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I think a lot of Bears fans will react that way. It's the same reaction a number of us had when Rex was hired - we all thought he was a dope, seeing his schtick 2x a year and it turned out we were right. I think Frazier has grown considerably since the Vikings job and would be an excellent hire. I know nothing about Riddick's ability and past experiences in the front office. I think the biggest problem with this proposal is Dungy. I view him like a Bill Cowher - how relevant is he in the NFL today? He hasn't held a position with a team since 2008. I get that he's been able to build and maintain a network of people in the NFL as an NBC guy but damn, that is a lot of time to pass.

Thankfully Robert Kraft hasn't gotten control of the Bills marketing department just yet...

I am not so sure about this. For emails that call out sponsors, I see... - A Labatt's email from December about repping your favorite athlete (so this has some relation to football) - Get a Micah Hyde Football, sponsored by Northtown Automtive (again, football related) - An ad about a new Buffalo Bills Perry's Ice Cream flavor - A bunch of team merchandise ads and ticket ads. - A Pepsi call-out to Bills Mafia. This one probably has the least connection to the team, but at least it kinda has a connection. This is the first one that has near-zero relation to the team, its merchandise, players, etc. I could definitely be wrong, but it stood out to me. I signed up for marketing emails about the team. Not a lasik company 2500 miles away. I'm fine with marketing emails as long as it's what I signed up for - this was not. I also said it wasn't a big deal... just thought it was worth observing.

Who said I was offended? I thought it was an interesting shift in the team's usage of their email blasts. Personally I think it'll backfire on them, but if they see it as a potential new stream of revenue, so be it.

So this is a first for me - the Bills are sending non-football related ads to our inboxes? I skimmed the last year or so worth of emails, and each at least related to the team in some way - whether it be something like signed merchandise, a promotion at the team store, ticket sales, etc. This is just a straight up ad for a sponsor. It's not a huge deal, but it's enough to get me to unsubscribe from the team's marketing emails. I'm sure our fearless leader has some opinions on the sponsor...

These Saturday Week 18 ESPN games always puzzled me because the NFL's very limited in what they can put in these slots. They can't put anything on Saturday that makes a Sunday game meaningless, and they aren't likely to want to put a clunker game here between two eliminated teams. So the games that make the most sense are any win-and-in games, any games for seeding, or games that are otherwise good on paper. NE*/MIA fits two of those categories and so I think it's got a decent shot for a Saturday slot. The Colts game as well as the Tampa games are also decent candidates. Raiders/Chargers is a lock for the Sunday night slot. Any "win and in" game that isn't dependent on outside results always gets this slot. Although other teams can win and get in, the results of other games might mean they've already gotten in by SNF if someone else loses earlier in the day. The Raiders/Chargers is guaranteed to be win/in and so it's going on SNF. It also helps that the Raiders draw well.

Raiders/Chargers is a lock for SNF next week. It's a win/in situation. NBC is higher in the pecking order than ESPN is.

Zero chance this gets flexed to Saturday. Expect the cheats to be playing on Saturday night... which gives BB the advantage of having an extra day to prepare for the playoffs.

So when is our friend Spags going to show up?

Given that Feliciano can play at C, and that Bates had a great game at G... I would keep him in there.

I would hope Belichick was trying to exploit the OL weaknesses... which by some miraculous divine intervention, never materialized. BB is a cheater but he has to know Allen isn't a rookie QB incapable of reading a defense and taking what they were giving him.

It's almost assured that the two AFCE games will play at the same time. The NFL schedules the last week of the season so that teams which have intertwined results play in the same time slot. So my guess is we won't be watching much of that game in Miami unless Spags and the Jets find some way to beat the Bills.

I live in the suburbs of Seattle. We went up north to see our folks yesterday for Christmas. At least half a dozen vehicles spun out on I-5 in about an inch of snow or so. Snoqualmie (I-90) and Stevens (US-2) Passes were closed for a good chunk of the day. They don't treat the roads around here reliably, so it's like driving on a skating rink.

I did say the Marino and Shula eras :). The 0-fer 70s, combined with the fights for the division and natural villains like Bryan Cox during the '90s... it was the height of the rivalry. We weren't competitive back in the 70s, at least in the 90s it was a real rivalry.

You, my friend, never lived thru the Shula and Marino years. If you did, you'd understand the animosity that many have against the fish. For me, it's the Jets that have the least animosity... they are an excellent foil of the Patriots* and haven't accomplished much of anything since Super Bowl III.

Looks like the all-red jerseys are coming out this week...

Buffalo Bills Fan Syndrome at its finest!

Agreed on this feeling like the 56-10 drubbing from 2007. I think the problem is the lines. They can't run the ball because they have no talent up front. Dawkins regression has been huge and Morse has been slightly better than a sack of potatoes up there. Allen has no time to pass the ball. They also need to stop the DL rotation and put the best four men up front. Hughes has constantly overpursued and has been useless. Firing Daboll isn't going to solve anything. I'd fire Bobby Johnson and maybe release someone like Ford on the line. Something has to be shaken up.

Same old Bills. "The Process" has been exposed.

Edmunds is ridiculous. If this guy gets a contract... this front office should be ashamed.

I'm sorry, but this sounds exactly like Dick Jauron. It wasn't good enough to win. This team had numerous opportunities in this game to secure the win, and they failed to do so. For a team that was expected to compete for a super bowl, this is not impressive. It's mediocre, and the kind of performance we'd celebrate during the drought. Times have changed and so have expectations.

Our turf is absolute garbage. I can't believe this hasn't been addressed. Why we insist on using some local yokel company is beyond me. Get what every other team that uses artificial uses - FieldTurf.

FOX doesn't give a rat's behind about the AFC. They see "Patriots***" and automatically assume that's the team that will win. They would have put Newton up in that graphic last year.

It takes a special personality to come onto an opposing team's message board and advise others how to behave. I'm not excusing his behavior, but I'm not really sure how you expected to be welcomed with open arms after 3k posts here and the history between these two teams. Let me give you a piece of advice - leave the tongue-lashings to the moderators and let Bills fans talk about the game amongst themselves.

I was in Vegas that weekend and I remember it well. This was the only time I ever took a Bills opponent against the spread in Vegas. I just had a feeling about this game and boy I wish I had put down more than $100 on that wager.