Kultarr

Just ending the season strong, instead of rocketing down a slip-n-slide, will be a very welcome change.

Didn't see it mentioned, but immediately before Levy the Bills were quite simply pure garbage. He didn't do it alone, but he certainly played a major role in cleaning some of the garbage and cancers out of the locker room and turning Ralph's dumpster fire into a highly regarded and successful franchise during his run as the head coach.

Why rip him for telling the truth?

If he gets on Aaron Maybin's program, he'll be 260, run a 4.2, and throw 99 reps in a couple weeks.

I like some of the young talent, but I'm not going to blow smoke up my own arse and pretend the kids are going to be Pro Bowlers next year. The line is a long ways away from being solid even if everything goes absolutely perfectly. And last year showed that it is no stretch to believe that some things are going to go completely and brutally south.

And the corollary to that is it isn't the player's decision to be given the contract the Bills gave him.

The OL is a mess. No matter what names the Bills end up with on their list, they simply will not have NFL game reps working together as a unit.

Nix clearly meant excelled at winning football games when he said "did it" and not just running out on the football field.

The problems run deeper, that is true. Putting a smiling, familiar face on an inept and underachieving organization certainly didn't improve the product.

Yes. He was huge and couldn't get out of his own way.

Well, there is a certain obviousness to drafting the kid that actually played OLB at a high level over the too-small DE that might project to OLB.

DC and HC are different jobs. Just because a NT can't play QB doesn't mean he isn't a good NT.

Read it and weep. http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009101810/2...titans@patriots http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2009111506/2...10/bills@titans If Jauron had promised to "turn it around" in 3 to 4 years and be a championship contending team (see Matt Bowen below), that game Sunday nailed his coffin shut. http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Jauron...s-as-usual.html

Marcus Stroud said something to the effect that he was surprised, DJ was a good coach, DJ was the best player's coach in the NFL, DJ never threw anybody under the bus, he was always positive with everybody, he was a coach that knew his stuff and would be coaching again.

Dick: "He can throw it."

Did you miss the Turk Schonert interview? Or maybe Jason Peters comments about the Club Dick? Or, do you think people in general seeking a new job should go into interviews with prospective employers and lay thick into their old bosses and rip them a proverbial new one? Whether the players love him or not is totally irrelevant. He's proven he can't put a good enough team together and that he can't win. Honestly, I prefer players that love winning and despise losing. Ask yourself why Dick Jauron dumped most of the veteran leadership when he got here.

I was so expecting several players near the tail of the roster to come out and say, "Our coach blows."

Russ only makes the decisions that work out well.

Winnable? Yeah, maybe. These Bills find a way to lose "winnable" games with regularity. My memory is working just fine.

Well, he's better than a guy dumped by the 0-16 Lions.

It seems pretty unrealistic to think the Bills can seriously go 6-4 or 7-3 the rest of the way regardless of which of the football-limited QBs is on the field. The Patriots, Falcons, and Colts close out the year. That means the Bills would have to go on a tear through Carolina, Houston, Tenn, Jax, Miami, Jets, and KC and there is 4.5 road games in there. The win over the Jets was nice, but it was hardly convincing. It was more of an attempted screw-up that backfired into something positive. Jauron's play-not-to-lose philosophy means we'll lose at least as many games as we win at the end of games, and only in those games where we can keep it semi-interesting. (Losing by small margins really shouldn't convince anyone that this team is close to greatness.) Jauron's elevator only goes up to "7" at best; and, his 8.5 year record prove he can't get it done. Still, it could be even worse. Getting rid of Jauron to replace him with the next Hank Bullough wouldn't improve anything.

True. Watching MNF, I couldn't help but notice Phillip Rivers making some great plays despite playing behind a terrible OL. Trent is far from the only problem, but he's not a solution either.

Furthermore, Gregg Williams decided he really didn't want to stay.

http://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/...ong_suh_in.html

If he doesn't fumble, the dream of another 7-9 season looks that much more achievable.