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Spurs fan for a little longer than the Bills. Very proud to be a Spurs fan. It is a franchise that is run about as good as you can run one.

There are too many rules. There are too many *complicated* rules. Should have one set of rules for both NCAA and NFL.

Cardinals. They haven't won a Super Bowl in the "modern" (post 1970) era of football.

All Mario wants to do is go kill quarterbacks. That's been the only thing he wants to do throughout his college days and days with the Texans. In a scheme where he gets to do that, he's All-Pro. It's when he's asked to do anything else, you get what you see today. Same goes for Jerry Hughes. He's a bust doing anything else but quarterback blitzing.

I think this topic gets very interesting if the Bills lose the remaining games. As most fans, I see that as a 50/50 proposition. Losing record Another year of missing playoffs Worse record than Marrone with arguably more talent The penalties The lack of discipline YoY decline from the defense by nearly all metrics There will be changes if that all comes to be with the first impression being very disappointing. What, you expect year 2 to be outstanding? Think the coaching staff saves its best for last?

The 1999 team. If that team beats the Titans, the future of the franchise is completely rewritten because so many shoes dropped because of January 8, 2000. I think that team had a great shot at beating the Colts and Jags to reach the Super Bowl again. It's the "What if Hitler was killed in 1938?" question for this franchise.

Loved the finale because it avoided every single cliche ending. The Mike Milligan conclusion was genius storytelling.

For me, I care more about the coaching issue than I do the players. 1. If the Bills lose the remaining games, all bets are off for Rex to survive for another season. I know some of you value continuity but there is a lot riding on the Bills to get over this playoff hump and start to be successful. You aren't going to get a stadium built with successive 8-8 Rex Ryan teams and nearing 20 years without playoffs. 2. No to Thurman. No to Pettine. As someone astutely stated, his defense isn't any better. Blitzed well but got gashed all the same. 3. If Rex stays, I anticipate a few of those assistants being fired. While the buck stops with Rex as the head coach, the assistants are in charge of their squads on the day to day basis. You need better teachers and leaders there. You start cleaning up the penalties and undisciplined play there.

Linebacker would be #1 priority.

I think the Bills need a linebacker upgrade regardless to more effectively combat the New England "problem". For as good as Bradham and Brown are, they are more run stopping LBs IMO. They need a quicker sideline to sideline tackler.

If Rex has to/needs to stay, he needs new assistant coaches and a new defensive coordinator and admit that the league has passed "his" scheme by a few years ago. I think that ownership will demand changes there. He needs fresh blood in those ranks if he's going to be successful. Time to get rid of your Jet buds. Whaley needs to draft the 2016 version of David Harris. Linebacker IMO, is a top priority.

Ever since Garafalo's piece about Bills ownership not being happy about how the season has unfolded, I don't discount the one and done for Ryan whatsoever. If he finishes worse than Marrone I think he is in trouble. He will probably have to fire all his assistants and I don't think he will agree to do that.

Why haven't we gone back? Simple. $$$ and there's nothing of value on the moon. The Gemini and Apollo program cost untold billions of dollars. It required tens of thousands of people. It took nearly 15 years to do it. Since 1972, the USSR went defunct, the US got a little "broker", and the Europeans and Japanese were spending hundreds of millions of dollars just to get a satellite up into orbit around Earth. Even if the world got together and said "Hey, let's go to moon again!", it'd take billions of new dollars and thousands of new people to pull it off. And another decade. Everything that's been designed since then like the shuttle and the space station are like grocery getters of space travel.

As someone who's watched Alias, Lost and the Star Trek movies, you'll be impressed with the opening scene and the first 1/2 of Star Wars and the ending will be terrible. Abrams is a strong starter but a weak closer when it comes to plot.

Trump's idea to ban Muslims is brilliant strategy. A bold move Cotton! It's a good possibility that ISIS or what's left of al-Qaeda will strike again in the United States prior to the election and he will cue up the Told You So dance. I think he has an excellent shot at the Presidency. The media and the establishment GOP continue to greatly underestimate the palatable anger and frustration in this country.

I found that odd too. WALL OF GUNS...but don't bother picking one up. I hope they fill us in on why Hanzee hates the Gerhardts so much all of a sudden. Having Martin Freeman narrate the book was a clever touch. While I don't understand the aliens angle in this show at all, I have to say, that shootout was memorable TV because of it's weirdness.

Some of the fault is with Murray. Some of it with Kelly. If he's having an honest conversation with himself, he knows he thrives in an offense where he's got a lead blocker and he gets to run north to south. Kelly should have changed his *brilliant* scheme a bit to take advantage of Murray's strengths as a football player. Should Kelly stay, I expect Murray to be moved.

Carpenter is having an off year by his standards. So what. Norwood and Christie had lean years too.

It's all fun and games until you're the one cowering under the table waiting for death to come. The United States has an Islamic terrorism problem. It also has a drug cartel, organized crime and gang problem. It has a mental illness problem. We have a problem taking the gloves off and addressing any of the above. What it does not have is a gun problem. I don't recall after OKC that we had a fertilizer and U-haul truck problem. Or after 9/11 an airplane problem.

They need to start firing these referees instead of reassigning them to other games.

The one thing no player on the defense has is the experience. One of the reasons the Ryan scheme worked well in Baltimore and New York was because you had guys like Ray Lewis and David Harris anchoring that linebacker unit. They instinctively knew the scheme and what to apply when. IMO, they ask a lot of Preston Brown. He's only in his second year, and he's not only the shot caller of a complicated defense but he's also got to out strategize the opposing quarterback. If there was one Jets player that *should* have come to the Bills, it was David Harris.

I enjoy the show's attention to detail. You feel like you're watching something filmed in 1979. Only show on TV that I have an interest in watching "live." I found the Ronald Reagan a bit odd and I don't understand the whole UFO angle that they are pushing.

Robert Kraft.

One of these days we will get serious about mental health issues and background checks. I'm a gun owner and appreciate the right to own guns. However, I'm not blind to the fact that something has to be done to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable as much as we can. I'm not a big fan of the President but he has a point - there are people on No-Fly lists that can't fly on an airplane but could walk into a gun store and purchase weapons. There are people who can't purchase fertilizer yet can purchase weapons. Post OKC, the Feds assembled a watch list due to concerns you had others out there manufacturing truck bombs. There are people who have PFAs against them and yet can purchase weapons. We can clean up the background checks and the loopholes without taking all the guns away. I've never understood why the NRA refuses to support measures like those.

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic. If you watched the Steelers/Seahawks game, the Steelers secondary is a complete disaster. Further, Jarvis Jones is too fat and slow and Ryan Shazier is too thin and injury prone at linebacker. If they combined the two, they'd have one good linebacker. The defense will betray them - they aren't an automatic lock. Really, if we're talking the 6th seed, no one is a lock.