MaineMoxie

Tackling could use some improvement.

Actually Byrd now has 7 since he's had 2 today.

Apparently the Bills are leading the league in INTs (and that was prior to this week). I hadn't really paid attention.

Yeah, no kidding. Aaron who? Byrd's playing like the first-rounder, not Maybin.

LOL, that's hysterical.

The guy's got like a football magnet in his hand or something.

Well, when your coaches can't call a good game and can't put the best players on the field (hello Fred Jackson?) what do you expect? I agree that you build from your lines. But with a terrible coaching staff and FO even a good team's going to look bad.

Here's the thing. We have a laughably under-experienced O-line, two questionable QBs, and yet we've managed to win three games despite some horrendous coaching and amateurish FO management. That tells me that there's talent on this team. I'd be curious to know how well this team would do with a real coach supported by an actual GM who knows the game.

It's even more absurd when you realize that the vast majority of those 56 games of experience belong to one guy (Hangartner). As for the Titans, I was talking to a friend of mine about them after the blow-out against the Pats and we're convinced the team has completely given up on Jeff Fisher for some reason. There's no other explanation that I can think of. It's basically the same team that went 13-3 last year.

For some reason I only just discovered this, but the NFL now keeps track of offensive line statistics. Click here for the current stats. One of the stats they track is experience. The Bills current line has 56 games of experience. The only other team in the NFL with fewer than 100 games is the Seahawks at 93. The Cowboys have the most experienced line with 535 games. That's nearly ten times what the Bills have.

The line can certainly use some improvement, but you have to blame both the FO and the coaching staff for putting the team in this situation to begin with. The Packers O-line is atrocious (they've given up 25 sacks) and yet they're 4-2 and have scored 161 points (the Bills have scored 113). The Bills aren't much better, but it seems to me that you can - if you know what you're doing - design a game plan around your deficiencies. That's the problem with this coaching staff. They don't know how to make adjustments. You design game plans based on the strengths and weaknesses of your players and your opponents. It seems like the Bills coaching staff has a basic game plan that they just plug players into and hope it works for everyone they play. Sometimes they get lucky and win a few. The FO is at fault for not providing the players (money) necessary to provide some sense of depth (and you could again fault the coaches - Jauron in particular and maybe the strength and conditioning coach - for not keeping these guys in better condition in the off-season). They cut Langston Walker because of money. Maybe he wasn't great, but I sure wish he was around now after losing Butler, etc. We've got what amounts to four freakin' rookies (if you count Bell) starting on the line now.

Well, usually you need to audition for things like that. Knowing how to dance might help.

Why is this likely to be the last game in the series? Just curious.

There's bad and then there's dysfunctional. The Bills are dysfunctional. The whole organization is in bad shape. Not all the teams on that list are in nearly as bad shape as organizations.

Maybe, but it's presently embarrassing to be associated with this team. I don't recall feeling embarrassed quite like this during the Kay Stephenson/Hank Bullough years even though in terms of wins those teams were worse.

Wow, you've got a hell of a memory. I've blocked those miserable years from mine.

Dude, we could use the money and, considering she's kicking my butt in a football pool (she's tied for first and she doesn't watch football), she could probably do a better job than the current crew at One Bills Drive.

I told my wife, who isn't really a football fan, the Bills apparently weren't firing Dick and her reply was, "Why? Because 'we suck and we're proud of it?'"

Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl. So did Doug Williams. Coaching - and a competent FO - makes a difference.

Freakin' hysterical. That said, an owner's political opinions are generally irrelevant to the success (or lack thereof) of the team. I hate Rush, but if he owned the Bills I'd still be a Bills fan and would still spend money on the team. You can't tell me that all the owners, players, and fans in this league agree on everything politically. Unfortunately, he'd probably be an owner in the mold of Dan Snyder and Jerry Jones who spent oodles of money but have been only moderately more successful than the Bills on the field (Dallas hasn't won a playoff game since 1996).

Dude, but then there'd be nothing to laugh at.

Sorry, he's officially the "COO" even though he has most of the GM duties.

What qualifies Russ Brandon as a GM?

Here's your link: http://espn.go.com/nfl/sportsnation/ratings Jauron is currently dead last and the only one whose approval rating is in the single digits.