Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

I don't know, I think it's Bellichick who's the brains of the outfit. He was even able to win with Matt Cassell the year Brady was hurt.

Well if they flipped the games, then the Steelers would get the advantage. Why shouldn't the team that has the best record get the advantage. The likely outcome is the winner of the KC game which is being played on Saturday will go to NE anyway so makes sense to me in how they scheduled it.

Somewhere back on the first page or two of this thread or other similar threads at the time, there's a couple of posts from me, complaining about the $3 charge. Not so much that they are charging, but the basic concept, seemed to me they'd make more money making the sites/pages/links all free, but have ad's on them. Since then have read enough articles that have shown me they do make more money charging a subscription price than they would through ads. So if that's the case, then have no problem with them charging and up to people to decide if they want to buy or not. As far as charging for what use to be free. 30 years ago it wasn't free, you needed to buy the newspaper. Now yes there is much free content available, but often from TV and radio outlets which really aren't directly competing with written content, so easier for them to give it away as may even drive people to watch their programming.

Kind of funny, they only have one more win than we do and won the division with ten wins, and had a relatively weak division overall, but yet they appear to be a much stronger team than we are. The first half of the season BB played like he did last season, but the past 5 or 6 weeks, he has looked very good, good enough that Jax may not even go after a QB in the off-season. Two big strengths their defense and Fournette which is something we've struggled most of the year to stop.

Likely you'll see in the off-season he gains about 20 pounds of muscle. Last few weeks he faded even more, but also may have been due to hitting the rookie wall. Playing six months straight at a much more intense level every day is more than you see in college.

Schottenheimer was 4 times?? wow just looked up the teams, forgot about a couple of them.

Yup that worked thanks!

Maybe, or maybe not, lots of guys have failed with multiple teams. DelRio is the latest, Fox has been fired 3 times now as HC. That likely ties some record, as don't think anyone has been fired 4 times??

When I click on the link it states "The media could not be played" What am I doing wrong? Noticed this on a bunch of Twitter links, same thing happens to me.

The risk in that is by the time you wait for the ball to travel 10 yards easy for the kicking team to wipe you out with the first guy and the guy behind him dives on the ball with no Bills around. Honestly I just think it's the law of averages has caught up with the Bills on this one.

Could be that going to this zone blocking scheme just took him longer to get it than others. Or even that those around him took longer, but the mistakes by others to the uninformed eye appeared to be on Vlad, but really were someone elses fault and he just took the blame in some instances. Or just overall the entire line now gets this new scheme.

Could be or the more likely scenario is that for all these times you think you know more than people who do this professionally for a living, you really don't. The truth is you just know much less than you think you know.

Kind of funny how all the little kids are just doing nothing. Probably thinking when I scream like that I get in trouble. I do wonder if KW had told the Bills he is retiring and that was why they ran that play with him for the TD

Every years there are multiple threads talking about what a tough schedule we have this coming year. When you factor in that you come close to playing the same schedule every 3 to 4 years, how can you have the toughest every year?? Then after all the complaining saw a thread in late Oct commenting that maybe we need to dismiss the wins against Atlanta and Denver. LOL so first we have the toughest schedule ever, then once you win the games the opponents weren't very good.

I think the biggest reason for Sammy being healthy all season was simply the fact that this is a contract year for him, so he played through all the nicks and bruises that in the past years he'd sit out for. Contract years always seem to improve players health.

I've heard/read the same. Each year roughly 10% of NFL officials are "re-assigned" or let go. But as someone else pointed out, you better have a better option for replacing him with, else you've made a bad situation worse.

Up until the Jets and New Orleans game I was in favor of bringing him back next year and using all the draft picks and free agency to surround him with talent. But after watching those games, realized it's time to give up. You're probably correct TT was only bad in 25% of the games, but in the other 75% he was never good either. He just wasn't the main reason for the loss, but did nothing to help pull out a win either. I also would agree that's it's hard in fact very hard to find a franchise QB, but not that hard to get better at QB. Maybe not super bowl winning better, but better. And then if you go back to my comment about using all the draft picks and FA to get better overall talent, you could likely win with just a little better QB play. IMO TT has two main problems, holding onto the ball too long and accuracy. If he just had one of those problems, I do believe he'd be OK as QB and could get team into playoff and would likely agree with your statement that it's hard to get better than him. But with both those problems, no not hard to get better by a noticeable amount, maybe not Tom Brady better, but still better.

Because the do it for a living and 95% of the posters here don't And coaches and front office folks know 95% more than the prognosticators too.

Agreed, his judgement is different than your's and most others here. And it's very obvious that people who post on message boards in their spare time is far superior to that of coaches who practically live with these guys 24/7!

There I fixed it for you. Easy to find a different QB.If finding a franchise QB is as easy as everyone around here talks, all the teams in the league would have one. Instead there are around 1/2 dozen teams that actually have one. Then another 10 to 15 have someone better than TT, but not a true franchise QB. The Bills have a better chance of getting another JP Losman or Rob Johnson, than say an Aaron Rodgers just because there are many more failures than successes.

Where did this 3rd TE Lee come from??

There would be a certain irony here in that the same thing happened with Eli. San Diego drafted him #1, but he had stated prior to draft he wasn't goin to play for them. So they worked out trade with Giants who used their first pick on Rivers, then traded him and some picks for the Eli pick. Could happen again.

Not stating this specifically for or against TT, but just in general think it's unfair that if a QB scrambles and gains even one yard, that counts as positive rushing yards. But if he gets tackled one yard BEHIND the LOS that counts as a scak, but not counted in any way plus or minus towards rushing yard totals.

If we sign Kirk, that's a multi year deal for big $$ or else he's not coming here. So can't see signing him and then also drafting a guy to develop. If it's TT, then can see it playing out exactly as you describe. Of the two options would rather see the Bills sign a vet (or only draft someone in Rd 2) as overall many of these supposed can't miss prospects in September, now all have some types of question marks or flags. A round #2 pick that fails is much easier to accept.

Was it a 1 year deal or is he signed thru next season too?