Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Don't know if anyone was watching the end of the Jax game, I'd suggest they sign the fan in the stands who threw something and hit the Seattle player. Doubt TT could have made that accurate of a throw. While I understand fans shouldn't be throwing stuff at players I do find it easy to make an exception when it involves Seattle. The player certainly escalated things by trying to go after the fans as 9 times out of 10 that's not going to stop anything, just make it worse.

Because he can since no one wants to stop people from posting and starting threads 5 minutes after creating an account. so unfortunately there are pages of rubbish just like this.

The problem is money is involved, so as soon as the player is losing salary the NFLPA steps in to appeal. Don't like it either, but that's the way it is. Only way it changes would be for the majority of the players to ask for change. And that's kind of what happened the last time when they agreed to give Roger all the power.

From what was stated Woods was a FA and wanted to go to a team on the west coast. So likely the only way the Bills could have hung onto him was by way over paying. In Watkins case, in the 3 seasons here between the numbers he put up and being healthy he did very little and 28 catches this season to justify the large contract he's going to want. So yes we could have hung onto him this seaosn and likely would have helped some, but would likely have lost him at years end as doubt we'd want ot pay big $$ for a 28 reception WR. He also made some comments a couple months back kind of admitting he didn't exactly try his hardest here in Buffalo so again, doubt we'd have re-signed him unless all of a sudden he agreed to a big contract reduction. Maybe Wood's big numbers this season is due to having better QB play

Nope completely wrong. There are other threads here that prove our draft class this past spring was terrible.

It is getting crazy. I'd like to see must be a member for at least 30 days before replying to a post (1st 30 days spent observing only) then 6 months and 100 replies before starting own new threads. Freedom of the press is really getting out of hand here!!

Watkins just helped create an INT by the Saints. Was a lucky play, but without Sammy's help wouldn't have happened

Chargers may be better than people thought, plus Chargers are playing Denver and Oakland who haven't played very well. Evne KC has looked very beatable latelty. And they play the NFC east which excluding Philly may be pretty weak.

No I get that it was sarcasm. My point was if the NFLPA gets what they want, it may not be so far fetched to see this happen. And actually it was the head of their union who brought up the one year contract fears in that "yeah maybe it's not something we really want"

The NFLPA often talks about guaranteed contracts, they say that could be one of the by-products of it. Other than the super stars, the lower level players all get one year contracts only.

It very likely could be he told the Bills he wanted to go to a team where he could compete for the starting job. That wasn't going to happen here in Buffalo so didn't matter how much the Bills offered, he wasn't signing an extension here.

Yeah it's no different than the week before when the game was out of reach against the Saints. Petermann came in and looked terrific and drove them right down the field and scored. I'm not a TT hater or lover, but the last two games he played, he was awful

I fully understand the idea of a coach coaches to a certain style, Rex wasn't going to coach Swartz defense. McDermott /Dennison aren't going to do exactly what Lynn did last year, etc. And by no means are the Bills unique in that regard. Every team and every coach does that. It may not make sence to many fans, but that's just the way it is, so accept it. Now the coach brings in his style of assistants for scheme he wants to run, then you go out and get the players to fit that style. The problem though is to get enough players to play your style and are good enough to make a difference in the number of wins a team has takes a couple of seasons usually to accomplish. So if all goes well that works and you're deemed the next Bill Walsh. But any type of hiccup in the process, above normal number of injuries, owner that has much less patience than others, etc; you don't get the wins. Now instead you're fired and in comes the next guy to start all over. So am wondering why the coaches haven't figured out that I really need to bring in coaches and play a style that fits the current players else by the time I can turn this ship around I'll likely be fired. But yet the draft experts praised the Bills draft. But what do they know, I'm sure you're way smarter than people who do this for a living.

So didn't he have something to prove after the Jet game? He played just as bad the next week, actually played much worse. I'm not against TT, but posts like this are just plain stupid as TT has done very little to earn any trust.

I'm guessing Sherman must only watch the highlights on Primetime or something if he thinks it was only one bad game. Obviously the change didn't work out too well, but TT has been real bad for the past two games and even prior had maybe one to two real good games

Was listening yesterday afternoon to the Bamonte Jones show, he had on some guy who covers the NFL with an Irish/British accent, didn't catch the name. (Maybe he thought he was there to discuss Futbol) He was saying how terrible dumb decision by the Bills to bench TT. His arguments were that the reason TT isn't making the throws is his receivers are never getting open which from everything you hear, the opposite is true. And the second point is that TT throws amazing deep ball. Now that could be argued that the deep ball is TT's best throw only because the rest are all so bad. I think the first game TT played he had tow good deep passes, since then it's been worse overall, again most being uncatchable. Overall my impression was sounded like an interview from a guy who's watched TT highlights on Sportcenter and that's about it. But that's why the national media is ripping on the Bills for benching TT due to "insight" like this.

I'll be very surprised if they aren't given 4 years including the current season. Pegula strikes me as the kind of guy who doesn't want to make changes, but has recently made alot because he realized that mistakes were made. Feel like this time he picked people and will let them develop together and give them time. Where's the flawed part? While they won't admit to tanking, they went out of their way to trade away players who weren't good fits for draft picks to build for the future. The problem they ran into was the team then went and started 5-2. Sure they could have signed some over priced FA this past off-season who would have continued to keep them in salary cap hell, instead they went the other way. You'll likely see as much turn over in this coming off-season as you did this past year as they get the players they want. The one difference is they won't be as hampered by money, but again, think you'll more see the team built through the draft.

The one thing that worries me about that is, are you then getting a guy who looks pretty good, so you build around him, but in three years you figure out he reached his cap around 2 + years ago. I'm not against playing him, but the quote heard often about "most NFL ready coming out of the draft" does worry me some.

how about San Diego and Ryan Leaf, Who drafted Rick Meier #2 was it? And yes those weren't trades, but my point is trading up gives you as much chance at drafting the next Ryan Leaf as it does Carson Wentz

So what makes you think trading up gives you a franchise QB? The only thing it gets you is for the next year, you can tell everyone you have your QB until he starts playing alot. I'm not saying TT is the answer and they should stick with him, but this whole trading up thing is pretty risky as opposed to filling a number of holes with the picks you have. Are there any guaranteed successes out there? And I get it, if you don't try you'll never know. But one thing I'm pretty certain of based on past history, of all the QB's taken next year in the 1st round, within 3 to 4 year close to half will be backups and within 5 years likely at least one if not two will probably be out of football completely.

Here's what I think is even a stupider one than that. A D lineman jumps off-sides, but not so far off-sides that ref blows it dead. So the DL is heading right for the QB and likely will sack him. A O lineman hooks (holds) the guy to stop him from sacking the QB The result, Off-setting penalties. To me thta'sa really dumb one.

Because it just doesn't happen very often anymore. The difference between the best teams in the league and the worst is rather small. So teams lose games unexpectedly. And since the Saints haven't lost in 6 weeks, they are due. Many are thinking the Bills have a decent shot at making the playoffs. Will they make it who knows, but are they really one of the 12 best teams in the league, or are they maybe the 20 best team in the league? But the difference between the 8th best and the 20th best isn't so huge, that with just a little luck they could be in there.

Hard to win 7 games in a row, they are due for a loss.

With the game on Christmas Eve can see many season ticket holders wanting to sell. however as was pointed out the rules there in NE sounds makes it tough. The other big difference is comparing between the OP's comparison to Atlanta is that's in the south. People down south only care about SEC football. You can easily get Falcons tickets, but not Bulldogs, or Fins tickets but not Hurricanes.

I'd be surprised to see the same team get offense and defensive coordinator award. I could see the D coord award going to Jax