vincec

This. Every team appears to have a dominating running back the week they play the Bills. Hmm....

I noticed most of this too. I disagree about Kelsay in a way. Yes, he sucks, but why is he covering TEs and RBs out of the backfield? He is a DE (or should be). You can't excuse getting faked out of his jock by Cassel, however. I mean, he's not Doug Flutie...

OL got worked, no question. It was easy to pick out Howard, but there was no running game and consistent pressure on the QB with very little blitzing needed. It's tough for skill players to work under those conditions.

I agree. The chiefs had a dominating running game and tough defense working. The Bills had nothing. That 2nd half comeback was all heart. They're not that good, but I give them credit for effort, especially Fitzpatrick who I'm sure will receive more that his share of cheap flamings from this board.

I guess we aren't done talking about him since we are on page three and rolling...

Not sure I agree with you. Run the ball in OT? Did you notice that the Bills couldn't gain a yard running the ball? If the coach messed up in his timing to ice the kicker, then he should screw up every time... he missed. The only offensive play calls that I didn't like were those ridiculous middle screens to Jackson. After the first 3 or 4 didn't work, why keep calling them? The Bills lost because they couldn't make the final plays to win... got across the 50 three times at the end of regulation and OT and couldn't get the win out of it.

+1

When the Bills score 40+ points, they will win. Their defense can't stop anybody.

I'm not that old, but I remember the OJ years with the Bills. I've seen a few QBs in my time and I'll tell you this: If I had to pick one historical QB to build a team around, Steve Young would be the guy. His skills were unbelievable.

Yes, it takes a brave, bold man to predict that an 0-6 team that hasn't made the playoffs in a decade and has only had one winning season in that time will lose.

Neither one of those things will happen.

Not yet...

I doubt that they are candidates. Both are 4-3 guys and Fox is probably in line for another head coaching chance within a couple of years if he goes into broadcasting or something. I would like to see Del Rio though. Yup. It's a tough league.

Wade and RW left on very bad terms. No way Phillips comes back to Buffalo. What I find interesting that Philly might promote Jauron to DC, while Buffalo might take McDermott as their new DC. Nothing like recycling the other guy's garbage.

Cool. Maybe the Bills can pick up Jack Del Rio as their new defensive coordinator. Just keep him away from the war room on draft day...

I wish that we would've kept him as DC, but obviously this was impossible for political reasons.

Obviously, it's because he's working with the same personnel that played under Perry Fewell last season, except for Schobel (and he's not worth the massive drop off in performance), and the defense has been horrible. In fact they used 2 of their first 3 draft picks on defensive players. Putting your players in a position to be successful and adopting schemes to get the most out of them is the definition of good coaching. Playing defenses that you don't have the players to execute or asking players to play positions that they can't (see Kelsay) is bad coaching. What's even scarier is that he's tried to go back to something similar to what the Bills had last season and the performance is still awful. That's doesn't speak well for his ability to make good adjustments or game plan. He still has the rest of the season to show something but he's not looking too good so far. I'm actually curious to see what Gailey does if the performance doesn't improve. It's one thing for a coach to can players that he didn't draft and has no commitment to, but another to can his hand selected DC after one season.

It doesn't help.

Just slightly better than Wilson re-hiring Tom Donahoe as GM.

He saw plenty of time at linebacker though, for all the sense that makes.

How many more humbling lessons does he need? I think he got it a long time ago. He just sucks.

This. They just seem lost out there. Once again though, I blame the coaching for a lot of this. They didn't seem lost last year...

What I want to know is when are they officially going to take the offensive pass interference rule off the books because for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist.

Look, all I'm saying is that with a top 3 pick, the Bills need to take the best player available (unless it's a DB or RB) and that at this point it looks like it may not be a QB. If you disagree with that and think that they should take a QB regardless of ability, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.

If you say so. I just remember a lot of 4 man and 3 man rushes in the 3rd and 4th quarters except for Evan's TD. Maybe Fitz had chased them off the blitz by then.