The Big Cat

This needed its own thread? Okay.

Cutler is on pace right now to have career highs in comp. pct,, QB rating and TD's. Just saying.

How can you acknowledge the importance of a QB then turn around and say "but in this case it's the coaches?" Seriously. Do you rank Orton in the top 20 QBs starting in week 11?

I see. So Deion is now an erudite analyst and I must have been on crazy pills watching players blatantly !@#$ up all over the field Thursday.

Precisely why these rants about playcalling are--as they almost always are--completely off the mark.

And yet we're 5-5. It has to be cleaned up, no doubt. But the degree to which this has hamstrung the team thus far can't be exaggerated. It's not like the entire offense has been anemic, it hasn't. Clean up the red zone shenanigans and they could still make a little run. Not say it WILL happen, but we're not up against systemic failure right now, just one very specific, very crucial element of the game we haven't hit on.

Yes, horrible, horrible playcalling. Why they called those plays where Orton threw behind his receivers, where players fall down, where receivers drop the ball, where lineman whiff on blocks, where balls get batted at the line--these play calls suck. Why did he call them?

Sammy Watkins was six.

I hadn't realized that teams used to play offense intending not to score, satisfied just to adjust field position. Boy, the game really has changed! How come we haven't?

I've changed my proposal from a several yard halo to 10 yards. If the ball travels 10 yards, it can't be intentional grounding. I understand the spirit of the law. So to avoid QB's spiking it at the first sign of pressure, make them decide whether unloading one down field is the better option. A guy under serious duress can't just wing one, and if he does, it's likely with some consequence. In fact, I'd favor THIS version of the rule even it means the spikes Orton threw to his running backs' feet last night--again, with the BLATANT intent to ground the ball to avoid pressure, while standing in the pocket--would then become illegal.

This charge of being "outdated" not sure what it's based on. As for "conservative," what do you consider "conservative?" This notion of "playing to keep things close at the end" is preposterous. It assumes that the offense's primary objective...isn't...to score? It's an entirely cooked-up critique that frankly makes no sense. But back to "conservative" in the traditional sense. Would you call a 89:41 Pass to run ratio over the last two games "conservative?" I'm confused. The decision to punt with 9 mins to go last night was HORRIBLE. But one stupid call does not a conservative coach make. Sorry.

Through 26 games: Marrone: 11-15 Gailey: 9-17 Jauron: 12-14 I'm not entirely sure where this hyperbolic language about Marrone being the worst we've had in a while is coming from. He's not.

Yeah, it's only happened seven times since we last made the playoffs. I guess that's not technically 'constant.'

The only "constant cancer" at OBD has been house cleanings.

Yeah. Shocking the fins fan is the only person...Bills fan or otherwise...who hasn't referred to the call as one of the "worst" he/she has ever seen. I've gotten texts today from Steelers fans, from Bears fans, from Packers fans and from people who don't give a **** about the NFL but watch college football saying as much. Chris Wessling from the NFL Network said as much on the Around the NFL Podcast this morning. It wasn't the "correct" call, it wasn't even a "close" call, it was HORRIBLE call.

I'm actually struggling to determine why intentional grounding is even a penalty. When so many loop holes exist to get out of it, when throwing the ball away results in a lost down anyways and when plays like last night demonstrate that no metric exists for determining"vicinity"...WHY is it even a penalty? To whose benefit? Orton threw the ball at the feet of his running back TWICE last night. That's intentionally grounding the football to avoid pressure. Yet some arbitrary "vicinity" rule exists to make that instance okay and others not? It makes no sense to me. Here's a suggestion: establish a two yard halo around the quarterback so he can't essentially spike it when he's under obvious pressure. And permit every other form of "grounding" that's out there now. Because if a guy can wind up and throw it 25 yards...he wasn't "about" to be sacked.

Wrong x 2

I swear to !@#$ing Christ: if the zombie corpse of Vince Lombardi is NOT coaching the Buffalo Bills in 2015, I'm officially cutting all ties with this Mickey Mouse, wannabe "football team."

AGREED! The Bills are on the verge of having their best record through 10 games in over a decade. Let's kick these mouth-breathing, basement-dwelling low lifes to the curb like the drooling misfits they are!

Yo, STRING! Where the !@#$ is Wallace!? Where's Wallace, String!? Where's the boy? Yo! Where's Wallace!?

Has Marrone shot himself in the face yet? No? Jesus. I'm so !@#$ing done with this Clown College of a football team.

Because math. Me too. Tonight and next Sunday, no worries whatsoever.

Yeah, it's not the same thing at all. Not even close.

Something about Marrone not firing himself yet.

k thanks bye