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Leo and Graham next too. Tyler Dunne ‏@TyDunne 43s44 seconds ago The #Bills have also announced that Leodis McKelvin and Corey Graham could have restructured deals, too.

DW is a master of saying things to placate the fanbase and spreading misinformation.

Not so fast! Rand Getlin ‏@Rand_Getlin 3m3 minutes ago Source: Kaepernick's agents have requested permission from the team to seek a trade.

The process matters.

Melissa Click of "I need some muscle to remove this student" fame finally canned. http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/turmoil_at_mu/university-of-missouri-curators-vote-to-fire-melissa-click/article_4b0ae653-2d61-5f3f-9ede-a129d12f0fd1.html Assistant Professor Melissa Click, captured on video calling for “some muscle” to remove reporters from a campus protest site, was fired Wednesday by the University of Missouri Board of Curators, Chairwoman Pam Henrickson said in a prepared statement. The board voted 4-2 in favor of termination during a closed session in Kansas City, with Henrickson and curator John Phillips opposing the move, UM System spokesman John Fougere wrote in an email Thursday. Curators David Steelman, Donald Cupps, Maurice Graham and Phil Snowden voted in favor of firing Click. Click did not respond to a message seeking comment Thursday. The board earlier voted to suspend Click with pay on Jan. 27. “The board respects Dr. Click’s right to express her views and does not base this decision on her support for students engaged in protest or their views,” Henrickson said in the prepared statement. “However, Dr. Click was not entitled to interfere with the rights of others, to confront members of law enforcement or to encourage potential physical intimidation against a student.”

He was on a mandated rookie deal.

Sounds like another TT and EJ year.

Good for him.

I don't think anyone said anything different. Just that I'd take the 2015 offense over the 2014 offense 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. And that was supposed to be the difference in making the playoffs or not last offseason.

What "really took place?" Big Cat's stats are the one faulting 3 and outs for the Bills defense allowing 14 points in the Skins first 2 drives? And it's the 3 and outs getting the defense tired is why we lost that game?

Are you talking defense or offense here? Here's what I'm trying to say, in an example. Let's say the Bills game log looks like this: Bills offense gets ball at 20 yardline 1st and 10 - EJ Manuel incomplete pass 2nd and 10 - EJ Manuel incomplete pass 3rd and 10 - EJ Manuel incomplete pass 4th and 10 - Punt to 20 Opponent gets ball at 20 yard line Either goes 3 and out or punts eventually The Bills Defense would get a point for the above scenario. Every drive, every game. If the Bills offense gets a first down, the drive after is discounted. If the opposing team scores a TD, no points. I don't know what you're trying to say here. Are you saying that if the Bills offense goes 3 and out, and then the Bills defense is out there for 9 minutes, and then the Bills offense goes 3 and out again, the defense shouldn't be penalized?

I really need to stop editing my posts and ending up with a longer one. Sorry about that. Take a look. I'll also note 3 and out streaks from each game.

2014 is not in that post. Also, we need to hammer out the methodology before I dive in. Because yours, honestly, is pretty weak. Taking a data set of strictly losses, which, by definition, only include games our defense allowed more points than our offense scored? And you're going to tell me that it "proves" our ineffective offense hamstrung our defense? C'mon. That's not remotely fair. Here's my proposed criteria. All 16 games from the 2014 and 2015 season. I'll tally up every time the offense went 3 and out and the defense held the other team to a punt. The scoring will be 2 for a punt/TO and 1 for forcing a FG. The defense gets zero points if they allow a TD drive. I will throw out every TD and FG allowed after an offensive TO, because I don't think it's very fair to hold either of those against the defense, and it should (hopefully) even out over the course of a season. I will make special note of instances where the defense "stood up" in a do or die moment (basically to end the game) in both instances, with contextual explanations. Does that sound fair?

Where was your comparable analysis when opining that the defense lost games because of the 3 and outs in 2015? I didn't see a single reference to 2014, as if 3 and outs didn't matter then. It'll take me a minute to go through it. But if it's alright with you, I'll go through games that we won as well. Because I know we had games with streaks of garbage offense in 2014 that we pulled out a win in. He didn't use the word carry either, and that's not what he said.

Who said we were carried by our offense? I didn't read that anywhere.

I edited it. Sorry.

The offense last year was good enough to win 9 games. Wasn't it? Is our offense better or worse this year? Our offense in 2014 had a 3 and out % of 24.87. Our offense in 2015 had a 3 and out % of 26.88. Are you telling me that even though almost every single other statistic was better for the offense in 2015, and every single statistic was worse for the defense in 2015, that difference in 2% is what killed our season? Better yet, show me it. We had 50 3 and outs in the 2015 season. 2% of 50 is 1. Show me which single 3 and out you take away and we win a game. Or which one you take out and we go to the playoffs? Because I can show you 30 plays that if resulted in sacks, we win a few more games.

I don't get it. Why are you referencing an argument you had with someone else?

We won 2 of those 3 games.

Why 3+ years? Can you name a new coach who took over a 9-7 team and made them worse?

Compensatory?

Glenn, no question.

ESPN article. Rex's story on defense is contradictory http://espn.go.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/23835/rex-ryans-story-inconsistent-on-late-season-success-of-bills-defense

Partially, I blame the litigiousness of this country.