Coach Tuesday

That's the part that is still getting to me, 3 days later, and will probably continue to eat at me for quite awhile. The Bills don't seem to be in the business of winning games, fine, I've learned to live with that. But at the very least it was a joy to watch an elite athlete like Sammy on otherwise miserable Sunday afternoons during otherwise miserable seasons. BUT NOW THEY WON'T EVEN LET ME HAVE THAT. And you well know that most of the folks around here who are defending the moves will be bitching and moaning in high throttle after the first few games of watching a flaccid offense featuring 4-yard rollout passes to a fullback.

If Flacco's back goes out or Carson Palmer blows out another ACL before the trade deadline...

Agreed - he probably already texted with a couple of guys (Wood and McCoy are my guesses) but was asked not to disclose that, so he wrote it as something he "surmises."

Can you push yourself to try a bit harder?

Well, one thing it would do is take pressure off of his coach...

They could very well have been showcasing him Kelly - but I also think it's very possible that Dennison was actually trying to install an offense around his best player... either way it's depressing, honestly. I'm still very, very upset about this trade.

I thought he said that they had discussed generally the idea of the trade before the game, but didn't discuss until after the game the specific trade in question.

It's just Bills Fan Sour Grapes. We hear it all the time at TBD.

I'm not sure many of the fans here even care about the "playing" part. Being a Bills fan has become all about the draft - it's just a twisted version fantasy football.

We'll see.

Leverage of a 5th year option (whoops) and two consecutive franchise tags (oops).

Yup. Kick all of the talented players off of the team and start from scratch to rebuild the culture. It worked for Pol Pot...

Also - not for nothing - the architect of that "top 5 D" JUST TRADED FOR DARBY, who he views as a perfect fit for his 4-3 scheme. These "justifications" are killing me. Nope, just load up the roster with a bunch of lunch-pail, run-through-a-wall soldiers and saints and COACH 'EM UP!

I can't believe he had the stones to do this in his first half offseason.

Stop changing schemes every freaking two years.

Unbelievable. This team hasn't hit on a "gamble" since drafting Thurman.

Yes.

Why not keep what works????!

They were not forced to let go of Big Pat. Donahoe got an idea in his head that he could find a replacement.

If their plan is a possession passing scheme than they're DOA. Tyrod is at his best playing a sandlot style with deep quick-strike options, which Sammy was perfect for. Trying to stuff this offense into a short-passing, tempo-based possession system is going to be a disaster. It'll be like what Rex did to the defense - negating strengths and requiring a full personnel rebuild. This is so depressing.

It was a "huge problem" of the Bills' own making and there were better ways to solve it.

I don't think either of those things are true.

They already had two first round picks next year with which to address the QB position. Now they'll finally draft a QB and he'll be saddled with a bunch of joker receivers.

40,000 posts of drivel.

Good point. Hotties of all types.