Uncle Monkeyhead

I think this is a very intersting subject and one I would like to read a bit more on. It's about people. It's about redirection. It's about struggle. It's about toughness and tough luck. I enjoyed the interview and subject. There are a few minor areas where editing would make the story flow a little smoother, but all in all, a good read. I live in the Phoenix area, and have heard of Rajric before, which made the story more interesting for me. As for the first poster's reply about slicing it down to one page, I disagree. I want the story with some details. To summarize and shorten would take away from it being an informative interview piece. Too many mainstream pieces go that shortened route. And it didn't take all day to read; just a few minutes. Thanks for sharing this and I hope to read more if you ever want to share.

KC is riding into an ambush. Bills at home, like a wounded animal, pissed and hyper sensitive to the "can't keep up with elite teams" labeling. KC has had fairly easy competition this year. They are much like the bills with some new coaching staff, new system. I see the Bills surprising them with healthy blitzes and better than expected coverage on receivers. I can see Freddy working like he has all year but I see Choice ripping off a couple large runs as a change up. Let's face it, he's got Wingo breathing down his neck (ha!!!). I see Thad running a bit more and making things happen on the fly. Home is comforting to these Bills. They are going to take advantage of it. Bills 30 KC 24 (after a chance to win it in final seconds)

I fancy myself a pretty damn good carver, and that's a nice job! Are those toothpicks holding up the motion stripe in the middle?

I have been to about 6 or 7 Bills home games (moved away from Rochester 30 years ago so the only times I could make it were on trips back to visit family). I have great memories as well. The tailgating before and after games are some of the greatest times I've had with all my brothers, other family, and friends. In 1990 or 91, we were playing football in one of the nearby fields after a game....letting traffic get out of the way. We got crazy and decided some tackle football in the snow was a good idea. My brother tackled me and ruptured my ACL. Sounds like a bad memory but in my sick Bills mind, it was worth it. Whenever the old knee acts up, I am comforted remembering the fun we all had that day after a Bills win. My brother felt so bad he scored me tix to the next game, which was on MNF against the Bengals. I drove from PA to Buffalo with my leg in a demobilizer. Nothing was going to keep me from that game. Talk about electricity, it was two-fold that for a Sunday game. I remember eating chili and ribs in one of the lots and looking up to see the MNF blimp. We blew out the Bengals that night. It was a packed house the entire time. The Ralph (or Rich at the time) was truly rocking. I also was fortunate enough to be in town for the Comeback and we bought tix at the stadium. Wow, what an investment of time that was!!! Conversely, I have been able to catch the Bills on the road here in AZ twice, one in Dallas, and was very lucky to have a pal get me into a game at Green Bay, which we lost with Bledsoe, I believe. But nothing beats a Bills home game for me Great post

I like the nickname. But I don't think it will go over too well in the Bills locker room.......but it would be a hit in the Patriots* locker room

Geno Smith played a very good game tonight. Hostile environment, national spotlight, and had to drive his team in the fourth quarter with little time on the clock. That's a big time performance for any rook. Falcons were a playoff team last year and didn't lose too many key players. Give the guy credit. He deserves it.

Welcome back Brian!!!

They already have a cure. This is a pink money train that the passengers will never want to come to a stop.

Yes that tackle was huge. He killed 2 Balt TD's. Too often you see DB's in that situation run the entire time and follow the guy into the end zone while I scream "JUMP AT HIS ANKLES!!" Well Aaron heard me. Great tackle

Agreed.....and I took a ton of heat for taking that stance after that game. But even Wood thinks they could have slowed things down and changed the outcome of the game. “Different situations are going to present different tempos,” Bills center Eric Wood said. “In the past, we haven’t necessarily had those types of situations – I guess minus New England, when we felt like we wanted to get another score.

Penalties are obviously a huge problem for this team. However, a good chunk of the penalties on plays where a first down is negated, were penalties that directly helped the positive yardage. Some of the big plays would not be had the foul not occurred. But I agree that this area of the game needs to be cleaned up.

Actually they are correct on the Chargers. Double meaning. Check out the old shield logo

It's funny how pieces like this upset some Bills fans. If all you want to read about is the feel-good moral victories and "upside" of this team, go straight to a Chris Brown article on BB.com. It amazes me when people on this board pout about ANY media piece that doesn't praise the team for playing "good enough" not to get blown out. The Gleason article validates itself with every hurt feeling it produces. There is a loser mentality when fans are ok with the moral victory acheived by losing a two point home opener to your biggest rival.

So with that logic, a team that has had dropped passes, etc all game long shouldn't go for a very makeable 4th and one when giving your opponent the ball back late in the game is your only other option? With all the drops, penalties, and turnovers, they were still winning at the point and time of this coaching decision. A QB sneak seems like a better option to me....less chance for three of the negative things you mention above from happening. Look at the result of the coaching decision made...Brady, 4th qtr, possession...and a loss for the home team. Same old results. No one said it would take those things away. They already happened and they still had the lead. No one said huddling up. But you can change the timing up when everyone on D is lined up thinking the quick snap is coming.....you might get them to jump....or at least keep them off balance at a critical time. The hurry up can be used in many ways, including deception. I hope the Bills can master the up tempo approach to keep teams guessing on snap count.

Easy. You get that first down so you can extend your drive, score more points, and take time off the clock. Taking more time off the clock WHILE advancing and SCORING. Who said anything about "milking the clock" and hoping to win by one point??? No one did.

I never said 26 seconds lost us the game....read my original post... i included it, i didn't say it was the main reason. You say that putting the offense in the most opportune position to extend the drive is using the quick play clock..... The same hurry up all game long resulted in 5 three-and-outs before the last one!!! What was so opportune about that? If your offense showed that many of the same result, shouldn't that clue you in on the your chances on this one? The defense barely sat down before they had to go out again. Without a defensive TD, we don't have the lead. but you act like we had the lead thanks to the up tempo O. With all the penalties they had, maybe that the up tempo was more of a problem for our offense than a success. If we didn't execute it well, what makes you think they would with a one point lead??? You'll find a way to ignore that as well, I'm sure. That offense that was living on the hurry up was also dying by it more often. Brady used the hurry up as well, but they slowed it down as well and still had success...with arguably less talent at RB & WR than the Bills. They definitely ran more plays against us, for more yards, and more points. They won the ball game running a good mix of plays too. And I'm sure a tired Bills D (thanks to the hurry up failures) had a lot to do with Vereen looking like an all-star and a hurt WR dominating us when it counted. But you'd rather keep getting the same results (yes, another quick 3 and out). So you seem to be the one ignoring what "actually happened"

Whose whining? Hurry up offense works....but so does a change up in pace. And taking time off the clock is not a bad thing. The facts are we gave them all that time to get a FG and leave us with 5 seconds. Period. You can cry and name call all you want.

Complaining? Sounds like you are complaining. Settle down. Even if we converted, we still should have taken more time off the clock. Once the defense already gave up on substitutions thinking hurry-up, you can still stand there and take some time off the clock. What was the hurry? And guess what? Part of coaching and calling plays is figuring on the possibility that you have a drop or no yards on any particular play. Play calling takes into account the next possible play(s). You can scream and capitalize your words all you want. The FACTS are they lost the game with your "not even debatable" philosophy. And by the way, we still ended up with ONLY the hope of a rare block or missed FG.

Maybe....But they could have accomplished the scoring with slower snap count, and even if they didn't, Brady has less time to get them in FG position. To your point of hoping the defense will do its job.....that D spent way too much time on the field. We want our Offense on the field, not the defense against a proven late game drive manager like Brady. Haven't we done all this and allowed him to do this too many times in the past? I think expecting to make a yard is better than hoping the D stops them, and that's after hoping they don't return the punt for good field position. A lot of hope vs. getting a yard.

I disagree. We were up by a point in the fourth despite all the penalties and turnovers...they still could have won. It was the three and outs (especially the last one where we took no extra time off the clock) that lost the game ultimately.

Not one reply about the decisions to punt and the quick snaps when we needed to kill some clock??? That was a bigger factor in the loss, because they still had a chance to win despite all the penalties, SK drop, and lack of CJ yards.

You can say the penalties, CJ contained, Stevie's drop, or no Gilmore....or a number of other things lost the Bills the game this past Sunday. I say they still could have won despite those setbacks. To me, it was the decisions in game that handed the Patriots* the win. The 4th and shorts in NE territory that Marrone opted to punt.....these were huge. The second thing....not managing the clock when it was most needed. The hurry up is fine but it needs to be used wisely, not "all the time". This is your first game as HC for a team that needed its first game against the organizations biggest rival. They had a thin set of receivers and their biggest hope at WR was playing with a very noticeable injury. You have them on the ropes....no one, except maybe your young team, expected much out of you in this game much less the entire season. You are rebuilding...and in a sense had "nothing to lose". You go for it on 4th and 1. You send an instant message to your troops and to your nemesis, that there truly is change....this time things are gonna be different, and it all starts Week 1, against the favorite in the division. You take that opportunity and the cushion of low expectations, and you have your rookie 1st Round QB - the face of the franchise and symbol of your first step in the league as HC, all 6'-5" 240 lbs of him - and you grab that first down. Boost your team's confidence, make the loud statement that this is how things are gonna be done around here now. Spare me the whiny "what if he doesn't make it?"......you don't ask that....because you make it and there's no reason you shouldn't be able to at home with momentum already in your favor....with your banged up opponent gasping for air against the ropes. Hopefully this coach doesn't continue to make the same chicken sh*t decisions that we have become accustomed to seeing in Buffalo. Hopefully, he's smart enough to learn from this and also realize that the clock needs some work when you are up in the fourth against a guy like Tom Brady. Doug let a huge opportunity go by this past Sunday....a defining moment just waiting for him to grab.

Credit Kiko with that fumble. Totally forced Ridley to stop and slip

Finally made the call....30 minutes and two reps later (the second being a cancellation rep) and I got 35 bucks off my monthly bill and.......... Sunday Ticket for free! The second rep's uncle is OLine coach for the Niners, or at least that's what he told me.

If anyone thinks 30 is harsh, you must be delusional. If you weren't a Bills fan and you looked at this team...mostly young and unproven, new coaches, new system, new gm, all the injuries, etc....you would probably place them at 31 or 32.....this team has a lot to prove.