Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

That's what I'm getting too. Notice the last words is "mularky.rma" Assume it's about him??

There's a link on bullfaobills.com to the live feed starting at 5:15 according to website.

Well if he goes to Buffalo he'd still get $3mil as whatever Ralph pays him, New Orleans pays for $3 mil minus that amount. Say Ralph pays him $300,000 New Orleans pays him $2.7mil. The advantage of coming here (or anywhere) is he keeps his head in the game. If the Bills defense became good, he's likely get another shot like Gregg Williams was being talked about. Or if MM does terrible next year, he could become the next head coach here. You sit out, you beome a Jim Fassell type that no one talks about anymore.

That is likely what's going to happen and have no problem with the Brandon part. My only concern is Modrek certainly had a big hand in putting the Bills roster together, so will there be an improvement? Granted he did do pretty well in Phil, but then again TD did well in Pitt too.

Some of these guys like Feeney are playing on good teams which means they have their team has the lead more often, and the other team is forced to pass. This increases their sack count too I'm sure. For Shobel to have done as well as he has on a team with as poor a record makes him more impressive. Is he the best in the league? No, but as someone else said, he's probably somewhere between the 5th and 10 best end, which is about where he's being paid too.

Thats true, but the Bill's also have Russ Brandon to take care of that. 6 or 7 weeks ago, I would have tended to agree, but now I think TD is gone!

Not to defend MM here but, I can't help but wonder if MM's thinking was that this team is such a mess, playing him now may hurt his confidence more than he is going to learn by playing anyway at this point, so just let him sit to next year when he has time in the off-season to go slowly. I do feel there is a point where playing in a total mess can hurt more than watching and I also think the Bill's were very close to that point if not beyond.

Well that also makes him the best coach in our division as the next closest team is about 250 miles away!!

Interesting how he mentioned he was going to talk with MM, but didn't mention anything about TD. My only fear is the only was MM stays for certain is to promote from within, which means Modrek, and he's responsiple for scouting of most of the players on the team.

Holcomb probably would be ok with a good online that can run the ball and gain 3 or 4 yards at a shot. Then you often have 3rd and 3's and his dump offs would work. But not on a team that often has 3rd and long. The last interception was a good indicator of his arm strength. He's completed some long passes early in games when the D isn't necessarily looking for it. But when the D know's he has to go long, he doesn't stand a chance with his arm.

I'm not at all convinced that if the Bills had signed Lewis, he would have done any better than GW with the personal he had here. More than likely by now Lewis would have been fired as the Bills would have done just as bad. I also don't think he should have signed JJ for the $$ he wanted, and can't fault him for letting one player out of 11 on defense leave. With free agency today, I doubt there's any teams out there bringing back all 11 players from year to next on either side of ball. I also agree with you that signing M Williams seemed like a good move at the time and people who suggested we should have traded down, well you need someone to trade with. Where I think TD has done a terrible job is signing players for the line. He seems more intent on signing name "position" players than the guys in the trenches. Where it appears he failed on the defense is recognizing that the D was getting to old. That is what the problem is there, not losing one player. You can certainly argue that if TD is being paid what he is, that he needs to be able to see that that before it's too late. Whether that's fair or not, don't know as I'm not sure that is something that can be anticipated. If anything, that may fall more on the ocaches to see that. Maybe they did and warned TD, but he didn't do anything about it? We'll never know. I've come to the conclusion that I think the Bill's would be better off without TD, but when I look at your list, I really can't blame him for many of the things you listed. The only real gripe I have, which is a big one, is not putting an O-line together.

I think what likely would happen is assuming RW fires TD, he starts talking with other GM candates, once there's a mutual attraction betwen Ralph and someone, Ralph asks, what does he think of MM as a coach? If the GM candate tells Ralph, I can live with him, great, if not all of a sudden Ralph fires MM, just like he did before TD came along. Season ended, WP was still the coach. A couple weeks goes by, and all of a sudden Wade gets fired, and within a week TD is hired. The other problem too is for example with hiring the personal guy from NE, we'd have to wait till they are out of the playoffs which could be late January. Then for a new GM to only start looking for a coach, you'd be really scraping the bottom of the barrell. I feel that was part of the problem when Gregg Williams was hired, not alot of other choices left. So maybe the new GM keeps MM for another year, figures lets see how he does as by then no other good coaches left ot pick from? If he comes to conclusion that with better personal, he'd do OK, maybe it works out, if not he dumps him next year.

Thats a good thing to do, only if you feel that he will be there for the the length of the restructure. You can cut his salary down to guard money, but we have no idea at this point IF he can play guard. So doing that is taking a big risk in that a year from now, you may want to cut him anyway, and now with a re-structured, likely extended, higher signing bonus contract. (likely would happen as salary would be converted to bonus $$) Now we'd be eating an even larger bonus in 07. Pure speculation here (which equals about 99% of everything written on this site) but it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the reason the Bill's didn't re-structure MW last year was cause they knew if they did, they'd be re-structuring someone who has played well for about a half of year out of the first three. Would he continue to improve? My guess is the Bill's felt, lets see him show the same improvement, next year again in 05, then we'll talk a major re-structure. But instead he's regressed, so why re-do a contract on someone that has so many question marks? You never want to re-do the contract of an unknown. Probably one of the smart moves TD did in not doing anything.

I'd be very surprised that it's chummy-chummy. I think TD has put the fear of God into MM, that if he even thinks about ever publicly questioning him, he'll be sleeeping with the fish. Everyone comments how MM sounds alot like GW these days. Wouldn't be surprised if its cause TD spanks him every time he speaks the truth in any way.

I thought they did a good job on the game itself, but statign that TD has the Bills going in the right direction was a pretty amazing statement.

My god, sounds like he's terminal! I want TD gone too but not dead. Sounds like that post past week about Sonny making a visit may be what Ralph has planned. I hope TD has an E-Z-Pass!

I'm not saying he is better. But at least with Losman there's hope that he may improve particually if he had a line in front of him. And at least he does have a good arm, and can run well too. With Holcomb, this likely is as good as it gets.

Anyone that feels even short term that we're better with Holcomb, i'd like to know why. He made some nice throws, particually early, but since then has missed as bad as Losman

Thtas probably true, however, I'd be willing to bet that if you analysed every sack by every other player whos had big sack totals, you'd find the same thing. Many are in garbage time. Yuo also have to balance that against the fact that the Bill's have been behind in many of these games, which means the opposition is often running in the 4th quarter. In the early 90's how many extra sacks did Bruce get cause the opponent was passing on every play as they were behind. Is Schobel as good as Bruce? Absolutely not, but I would rate him somewhere in top 10 to 20 percent. And that ain't all that bad!

Yeah I did find one web cam, but it's so fuzzy looking, you can barely tell there's even water flowing.

I guess that's what I meant , the "Ice Bridges" When we say it two years back, all over the base of the American Falls were huge piles of ice. And by early March it had already melted some I'm sure. So what I'm really asking is will there be some decent sized piles of ice at the base by next week? Or does it take a couple of months of cold freezing temps for those to form?

I certainly agree that about Reed. But there's no way you can say that about Evans. If you compare Moulds after two years to Evan's, it's not even close. Moulds biggest problem after two years was getting the splinters out of his ass from sitting on the bench. Will Evan's become a #1? Who knows, I don't know, but neither do you, and if you truely did know, you wouldn't be posting here as you'd be working for some NFL team.

Usually when players re-structure and take cuts, they get bonus money and years added. In MW case you're taking a big risk by doing that as he's done nothing to prove he's worth doing that. Even a guy like Moulds, you have a good track record to go by and if the money is reasonable, you can risk doing that. I think the this past season, the Bill's had hoped that MW would have continued to improve as he did last year. If he had, then at seasons end, the Bill's would have been willing to restructure and add years. That may have been why they didn't do it last year as they didn't want feel they had seen enough yet to indicate that he had turned the corner. Trouble is this past year, not only didn't he turn the corner, he got lost going around the block!

I'm not sure of that. There's been times including with the Bills, that when the head coach changes, some assistants are kept. Jerry Gray obviously comes to mind. And I believe Gregg Williams kept a couple of coaches from Wade P staff too, Chuck Lester, Rusty Jones and one other. BTW they coached together in Tampa, not Cincy I doubt any coach is going to committ suicide for another coach as in refuse to stay with the Bill's becasue they fired the head coach. Usually the team will givce any coaches the green light to look around if they want for another job as that takes the Bill's off the hook for their salary if they find anything. But not to say Sam would look immediately and that some team would pick him up either. It's not like he's doen this incredible job here in the past two years that would make him a hot name. Plus after working with him for two years, he might not be as tight as you'd think either.

Have some out of town company coming up for X-Mas. They said they'd like to see the falls in the winter frozen over (or partically) so was thinking of going there the day after X-Mas. Was wondering if there's a decent amount of ice built up already? I'd imagine normally X-Mas weekend is a bit early, but this year has been cold for all of December, so may be frozen?? I've been there in early Match before and after two months of winter had alot of ice there. The day was sunny with not a cloud in the sky and we actually got to see a rainbow form over the Rainbow Bridge. Never realized it prior, but I assume that must have been how it got it's name?? Any comments from locals