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assign depth charts - Maybe call plays and formations situationally - Probably not This is what I believe he is talking about as well. And include who to draft (determine BPA for example) as well.

Slam dunk. The Bills alone have proven that for years.

Spell checkers seem to get the it's one wrong a lot too Didn't even notice except ... ha!

How about spelling?

Interesting take. By that reasoning the Bills should have kept Gailey, Jauron etc.

How about the Lynch haters who would have to choose between Lynch and Brady

Marrone is covering for his friend, and/or somehow still believes he is a good ST coach (which is a scary thought). I believe this is clear for reasons stated earlier in this thread. "much more" is subjective. But I do believe the Bills were more talented this year than in years past. But the Bills had sucked for the previous 13 seasons. That is a very long time. Being more talented in that case simply means they still sucked, but they sucked less than they had previously. Couple that with a rookie QB who is a project, rookie coaches that the jury is very much still out on, so anyone that thought the Bills were going to be challenging for the playoffs this year were viewing the Bills through red and blue colored glasses in my opinion. My opinion from the beginning of the season was that 8-8 would have been a very successful season. I will state now though that next season should end above .500 with Marrone and Manuel both showing substantial improvement or I will be one of the people looking to make changes ... again.

I believe they are all of these factored in.

Seattle is the perfect environment for him. Not to mention a better team in general than the Bills in every way. That trade was far and away the best thing that ever could have happened to him. No reason to hate on Lynch. Even if he had stayed in Buffalo he would not have performed like he has for Seattle anyway, People just need to let it go.

He is a student whose major is football, that's how. But he could not possibly qualify as a student in the general sense at even a high school, much less a university.

I'm sure he was the Bills BPA because Gailey really wanted a skatback for whatever reason. But I have doubts that he was the BPA on most teams boards at #9.

I believe this to be the cause of a lot of the angst in general. Many thought, and still think, the 2013 Bills had enough talent to make the playoffs, or at the very least achieve the elusive 8-8 mark.

II have always been of the opinion that having football, or any major sports program, tied to a university made no sense. A lot of future pro football players for example would not have the intelligence to pull their weight academically at a school like Ohio State, USC, Harvard, etc. The may have the grades required to get into these schools, but they could be based on special treatment at the high school level as well. I would like to see sports divorced from colleges and have the teams part of a junior system like they have for hockey in Canada or soccer in a lot of European countries. Why pretend that some of these athletes are more than what they are. They are fooling no one.

This is very logical and I could see that happening. Few can make a good argument against BPA.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/12/30/the-nfl-on-xbox-one-and-surface-your-own-personal-gridiron.aspx

I don't follow tackle football at all except for the Bills.

I don't think the Bills will do this only because Manuel was Whaleys and Marrones first pick, they picked him in the first round, and was the first QB taken. Even showing doubt that they made a mistake would be very hard for them. I think they get the WR(s) and whatever else they feel the offense needs and roll the dice with Manuel.

Both of those sting me more than the music city forward pass.

They may well be getting a 2 for one deal of sorts. I suspect Jon and Jay talk, a lot.

Well this is supposed to be a very good WR draft year. If the Bills shore up that position, get some O-line help, and with some luck land a decent every down RB (Spiller certainly is not one and Fred isn't getting any younger) a lot of the offensive problems could be addressed. The remaining "big ifs" would then be Hackett and of course, Manuel.

That is an excellent analogy. Free throws aren't 1/3 of the points scored, but often they are very important points that can decide games.

No one should be outraged. But it goes to Marrone needing to learn to keep his mouth shut. I would have thought the whole 110% sure Manuel would play the last game would have taught him something. If he had not mentioned accountability there would have not been any fuel for this discussion. When is the last time you saw a 18 page thread (and still growing) about a special teams coach? Come on Doug, wise up man.

It is broke in the sense that the NFL needs more money to pay ever increasing player salaries. This would give them a nice TV revenue boost. Granted it is a short term fix, but it is better than nothing.

I am always confused by this. And it must be me because many feel this way. But why do fans deserve an explanation of anything? The Bills have a product that they put on the field. They market said product how they like, which includes the press conferences and other interviews . Those that like the product, purchase it seasonally. Those that do not like the product for whatever reason, do not. Seems to be a simple and clear arrangement. Where does deserving explanations come into it? And for the record, I'm not happy with the last 14 years either. But its the choice of each of us to purchase the product one Bills drive is selling, or not. Is it not? If ST costs games next season, then Marrone will probably be canned for it. That is a risk he is taking. Explanation or no explanation to the fans, in my opinion. He may well have given such an explanation to Bills FO already, we don't know.

Yes it is a bad idea. It opens the door to fans expecting explanations on every little decision he makes. We aren't talking about who to draft first, we are talking about why he did NOT fire a special teams coach. Micromanagement sucks. Micromanagement by fans of a football head coach sucks more. A head coach enabling micromanagement of himself is borderline insane in my opinion.