Just in Atlanta

Can we just trade with the Patriots*? Like the whole team?

Mmm k. On any other Sunday that stadium is an opera. Southerners prefer college football and there are more transplants in the city than Atlantans.

As an Atlantan, he's right. The majority of the city is not excited.

Thouroughly rooting for the Falcons.

Just say no to Smoking Jay.

Can we call it informed speculation?

We had a top 3 D under Schwartz (which helped us win more games than our game-management offense) and the game that put us over .500 was with NE backups. Marrone quit on his team because he couldn't get past his ego and Hackett was one of the most uninspiring OCs in recent memory. I won't expend any energy wishing bad will on them, but if they failed, I wouldn't be upset.

Tim Horton?

I hope so. Damn, Childress and Olson are uninspiring.

The Chiefs run a game manager offense, have for years. I hope this style isn't coming to Buffalo. Incredibly unexcited about Childress and Olson.

Zach Brown was a beast and led the NFL in tackles.

4.5 thoughts until the feed broke: McD looks cool, confident and in charge. I like him so far. Poor Whaley looks castrated and defeated. Jerry Sullivan, the eternal hack with one shtick -- relentless negativity -- needs to lay off. I'd like for the Bills organization to grow some balls and question The News' performance, which from my viewpoint is not playoff worthy either. Mmm...Buffalo Water™.

Bwahaha!

"This Tyrod contract is an embarrassment," Trump said. "The Pegulas have been a disaster for the City of Buffalo. Absolute disaster. If I owned the Bills, our contracts would be much better and they'd be in the Super Bowl."

You had me at wrestler.

Jerry Sullivan takes a dislike in everyone on his first meeting.

Honest slightly off-topic question: does anyone have any insight into why the Buffalo News strated a crusade against the Pegulas? Has he wronged them in someway? Is he too Howard Hughes-like? Or maybe it's the ridiculous media policies during the off-season?

Hopefully it's not the power to embrace nepotism.

Ha ha.

Don't understand the hate for Berman. I always enjoyed him. Well, at least two years ago when I subscribed to cable, which I have happily dropped.

What's the over/under on him not passing?

Nice article, and telling. How the firing went down makes sense given Rex's personality.

"Cowher!" Just mentioned again. You heard it here.

You stop. This is at least a serviceable offense with Taylor and he is at least an above average stopgap. No one is saying (or thinking) he is Montana. Getting rid of him would be literally insane. We'd have to hit a gold mine in free agency or the draft to even have a chance at the playoffs next year. Did you see what this offense is like Sunday without a decent quarterback?

It's a reason. The main reason, IMO, was his steadfastness in force-fitting players to his scheme instead of the other way around. The first year was a hybrid, which was awful. The second year, it seemed, all facets of the defense for many games never seemed to click at once. I do think if given another year, it could've gelled. But three 200-yard rushers, fan ire and so many meltdowns made it a no-brainer to fire him. ... And so off we go, once again, looking at the other shiny rocks across the stream (ooh, look at Lynn, look at Couglin!) with the exact same leadership as three other times before. Will the next rock do better, or just do some things better and some things worse, only to repeat the entire process again in two years if we don't make the playoffs by then? Or is the leadership the main part of the problem?