Schulman16

wasn't a broken play at all. He totally beat his man and TT hit him in stride.

Not sure I agree with/trust what this guy thinks. When I watch the Tyrod play, here's what gets me excited the most... https://twitter.com/djschulman/status/644025307943440384

defense leads the league in INT's.

Suh was remarkably athletic, and a really nice guy. I also met marshawn lynch when he shot a segment for the superbowl. He didn't take my $20 and was really fun.

serious...my life was completely put on hold the last couple weeks to work on all those draft segments

dont worry, i work on sport science. we make every athlete look good

Demetrius Bell was a turnstile on at least one of those huge sacks at the end. I wish they could have kept an extra man back there to help him because Trent didn't have a chance.

we say this every year.

Football is a team game. Always was, always will be. Trent is part of the team and should take his fair share of the blame. But he shouldn't be the only one singled out. Everyone needs to stop being so over-dramatic!

Go check it out if you haven't already. If this doesn't get you excited for the season, I don't know what will. This guy is going to be awesome for us--so glad we were able to get him in the 2nd round.

october 8th..according to espn

I'm REALLY glad this thread exists. Im moving to LA in a month. Is there a Bills backer bar out there during hte season?

I agree with you. Thats kind of partly my point. We are in a position get a relatively high draft pick for a RB who we know is overrated--who we know is going to want more money next year than we are willing to pay, who we know doesn't really want to play in Buffalo. You can't deny that he is a productive RB even with the numbers last year, hes still a top 10 back at least in terms of potential. Why wait until next year to probably not even resign him when we can get something now.

Everyone is missing the point. We are only looking to trade Willis because we know we arent going to agree on a contract extension and that he will leave next year as a FA. Instead of getting one good year from him (which wouldnt be half bad, since players like him usually are amazing in contract years), the bills want to trade him now and get something for him to address other needs and free up money to address other areas. Willis' performance isnt the primary reason we are getting rid of him--although the RB certainly could use an upgrade after last year.

YES!

the clock stops until they re-spot the ball, then they start it back up again. This always happens outside of 2 minutes.

Ok I guess you guys make a good point. Im not trying to discredit TD as much as you think. I agreed with many of his personell moves. I guess more than anything, it was the fact that expectations seemed to be high since the first year of getting Bledsoe, and were never ever met. We were always "one or two players away"--we never got to the next level. It was just frustrating to be patient when the NFL has teams every year that make the playoffs that missed the year before, yet for some reason we need to wait year after year. I think a change had to be made and I don't regret TD not being here anymore. I think you guys need to look at the bottom line here, and then look at who to hold accountable.

I kind of think thats a cop out though. Do you think if donahoe was gm that we'd have the exact same draft this year? Just because modrak and guy were there too? I think it's safe to assume that Donahoe was a guy who relied less on the opinions of others and was determined to do what he wanted. Marv clearly knows how to delegate and build consensus. By valuing "high character" above all else, I'm sure it creates a different blueprint from which to evaluate players for your team. Maybe it is simply an intangible. Clearly Donahoe has a history of wearing out his welcome with his power-trip ways, while Levy respects the opinions of others and is a winner. I dont know what it is, but I just think its BS to say that TD is primarily responsible for this years team when all he supplied during his tenure was stagnation and mediocrity.

It just bothers me that mort wouldnt even credit the fact that levy and the bills drafted well this year and signed some quality, under the radar free agents. Instead it's just donahoe's guys starting to shine like he always knew they would.

just wish i could respond. I'm not denying the things donahoe did, but I am not going to overlook hte things he didnt do. I'm sure he tried his best, but he didn't get the job done, plain and simple. Its fine to give him a 3 year grace period. Year 4 made us look like we were approaching the next level. Year 5 was an unexcusable failure.

Dan (New York, NY): Chris, howcome you can't talk about the Bills without mentioning Tom Donahoe? He had 5 years to get things working in buffalo, and failed year after year. He drafted some of the right guys, but the coaches he hired were failures and the schemes they used didn't utilize their players' talents. How about commenting on Levy, Modrak, and Juaron a little bit? Chris Mortensen: (11:58 AM ET ) I am going to do something on the Bills in my blog this week. I can't believe that Buffalo folks aren't willing to give credit to Donohoe for at least inheriting a team with a salary cap mess, a quarterback mess and then putting together some pretty good talent. Don't believe that Levy was involved that much in this draft because he wans't up to snuff but I give Marv a lot of credir for hiring Jauron, who hired his own good staff. Mularkey did win his first year, by the way, and Levy wanted him back. Greg Williams was everybody's hot coach last winter. I'm not saying Donohoe was perfect but nobody is and it's ridiculous that people won't acknowledge that he does deserve credit the Bills' promise right now - Losman, McGahee, Evans, Reed, Parrish, Fletcher, Kelsay, Denny, Clements, McGee, etc. He also hired Modrak, by the way. I hope it all works out for the Bills but let's be fair and not one-sided.

I was watching it yesterday and one of the "experts" predicted the jets to win because he couldnt name any of the Bills receivers.

you are generally right when it comes to the 3rd and 4 type of situations. But they should prevent the big play on 3rd and longs. The problem will be forcing the third downs. Teams might be able to dink and dunk pretty easily if they make the right reads. We will be a bend but don't break defesne.. The colts D before Freeney also had bad personell all the way around. They had a couple decent guys in the secondary but not the kind of talent we have.

Vincent can't play corner anymore. He's not any better at this point in his career than whoever our thrid corner will be (probably greer),

whatever it takes for the bills to win, ill do it. If I have a special, superstitious sunday morning routine when the bills play, then this isn't so bad either.