Nihilarian

Did these teams switch unis till now? First, first down for cards

Cards receivers can't catch today...works for me!

Bills D looking like world beaters this game so far

I can see why Rex fired Roman now. when the run game works then everything works. Blankin the Cards!

wow, Shady killinem

shady ripping things up

Bruce Arians currently has his head up his posterior for some reason. Is he afraid that Palmer might get hurt?

Jeez, almost a big play by Hughes. Perhaps a safety here cus the cards choking?

Bills starting to shoot themselves in the foot? WTH!

Cogs!

Like the cards are playing are playing scared for some reason

Cards O stinking it up ..did they secretly hire Roman?

almost picked off!!

Nice game for Buffalo so far, whooda thunk it!

Conservative Rex for 3 pts

the Cards have seen Kaepernick and Russell Wilson a lot so kinda surpising TT got that big run

nice run Shady!

Wow nice run for TT

Cards kinds foolish to try and run on Bills before they get that passing game goin

Good thing they simplified the offense...

Throw a young, inexperienced QB to the wolves and more than likely you destroy his confidence and he starts hearing, seeing phantom sackers coming from everywhere! If the kid does have some actual talent to make the eventual jump to an NFL starting QB. I'd sure hate to see it wasted over nothing. Let Tyrod play and he either sinks or swims this season and if it all goes south put in EJ to see if he can sink or swim as he now has had time to learn under a decent OC. If both those players are injured and can't play is the only reason I'd start Jones. Something tells me the future franchise QB isn't on the roster just yet.

Thanks, Bill. Eric Mangini was a 21-year-old ball boy in Cleveland when he caught the eye of Belichick because of his work ethic. Belichick started him out working on game film and Mangini stated he was amazed at how much game film Belichick watches of his upcoming opponent vs what he had seen other coaches watch. He also stated that nobody prepares as much as Belichick so he is ready for anything on game day. The Patriots coaches go over endless reels of game film in developing a strategy for each upcoming opponent and that is usually why no team ever beats the Patriots twice in a season. Plus for the defense, unlike the vast majority of NFL teams who run a variation of the same scheme week in and week out, the Patriots are game plan specific. This means that their entire defensive approach changes from week to week depending on the strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies of the opponent. Very seldom do you see the Patriots run the same scheme two consecutive weeks or even against the same opponent a second time! Also, unlike other NFL head coaches who preach "Football is a game, so go have fun"! Belichick is all business and if you don't care to work really hard at your job, you won't be a Patriot very long.

Hi, Bill. I know you didn't ask me. If you don't mind I'll throw my 2 cents out there. First allow me to say that the man Rex Ryan replaced in NY was Eric Mangini who was a Bill Belichick disciple built his defense in the 3-4 mode so when Ryan got there the defense was perfectly set up for him and all he needed were a few players from his old team that knew the play calls and could make those calls on the field. Kinda why Jim Leonhard who wasn't super talented became an important cog in that scheme. When Rex got to the Jets in 2009 he was able to use his 3-4 like the Steelers DC Dick LeBeau with confusion and lots of blitzing to the tune of around 50% of the dropbacks Ryan blitzed in 2009-2010. Then from 2011 until 2013 the amount of blitzing was reduced to around 35% of the QB dropbacks. When he came to Buffalo last year Ryan almost never called a blitz and I can only suspect to emulate Jim Schwartz with his "wide nine" scheme that almost never ran a called blitz. The funny thing is when Ryan did call a blitz in 2015 for the Bills that play was generally defeated by an opposing offensive big play and so I tend to think that over the years offenses have learned to defeat the blitz and Lebeau's zone blitz scheme. So, if teams have learned how to defeat the blitz and the result is a big play for the offense. Then I can see why Ryan has stopped blitzing so often. The other thing I find interesting is that Ryan didn't have last season, and still doesn't have the horses on the roster to even pull off a variation of the zone blitz and yet he ran that far too often last year with Mario, Kyle and Dareus dropping back into pass coverage. Now, he could kinda get away with it by having Jerry Hughes drop back as the man is a very speedy linebacker type DE and while the other three could do it and get away with it to a degree. However, Ryan called it far, far too often with the bigger men and as a result, it wasn't nearly as effective. Against the Chiefs QB Alex Smith threw two TD's when Marcell Dareus was dropped back into pass coverage. Asking a 300+lb D-linemen who's elite ability is to rush the passer in a six-yard area to drop into pass coverage over a 20+ yard area is blatantly absurd especially when you consider the linebackers you are then asking to rush the passer in his place are below average pass rushers at best. We all saw a lot of one-gap rushing successfully utilized against the Patriots and Jets last season in the second games against both those two teams and I can only suspect that the reason Ryan didn't run that scheme more often is because he didn't care to repeat the mistakes that Mike Pettine made with his #2 overall pass rush while being 25th against the run. It looks to me like Ryan is currently caught between a rock and a hard place because he doesn't have the super talented linebackers to run a 3-4 zone blitz scheme line he wants nor the big, powerful uglies on the D-line that is needed to make the 3-4 two gap work. While the Bills have really good CB's and some stars on the D-line it's more of a cluster of talent Ryan doesn't quite know how to get the best out of so far. As for the current defense, it just doesn't have a HoF MLB like Ray Lewis or CB like Rod Woodson, a Darrelle Revis in his prime or FS like Ed Reed. Ryan's defensive scheme even with all the Bills players 100% healthy might give the Patriots with Brady at QB a run for their money in the first meeting. Belichick would then have a plan to defeat it the second time around. JMHO. Kinda sad really, an old toothless, clawless lion. Still gotta big roar, though...

First off Cowher inherited a team that was 7-9 the year before he was hired in 1991 and was ranked around 20th in both offense and defense that year. The seven seasons before Knoll retired the Steelers had only made the playoffs once in 1989 and only two of those seven seasons were winning seasons! The year of his hire the Steelers went to 11-5 and the playoffs. Cowher changed the OC & DC to people he wanted and that defense went from 20th to #2 in points allowed and #13 in yards allowed. He also had four players make the pro bowl on offense when none had made it the year before. Bill Cowher retired as the Steelers HC with a .633 winning percentage and he accomplished those wins with mostly scrubs at QB the duration of his coaching career in Pitt. His QB's were Neil O'Donnel, Bubby Brister, Mike Tomczak, Jim Miller, Kordell Stewart, Mike Quinn, Kent Graham, Tommy Maddox, Charlie Batch, and he didn't get Ben Rothlisberger until 2004. In his 15 seasons at Pitt, he had only 5 in that they didn't make the playoffs. When you think of all those scrub QB's that Cowher had to work with over his years in Pitt it amazes me he managed to win so many games. This is a classic example of a head coach building a solid team around the QB which increases his chance to succeed. O'Donnel was 39-22 at Pittsburgh and 16-23 with other teams. Stewart was 46-29 at Pitt and 2-5 with other teams. Mike Tomlin who replaced Cowher at Pittsburgh has had Big Ben his entire ten years he has been there and he missed the playoffs four years so far. Tomlin has won one SB and lost one SB just like just like Cowher. Nothing like having a pro bowl, franchise QB on the roster his entire career. While at Pittsburgh Tom Donahue was the GM and lost an internal power struggle with Cowher at the end of 1999. Donahoe was then fired By the Steelers and the next year Ralph Wilson must have thought it was Donahoe that was the brilliant mind in bringing in all that talent to Pitt so he hired him and promoted him to team president...only to find out it was Cowher who was the brilliant mind behind all that talent. I would like to see Cowher given a chance because I think he is about one of the only men on the planet I can think of that could build a team to compete against the Patriots for the division and actually come out on top. The other is Pete Carroll and I don't see him leaving Seattle or John Elway leaving Denver. On a side note. If Bills fans are waiting for Bill Belichick, Tom Brady to retire. It's my bet that the Kraft family will find another winning coach and QB before the Buffalo Bills do at this point.

Like someone else mentioned out of all Belichick's assistants who have left to become NFL head coaches and how many of those men have succeeded? Exactly, forget the Patriots. The idea would be to find someone who is as smart in all aspects of the game as Belichick and yet is available to hire with no strings and would be loyal to the Buffalo Bills. If I'm Terry Pegula I'd offer Bill Cowher the job as head coach, de facto GM as the man knows NFL football and he knows how to properly evaluate talent. Make the man the highest paid head coach in the NFL and give him carte blanche to run the football side of operations and then stand back and let him do his job. I suspect he would make changes to the scouting dept, the trainers, the doctors and build a winning coaching staff. I'd say in two years or less the team is in the playoffs and within three is in the hunt for a super bowl championship.