AJ1

I like your attitude and analysis. Last year, I'm now convinced, Moulds did nothing more than impede the development of a set of more deserving wideouts...players who at least cared about the team as a whole. The tantrum he threw in the Miami was the capstone to a miserable me-me year for him. AMF. We're going to get better by replacing that balless wonder known as Mike Mularkey, if for no other reason.

Because TD and mostly MM didn't have the sense to impress on the rookies that a senseless dive for ball at night practice had zero upside and plenty of potential downside. Kind of like letting a safety kill your rookie QB in practice. That sort of thing.

Evans and xxxxx you meant, right?

Actually, whether this post is legit or not, watching Bledsoe in pre-season games last season I thought that he was throwing the ball in a forced manner. He looked better in mid-season but I'm not so sure there isn't a grain of truth to this rumor.

Ares-1, essentially a stretched SRM and a J-2 upper stage will dump 55,000 lbs in LEO. Ares-5, a modern remake of the Saturn-5, is supposed to be capable of moving 286,000 lbs of payload to LEO. Hello, Mars!

Synergism is defined as the combined effects are greater than the individual effects because of the nature of the interaction of the component agents. Applied to the Bills case, suppose the QB, the OL, the RB, the WRs, and the TE all became incrementally better. Say 5% better individually. The offense becomes more than 25% better...the number can't be predicted but a 50% gain in efficiency is not out of the question. This is the reason why teams 'come out of nowhere' to become contenders. Because it really can't be quantified, your run of the mill 'experts' ignores it; it is the main reason they're wrong about 50% of the time. The added bonus for the improving team, since football is really a zero-sum game, is the improvements come at the expense of the opponents. So there is a multiplyer effect also. This is why, before the actual games begin, I'm always an optimist, especially coming off of bad seasons, as long as changes are made.

Are you thick? The organization was not going for any promising coordinators or guys (Sherman) with good track records who wanted more control than Ralph and Marv were prepared to grant. The promising CO route was a complete failure for the last five years. The organization needs stability more than anything. The two current coordinaters will have a chance to show their stuff. Marv is here to set a direction and stick to it. Guess that's too hard to see. The previous GM was a fraud and his HCs didn't know their asses from first base or the kicking tee, which may be more appropriate.

On the other hand, how about coming up with any value added to last year's team by the HC, the OC, and the DC. I'd like to hear what it was.

Add up all their ratings, colligate, and spit out an overall rating of about 86th in a 32 team league. They simply look at the last season and project downward. That's what all pessimists do..always take take worst case scenario and take it for gospel. Thankfully, that's not the way the real world operates. Negative projections do not continance positive changes, and when there are active agents of change they don't want to hear about them. ESPN and others have gone overboard in piling on the TD-less Bills, effectively stacking the deck. If their hero were still in place, their predictions would be a lot less negative.

My personal favorite: Berating WM after game 2 or 3 for not hitting the many holes MM's ace OL was providing. Only holes on the field in those games resided in Mularkey's head.

I never liked Gray from the beginning. If he was lucky enough to go up against a OC who never made in-game adjustments, he was ok. Otherwise, he was lost at sea. Had 14 weeks to cobble together a new D after TKO went down and came up with nothing. His HC was either too stupid or too timid to say anything to him. Both went down with the ship along with the chief architect of the disaster, TD.

Yes, and we 'lost' Mularkey too. Both could have been replaced by cardboard cutouts on the sidelines with no ill effects to the team. My question to the bashers/raters is how did the Bills come to this pass? Might it have something to do with the competency of the previous regime? Front office and coaching? staff?

Dumbest play by a QB I have ever witnessed. Dumbest play by a coach: Having your 168 lb WR play QB to throw a 3 yard pass.

Buffalo Bills '06....getting a little ahead of myself.

The worst thing about KH is that he has no upside. Absolutely none. He was not brought into to Buffalo to contend for a starting job. His role was to backup an injured Losman. If Kelly becomes the annointed starter, it's an admission that the Bills have nothing, no prospects, nothing at the QB position.

So what's the big difference? Coaching? TD couldn't find one to save himself. An executive who can't hire decent subordinates is doomed to failure, no matter the skills he might otherwise possess.

What did he rank in pass protection? 198th? If anybody thinks this useless tub of lard is worth anything, he's got rocks in his head. Of course, the same for anyone who would want MM for coach at any level.

This is so much like what I've been saying I have to suspect you stole from me. If you did...more power to ya. Maybe we're just 100% on the same wavelength. For me, it remains almost almost impossible to comprehend what an overall failure as a coach Mularkey was. Failure to have a vision period. Failure to exert control over players. Failure to exert control over coaches. Failure to change tactics except for jerking around a certain QB. Failure to to establish his own identity and trying to be an ersatz Cowher. The only thing he was successful at was burying his head in the sand when he needed to exhibit some form of leadership.

True. Probably signed him to be the official team hotdog and pizza tester although I hope he's going to be a starter and, better yet, disseminates MM's pamphlet 'Trick Blocking Schemes for the Offensive Line'.

I suspect the only poisonous relationship was between EM and Losman and possibly between Losman and MM. I'm not sure how much JP resented being jerked around. JP said he deserved it early but I'm not sure the feelings were similar at season's end.

A safety could have pass-blocked better than Bennie. Most of the time, Bennie was waving at air.

I agree it was 80 but who knows now? We didn't have 13 NFLE players. Maybe we have to trim 10 before camp?

Don't know for sure but I believe it's 90 plus dispensation for NFL Europe players.

Maybe he'll be an advisor to their thick as a brick OC. Honestly, how dumb do you have to be to take what should be an average offense and turn it into dog feces? And let a good D slip to rat crap level? I don't know, maybe the OC just radios in the HC gameplan under Saban. What about the 'experts'? Did any of them watch one Bills game from beginning to end last season?