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Cool background. Thanks for the info.

I don't think Orton has to go all Madden to peform well. If he hits the passes he's suppossed to hit and is accurate, that's going to go a long way.

The whole GM+Coach approach never provides long term success. Sooner or later, one is going to suffer. Human beings aren't great high level multi-taskers. Something inevitably slips. New England has done a poor job of assembling talent around Tom Brady and I think that's beginning to show. I'd argue that they are worse at player development than the Bills are in recent years.

I'm totally into the Amazon Kindle woman, Amy Paffrath. http://amypaffrath.com/

So it's sorta along the lines of BSG and the Cylons? (Assuming you watched BSG.) Where are the ancients? On Earth?

I think the decison looks favorably upon the Doug Squared. I applaud the quick (relatively...) action to try to correct the problem.

What's the story with the "good" heavily armed vampires?

The offense needs basic, competent quarterbacking. They are not getting that with E.J. That game yesterday is won with basic competency. For the life of me I don't understand why a general manager, head coach and offensive coordinator stake their careers on forcing the premise that Manuel is that kind of quarterback or more. Make the change. At least see what you have. There is no unwritten rule E.J. can't be a starter down the road. This is a playoff-caliber squad but we're going nowhere with E.J. besides a season of learning and growing pains. It's wasted miles on our talented vets.

Wow. I really wanted him in a Bills uniform. A linebacking corps with Alonso *and* Mack. It'd be almost unfair.

I think he is deserving of all the attention and media fawning. Not a fan of the Yankees whatsoever but I appreciate his talent and greatness. I add to that his character was always above reproach in an era where we ended up questioning everything thanks to Palmerio, McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, etc in an era where everything was awesome and nobody was happy. All that being said, he should have hung it up last year and skipped the year long farewell tour. The Yankees were at best mediocre, and I think for a player of his caliber, that farewell tour had to be absolute agony to live through. Should have just dropped the mic at the end of the season.

You don't need Chan on the sidelines to incorporate some of the things that worked. I don't know if it's ego but if your most potent offensive weapon had his best year doing certain things, why wouldn't you as current OC, incorporate those things into your plan? It's like there is an unwritten rule you can't do that.

I will yet again pull the divorce papers out of the desk and silently, yet loudly, lay them on the desk as a warning to the Bills. Not because of Fitzy in particular but because I believe Houston is a team Buffalo can and should beat.

Amen to that.

Kyle Williams has been doing the hard work for years. Bills Wall of Fame, yes. Hall of Fame, maybe. I think he's got a good start (4xPB, 2xAP). IMO, he has been one of the AFC's most dominant DT's over the last five years but he will need a few more productive seasons to safetly navigate out of Peter Boulware territory.

Absolutely. Once teams get film on you, you have to adapt and be skillful at misdirection. That's where I felt the wheels came off with that start in 2011. You can't be a stonecutter and simply rely on execution to get the job done. By the third or fourth game, teams know where you're going to be if you get predictable with the playbook.

The courts take child abuse seriously. AP is in trouble. Should he be convicted and serve time, no team is going to touch him. Nobody wants to employ a convicted child abuser.

Streaks on the china, never mattered before, who cares...

My big takeaway from not only what was written but the sale itself is that it is a story of faith being rewarded in a world where we've largely come to expect to be disappointed. One of those rare events that actually exceeded our expectations by a mile.

Foreboding days in business with Donald Sterling being forced to sell a franchise simply because he's a racist and probably the NFL Commissioner loses his job because the masses believed his employer's corporate punishment wasn't punitive enough.

It's close but the week of the AFC Championship and the Super Bowl in January 1991 were bigger still, IMO. Also have to consider the insanity of the days leading up to Mario signing too.

As another poster asutely stated, the offense requires EJ to convert third downs routinely. It's almost a given with the tactical approach of moving the pile with first and second down run plays. Now and again you'll get a good gain but more often than not its a few yards here or there. It worked well yesterday because Chicago had no idea what was coming being the first game of the season. With game film now available coupled with Miami's big defensive line, Hackett shouldn't rely on that particular strategy this coming Sunday in the first half. They know it's coming. I'm no big fan of Hackett but to his credit he threw enough surprises in there yesterday to get the job done.

I do not know exactly why but this season reminds me of Glengarry Glen Ross.

I saw Seattle use the screens, sweeps and Harvin in motion with impressive results. Green Bay had no answer for it all night long. You see if I am Nate Hackett I brush my ego aside a little bit and pull some of those screens out from the Chan days and I always have at least one receiver in motion.

I suppose I can be thrown into the Hackett Haters pile. I don't understand or like his playcalling. He's allergic to using screens and slants and if the fan can predict the offense, you know the highly paid brilliant football guys on the other sideline know what's coming. While the Bills have gotten way better at halftime adjustments with Coach Marrone, the whole telegraphing issue is something that remains from the Jauron days.

My spidey sense is that it's not about the players but the play calling/offensive practice. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to hear Marrone is getting serious heat to either call plays in lieu of Hackett or to do a Turk Schonert. The play calling isn't getting the job done on the field and the offense keeps practicing the same crap that has shown it doesn't work when it counts.