Sisyphean Bills

Does it really matter if he has no pass coverage skills? He's seen snow before!

Well, as long as he has high quality excuses, we should be OK with that.

Speaking for myself, I understood the trade proposed was a joke in its totality. It wasn't clear if he thought trading JP was possible or not. Fact is, there are lots of ridiculous posts that suggest all sorts of things.

In the spirit of positive thinking and ego stroking, everybody gets a baseless passing grade. I think the OP was mean spirited in not giving everyone an A+ for working hard and trying. It's tough to win in the NFL, and these guys came to work every single day.

He'd be playing for a team with no pass rush and in a system where he'd be expected to cover 1/3 to 1/2 of the field against all intermediate to deep routes for next-to-forever on each snap. It might be hard to find someone that would excel in that defense.

He was a RFA. We saved some money and didn't tender him. Go us.

Oh, I don't think he throws in the towel before kick-off exactly. I take it that Dick Jauron would say before the game something like this. "The opponent is very good. We've prepared all week for these guys. It's tough to win in the NFL, but I believe we can be competitive today. Everybody is doing great and trying to improve themselves every day." After the game, he might say. "Great effort, guys! You are a great group. It didn't turn out the way we wanted, but everybody tried really hard. We'll try some more next week. Let's go to the movies and have some ice cream, every day is a great day."

Can someone name a coach that gave a speech to his players before the game something like the following? "This team is good. Real good. Tell you what, let's forget about this game guys. Just go through the motions today. It doesn't matter. We'll try again later. Just get through the game and we'll go watch a good movie and have ice cream, my treat."

John Butler was the GM back then and the team actually won games before and after that trade. The current problem with the Buffalo Bills isn't that the late John Butler gave an contract commensurate with an average NFL starting QB to a QB prospect to be the starting QB over a decade ago. If anything, the Bills contracts negotiations are vastly more phuked up now.

This Bills Tampa 2 isn't really about pitching shutouts, though. Since Dick Jauron installed the Tampa 2, the Bills defense has had 1 shutout, 3 years ago, against Joey Harrington and his anemic Dolphins offense. 1 shutout in 48 games isn't a tendency.

On the treadmill of mediocrity, one is always "just a few players away."

But the important part is that we saved some money. (OK, not really, but it's fun to regurgitate the same tired nonsense.) I'm enjoying watching Hutchinson crush and pancake Eagles players play after play and knowing that the Bills gave Derrick Dockery the same money.

It's a little premature to start ejaculating applause for Brandon's work.

That's actually nothing but spin. Wire was recently interviewed and said that he wanted to stay in Buffalo and that the Bills knew that his neck surgery had gone very well. He even talked to Jauron and Brandon a couple of days before he was dumped and Jauron gave him some suggestions on what to focus on during the off-season and that he was looking forward to going to work together in 08. Then they dump him without so much as a word days later.

Far better to draft for needs.

If I were his agent, I'd have handled it differently. You have to understand that Ralph Wilson is in charge in Buffalo; the only guy to have ever lost the #1 overall pick to the CFL. Brandon is a marketeer and puppet.

Pretty bad to think Millen might be an upgrade in a front office.

Peters didn't hold out of any regular season games.

Not so fast. Just because Millen got himself fired before the 0-16 got posted doesn't mean the stench of that debacle and the misery he put on the Lions coaches, players, and fans should simply be forgotten because he happened to be on a Bill Walsh team once upon a time. Millen is the primary reason the Lions of 2008 are the worst team ever in the NFL.

Satisfied isn't the correct word. I'm sure he would rather the team does well than not, so he's not happy that it is going in the wrong direction. He's resigned to the fact that the organization is what it is. The buyout of Jauron wouldn't even really be that expensive in comparison to others; estimates are about $7-8M to buy out the coaches. Is this the same owner that fired Wade Phillips, with a winning record, over a quarrel about the structure of his coaching staff? He's given Jauron total control over his staff and a large voice in football operations. It begs the question: Why Jauron? His track record is poor at best. Ralph has lost his nerve. He was burned by Donahoe, spurned by Mularkey, Levy exiting stage left in the first act, and he prematurely shot his wad to re-sign a head coach that nobody else would have wanted anyway. He has surrounded himself with bean counters and marketing guys in his inner egg. Unsurprisingly, the business side seems to be the focus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_(film)

It's not the coaching. It's the lines.

Yeah. Cromartie sucks.

You had to pull his name out. (Good job identifying a moron with a mic, btw. ) I think they need about 16 more ex-NFL faces on their show to get more analysis. (Where's Tiki?)

Matt Millen: Architect of the worst NFL team of all time.