DeeRay

Willis aint in the same league as thremal. When was the last tiem Willis leveled a blitzer like thermal did? when was the last time Willis took a pass to the house? When did Willis ever hava a 200 yard rushing game? When did Willis ever take a team and put it on his shoulders? Willis can't be mentioned in the same sentence as thermal... period Willis is all "blow" and no "show"!!!

Thanks guys, I needed that. Finally, some of you have come to your senses, stopped drinking the koolaid, and are repeating exactly what I've been espousing quite frequently over the past two plus seasons. I love you guys.

I don't know about the rest of the defense, but the front four flat out stinks. My nickname for those guys is "The Friendly Four". They are true gentlemen and are very courteous to the opposition.

Dude... I hate to be the one to tell you this, but he traded up to get impact players Ryan Denney and JP Losman. He also brought Bledsoe in here for the bargain rate of a 1st round pick.

What has Donahoe done to deserve this kind treatment? He didn't play one down today.

No, but I'm stupid, and even I knew that there were no players on the roster that could come close to taking Pat's spot... by not getting an adequate replacement for Pat, they rendered Sam Adams totally useless. 1) because they can't protect him. 2) he has no arm and no long ball. 1) when Holcomb get's injured, 2) Malarkey realizes the season is over, 3) the Bills are mathematically elimated from playoff contention. 1) they raved about JP in preseason too. He's turned out to be a real find. Roscoe is basically punt return fodder and he's going to be a regular in the trainers room.

1) Corey Dillon 2) Priest Holmes 3) Ladanian Tomlinson 4) Steven Davis 5) Ronnie Brown & Ricky Williams 6) Corey Dillon 7) Mike Anderson/Tatum Bell 8) Rudi Johnson 9) Curtis Martin No chance any of these guys will torch our defense.

dudes... you're crusading again. Mr. Donahoe is laizez faire.

...that you could set yourself up for a big payday simply by proclaiming you are the best RB in football. That was some game you played todayWillis. Great blitz pick ups too. You proved you're simply the best. What will we do if you hold out on us?

That, my friend, began 5 years ago.

McGee on offense might not be a bad idea... at least in principle. A player can only take being in on so many plays per game. If the defense would come to the party a little more often and ring up some three and outs, it might open up the door a little more for Mcgee to play some "O". Provided the Bills had a QB that could get the ball deep, a 4 wide set of Moulds, Parrish, Evans, McGee would be lethal. Right now, McGee is the only player on this team worthy of Team MVP consideration.

Willis opened his mouth and proclaimed his greatness to the world this week. Willis is now a legend, at least in his own mind. Meanwhile the Raiduhs are sitting back saying "What you talking bout Willis?" Nothing like a little locker room bulletin board material to get a 1-4 team amped up. I'll bet the Bills offensive line is absolutely ecstatic over his remarks. Therefore, I decalare this week the "defining moment" in the very short career of Willis McGahee, in only his 1st full season as a starter. This boy opened his mouth.... He's talked the talk. Now he better walk that talk. If he goes into Oakland and lays an egg, there are going to be a lot of Bills fans that will never let him live it down. Come Monday, there may be one hell of a message board lynching... and a well deserved one at that. I don't think Bills fans, per se, have too much of a problem with their players talking smack (although I believe we'd just prefer that our Bills do their taliking on the field). However, if a player talks smack and doesn't deliver, then... well, there are severe consequences for that. This is his defining moment.

Ah, yes... the Sapester. War chant, war dance. I always wondered why he took up a valuable roster spot. Now we know.

The TE virtually has no prominant role in the passing game in this offense... other than to block, take up space, and, in extreme situations, they are asked to catch a pass.

Firedawg... you've got Holcomb on your FFB team now... and he's putting up much better numbers than JP did. So, you no longer need JP... unless you like being the first in the waiver order. Oh, and stop beating dead horses.

Great to know Willis wants to be #1. But then again, don't most starting backs in the NFL want the same? I'm pretty sure that the majority have that on their mind. For Willis to be considered the best, well, he's got a hell of a lot of work to do to measure up to the really good backs. I'm not trying to disparage what he's done or what a lot of Bills fans think of him, but "personally" I think he's a one dimentional back that doesn't really have a lot of potential to get much better. He's certainly capable of having multiple 1500 yard rushing seasons, but I don't ever see him hitting the 2,000 yard mark or never having the yards from scrimage that the great ones have. A little comparison to shed a light on why I'm thinkin like this... I will make an assumption that the best 3 RBs in the game right now are Tomlinson, James, and Alexander... not necessarily in that order, and there may be a back or two that could be thrown in that mix for argument (Holmes and Lewis for example), but generally speaking, these three are what I'd use to benchmark Willis's progress and standing... certainly if he wants to be "the man" Running is only part of what a running back does. What about receiving and what about blitz pickups? When it comes to the receiving part of the game, Willis ain't even in the same ballpark with these guys. Look it up if you don't believe that. We're taliking 40-60 reception seasons consistently. Blitz pickups? I don't know much about Tomlison or Alexander in that regard, but I know damn well that McGahee is no where near as good as James at cutting a blitzer, because of observed enough of James to have seen that. And I can't count the times in which I've literally seen McGahee allow his QB to to given up because he didn't lay down the smack on a blitzer. Also, two very important measures or qualities that stand out inmy mind when you assign greatness to a RB is the number of long runs they've had (this ability alone strikes fear into a defense) and the number of 200 yard games they've had. Willis is zero for two when measured against these two criteria. OJ, Faulk, Brown, Emmitt, Payton, & Thurman. All of these guys had that ability. Even the "now 3" have ripped off 60-80 yard runs consistently in each season they've played. And all three have had multiple 200 yard rushing games. Even Holmes and Lewis have the long runs and 200 yard games on their resumes. Not McGahee thow... just 41 yards for a long run... and that didn't even register a sixer. Even his predecessor, Travis Henry had a longer run and a couple of 200 yard games. So, my suggestion to Willis and all of the superstar wanabees is to just shut up and play. Don't talk about you wanting to be "the man", just "be the man". Let your actions speak so loud that we can't hear you. You've got a lot of work to do to make us forget Juice and Thermal, not to mention the other greats.

Let's be fair... This is not a coach rating. This is a coach fan approval rating. Now... the thing that just totally surprises me is that the fan approval rating of a coach goes down when the team loses and goes up when the team wins.

Let's keep it "REAL" folks. The Bills run defense has been a sieve the past 5 games. "Less", or "no" touches for Moss means more touches for Jordan. Bills haven't won on the road yet. Believe me, if the Raiders make a solid committment to the run, then the Bills defense is in serious trouble. Scared? Nah, but I'm rightfully concerned... and hopefully the Bills defense is on the same page.

My oh my. How the mighty have fallen. Why no Coy Wire(less) on this list?

this is phase 1 of Donahoe's way of either telling Rosenblow/Mcgahee not play poker next season and threaten to hold out for a new contract, or preparing for that possibility.

I still stands by me prognostification that it will be wk. 8 that Roscoe will be plugged in. If he's active at Oakland, I can't imagine him getting on the field other than a punt return. Why? Well, I have a difficult time believeing "Mr Secret", aka Mularkey, would expose Roscoe to video tape a game prior to playing Mr. Belechick and allowing him to see Roscoe in any formation that could or would give Belechick a tip. We've won 2 in a row sans Roscoe and we're playing a pretty bad team, likely to be without it's best player. So, this Bills fan sees no rhyme, reason, or advantage in playing Roscoe this week... unless they want to expose Roscoe to the typical Raiduh thuggery and risk injury and/or retaliation penalties.

dude... I hope your ss# wasn't on your paycheck info. If so, I'd be sweating a tad.

Amen bro. My contention that past 2 plus seasons has been that we Bills fans are being sold one thing and something else is being delivered. When a GM goes 3-13 in his first year, especially under the circumstances, I don't believe any fan, even me, has any problem giving the guy a mulligan. Happy to do so, especially in year two when the team goes 8-8. That's a quantum leap. Then, you expect no less than 8-8, but probably 10-6 in year 3 of this rebuilding program. What do you get? 6-10? and one of the most contentious seasons I recall as a Bills fan. Week in and week out the offensive coaching was as bad as it gets... but then again, was it what they had to work with? OK, the coach gets fired and deservedly so. Now, as a GM you have a few days to sort of take a look and evaluate where you are as a team, and where you want be as a team. Everyone has a bad taste in their mouth, but everyone wants to move forward. So, as GM of a team you've spent countless hours on re-constructing a team over the past 3 years. The next move you make is probably the single most important move you will make... and that is hiring a head coach that you can hand your reconstrucion project to and have this coach help you put the finishing touches on your masterpiece. What does the GM do? He hires a rookie HC, who brings in a rookie OC. It's not Mularkey or Clements fault that they fell into this. I am not going to say these two are bad coaches just yet... especailly after pulling off what they were able to do last season. But let's be real... rookie coaches have a learning curve to go through themselves, let alone coach a team of young players and make critical decisions. In a sort of way it was like taking another step backward after a couple of steps forward. This season has been... well, certainly not what everyone thought it would be. We were sold that the o-line was squared away. The # 2 NFL defense returns 19 of the top 20 players and is better, We were sold on how JP is the real deal, how hard he worked. Life is good. Surely this team is destined for a 10-6 finish at a minimum. Not!!! After a 1-3 start, we know the offensive line is not squared away, the defense has taken a quantum leap in the wrong direction as they've allowed a runner to amass > 100 yds. in 3 of the last 4 games and 2 weeks ago Ronnie Brown only missed that mark by a measley 3 yards. We also know that JP is not ready for prime time yet. So... how far does Holcomb take the team? That's tough to say when you have a defense that's a sieve and an offensive line, already a problem, an injury or two away from really bad. I do know that if this team misses the playoffs again, the GM will have a diffcult, if not impossible, task of hitting 40K season tix... especially considering the economic peril of this region. And if the team were to finish below .500, Donahoe will definitely fall out of favor with most Bills fans. There would have to be at least 2 or 3 big names through Free agency and the draft... all of which would need to be plugged in as starters or major contributuors to move this team forward and win the fans back. Then... factor in the core of the team and their ages... Fletcher, Vincent, Milloy, Moulds, Adams... all on the wrong side of 30. Two years from now, they're not going to be performing at the level they are now... and I don't see adequate replacements on the horizon. There are just too many holes right now within the team and organization to belive that this team is ready to turn the corner and join the top 25 percentile of upper echelon NFL teams... and that's what we fans deserve.

jeesh... the team is 3-3 and everyone's gotta take back any truthful comment we said about Donahoe and the coaching staff? You're coming off as we've turned the corner or reached the mountain top. How ridiculous. We're freaking 3-3, going to oakland while Belichick has two full weeks to prepare for us. Jimminy crix... it's a good win, but this team is a ways away from playing with the big boys like the pats, steelers, colts, eagles. I mean, really... this defense got toasted pretty good a few times on 3rd and long by a 42 year old never was, and a receiving corps that not too many teams fear. Add to that a 32 year old running back on one wheel gashing this vaunted, hyped Bills defense for 148 yards and this team has a lot of work to do. If the coaching staff is as satisfied as you are with the Bills performance thus far, then this is as good as it gets... savour it.

Right. It had nothing to do with playing behind the best offensive line in football.