BringBackOrton

It was an idiotic signing. It was a total blunder that I can't even begin to understand. Do they need to be franchise-crippling to be mistakes? And yeah, when could we have ever used an extra $5M in cap space? I think it was a really horrible decision to try to sign CJ. Just like it was a horrible decision to mismanage the QB situation for two seasons. If he could tighten that stuff up, he'd be great. Ozzie.

Signing Chris Williams to an ungodly amount of money, trying to re-sign CJ Spiller to name a few.

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17703210/new-england-patriots-coach-bill-belichick-greatest-enigma-sports This is a good read, love or hate the man, I think you have to tip your cap to him.

That's ludicrous. Who are you arguing with? My biggest critique of Whaley are his tendencies to make awful decisions that are easily foreseeable. If he could tighten up those blunders, he'd be great.

Does this joke get funnier?

After he ran 30 yards. Which is an asset he has as a player, that comes with certain drawbacks. Just like Brady's arrogance. Do you not see the parallel I'm drawing here or just don't agree?

Tyrod intentionally sacrificed his body to get the first down when he got hurt. He didn't have to do it. He doesn't have to run. Sounds like you're sorta splitting hairs here. Brady and TT both took risks and paid the price when they didn't work out. So TT went 8-8 last season, and Brady went 3-1 this year.

Does that mean the Jags beat Tyrod and the Bills last year, because Tyrod got hurt because of his mobility? Which is a huge factor of his as a player?

A topic demanding they be banned is "taking them just fine?"

This topic is embarrassing. The Bills finally beat NE and you post complaining about other Bills fans? Get a grip.

If it was, that's a fireable offense. I have no idea what they were thinking. It was a terrible decision. Fitz was unhappy about not being the penciled in starter going forward after 2012 IIRC, but he was under contract and untradeable. And he's a high character guy. He should've been kept to compete. If they signed Kevin Kolb and didn't expect him to get hurt, I have to ask what were they expecting? If you parse the language, then yes I suppose they technically did not plan on having the EJ/Tuel crew only at QB. But that's what ended up happening because of the FOs poor planning. And then they tried to make the same mistake again in 2014 but Marrone put his foot down and screamed at Whaley.

I think the larger point is that the process went like so: We need to cut Fitz. We need to cut TJ. Oh no, we don't have any QB's, we need to draft one. Oh no, we have no veteran QB's, we need to sign the most unreliable one. Oh no, our QB unit stinks due to an injury that was entirely foreseeable. It was textbook poor planning and short term thinking. And it sunk the whole season, and we even felt the lingering effects the year after.

I think you are. ScottLaw was referencing the year of the 2013 draft. We cut Fitzy for a worse version who was one hit away from retirement, and having such a mediocre QB carousel doomed the season.

You know they're talking about 2013, right?

Who saw that coming?

I remember when the OBJ vs. Watkins debate was first heating up, a poster made an argument that in the first year of another historic WR draft class, the WR who was the best out of the gate was eventually hobbled by injuries and surpassed, referring to OBJ. It appears that it was more apt to fit Sammy at this point. What a crying shame.

Knowing the Bills, they'd acquire Romo and refuse to draft a QB until he's carted off 3 years later.

It's easy to be confused when you don't check the dates.

I'm not mocking. I saw your heat maps analysis last season that gave the offense and defense credit based on yardage averages. I'm asking if the Oakland game would fit under your analysis and if your blame of the D against Oakland is inconsistent with your opinion of the 2015 D. Significantly more meaningful? A 4-10 team with their franchise QB on IR, Dez Bryant on the couch, playing for draft position is way different than the Pats conceding the second half? I think they're very close, personally. Star QB's not playing, star recievers not playing, and it doesn't matter if they win or lose. If you're going to call Marrone's final season 8-7, I think it's disingenuous to not also call 2015 7-8.

In your opinion, was the Cowboys win meaningless last year? If you heat map it, didn't the defense hold Oakland below their average yardage?

I haven't bitched but I do find it curious that Rex leads the league in antics like this. Combined with his reputation for lacking focus, it's not hard to see a relationship. Just my 2 cents.

Was that the game that he forgot to put a CB on Sammy and he caught 3 balls for 157 yards?

Bill O'Brien was never the Jets HC, and as stated above, you consider him a part of the BB coaching tree, so I'm unsure what's going on here. BOB went 9-7 in 2014 and 2015 with the Texans with a playoff berth with terrible quarterbacking. That's success. Many fans, including myself, would kill for that kind of result at this point. Even with a singular "embarrassment" to the Pats (like that doesn't happen to the Bills 2x a year in the last millennia).

BOB went 9-7 in his first two years with horrific QBing and already made the playoffs once. By the Buffalo Bills standard of success, he's already there.

Do any other coaches do stuff like this? Rob, probably.