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The Steelers are starting Russ Cockrell. They can lose two games just like anyone else.

Bills Spurs Pirates Being a Pirates fan prepares you for being a Bills fan. The Pirates went 21 seasons without a playoff appearance. Spoiled by over two decades of outstanding Spurs basketball.

Philly is a mess. Crap offense and defense schemes. His knees will ultimately betray him but he's a solid linebacker.

Tony Romo. Cowboys go nowhere without him.

Schwartz's defense played to the strength of the talent on hand, whether by design or good fortune. Ryan's defense ignores that consideration completely. Anyone who drops freaking MARCEL DAREUS into coverage should be fired ten seconds after that play.

Pulled? Let's do "fired" instead. I think once some of these fools lose their jobs, the others will study that rule book a little more intently.

The coaching and the leadership have been a big disappointment. I agree that the failure of this year is almost all on Ryan and his staff. Their hubris has killed this season. Another poster on the board (in another thread) summed it up - he never saw a coaching staff go out of their way to game plan away from the team's strengths. The coaching staff has made the critical error of believing their own press. We have perhaps the best front four in all of football. Let's not blitz. Not elaborate enough! We have this fantastic wide receiver. Let's not throw to him. Way too simple. We have this fantastic fullback. Let's only use him sparingly in the run game. Fullbacks? That's not trendy.

I too am one of those fans that feel the Bills had their shot and missed. The Bills just can't get this coaching thing right.

You assume a private business has any obligation whatsoever to be "fair" to the consumers. Free agency is what did it for me. That was the day the NFL started dying a slow death. It was a private business instituting mandatory asset reallocation for the purpose of controlling the product to make even more money.

LSU will give him a blank check. I think Les Miles will go to Miami or try a Texas rebuild. What sucks for Philadelphia is Lurie pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table for Chip Kelly and that's a bet with years of consequences.

It won't end until the majority of owners revolt and seek change from within. For now, they are fat and happy just making lots of money on their purchases. Have to remember, Kraft is at the apex of his power, at the head of the table. He put his own guy in the Commissioners office. He's got the legalized sports betting "fantasy football" that was years in the making, and an extremely profitable franchise. All of them are making great money because of him. Ralph Wilson irritated many of the "new" owners over the years - he was often the lone dissenting opinion in a sea of yes men owners on subjects ranging from free agency to CBAs - and I think he and his franchise paid for it.

No. Absolutely not. I think linebacker is a pressing need.

I know I'm just a fan but I've watched every game this season of Roman's offense and I don't understand it from one game to the next. As I stated in another thread, we deliberately will not throw to Clay or Watkins. We ignored Robert Woods for the entire season until last night. Why do we have a fullback yet run out of shotgun sets a lot? Why won't you throw to your best players EVERY game? We have one great pass catching TE in Clay and a good one in Gragg yet we won't throw to them. To me, it's bizarre. It feels like a coordinator trying to out think the room just like Hackett did.

All of those games are winnable. They aren't "beating the Patriots in Foxboro" odds. You are competing against Alex Smith, TJ Yates and Ryan Fitzpatrick. It's a gauntlet we can get through. The Steelers are a huge IF given their injuries. They are about as sure a bet as we are.

I don't understand the offensive play calling. We will focus on Watkins or Clay some games, ignore them others. We don't pass to Woods for most of the season, last night we did. We have a FB yet run a lot out of one-back shotgun.

I applaud the OP for the topic. At this point, I only watch the Bills with interest. I love the Bills. I'll casually watch the other games but I'd say I'm more of a Bills fan than I am an NFL fan. I think the NFL product has suffered from too many teams, too many rules. The game experience inside the stadium has deteriorated too - it is too expensive and not family-friendly. When you ask people about what they think is the golden era of NFL football, you'd be surprised at how people answer with nearly any decade before free-agency and BIG NFL.

Doesn't a 3-4 defense beat an ACE formation? You almost need your light coverage linebackers from circa 2009 back.

My take: Keep the Patriots guessing from play to play, series to series. Adjust, adjust, adjust. To beat the kings of game and film prep, you've got to give them something they haven't seen you do.

Like tv shows, I believe a shorter season with fewer teams would improve the product.

If world politics were the Usual Suspects movie, the Saudis are Kevin Spacey.

Nobody wants a Zoolander sequel. Everybody wants a Dodgeball sequel. Dodgeball is the modern era Office Space.

I agree. He wants to catch passes, not block all the time. I think he's an outstanding receiver. He will have no trouble finding work.

This extended time off provides little room for excuses come Monday night. We've played them once and you've got film from the Giants game.

Amen to that! Blueprint is right there.

The Cowboys are idiots. They have nothing to play for this season but draft slot to fix that defense. He'll run out there and get broken. Again.