MDH

Bills have more draft ammo if they want to try and trade for a QB (like Romo) unless you think teams would rather have the 20th pick in the draft instead of the 10th. Bills also have Tyrod already under contract if they want him. Seems you have your little skit backwards. That being said my guess is McCoy goes to Denver anyway. He knows the area having lived there before and the team is likely in a better position to turn things around quickly.

Being on successful teams hurts the HC chances of those coordinators. Nobody wants to wait until after the SB to hire a HC and attempt to fill out a coaching staff. The coach would be picking from everybody else's leftovers.

Sounds like a take on the old Groucho Marx line, "I don't care to belong to any club that would have me as a member."

Yeah, all these GMs who do more than just go look at the rankings of offenses and defenses just don't know as much as the fans.

Watson loves to try and escape pressure by running directly backwards from the pocket. Seen him donut a few times. Just odd.

Bringing in a quality coaching staff is a big part of being a HC. Marrone gets credit for that D whether it was "his" or not.

He looks like a guy I wouldnt spend anything higher than a 2nd rounder on. Certainly not a top 10 pick.

If somebody doesn't want to be a part of the franchise, how do you make them stay? Not sure how you put that on the Bills, Marrone quit, plain and simple.

No kidding. Jags go 9-7 they host a playoff game. Bills go 9-7 they miss the playoffs altogether.

And the Titans. The only first time head coach that's moved on since the drought who hasn't gotten another head coaching opportunity is Greg Williams. And we all know why that is.

One of the selling points of the Bills HC job to first time HCs is that once you move on to another job in 2-3 years it wont preclude you from getting another opportunity down the road.

Halftime snowball fight with my son ended up lasting the majority of the third quarter. Looks like I made the right choice in extending the snowball battle. These playoff games have been just horrid. Even with Carr the Raiders were half a team. That D has been bad all season. They would have gotten beaten handily next weekend. I don't think the Raiders are that much different, or that much better, than the Saints. They have a better OL is about it.

Helmet right to Moore's face on that third down. Obvious roughing penalty, no flag.

The HC is watching tape on every player available during the season to bring in guys to replace injured players? Whaley, despite his flaws, is fantastic at pro personnel scouting and bringing in no name guys who contribute. There is more to control of the final 53 than cutting guys during camp.

Since you've obviously done a thorough study of the HC/QB development relationship can you give us a your list of all the QBs who have developed into top flight QBs and the HCs who oversaw this. Could you also include the head coaches previous leanings, either offensive or defensive. I'd love to see this thorough list you've put together and I'm sure that it will prove you to be correct that only an OC who is promoted to HC can develop a QB. I know that looking at the two greatest QBs of the past 20 years it's obvious how correct you are. Brady had the amazing offensive mind of Belichick to show him the path while Manning had the offensive masterminds Jim Mora and Tony Dungy. Big Ben had Tomlin, another offensive genius. Bree's had Marty Schottenheimer...and the list goes on. I'm not sure I need your entire list because it's clear from just these few QBs that an OC - and only an OC - can get the job done.

The Browns have won 4 games the past two seasons combined. Trying to compare the Bills to that level of ineptitude is a bit much.

You don't get to "great" without first passing "good." Giants won the SB at 9-7, was that a "great" team? Are they apologizing for that Lombardi? Get to the playoffs on a regular basis, that's what I want. Sometimes teams that do that win the SB, sometimes they still can't get a playoff win. But do that and you have a shot at a championship almost every year.

I don't think you have a clue what "average coverage skills" means if you think that describes Gilmore. I'm not claiming the Bills should tag him or give him a top 5 contract (I think it's a very tough decision given their cap status) but the guy is a top 10 CB in the league. I think the problem Bills' fans have is their investment in the team. When they watch the Bills every completion against Gilmore gets a "Jesus, Gilmore again!" type response. Do that 40 times a year and you've convinced yourself he sucks. When they watch other teams they don't even pay attention to who is getting thrown on and are more likely to look at it as, "that was a great pass!" The numbers against Gilmore don't lie, people who hate him just focus so much on the bad that they don't appreciate his worth.

This is pretty much it.

Only one team has brought in either of those guys. Are all those other GMs doing the same thing? Just because Whaley doesn't like the same candidates you do doesn't mean he has ulterior motives.

I keep hearing this and it's just crazy. Only one thing will effect his job security - lack of success. He's not going to hire somebody who he feels is an inferior coach because he can impose his will on him. He might miss on the coach but he's going to hire the guy he feels is going to put up wins, period. So if that's what you mean by "threaten his job security" then you're right.

I remembered him getting extended but I thought it was when Rex came in, not last year. Thanks for the link. Asking why he looks like a lame duck GM is akin to the media asking Whaley over and over why Rex was fired. I can't think of a GM in football who appears to be on less secure ground. Who knows, maybe the Pegulas are 100% behind him for the next 3-4 years no matter what but from where I sit (and I'll admit, I'm not "in the know") he looks to be a year or two of mediocre results from getting canned. No coach wants to come in and have to make the playoffs in years 1 or 2 or be canned. Particularly with Tom Brady and the Pats in the division and the only likely path to the playoffs is a 10-11 win season and the WC.

I like Whaley too but the way I see it there are really two options given how he is apparently perceived from the outside. Give him an extension or fire him. As you said, he looks like a lame duck GM and I'm not sure any quality coaching candidate is going to want this job if they think they'll only have a year or two before another GM comes in and fires them.

I guess that's why he thinks the coverage is fair. It's funny to me how people think both the GM and the HC absolutely suck yet the team has basically had a .500 record the past 2 years. If both of them were horrible at their jobs there's no way the team wins half their games. Somebody has to have some clue what they're doing, right?

I'm not against Lynn as HC, and I did like his playcalling more than Roman's, but acting like Lynn "fixed" the running game is funny to me. The Bills lead the league in rushing the year before and started the season with a bad game. If Roman was on such a short lead going into the season that he could be fired 5 days in the switch should have been made in the offseason.