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Really? That is the "Flaw", the receivers? Lee Evans, Roscoe Parish and Josh Reed are a hell of a lot better and more experienced then the 3 receivers Chad Pennington had to throw to yesterday. Please name his top 3 receivers without looking them up, right now. Can't do it huh? Maybe it's because the one named Bess or Buss, is an undrafted free agent nobody, that racked up over 70 yards receiving. We all know the second one, Tedd Ginn Jr, who struggled against a healthy McGee. And I have no idea who Pennington's third receiver was. Funny how Pennington still managed to have over a 100 rating with those no-names, isn't it? Suffice it to say that Chad would have thrown for over 400 yards against Fewell's bend and break defense if he would have had Evans, Reed and Parish to throw to.

Sure you can. In fact, it will be so cold and windy (or worse) next week in the Meadowlands, either California wuss that lines up behind center will be more then happy to hand the ball off 40 or 50 times if Turk-ey lets them! Besides, running plays take more time off the clock, leaving less time for Favre and the Jets to convert 90% of their third down plays against Perry's bend and break defense all freakin' day. You are living in a fantasy world thinking that Trent "warm weather" Edwards or J.P. Lost-man can be successful running a perfect-world balanced offense. Schoenert is crazier then you, going the other way and making those guys throw more then run in the first place. Conservative, robotic Dick Jauron, ironically, would have been closer to saving his job if he would have ordered Turk-ey to go run-heavy the past 6 weeks, allowing Lynch to play up to his potential and that big fat line to get into running modes during games. Despite what you and others on this thread think, if the Bills would just stick with the run even if they get nothing the first 3 or 4 times they have the ball, eventually Lynch and Jackson will break some long ones and the defenders will wear down.

How can Lynch make something happen early in the game when he gets one carry every two series?? And what does not gaining yards at the start of the game have to do with not deserving to be in the game on passing downs?

Ralph isn't laughing because he's senile. He's laughing because the late Ted Rogers and his partners paid Wilson about 9 Million dollars of unshared extra revenue for the rights to host that joke of a football game, and there's no legal way for them to get out of doing it every year until 2012.

And you feel fine rooting for "efforts" like the past two games? At this point, losing out is not a decision the Bills need to make. They have the first place Jets, Patriots and Broncos left on their schedule. As each of those highly motivated, better coached, more talented and tougher-minded teams blows the Bills out, how in the world will you be able to "find out" that the the Bills tanked those three games?

What a total waste of a high draft pick. Almost as stupid as when Donahoe wasted a second first round pick on Willis McGahee. 13 lousy freakin' carries for one of the premium running backs in the NFL?? While one of the worst QB's in the NFL was throwing passes to nobody all over the field? Before Schoenert and the stupidest staff of offensive coaches to piss off Bills' fans since...the coordinator and staff that they replaced here in Buffalo begin their 95 hour marathon of coming up with another idiotic game plan for the Jets, I can save them the trouble. Since Lost-man is not capable of finding a secondary receiver, and since two receivers on the Bills are not capable of getting open on the same play anyway, and since Trent Edwards seems to have quit for the rest of the season because it gets really cold this time of year and he was raised in California, (come to think of it, Lost-man grew up in California and played in the south in college too, do I detect a pattern there?), I have the perfect game plan: Hand the ball to Lynch and Jackson for a total of at least 30-35 times. There, now Turk and his boys can save their 94 hours and 59 minutes and 59 seconds. I came up with the game plan in one second. In fact, now maybe they can take their lazy, pathetic big fat lineman outside and drill them on the blocking sleds for 3 hours a freakin day so this 1 second game plan can actually have a chance of working against the Jets.

Who do these players think they are? They are the biggest, fattest, weakest offensive line in the NFL, they still can't stop the run when it counts and get off the damn field, they can't run basic NFL pass patterns, they can't stay healthy, the rookies are the stupidest class that has ever suited up for the Bills, they are warm blooded wussies that whine about playing football when it's cold outside, they are passionless, low-character over-paid prima donnas that folded up as soon as they began playing decent to good teams. And now they think they have the right to get mad at their coaches. I hope Wilson blows it all up and brings some hard ass coaches in to toughen these pathetic losers into real men next season. And if Trent Edwards is faking injuries because things are too tough, then the Bills should cut his California ass and draft Drew Willy out of UB. At least that kid likes playing in Buffalo weather, and is already a champion. Plus, they should be able to snag him with a 4th round pick, so they could still use their higher picks on strong tough offensive linemen.

I missed the AFL Championships, was only 5 and 6 years old for those. But starting with the '68 season, when I went to my first games at the old Rock Pile, I've been hooked on the Bills these past 40 years. There will be no other NFL team I could ever see myself becoming a fan of. At my age after all these years living through the highs and lows of Buffalo football....featuring... *Some God-awful teams in my first years as a fan from 1968 to 1972 to root for. *The Electric Company blocking for the Juice (it sickens me to mention him as a fond football memory, but it is.) *Some God-awful teams including O.J. from 1976 to 1979 to root for. *Chuck Knox & the Bermuda Triangle. *Storming the field (security was not what it is today) after the 1980 win over Miami to end the 10 year jinx. *Fergy's sprained ankle against the Chargers in the playoffs. *Bill Simpson's interception in the playoffs against the Jets. *Knox quitting for Seattle. *Kay Stephensen and Hank Bullough's twin 2-14 seasons, maybe the worst God-awful teams to root for ever. *Jim Kelly going to Houston of the USFL after being drafted by the Bills in '83. *Bill Polian bringing Kelly back to Buffalo in '86. *Levy and those Hall of Famers during their run of 5 AFC East Championships, 4 AFC Championships and 4 SB losses. *Wade Phillips and his underrated under-appreciated 29-19 three year run, and unfortunate 0-2 playoff record. *The past nine years of more God-awful teams and mediocre teams to root for. ...I have invested way too much emotion and money to ever start over as a fan of any other franchise.

Mike Mularkey was not fired. He quit when Levy was hired as GM. Levy's first choice was to let Mularkey and LeBeau stay at least one more year if not longer. In fact, was LeBeau still here when Levy got here? I thought he left before then. What difference does it make? Look at Kevin Gilbride. He's now a genius leading the Giants' offense to a second consecutive SB, while LeBeau went back to Pittsburgh after he left Buffalo and is leading the best defense in the NFL. Sometimes I think it's just Buffalo. Look at Scotty Bowman. 5 Cups as coach of the Habs. 0 Cups as GM-coach of the Sabres for 5 years. At least 1 Cup as coach of Pittsburgh when he helped out there after their popular head coach passed away. Then another 2 Cups as coach in Detroit. At least Turner Gill got a MAC Championship for UB this season.

Piowertt?

Dick is not like the walking dead. He is the walking dead. And his team likes him so much, they have become walking dead themselves. I loved watching Tony Sporano scream at his rookie kicker after the kid screwed up a squib kick and somehow Stevie Johnson managed to not fumble the ball and land on it around the 50 yard line. Sporano knew that Losman had about as much chance of moving the Bills 50 yards for a touchdown at that point in the game as Ralph Wilson would have had if he would have put himself in, yet he still got pissed off at his kicker and called the kid out anyway. That's the kind of coach I would love seeing lead the Bills next year. Someone with a pulse, who cares enough about winning to get pissed off when his team plays badly.

If Ralph Wilson were smart, he would make Jimbo ante up with all of these alleged billionaire partners of his, and just sell the whole damn thing to them this off-season. Even after the huge tax hit, he will have still earned about $300 to $400 Million dollars cash in his pocket on a lark he put up Twenty Five Grand for 50 years ago. In addition to that, he will walk away a hero in Western New York for actually selling to the one group serious about keeping the team here. At 90 years old after 50 years of this crap, I cannot imagine why he would want to blow the thing up all over again and start from scratch. Especially if he despises having to pay a real coach real money in today's NFL. Those 5 options all suck, from Ralph's point of view. I would love it. Ralph calls Kelly up to his suite from the sidelines of the Pats game, and tells him he has 90 days to get these sugar daddies together and make him a legitimate offer.

Great post. One bit of advice though, use the PREVIEW POST tool located at the bottom of the REPLY page, before you click on REPLY. That way you can slow down, and the rest of us English speaking fans can understand you.

Trent hasn't done anything that is so much better then himself. But if you are asking what he's done that is so much better then Losman, that is an easy answer: he has played better then him, in most of the games he's played so far.

J.P. Losman won't have a "career day" this Sunday. The game is still meaningful, and there will be a lot of extra pressure for the Bills playing in the first regular season NFL game ever in Canada. Not to mention the first real game of the "Toronto series" that is supposed to keep the Bills viable as an NFL franchise. With all of that on the line, Losman will suck, if he is forced to play in place of Edwards. Then, you will not be as much of a rookie out here any more. You should agree with the rest of us that Losman needs to get out of Buffalo as soon as possible.

That's great that you won't. Too bad you're not the Bills, who have already rolled over and played dead against: the Cardinals, the Dolphins, the Browns and the 49ers, all games Buffalo could have and / or should have won. Pick any two and change them into wins, (in other words we're pretending the Bills would not have rolled over and played dead at least against say; the Browns and 49ers), and Buffalo's 8-4-0 talking about winning the AFC East and maybe even securing a bye. But alas, as much as your optimism is refreshing, the Bills are a pathetic 6-6-0, mentioned as a wild card or AFC East contender only because of math, and not because anyone really thinks they have a chance at either.

We watch this team because we are Bills fans. Try to look at it this way: If you were from say...Boston, you would most likely root for the Patriots. I hope that makes sense. Now if you want to know why the Bills suck, it is because they have an inferior coaching staff coaching a marginally talented team. If you want to know why they have sucked for 9 seasons without playoffs, it's because they have had inferior coaches coaching talentless to marginally talented players for 9 seasons now. Only one 90 year old man can change that pattern.

There was no "pre-Rich." The stadium's first name was Rich Stadium, and opened the year before your first game, in 1973.

My drill is into it's ninth season now. I continue to watch the Bills and hope they win, until the fat lady finishes her math. After the Bills are officially eliminated, I watch the rest of their games to see who has the character to play hard the rest of the season. As for the rest of the teams, who cares? I watch the playoff games and Super Bowl because football is my favorite sport. I always root for the AFC team in the SB because I was around when the AFL and NFL were still different leagues.

This is a team with stupid coordinators working for a clueless head coach. We will never know how good or bad the players are until NFL caliber coaches are brought in to teach them. I refuse to give up on Russ Brandon as far as his GM duties are concerned, unless he and Ralph decide to keep the status quo into next year.

What? I have no idea what you are talking about. The Bills are 6-6-0, only slightly alive for a miracle wild card spot, and they suck. How could they be 8-4-0 again, and more importantly, why are you posting this nonsense while we are so pissed off right now??

Hamden should have been backup since training camp. Losman should have been cut or traded. Good post, but it's not too early, it's 12 games too late. Losman's game ending drive down by 7 points with almost 2 minutes left and zero timeouts from his own 18 yard line: 4 plays, minus 5 yards. Elway-esque, huh?

Last year had the emotion of the Kevin Everet tragedy and all those injuries. Plus, the Bills started off lousy and rebounded to make a sort-of run at the playoffs, even though the nation saw how bad they really were when they lost at home to the Pats 52-10 on Sunday Night TV. Then they came back from that and even pulled off that unlikely win over Washington the game after Taylor was killed, and that was another smoke screen for the nation to respect Buffalo. This season the mirrors and smokescreens are gone, the injuries are average on par with any other NFL team, and everyone knows how bad they are by starting out so good and crashing. They will become one of the few teams in NFL history to start their season 5-1-0, and not make the playoffs. The only thing left to do is to fire everybody. But I'll believe it when I see it.

Forget it. Ralph Wilson won't fire Jauron until at least the end of the season, if at all. Of course, I would not be sad to see Dick go if Wilson and Brandon dumped him today.

I'm trying to find the sarcasm in this post, but either sarcasm is lost on you, or you are seriously nuts. Either way, Lost-man will walk if he's an unrestricted free agent, or he will be traded for a 7th rounder if he's still under contract, or just cut if no team is willing to even give up a 7th round pick for him.