Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

He was on my fantasy team too.

Yeah then he'd show up on the Bills injury report instead of Seattle. Or he may have got hurt the first couple weeks playing the RB position on the scout team as that's typically what the inactives do. I'm sure Fred would have welcomed that.

More than likely the flag was thrown right at the beginning of the play, at that point, the official has no idea how the play will play out.

I think if Cinny wins this week, the odds of us winning the following week increase as they will then tend to be more over-confident, plus deep down they would know a loss wouldn't hurt then as much if they are already 5-0

What he says publicly vrs behind closed doors very likely are two different things. One of the things that has been stated many times is that Rex always has the players backs. This is one of them, he's going to try and deflect the blame from them and claim they did nothing wrong.

Maybe Glenn would be OK at RT, but likely some team will pay him LT money so likely he'll be gone. I'd try and sign a FA LT then draft another, then maybe a center in the 3rd round.

Yeah and look what happened, Singletary did just good enough to keep him for three more years of progressively getting worse. You really limit yourself with mid-season hires, that was why I didn't think it would actually happen.

I think it's time for full time officials. The NFL keeps arguing they want these bank presidents and such as officials as they make a large enough salary not to take bribes, but in todays world they can just as easily be bought. On top of that anyone making a six figure salary today isn't working a 9 to 5 job, so do these guys really have enough time to study the game as much as they should. Just as we often say about coaches in the case of the refs, I think the game is passing many of these guys by too. I wouldn't dump them all immediately, but I'd phase in a full time officials program.

And you know what he could see?? Wow, you must be talented!! Yes your premise is correct, don't call what you can't see, but to state what he can and can't see is laughable. Just because when you watch the replay you see a guy possible in the line of sight, doesn't mean he was truly in the line of sight. Was it marginal, sure, but stop blaming the refs for the Bills making it easy by making either flat out dumb plays or doing borderline things.

Yeah and then all of a sudden you can win some games with an interim coach, think he's the answer and next year be in the same position. You're just to limited in selection with mid season hires, as you said it's just a statement, but doesn't help the team, could even hurt your position in the draft if the new guy wins a couple or so.

This could suck today, I have Sunday ticket, but live down in NC, with all the rain, I keep losing the signal. five minutes is fine, then goes out agian

That's one thing I miss not living in western NY anymore. That and some good wings. It's so bad I actually ate some at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Yeah but in an ESPN interview two weeks back Rex said he's planning to coach here for 10 years!

So who in the front office wants him gone specifically? Are you implying Russ wants the GM job? I think nothing is further form the true. RB wants nothing to do with that job, knew the last time he wasn't qualified so did the job on a manage by committee basis and took all the blame when things went wrong, even though others were really making the football decisions.

I agree with everything being stated about Whaley, first top level GM that's been here in quite awhile. This thread talks about how are we going to be able to re-sign all these players. Taking it another direction. What about re-signing Whaley?? Read in another thread he's a FA after this year, GM contracts typically expire May 1st, but still less than a year away. Haven't heard anything about contract talks. Makes me a little nervous, does ne not want to be here, did the talk of bringing in an outside football guy annoy him to the point h wants to go elsewhere? Could he be pulling a John Butler and not signing an extension? On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being certain we're going to lose him, I'll put my fear level at around a 3 or 4, but as time goes on, that will go up if he doesn't sign. Or is it just a formality?? Or was the other post wrong about the contract expiring next year??

Yeah he was another one. Been awhile now, but weren't the Raiders kind of a surprise, came out of nowhere, one year wonder, then fell back to earth? In Tampa he won with Dungy's players and rather quickly fell out of love down there. Roman is great at what he does, but would be very surprised if a guy like him could translate it into being a great HC too.

Yeah I knew I had spelled Gailey wrong (hey was only off one letter) and you're right too it was Jauron. But I will stick to my original comment he wasn't fired, he walked away as he was informed he would not be back for the following season. He didn't want tocoach as a lamb duck, so walked away, I'm sure will full season of pay and the rest of of his contract as being fired. I think any team that signs Roman to a HC contract will be making a huge mistake. Richie I was quoted the other day as saying he's never been on a team with as complex of a running game as the Bill's have, I've heard/read other similar comments with regards to Roman. To me, that does NOT make for a good HC as when he's in a HC position he won't have anywhere near the time to get into that level of detail. And if he did, he wouldn't have time for other things such as being a motivator which to me is far more important as the HC to motivate than to be strategic. He seems way to technical to be an effective HC. Technical people look at things logically which usually does not fit well with motivating, granted there are some exceptions, but not many. Likely based on how the NFL works he will get a HC gig, but whatever team offers it will likely regret it 2 or 3 years down the road.

When was the last time a coach was mid-season? It may have been Cahn Galey right here, but technically he actually resigned and wasn't fired. Those days are over it seems. While I agree with all the names, would be very surprised if any are fired before the season ends. I think the fear is the new interim guy steps up wins a couple of games, everyone likes him, now it's hard not to make him the new HC but may be better choices out there at year end.

Retraction for what, everything he stated a year ago would still be true regardless of how much of a boy scout year they have. And yes so far they've been good, but it doesn't change any of the facts in the article, other than maybe people can change, but I'd want ot give it way more than one year before I'd write that article. So far al lthe questionable pickups have worked out. Darby, K Williams, Harvin, Richie I, and seems I'm leaving another out. Hopefully it will stay that way, Of al lof them the one I'd put the most fath in staying out of trouble would be Richie I It's just laughable how everything that people here rip the Pats fans for doing, turn around and do the same. A preseason article from a writer stating the Bills will only win five games, he's an idiot. Someone else says we're going to the Super Bowl and he's a genius. An on behalf of ESPN I'd like to thank the OP for bringing all this additional attention to this article. There sponsors also thank you.

Where did Tannehill go to college, was it someplace in Texas?

I think it's somewhere in between. There was some garbage time play, but agree the game was way to close for NE to just play it out. NE also doesn't seem to be a team to just play it out, they seem to prefer burying teams and keeping their foot on the gas. There's a big difference between coming from way back and a rally just falling short. Often there's a reason it fell just short because the other team wasn't going to let it go further. Rally's falling short often give false hope. But I do agree this one was somewhere in the middle I think.

I wonder if alot of this could be attributed to all the pre-season injuries to RB and WR. Guys that should have been practicing ST all summer were playing RB and WR in the pre-season games. Now askign them to jell together without much practice.

I was worried all week about all the chatter firing up NE. Admittedly I think a larger issue were all the national talking heads saying how Rex can stop NE, etc got NE fired up more than Rex did. But agree Rex should shut up, but he won't.

This was my fear all week. Pats are defending SB champs, being trashed as much as they were all the people against them had them fired up. Though I do think it wasn't just due to the Bills trash talking, but more a result of all the national people downplaying the Pats.

That's coming from the sideline, not the refs. I think it's all part of this new concussion sideline team, they felt there was a potential concussion so he's pulled. The fact that the announcers knew Henderson got up kind of slow, means as they say "where there's smoke there's fire"