Wayne Arnold

Some of those articles are great... In Stunning Change of Character, Belichick Adopts Half-Dozen Dogs From Humane Society Update: Belichick Builds New Tight End From Mutilated Dog Parts Belichick Lauded for Volunteer Work at Local Morgue Belichick to Tebow: I'm Your Lord and Savior Now Belichick Places Gronkowski In Injured Reserve Cage Belichick Drops Off Recent Draft Picks in Middle of Nowhere, Tells Them to Find Way Back UNNAMED DESERT—After providing his 2010 draft picks with only two canteens of water, a flashlight, and a cheap compass, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick dumped his 12 newest players in the middle of a desert wasteland Tuesday and told them to find their way back to Foxboro on their own. Belichick, who has always initiated new Patriots with this same survival ordeal, refused to give the dazed and disoriented football players even the slightest hint as to their exact location. However, the infamously Machiavellian coach told his draft picks that there was no potable surface water for "hundreds of miles"; that it would be in their best interests not to attempt to contact any locals who crossed their path; that only the fruit at the very center of the thornbushes would be edible; that most of the indigenous wildlife, especially the arachnids, was very, very poisonous; and that one of the things he had just told them was a lie. "Show me what you got, boys," Belichick said to the group from the backseat of a spotless black Range Rover. "If you want to be on this team, I'll see you in four days. And if you've been paying attention at all, you'll know exactly what to do. Oh, you can take your blindfolds off now. " "By the way, Devin [McCourty]? I'd check that flashlight you're holding to see if it has any batteries. I might have forgotten to put them in," Belichick continued. "Not that a little thing like that should stop you. See Wes [Welker], here, the man with the honor of being my chauffeur? This resourceful bastard actually beat me home, so it's not like it can't be done. "Now don't let that desert sun get to you, boys. It can play some pretty crazy tricks on the mind," he added. "Okay, Wes, let's get out of here." After Belichick gave the confused group a small handgun loaded with a single bullet "just in cases someone wants the easy way out," the luxury SUV drove off, sending sand and dust flying into the players' eyes. Devin McCourty, Rob Gronkowski, Brandon Spikes, Taylor Price, Aaron Hernandez, Zoltan Mesko, Ted Larsen, Thomas Welch, Brandon Deaderick, Kade Weston, and Zac Robinson have been traversing the barren wasteland now for three days, walking over 60-foot sand dunes and braving the arid conditions while 35-mph winds whip sand into their unprotected eyes. Second-round pick Jermaine Cunningham, a promising outside linebacker, died Thursday of sunstroke. "I think [belichick] drugged us," McCourty, the former Rutgers cornerback, said. "We were all at his home for that welcoming dinner, and the next thing I knew I was blindfolded, going in and out of consciousness. I know at one point we were in a plane, because I heard a captain's announcement. When I tried to take my blindfold off I'm pretty sure Tedy Bruschi hit me across the face with a Super Bowl trophy. That's how I lost these teeth, I think." "I don't think we're in America," said 62nd overall pick Brandon Spikes, tilting a canteen upside down in a failed attempt to get one last drop of water. "I've never seen lizards that size in America. [Kade] Weston never had a chance." Although the group of draft picks thought they were making progress Thursday, they were demoralized when they came upon footprints they determined to be their own—an indicator that they had been walking in a circle for the last day and a half. The players were further dispirited when they discovered a Patriots-hat-wearing skeleton buried just beneath the sand that turned out to be the remains of 2009 New England draft pick Rich Ohrnberger. "Ohrnberger was a big guy, man," former Ohio wide receiver Taylor Price said. "He carried a lot of water in that big body, and he didn't make it. What chance does a skill-position player like me have? We're lost. Jesus Christ, Welch, you got us lost." "We're all gonna die," he added. The players again thought they were on the right track when they found a backpack containing kindling material, 12 cans of refried beans, and a note from Belichick saying, "Enjoy!" However, after nearly eating the beans, former Oklahoma State quarterback Zac Robinson dumped them all out on the ground and kicked sand over them. "You idiots, they're probably poisonous," Robinson said. "Or maybe they aren't poisonous, and he just wants us to think they're poisonous. Either way, this man is insane. He's trying to !@#$ with us. This is a game to him. Everything's a game to him. Can't you see? This is all one big !@#$ing game!" As of press time, eight of the 12 draft picks remained alive. Although they have largely stuck together, the group has steadily fractured. With dehydration and hysteria setting in, Thomas Welch severely beat and nearly killed Zoltan Mesko with the butt end of the flashlight for eating the last sand cake, and Rob Gronkowski was muttering that he would murder anyone who even thought about stealing his "precious, precious diamonds." "Look at them," said Belichick, cool and comfortable in an impeccable white safari suit, watching from a dune several hundred yards away with team owner Robert Kraft and quarterback Tom Brady. "For God's sake, none of those beans were poisonous…. I don't think any of them are worth a damn. Let's just leave."

He knows his coaching career is over.

Why would Brady retire after coming off one of his best seasons and winning the Super Bowl?

First-time owners who made a mistake and didn't have a GM with the wherewithal or guts to tell them before it was done. While they deserve blame for the hire, I applaud Terry and Kim for pulling the plug quickly after recognizing they screwed up rather than rationalizing it in their brains and prolonging the inevitable.

Somewhere Vic Carucci is banging his head against a table.

http://billswire.usatoday.com/2017/01/26/anonymous-leaks-from-inside-bills-mysteriously-disappear-shortly-after-sean-mcdermotts-hiring/ Apparently Whaley and the team were serious about fixing the problem because since coach Sean McDermott was hired there’s been a noticeable lack of information leaking ahead of official statements made by the team. For example, there was very little advanced notice by any media outlet when offensive coordinator Rick Dennison was hired on Jan 19. Dennison’s hire was not reported by anyone in the media more than a couple hours in advance of the official team statement, and LaCanfora even got the hire completely wrong.

Sullivan: "Mission accomplished."

I'm not one to defend Whaley, but... 1. How was Whaley supposed to know Manuel would never improve after his rookie season? (In fact, he actually got worse). Manuel's rookie year was actually fairly promising in comparison to other QB's who started the majority of their team's games as rookies. 2. Mountain out of a mole hill. 3. What's wrong with the contract? Instead of Taylor being a free agent with all the power who is likely to get more money from another team than what he'll get under the current contract, the Bills are able to determine whether they want to retain him or let him go. That contract may have been the smartest thing Whaley has done as GM (which makes me think it was probably just a fluke). 4. "Close" to the playoffs. "Consistently compete" for Super Bowl titles. Whaley has done worse things as GM than these.

What difference would it make? They would still be in the position they're in, except Taylor would have all of the power.

Because passing touchdowns are worth more points. Right?

Sometimes words aren't necessary. Open what little things? They're pictures. Look at them and you will educate yourself and eventually you will stop making yourself look so uninformed and unintelligent. Someday.

Oh, Thurman... 2017 Cap Hit 2018 Cap Hit

Dude...

True but by today's standards Seals' hit would be illegal.

Good for him. Still having fun in his mid-70's.

They'll probably spend the next month attempting to restructure the contract and when he refuses they'll bite the bullet and just go with it. No way they're letting him walk.

FireChan logic: One poor season = "trending down" And "poor" in this case is performing at the same level as the current contract expects (20th highest QB contract). The same contract that a few here oddly want to get out of. These few folks are not the brightest bulbs. Nah, couldn't have had anything to do with Sammy missing most of the season and Taylor's starting receivers for too many of his games being Marquise Goodwin, Justin Hunter, and someone named Walter Powell.

I love how you continue to ignore his 2015 season where he was 8th in passer rating and 5th in YPA. Is 8th and 5th average? Your agenda is showing.

Sounds reasonable but the problem is the brainless Bills fans will be calling for McDermott's head because the team fell short of their own (unrealistic) expectations.

The Bills' current offensive coordinator knows Taylor extremely well. If Dennison wants to work with him, that should tell you a lot.

10 seconds down 6 from the Buffalo 15 yard line vs. 14 seconds down from the 45 down 3. Are you that dense?

Carpenter's onsides record is irrelevant. 14 seconds is enough time to get into FG range. Wrong about the Jets game - Taylor scored a TD to cut the lead to six with 1:22 on the clock. Garbage time scores - scoring late in games when the outcome is already decided. The Bills scored ONE garbage time touchdown in 2016 - against the Patriots. Every other game you mention, the outcome was not yet decided.

I wish we had Andy Reid for HC.

What would be an example of a rookie HC mishap?