Logical Reasoning

Check your history books Frank and you'll see that in superbowl twenty-five and many others, the best team doesn't always win. and/or Your team chose not to play the best football they could have played in the biggest, most watched sporting event of the year.

It is not a perfect blend of opposites because I really like Pettine as our DC but the reality is that if the guy is as good as we need him or want him to be, he will only be here two a year or two at the most. Our other coaches have very little if any successful coaching experience in the NFL including our head coach and the Browns have two very experienced coordinators with a history of success as coordinators. Our brand new approach in going with fresh ideas and young gun assistants along with our offense coordinator may work for us as our hope that fresh ideas will work against the old regime style that the Browns employed. There are certainly more variables than coaching. The Patriots have been among the worst defenses in the NFL the past two or three years and they have dominated with a great quarterback so talent can offset poor coaching sometimes, but it will be interesting to see where both teams are two years from now.

It should/could be pointed out that over the last four years or so, the Pats have had one of the poorer defenses in the league and have been very difficult to beat because they have a great quarterback in Tom Brady. Coaching has much to do with the success of a team but so does a qb.

How many other teams would want to take him. Its a huge gamble but I would let him go and then sign him the next day if you can.

Arm strength is definitely a question and he missed some open receivers this year, but does anyone who thinks he was the reason we lost the games we did have any idea how terrible our defense was in the entire history of our organization and the league. I am not saying that we should not let him go because we could do a lot with three million dollars and Levitre resigned, but that seems like a big gamble with Thigpen in the bullpen. We lost games because of our defense. Fitz didn't help his cause, but an average defense gets us at 8 and 8.

On more than one occasion this season, Kyle Williams noted that some players in the locker room weren't giving their all and were not aware of what it took to play in the NFL. It may be too easy to assume that it was Williams even with the hand injury but it may have been more than that. I would hope that someone would allow some access with Marrone and Kyle Williams to get a feel for what the strengths, mentally, might be.

Does anyone think there should be a rule that prohibits teams from talking to potential coaches until after the superbowl. If we really wanted a guy like McCoy, for example, the hiring of him is delayed along with the coordinators and assistant coaches. Its not too off base in the way it is done today, but it just seems like a pretty easy fix.

Should get an interview.

Firing Chan and the entire staff is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are many bad things that can be said about Chan including the Jackson/Spiller craziness, time management issues and the overall record; but our situation is not conducive to bring in a new guy that is going to have to hire an entirely new staff and start over. If Wilson gets the interceptions, Spiller doesn't fumble against NE. The Bills are not that far away and I am afraid that our place in line of the teams who will be hiring will be at the end. In other words, our get won't be as good as what we had.

The leaders are a large part of the problem. Wilson dropped two crucial interceptions which would have won us games. Fitzpatrick and the love that he has for Jackson, and I like Jackson, when Spiller is obviously better; has created a split. Kelsay has been hurt. Kyle Williams hasn't been great although he isn't bad. Stevie drops passes and has had some trouble holding onto the ball and has let his frustrations show. Our leadership doesn't lead.

We heard all week that the Bills wanted to play with everything that they had to keep their job. Eric Wood came back early to prove who much he wanted the coach and the regime to stay and we still got the effort we got. False starts, turnovers, overall poor focus. I am not supporting Gailey in this post, but the truth is that the players play and the effort has not been there the past two weeks and with blowout losses to NE and SF, the mental weakness is pathetic. Eric Wood came out last week and spoke his mind about a terrible home environment which took some guts. I want to hear him, Kyle Williams, or anyone give some names to the media.

Greed is a good thing. It wakes you up for work. It moves you to better yourself and your kids. The NFL is the great product it is because of greed. If this is your real thoughts and feelings, you need to see more of the world.

If you really hate the Bills game in Toronto, you don't have a realistic understanding of how small of a market Buffalo really is and you really don't understand how the NFL works. Grow up and quit your whining. This is the way it is and it has to be.

The runs he makes, the overall speed and quickness, and the anxiety he brings to defensive coordinators makes him easily one of the scariest backs in all of football. I like Chan but to imply that he gets tired or that it is just his time off and Fred's time on is foolish and insulting to me as a fan. This is not to say that Fred can't be the leader he is, but we are talking about a player that can take it the distance any time. The post game comments were pathetic. Sullivan crushed him and for the first time in as long as I can remember, the other reporters rode Sullivan and didn't let Gailey off the hook. There were no answers regarding seven touches because there really are no answers for that.

You are being way too sensitive. There are many callers who go on there and can ruin the entire show. It virtually is a call-in show and one person can blow the entire thing. Staying on hold the way you did makes you look too desperate to listen to yourself talk. It is weird for such a small market like Buffalo. You were lucky to get a response back. Lighten up Francis.

"Point, blank, period." is not a complete sentence and your thoughts about a lone conclusion need some refinement.

He has a job that he loves, it pays him well, and he is very good at it. He can see his family and probably has better blood pressure in the position he is at.

That is really funny and clever. +++++++++ Have been laughing . . . stopped and started again.

Thiggy would have hit Fred in stride. What are you talking about. Have you been to practice to see this firsthand. It was a terrible throw and he has played poorly but you have no proof or evidence that 'Thiggy' would have made it.

Most Bills fans get sick at losing but it is a part of the game. Very rarely does a team go undefeated, but not fighting and quitting is beyond the boundary that most fans can handle. At two and three with two of the losses to probably superbowl teams, no one is complaining who has a true understanding of football but this game hurts. It was ten to three basically going into the third quarter with us getting the football to begin the second half. Chandler can accept all the guilt he wants to put on himself but that touchdown on the next play is not the end of the game. Mistakes happen, but there is no excuse for that second half. To think of the history of that team with Montana, Rice, Taylor and Bill Walsh and it was this team against our guys that set the record for most yards against a defense that is supposed to be one of the best in the league. How can a player or coach expect anything except a complete request from either Gailey, Freddie or Wison about what is happening? Is it some kind of protest of the highest paid free agent who has done nothing so far? Is it that the defense being played doesn't really work and needs to be switched? Is it that other coaches from around the league are far superior to ours? The point of assuming that things can turn around is not off the wall. The Giants were in trouble the year they went to the SuperBowl and ending up beating the best Pats team of the many. The record is two and three and the afc is weak this year and stranger things have happened to allow teams to get in the playoff, but I would like to hear something other than "we just need to get back to work" and/or "we got to come up with some answers and it is my responsibility".

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I am not sure of a media bias like we see in the political coverages but it seems like the Buffalo sports media can have a negative view more than most. If both Jackson and Spiller are healthy, that would be a very good thing but it really hasn't been discussed.

Like the optimism.

I went to the game and was sickened just like everyone else, but it truly is only one game. It is doubtful if we get to first place in our division, but it is a long season and there are lots of things that can happen. I think Spiller and Jackson in the backfield are still really dangerous and the defense will watch film of this and improve if not a whole bunch.