LA Grant

100% agree. This would be a huge, huge, huge upgrade.

Actually, he is! http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/02/darrell-bevell-dan-quinn-josh-mcdaniels-catch-buffalos-eye/#comments

Bevell, Bevell, Bevell. He's the guy that could figure this out.

This has got to be one of the craziest seasons of all time. Even crazier: Jets take Marrone, Bills take Rex?

People said the same thing about Hughes.

This would be a great spot for Sam to develop.

Trestman would be amazing. We could win with EJ if Trestman was our OC.

Last year, this team was 6-10 and we all felt like they were more 8-8. This year, the team will finish 8-8 but we all think they should've been 10-6. Sounds like the talent and the opportunities are there — if every bounce went their way. On the other hand, they could have been all bad bounces too and ended 6-10. Things evened out and they are the record that they should be. Now, thankfully, they're improving, look like they're headed in the right direction. There's a good core to build around on defense. If this team had an offensive line even 1/4 as dominant as the defensive line, we'd be in the playoffs. On the other hand, I feel like I say this every year.

Payton may be on his way out in New Orleans and since he has a good relationship with Marrone, who will probably get another year but need to make changes offensively, would that be enough to have hope for a better-coached offense in 2015? Obviously we need a better QB. If a good one becomes available, let me know. But with the players we DO have, we should have had WAY more and way more CONSISTENT production out of them, and that's coaching and playcalling. That's targeting Sammy, dump-offs and screens to CJ instead of running him up the middle "til he pukes", and using more misdirection in the run game than "up the middle." Payton was a QB and has had success. He could be the Mike Pettine/Jim Schwartz for the offense.

The most unbelievable aspect is the Bills winning in Foxboro. But if they DO... The only weird thing that would need to happen would be the Chiefs beating the Chargers in Kansas City in Week 17.

With all of the national attention on the defense and Jim Schwartz in particular, and given the usual carousel of HC vacancies each year, is anyone else concerned that we may be looking at having our 4th Defensive Coordinator in 4 years? It's absolutely imperative that we resign Hughes in the offseason but I think just as important is giving Schwartz whatever money he wants to keep him around for another year or two at the coordinator level.

20/20 hindsight, but I'd rather have kept Fitzpatrick and waited for Manziel rather than pinning hopes that EJ will be more than a career backup. Now that we have Orton, our best option is to stick with him until we have a shot at a potential franchise QB, and when we do, we need to act on it. Get a QB. Everything else falls into place.

Ith he really thirty firth?

Today felt like the kind of bitter loss that defines a team. Previous Bills teams at this point basically collapse, but we've heard a number of times this year from Jackson, Eric Wood, Kyle, that the way this team responds is different. I could see the season taking two very different turns from here. Either they take the disappointing loss poorly, come out flat against Miami, drop to 5-5 and lose confidence and probably wind up 6-10 or 7-9 and we look back at the Bryce Brown fumble as the thing that essentially killed the hope for the season, like last year's Chiefs game or Browns game or Atlanta drop last year; one of many crucial moments that decided the season. Or, this turns out to be what the disappointing Chiefs loss was for New England and we come out hot and learn to finish games conclusively. If they lose to Miami, the season is effectively over, right now it's close. This team has seemed to thrive off of feeling like underdogs and outsiders, and they now have only an outside shot at making the playoffs. They need to feel like they need to win out because they do. There is no room for error. If they can put it all together, the Bills when they gel and play well could certainly win 5 or 6 more games. Of course, they could also be the kind of team that will be annoyingly inconsistent and massively frustrating, ending at 8-8, winning games they're supposed to lose and losing the 'must win' games. That's also a distinct possibility. By the way, maybe this should be its own thread but, does anyone else think the NFL needs to consider having the playoffs be 8 teams per conference? Eliminate the bye week, and just have 4 first round matches. The fact of the matter is parity has led to this logjam of good but not great teams in the AFC and it seems to me like there's a clear top half to the NFL and bottom half. Why not have 16 playoff teams and 16 non-playoff teams?

There's no proof that Flutie was a bad teammate other than slander and rumors from people with a VESTED INTEREST in his failure.

That seems like the same defense my grandma has for the National Enquirer.

This is a disgusting article. I wonder how Gleason sleeps at night, writing such a slanted hit piece for that, backed up with nothing but conjecture and ill will. What a hack.

Just imagine an offensive line with Urbik and Incognito as the guards.

Fitzy and the Texans face NYG next week. Can you imagine if week 4 is the 3-0 Bills vs 3-0 Ryan Fitzpatrick??

I feel the same way. Whaley is the best GM this organization has seen since John Butler. No GM since has had the right mix of proper player evaluation, ambition, poker ability, and balls to put a playoff team together. Whether or not it happens this year, Whaley will build contenders here sooner than later. Incidentally, I feel the same way about Marrone although it's a little harder to measure at this point, but he seems to me to have the right mix of skills as well that his predecessors have lacked in getting teams to gel. I like how Whaley & Marrone have a sense of how to build the right attitude for a locker room. I like how they specifically brought in players from winning organizations and players with emotional ties to the city as well. I know we're supposed to be thinking the team is on the verge of imploding, but it seems to me like they're more on the verge of putting it all together. Then again this is probably just week 1 victory talking.

Kyle Williams is one of the best players on this team athletically, but also with his mentality too -- loved hearing him toward the end of his postgame talk about how overcoming adversity and winning the game is what they bond over, and winning is the only thing that "changes the culture." The bit too about how previous teams would've used the bad calls as a reason to shrug their shoulders and give up and how this team pushed through -- "This is the kind of team I want to play for." This doesn't seem like a time on the verge of imploding. This seems like a team on the verge of putting it all together.

Pass to Chandler for 4 yards.