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Depending on who else is available I'd give him a shot. Bring him in, go through OTSs, camp etc. We're desperate. What do we have to lose? If he sucks, cut him.

I just saw the end of the Cardinals/Ravens game. Ravens get ball down by 8. Arizona, as I've seen them do several times before, blitzes heavily on almost every play and guess what, game ends when Joe throws a pick. Why didn't we do this to second year QB Blake Bortles, running the 30th best offense in the league? Our D playing soft against chumps is mind boggling to me.

So there's a chance!

Because we aren't slowing down the WRs/TEs/etc at the line and the QB is getting it out fast. The WRs are always open because our DBs are giving them a 10 yard cushion. And Rex is having the line drop back in coverage. I see a lot of plays (some yesterday) where some of the DL don't charge the QB but instead hang back at the LOS. And, we aren't blitzing very much. We blitzed the peejeebers out of Suck for Luck with great success. The one time we got a good blitz on Bortles he threw a pick 6. Were the safeties covering well on that play? Didn't look like Graham was covering anybody. That's what I think. It's definitely not because of the safeties IMHO. It's a bad plan by Rex and Dennis. Let the guys do what they do well and stop trying to bee too fancy.

Ok, if you say so. It would seem pressing and bumping the WRs at the line would be a way to slow down the QB getting it out fast. But that would be the CBs doing that I would think. Who is telling them not to do that? Did we do it last year?

How so? If Dalton couldn't find anyone open for 9 seconds, somebody was covering the receivers I would think. I'm having a hard time seeing how sloppy arm tackling by safeties have to do with the pass rush? So, the pass rush is the same as last year except now our safeties can't cover or tackle?

I suppose, but the 3rd down conversion where we had 3 guys rush sort of and the linebackers all stay put 3 yards behind LOS giving Dalton 10 seconds to throw the football seems to indicate a different cause. This would seem to indicate that LBs or safeties had their guys covered pretty well. Was Searcy that good? But thanks for the explanation anyway.

I didn't start watching until we were already behind 27-3 because the game started at 6:30 my time. Then I could either watch it in low def which looked like I had found an old VCR tape from the 70s and was watching it, or watch it in Hi Def and have it jump due to buffering. Looks like we did get a little better rush, not much. What about the rest of the games? Safeties sucked in those games too. Please explain your self. It may be obvious to you, but to some of us it's not. I'm having a hard time understanding how sucky safeties causes the DL that led the league in sacks over the last 2 years is now getting little to no sacks due to poor safety play. Help a Bills brother out.

So we can't get a pass rush like we could last year because our safeties suck? Please explain how that works. I'm curious.

The season when we fired Dick and went with Perry was pretty dark. Rex has the same career record as HC of the Bills as does Perry by the way.

Like I said earlier I think it's part of the CBA that says the players have to get time off. I did a quick internet search for "nfl cba bye week" and found the following article which could explain what's gong on: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d820e8b52/printable/teams-learn-of-new-regulations-tied-to-ownerapproved-cba

They also make sure the opposing coaches can hear the play by play in their headsets.

I agree. Jocks eat that stuff up

Don't all teams do this? I thought it was part of the CBA.

Thank you Captain Obvious. About 20 other teams in the league are in the same boat as us. We should just run down to 7-11 and pick on up.

I know who cost us the game today,THE BILLS. We suck.

Since when has this been a requirement?

We DID get the football back after the D held the Patsies** to a FG and Hotrod promptly threw a pick on the 1st play.

The troubling nuance to this loss is the one that hasn't been mentioned yet. Yes we did get it to within 5 and then 8 with masterful QB play by Tyrod. Then what? We got the football and on the first play, Tyrod chokes and throws a pick. Game over. When we really needed him to come through ... That's why to me its just a loss. No brownie points for getting close.

The guy that Trent Dilfer beat out?

I'd rather see if we can work a trade for Mettenberger.

Yahoo also had instructions on how to watch it on TIVO which were totally screwed up. Told me to select things that weren't even there.

I think "garbage time" is garbage.

Not so sure the Bengals are a good model. They haven't won a playoff game since 1991 I think it is. Longer than us. They have made the playoffs the last 5 years though which I can't scoff at.

We still lost. It was too little too late. What EJ did vs Cincy and what Hotrod did vs Patsies** both count as losses. If you're good with that, cool. I guess we have to say that Hotrod got us a prettier loss for whatever good that is. Really though, they were both victims of a horrible D performance in these 2 games. Whose choice was it to run in the 4th vs Cincy? I'm sure EJ was audibling out of for sure pass plays and into runs. Is that what you're saying? I'm not saying Hotrod is bad and EJ is good. I'm just saying neither of them were able to get it done in the games in discussion. Losing by 13 and losing by 8 are both losing no matter how you slice it.