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I'm with you on all of this (except the Gailey part, but I get your point). I'm in NYC and saw Rex's show here for 6 years. I was disappointed when they announced the hire. I was hoping that he would have had some amount of introspection about his flaws and perhaps tried to fix them. I'm talking mostly about the fact that you can count on a Rex team to make at least three really bad timed, stupid mental errors every game. The fact that he can't manage a clock very well and the fact that he struggles with in-game awareness. I'm resigned to the fact that he's coming back next year. Let's see how it goes. Can't control it. Can only hope he starts to "get it". He is about to complete his seventh year as a head coach, so my hopes certainly aren't high. They're going to have to win in spite of his crappy game management. I've seen him focus on getting defensive guys he wants in his off-seasons. I expect him to get the defense to play better. If he can't, then it should be one more year and gone.

I don't care what Shady did after the game, but he pissed me off during the whole week leading up to the game. Couldn't say "no comment" and just go out and play football.

Agreed. There have been six Defensive Coordinators in the past 10 years: Perry Fewell, 2006–2009** (under Jauron) George Edwards, 2010–11 (under Gailey) Dave Wannstedt, 2012 (under Gailey) Mike Pettine, 2013 (under Marrone) Jim Schwartz, 2014 (under Marrone) Dennis Thurman, 2015-present (under Ryan) Not only that, it hurts the defense even more when each coordinator brings a different style (3-4 vs. 4-3 vs. wide 9) and expects the players to fit in and play. Then that begets changing the players who don't fit in and then the job is never completed where the defensive personnel fit the scheme. A lot of that pendulum-swinging can be laid at the feet of upper management who could have and probably should have insisted that each new coordinator bring in the same scheme as his predecessor. There are enough coaching candidates each offseason to get that accomplished each time the team needs a change. At a minimum the team should choose a style of play and then stick with it - no matter who the coach eventually is. Major changes should only be made when absolutely necessary IMO.

Geez, I thought show me the baby was part of the lexicon around here. It refers to Buddy Nix's first press conference when he became GM. He was talking about having no excuses for how to get to success "just show me the baby". Nobody ever really expounded on what that meant. It can mean a lot of different things to differing minds And Lord knows that minds differ around here. All I know is that I haven't seen any "baby" from One Bills Drive yet. And to a point made above - I don't expect that any team will go from not making the playoffs to winning the Super Bowl. I was just trying to say (and see what others think) when it is that I'd be satisfied. Would you like me to start another Rex Sucks thread instead?

To me it is win it all, but the baby might arrive at different times for different people. I'm just curious whether there's a consensus.

Wow, looking at the upcoming games the Sabres will have six straight days off between Chicago on the 19th and Boston on the 26th. Strange scheduling right there.

A half gallon of Epsom salt.

Fixed.

Omaha steaks? A lovely wine and cheese basket? Something would be nice.

Yikes! Are we sure that's a female? Reminds me of that Nuns on the Run movie.

Yeah, sure -- compared to this list of guys. I'm all for letting Tyrod develop. But the Bills better make sure that they have a competent backup for the inevitable periods of time that he will miss due to injury because of his size and style of play. Todd Collins Alex Van Pelt Doug Flutie Rob Johnson Drew Bledsoe J.P. Losman Kelly Holcomb Trent Edwards Ryan Fitzpatrick Brian Brohm EJ Manuel Thad Lewis Jeff Tuel Kyle Orton

Christmas Gift idea! Get her a 10 year calendar so she can circle the date of the next party.

Almost every a**hole has a sibling. Apparently you are the sibling of an a**hole. Call his selfish b.s. bluff and tell him that his freeloading bird-of-a-feather a**hole girlfriend wasn't invited and she can pay her own way. If he doesn't show up then he can explain it to your Grandmother why (after you get to her first). P.S.: if she were his wife, then maybe my answer would be a little different. She's a girlfriend, however, and she should never become his wife for your sake.

I cant believe I stopped re-ironing my underwear to read that article.

Ralph is cheap.

I hate to see the Broncos win but I love to see the *Pats lose.

Ya think there's too much time left on the clock?

That's an Avian civilization. Aliens present different problems.

There were two third and short plays which were terrible calls. First was when everyone knew Taylor was going to keep it and Woods was left to block Chandler Jones. Second was at midfield and everyone knew that they were going to hand off when instead two QB sneaks (if necessary) would have done the job.

I'm okay. Defense seems to be coming along nicely. They play better on the road than at home. Kansas City is going to be rough on our offense. If the line holds up (50/50 proposition) then we should come away with a win.

That's one of the problems I have with the offense's play calling. The defense was lights out - one missed tackle by Graham and one bad mistake by Duke Williams. Since we were playing with house money we should have taken a lot more chances when we had the opportunity, especially in the second half. The running game stopped working. This was the game to go into "shoot out mode" against the Pats. They couldn't match us if we did that.

On to Kansas City...

Can Shady throw the ball?

All of it actually.

They're taking way too much time. This is stupid.