‘Mularkey has never deviated from the course. He’s never bought into the empty, wishful promise of desperate times requiring absurdly desperate measures, even as 0-0 became 0-4. From the onset of minicamp he’s carried the flag for hard-nosed, common-sense football, only to discover that common sense isn’t so common. His Bills would do the darndest things to beat themselves, and then, the next week, do them all over again.’