Rico

The common thread between all the previous regimes you mention is Ralph Wilson. He was directly involved in the earlier ones, and his Mini-Me stooge was involved in the later ones. This is the first regime where the stench of Ralph has been removed. The proven chump of a GM has been thrown to the curb, and the Mini-Me stooge has been rendered irrelevant. Without these changes, It was impossible to turn the team around as long as Ralph's trash still ran the football side of the front office, failure was far too strong and deep. Now there is hope. If the new regime cant get things done after 3 years, then yeah, it would be a mistake to keep them any longer. But by no means at all was it a mistake to finally clean house this year, the moves were long, LONG overdue. KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

Three other people that got run off the board.

What about ICE? NJ Sue? BF? Now those posters, I miss.

Love it love it LOVE IT! Thoroughly delighted to see Ralph's trash leave town or become rendered irrelevant. Now if things aren't any better after 3 years and the new regime isn't given the boot, I will not be happy at all. Until then, I'm thinking nothing but positive thoughts.

Yep. Total POS of an NFL owner (great humanitarian though).

Far too much invested in him to let him go for lesser value. I could see this if he was a bust with little/no upside, but we all know that's far from the case. Best to ride this out and see what happens.

Yep, and some are still defending the indefensible.

Interesting that One Voice didn't seem to last very long, McD and Beane are all over the place.

Interesting take. I see it far more from a percentage of the fanbase than the media though.

Penn State?

Correct. I will agree with those who say that the media does appear to have had a whole lot more venom for him than other chumps who the Bills have let go. To get this kind of reaction, I'm sure it's well deserved.

Yeah he writes for Bleacher Report. Well on his way to the top.

Doug Whaley... still waiting.

Total mindf#%k there.

Really.

Agreed. Not only all this, IMO he has had no true leadership / role model on any of these Bills teams to lean on & take him under their wing. If the Bills cut him and he ends up on say the Pats or Steelers, we'll all see just how good he is.

IN

Indeed. Outside of the pure Pollyannas, I think some of his biggest fans were the mock draft geeks because a lot of his picks matched up well with their boards.

Thanks Lil Doug.

Yeah, if anyone deserves any sympathy, it's Russ Brandon. His 2013 Master Plan to untarnished the brand was a complete disaster.

I think Whaley still believed... but if they had more games to play after the 2nd Jets game, I can't see him ever seeing the field again as a Bill, that had to be the final straw.

After London, having a street FA QB making the rookie minimum would've made more sense than bringing EJ back. So would making Cardale the #2. Just look at the last game against the Jets and imagine if TT had been lost for the season earlier.

Nice post. I didn't start calling for Whaley's head until after the halfway point of his 3rd season as GM, and McD/Beane will be no different if they also fail.

By far my biggest problem with him.

Thanks. Agree 100% with TG.