Dr. K

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I'm looking for 0-4 and Rex out the door.

I agree. Hiring Rex was a fatal unforced error, and I lay it directly at the feet of the Pegulas.

Tyrod is not the answer. He cannot use the middle of the field, is terribly inaccurate, holds the ball too long. There is no rhythm to his passing game. Yes, he can throw the long ball. But the interception was a terrible underthrow.

The Pegulas hired sexy Rexy when they had a top-four defense. Terrible decision. They are part of the problem.

This team is headed for a top five draft choice. I'm thinking 4-12 is the absolute best they can do. Taylor is not the answer at QB. Two terrible games. So long.

There's your Rex Ryan Bills team.

You are living in a fantasy world. Look at that game and tell me the Bills are not an undisciplined, poorly coached team. Also, the Bills were NOT a heavily penalized team in the last six or eight years before Ryan showed up.

PENALTIES. Can the Bills under Ryan play disciplined football and not throw the game away on stupid penalties? They may have improved in other areas, but I am skeptical about seeing any improvement there.

Bills: some number of points Ravens: some other number of points

Von Braun aimed at the stars . . . and hit London.

This looks exactly like a Bills season to me. I can already feel the deflation of the loss to Jacksonville in the middle of that seven-game slide, and the meaningless playing out of the string in those last three wins.

I haven't been in the conversation, but I see EJ as starting for some other team than the Bills in 2020.

We'll see.

Taylor is superior to EJ but EJ will start and play credibly for some other team after he leaves the Bills.

The guy needs to quite football before he ends up in a powered wheelchair.

No optimism until Ryan is on a plane out of town.

Hate hate hate with the fury of a thousand suns. Here's the basic fact: I hate him more than I hate Donald Trump, and you know how I feel about Donald Trump.

You are missing the point. The documentary is about race in America as much as it is about OJ. OJ is, in the view of the documentary, as much a product of the racial geography in the U.S., and its history, as he is a great athlete and individual spousal abuser. OJ is at the center, but the story radiates outward from him. All those other people and incidents are part of this bigger story. To complain that they spend too much time talking about racial politics is to totally miss the boat. That's, in my opinion, why this documentary is so much greater than the usual jock biography.

My opinions: The Bills should never have hired Rex. There is no apostrophe in a simple plural noun like Pegulas. THIS IS NOT A MATTER OF OPINION.

I don't remember the last time I was so disengaged from the Bills. Probably in the mid 1980s, the Kay Stephenson team. I've been a devoted, very attentive fan for basically thirty years, and before the slump of the mid-1980s was a big fan going back to 1965. In other words, we're talking about a guy here (me) who has identified with this team his whole life, through thick and a lot of thin. And I can hardly bring myself to care. If I did care, I would be pissed off. I have not hated a Bills coach to the degree that I hate Ryan with the possible exception of Gregg Williams, and for many of the same reasons. I don't know if they will do well this season--it's possible--but I don't expect it, and even if they do win, I do not see this clown ever winning a Super Bowl unless there's a bigger clown coaching the other team. He has drained away all my regard for this team the way George Steinbrenner destroyed my regard for the Yankees way back in the 1970s. Just venting. I don't expect any particular reaction from any of you.

I have not been paying as much attention to discussions here since the season ended, but what i get from some of the comments is that now we believe that the failures of the defense last year were all the fault of Mario Williams and had nothing to do with Rex. Got it. It's always nice to have a scapegoat. Who's it going to be this season? I predict Doug Whaley.

Not that it matters, but I respectfully disagree. The sports media and NFL fans everywhere--not just the owners--have a huge interest in this truth not being spoken by anybody in a position of authority in the NFL. The owners don't need to volunteer a word in public about this since the media are doing their job for them. Plus, if anybody were to ask any of them about it, do you think any NFL owner is going to admit that Whaley is right?

This is what is known in politics as a "Kinsley Gaff" (after the political writer Mike Kinsley). A Kinsley Gaff occurs when a prominent politician (or other spokesperson) accidently, in a moment of carelessness, says aloud a truth that everybody knows but that nobody wants to admit because they have powerful interests in living a lie. A Kinsely Gaff usually sparks outrage and ridicule from hordes of people who know it is the truth but who do not, cannot, acknowledge it. The speaker of the truth must be humiliated and made to recant so that the state of public ignorance can be maintained. A recent Kinsley Gaff in politics was when a member of the Benghazi committee said that the investigation was achieving its goal of undermining Hillary Clinton's reputation. Another was when a political operative for the Republican Party expressed satisfaction that the new draconian voter ID laws in his state were going to work to suppress Democratic turnout. I expect Whaley to be beaten about the head and shoulders by every person involved professionally with football, and many fans, until he has to crawl on his hands and knees and beg forgiveness for saying THE THING THAT MUST NOT BE SAID.