Sisyphean Bills

I'm wondering what supporting evidence you imply to back that statement. Just curious, because it's not really that cut and dried.

Nah. Agents play no role in negotiations.

Absolutely. When you've been one of a handful of bottom feeders the last decade, it is highly productive and a good tool to attract and retain top-tier talent by going out of one's way to claim abject poverty and insist on paying below market value. It only makes sense.

How's Devin Thomas doing anyway?

Bingo. He's handling the whole thing very professionally including not letting reporters try to deride him with "insightful" questions to wring a juicy sound bite out of him. It especially makes sense if he took a ton of heat for speaking his mind about Steve "Tard" Fairchild to a reporter. It's incredible that someone would equate "not talking to reporters" to "being unprofessional". Chad Johnson? Paparazzi? Slime journalism?

His agent should be working a deal for him 2 weeks ago to have the fines waived if he shows up at practice. Peters made his point and extending his holdout further is only going to hurt him now. He needs to show up and show the Bills that he's still a great player and they are idiots for not paying him. It's not clear what Peters and his agent have in mind as their objective; but, it is not inconsistent that they may have decided that they want to force the Bills to trade Jason out of Buffalo. There are, without a doubt, many teams that would pony up huge contracts for a franchise LT just entering his prime.

Me either. Not enough room with 13 DBs making the team.

I'm glad the O executed finally. BUT, it's not time to form up for a circle jerk. It's still just pre-season exhibitions. I mean does anybody remember when Jimmy Johnson came to Dallas and thought he had it all figured out when he wailed on teams his first pre-season? The Cowboys went 1-15 when it counted.

One excellent team doesn't convince?

I agree that it is no stretch to believe that Donahoe was undoubtedly frustrated by that loss to Pittsburgh. Heck, he might have gone home and thrown a major hissy fit on his living room floor. He had also just hired a head coach that was totally out of his depth -- who had literally asked other former head coaches how he should perform his job that year -- and was therefore able to "revamp" the roster and find scapegoats with no real back pressure on his decision making process. A 9-7 record after a woobly start and Donahoe throws away his starting QB and best interior DL. Pat Williams may not be a genius, but when he said "Because, they are stupid," he was dead on.

Maybe that's why they drafted all the DBs.

You are correct. I confused 2 different posts above. Kill me.

Maybe previous head coaching experience should not have been such a major factor? Mike McCarthy, Eric Mangini, Sean Payton, and Gary Kubiak were all hired the same year as the Bills recycled Jauron. The first 3 took their teams to playoffs and the 4th has his team arguably headed in the right direction. Heck, even Rod Marinelli has made significant progress it would seem and he's saddled with unadulterated lunacy as far as a front office.

New math? 31+42=73. By the time Levy reached 100+ games in Buffalo, he was the head coach of a team that went 12-4 and won a playoff game. His teams would go on to make the playoffs every year save 2 for the rest of his career. Jauron, by comparison, has had 1 winning season, did not coach a playoff team in his 100+ surpassing season, has never won a playoff game, and the one season he did coach a playoff team followed it up with 2 losing seasons and getting fired. So, yeah. There is no difference at all.

Well, I realize that it was only the first pre-season game. Did I ever in any way indicate that it was not? I also realize that there are more games upcoming for them to work in the "new" Schonert offense and attempt to get a little cohesion. I know it is a team sport and it therefore takes effective teamwork, in other words proper execution and especially at the elite professional level, in order to look like more than a rag tag group of bumbling incompetents when the real games begin. Frankly, I consider these facts glaringly obvious. Trent played 2 series which was all but -- what, 1 snap? -- of the 1st quarter. Thus, your question is incoherent to me. Two failed series with zero touchdowns and no sustained drives is nothing to write home and crow about. Five total passes is not a significant body of work, no. Playing only the first quarter is standard practice for teams with established starters that have already shown they know what it takes to win in this league and the offensive unit has shown it is capable of moving the chains and scoring. The Bills offense hasn't shown these things with Trent Edwards. Turk Schonert is a rookie OC and it's not an automatic that he has the pulse of what his starters are going to do well and not. The best counter-argument is that the Bills are using pre-season game 1 to evaluate their depth, so they didn't want to "waste" snaps on guys that are going to make the team and instead want to rotate their depth in early and often. That's a reasonable argument, though the offensive and defensive starting line-ups were both bottom feeders last year. So, there should be a little suspicion that perhaps, maybe, the starters need to go under the microscope a little more to make sure they really are "all that".

Yep. It says he's a below average coach compared to his peers that has worked for some dysfunctional and timid organizations that are willing to wait it out and hope his approach finally works somehow.

That's, OK. They can get some of the DBs some extra playing time.

Given the head coach, I'm not surprised; but, it was sort of a wasted opportunity to have Trent in there for only two series and both of those series looked more like fluster ducks than sound execution. I understand the "protect the starter" thing just fine; but, it really is a stretch to assume that the Bills horrendous offense of 07 is just going to lurch into effectiveness in 08 with no significant work. And, I don't mean just the QB position. Why not leave the guys in there until they can execute a string of, oh, 5 plays in a row correctly?

He was too fat. Oh, and signing your own guys doesn't make the media flash bulbs pop as loudly. Donahoe was a tool.

It's not his fault that his talent has sucked. He's a victim of venomous fate.

You are probably correct, although finding a decent LB to fill his spot is not a major challenge for a good personnel department.

Might not be a boom or a bust, but just another 7-9 to 9-7 also ran season.

The thing that caught my attention in that article was that no small amount of the veteran leadership for young John McCargo is/was coming from Coy Wire, a player that isn't even a Buffalo Bill any longer. That's fuggin unreal.

Spoon did like to mix it up.