Sisyphean Bills

With 12.5 sacks? With Rucker retired? Jenkins with the Jets... Denney has 4. Schobel 1.

Lee Evans is to Steve Smith as Raghib Ismael is to Jerry Rice.

Levy deluded himself to believe that good character was causation of great talent. Levy coached a team loaded with great talent that happened to have much good character, but those teams were not all choir boys singing hymns and helping little old ladies cross the street.

The truth is that they aren't better without the beer goggles. Each year under Jauron they have beaten teams with progressively worse winning percentages. The wins may hover in the same 6-7 range each season, but they beat weaker and weaker sisters of the poor -- and find new ways to choke and lose to them as well. If Jauron has enough excuses accumulated for another go around next year, then the schedule next year is shaping up, on paper, to be much more difficult that the cream puff line-up of this year. The Bills will also be coming off one of the highest "Acapulco cliff diving" collapses in sports history if they manage to turn a 5-1 start into a 6-10 free fall season. At the start of this season, I guessed 7 wins. But, we'd be lucky to win 3 next year under that scenario.

You snapped that punchline awkwardly. (Mumbles 'Holiday Inn Express'...)

They'll leave him on the wall. They just won't move him to the new digs.

From 5-1 to 6-10 would be one of the most cataclysmic collapses in sports history. So, wanting to give the coaches a couple more years to pull their heads out is just a tad avant garde is all.

I've mentioned this in the past. Duke Preston sucks.

I like this defense too. It keeps our retched offense on the sidelines.

Can we blame the fans? Please?!?

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/2004greatestcollapses.html Actually, I don't think it has. We're breaking new ground in fuggeduptitude here.

He's very cerebral.

You forgot to mention that he is tall.

Derrick Dockery could excel in competitive eating.

Isn't there something to be said for a coaching staff being able to make do with the hand they're dealt, dealing with it, and the ability to keep winning? Who thinks that the Dolphins are a perfect team? Or even has clearly superior talent to the Bills? Yet, they swept us. The Patriots have a 5th string RB starting, a backup QB, plug in an ancient Junior Seau off the street, and they keep on winning.

Yeah. That onsides/squib kick that gave the Bills the ball at mid-field said all anyone needs to know about how much respect other NFL coaches have for our offensive staff and players. They knew the Bills couldn't do a damn thing even if they handed them a short field. And they were correct.

Ill-conceived. I guess that they audibled to it; but, how can the coaching staff allow that? There was no clear out, nothing. And, of course, you're going to get a man look on that. Do we always audible to a pass against man fronts? WTF for?!?

OK. Let's, for the sake of argument, say that the offense was awesome except for the play of JP Losman. Riddle me this then. Why is Stanford grad Turk dialing up pass, pass, pass, pass, ... if his QB is the only problem?

Who put in this audible system? Wasn't an audible system going to fix all the offensive problems?

1. Ill-conceived play. Evans was in too tight for that play from the 3 yard line. You have to expect some pressure because the D is going to sell out to stop the run in the middle. Evans couldn't and didn't make it to the boundary in time. 2. Horrible pass. The ball should always be thrown outside the boundary in that situation. If the receiver can't get there, oh well. But, see 1. 3. James Allen just overpowered Lee Evans and won the one-on-one battle. Evans wasn't able to maintain his position and was easily ridden right out of the play. Ironically, Evans had initially beat Allen, but the poor throw turned Evans completely around and made the play much harder than it should have been. See 1 and 2.

Actually, I did think of that. But, I think it only underscores that Ralph putting Ralph (with some advisors) in charge of an NFL football operation wasn't a good move 3 years ago. I mean really, he should've known somebody might ask a tough question after the last 2 months and considered an appropriate response beforehand. Getting caught flat footed is being unprepared. It's like long snapping a ball off your a55.

We know that , but does Stanford grad Turk? (BTW, you can't say they didn't go there, because that is exactly what happened on 1st and goal from the 3 and Losman threw up a lousy pass and Evans was tossed out of the play like a rag doll. Nothing new there, though. Evans has always been a speed receiver and lacking in physicality. Losman finds the worst possible moments to choke.)

Here is how a leader accepts accountability and answers the question: "I take full responsibility for what is happening with this franchise as the owner and President of this team. I am not happy with the way this season has gone. This underachievement is absolutely, positively unacceptable. Mark my words, we are going to fix this and fix this quick." It tells everyone from Brandon to the towel boy, somebody gives a damn.

I can hear the answer to that: "Cash to cap doesn't kick the ball or make tackles, does it?"

It took Jauron 5 years in Chicago to do nothing and Lovie Smith came in and had the Bears in the playoffs in his 2nd and 3rd year.