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Thank you.

OJ in charge of pro personnel- he would be great on...cut day!

Heretic! Are you saying the Bills are not...God's Team?

Agreed on Marv, but at some point the torch should be passed to a worthy successor. Marv is 118, after all. Reich would be the right man at the right time.

OK, I'm gonna catch it for this, but why not Frank Reich? The man obviously knows the game, and is as straight up as they get. On top of that, he is intelligent, a motivational speaker, and is revered in the community and Bills history. First year, hire Marv as "Coach Emeritus", also let him run the draft, and then kick him upstairs as GM the second year. I don't think the Bills would ever quit on these two as this year's squad has on Mularkahoe. I know this sounds unlikely, but what do we have to lose at this point? This team is no longer the Bills, for goodness sake. Back to the future, I say!

BINGO!

This is about the dumbest game plan conceived in Bills history. Sure, Evans got some catches. In the first quarter. By the fourth, Mularkey should have known Miami was on to him, and got the ball to his best player. Let's think about this. Intentionaly keep the ball away from Eric Moulds. He's a decoy. Even when everyone else is shut down. Wait, it's coming to me...there may be some fans on this board who remember another time when the #1 threat on the Bills offense was used as a decoy- John Rauch used none other than OJ Simpson as a DECOY for the pass offense in 1970. Think about how insane that was- the Bills won 3 games that year. Lou Saban comes in, gives the the ball to Simpson, and he ends up in the Hall of Fame. Eric Moulds may be closer to the other end of his career, but he's still a top notch player. The guy trained with Jerry Rice earlier in his career and learned how to train over the long run. I believe Rice was a viable threat into his late 30's. Anyone else here who doubts that Eric Moulds at 32 is a better option than Sam Aiken is just not awake. He will excel for 3 more years at least. Mike Mularkey is clearly in over his head. Players at the NFL have huge egos- nothing new there. Ask Marv. Why can't he get his best DT, Adams, to perform? Why does he exclude his best receiver from the game plan, even with the game on the line? And then try to suspend him when the guy realizes how stupid that gameplan was? Hey Mike, your insecurity is showing. Anyone who thinks Moulds is a cancer has amnesia. The guy gave his all for 10 years here, when he could have sat out and demanded a trade elsewhere. He got along with every coach, suffered through every incompetent/green QB, and finally ran out of patience with the latest green, inept coach. Can't say as I blame him.

Depressed as we all are this season, it hurts to reflect on all the talent that this organization has cast aside, people who are now doing some of the finest work in the NFL: Ted Cottrell, Wade Phillips, Bill Polian, Pat Williams, Antoine Winfield, Sam Cowart, A.J. Smith, to name some. I know some of the players were lost through unavoidable circumstances. However, there is no salary cap for management or coaches. Those men were unecessarily lost, but they left anyway- either of their own volition, or through firing. Given the fact that there are very few true talents and many pretenders in the ranks of NFL management and coaches, the main difference between teams is the quality of the people in the front office. We all know this. And so should Ralph. Yet he squandered opportunities to keep Polian, Smith, Cottrell, and Phillips (any combination of which would still have the Bills competitive or better) and instead chose Donahoe, Greggg Williams, and Mularkey. Does it all boil down to the fact that Ralph somehow does not engender loyalty in his top people, or the idea that he is somehow not willing to go above guaranteed revenue to put a pile of money in front of a top talent? Ralph clearly did not know who he had in Polian, who built the Bills we remember with pride. Aside from the 90's and the AFL teams of '64-'65, however, the NFL Bills have been a study in mediocrity. Lou Saban returned (then was gone again- why?) Chuck Knox had a few good teams (and knew how to swing deals- OJ for everyone) but didn't last. Aside from that, there have been excruciatingly long stretches where this team has been run by jokers like Harvey Johnson...and Tom Donahoe. To be a Bills fan, alas, is to suffer- mostly in the back waters of second and third tier teams, knowing precious few moments on the national stage. Should we be happy with this? No. Should we get used to it? We have no choice.