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Polian's comments indicate he doesn't have a clue about the Bills. "Aging Oline?" Glenn is on his ROOKIE contract, Miller is a rookie, Henderson and Kouandjio are second year guys. The old guys are Incognito who is possibly the best Bills lineman, Wood, whom many outside Buffalo consider a pretty decent center, and Urbik who is at least a decent backup. Who the heck is Polian talking about? The only thing worse than keeping Rex would be bringing back this dinosaur.

One of Belichick's characteristics is that he changes approaches based on the players he has at any time, and he not only makes significant adjustments at half time, he will do that at anytime during a game. In other words, he readily accepts that his game plan was flawed, and acts quickly to correct his "mistake." By contrast, and based on RR's pressers, he has yet to make a mistake in his career. It's always the GM, the lack of talent or intelligence of the players, the perfidy of the refs, injuries, or whatever. But it's never Rexie who's to blame and thus there is no reason for him to change one single thing. If the Pegs keep him around, look for upheaval in the front office, turmoil with the roster, and a decided lack of enthusiasm among FAs, but don't look for a single change in Rex's "philosophy."

Sounds like you are a "management is always right" type of guy so you probably vehemently disagree with my opinion that RR is the problem NOT the players and he should be the one benched as in "fired." Today.

Your fierce devotion to and defense of Rex in which you find that he is blameless in all matters concerning the team and in which the talent, health, intelligence, dedication of the players is the source of this enormous 2015 fail leads me to ask you a serious question: do you work for Rex or are you friends with him, his family or his management?

Absolutely dead on. The first NE game was hugely alarming and, in retrospect, the truest indication that RR was dead wrong in his defensive approach. That he stubbornly refused to fundamentally alter what he was doing wrecked the season.

You don't think the loss of TT had an impact?

It is less than 1% of his supposed worth, not much at all, and far less than what it will cost him in lost revenue, in eating the contracts of all the players Rex will want to replace, and the cost of bringing in supposedly better players thru trades and FA,of paying off Whaley and hiring a new GM, and replacing key people who will leave with Whaley, etc. The financially rational thing to do is sever ties with Rex.

Those 3 QBs will make fans long for the days of EJ. Cook especially.

No need for a collection. The balance due for RR's contract is pocket change for Pegula. Question is, does he want to spend a lot of money ripping apart and rebuilding the team - the "Give Rex Control" option - or spend far, far less time and money by replacing Rex with a coach who will tailor his plan for the abilities of the players currently under contract.

He was head coach of the Browns and, no surprise with the Browns, he was fired. I believe he was HC of the Jets for a NY minute.

Ka'imi Fairbairn, the kicker from UCLA, will be available, if the Bills are unsure about Carpenter. The kid won the Lou Groza Award, kicked a clutch 60 yarder this year, and can kick it out of the end zone.

Great analysis, a clear bill of indictment. This is all The Pegs need to make the obvious decision to rid themselves of the mistake they made with Ryan.

When you have a head coach whose "system" is incompatible with the abilities of the players, and the coach is unable or unwilling to adapt his system to the skill of his players, and the players are unable to succeed in that system, the only options team management/ownership has are to replace the coach,or replace the players. I know what I would do. It will be interesting to see what the Pegs do; it will signal what sort of teams we will have in the years ahead.

Win out or lose out, the guy should be gone.

What's the emoji for "crickets?"

Brilliant!

But it isn't even the activity with the highest number of concussions, so why the big hate on football? My guess is that the attorneys of America smell big money.

So tell me, where's the false equivalency? Every single person I know has cracked their skull doing everything from the most high risk to the silliest most mundane. We also know that football is not even the activity with the highest percentage nor the highest number of concussions. So if this doctor, who, no doubt, is doing everything he can think of to leverage his 15 minutes of fame into more money and prominence, is soooo concerned about concussions that he's recommending a No-Football world, maybe he could have the honesty to extend his "concern" to all the other activities that regularly lead to head injuries. My post was meant to give him a start on it and to offer him the only way to reach his implied nirvana of "if it saves even one kid" nonsense because the only proven method to prevent injury is complete and total inactivity. And even then, the kids might wind up so fat and muscle-less they risk toppling over and hitting their heads on the floor...As someone once said, or at least should have, Life is a terminal illness.

...and don't let them climb trees, crawl around a jungle gym, ride a bicycle, play any sport with any degree of contact, don't let them bat in baseball, no golfing because of errant balls cracking their skulls, no rough housing with your brothers or sisters, no bouncing on the bed, no bouncing in a bounce house, no riding ponies...just roll them in bubble wrap. Jeez!

I was for firing him after game 2. The next 9 games have only reinforced my opinion of his shortcomings. When something is clearly not working, you don't keep doing it no matter how much money you have in it. You bite the bullet, make the necessary changes and move on. I doubt Terry Pegula made his bundle by hanging on to investments that were provably not working and hoping things will look better in the morning. My guess is that a list of candidates to be head coach next year is already being made and that Rex will be gone immediately after week 17. If Pegs stays with him for another year, I think the fans will go ballistic.

And Pete Carroll took the opportunity to run it in for 2 points. Hated him ever since. Oh, and that wasn't even the worst call against the Bills in that game. An historical note: Ralph was so pissed that he changed his intractable opposition to instant replay after that which is why we have it now.

Might the problem be with TT rather than Roman? Roman may very well be calling plays for Sammy but then TT could be audibling out of them. He does seem to change a lot of calls based on the initial look of the defense.

Do any of Roman's critic know how many plays TT checked out of? You have to know that before you can definitively slam him, don't you think?

No, it was the wind's fault. When he had it at his back he threw some beauties including the one McCoy dropped in the end zone.

A few thinks that stood out to me: a so-so game from TT but most of the downfield shots he took that hung up were in the first and third quarter when he was throwing into the wind. Those nice passes to Sammy & Hogan were with the wind. The kid did not throw an interception. The Oline gave TT plenty of time in the pocket. Losing Rambo really hurt...because Duke Williams screwed up. And the run game seemed to falter w/o Miller. McCoy's drops on a number of passes killed a couple of drives. And the drop in the end zone? Yikes. McKelvin should never ever be allowed to be a kick returner, especially in NE games. All Hogan had to do to get a drive-sustaining first down was simply to head downhill for about a foot. The defender was off him enough he could have done it. Instead...well, you saw it