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First off let me say i am as happy as i can be that we beat the Jets & are at 5 & 3 going into the bye week but with thinking who & what the team that we played are as a whole just how excited should we be by this win ? First off by all means we should have won this game hands down with out even trying . But if you take away the terrible play at QB & the 3 INT's by Geno & 1 By Vick at the end of the game with our AWESOME D the game is tied & we would have to fight to win it . The running game is all but stagnant the passing game is getting better because of Orton not because of the OC that's for sure & our College minded coach can't see the forest for the tree's because him being a mediocre NFL talent at best spending more time on the waiver wire than on the field during his career doesn't know decent talent when he see's it which is the reason why Urbik say most of this half of the season . I hate to say it but i hope our new owners see that after Whaley & Shwartz this team needs to be looked at pretty closely to decide if this staff is really what it will take to put us in the play offs .. If Shwartz was made HC & DC along with the QB coach elevated to OC Marrone along with his O line coach fired to bring in a proven coach at this position & Hackett could be put back where he belongs as a assistant then they may be on to something, but the way this group is going . When your QB has more experience at play calling than your OC & your HC had a less than stellar NFL career at a position on the team you coach which is a troubled position on that team then & your not real sure how to coach it up to fix it something needs to change !! Blast away Bills fans !!

The hard part about it is making a college coach & a mediocre (by all standards) one time NFL player see a NFL coaching decision that needs to be made for the betterment of the team . Seeing as he was the mediocre player i don't expect him to see above average talent at his position to make a NFL coaching decision , thats why it took so long to put Urbik back in the line up where a year ago he got a extension because of his steady play at the position .

If so that would be the high light of his career !!

Every one was saying by putting Orton in it would hurt EJ . Well EJ was hurting not only himself but the team too with his below average play .. Every game that Orton has played he has put up over 100 more per game than EJ which is better for the team & won 2 games that we would have lost with EJ at the helm . So go ahead & hate some Orton but he's got my vote going forward until we find a young QB or a veteran to replace Orton ...

Been to the Ralph a couple of times & i don't see where the visitors say that the venue sucks ? The sight lines are great , you can see well from just about any where in the stadium . I don't get why the tax payers should pay for the stadium with the NFL being the ones to get all or most of the profits . Let Goodell & others give back a bit of their yearly salary & put it in a stadium fund that every 5th or so year a team starting with the team that has the oldest venue to get a new on . If Goodell gave back $20 million a year of his $44 million & the NFL put lets say $500 million every year from their multi BILLION $ a year TV contract the NFL & the teams could pay cash over a short period of time & have the tax burden be nothing on the fans . But i guess where greed is involved with multi millionaires you just want more !!

Im still pissed we passed on R. Wilson & took who we did who ever made that call needs fired if they ain't gone by now !!

I agree they have already had their chance & they failed TWICE so why bother while we are at it SCREW LONDON TOO !!!

WOW you must not have watched 2 years ago when he was averaging 6 ypc what were you on vacation ? It's called game planning to the strengths of your players or having a true grasp of running a NFL offense which Hackett has neither !! He may WANT to but just by looking at the caliber of talent he has to work with & the result you can tell dude is WAY off the mark !!

Well if he does get a $50 million contract you will know that the same folks are still running the team but i would think Terry will have something to say about that . But Chris Brown answered a question in Fan Friday about the resigning long term of Spikes that they would have to look at his over all production , well if they would have done that with Fitz he would have never got that contract & rightly so .. But Spikes has elevated this D to be one of the pieces of making this a great D along with Schwartz & the others brought in to beef it up so why do they always seem to sign the slackers but the good ones they have to wait & see what's up with that ??

True Dat ! That just goes to show one more bit of Rookieness in our HC !! Not to mention letting B. Dehaven go !!

Yah but a lot of the O lines terrible play is due to the O line coach , it wasn't that way when Joe D was here ! And look what he has done in San diego , there O line is killer well at least better than what we got but it's the coaching !! Not the players , when the coach lets Urbik (a guy just signed to a multi year extension due to his play) sit the bench some one doesn't know what they are doing because Urbik was doing fine in Joe D's scheme !! But one of our most explosive players is null & void due to inexperience OC . You get quick passes in tho alignment the D will have to respect that speed & won't be able to blitz as much ...

It's a pretty simple fix !! Get a OC that has some experience on how to use the talent he has available . Can you imagine this offense say with J. Gruden, Brian Schottenhiemer ,Frank Reich as the OC instead of Daddy wanta B Hackett ?? The guy just doesn't have the experience ! Then when you put Orton in as QB for God sake he has more time in shower shoes in a NFL offense than Hackett has in total time spent in the NFL ... Hell he didn't even play in the NFL so he doesn't even have that experience !! Below is Hacketts resume . WOO HOO !!! 2003 University of California, Davis (Assistant Linebackers Coach) 2003 Stanford University (Offensive Assistant) 2004 Stanford University (Coordinator's Assistant) 2005 Stanford University (Recruiting Coordinator) 2006 & 2007 Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Offensive Quality Control) 2008 & 2009 Buffalo Bills (Offensive Quality Control) 2010 Syracuse University (Quarterbacks/Tight Ends) 2011 & 2012 Syracuse University (Offensive Coordinator) 2013 to Present Buffalo Bills (Offensive Coordinator)

OK at the beginning of the year it was said that the strongest parts of the team were D line , RB's , WR's , CB's . Since then we have found out through their play the LB's aren't bad either . We were all worried about the D & what Schwartz would bring with the change in scheme , well so far we have end up in just about all defensive categories . Heck even the ST's are doing pretty good this year , although we have had to use starters from other areas on the team to make it so . I was listening to Thurman the other day on the John Murphy show & he had a great point . Which involves one of our strengths of the team but it involves not using the strength to it's full potential . What happened to the 4 WR sets ? We have the guys , could it be inexperience just doesn't know how to go about using these guys ? For a moment just imagine being a D coordinator & seeing this line up . (excuse me if the guys aren't in their true spot but hopefully you'll get my drift) M. Williams - M. Goodwin - Glenn- Richardson-Wood-Urbik-Henderson - R.Woods - Watkins or Hogan or Chandler Orton Spiller This would spread out & give CJ enough room to work plus give a D coordinator fits so why aren't we using ANY line up configurations like this ? Chan used them pretty well & we now have a lot stronger WR group. SO WHAT'S UP HACKETT ?? The Bills biggest draw back is the offense , if they would change 2 coaches we could be a super bowl team ! Get rid of Hackett & O line coach for some upgrades & we would be hitting on all cylinders .. If you get a chance listen to the Thurmon interview on the John Murphy show the other night & you will here his thoughts on how they are misusing CJ's talents ...

Should have never been picked by the Bills !! Another Bills blunder in the draft ...

Ya'll are on crack if you think EJ is the second best , that is the same as giving Fitz a huge contract after winning 5 games . I will hold my opinion until at least the mid way part of the season because if you can't tell by my opening statement i didn't believe that EJ should have been a first round pick in any way !! But i will say i still have hope that those hired by the Bills to know talent & build a winning team know more than I the arm chair GM !!

Good article but what did you write after the Chargers game ?

Does this reply have a Bills undertone to it ???

Jay Cutler - Bears Cameron Wake - Dolphins Antonio Gates - Chargers I'm just saying !! SUPER BOWL !!!

If Marrone would have seen the forest for the trees he would have kept Joe D , B Dehaven , P Metzelars, & a couple of others from the Gailey regime because there were a lot of good things that Gailey had going on . While i'm at it I'll rehash something that has been written about a bit here . They should have kept Fitz seeing as they had a contract they had signed & had to pay him regardless if they kept him or released him as they did . I don't know if it's ego or what but when a new coach comes in i don't see why they can't look at what they got & use the old adage "IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT" We had 2 or more facets of the team when Marrone took over that were ranked top ten & you look at a guy that was your buddy & his unit was like 30th in the league , you bring him in to replace a top ten coach then you talk about "we will do what ever it takes to make the team better" Can you imagine Coaching staff of Marrone - HC - coaches kept & added to make new staff Gailey - OC - Joe D - O line coach - Metzelars - TE coach - T Wheatley - RB coach Pettine or Schwartz - DC - Pepper J - D line coach - D Henderson - DB coach B Dehaven - ST coach I know this is a pipe dream but the coaching staff would be a lot more play off ready if some coaches could get over their ego & not fix the things that weren't broke !!

Murph needs to look at the red zone percentage I think i read where the Bills are 28th in the league in red zone percentage or was that 3rd downs can't remember exactly but either one is not good so he is managing the game & is not a elite QB talent . Wake up Murph ….

Joe D Is there O line coach too isn't he ?

http://espn.go.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/13307/quick-fix-bills-in-red-zone

He's got a ways to go before i get on the wagon . He amy be up 2 games but i'm not like the Bills front office that gave Fitz his contract after just 5 games . It takes a lot more than 2 to jump on the wagon but i hope he does prove me & all the other bashers wrong !! Go Bills !!!

But remember what Marrone said the beginning of last year ? Something to the effect that the O Lines doesn't need the same players all the time to have a cohesive group , or something along those lines . I can't remember the exact quote . When i heard him say that i thought this guy is bonkers the O line needs the same guys most all the time to know what each one is going to do & how they are going to do it , communication is key on the O line & if they don't play together much you can forget good protection for the QB !!

If Ej can go back into his memory & play like this or if the O line can give him the time & he can perform like he did in this game we can win a lot of games with him at the helm . The only problem to this point i haven't seen this EJ play for the Bills but after seeing this i'm holding out hope that he shows up !! GO Bills !!!!