Shamrock

My bad, i've always thought Chris Collinsworth both as a receiver and then as a NFL retired professional commentator were the dumbest things in the history of the NFL.

A scuffle? They guy tried pulling his team mates head off. It was pretty ugly. He was bending his head back deliberately. I'm glad someone stood up for a team-mate. One in- all in. ...the helmet throw only went 5 or so yards and that was funny- he was so mad he couldn't throw a helmet, he had every right to be mad.

NONE. Absolutely none.

That's a lot of players to add in 1 year that will be quality and a contribution. We also have to figure in that some of "our" guys are getting to that point of natural atrition in skills set- speed particularly and accumulation of injuries and will need additional replacements. I get your point though of having a coach want to install a system. What i don't get though, is that a coach can't be flexible within that system to utilise available skill sets and take advantage of what he's got. It's like a perfect storm, balancing FA, draft and retirement of players that you ultimately get the perfect guys for your perfect system... you just gotta be more flexible and creative than that.

It still amazes me how someone like Parrish who runs a 4.37s 40-yard dash, recorded a 36-inch can't get either open or a ball and a guy like Ricky Proehl (a very good reciever...) for example looks HoF. Can you still motion in the NFL? Hardy at 6'6" 200 can't get a ball- here's a guy who can run a 4.47 40 yard dash, 18 reps on the bench press at the NFL Combine, jump 37 inch vertical leap, blah, blah, blah but can't buy a reception. Just can't. Can you run a slant from the slot in the NFL? Is it these guys or is the coaches who can't sit down and come up with a game plane to get the balls to receivers?

Wow, does Duke get blown up on that run play and nice lie down blocking- nice. Seeing so much single coverage, why were not more passes completed... d'oh ...again, do we have play action. Can we audible out of plays! Some pics i guessed the play before seeing the pic following... wasn't that hard and no- i didn't see the game. Nice touch on the pass to Evans, what was it, 10 or 15yards short of making the corner, ouch. It's very late... Great Pics.

He gets upfield ok, but can he do anymore than lock one-one with the Tackle, then square up the hips to the tackle and try pushing him back to the QB. Watch Joey Porter's sack against Peters and see him gets his hips outside of Peters and beat then beat him outside- switch step style. Watch Kelsay fire upfield, lean in, lock up, square up and get pushed around the play... Does Kelsay have an inside technique- perhaps if he didn't always have the outside rush he'd do better with a hard inside play. But is there more, is there an outside technique for that matter... or another trick... something (in all seriousness). Is it him or line coaching? I've seen Denney do some strange rush techniques from time to time as well. For that matter, why was a 6'7" Denney covering Brown out of the flat?

Buddy inside or out?

I think he may be referring to an Olin Kreutz type center...

1 year per club Karl, about right on form!

I appreciate the frustration with losing, that's healthy. Just how you manage it needs to be addressed. Personally, I'm tired of waiting for the Bills to improve during off-season. So that when they play in preseason games I don't constantly read, relax it's just the preseason. The same mental mistakes are carrying over into the season. It seems each off-season is not a building block for the next. That somehow the guys go home and forget that they were NFL Professionals. Week 1 was a treat, but look how the Hawks have done. They're 2-10! We nearly lost in Oakland (3-9), had a good win in Jacksonville (4-7) and got a win at St Louis (2-10). It's not just new coaches either. Guys forget how to run block, run routes, pass rush... We got fooled in the 4-0 start. When watching, i wonder how the Bills are going to score. There appears no method in their madness. It just doesn't change week in week out, you never know what product you'll get- the progression or regression. You just want maybe 1 player each year to step up and take over this team. That's not coaching, that's individual. Ok. Maybe not a Ray Lewis, but maybe a Ronnie Lott guy... someone take this Bills by the Horns and step up. That's my rant and I'm off to work! But they're the Bills and I've flown further than most to see a 3-13 side, so i'll see some more, unfortunately at times...

...ok, successful HC at college, JC, High school or weekend pick up games amongst friends...

Can either Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd or former Victorian State Premier Steve Bracks apply?

I'm just using my denial experiences that i've learnt from our State Government and applying it to the Bills, it's working wonderfully well at the moment.

...From Billsdaily "The Bills continue to do it the hard way. The question is how long will they get away with struggling early and turning it on in the second half. Eventually they have to put a full game together or else this will catch up with them." All by the end of week 4! Oakland was nearly a loss, "All the euphoria of the 2-0 start, the inspired play of all three units, the total team approach all left one thing to find out, how would they persevere when they played poorly? A combination of turnovers, very poor field position early, and spotty special teams play along with the one huge pass play put them behind the eight ball but they found a way to win the game" pulled out a win in both St Louis and Jacksonville. Week 1-4 Jauron had the team hardly playing well.

Maybe it's a common coaching tool. It was in one of those NFL things. An 80's early 90's QB...

I thought Marcus Price played well as the swing back in the early days with Buffalo... but yeah, it's not a long list.

You sure that's the correct quote? I'm not so sure. I can't remember the team and will hunt around for it. I thought it was a QB, maybe Steve Young or such and after throwing a TD pass was celebrating and his coach asked him what he was doing, when that's what we're paying you to do... I'll get back to you...

He also had resonisibility for the naked bootleg, but followed the line into the middle until it was too late. That's a rookie mistake, a rush of blood mistake. He's paid too much to for that outcome. You have to play your responsibility first if you're value is highest off of the field.

What's that show where they talk about the line "With all due respect" as a way of canning someone "politely"

Surely a career coaching record of 0.440 and 1 season in 8 (Detroit doesn't count) with a winning record should make you feel better. With a slim chance to win 4 games from 6 it may well be 1 in 9! Why is it that not one of his assistance coaches have ever made it to a HC position? For example, Mike Holmgren= Andy Reid, Ray Rhodes, Steve Mariucci, Mike Sherman or say George Seifert= Mike Shanahan and Jeff Fisher. Dick Jauron= NONE

So we need a new coach, NT, LDE, RDE and a Sam backer... maybe just start with the coach.

Love to have a Ronnie Lott type, a guy called the big cheese.

Was talking with a friend and he mentioned that teams generally have to have a good nucleus of guys that HATE freakin' losing and this attitude rubs off. Not just being unhappy with losing, but are PI$$ED off with being beat, it's an insult. So i got thinking, which players on the Bills despise losing, or seem driven to winning...

...reminds me of the Black Adder (Rowan Atkinson) series set in WW1 with General Melchard's cunning plan. It's the same plan as the last 19, which is what's so cunning. They'll never suspect we could be so stupid to do it again, exactly.