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Have any of these 'we are getting x jets player panned out to be true? I'm beginning to think the agents of said players are leveraging the Rex connection to force NYJ's hand

For this to be in the news so much in the last few days obviously there was something brewing. Makes me leery of the personnel direction the team is taking

the offense has been garbage all season, why did we expect anything different here? The D had to win this one, everyone knew it, and they choked. Defense let us down today.

yeah i can't make us miss at 10-6 (although we may not beat oakland at this rate). SD/KC game is only for our 5th or 6th seeding. What are we missing?

As much as it'd be nice to keep the hope alive what irritates me the most about the bills is their inability to ever make a statement win. We come up short in the biggest moments over and over again. We squeak out wins here and there just to keep people 'hoping' but you had 2 shots in 5 days to really make the league take notice and blew them both as usual. Every other team has righted their ship for at least a season since 1999. Something has to give!

I feel this story/comment lends much more credence to that sideline blowup story from training camp

While Im on the fence about Hackett's offence, shouldn't it be mentioned that he calls the plays for the 2nd and 3rd string O who have scored td's while in the redzone during this preseason? Im not sure which side of the argument this validates though.... ugh

I feel like we really have no way of knowing what EJ is intending unless you know the play call and have a copy of the play book. imo it seems to depend on the play's outcome... if the result is bad, he stared down the receiver, if the result is good he meant to stare at the guy. Depends which dope is calling the game on tv haha Even in the example in Sal's article (2nd still) I think someone would/could argue he's staring down Stevie not Ihedegbo. But who cares, the play worked. We have no definite way of knowing, lets let the guy play and talk about the end results.

I love this! I think it takes a special person to email GM's and Coaches with unsolicited advice on personel. Behold the wonders of the internet!

yeah haha that would have been something a franchise with some forsight would do!

Is graham on the roster next year? I hope not.

what really bothers me about these pathetic calls, is when they bring a guy like pereira in or any other 'expert' they will show the replay (as was the case last week with Robey's PI) and say something along the lines of there was contact blah blah blah'. Of course there was contact, there is contact on every single pass play, the problem with the flag is that at that crucial moment they decide to get 'ticky tacky'. We aren't stupid fans, we all know is was a bad call, call a spade a spade. I feel, as an expert, you'd have more credibility. Its like holding it happens on every play. You just choose to call it.

this list is sad and funny at the same time... i mean there are other pi$$ poor franchises (lions, browns, jags to name a few) and they have their struggles, but do they have lists like this? do other bad franchises have heartbreak endings like this, or are they just bad from start of game right through to the end? I often wonder that. Does it seem worse than it is to us because we're Bills fans? I ask my friends (fans of other teams) if they happened to see how the 'Bills blew it this time' and they never seem all that impressed. So I think maybe this happens to all teams but we're just noticing our team's misfortune, then I think, 'no way, its just us'.

I've always been a fan of the teams my dad roots for in sports (NHL, MLB, NFL) I have a 2 year old myself and got him all kinds of Bills gear and already try to get him watching games with me. After sleeping on it last night, I honestly feel it would be cruel to have my son suffer through the agony of being a Bills fan. I feel I should set him free and let him choose his own team (except the pats). Does anyone else feel this way?

When was the last time a Bills team 'had' to win a game and came through for us? Seriously does anyone remember?

To me everything went downhill with the Calvin Johnson 'catch'. In trying to defend the officiating crew from that game, the NFL has caused a lot of confusion surrounding catch rules. My take was Goodwin made contact with the turf with what seemed like two different motions after he came down with the ball. I would love to see/hear a replay and see when the whistle was blown (it should have been on the intial contact with turf as I believe he was touching a defender), but by my understanding, what the NFL is saying by these rulings is because he wasn't in possession of the ball the play was still on going. So wouldn't this mean that had Goodwin maintained possession he could have got up and run? You can't be tackled or down contact before you have possession can you?

http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=afceast&id=66740 Hackett, Tuel and Marrone explaining the goal line call.

This is a great link, thank you. Not sure why I couldn't come across it myself.

Can someone explain why it matters for the offense (namely the qb) to call out which number is the 'mike' linebacker. What is the purpose/benefit to the offense? Aren't you still going to run the play you've called regardless at that point? As much as I hate bringing his name up here; Brady can alway be heard during broadcasts shouting out '## is the Mike' but never seems to audible once that's established. Just curious why it matters and as an aside, how does a qb determine who the Mike is if the defense is 3-4 vs. 4-3. Thanks

Jerry Jones was already quoted as saying Dallas wouldn't be flexed

I've been saying this for a few years... what the bills have done is harder to do than just make the playoffs once!

18 years old. Jesus!

not to mention the penalty is enforced on the kickoff so really who cares about the 15 yards it'll just result in a touchback.

who feels nauseous?

miami's dline, as well as ours, have been getting a lot of pressure tonight.