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And even more amazing is that Gailey manages to come up with complicated game plans despite being illiterate.

Couldn't BILLIEVE that worked! Awesome!

Thanks! Go Bills!

Great news! Never thought the move back to ILB made any sense, but it's great to see that the coaching staff is willing to admit mistakes and do what's best for the team. Love it!

Your statement is true. However, I would be shocked - shocked! - if we beat the evil empire this week. Shocked into euphoria, but shocked nonetheless.

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/9/21/2439844/bills-38-raiders-35-defensive-rep-count

Oh my, yes. I know we'll probably come crashing back to earth at some point, but it's really nice to look at that 1-0 record.

Nice!

Any idea what scumbag in the organization decided that HIPPA doesn't apply to him and leaked Easley's medical information to the News?

Has to be Freddie. It took our passing game a while to get going, but we were still able to move the ball thanks to his excellent running. The guy is so shifty and so great at finding holes, it's amazing. The line blocks the same for him and Spiller, but the difference is night and day when it comes to their vision and timing.

Gailey was fired by Herm Edwards in preseason the year before Haley was hired.

Yeah, the Bills have multiple nickel packages, and the one they seem to use the most plays a lot more like a classic dime, with four down linemen, then Barnett and Scott as the linebackers. Chris Brown had a good breakdown of the various personnel packages recently, but I can't find it on my phone right now.

This. The Bills have played well in stretches of games, but it's hard to recall any game, even a win, where they played consistently well throughout and put the other team away. Usually they either start making mistakes or start playing not to lose, and the game becomes way more nerve-wracking than it ought to be. It was awesome to watch a Bills game without any anxiety in the fourth quarter.

That's nice, but how's his relationship with God?

In my case, nothing! This week is gonna be one long party! Can't wait to see my Steelers fan buddy at work. Now if the phins can somehow pull off the upset, my Tuesday will be amazing!

Please Fitzy don't hurt 'em!

Exactly. It bothers me a bit when homer fans slobber all over statements like Chan's ("See? He's a great coach!") but then don't hold anyone accountable when the team continues to stink. Remember "Show me the baby?" He hasn't shown us the baby. He hasn't even shown us a pregnant woman. There's no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt until he can produce a baby of some sort. Having said that, I would always prefer the standard coach's irrational boasting/confidence over Dick Jauron's occasional bleak defeatism. (Although Jauron certainly did make his share of irrationally confident statements from time to time.)

For a team that's very close to the salary cap, yes, management could publicly justify jettisoning a player because his salary didn't match his on-field production. But for a 4-12 team with $26 million in cap space - bottom 5 in payroll - you can't bring up salary savings as a reason to dump a good player. That's tantamount to saying that you're not trying to win. You have to promote the idea that either the player is not good, or that he can't fit your system. The Bills have gone partially with option 2, but also with some bizarre stuff about making room for young receivers, which apparently means only Donald Jones? Because Roosevelt was cut, Parrish isn't young, and Nelson hasn't seen any change in PT or role (still only playing slot in multi-WR sets) since the trade.

I remember Jerry Rice quite well. It's insulting to compare the best WR of all time to the likes of Donald Jones, David Nelson, Roscoe Parrish, and Marcus Easley. He played mostly D-line at his first school, but played only OG at Bethel.

Meh, not sure how big a difference it makes. The line got really banged up last year, but how much did it really hurt us? What's the difference between Cordaro Howard, Mansfield Wrotto, and Cornell Green? After all 3 of those guys got hurt last year, we turned to Erik Pears, who is now an entrenched starter. Same with Urbik at RG and Wood at C - those players only started there due to injury last year, and are now unquestioned starters at those spots. I'm sure if Young gets into a game anytime soon, there'll be a dropoff from whomever he replaces. At least until Young learns the playbook. But fundamentally, I don't see our crappy backups as being that much worse than our crappy starters. We'll see, I guess.

Nope, definitely 53: http://www.buffalobills.com/team/roster.html

So who gets cut to make room for Young?

This. I would swap LT & TE in priority.

That's a good point. I think that back in the 50s and 60s, teams would have to either wait for the newspaper the next day, or make a series of local calls because the owners were too cheap to pay long distance. So even if the Raiders had a spy in Buffalo, it would take several dozen phone calls and a couple hours for the cuts to be relayed back to Oakland. No advantage there. Especially since the message probably decayed over the course of all those telephone calls. It wouldn't surprise me if Al Davis once put in a waiver claim on Jack Kemp, when in fact it was Johnny Camper who got cut.