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Does RGIII's struggles show that Briles may not be NFL caliber coaching material? RGIII needs to sit on the bench and learn the game as a backup for a year and get the confidence (and the body) right. That's the only way I'd want him in Buffalo. I do think that between the lack of mental preparation at Baylor combined with two mediocre coaches at the NFL haven't gotten the career off to a great start.

Safer, I'm not sure. I do think the NFL as a private business has to think up something innovative to handle the health care needs of its players proactively after retirement. Something akin to a pension for health care - an untouchable sum of money that's built by both player and league contribution that the player can use after retirement solely for their health care needs. Or in the year or two after retirement, the NFL paying for what I'd call post-career conditioning in helping players, especially offensive linemen, shed weight, eat right, get off the PEDs, etc. so retired players get started off in retirement on the right track.

RG3 needs a change of scenery and a year off to reboot his career. Just needs to sit on the bench and learn. He might get the change of scenery but not the learning experience.

Yep, George Seifert is still at the airport.

I think the play of the Eagles offensive line contributes to the inconsistency of Foles (and McCoy) this year. Last year when he performed well, the Eagles line players were extraordinarily healthy - playing all 17 games. This year all their starters and even backups sans Peters have been injured for weeks at a time or suspended (Lane Johnson).

The conundrum for me is I'd love for the Bills to keep Schwartz as a DC, not promote him to HC.

I don't want a college coach. I've had my fill of what seems like perpetual amateur hour from George Edwards to Doug Marrone. My vote would be for Pepper Johnson.

I don't want a college coach. I've had my fill of what seems like perpetual amateur hour from George Edwards to Doug Marrone. My vote would be for Pepper Johnson.

I think Marrone and Company lost their jobs with the games against KC and Miami regardless if the team finishes .500 or better.

+1.

I don't think Bill Cowher will ever coach again. He's been away too long and the money is too easy. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see Ryan stay and Idzik go. As a coach, Ryan can only do so much with that nightmare of a roster.

I know some of you think that we have no room to complain after providing such a beatdown in NJ yesterday. Thing is that Hackett's playcalling is predictable and the better teams like the Chiefs, and yes, even the Dolphins now have plenty of game tape to watch. Once they figure out how to snuff out those predictable 3rd down pass plays, we will be in trouble. It's not really new. Hackett is the new Turk. Kyle Orton and Company won in despite of throwing away two downs every series. This running it up the gut into a brick wall is absolutely maddening to me. What a waste of down and player talent. I hope the Bills take advantage of the bye week and cook up some new things on offense because if they don't, we're all going to get surprised and shocked with KC.

I think Doug Marrone gets 2015 if this year ends on a positive note. If the Bills become a hot mess, and he's fired, I'd offer the Bills would go after one of the "surprise" fires - like a Mike Smith or Tom Coughlin.

Hackett doesn't utilize any of the weapons he's got effectively whatsoever.

If you are Jerry Hughes and you're sitting down with your agent, do you have a realistic appraisal of the reasons for your success? You did nothing as a Colt. Upon trade to the Bills, in the Pettine and Schwartz systems, surrounded by elite talent, you now play to your draft selection and have turned into quite the impressive football player. Do you stay in Buffalo even if it isn't the max dollars you'd get elsewhere where there is no pressure to be THE man on defense, or do you chase that big contract from a team that will be counting on you to produce without elite talent surrounding you?

If you wanted to buzz up a good conspiracy it'd be the NFL telling the Bills to give EJ the opportunity to fail....until the ownership issue was resolved. When he does, take him out and put Orton in there to ride the team to the playoffs. Feel good story about being in the playoffs for the first time since 2000. The new owner in the NFL fraternity rides into town on a white horse, giving him leverage on the county and state for a new stadium. "Are you not impressed? Are you not entertained? I'm the new owner for 3/4 of a season and I've already made a winner."

I think people are too quick to label quarterbacks a bust if things go poorly. You have to appreciate and consider the context around the player. I wasn't completely sold on labeling guys like Tim Couch and David Carr busts as professional players because they were talents on really crappy teams with offensive lines so poor that they were running for their lives all game. True lousy players are Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith and JaMarcus Russell, largely due to their own problems and terrible attitudes. As for E.J. he's not there yet because he's got a good attitude and he hasn't played "a lot" of games. However, he doesn't have the out of playing on a bad team. Bills are loaded with playmakers.

Looks like a competent, capable QB to me. That's all the Bills need at this position. Get it to the playmakers. Connect from point A to B. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see the offense move a little better this Sunday.

I've wondered if the entirity of the show is actually the past. It's both sons reading dad's (Jax's) letters to them. As the camera pulls back you see the eldest son as the current (future) county sheriff, looking across the desk to his younger brother, a newly minted deputy in the department. End scene.

I've watched this show from Season 1 to this season, which will be its last. This season, along with last year's really changed the show in a fundamental way, in my opinion. At the outset, Jax and the rest of the Sons were generally likable characters. You wanted to root for them. The only people that usually got killed were other "bad guys". Now it seems that each show tries to outdo the last in terms of violence and body count and Jax and the gang are now a bunch of homicidal socioapaths for the most part. You wonder who isn't on that show.

Cool background. Thanks for the info.

I don't think Orton has to go all Madden to peform well. If he hits the passes he's suppossed to hit and is accurate, that's going to go a long way.

The whole GM+Coach approach never provides long term success. Sooner or later, one is going to suffer. Human beings aren't great high level multi-taskers. Something inevitably slips. New England has done a poor job of assembling talent around Tom Brady and I think that's beginning to show. I'd argue that they are worse at player development than the Bills are in recent years.

I'm totally into the Amazon Kindle woman, Amy Paffrath. http://amypaffrath.com/

So it's sorta along the lines of BSG and the Cylons? (Assuming you watched BSG.) Where are the ancients? On Earth?