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Awesome that you whiners had to watch that last night and eat some more crow. Been saying it here for years and will continue... I am a diehard, season ticket holder of the Bills and a few years ago I completed the steps in the stages of grief and came to accept what is undeniably true, this is the GOAT. You can cry about Spygate, you can cry about deflategate as your weak ammo but at the end of the day, year after freaking year, this guy has delivered, sadly in our division, the best performances we will ever see. The anti-Brady guys who didn't sleep well last night, woke up angry in the middle of the night like we do when the Bills choke away a game, you're wasting your time and emotional capacity on something so frivolous and wrong. And let me be clear, I hate his whining tactics, his stupid commercials, his Uggs, his wife, his Trump support (make him a garbage human being alone) but I will never deny what he is or not appreciate his drive to win, be the best, hatred of losing, and his unbelievable abilities. Now can we just have him retire for f sakes! So enjoy your weak crybabies.

If you do some homework on Republican proposals, pushed by some major players, the ACA and their proposals in the early 1990s are very similar, although not identical. The problem here is that everyone has to dig in and disavow everything that's not from their party rather than take a rational approach to understanding policy. Sad.

Starts with a draft analysis that allows them to draft an actually developable QB, something I think is more myth than reality. If you could simply draft and develop, every team would have an excellent backup and no team would be stuck with garbage year over year. The problem is, as far as I can tell because I don't follow little league or high school or college, the spread offense that puts athletes in the QB position, seems to limit the number of pro-ready, pro-style QBs in the pros. When a player spends his entire life not under center and from the gun, he's not developable in his 20s. Ain't happening. I see all the flaws in QB drafting happening because of poor criteria used by teams. Some teams refuse to draft short QBs, passing on guys like Russell Wilson. Some continue to draft guys they think they can develop despite horrible problems with accuracy, footwork, vision and other criteria that have proven over and over unrepairable. Others fail to do much psychological and intelligence testing and still draft dummies, my constant rant on drafting sub-22 Wonderlic guys (no Super Bowl winning QB with a reported Wonderlic score was below 22 except for Bradshaw who apparently had some disability, maybe dyslexia?). Then there's the desperation over drafting, taking a guy early just because you're in QB purgatory. The Bills fit many of these problems.There are so many problems that are self created from the draft process. I always liked Parcel''s criteria, which are by no means a guarantee but QBs who meet 4 of 4 or 3/4 of four have turned out to be pretty good. Plus, if you follow his, add in the no sub-22 Wonderlics, you'd end up with a good metric to measure the draftability of a QB who might be useful. Tonite's game features two QBs with Wonderlics in 30s and if you include the Parcells criteria, Ryan is 4/5 and Brady 3/5. Again, no guarantees but there has to be better ways to separate the winners from the posers. For me, any QB sub-22 is off my draftable list. That would have eliminated Losman (who scored in the teens the first time and then after probably being coached and practive, scored higher) but not Manuel.

I haven't heard from my employer this weekend, wonder if I should go to work tomorrow? Who cares. Time will tell, no need to beat this dead horse anymore. Team doesn't owe him a call or an explanation, he signed the deal, he knows what the options are. When actual news happens, then we its worth of a conversation.

Well, the one thing I've always like about him is what I say is a ket trait for athletes, a complete hatred of losing. He seems to have let his college career go to his head and has some demons I think created by his father. Great ESPN story a few years ago about how the family built him up... except his dad never once let him beat him at golf, which psychologically is twisted when your dad tells you how awesome you are and then you can never beat him at golf. It built a fiercely competitive kid for sure but with some issues. So he never could deal with that and never was prepared to deal with failure elsewhere. I'm pulling for the kid, always liked his passion and drive. Call him what you will from you computer in your cozy office or man cave. I'd say he needs a guy like McDermott, a disciplinarian who it seems like it also a teacher and treats his players respectfully. But Manziel has to be ruthful to himself. I was never convinced he's an alcoholic, I'm not doctor. He was drafted at 21 and hence a millionaire without the rigid structure if college or living with his parents. Lots of college kids who go away to school without the money party their asses off as they get some freedom and break free from the structure of being controlled. I think he was just lost in being a party animal, millionaire chick-magnet as an escape from the scrutiny and challenge of being an NFL player. If that's the case, and again this is from what I have read, he's got a shot to get an invite and take it from there. If he's legit an alcoholic, as others have said, that's a different challenge and would require some larger work and commitment from a team.

Yes, but annually I am less and less inclined to renew. This year I had to miss the stupid Thursday night opened due to a work obligation. Ate the Cleveland game because I lost interest and like others couldn't give them away (literally) and ate the stupid Xmas eve game, family obligations and again unable to give them away. Also ate both preseason games due to vacation. So I ate 4 games and sold tickets for one. Part of my annual indecision isn't the product on the field entirely, if it was, I would have been long ago!!! But I do grow tired of the players who more and more seem like entitled, ungrateful, uninspiring POS human beings out for a paycheck. Its the NFL as an idea, this constant striving for money, the relocation of teams, holding taxpayers ransom to help billionaires make billionaires instead of making billionaires make their own billionaires, its desire to go global, Goodell, concussions, replays, 3.5 hour games loaded with commericals (I don't watch it on TV unless its the Bills, it too long and nauseatingly commercial), etc. Football used to be primary consideration, now its money through football, turning the NFL into a slick marketing company that, oh hey, has a product that is becoming worse. And I go on record one more time, Pegula gets half a billion of our money for a stadium, I'm out.

Nope. Next question.

These are the types of headlines that make me hate the media. "Grueling" search and I'm hoping they go into detail on the number of coaches interviewed, the time spent with each, the discussions of each's offensive philosophy, you know, what made it grueling. Zero, zilch, nada about the what the headline alludes to. There is a 26 second picture montage over which text about the candidate is provided, it's titled as above, nothing about grueling. Just horrible. Bills Wire is dead to me now, first and last time I'll ever visit. Shame on me. As for the hire. Whatever, been whatever this whole off season. Team and ownership have sucked the life out of me. I'm in complete proof it mode, I'll withhold judgement until I can make one with any rational thought.

So much wrong with this argument. The most flawed being then if that person is so valuable, the employer should do one or both of the following: 1) Provide a contract extension and stop with the two year deals and/or 2) Big raise time. If I'm in a position where I signed a two year contract and I was not allowed out of it for a promotion, not a lateral move but a promotion, I would hate my employer and leave as soon as I was able, after of course I got my extension with a clause I can leave whenever I want and that raise. A competent employer has a plan for their organization to replace talent when it leaves because it's all replaceable. If you're asst to the travel secretary can't leave to be the traveling secretary somewhere else because you can't replace him, you are a moron and not someone anyone with talent would want to work with anyway.

Who cares? It's after the fact reporting that was and is absent in real time. Start writing good pieces during a coach's tenure and during the season and many will care. What happened is the past and been rehashed here and elsewhere forever. Move on.

Another in a long line of "it's coaching" threads. Where's the proof that you can coach accuracy and field vision and patience into a QB?

Belicheck x 4. I like winners and I like smart guys, not football meatheads. Hate this guy all you want, he's what you and the Bills aspire to hire. Week in and week out, he out-coaches every team in this league. Yes he has the GOAT at QB but instead of sitting back and keeping it simple and straightforward, resting on your laurels, he game-plans and comes up with something specific for the opponent each week. And for those in the anti-media camp who still hate him, you have to give it to him the way he treats press conferences and stupid questions, the best.

That's the exact failing approach taken by QB-needy teams who have over-drafted QBs and seen them flop. There are more first round garbage QBs who were drafted out of desperation than teams want to remember. Bills just happily saw EJ's last game and also did this for JP Losman. This entire premise that a first round QB is a lock is unreal with how many people eat it up. There's isn't a franchise QB in the first round every year and when they are, they're usually a top 5 pick. You can't keep drafting first round QBs because you value the position rather than value the specific player's skills. This is what set this team back. Let's recall that in the desperate move to trade into the first for Losman, they gave up a first the following year that would have allowed them to draft Rodgers. Ooooops. Desperation is a stinky cologne that QB-needy teams over-apply.

Damn wish I had the story link I read this week on QB starters in the league who were four year college players. Whoever this guy is from VT has no shot.

Classic "look at me" narcissistic millenial who's self-worth is derived from taking her picture and posting it online. Hot no doubt but she translated that college "student-athlete" thing into a sales job. Typical landing place for a talentless hot chick. Sadly, they get old and talent at some point matters. At least she's enjoying it while she has it, and she clearly does.

Development of a 22-23 year old player is a myth. What everyone seems to be doing is conflating "development" with "repair." A useful definition of development is "a specified state of growth or advancement." Repair means to "fix or mend (a thing suffering from damage or a fault). Developing a QB suggests the QB is drafted with all the physical and mental skills necessary to play QB and he needs to develop those inherent skills further to succeed at the NFL level. Development means, in other words, to improve existing inherent abilities to their fullest capacity. Repair suggests that there are some major flaws, and in the case of QBs, those flaws that were inherent in college can't be developed because they are a limiting factor. The NFL is a filter where irreparable flaws are amplified and in most cases limit actual further development. Put another way, you can't fix EJs inaccuracy, it's built in muscle memory from what, 10+ years playing QB from pee wee through college? When you try to fix those flaws with game action, patience wears thin and the player is gone. And you can't develop "height" in TT and get him comfortable throwing over the middle. When he scans and reads the field, his tendency is revert to finding a player he can see outside the numbers.

Most? Does that mean "majority"? I tailgate with about 20 people every week and the majority didn't want or need to see him fired. Would have rather had him be given an ultimatum to fix the defense (with guys healthy) and be given another year. The reasons were multiple. Who's the QB is the primary concern. If you go with TT, who has no grit and can't bring this team back to win games late, it won't matter who the coach is or how well the D performs. TT had a chance to win numerous games this season and just plain sucked with the game on the line. Sorry, games in the NFL are tight and you need a guy to lead comebacks, he can't. I don't care who the coach is, doesn't matter. Could have been Rex, could be anyone you want to name but without a legit franchise QB, none of it matters. What seems to be the cause here it "break the playoff drought," but all that means is a playoff loss without a franchise QB. If the Bills sneaked in this year or next with TT, do you feel confident with him against any of the QB currently in the playoffs? Nope. So to me, after everyone hear cheers the eventual playoff entry, the bigger goal is sustained winning and playoff runs leading to a Super Bowl. That ain't happening with TT, it's just not. No HC candidate can turn him into a Super Bowl QB. Just say that to yourself, TT starting QB for the AFC champion Bills. Uh, nope. So, Rex or whoever is not the hurdle to sustained winning, which should be the goal. It's a QB.

Being saying it since the Rex firing rumors started. Whaley is admittedly a scout at heart, he appears to be over his head in front of the media and doesn't come across as a leader his men get behind or a coach with any track record would immediately respect. He obviously is out of the loop between the head coach and owners. And I have zero faith in ownership to make football-related (personnel, coaching) decisions. Sure, the guy fracks a mean well and Kim can market well is appears but just because they have a few billion doesn't make them qualified to make football decisions. Yes it's their team, and if you want to fall to that default, great, but you can't expect anything other than a repeat of RCW's ownership. And if the the story is true, that Rex asked about his future and also wanted to play Tyrod and was fired on the spot, that doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies about Pegula(s). I just think someone who they trust with a football pedigree should oversee the coach and GM and that person should report to the Pegulas. I think this is what this organization needs, a restructuring to clean up the mess.

League needs to revisit realignment and I think a "rust belt" division of Bflo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Cinci would rock.

Imagine this is your career goal: a sports reporter. Then imagine you had the desire to cover professional sports in a big city. The imagine it was the city you grew up near and rooting for, which is a top 10 media market and sports mecca. But then imagine you just sucked and got stuck in Buffalo, NY, a market outside the top 50 and you never could get to your dream job at the Globe or Herald covering your beloved Celtics, Pats, Sox, and Bruins. So you take your anger and shattered self-esteem and you turn into a miserable old curmudgeon who instead of enjoying his job, turns it into a self-indulgent, pustulant, misery fest. That's Sullivan's professional life, and it his personal live apparently didn't turn out as planned either. I met this joker once waiting to get into the press entrance at an event and all he did was act like a whiney ingrate that he, the king of garbage Buffalo media, had to wait to get in. Guy is just a miserable human being, he is who he appears to be. I've always maintained I wish out media covered state and local politics the way they cover sports. I don't care what the media says, I don't need them to speak for the "fans" or the "city," no one hired them as my f'in spokesperson. I'm a STH, I have the choice to stop if I feel like it, the Bills owe me zero answers, I am a willing customer. This idea that somehow the Bills owe me and the media a press conference and an explanation is a joke and only held up by the media a s requirement because without that assumption, they'd be more useless than they already are. The only people that owe us press conferences and answers are the only ones who never have a press conference or weekly radio show and that's the people who take our money in the form of taxes. We're owed that, we're owned nothing from the Bills. What I think is hilarious is these young generation of hacks who try to act like anyone cares what they say. I was at a party and I saw some tweener playing a sports anchor on Channel 7 bumble his way through a poorly constructed and horribly delivered editorial soliloquy the other night, total tire fire. Sports media is basically a game if "who can be the biggest idiot to say the most outrageous thing, and say it as loud as possible." What we lack here is what other city's have, which are a few quality writers and reporters to buffer the hacks. When we Kelley passed and Felser retierd, we lost guys who could be excellent reporters without being azzholes, who the subjects of their work respected. No one respects these guys, which in some ways has to annoy the hell out of them. You can be critical and classy, they just don't know how. All my warning points are from slamming the media, specifically JW, but I should get one removed (haha) for giving JW props for being good at his job, being classy, and writing facts instead of opinion. The Buffalo News has removed the line between editorials and columns and now that has turned into an infection in its reporting.

You're missijg the point, this team is filled with dummies and unprepared quitters so that 1-6 do not matter, as Mike Singletary said about "can't win with em" . Sorry, if,your dumb and can't adapt, that an indictment of the player, not the coach. A few dummies couldn't do what was asked while others could, do dumb down the defense?

Good for Watkins for speaking out and putting his name on it. Same with McCoy, unlike the coward who spoke anonymously. Also good to see Bart Scott call out Mr. Big Puff for what I have railed against... stupidity. A team full of guys whining about a dense playbook is a team full of quitters. I've said it a million times, give me a guy (like Scott) who was committed and above all hated to lose, not guys like Gilmore and Dareus who show the passion of a dandelion. If there is one thing I think this team lacks on the scouting end is a better grasp of the importance of intelligence and personality testing.

Typical chicken-bleep comments so commonplace in today's society esp. sports media.

My top choice. People don't want BB's minions? Might be the dumbest comment ever. Why would the Bills want a guy who works in a winning organization, run extremely well, with a culture of accountability, and who won games his season with a backup QB? Unreal. I'd take Lynn well after I made sure many other guys from winning organizations turned it down.

Conspiracy. Someone get on it.