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I guess each Owner/GM have their own personal opinion in how they evaluate players/coaches and they have the right to make their choice as long as they are not discriminating. It will be hard for anyone to prove that there was actual racial discrimination. But clearly there is very effective "Old boys network" mafia in the NFL

+1 to that. It is that time of the season, when the contending teams are deep in the playoffs, we are left to ponder how our next years team will fare.

Based on what happened to the Bills three years ago, I think Brandon was initially scared to fire Buddy and be left with no GM (including Whaley, who does not have any guaranteed path to the GM position and hence could have deferred). He probably was surprised at the number of candidates that wanted to interview for the HC job and that they were able to make a selection rather than be dumped with one. By then it was too late to fire Nix and hire a new GM and hence is left with one with one foot out the door and the head hidden somewhere. The bills have nothing going easy for them

It also could be the difficulty of consistently kicking in a cold weather place like Buffalo, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Granted that Dawson was 7-7 on 50+ kicks. It would be interesting to know how many of those were in Cleveland. Having lived in Pittsburgh, I knew that a 50+ FG in Heinz field was a very low probability. In fact a 52yarder was the longest FG in Pittsburgh for a while. I don't think Lindell is a problem at this point on this team.

Really don't know why Fewell was not given the HC job. They could have made Gailey the OC and he would have done a better job. Russ chickened out and went with the "name" recommended coach rather than promoting the interim HC. It is hard to say if race was a factor. I think it is more of the "Ole Boys Network" machine working rather than the race card. I want the Bills to make choices based on merit and nothing else.

The choice of signing Levitre and Byrd may not be in the hands of Buddy but with Overdorf who does the cap. I am sure Buddy would want to re-sign both these outstanding players. The signing of Kelsay was seen as keeping leadership. Something I never understood. The problem was that the poor leadership of Gailey let this team down.

+1. When opponents figured out the gimmicks added to the play calling and took away those plays, Fitz couldn't make the throws when necessary. The play that got him a lot of yards was the quick slant to Chandler or the Screen passes to the RBs.

' Why would anyone move Glenn to RT. He played LT for the Bills for 14 games and did very well. Glenn is the LT of this team for the foreseeable future. We have enough holes in other places to fill.

Marc comes from the WCO. May be we don't the skill set for that type of game (or have not been successful in installing that with Rob Johnson etc)/

+1. So defensive "ST" for the past three seasons. IF we have the same players, I don't understand why it will take a step back. DeHaven played scared, like his Head Coach.

Doug is reaping the fruits of being part of the Bill Parcells tree. I hope he goes on to be as good as a Sean Peyton or a John Fox, who always seemed to have their teams prepared for the full 60 minutes, something that Jauron, Gailey have not been able to do.

And I think that might be one of the problems. All these pre-game shows mostly have recently retired NFL players and coaches. These are not real journalists or TV folks. They tend to talk too rubbish, yet the networks continue to hire them...Emmit Smith, Tiki Barber, Sapp, Irvin, Keyshawn Johnson, Carter all suck and yet they continue to get these contracts...Now there will be Ray Lewis in your living rooms next season.

Sapp is a marginal HOF player I don't think he gets in this year. I don't think Brown gets ahead of Reed. Remember, Reed beat out both Carter and Brown last year in the voting and made to the Top 10.

We can't keep drafting DBs in the 1st and 2nd rounds and letting them walk. If we let McKelvin and Byrd walk, that would be 5 DBs that we have allowed to walk after drafting them at the top (Winfield, Clements, Whitner, McKelvin and Byrd). We have to lock up our best young talent, otherwise, you have to now fill another hole. Aaron williams is not a NFL DB.

That is eliminated now and the damn Patriots will host another AFC Conference Championship game.....

Is Whitner playing Free Safety ? He is 20 yards from the LOS The difference in the game is that GB has ZERO Running game.

GB defense looks so small!

What a throw by Rodgers...We haven't seen these kinds of throws at Orchard Park in a long time.

That is very surprising. The Pouncey brothers have been really good.

That is Chan Gailey for you. As I posted on another thread, Gailey lost his job, because he failed to make his adjustments , in spite of it all being very obvious. He failed to make any half-time game day adjustments, failed to go to another QB when his starter was failing miserably. Even the out-in-the flat throw cost us a TD against Miami at their one-yard line, because the play was so predictable.

Sentiment Analytics !!!

This week was not about Player Personnel. It was more about building the coaching side of the team. We still have a lot of work on that side having to hire the position coaches. Only after that, the coaching staff can truly evaluate the current personnel of the team and identify what needs to be done in FA and then the draft.

Last year Tannehill as picked at #8 by the Dolphins. I sure Ryan was not slated anywhere in the top 20 of most of the draft boards. However, if you think he is your guy and is unlikely to be there in the next round or don't have a viable trading partner, then you make the pick. If the Bills have wasted picks on Whitner @ #8, how bad it can be to get a QB there.

+1

I don't think the 2.8M counts against the guaranteed money. Doesn't he have two 3M roster bonus and may be that is what counts against the guaranteed money.,