Albany,n.y.

Ralph was cheap at various points in the franchise history. Sure, he paid his players during the Super Bowl runs, but he also cheaped out big time numerous times. He may not have been afraid to spend money, but plenty of times the only way to open his wallet was with a crowbar. The Bills are still the only NFL team to lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL. The Bills lost players to the upstart USFL including Jim Kelly & Joe Cribbs. The Bills were too cheap to pay Jason Peters & traded him to Philadelphia. The only name coach Ralph ever hired was Chuck Knox. (Marv was JAG when he was hired by his friend Bill Polian). That's because attendance had dropped to about 35,000 a game & he had to do something to bring the fans back out of desperation. This was a common theme in the 70s & 80s. Bad attendance, spend money, cheap out again when the attendance improves, then be forced to spend again to get the fans back, In the mid 80s his cheap ways had turned the team into a laughingstock & attendance dropped so low, he was forced to spend to get the fans back. The Bills were a complete laughingstock when Ralph had to pony up the big bucks for Jim Kelly. It was always the same cycle over & over again. Fortunately, by the time of Ralph's final drought, fans were still coming, otherwise there would have been another threat to move the team like he had done years before threatening to move to Seattle. Ralph did many good things for the franchise, but he also hurt the team numerous times with his miserly ways.

One of the best examples is when Rob Johnson & Doug Flutie played behind the same O-line & Rob took a lot more sacks than Doug.

This is why when you're a hot assistant, you have to take a HC job if it's offered. The pipe dream that a team like the Bills can keep Brady by offering him more money isn't going to happen if he's offered a HC job this year (although there aren't many left). Look at what happens if the hot OC's O drops in productivity. An OC can end up like Slowik or even worse, Byron Leftwich, who has been reduced to interviews so a team that has no intention of hiring him can meet the Rooney Rule requirements.

I think the writing was on the wall when they when they banned Whaley from speaking to the media. It was obvious at the NFL scouting combine in March when the Bills declined to make Whaley available to speak to the media — which is commonplace for general managers at that event — that his days were numbered. When he was also muted at the NFL owners’ meetings, and lastly, and perhaps most alarmingly, he was not allowed to talk at the team’s annual draft luncheon a couple weeks ago, which has always been the domain of the GM and the personnel chiefs, there was no doubt Whaley was a short-timer in Buffalo. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/sports/football/nfl/bills/2017/04/30/no-ones-surprise-buffalo-bills-fire-gm-doug-whaley/101122388/

You don't need 9 blue chip players to win a Super Bowl. There's a reason he's a FORMER coach. 😀

What's really amazing is that if you think of current QB's in the NFL who will be future HOFers, just about every one is in the AFC. The only one in the NFC who currently has enough of a career to maybe get in is Stafford. Meanwhile, in the AFC we have Allen, Mahomes, Jackson, Rodgers, and Burrow with Wilson having a chance from his Seattle days.

The reason they're hiring Glenn is so when next season the NYC media says Aaron is the real coach of the Jets Woody can tell them they're right. Woody is playing 3D chess hiring a guy named Aaron as the Jets coach.

Philly is similar to Baltimore. You have to gameplan to stop their RB. One down, one to go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVmYsOEeHm4

Well, it was "we". Lamar & Andrews. 😄

KC had so many lucky breaks during the season that I'm pretty confident. Not confident enough to buy Super Bowl tickets yet, but confident. They remind me of the Vikings team 2 years ago that got every break during the season & lost to the Giants in the 1st round of the playoffs.

He didn't outplay Josh. He had 2 turnovers. Get your head out of the stat sheet & pay attention to the game on the field.

Baltimore got what they deserved. They got greedy & wanted to tie the game with too much time on the clock. If they had kicked the extra point to get within 1, they would not have had to go for 2 after the last TD & could have sent the game into overtime. Too many teams go for 2 too early in the game.

I've done it on one of those end of season rest your players before the playoffs games in 2019 against the Jets I knew Matt Barkley would play the majority of the game & not Josh. Easy money. I almost did it again this year, but since I thought NE would tank for #1, I stayed away from the game.

Worse than ghosts. Darnold was possessed by Rob Johnson who wanted one more game on an NFL field.

Sam Darnold lost more money in the last 8 days than Charles Barkley ever did in an 8 day period.

When your QB turns back into a pumpkin, there's nothing a coach can do other than play the game out and prepare for next season.

He's reminding me of Frank Reich's last season with the Bills. Kelly got hurt late in the season, Reich played the final games and not staying on the bench cost him millions.

They REALLY like JJ McCarthy now.

He needs to have a Turducken in the booth.

Yep, they decided it was either draft B. Chubb or trade the pick to the Bills. They never considered drafting a 1st round QB that year because Case was their QB.

Former Bill Case Keenum.

Any team that gives Darnold big $ is totally mismanaged. He's back to the Same Old Sam the Jets gave up on.

This past year's QB class may end up being up there with 1983. Daniels already looks like a big hit in Washington. Williams, who knows until another year or 2. Maye looks like a good one as did Nix & a little bit of Penix looked like he has potential. Then there's McCarthy. If Darnold does well in the playoffs, McCarthy could be traded for a #1 this offseason. As a 6th rounder Milton was impressive against the Bills scrubs. The real loser was the NYG who could have drafted Nix, Penix or McCarthy. Instead they drafted a WR & have nobody to throw him the ball. Now he was a very good WR, but the team still needs a QB in a bad QB drat year when drafting below 1 or 2. 2023 was the year to get your QB, just like 2018 appears to have been, even though the Jets & Browns, Jets & Brownsed and gave up on their 2018 QB busting on their replacements.

I remember the day they signed Tyrod. Glowing reports from Baltimore & Rex having "inside information" from his Baltimore buds. I immediately got on the Tyrod bandwagon & penciled him in as the starter because with those reports, he had to be better than Cassel or EJ. I even sent an e-mail to my friend Petrino titled "We've found our franchise QB" & all I put in the e-mail was a picture of a tie-rod. He hadn't heard of the signing & replied asking me why I sent him a photo of a car part proclaiming that we had found our franchise QB.