking into a playoff spot by beating the dregs of the league and losing a Wild Card game someday in some future season is not my aspiration for the Bills. The Bills are painfully average, just like they have predictably sat for what seems like a lifetime. Am I supposed to believe that another phony deck-chair realignment.... allowing Doug Whaley to move from GM that somehow wasn't allowed to make decisions, to a "real" GM and promoting a coach from within will change this organization's course? The Bills have been playing this accountability shell game for years, and people still fall for it.

no, let me comment on that in the Miami Dolphins thread they dont have a sustainable model either, and likely wont be a perennial contender. If the Bills win this week, the Dolphins suddenly have 3 such wins.

'inexperienced' is not an valid excuse to me. I thought they got experience with mistakes made when they took over the Sabres. They proceeded to repeat nearly identical mistakes here. The Sabres still have organizational problems.

http://buffalonews.com/2016/12/28/watch-bills-organization-dumpster-fire-espns-jim-trotter-says/?utm_campaign=puma&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1482954816 "they have no leadership there".... "If (Lynn) is smart, he will get as far away from Buffalo as he can". -Jim Trotter (national media)

1-7 against teams .500 or better 6-1 against teams under .500 that is a pretty big chasm. you either win or you don't. The performance against good teams vs bad is reflective of what we have been watching for nearly 2 decades.

and it isnt surprising to say the least. It is an organization that has always lacked tact and class, and it permeates through everything.

so we are already assigning bad draft picks to the ousted Rex Ryan...

I want McDaniels. I think he has the goods. New England always seems to implement different things and is malleable to what the other team will present. The Garrapollo games/performance weakens the 'he has Brady' argument. Has learned under Belichick (and before you start, he is a different human than Crennel and Weis). He showed glimpses of good things in Denver, but that was a team in flux, he made mistakes and I think his next gig will be a benificiary of his lessons learned. I feel like he will be all in and committed to creating his legacy and attaching his name with the results of the team. If anyone understands offense in 2017, it is he.

The problem is the format. You know what people are going to be calling with. It isnt a good look to sit there and throw the company line, ignore information people are presenting, feigning to be surprised someone would suggest Brandon may be involved, etc... for 3 hours. It was awful, and Hockey Hotline went through this for months when the Sabres resisted making moves. It is terrible radio and a bad look for the organization. They should schedule as many interviews as possible. National people, some people within the organization, rap with Chris Brown for a half hour, etc. Create features.... Screen the callers better. Taking call after call hitting you over the head with Whaley and Brandon over and over again is not a good look and does neither "side" justice. Address the "show's" stance on Whaley one time. its easy.

not now, but it is going to in some form. Whether we need to suffer through 2 or 5 more seasons to get there. We may have a Russ throwing Whaley in front of the bus to promote Monos which may extend it an additional year or 2... but Pegula will get there. wish it was now to save time and additional cap damage

here he is. Give him 10 years, $100 million. Gives him the time and motivation to make the jump. $100 million sounds like a lot, but consider the amount of money leaking out of this organization as it is. www.patriots.com/team/staff/roster/nick-caserio Allow him full autonomy to build it from the top down and lead a competent and deliberate search for a franchise QB, while trading down whenever possible to build in the trenches. If he wants a GM, he can hire one. He wants a cap guy, he is free to bring him in.

The 'window' this team had is closing, and they are poised to take a step back as depth will be a challenge, and some players are aging. *spoiler alert* - next year we will hear the Bills spin off that players are 'learning Lynn's system' and need to get the 'personnel to fit the schemes'. We have had "x coaches (and D coordinators) in x years, give it time". In 2018, we will get the "for christsakes, let us give continuity a chance, we have had x coaches in x year, that is obviously the only problem". Then year 3 "we need continuity, but Lynn is awful and holding back the entire organization, the contents of which are really good and salvageable. Let's allow Whaley to conduct a "true" head coaching search from outside the organization." *or alternatively* Brandon heaps blame on Whaley, and conducts a GM search, only to promote Monos from within for more status quo.

Nick Caserio - President with full autonomy to build the program. Josh McDaniels - Head Coach

so it was definitely "bad coaching" then and the players had nothing to do with it? Thanks, I feel better now.

17 year playoff drought has a lot to do with trying to chase/patchwork holes to pursue dreams of a meaningful week 17 game or a wild card loss. The defense may be better, but then the offense will step back. Maybe they draft a Safety in the first round, but 'suddenly' they will be short a couple CBs and a RT. I want the whole culture to be changed and the sites aimed higher.