IronyAbounds

I promised myself I'd wait until the end of the season before going off on Ryan again. I'm very very close to breaking that promise.

Didn't get too excited at being 4-2, not too pissed about being 4-3. Just going to let the season play out. It was a bad time to drop a very winnable game given the brutal stretch of games to come. Today's loss likely means Bills have to hope a 7 loss team makes the playoffs. Not the best odds.

Commercials ruin the game on TV and for those attending the game. Nothing worse than seeing the commercial break guy stepping out on the field signaling that play will be halted while Corporate America is pushing beer and boner pills down the throats of the men watching tv. Over-exposure does hurt. There is absolutely no reason to play games on Thursday nights. It is horrible for the players who only get a few days rest from the pounding they took on Sunday, but hey, the bottom line is more important than the players' health. I also think the push for games overseas hurt. How do the fans of the teams that give up home games to play in London benefit? I'll watch RedZone to keep track of the Bills' game, but otherwise I really couldn't care less about the NFL.

I hope to hell I've been wrong about Rex, but time will tell (particularly the next 3 weeks since anything less than 2-1 will be a sign that things really haven't changed). And people suggesting that the Pats using a 3rd string injured QB wasn't a big factor are crazy. A 3rd string QB in and of itself would be a huge disadvantage, but when that 3rd string QB had an injured thumb on his throwing hand? C'mon, look at how bad a healthy TT was in game one. Yeah, the Pats were at home, but under the circumstances a shutout isn't that surprising.

A rookie with an injured thumb. What douchebags.

People ragging on Watkins for not playing with pain are idiots. Sound feet and footwork are essential for a WR to play at his capacity, and the stress placed on the feet at the position is extremely high. Just think how difficult it would be for all of you if you had a butt injury and tried to sit in front of your computers for 10 hours straight. With that said, even if Whaley couldn't have predicted Sammy's injury prone nature, the trade was stupid when it happened and this only exacerbates the damage done.

You get an NFL team that isn't truly horrid with their backs against the wall versus a team that has to travel three time zones and you often get what you saw yesterday. That's why I thought the Bills would win. Consistency is what matters, so let's see what happens Sunday. Also, everyone, including me, may have overestimated the quality of the Cardinals. They lose their first game at home to the Pats w/o Brady or Gronk, beat Tampa Bay, which isn't looking like a world beater, at home and then look like crap against the Bills. Let may have to struggle to make the playoffs, let alone make the Super Bowl. In any event, it would be sweet to go to Foxboro and beat the Pats. Given the Pats' QB situation, there may never be a better time.

What I find ludicrous is the notion that you have to be a Rex fan if you're a Buffalo fan. I very much dislike Rex Ryan. I don't care for braggarts who really have nothing to brag about. I hate the "me me me" kind of guys, and I much prefer guys who win with dignity and class (Marv Levy and Tony Dungy comes to mind). My ideal world would be for the Bills to win the Super Bowl and somehow Rex not get any credit at all and get fired after being caught in bed with a couple of teen age boys and a syphilic donkey. Absent that, I'd take Rex being crowned Coach of the Universe if it meant the Bills won the Super Bowl. It's not like Rex has been winning and people are still carping about him. It's the fact that the team's performance is so far behind Rex's big fat mouth that is pretty hard to digest. So no, John from Hemet, I respectfully submit that no one wants to team to fail just so Rex will fail. They (and I) are just certain that the Bills will fail because Rex is a lousy head coach, and consequently they (and I) are upset.

Methinks you don't know what actually constitutes spamming.

Yes, because Lord knows there is a dearth of "Watkins is underused", Watkins is overrated", "Rodak Sucks", "Sully Sucks", "Rex screwed up the defense", "It's only year 2", "Whaley sucks", "The Pegulas will sort this out", The Pegulas are clueless", "We need a football czar", "McCoy's contract sucks", "McCoy is being mis-used", "Tyrod is a franchise QB", and "Tyrod isn't the answer" threads to name just a few of the oft-repeated topics. If the only threads were really new and unique topics of discussion, and particularly if they were only happy thoughts, the crickets would be covering this place like the plague. Rex's comment made the news, so to speak, and as such I wanted to weigh in on it. It's not my fault Rex constantly keeps reminding people of how much he sucks. Perhaps you should email Rex and implore him to stop sucking. If he were capable of doing so, and actually followed your advice, the "Rex Ryan Sucks" threads would dry up quickly.

I expected him to say something stupid, it's his MO. But if he wasn't an idiot, he could have said a lot of things without jumping to Rob "is doing as good a job as anybody coaching in the league", such as "I think he's a valuable addition to the staff" or "his knowledge of how I like to run the defense is quite an asset." Guys with Rob Ryan's track record are not considered to be doing as good a job as any coach in the NFL.

Let's set aside the more subjective argument that Rob Ryan sucks big time (I think the folks in Dallas and New Orleans might want to weigh in on that). To suggest that Rob Ryan is one of the best coaches in the NFL is so objectively stupid, can there be any doubt that Rex is an idiot? Rob Ryan is the Bestest Coach Ever

Frankly, when you're down to arguing which sucks worse, the offense or the defense, it seems to me it doesn't really matter. The team sucks. Just going to have to let Rex finish digging his grave so the big climb back to the ever elusive playoff spot can commence yet again.

Have to laugh at the pollyannas who get so worked up at the press who write negative things about the Bills. It's not the press' job to be cheerleaders, and when a team goes 16 (soon to be 17) years w/o making the playoffs, any objective member of the press who ignores the perpetual dysfunction of the team would be laughed out of journalism. It's not Sullivan's fault that Rex is a terrible coach (no one who liked the Ryan hire has any right to be upset with anyone who thought otherwise), or that the team is at the very best mediocre. I realize how frustrating it is to be a Bills' fan, believe me, other than the mid-60's and the Super Bowl years it has been pretty slim picking for the Bills.

Unfortunately, it is mid-December and we are at the Arctic Circle - dawn a long ways a way and the light is very short-lived.

To some extent it may have been due to the Jets' desire to keep TT in the pocket and make him play QB, which is a strategy that plays to TT's weakness.

Don't get me started on those dumb ass uniforms. If you're going to do that **** then have the Bills in all blue, not all red. I really really hate Nike.

I think the water just broke, and sadly, the baby will be stillborn.

I'm doing what I have been doing for the past 17 years, waiting for college basketball to start. As for the Bills, nothing is going to salvage this year, but going forward try and get high character guys, stop getting guys who commit stupid penalties, stop getting brittle guys, stop getting guys from Clemson, get a coach with quiet dignity but fire in his eyes, hire coordinators who are in touch with today's game, and somehow find a QB who is worth a damn. I freely admit, I don't know how to accomplish all that, but then again, neither has the Bills' organization the past 17 years and they have made a ton more money than I have from football.

Thank goodness the easy part of the schedule is coming up. Oh, wait.

No, he's a dick, and a lousy head coach to boot.

I'm as anti-Rex as it gets, he fits in my BasketOfSportsDeplorables, and I think the team will be average at best this year (and any year in which asshat Rex is the coach), but I do think they beat the Jets on Thursday, which will turn attitudes around for a while (i.e., until the next loss).

But if the system sucks, which is likely the case when the head coach is a clownish blowhard like Rex Ryan, then does continuity do any good? If the Bills miss the playoffs again, which admittedly has yet to be determined, it will be 6 years in a row for Rex (and 6 years in a row without a winning season if they don't do better than 8-8). You would be hard pressed to find a coach with that kind of track record thought of as a good head coach.

Reality, for Bills' fans, has a miserable bias.