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AMEN!!!!!!!!!

Fans at TSW don't care. They want Taylor gone too. Big picture thinking isn't what people do here. Sadly it's that grotesque lack of foresight that dooms OBD too.

I'm somewhat shocked by the clamoring to dump Tyrod. Even picking up his full contract, Tyrod would seem like a relative deal at this point. In a league were Chase Daniels makes $7M, Brock Oswhiler makes $17M a year and guys like Bradford are being traded for 1st Round draft picks....Tyrod's contract will pay him an average of $16M a year....really it's a contract for $27M next year and $14M a year there after. Do people here who want Tyrod gone think there aren't multiple teams who would eagerly pay that much for Tyrod in a FA market with only one other possible starter, who's old and almost dead (Romo). Does the fact that there is literally no better option available not scare the anti- Tyrod crowd? It's like Ron Burgundy jumping into the bear pit. If Tyrod gets cut and signs a $17M a year deal with the Jets, Browns, Bears, Niners etc...will people not immediately regret the decision?

I see Gilmore's agent is busy posting today.

Gilmore proves he's still the most overrated CB in the NFL. There are bad contract years, there are horrible contract years, and then there's Gilmore this year. The only thing that keeps me from throwing my remote through the TV every week when he gives up massive plays and points is remembering how much money that chump is costing himself. If Whaley even answers a call from Gilmore's agent this offseason he should be fired on the spot.

NIN, Every Day Is Exactly The Same "I believe I can see the future Cause I repeat the same routines" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysFxrPNjvNA

BENCH Gilmore. Every week this guy gives up an easy TD. I have never seen a guy fold so bad in a contract year.

Gilmore is weak and a joke against the run and against big WRs. Luckily he'll pay for this nonsense this offseason.

Very good idea. Pats assitant coaches have always done well when given HC opportunities outside of New England. Oh.......wait, they've all failed? Well then this is a horrible idea.

I looked at this two different ways. Before the game when this broke I was shocked and figured this was a boneheaded move. After the game watching how the D played etc, I began to think this was a rationally calculated move. Rex has this team believing in him, his system, and themselves. Last year he let cancerous guys like Mario (and Dareus) infect the rest of the team and destroy the team culture. This year Rex has got the momentum and they decided to cut a poor performer to keep things going the right direction. Williams showed a lot of promise and may blossom elsewhere, but as long as the team is pulling one direction behind Rex I'm not going to question cutting an underperformed / new potential locker room cancer.

Picking on a 6'7" 285 pound OT is FAR different than beating the heck out of a 125 pound woman.

This is nonsense. Pegula is a billionaire who doesn't have to do anything he doesn't want to. Pegula and Kim will own the Bills long after Goddell is goodbye. Pegula is doing ALL the right things to keep the Bills in Buffalo. An old but functional stadium is the best profit center an NFL team can have in a small market. A new stadium is the anchor that sinks a small market team with giant payments it can't afford. Pegula knows the only way the Bills continue to make great money is for them to play in what is in essence a virtually free stadium. He has that now, and IF things break just right he might be able to get a similar deal in the future with the City picking up the vast majority of the tab on a new stadium as well.

I really hope Whaley stays, he's been the best at drafting talent this team has had in decades.

You must not have seen Cassel play football this year. If you had this statement would be seen as insane.

Whaley pulled 2 good starters at critical positions and one backup who'd start for a lot of teams out of a draft he had no first round pick (his fault I know). He signed a guy who has a shot of being a long term solution for the Bills at QB (first since Kelly) brought in a great TE, and vastly upgraded another starting position OG, on the cheap with incognito. Then he basically recouped his one big mistake of the offseason by turfing Cassel for a pick. I know he's a popular target for people on this board to tee off on, but has any GM done a better job this year?

A loss tonight and it's all over....unless of course the Bills pull a real switch and lose tonight but win next Monday.

I was all ready to come eat crow for all my Cassel bashing, but then he totally bailed me out. He sucked worse than EJ and gave me the best told you so moment at a party. A room full of cowboy fans, 4th and 8 with the game in the balance I told everyone Cassel would throw it short to an RB who had zero chance of the first. On cue the ball was snapped and Cassel did exactly this. EJ sucks because he's mistake prone. He's the guy in the bar who hits on EVERY girl and as a result has a 1 for 50 ratio, while Cassel is the gutless chicken who never asks a single girl and always goes home a loser.

So are we supposed to back away from the ledge to make room for EJ to take his swan dive? Or just get a better running start for our collective header as fans? Lose to the Jags - season is over.

If the Bills lose to the Jags in London the season is OVER. This team won't win 8 games if they can't beat an AWFUL Jags team in London.

+1. I'm fairly certain Rex and the Bills would be 4-1 vs that schedule too. Not saying I'm not pissed at how bad the team has looked...especially a defense that has been very healthy compared to the offense, but the Bills lost to a Giants team they should have beat and two undefeated teams that were healthy and just aren't as good as.

Admittedly I don't know if EJ will play well. I imagine that anyone the Bills start under center this week will look awful vs the Bengals in the Bills current offense. But surely if Cassel looks like, well Cassel, down in Dallas this week the constant refrain of "Whaley screwed up ditching him" should die down. Cassel is awful as a starting QB, the past 5 years provide concrete proof of that. That doesn't mean there weren't reasons they wanted him around or were mistaken to bring him back at a reduced salary (veteran leadership in the meeting rooms was often mentioned). If Manuel doesn't play well, Whaley is accountable, but my point, which I think Cassel will make for me Sunday, is that Cassel would be an even worse option come Sunday. I think a ton of people are underestimating Manuel. From what I've seen the past two years and this preseason I'd take him over half the backup QBs in the league. Guess we'll find out more Sunday, but for now I just can't condemn a GM who kept an above average backup QB as his backup QB. EJ is 6-8 as a starter....is only in his third year in the league. Has a career rating of 78.5 which over the past two years is better than Cassel's and is 10 years younger. We are comparing a young guy who could get better to an old guy who will only get worse. Sunday Cassel will show everyone that he not only has no future, he is worthless in the present.

In time for the playoff push! AW being out till December won't doom the Bills....it's the offensive players not seeing the field that could.

Cassel is AWFUL. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see articles like these. Cassel has been basically awful his whole career. He's a mediocre clipboard holder who looked good twice in his career. Once, almost a decade ago replacing Brady for a season, in a system that Belicheck can make ANYONE look good in....as proved by the failure of ALL former Pats QBs: Hoyer, Gradkowski, Mallett. Then he has one solid year for KC using the Alex Smith / Trent Edwards check down playbook. For the last 5 years Matt Cassel has been hot garbage and the Bills straight up robbed Dallas by getting ANYTHING for him. When he starts and fails in Dallas hopefully this will end these stupid, Whaley "jumped the gun" articles once and for all. Cassel has been in the league a decade and had two good years, but hasn't had a good one since 2010. He vomited a team into the playoffs once and was promptly blown out, never to return again. Over the last five years he has a rating that would place him in the bottom 5 of the league. Getting rid of this turd and getting something for him, may be Whaley best move of the year (if Tyrod doesn't pan out).

All I can say is THANK GOD the Bills already dumped Cassel so EJ gets the start if necessary. I like Tyrod over EJ, but I like slow death over Cassel, ok maybe I like them the same as those are the same things. Cassel is a check-down gutless joke. I can't wait for him to start AND FAIL in Dallas so all the carping by national media about the "risk" of trading him away vanishes once and for all. EJ has good an bad moments, while Cassel's last good moment is from before EJ entered the NFL.

Let me preface this by saying I WANT to like Dixon, he seems like a great locker room guy / teammate, he plays well on special teams, but he just can't seem to do anything on offense. He isn't given the ball a ton but every time he is it's the same result - he is immediately put down. It's getting to the point where it's not even a surprise. I remember in the Miami game where they gave him short yardage and everyone in the room watching said: here comes a punt. He's carried 8 times this year and has a 0 (ZERO) yard average. His one shinning moment was slamming into the pile in Indy and having the OL basically work him into the end zone...barely. With Shady out this week it's worrisome that the next guy up after Karlos is unlikely to gain a single yard. Is Dixon's special teams ability really enough to keep him on the roster or should the Bills be looking to make a change soon?