PolishDave

Maybe he doesn't want to. But how many of those guys don't want to? Isn't that pretty much what all of them are shooting for? I think it is a fairly logical assumption. He might not turn out to be a good HC. Who knows? Nobody knows until he is given an opportunity. And that is what I think will happen within the next couple years while the Bills are supposedly "rebuilding" for the future. Part of the reason I hate "rebuilding" is because it is so hard to keep the talent you have while you are building. Inevitably, you end up losing a key piece of the puzzle right at the point you expected to have your team "built". I envision that happening with Buffalo in the next few years. Hopefully not, but that is why I want to try to win every year and try to build upon what you have rather than take a year off to build. But that is just me. I would be willing to tear down and rebuild if there was some kind of high probability that it would succeed. But the NFL has proven and the Bills have proven that rebuilding is easy to plan on doing but hard to execute. How many times has this team been rebuilt over the years? Sorry...getting off topic.

About 10-15 years ago I ran out onto the field once after a game was over. Yes I was hammered. No security was not impressed. I didn't know there was a way you could get onto the field on game day besides going back to high school and joining a Marching band. I can't imagine sitting in that stadium a full hour before game start. That sounds incredibly boring to me. And with the cost of concessions, it sounds expensive too. But, to each his own I guess.

Hilarious. I think I will walk around here dropping grenades! Boom! EJ's knees are weak. Boom! Got his head rattled in college too. Boom!

They are having games over there so that they can feel better about calling the Superbowl winners "World Champions". Every time I hear some football commentator say "World Champions" I lose respect for them. It is stupid and arrogant when every single team is based here in the states. I know why they do it. They do it because they want to export the NFL brand to the world and to sell NFL products and to build the Superbowl into an even bigger spectacle than it already is. It is good business from a purely business perspective. Personally, I think it is (edited) wrong It makes me want to throw beer cans at people.

Isn't Denver without Von Miller right now? I would think they would get better when he comes back. Hard to play your best defense when your best defensive player is out.

I wondered why people aren't talking about Grossman too. It seems he would be a great veteran that could help bring the rookies up to snuff. I saw Grossman play in preseason and he looked as good as he ever has in my opinion. No he won't win you a Superbowl, but you aren't bringing him in here for that. You would bring him in for patchwork. Seems like he is in a position to get out of DC too. I can't imagine he enjoys being number 3 in Redskinland.

Are you sure about that? What if he regresses from here? I don't think he will regress, but he had better get better than he has been playing. If he doesn't improve from here, you have to come up with some different plan going into next year. Otherwise you could expect next year to be a repeat of this one. Assuming he does play better going forward, then I doubt anyone would expect the Bills to draft another first round QB.

Didn't cherry pick anything dude. The guy I was responding to mentioned those team quarterbacks in his point. So I just grabbed this weeks games by those two quarterbacks. That is the exact opposite of cherry picking.

Maybe the AFC East isn't as bad as it was painted to be heading into this season? Whaddaya think? lol....nah....

Geno looked pretty darn good on that last drive. He sure didn't look like a rookie there. Impressive. Sucks as a Bills fan. I like to see all the other AFC East teams lose.

So far I am okay with Marrone and very happy with Pettine. Not okay with Hackett unless he finds a way to get more offensive production. The Bills offense looks pretty bad to me and appears to be hanging on by a thread because of exceptional talent at running back. They struggle an awful lot just to get first downs. To me it looks as bad as last year’s defense and how Wannstedt got so little production out of that talented front four. Hackett should be getting a lot more production from his offensive roster. Not happy with Danny Crossman (special teams) thus far either, at least in the kick return, punt return game. Maybe that improves with a new punter? If the Bills offense doesn’t get much better this year, then a good part of the blame also has to be placed on Marrone also for not getting more involved personally. As far as Whaley goes, I will reserve that judgment until I see whether E.J. turns out to be for real or not. If he is a bust, then you can squarely blame Whaley for that. I know they will try to make Buddy Nix the scapegoat for that, but fans know better. If E.J. pans out, then I would say that this year’s draft was excellent for sure. After this season is over we should have a much better idea. It is still a bit early to know for sure how things are going to turn out.

Broncos won this week 51-48… go ask a Dallas fan if they think it was one or two plays difference in that game. Pittsburgh Steelers lost by 7 this week. Go ask a Steelers fan if they think the game was decided by one or two plays. Bills (and 90% of other NFL teams) fans have been saying this every year for as many years back as they have missed the playoffs. If only we had won this game. If only we had gone for it here instead of kicking. If only we had made that tackle. If only our receiver had caught that pass. If only the punt returner didn’t score. If only….if only…. If only the Bills made one more big play than the other team, then the Bills would win those games instead of losing them. More times than not, the game is decided by a play here and a play there. If you are blowing teams out then obviously it is more than one or two plays. But games are often decided by a touchdown or less. "Good" teams come out on the winning side of that more than not. "Bad" teams come out on the losing side more times than not. And so far the Bills are on the losing side of that coin.

Guys, almost every game comes down to a couple of plays one way or the other that cause you to either win or lose. The difference between the Bills and other teams is that Good teams are the ones that win those one or two “difference making” plays. It is that way pretty much every year. Every year half way through the season Bills fans are saying, man…if only if we had not missed that play in this game and that field goal in that game or that ref didn’t make that bogus call or whatever. It is this way every year. This year is no different. The Bills will be good when they start winning those games because they made the big play. Right now, they still can’t find a way to win them because they simply don’t make enough of those plays. At the end of the year, that adds up to missing the playoffs yet again. They still are not a playoff team unless they get a lot better at key positions, especially quarterback.

How much more could they minimize the playbook anyway? We already know what play they are going to run on first and second down. It's a pretty good bet that Cincy already knows it too. Lack of creative play calling will be an Achilles heel for this team the rest of the season unless the offensive coaching staff miraculously changes their ways.

I highly doubt that Byrd would fetch a first round pick. If any team was crazy enough to offer that, the Bills would be nuts not to take it. I would bet that his actual perceived value by most of the league is less than pro-bowl stature. He simply is not a difference maker and hasn’t been since his rookie year which I admit was stellar. Since then he has been good not great. The only people out there who think Byrd would have made the pro-bowl this year even if he had played the whole season are his agent and his mom and maybe a few Bills fans who have some kind of man crush on the guy. I might be wrong, I often am, but my impression is that he wants to be “the highest paid safety” in the NFL. Who in this league honestly thinks that guy is worth anywhere close to that?

Cincy will expect conservative running attack from Buffalo and most certainly stack the box. I would tweak the offensive game plan based on how Thad looks in practice. If he is hitting receivers in stride during practice then open the passing game up on Sunday. Force Cincy to respect the deep ball, then run lots of draws. If Thad does not have chemistry with receivers in practice then I focus on getting the ball to Chandler over the middle as much as possible, especially using play action on first down. I say Chandler because he has proven himself to be a most excellent target who catches inaccurate passes that other receivers on this team tend to either fingertip or just plain drop. If the Bills can move the chains running the ball on first and second down this week, I will be very surprised. Can the Bills actually win with a huge question mark at QB? - One phrase comes to mind – “Any Given Sunday”

If they let Carpenter go, the fans will be screaming for vengeance the first time Hopkins shanks one. Keeping Carpenter based on talent alone looks like a no brainer unless you absolutely have to move him for some other reason.

When you have a team that is consistently below average year after year (as the Bills have been) it is totally understandable that fans get so emotional and polarized. One week it looks like maybe the Bills have the right pieces to build on. The next week it looks like everyone in that organization is incompetent. As fans we try to hold onto any glimmer of hope for a winning season until that last ounce of optimism is physically and emotionally beaten out of us. A missed scoring opportunity here, a blown referee call there, a key player injury and before you know it, you are on the losing side of yet another season. This year is no different in that respect; another rollercoaster, at least to start the season. With the massive inconsistency we are seeing on offense, with or without EJ in there, we have little reason to expect anything other than more rollercoaster. I don’t think I am the only person in Buffalo who is thinking that this team is still quite a ways away from being a playoff team. This team struggles to move the ball on offense period. I am sure that is due to a combination of factors between coaching, schemes and personnel. This offense still needs to learn how to consistently move the chains. It also needs to find a way to make more big plays on offense. It doesn’t do either one of those well at all. And they have to solve those offensive problems while they still have a talented core of defensive players near the line of scrimmage. More rollercoasters to come this year and next year and probably yet again after that. Bring your barf bags. You will need them from time to time.