Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Have you listened to Terry Pegula lately? He's just as bad. Kim should be the spokesperson for the team all the time. I wouldn't mind seeing that!!

To me that was a good penalty, with 3rd and 1 maybe you do something to try and draw the defense offsides, hope the refs don't see what you do, if it doesn't work and they cal it on you, worst case, you puint 5 yards deeper, but still should be able to easily put the kick near the goalline.

Add say another one or two years to it and maybe $5 mil per year added so now it becomes a total of $35 to $40 mil spread over 3 to 4 years. You convert his base salary which for the next two years around $11mil per year to a signing bonus. Give im a $10 mil signing bonus and a base salary next year of say $4mil. Why would Mario agree to it, if he doesn't he may be cut, then needs to get another team to pay him $30 mil over the next couple of years. If he really thinks he can, he won't agree to an extension, but if he's not certain he does get that kind of contract he agrees to the re-structure. Seems teams are smart enough to know the numbers needed to get the player to agree to it as more often they do. On the other hand, likely the ones who don't agree are the ones cut each February.

There was just an article I read this week, can't recall where I read it thought it was here at 2 Bills stating Glenn was having his best year ever. Admittedly was kind of surprised to hear that based on many other comments. So thta makes me wonder if either the person who wrote this article is clueless or the many people that post on this website post here for a reason (as opposed to working in the NFL) they don't know anything. I do agree however that some team likely will overpay for him. More likely we resign Richie I, draft a LT, but do think we have two players capable of playing RT. But also wouldn't shock me to see they do draft a RT or a center.

Yeah after I posteds this I remembered it was Collins, Was confusing him with Kelly Holcomb who I believe we also drafted.

How do you coach him to be accurate, just curious?? Then you have the problem of not seeing enough of anyone to know who is or isn't any good,. that was one of the complaints this summer in training camp you had three people competing for playing time.

Johnson was anything but a re-tread, he was in the league what two years? Bledsoe certainly should have had a a number of years left in him, assuming he played at his former level, and not at all implying his level of play dropped because of age. IMO his play dropped way off as Belichick knew his weaknesses and exposed him to the rest of league. They picked Losman, Edwards, Manual, and can't even recall his name who was going to be Kelly's replacement, Kelly something?? Plus Johnson and Flutie were in there too. One of the smaller problems this summer in training camp that was discussed was how do you give enough time for 3 QB's to develop chemistry with all the players which is a legit concern. Then you hear people suggest the Bill's should select a QB every year. Once you do that, to truly give the guy time to figure out if he's any good, you need to play him, then you restrict the development of your current #1 QB. My point is I just listed six guys the Bill's used at QB for various amounts of time hoping one would work out, but none did. Six divided by 20 is a little over three years each. Bringing in more than that is just going to stunt everyone involved as no one would get enough time. Many of the can't miss prospects often do miss, I'd put the level at over 50% of all 1st rounders fail to become dominant players. You mention they should draft and develop more, well unless you have a top ten pick AND in a year with some can't miss prospects who still will often miss, you're then taking gambles. So then you are left to taking lower round guys, making trades, or picking up FA which the Bills have done all three. To me the Bill's have done everything correct to get a new franchise QB but just have not had any success. However over the past 20 years, you could say the same thing about more than half the teams in the league so can't blame them as it's not working for others either any better.

I' don't know if I'd say simplify as much as just play a defense that brings out the players strengths, not what Rex just is comfortable with.

What exact facts bear that out?? Other than speculation as there were all these rumors flying around about Polion coming back in some capacity. That to me is the key, everyone was assuming he was going to be the GM, but I doubt that was ever the case and that's why he's not here.

I'd likely put a yes in front of Detroit (particularly if they have #1 overall and can take anyone they feel is worthy) Chicago, and SF too. So unless we do tank, not likely we're getting anywhere near the top. But not to hard to jump up to #2 on that list either, particularly the way Rex had the Defense playing

Rex is calling the D, Thurman just holds the clipboard. There's probably not a DC in the league who does less paretically on game day than Thurman does.

So using your logic, then any team that loses consistently like Buffalo, Oakland, Detroit, Tampa, etc. it's all the owners fault, so the owner needs to be fired. Brandon is basically the everyday voice of the owner, so in that position he's not going anywhere as effectively he is the owner from an every day operations public view.

Unless you're ready to fire Ryan I think there's a good chance Whaley also comes back for the reasons you state. You don't want a new GM to have to keep Rex if he's not sold on him. Conversely you don't want ot bring in some GM who is a Rex guy then in two years fire Rex, but now have his hand picked GM still here. So the simple thing is give Whaley one more year, if 2016 is equally bad particularly no improvement defensively, then you're 2 years into Ryans five year deal and would be a little easier for TP to swallow the deal, say it was a mistake a fire them both, then bring in a new GM to also hire a coach of his choosing. IF and this is a big if IMO if the rumors of Whaley and Ryan not being on the same page on many of these deals is true, then the other thing I'd do this off-season if I'm TP is get the two of them together for some "bonding" to try and get them more on the same page. But also wonder how much truth there is to this vs. guys like Sulley and Gleason developing stories to fit their agenda. then you have national guys like Shector picking up the stories as he figures, the local guy must know what's going on.

Who did you expect him to get? Somehow convince Green Bay to trade Arron Rodgers for EJ? OK he could have thrown in Kiko too. People keep slamming Whaley for not getting a better QB option make it sound like top level QB's are being cut all the time and he just ignored them all. There are 32 NFL teams and about a dozen top level QBs' There's another handful that have an up and coming year and give the team hope only to fall back the following year.

And I won't knock him for dumping Freddy either as Fred would not have been a happy camper being inactive baring injuries. If anything Jackson should have thanked Whaley from sparing him the indignity of being inactive.

I'd tend to agree with you on the quality, had a few freezes but overall not too bad. I'm out of the Western NY area, so wonder if less people pulling from the same "main fiber pipe" so maybe that explains why was pretty decent for me?? But people in western NY had poor performance.

Really, I'm not at all defending EJ, while I agree not likely he gives up two touchdowns, also doubt Cassel makes the TD passes either.

Unless the rest of the Bills roster plays for the Cowboys, it means nothing how Cassel plays. From everything seen of Cassel he's didn't look any better than EJ. Granted it was pre-season but there was nothing special of his play.

So am I, Bortles and Robinson, plus have Clay for Buffalo

The video quality almost looks like I'm watching Madden. It looks like it's a video game

Rex is the DC, Thurman just holds Rex's clipboard. While I don't disagree with anything you say, you're really talking about Rex here, not Thurman.

I know that always did piss me off too, we're in the area to be blacked out, but for other reasons, don't qualify. It used to make me made in the early 90's once the Billd would make the conference championship game, no Van Miller on radio in Rochester. Instead would get NFL broadcast. In general, I never really had a problem with blackout rules, but the special rules for primary markets always seemed unfair. On another somewhat related question, will there be any way to stream it to a Roku? Would save me the trouble of plugging my laptop into big TV

No you are not wrong!! Still true through!!

I think they are struggling due to losing most of their big playmakers. No Sammy and Shady makes the rest of the receivers and RB look very average at best. Makes the line look worst as less need for double teaming so more defenders can rush, and poor RB makes it easy to stop the run, so nothing left by TT to beat you based on his skills. Admittedly, not sure he's good enough to do that, at least not yet.

Yes and ref doesn't have the ability to freeze frame the play. So if it's that close can't in any way fault the ref. He's thrown the flag way before the Titan player ever even touched the ball. I think it happens much more than you imagine. How often is the TV camera even showing all 11 players at the line at the kickoff, and who watching on TV pays any attention to it. So the only time it gets attention is when the penalty is called. My opinion it's called at least 4 to 5 times per season, and would not at all be surprised if it's even more Because basically that's the side judges only job, to watch for off sides. It's probably one of the easiest calls for him to make as very easy to see. And do agree with you that little if any advantage is gained, so the bigger question in my mind is why would a player put himself anywhere close to be called for offsides? As was pointed out, it could be due to the new kicker, but even so why put yourself in that close of a position to have the call made. Instead of blasting the officials, maybe you should be venting your energy at Easley for being stupid!