Zulu Cthulhu

I'd roll with EJ at a vet minimum contract for a year so long as it guarantees the bills the top draft pick. With EJ i dont see that being too difficult. If it gets Whaley fired in the process even better.

Tell that to cleveland, and denver, and kansas city. Seriously if you want to just cherry pick we can do that too. How about some actual stats besides the fact the guy is very smart. Lots of very smart guys are floating around out there, including many other rocket engineers. Sorry but I know he's been successful in NE but a lot of guys have. And then they failed on their own.

Dipping in to college to back up your flimsy point good job. Because that's the same thing. Yeah sure Schwartz put up a good defense, as a coordinator here. What's his head coaching record look like? What else? You're suggesting McDaniels - the best is yet to come? I'll believe when I see it. But hey if college success is your new metric why not dial up Saban. Or Spurrier.

Lol sure bud. I'm not the one with typos in every other post he makes. Why don't you pause the ad hominem BS and address the fact that all the assistants from BB's coaching tree have been failures. We'll wait buddy.

This. Much more relevant than a guy's academic background.

Wow supporters of MP really leaning on this rocket engineer stuff huh? Means nothing.

Lotta credit for committing to posting this word salad in full. This is so far flung from reality I can't even begin to address it, besides pointing out what others have already said above. I'll lend you my compass, map, sextant, crampons, sherpa, and sloop. Meet us back in the real world and post again.

I've done many as well - and you're right, in hindsight, both of those deals could have been done (slightly) better. But mario was going to get paid by someone, with comparable guaranteed money. And, he actually produced most of the time he was here. So not sure what the problem is there. Could JO and the rest of them insist on stricter character clauses in Dareus's deal? Sure. I get what you're saying there too. But he's played up to his potential (and contract) as well, when he's on the field.

Exactly. Way I look at it is there's not a lot of insight to be gained conjuring up executive level conspiracy theories about in-house backstabbing, overstepping, power struggles, or whatever else - doubt anyone here has the access or info to back those theories up. Real simple, if you want to blame someone, blame ownership. Wilson and the Pegulas are responsible for this laughingstock playoff drought. All these executives and other assorted lackeys serve at the pleasure of the owners. If they've been, in your opinion, in power for too long, ain't their fault is it? I know it sucks, since the owners are the only ones that can't get fired, but that's where the blame lies. Anything else is just passing the buck.

I can't say for certain, I don't have any inside information, but this is (broadly) what I do. Based on that Saint I would say JO has some influence and responsibility. For instance, with the sheer number of contract negotiations he's done over the years, he probably has opinions on contractual things that ownership would listen to. But I wouldn't conflate that influence to include making the actual hiring/firing of players, and the makeup of the team or the overall team philosophy on the field. Look if the Pegulas turned around January 2 and fired everyone, including JO and Russ and on down, I wouldn't complain. But these threads just seem like some sick exercise of scapegoating, with everyone trying to assign percentages of blame to a rotating roster of guys.

I never said he was "just a cap guy," nor do I even know what that means. I don't think Overdorf's job is limited to just calculating and managing salary cap issues, if that's what you're implying. He is involved in negotiating terms and conditions of player contracts. What he ain't doing is deciding to cut players or "not pay them" or whatever you're implying. He's not the one with the final say, never has been. He grinds the contracts out with the players' representatives based on what ownership and the football people have told him is acceptable.

You're still not getting it. Negotiating a contract and executing one are not the same thing. You seem to think Overdorf is deciding who to sign and pay basically on his own. And you're cherry picking quotes and misinterpreting them to attempt to support this. You can continue to rave, but you're not convincing anyone fyi.

Does the in-house counsel of a company decide unilaterally to conclude a deal or settle a lawsuit? No. The owners/executives always have final say. Same deal here. OP seems to have a warped view of what Overdorf's powers and responsibilities really are. Probably should have researched a little more before composing this screed.

Probably depends on his specific contract. Could have a no trade clause in it.

You're right, resume is thin to be an obvious candidate, shouldn't have used that word. But I'd say that it doesn't surprise me if the rumor was true and he was under consideration. He's done well here and in NY with the teams' running games. If I had to guess, LA will nab a much bigger fish though to make a splash, and they won't have any shortage of suitors given their market.

This is all true - but I think a certain few in the local sports press seem to have a lot more off days than their peers, and this was just the latest example. Your reporting is always top notch JW.

Great question and I'm not a physician either so I'm not going to presume to know anything about the ins and outs of the consequences of possessing the trait. True it's genetic so he's obviously possessed it entire life. From the little i've read about his situation Brown is experiencing leg pain this season caused, in part, by the sickle cell trait. Maybe the ailment and the recent diagnosis are related? Not sure. We've a few doctors that kick around this board maybe they can elaborate more.

Well you should blame them. The poor performance of the team in general or the defense in particular should have absolutely nothing to do with the level of professionalism displayed by the press corps. That guy in the video sounded like a small child.

John Brown was diagnosed as having the sickle cell trait midseason, and the effects of that condition have hurt his production. He's outstanding when healthy so not really fair to lump him in with Floyd.

It's one guy attempting to nitpick about an irrelevant point and other members of the media there clearly got exasperated. And they're right, makes no difference.

If LA doesn't land Carroll/Harbaugh/McDaniels then Lynn is an obvious candidate. Good for him too I hope he's seriously considered.

I'd rather have 3 November home games to: 1) avoid the December weather and 2) attend more meaningful games but the second point isn't really the league's fault. It would be a nice bone for the league to throw us but honestly, as others have said above, the way this club plays we don't deserve a better schedule.

Lol what happened did you get into a twitter war with TG and get completely embarrassed?

Ah, another one of the million failed attempts to be funny that clog this place every week. Makes sense now.

Wouldn't be the stupidest thing the Bills have ever done, but it'd be close.