Cleveland Rocks?

Cook is from Cleveland (Hinckley) and has allegedly said he hopes the Browns don't draft him because it is "where quarterbacks go to die." I mean, he isn't wrong. But a little self-awareness wouldn't hurt him.

If the question is only whether you would rather be 8-5 going into week 15 and currently hold a wild card spot on 12/18 or 6-7 going into week 17 and need a lot of help to get into the playoffs on 12/18, obviously anyone would pick the first. Once you name the teams though and what lies ahead in the next 3 games, then compare the two teams in pretty much all aspects now and the next few years, I can't imagine anyone would pick the Jets. You could just look at the owner, coaches and QB and stop right there. Bowles, Gailey and Fitz have never won anything ... and their owner is a joke. Maybe if they didn't sleepwalk through the season they would be even better but they lost to the Eagles at home, Raiders and Houston. Not just lost - got hammered. They had so many winnable games they dropped. Then you throw in the biggest game of the year at home vs Bills and they can't match up. Pretty sure if they didn't have a last place schedule or had already played New England twice they would also be 6-7 or worse. When was the last time they even beat Buffalo? All their players are old and have terrible contracts. Their 2nd round pick is a bust and made no sense because he's a deep threat and the QB can't throw over 35 yards. They aren't a "bad" team because their WRs are playing well and their DL is good but I really can't see them winning more than 1 of their last 3. This reminds me of when the Browns were 7-4 last year and people wondered if they had turned the corner. No, they had a last place schedule and got lucky a few times. It always surprises me how a team's fans can try so hard to build up another team just to find new ways to bash their own.

Bills 38, Redskins 17

Sounds like he was pushing him to get even better, to me. The opposite is coddling and satisfaction with a potential GW drive that ended with a turnover, right?

Unbelieveable FA signing. Is there a pro personnel guy with the Bills who is ready for a GM job? If so, what is his name?

The Browns will pass on him to draft a question mark QB because we are desperate and he will torture them twice a year for a decade in Baltimore. Mark it down.

So Carucci is in Buffalo now? Interesting. I always thought he was reasonable (compared to Tony Grossi - most miserable SOB on earth). Don't tell me you think your GM isn't good. Ours is paying Dwayne Bowe 3 million dollars PER CATCH.

I just think that sometimes fans have a homeristic view of their team. I don't think it was a playoff caliber defense last year, because they couldn't rise to the occasion in conference games they had to have to make the playoffs. Like SD, KC, Raiders, Miami. Win 1 or 2 of those games and they are in, but they got shredded. They played well most of the KC game with their pass defense, but then couldn't stop the run when they had to keep them out of the end zone. Their best games came against terrible QBs and offenses like the Browns and Jets, or NFC teams. I still think they had a really good pass rush last year, but that doesn't win games on its own. Teams found ways to beat them when it mattered. Then they have some fairly different personnel this year with FA departures and injuries. That said, your new defense looked pretty, pretty good in the last three games I saw which were Miami, Jets and Patriots.

First of all, Ohio State is the better job. And will pay him more than an NFL owner can, if it came to that. But it's a crap internet story from a couple days ago. Urban finally released a statement today saying he isn't interested in coaching anywhere other than OSU. It's crazy that a story from Chat Sports which is basically just throwing crap against the wall to see if it sticks, even needs to be addressed. But that's the internet. What a time to be alive.

Gillilslee was a 4 star Urban Meyer recruit who played in every game as a true freshman on what I believe was a national championship team at Florida. He was darn good in college. First team All-SEC as a senior.

Definitely QB, QB, QB. The Browns have had a good OL for years. Enough said. Rivers has *no* OL (they have been decimated by injuries all year) and still is like top 3 in the league in passing. Just another example.

You get "Road Hoyer" Bills 17, Texans 6 My prediction is Hoyer will not finish the game. He will either get hurt or replaced with Yates due to performance.

An Austin Davis thread on a Bills message board? He really is the future! Haha, I actually think he is halfway decent. Bye Johnny. They will draft a QB in the top 5.

Great article. It was a fun read. What a signing.

I am surprised that the fans here are so attached to players' stats who have had some individual success but never won anything, vs. the coaches who have won playoff games with their schemes and are in process of implementing them and getting the ideal personnel groups in place while dealing with injury after injury. Like you, as a Browns fan I want my team to make the playoffs for the first time in forever but it seems like a lot of the sentiment here is to cling to what you have had in the past that didn't work. Your team was not really 9-7 in last year, you know it was a .500 team that "won" a glorified scrimmage in the final week against backups. The Bills clearly have some really good (and young) talent, certainly better than about half the teams in the league, but it isn't like it was some juggernaut of a team that got "slowed down" by the new coach. They have a better shot at the playoffs now with 5 AFC wins than they did last year, when they had 4 actual AFC wins (NE does NOT count, people) ALL SEASON. The offense was not good last year at all and the defense was good in some games, but certainly not all the games. I think there is a bit of revisionist history going on with that. It seemed pretty inconsistent from an "outsider's" point of view. It was overrated because of some really good performances against teams like Green Bay and Detroit. And Cleveland! There were some bad ones too and I saw the denver game that people say was awesome vs Manning, but they lost partly because they couldn't stop the run in that game. Not good enough. Kyle Williams though, is an elite player on the DL and has been a huge missing piece for ya'll, not to mention your starting SS being out. Anyway - as far as who fits the scheme - Mo Wilkerson is a name that will be available. His agent is Chad Wiestling and I heard through someone with the Browns that Wiestling has made it known that he doesn't want to be in NY and they know that. He doesn't want to sign there, thinks their QB situation is going nowhere and they can't pay him what he has earned because of their terrible contracts with aging Revis, Cromartie and Marshall. He wants to play in his old scheme and not a fan of Todd Bowles.. Now of course Browns fans who hear this think we are getting him - and maybe so because we desperately NEED a guy like that whereas for you he's just piece- but just FYI since his old scheme is in your town. If you part ways with Mario Williams? Just FYI. Good luck in the playoff race!

Your boy Duke is all over The Real Housewives of Atlanta this season. I know most of you probably do not watch this show but maybe your wife or girlfriend does. He is dating Porsha who is Kordell Stewart's ex-wife. She throws a big Bills-themed party to intriduce him to her family and friends after about a month of dating and he looks like he wants to crawl under a rock. Anyway, maybe you will see her at the Ralph with cameras! If you ever wanted to be a Bravo star you could spray her with ketchup.

let me know how you would swing that trade

9 million guaranteed. #firefarmer

Eh, it's house money I won on taking the Chargers to cover last week vs. the Pack. Hey the Jags are missing 22 starters and no one is talking about that.

You are laughing at a 22 year old kid who made a decision to stay in school, get his degree, and continue to prepare for an NFL career instead of jumping in completely raw? Do you even know the story on Jones?

Just laid $250 on Bills to cover -4. Have any of you actually watched Jacksonville play this season? Be honest. I understand if you would have chosen otherwise... but trust me they are not "better than their record." This board is like Doomsday Preppers. Blake Bortles is terrible.

From the outside I didn't think the Bills defense that year was all that good. I must be in the minority. I don't know about the stats but they didn't seem to make the plays to win the games they needed to win. KC, and Miami I think were big games for playoff contention and gave up huge 3rd downs and backbreaking TDs.

holy Sh*t -- DONE

We will take him off your hands!!!!