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Only way it makes sense is if it was Whaley or Brandon and Pegula had plans to keep them (or whichever of them said it) even if Polian was brought on. Otherwise I don't get it either.

It doesn't bode well for the team short term if there is the impression Whaley is on his way out. What top flight head coaching candidate is going to take a job with an organization with instability in the front office?

There is also the story that the HC will "report directly to the owner," which is a huge mistake if that's the case. The Pegulas either need to come out in full support of Whaley or they need to fire him. This wishy-wash, in the middle approach isn't going to work. No decent HC candidate is going to take a job with an organization if they fear the GM might get canned as a new GM will almost always want to bring in their own HC. Personally, I hope they hold onto Whaley and I think he's done a good job but if they don't they need to fire him now and hire a new GM asap.

When using Tapatalk on a tablet there are no quotes around quoted posts. It's just a giant run on post with the quoted text and the new text.

I'm fine with a player looking after himself and his own interests over those of the team (by withholding his services if he feels he needs to). Just like I'm fine with the team looking after their own interests over those of a player (by cutting players who don't live up to contracts ). I can see both sides of it while you can only see the one you have a vested interest in. It's fine, I don't expect you to be able to see all sides of an issue, we all know your modus operandi.

Why is it only a one way street? Somehow it's only the players who are supposed to show "loyalty." Teams cut players the moment they don't live up to their contracts. The Bills wanted to pay the man way less than he was worth and he wasn't having it. I don't begrudge players for doing what they have to do to get paid their fair value. Careers are too short and the chance for injury too high for them to just play out a contract so fans think they're "loyal."

He wanted to be paid what he was worth, imagine that.

Yeah, I read those quotes as basically, "They were going to pay me a lot of money to do very little and when it became clear to me I'd have to put in a lot of work it didn't sound like a great job."

There is no way in hell I'd want him promoting Pepper and then be hands off the D. Pepper has no experience as a DC. If that change was made I'd want him to be very hands on.

I'm guessing there are going to be questions about whether he can be as productive without the three pro bowlers who man the DL with him. Before he joined this DL many considered him a bust. Personally, I'm not too worried about letting him go. He's been a very good player but there are other areas of the team that could use the attention.

This just proves that Crayonz was right all along. You need to lose the games vs. the NFC. It's the best way into the playoffs!

This isn't an endorsement of Sanchez but all Mediocre QBs look bad behind a bad OL as what makes them mediocre is what they do when protection breaks down. It's why priority #1 has to be to shore up the OL. Give a QB a respectable running game and time to throw and even mediocre QBs can look pretty good. It's also why you need a good OL with a young QB as those guys just aren't going to look good without protection and a running game.

I don't think this is the case at all. My sense of things is that when a HC starts a young QB he's expecting him to struggle. As such they want assurances that the owner and GM understand this and are giving him a few seasons of losing in order to get the QB seasoned. With the death of Ralph those assurances were nowhere to be found. Nobody had any idea what would happen when a new owner took over so it became "win now and to hell with the future as I might not be here in the future." We have no way of really knowing what Marrone thinks of EJ at this point. Not starting him vs. NE on the road after 11 weeks on the bench doesn't mean much to me as that's not an ideal time to try and insert him back into the lineup. His progress will be measured next pre-season.

On what is one of the worst OLs in the league.

Does he play Guard?

They'll bring in someone like Foles or Moore and EJ will beat them out in camp. EJ.

Did George Seifert pick Cowher up at the airport?

Kilos return will definitely have an impact on Spikes as it will move Brown back to the middle where he was expected to play when they drafted him. The starting LBs next year will be Kiko/Brown/Bradham. I'd like to see Spikes back but I doubt it happens as I'm sure he'll want more playing time than he's likely to get here.

Spikes would just be depth next year, not sure how they need to sign him to contend. Hughes, on the other hand, can be a difference maker and I'd like to see them make a real attempt to retain him. That being said even if the D loses Hughes they'll be good. The OL is what needs fixing for this team to contend. Fix the OL, play good D and whomever the Bills stick back there at QB can Andy Dalton it to the playoffs.

I agree in general but the difference between many of those teams and the Bills is that they have a QB to build around. San Diego, Kansas City, Carolina, San Francisco, New Orleans, Miami, NY Giants and Atlanta are all in better shape at the most important position. That's not to say that they have all pros but they're all better off for the moment.

Tennessee, Jax, Washington and the Jets twice. That has a nice sound to it.

Ravens up 10 with 2 minutes left. Looks like the Bills would have missed the playoffs anyway. Those AFC losses to Houston, KC and Den just killed them.

Unfortunately, he isn't going to get it.

That's one of the worse challenges I've ever seen.

The fact that the Bills offense sucks and can't pick up short yardage situations easily plays into the decision. I'm of the opinion that it was less than 50/50 that they get the 1st. Obviously that's just a guess though.