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Dribble, trickle, BREEze -> Johnson if you believe our cryptic friend IMO.

Dribble, trickle, BREEze -> Johnson if you believe our cryptic friend IMO.

Sounds to me like a conversation among friends, and nothing more. Hey, congrats on the GM thing. Thanks, got a coaching position available... you interested? Let me think on that... naw, not really. Ok, how about your son? I find the more interesting part of the article the conversation with Billick. Did he really think calling back 15 minutes later with a handful of sour grapes was going to make the next GM more interested. Thankfully we didn't end up with that a$$ and his over-inflated self opinion. Who does that?

Lombardi's logic is a bit skewed. He argues that the Bills should go back to the blueprint that made them successful in the eighties, not promote from within (Polian?) or bring in a coach that has only moderately successful credentials (Levy?). Is he familiar at all with the Bills of the eighties?

Are you suggesting we kidnap the next coach's family... or kidnap a candidate's family in order to blackmail him into coaching the Bills? I wonder if OBD has thought of that tactic. Git 'er done, Buddy!!

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On the point about Nix, personally I wonder if the Bills didn't bring him at the beginning of this past season with the expectation of elevating him to GM. It gives RW the chance to see if he fit his idea of GM without giving him the title upfront. It also would explain why Guy was the only other candidate interviewed (Rooney Rule).

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Personally, I felt they contacted the people they did first because 1) they were out of football and 2) they could fill both the GM and HC position. Now that those options are exhausted, it's time to start the GM search, thus the HC search is on hold. I don't think the last 6 weeks were wasted time, it just took that time for the picture to come in to focus a little more. For those suggesting that other teams should be letting us interview their assistant GMs or other personnel, not everyone's season was finished by week 9.

Countdown to coaching change: The 2009 Buffalo Bills He was a good man, but... The 2009 Buffalo Bills Skeletor's revenge

What if he was named strength and conditioning coach and given free reign to buy as many Total Gyms as he deemed necessary?

The Bills are so bad that, in an effort to find a quality product that fans can "Bill-ieve" in, Russ Brandon started selling tickets to the offseason.

I will realize, yet again, that Sundays without the Bills are more fun than Sundays with the Bills, and I will give up in earnest on yet another football season. Here's to the false hope for the 2010 season. :wallbash:

Yeah, also misses the point that we're tied for 10th in the league, not at/near the bottom as "less sacks than ours" would suggest.

I'd stop watching the team before I'd root against them. I can't justify calling myself a fan and rooting for them to lose. If they suck that bad, they'll lose regardless of who I'm rooting for. If DJ gets fired as a result, great, but the thought of them losing to the Browns AGAIN turns my stomach.

I don't know the legal ramifications, but given the situation and the overplayed hand, I would love for the 49ers to make it known to Crabtree publicly, privately, or otherwise that they have no intention whatsoever of signing him to a contract so long as Parker is representing him. It's about time that someone pi$$es on that ****'z leg.

Kind of like that old girlfriend that didn't have the guts to break up with you, so instead she did things to make you hate her thinking you would get sick of it and leave, or it wouldn't hurt you so bad when she finally got up the nerve. Uhh... not that that's ever... I mean, speaking hypothetica... err... Damn, I hate that beotch.

The fact that Edwards likes DJ as a coach is irrelevant. Jauron has been loved by his players wherever he's been. His players want him to succeed. As we've heard since Schonert's departure, it was his way and only his way, and we know he had an intolerance for young player mistakes (Hardy.) Schonert was his QB coach under Fairchild, and his OC for a year plus. When TE first took over for JP when he was injured he took more chances on midrange and downfield throws. My point is it may take some time to get the ghost of Schonert out of TE's head. Give AVP some time to loosen Edwards up before you write him off. Also, consider the defensive philosophies employed in Marshawn's absence. Three games played mostly with some version of a nickel or dime coverage. The first game the offensive gameplan was working until the end. The second game TE connects on a 30+ and 40+ yard TD. And the third game, despite the fact that your WRs may be open, it's tough to find them when you're getting the p*$$ blitzed out of you (reference to NO, not prior) and your line's playing poorly. It seemed to be to be a community effort on that one. As far as Sully insinuating that TE should watch film of Favre and then play like him, how many times in Favre's career, especially recently, has that ball been picked??!! A few recent playoff games come to mind. Regardless, watching Favre (or Kelly, Elway, Marino, Manning, etc) is unlikely to result in TE playing like them. If it were only that simple.

Mike, Let's see if your comeback with the 'Skins rivals my forgettable years with the Colts before you throw stones, big boy. XOXO, Tony

We could bring Todd Marinovich in to back him up. Maybe even get Tony Mandarich to play LT.

"Believe me when I say... I f&^%$d a mermaid!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBLaAClaRU (NC-17 for adult language)

I think the "football related questions" remark is being blown way out of proportion. I'm certain that all of us have said something that didn't quite convey what we were actually trying to say, the difference being that we didn't have a camera in our face, or a reporter writing down what we said. I would guess he meant from a fan's perspective of watching other games. You don't have to love watching the game to love playing it (personally can't stand watching basketball or baseball, but used to love playing them as a kid.) As for the checkdowns, when Trent unexpectedly started in his first year when JP went down he made plenty of mid-range throws, so why is it so hard to believe that he's being coached to protect the ball, and that three OCs in three years as a pro takes some adjustment? AVP's been the OC for a whole three games now... no surprise that they're not completely on the same page yet. That is probably not even enough time to get Schonert's voice out of TE's head. The line is a work in progress that has proven itself shaky in obvious passing situations, and the defenses we have played are designed to take away the mid to long range plays. Part of the reason that Trent has taken so much heat is also the reason that Fred Jackson's play has been lauded, because the short stuff is there. I'd love for our offense to dictate the game to the defense, but people, we're not there yet. Recievers can be running wide open down field, but if you don't have the time for the play to set up it doesn't work. You have to have a line that can dominate to do that, and ours is a young, injured work in progress. As frustrating as the short, high percentage stuff is, I don't recall it being any more fun to watch run, run, incomplete/sack with JP. GIVE IT TIME before you write it off, three games is not enough!

After cleaning out the fridge, of course...

I don't think I'd looked at it that closely before either. Taken in concert with the fact that he is "Bucco Bruce," I'd say yeah, he's winking.

My pleasure. Thanks for the props.