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If everything that came to light in the media about this is correct, Fitz is gone (mercifully, I might add) because Buddy Nix was duped into a recorded conference call in which he is on record discussing how much Fitz sucks and how bad the QB draft class was. When the content of the call was leaked Fitz was incensed, rightfully so, and refused to renegotiate his contract, leading to his being cut and painting the franchise into the EJ corner. How is this on Whaley?

Pittsburgh with Donahoe and Cowher.

Are you making fun of someone who quite possibly, if I read that correctly, only has one eye?

FWIW, do they suggest you do it publicly or internally? Suppose one of the owners of an organization doesn't have a great affinity for local media due to its treatment of him from the beginning and he says internally "This report is patently false, and unless someone strongly objects, we're not going to give these dolts the satisfaction of indulging this bull **** publicly. They're clowns, and they're gonna write what they're gonna write. At the end of it all they'll be exposed for the frauds that they are. Sorry, Rex, but the pressers are gonna suck for the rest of the season. You up for it?"

How Marrone left? Are you suggesting they should have had the foresight to negotiate the terms of his hire even before they owned the team?

Was gonna make a C Mac joke, but after watching that I think I'll just sit this one out. How disturbing...

My disdain for Sullivan specifically, and TBN sports coverage in general, has nothing to do with them being critical of the team. It's just poor sports coverage by no better than mediocre writers/columnists. Gleason is terrible. The next cohesive collection of thoughts he puts together in print will be his first, and it would be overshadowed anyway by his eye-gougingly horrible written language skills. Sullivan, as an opinion piece writer, doesn't know the sport, has only one overarching opinion (that he is smarter than everyone else, and therefore he is entitled to aim vitriol in whatever direction he so chooses) - and he deigns rehash this singular opinion in a painfully formulaic way. When you read anything he writes, an exercise in futility that I mostly gave up years ago, it is the SAME article over and over again, just with a different target and slightly different insults. And to suggest it has only been happening for the last 17 years is uninformed, because he was writing the same piece in the Super Bowl years. I used to like both Graham and Carruci, but there must be something in the water, because both of their second go rounds have been plagued by the same dwindling professionalism and blasé writing. They don't seem cut out for the modern day technology new cycle with the increased volume expectation. Being an out of town sports fan that catches few games, having to rely on TBN for a significant chunk of the coverage is nearly as frustrating as being a Bills or Sabres fan to begin with.

Sullivan's grammar and sentence structure are generally fundamentally sound, which is more than you can say for Gleason, but the content of his writing is pedestrian, at best.

If Rex's back, which I'm personally not in favor of cuz I was skeptical of the hire in the first place, it needs to be with the stipulation of firing his brother and revamping the defensive staff. While I'm not sold this would be the answer, I'm kinda curious what the D would look like with Pettine back as DC under Rex, with autonomy and an infusion of talent at safety.

...Insta-Graham. Clearly meant to be a joke, but really unintentionally (or possibly intentionally)sums up the lack of professionalism within TBN's sports coverage and his disregard for the team, his job, and the reader. I guess fans of a bad team deserve no better in their coverage. Amateurish and pathetic.

This is just so ludicrous. HCs are never hired as coordinators after unsuccessful HC gigs. It didn't happen for son of bum, or the Schwartz, or for Josh McDaniels*, or for Norv Turner, or for countless other coaches, so why would you even ask?! Sheesh. The nerve of some people.

Yep, cough up the ball and it's game over for all intensive porpoises.

Instead, can TBN just trade Sullivan to Tyler chicken in exchange for converting New Era to all chicken concessions?

BillsRdue for the premature official elimination thread.

There are whispers that Anthony Lynn is also being considered as a replacement, though this may be purely to fulfill the Mooney rule, which requires that at least one dude with a chick's name as a surname (or conversely a chick with a dude's name as a surname) be considered for all worthless blogger positions.

Latest report is that someone resembling Jason La Canfora was refilling water for Luke Russert's mom at Tempo while she was dining with a guy named Bill. Sullivan concludes Pegulas are in over their heads and have no idea how to run a team.

Yeah, his Steelers blueprint hasn't stood the test of time at all.

Personally never been in to red skinned women with horns, cloven hooves, and a pointed tail, but to each their own. If you wager, just make sure there's no caveat about your soul, and bolt if there's anything to do with signing in blood instead of a simple handshake.

I am a bad person for laughing. You, sir, are a buckeye and I would expect nothing more.

Sabres. Bring on the heartache. Used to follow the playoffs, and will probably catch a few games, but no real rooting interest. My general interest in the NFL has proven to be inversely proportional to the length of the Bills playoff drought.

WTF. The Rams have to feel like they're at a rave with all those glow sticks coming at them.

Yeah, but how long before HC Harbaugh wears out his welcome and pisses off GM Harbaugh. His closed door GM-HC sit downs would look like Edward Norton beating the **** out of himself in Fight Club.

Is he really a Jets fan? Geno Smith? If I were a Jets fan and my screen name was Geno Smith I'd want to break my own jaw. I mean, by the Vizzini-like display of dizzying intellect, I suppose he COULD actually be a Jets fan and still have chosen the name Geno Smith... I suppose... possibly...

After using the excuse that he tried to run a hybrid system last year, Ryan brought in his twin and Ed Reed and essentially proclaimed that if he's going down he's doing it his way. No excuses. He failed. The organizational embarrassment of having hired his clearly unqualified brother in the first place should be enough grounds to fire him, IMO. Losing sucks enough. Losing when your head coach is an utter embarrassment and buffoon can't be tolerated. Get him the hell out of here.

Probably want to pick his brain to consider him as a potential OC when he's not retained after Ryan is sacked.