Bob in STL

I too liked the way Rex started out, I fell for the marketing schmaltz as he embraced our community, our Bills History, and our fan base. I bought in into it. I very quickly became concerned about the quality of the product on the field. All the little things that decide close games --- penalties, clock management, use of signals and head sets, two minute drills, third down performance, special teams, and half time adjustments ---- we took a big step backwards and actually have not improved in any of these phases of the game. I do put this on Rex. Attention to details .. it is the HC's job to see these things are covered. The players have a lot of freedom, and I guess that is the way it is for modern players, they like to express themselves. Problem is there is no accountability on this team. Rex publicly takes the blame for everything when we know his players are underperforming. They underperform because of the country club atmosphere and the buddy-buddy relationship they have with him. Heck, even the picking of captains is a problem. It is an honor to be a captain of an NFL Team. A honor that should not be taken lightly. You need the REAL LEADERS to represent the team. Rex uses the Team Captains as some kind of inside joke side show and it really irks me. IK "what's his name" a captain against the Jets? Our entire underperforming OL the captains against the Jags? Shady McCoy the ONLY captain against the Eagles? No accountability among the players, no real leadership. Easy to see why when you look at it. Clearly a few veterans, like Mario, do not like the way the club is being run.

Nice way of demoting him into leaving. ?

Yes. I agree. Add in a healthy Kyle Williams. Brown looks really bad in this Rex Defense, whatever it is.

Why would anyone attend next week games? ... to sit among Dallas Cowboys fans and boo your team of course. Seriously, this will be a game that the fans will voice their opinions to Terry and Kim.

Great talent but not the kind of player a building team can count on, especially at his age. Shady is a bad fit in Buffalo and he clearly does not want to be here. After his selfish and childish behavior before, during, and after the Eagles game my mind is made up on him. He looked like crap on the short yardage runs. His backups outplayed him today. How much more convincing is needed that he is not the answer. Shameful waste of cap space IMO.

Really sad. The team is lacking real leadership. We have some "good" players that don't want to be here. We have some others that should not be here. Usually this situation gets worse before it gets better.

To all you fans backing McCoy's behavior, read the Darryl Talley interview, and then think about McCoy's behavior and his decision to stay in Philly to party with his old teammates. Maybe people and players have changed a lot in the 20 years that past since the Bills Super Bowl Teams? I just done agree with how McCoy could: bring up old bad blood about the trade with Kelly, hug the owner before the game, kiss the Eagle on the field, storm off the field after the loss, and then not fly home with his team (and in support of his team). After the game is the time for hugs and hello's. After the game, especially a loss, is when you see what people are really made of. Humble in victory, gracious in defeat ... clearly these are things that do not resonate like they used too. I just can't help but think that no mater how talented this current Bills team is, they lack the real leadership needed to be winners.

I can blame him and will blame him. Kiss the Eagle! What a complete fool. Never saw Gilcrest, Simpson, Cribbs or Thomas do any such thing. All of these former great Bills running backs were traded our not re-signed. McCoy is a talent but what a head case. If that was giving his all them we got robbed. At a time when we need leadership most he pulls this crybaby act. All about Shady. I am sure he is still going to cash his paycheck.

I am having a hard time understanding McCoy's season long obsession with being "wronged" by the trade. I get it, he loves Philly and Pennsylvania but really, grow up man. McCoy acted like a jerk all week. He had a nice first half but when the penalties and poor field position took its toll in the second half it seemed that he failed to make plays when we needed it must. He was not the only one. McCoy' s lack of leadership was as problem today. This team is void of leadership. Starting with the head coach. No one is accountable for anything.

Really? Now you sound like Rex. Is there much difference between Kwandjo and Henderson? Not really. Between Urbik and Miller? Miller is a slight upgrade but making rookie mistakes too. Yes, we are missing Watkins and Tyrod, that is legit but really we lost to the 30th ranked team in the league. I think Harvin is a waste. We are better with the guys we played today. I thought that Fred Jackson and Cassel were useful veteran players to have around but the powers the be let them go.

Not me. Schwartz is not the answer here. I let Whaley go and then hire an experienced football man with a winning track record. Let him deal with Rex. Most likely Rex would be gone quickly and the new GM will be responsible for hiring the coach. Terry and Kim and Brandon should not be hiring the next coach. Let Whaley go, that is Step One.

I think he is taking about making a play, like stopping the last drive, and not giving up the go ahead TD. This is the most overrated defense in Bills history. They are not the reason the Bills lost today but they are a reason we did not win.

I connected my one year old laptop to my 4k flat screen via hdmi. This just exposed the lower resolution but I liked the big screen viewing so I could sit in my recliner. My smart tv could not do the job, even with the Yahoo app loaded, it would not stream. Don't know why? Lots of drop outs and blurring over the course of the game. Overall experience was crap. I don't want to watch football on a computer screen.

I ended up connecting my laptop hdmi to the big screen tv. Streaming on laptop, watching on the big screen now. Thanks for listening to me vent. Go Bills. Red better get the defense fixed.

This sucks. My Vizio smart tv had the Yahoo live nfl icon but nothing streams. Watching it on a Toshiba laptop. Worse than black and white 1965 Bills games of my youth. Any way to watch this on my smart tv? I don't have x box or other stuff connected. Maybe my smart DVD player????? Maybe it has a better app?

I have a Yahoo app on my Vizio smart tv. So far nothing? What is up?

Popular Bills - 1. Jim Kelly 2. Paul MacGuire 3. Jack Kemp 4. Fred Jackson 5. Billy Shaw 6. Kent Hull 7. Therman Thomas 8. Bruce Smith 9. Daryl Talley 10. Andre Reed 11. Ernie Warlick - yes, Ernie Warlick was loved in Buffalo (Henry's Hamburgers) Unpopular Bills 1. Willis Magahee 2. Tom Cousineau 3. Donte Whitner 4. Freddie "the turncoat" Smerlas 5. Ronnie Harmon

All NFL owners are rich. You want one that is willing to spend what it takes to win, and spend it wisely. The first part is easier than the second.

The OP has some relevant comments, Rex has to learn from past mistakes if he is going to take us to the next level. Thank God for second chances. Who would be coaching in next week's Super Bowl without them?

Some of you people amaze me. You want an experienced HC, well we got one. Ryan had success until his dopey GM depleted the team. If he brings in Roman, or Kubiak, or Trestmann then we are light years years beyond Marrone and his kids from Syracuse. Two things that are blown out of proportion: 1. Offensive minded vs. Defensive minded. Every head coach starts somewhere. Do you think Bellichek is a defensive coach still? 2. Developed a QB - very few star qbs are developed by one coach. This idea is a myth. Getting an elite QB is more luck than any coach will admit. Look at the 11 other candidates we interviewed. Take away Shanahan Sr and you have no other NFL HC experience except Swartz. Swartz can hopefully stay and run his D. If not defensive talent is the least of our problems. I think Ryan deserves a chance. His work with the jets was overall pretty good. Also, kudos to the Pegula's for getting out there. 12 interviews!!!!! Contrast to Ralph and his coaching/ GM searches. We should be happy.

I remember the Bergman call, the fumble, the Toomay penalty. It was bad. There are many stories like this from the Miami winless streak of the 70s. Unfortunately we have had worse since then. The Pats* game, "just give it to them", followed by the unconscious guy that was still in play. Then there is "homerun throwback"… nothing could top that.

Agree. I actually do not see the need for a Czar at all. A "consultant" on the other hand would have been useful for newbie owners like the Pegula's. The "consultant" would provide an independent assessment of the football operations directly to Pegula as well as advice on implementation. Pegula can decide what advice, if any, to take and then go from there. The best time to do that was right away. Given that Pegs had is mind made up on Polian, that did not happen. Somehow the original thought of bringing in a "consultant" to advise grew into hiring Bill Polian as the fulltime football operations man. If Polian was looking to advise and step away, then you can see why he backed off when Marrone bailed and the job turned into a coaching search. So to me the consultant/advisor role and "Czar" are not the same thing. The best reason I see to have a position of Football Operations President (i.e.Czar) is to limit the football people reporting to Pegula to just 1.

I think Whaley' s work is still in progress. It is way to soon to judge him, his drafts, or his trades. It does appear to me that he has done more good things, especially with picking up veterans to fill holes. Whaley is ready to be the man and be judged. Right now he has had more grooming than any GM I can recall the Bills have ever had accept for maybe John Butler. Whaley has had more time to from than Polian, who was an unknown at the time of his hiring. It's time for Whaley to find a coach he can work with, keep the valuable pieces together, find a QB, and fill as few holes. Not gonna happen overnight no matter who you bring in.

I prefer we let this go. Williams history is not the greatest either. Lesson learned is to bring in players the new coach wants.

Oh, the good old Sabres strategy. Give the inmates another full year to destroy your assets, then fire them and still have no knowledge on how to replace them.