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Playoffs? seriously. It will take a miracle on top of a lot of luck to get us in. I am tending to agree with this statement. I am not convinced that they have decided to give Rex the ax. I think if the games go well and they finish 9-7 I think they give him another year even though we will still miss the playoffs. If we loose both games, I think they let him go. No matter what happens, I don't see Coughlin coming to Buffalo. I think you are confusing age and health. One is not dependent on the other. I think the concern from the "he's too old people" is that he is 70, 71 when the season starts and that he is at the age that most people are contemplating retirement. I for one, don't want someone coming in and if by chance builds a winning program after 2 or 3 years, then have to find another replacement because he's decided that he wants to retire.

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And what experience do you have as a President of Operations as RB does, that your experience tells you that it's not his job to attend meetings regarding the operation of the team. Last time I checked if the owners are meeting with the GM and coach to discuss how the team is doing and what went wrong or went right, those are operational discussions. Not to mention who give's you or me or anyone on this board the right to say he does not belong in the meeting. Those meetings are done by invite so someone obviously wants him to attend. He as of today is still the President of Operations. GET OVER IT and MOVE ON! You seem to have very little life experience that you don't know how the world of business works. Fadingpain, Please read the above. This is how you make the argument against Russ Brandon.

No, you are incorrect. He WAS a marketing guy. He is now the President of operations. Why would he not be in this meeting? The fact that he seems to not know a thing about Football is irrelevant. He is the president of Operations and would be in these meetings as it is a part of OPERATING the company. Good god..... way to make a mountain out of a mole hill. This point exactly. Can always count on YoloinOhio to be the voice of reason and give an intelligent response. Actually, I think your missing the point. It's his job to be there. You may not like him, he may not be doing a good job, but its still his job and he belongs there.

Sorry, can't put the offensive woe's on Lynn. I have been watching these games and I see receivers open......WIDE open. TT just can't get it done. whether he can't see over the offensive line or or that its he would rather scramble around I don't know. What ever it is it's TT not Lynn. He is supposed to be an NFL QB and he can't even lead his receiver into a throw. He is pathetic and has to go.

The Short answer to that question is that he makes money for the organization. And lots of it. You don't fire your top sales guy just because he's a d-bag. You may not like him, but you don't get rid of him. I don'y disagree with your thoughts on the matter, but Money is the answer to your question., This post here from Jeff proves my point and he is 100% correct. RB is a re branding master. The organization has been selling us manure branding it as gold. We look at it mid season and realize its manure and accept it. What's worse is every year we go back and buy more.

OMG!! ROTF LMAO right now. That there was an awesome one liner.

Amen to that Wayne. I used to be the same way when I was much younger. In my twenty's and early thirty's I took this game way to seriously. Getting pissed off and grumpy at emery loss. Now into my forty's, its just a game. My kids avoided me every Sunday because the Bills lose so often. Now they avoid me because they are teenagers. LOL! The defense is not the issue. Its not even the offense as a whole. This lost falls squarely on Tyrod. The OL was holding up on passing downs, TT was holding the ball way to long. Receivers were open, he just just missing the open guys. The OL was making running lanes, Shady and Gillisllie were running well. TT is who collapsed today. Not the Bills. The defense was playing well until the Offense kept going three and out. Then the D got gassed. No way the D was going to hold up under the circumstance.

Well, I will start with the obvious two.... 1. Help I've fall'en and I can't get up! and..... 2. Did anyone get a look at the license plate on that Semi? But, I am more inclined to like Just in Atlanta's caption.

Really? So, when Rex is gone all our problems just..... POOF, go away. Get real. You should really think before you type dude. First and foremost, a new owner does not change culture in one season. The Pegulas have had one offseason. Not to mention the fact that the coach is just ONE piece of the puzzle to a winning team. It takes every aspect of a team to Win. Coaching, players, GM, and your training staff.

Agree with everything you just said Kirby, but you left out an important piece (imo anyway). That is conditioning and health of the players. What I find funny is people complaining about how bad our teams have been and blaming coaching, GM....Owner, or whatever. But these are just individual pieces to a puzzle. A puzzle this team has been hapless at solving. We have had different GM's, different coaches (some good, some not so good) but we seem to have the same results every year. Our players can't stay on the field. They are always getting injured. We loose players like my kids lost their socks when they were little (at the drop of a hat). It's mind boggling. Yes every team deals with it, but not every year like we do. Someone please correct me if I am off base on this, but for the most part haven't we had the same strength and conditioning people on staff for a while. I know the head trainer has changed a few times here and there, but the remaining staff has been the same....right? Could this be part of our problem?

OMG! Funniest post i have read in a while.

What the hell does his last name have to do with anything. The notion that he will be any good because he's a Kelly is ridiculous. He very well may grow to be a great quarterback, but if he does it will have nothing to do with his last name. It has to do with the talent he has and what he does with it. Does he end up a bone head like Ryan leaf or does he go the way of Manning? Won't know until he gets to the NFL...if he gets to the NFL. Saying that he will because he;s a Kelly..... Please!

I don't understand this mentality of looking back that everyone seems to have. People did it with Marv when he became GM, and when it's been discussed that Jim Kelly become a coach etc.... etc....etc... We need to look forward not back. Just because he is related to Jim Kelly or because he has worked with him, it does not mean this kid will be any good. People though Marv would be a great GM because he was a great coach (insert buzzer sound here)....wrong. players and coaches need to be evaluated for what they are not who they are or who they are related it. There is no room for nostalgia when evaluating talent, whether a coach or a player.

No disrespect to you, but the ignorance of this statement astounds me. Broken fingers...yea, tape them up and move on. I get that. The rest of it....in today's day of what we know about the body and the damage this game does to said body. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe what you just said. Just because that was how it was done then, does not mean that it has to be that way now. under your premise we should still be carrying clubs around and hitting our women over their head and dragging them back to our homes because, well hey, that's how it was done in the stone age. Give me break. Time to arrive in the 21st century! Well said Heels!!!!

I still find this hysterical. I can't watch it without laughing until my eyes water.

Is that ranking of the schedule based on this years performance or last years? I thought they were based on the previous years performances, which is why I have never put much stock in the ranking of schedules. It's like saying I will get an A in math this year because I got one last year. (Not that I EVER got an A in math. LOL!!)

Over the last 3 games I would tend to agree with you. Unfortunately the first 2 games of the season still count. I am a wait and see kind of guy when it comes to "has this Bills team finally turned the corner". These next two are games are what most everyone will expect them to win. If they can win these games with strong performances and not "squeak by", then I will agree fully, this is not the same ol' Bills.

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The missed extra points would not be an issue for carpenter if he started kicking from the center of the field vs the left or right hash mark, IMO anyway. I am pretty sure someone else has made this remark in other threads as well.

No one is going to start saying that until we start winning on a regular bases. Agreed, we were the more prepared team. I think some of the key differences were that Dennis Thurman was calling the defensive plays and not Rex and that you can't prepare for a coordinator that has never called offensive plays before. Clearly though he seems to know what he is doing. hope we can keep the momentum going.

Not going to happen. The Patsies just beat Houston with their thirs string QB and Houston is a better team then we are at this point. Losing to NE with Brissett will have no effect on Rex's employment status.

Not for nothing here people, he was lousy as a GM and had no business being a GM, but it's hard to argue his business acumen. He is a college graduate from ST John Fisher, Interned with the Bills Executive management, worked for the Yankees and the Marlins during their championships and I have to say a marketing genius. I'm, EVERY year they have put out a crap product and we keep buying what he sells. I hate to admit it, but from a business perspective, If I'm the owner and see that he see what he has "accomplished" I don't know if I could fire the guy. Not as president anyway. If he was GM then yea, fire his a$$.

If they wanted to lift the curse, Flutie should have been in the jersey. I'm actually a Flutie fan, so I would rather just cut the head off a live chicken and do that voodoo BS they talk about in the movie Major League. LOL!!! I know, I know..... this is Football and i used a Baseball reference.

Shocked to say the least.