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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.

I won't be furious or elated with any hire, particularly if it's a coordinator. People on this board act like you simply have to look at where a particular coordinator's D or O ranked and the higher the ranking, the better the hire. Nobody has a clue how good a HC any of these guys will be and I'll be willing to give all of them a chance.

I wouldn't have in a normal situation, but with 4 min left, a D that can't stop anybody and a tie doing no good...you have to go for it, the season was on the line. To me, the decision came down to which is more likely: the O picking up a 4th and 3 or the D forcing a 3 and out. Whichever you thought was more likely was the call to make. Given how both units had played in the game up until that point I would have much more faith in the O than the D. Given how the game had gone the last thing the Bills wanted there was for the Miami O to get another opportunity vs. the pathetic Bills' D. But Rex has faith in his D, even if it isn't justified.

Sounds like you don't understand it's a bit more difficult with the Pats in the division. Houston wouldn't sniff the playoffs if they had to get 10 wins and capture a WC instead of winning the weakest division in football two years running. Houston went 5-1 in their division and 4-6 outside their division the last two years. Yeah, it has nothing to do with their division.

Put it in the end zone. Don't stall at the 30 yard line then blame the kicker. And the Bills offense had two chances in OT. Neither time did they get the job done. So much for this as a shining example of TTs clutch performance. Reminded me of the Seahawk game. Looked good the entire game but with the game on the line couldn't finish the job. TTs two best games if the season ended in losses when he had a chance to win it st the end. Win those two games and the Bills are playing this weekend and TT is on the roster next year. All that being said I lean towards bringing him back because they have nobody else who is better. But let's not sell this like TT is a clutch player, he isn't.

Particularly when the offense didn't finish the job vs. Miami. Put it in the end zone in OT and the game is over. TT played well overall, but using a game they lost as an example of his comeback abilities is pretty funny.

That's because they are a well coached team.

Since when is expecting to be treated fairly "owning the world?"

Would have needed the Titans to lose to Houston today which didn't happen.

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You think this stuff can be fixed by a single individual in a week?

Agreed. I have no ill will towards the guy. He seems like a genuinely decent human being, it appears he put in the hard work to try and improve...he just wasn't good at the QB position. The game was just too fast for him.

It wasn't just that Gillislee didn't jump on the ball once it was in the end zon but he ran forward to block when the ball was kicked deep to his half of the field. They weren't playing a single deep returner, wtf was he thinking? Then to further the blunder by thinking it was a touchback... Horrible individual effort and awareness but also speaks to how the players are just generally unprepared.

He looks better throwing the ball than anybody on the Bills.

He had them in the playoffs 4 out of the first 5 years. Then when he was hired by the Giants he did the exact same thing. I have no clue if the game has "passed him by" or if he's physically up to the task of taking on another HC job but, at the very least, the Bills should talk to him.

I'm guessing he would have gone 0/2 in the last game but he would have been there to speak with the press afterwards.

I'm assuming so.

Yeah, it sounds like they calculated the odds of them making the playoffs for 17 straight years, not missing them.

At the very least Lynn isn't calling for Jackson to run an end around on 2nd and 11 when driving for the winning score. So even if he calls that boneheaded play, at least it's Shady.

Beat the Dolphins and a team would have gotten in at 9-7.