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Before we start wildly guessing what coaches are going to end up in what cities, let's first do a little research. What teams are after new head coaches and who do they have their eyes on?: Buffalo Bills - Ken Whisenhunt, Ray Horton, Lovie Smith, Mike McCoy, Doug Marrone, Chip Kelly, Hue Jackson, Jim Haslett Philadelphia Eagles - Chip Kelly, Mike Nolan, Greg Roman, Mike McCoy, Doug Marrone, Mike Zimmer Cleveland Browns - Chip Kelly, Nick Saban, Ray Horton, Doug Marrone, Ken Whisenhunt San Diego Chargers - Lovie Smith, Andy Reid, Bruce Arians Kansas City Chiefs - Andy Reid Chicago Bears - Mike McCoy, Bruce Arians Arizona Cardinals - Ray Horton, Todd Haley, Andy Reid, Mike McCoy So here are my predictions: Bills - Seems like Ken Whisenhunt is an early favorite. I'm not sure he fits the role of exciting, new, progressive forward thinking, but he's a former Pitt guy (Whaley likes), experienced NFL head coach (Buddy likes) and that Russ has been reported as liking him, so he might be the pick. Eagles - Sounds like they're hot for Chip Kelly, but I think they'll swing and miss, like the Bills. I have the feeling they'll favor a defensive-minded coach and for that reason I think it'll be Mike Nolan, although a long playoff run by the Falcons will hurt his candidacy. BTW, evem though he stunk in San Fran I think Nolan is a great coach. His defenses are always excellent. See what he did with Atlanta this year. Browns - Chip Kelly, 100%. They have purposelly waited to hire a GM so that they can offer Chip anything he wants. Joe Banner and Jimmy Haslam will get the guy they covet. Chargers - They haven't even truly begun the process, as they're looking to hire a GM first before their coaching search officially gets underway. If I had to guess though, I'd say they'll favor an offensive minded guy who can get the most out of whatever Rivers has left in the tank.........and that guy might be Bruce Arians. Chiefs - If you're to believe Adam Schefter's team sources, which 2 days ago said Reid to the Cardinals is a 95% done deal, then I guess we should believe him this time when it's being reported that Andy Reid beoming the Chiefs next coach is imminent. Bears - They're offense is the main complaint in Chicago land so they might just be leaning for an innovative offensive mind. Seems like the young, hot, offensive mind this go around is Mike McCoy. Cardinals - Well I've already placed Reid and McCoy with other teams, so that leaves me Ray Horton or Todd Haley. Haley was a disaster in KC, so I don't understand the interest in him as a HC, but maybe they're bringing him in to see if he'd be interested in playing OC under their new HC, Ray Horton, who all Cardinals fans seem to really like. So there is my, throw a dart at a board, guess for how the chips may fall. What are your thoughts? For full disclosure Whisenhunt or even Lovie Smith don't do much at all to excite me. I'd probably lean Lovie, only because I'm so sick of watching a pathetic defense, and that's his forte. Although the thought of a Lovie Smith led offense is also very scary, so neither scenario is all that encouraging. Chip Kelly would excite, that's for sure, but I think the Cleveland Browns situation will be much, much more favorably viewed by Kelly once he gets the chance to sit down with Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner.

Hes caught my eye too

Zac Dysert is the best QB in this draft. If the Bills like him they need to take him at #8, because I don't think he'll be around in the 2nd round. Really looking forward to watching him during the pre-draft process.

I have absolutely no faith in Russ Brandon. Everyone forgets Russ was the de facto GM from 2008-2010, between Levy and Nix. How'd that work out. I don't know what the solution is to turn the Bills into winners, but I know it's NOT MORE Russ Brandon. You gotta give the Bills credit for b;lowing a lot of smoke today and making everything sound great, but what they're essentially selling is more Russ Brandon. What I'm saying is Russ Brandon was a failure before and he'll likely be a failure again. More of the same at One Bills Drive, this time just packaged in a prettier wrapping paper with a nice bow on top.

So imagine your a coach being brought in for a visit to discuss the Bills head coaching vacancy. First, you walk into a room with Russ Brandon, Jim Overdorf, Buddy Nix and Doug Whaley (those are the 4 that are flying out to AZ) and you gotta be thinking whats going on here? You have a salesmen who is now the surrogate for Ralph Wilson, a bean counter in Overdorf, a GM, but we're not sure for how much longer GM in Nix, and an assistant GM about to be GM at somepoint down the line, we're just not sure when in Whaley. What's your thought going to be sitting down with these four? First thing I'm going to notice is the front office looks like an absolute mess with too many people involved in the decison making process. Look there is nothing wrong with having checks and balances within an organization, but theres just too much going on at One Bills Drive for my liking. My biggest dislike starts at the (now) very top with Russ Brandon. This guy has just always struck me the wrong way. I have absolutely no confidence in Russ Brandon, a glorified inventory salesmen, leading this football team in the right direction. In fact he's already failed once, given the fact he was (kinda, sorta) the GM a few years back. That's the problem with the Bills, there's so many people who have their hands involved in this cluster eff, that when things hit the fan no one even knows where to lay the blame. Is it Donahoe, Modrak, Mularkey, Littman, Overdorf, Juaron, Levy, Nix, Brandon, Whaley, Gailey. Whos calling the shots? Nobody freaking knows. I think giving Russ Brandon MORE POWER symbolizes everything that is wrong with Buffalo. We haven't made the playoffs in 13 years, haven't had a winning season in 8 years, so let's let a salesmen/businessman who has been around for the last 16 years, and also had a brief and failed stint as GM lead the way to find our next head coach. No thanks, sounds like an absolute disaster to me. Not that it means anything either, but does anybody else think Russ is a little full of himself. He was wearing what looked like a Super Bowl ring on his hand during todays presser, what was that his high school senior ring? Also he has Thurman Thomas and Ruben Brown with him in the back of the room at his presser, almost like he's a wannabe with his possee. I really hope 3 years from now I look back at this post and totally eat crow. I hope the Bills go on a tremendous run these next 10 years and I can look back on today and think good things, but my brain is telling me today is just more of the same. I don't think the solution to right this ship is MORE Russ Brandon. Anybody else feel the same way?

Right on. Dysert is highly regarded in the scouting community. Come April, once the media become a bunch of parrots, he will be a household name. Much like Russell Wilson, this guy passes the eyhe ball test when you watch him play. His creativity in the pocket, and ability to maneuver in the pocket and square his shoulders and deliver the ball downfield is tremendous. He's my favorite QB prospect in the draft.

go get the best QB in the draft at #8: Zac Dysert Let's take another one with our 2nd round pick, just for good measure. Find a good QB, have a good team, that's really what this league boils down too. Dysert has game.

Zac Dysert, a guy with a strong arm and one that can throw on the move.

Zac Dysert is the QB that has the perfect skill set for Buffalo. 1 - strong arm 2 - touch/accuracy 3 - great pocket presence 4 - can throw the ball with accuracy on the move Dysert reminds me a lot of Roethlisberger, and not just because he plays for the same school, Miami (Ohio). He has the same tough, hang in the pocket to the last second and deliver the ball downfield mentality. One thing thats become painstakingly obvious watching the Bills this year, is Fitz has absolutely no abililty to move around in the pocket while still keeping his eyes downfield to throw the ball. As soon as Fitz has to relocate in the pocket he immediately takes off running and will never keep his eyes upfield to make a play downfield with his arm. This attribute is sorely missing in our offense. Watch how many times the good QB's (Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Brady, Luck, Wilson) are flushed out of the pocket, but are able to recompose and deliver a dart downfield to a wide open receiver. It's something you just don't see in Buffalo, and it's an area that Zac Dysert excels in. I'm all for Dysert in the 2nd round.....or more likely having to move up into the back end of round 1 to ensure we get him.

I might be reading too much into this, but........ Resigning players at this stage in the game, also indicates to me, that Buddy Nix and Whaley are not going to get the axe. If the hammer was going to come down on our GM do you think he'd still be negotiating deals with players that the next GM might not even want? Probabaly not. So, just a hunch but based on Nix still hammering out deals at this point, I wouldn't count on him going anywhere. Nice resigning of Urbik BTW.

Look I know Rex rubs a lot of people the wrong way, and I get it. He might be a bit over the top, cocky, in your face, but there is no denying his win/loss % as a head coach, which is 34-28. Throw out this year (losing Revis and Holmes, the total regression of Sanchez) and he was 28-20. More importantly he won 4 playoff games. This is a winng brand folks, one that should and would be welcomes with open arms in Buffalo. The problem with the Jets, IMHO, has been their front office, they loaded up on aging veterans after they made their push a few years back....it didn't pan out and frankly they have very little talent on the roster as of now. With as weak as they were talent wise this year, they were still playing a meaningful game tonight and they kicked the snot out of the Bills in week 1 (and will probably do the same in week 17, if I had to guess). I also think the physical brand of football Rex's team bring to the table would be a perfect match in Buffalo. With all that said there are two gigantic drawbacks to Rex: 1- He runs the 3-4 D, so the Bills would once again have to switch D's which would be viewed, short term, as another step back. Something Nix probably wouldn't want to do (I'm assuming Nix is still running the show come January). 2- His offenses struggle. Part of me wonders what a Rex Ryan as head coach, and Chan Gailey as OC Buffalo Bills would look like. I think it'd be an interesting mix, certainly better than the one we have now, but highly unlikely given most head coaches don't take demotions, they're usuually just let go. Also after this last month of watching the Bills, I'm not very high on keeping Chan in any capacity, although I think I could warm up to the idea of him as an OC only, eventually (not going to happen, just wondering aloud) What do you think? What would your thoughts be if Rex got the chop in NY and rumors started that the Bills were interested. Given the stretch of Greg Williams, Mike Mularkey, Dick Juaron and Chan Gailey.....I think it'd be a good move.

Asked in his postgame presser Fitz said they had an outside run call to Spiller and it was a bad play based on the defense he was seeing. Not wanting to burn a timeout he decided to sneak it. Fair enough Gailey asked about the same exact situation in his post game presser.....said, they had a pass called that wasn't a good fit based on the coverage they saw. Not that it's a hige deal, but the QB says it was a run play. The coach on the other hand says it was a pass play. Smells to me like they're both bs'ing, and the truth of the matte ris both QB and coach ran a sneak because they both didn't realize it was first and 10. I also found it odd that when questioned about this one specific play in the game both player and coach delved into a rather wordy prepared answer, as if they both knew they gaffed it in the game, so they got their stories straight before heading to the podiums. Like I said with they way they played today, this play was totally menaingless, but I'm not buying either Gailey or Fitzs answer, because they're both telling different stories.

Agree 100%. You said everything I wanted to say to a tee. The only thing I'll add is this: 1) This team has taken on the personna of its head coach 100%. An absolute play it safe, play not to lose, scared attitude. 2) A coach that can't get one of the more dynamic back more than an average of 11 touches a game. It just makes me absolutely sick. Freddys fumble cost us big, but thats what Chan likes, apparentyl, he prefers Freddy out there over Spiller and I can't figure it out. Just listened to his presser and its scary. To make matters worse....the Steelers and Bengals were both upset in their own buildings, and had we found a way to win we woulda been 1 game out with 3 to go. An important December game woulda been nice, but with /chan at the helm its not meant to be. The dude is just an absolute loser.

The chances of not making the playoffs are 5 out of 8 or .625. So you simply multiply .625 together 13 times which gives you approximately .0022. In order to turn that into a percentage you must multiply the final decimal by 100 leaving you with .22% And making the playoffs is totally random on a year to year basis because each team is operating under the same salary cap. Whether or not every team is run as effectively is obvious given the Bills run the last 13 years, but every team is competing with the same resources. And then theres MLB where its even harder to make the playoffs. I like the nfl at 12 out of 32 teams make it. No way should more teams make the playoffs then not, like the NHL does it. Just doesnt seem right.

.22% That's right there's a decimal point in there. Let me bold it in case you missed it: .22% In other words, a 1 in 451 chance of that happening......meaning if a team played 451 seasons they should experience a playoff drought like we have precisely once. This stat tells you everything you need to know about what the Bills fans have had to endure these last 13 years. It's not just bad luck, there is something seriously wrong with this franchise, and it's an absolute embarrassment. I'm sure Ralph's not, but if this was an entity I owned, I'd be utterly embarrassed. A couple of more seasons with no playoffs and we'll be getting into powerball odds territory. Total and absolute ineptitude.

1. With 58 seconds left with the ball at our own 7 yard line (Colts still have 2 timeouts remaining) in a 10-6 game, Chan decides to throw on 1st and 2nd down. Both attempts came out of the shotgun and both fell incomplete taking a total of 8 seconds off the clock. Then on 3rd and 10, he decides to run the ball totally conceding the drive. If you're stupid enough to throw on 1st and 2nd down...then you damn better throw on 3rd and 10 and at least attempt to pick up the 1st down. To run there is basically like saying, "Oh sh*it I'm a moron and stopped the clock twice, so lemme just run the ball here so they can't say i passed on all three plays". It was absolutely infuriating to watch.....Chan was directly responsible for those 3 points, and he's very lucky it wasn't 7. 2. Instead of attempting a 51 yard field goal in a close game in an indoor dome, chan decides to punt the ball. Why would a 4-6 football team opt not to attempt a 51 yard fg when trailing on the road in a must win game. It was an utterly pathetic decision, and not surprisingly 5 plays later the Colts had the ball at midfield and ended up eventually settling for a FG on that drive. Once again why a head coach would decide to punt in that situation, is a decision only a losing HC makes plain and simple. 3. 3 minutes and 37 seconds left in the game....3rd and 8 Bills have the ball at the colts 49 yard line. On 3rd an 8 they run a desinged swing pass to Cj Spiller out of the backfield. The ball is on Spiller 2 yards past the line of scrimmage and falls incomplete. Damn we missed on 3rd down on a terrible pass play that even if it had been caught would've still resulted in a 4th and 5. So what does Chan decide to do....? Punt. What happened next was something every single Bills fan knew was going to happen: The Colts ran 10 plays and the Bills never saw the ball again. Keep in mind the Bills defense had no ability to stop the Colts on 3rd down and get off the field all day, but our head coach liked the chances of doing just that moreso than the chance of our offense picking up 8 yards to continue the drive. These 3 specific details of todays game have finally pushed me over the cliff, and I finally believe its time for chans run in Buffalo to come to an end. The dude is just entirely incompetent as a head coach. He doesn't motivate these players and he doesnt make the clutch/intelligent decisions in game that winning head coaches make.

I think the 90s blue unis with red helmet would be cool. Given that the bills wore those red helmets for so many years, itd be nice to see them once or twice a season.

18 carries 103 yards. 7 catches 58 yards.

It'll be interesting come January because this team sorely needs a defensive coach who puts players in postions to win. Like I said it's so obvious that Wannestedt blows, so a new DC is very very likely this offseason.

You gotta think this will be his last year as HC in KC. How would you feel about the Bills hiring Crennel as DC in Buffalo. I know KC blows but he couldn't be any worse than Wannestedt. Just a thought because there is a very good chance Crennel will be on the open market come early January.

Do I think the Bills will win? No. Am I down on this 2012 Buffalo Bills team? Yes With that said if they can accomplish these 3 things tomorrow, they will win: 1. The Bills must be +2 in the turnover ratio vs. the Pats (self explanatory) 2. The RB's and FB's (and know I don't count Brad Smith as either) must touch the ball 30 + times (receptions and or rushes) 3. The defense must hold Tom Brady to under 330 yards of passing Do I think this will happen? No, but I will add that the most important criteria is by far #2. Considering last week the Rb's saw less than 15 touches total, Chan better have his head screwed on right tomorrow. Giving our Rb's 3 total 2nd half touches last week in a game that was 7-6 @ halftime is the type of decision that gets you fired. Just an FYI, for all the negativity......I actually like the Bills quite a bit getting the 13 points tomorrow. 13 points is too many points for any team to spot another team, given the fact that it's a divisional game, and the Bills have proven they can put up pts vs. the Pats, i like it Prediction: Patriots 33 - Bills 21

down by 1 point to start the second half with a real shot to steal one on the road, time to establish the run and see what happens. So what does Chan do? Shotgun incomplete on 1st down Shotgun incomplete on 2nd down shotgun incomplete on 3rd down PUNT Now what does Kubiak do once he gets the ball RUN RUN PASS (Andre Johnson burn Aaron Williams, who absolutely blows BTW) RUN RUN (TOUCHWDOWN) The Bills ran 26 plays in the 2nd half.......3 run plays, to 23 called passes. Let me repeat that one more time.....THE BILLS called 3, that's right I said 3, run plays the entire second half. Does that make any sense when your QB is Ryan Fitzpatrick and your RB's are Spiller, and Jackson? No IT DOES NOT. So why does Gailey continue to put the ball in the hands of our incompetent QB? I'm out of answers.....it's flabbergasting. BTW Spiller had 11 touches for 102 yards. Why can't the mastermind Chan find a way to get the ball in this guys hands more than 11 freaking times, only 6 carries. I understand he's not a 25-30 carry guy, but he can handle 15-20 runs no problem, giving our best player 6 carries is absolutely unacceptable. We were a much better team in weeks 2 and 3 when Spiller was getting all the touches. Moral of this post is one simple fact.......Gailey's making himself look like a jackass each and every Sunday and I'm disgusted by it.

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and he goes by the name of Zac Dysert of Miami (Ohio). Because he plays for Miami (Ohio), I haven't seen much of him, but the little I have....he's impressed: Big arm, good pocket presence, fairly mobile, throws a nice ball on the run. John Murphy has had a college scout on his show a couple of times, and he was the one who turned me onto Dysert. The guest of the JM show, I forgot his name, saw Dysert as a top 64 pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, and even mentioned Dysert as being discussed as a perfect fit for a Chan Gailey led offense. Just thought I'd let people know, and if anybody happens to attend the game, let me know what you saw. I'd also like to know how the guy carries himself in the pregame and on the sidelines (the stuff you can't see unless you're there in person). Given Nix' recent comments of wanting a good young QB, who knows, the future Bills QB might just be playing in Buffalo tomorrow. I had the same feelings about Russell Wilson 7 months ago, and I'm still upset he's not a Bill, but that's another story all together.