Perry Turtle

Bottom line. This team misses Watkins.

So this is what it looks like when process, system and character plays football. Bleh.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

That kick was terrible, but don't worry, he has the character that McBeane is looking for.

Brady looks like he wants no more part of this game.

Chiefs bringing the heat. Time for some seven step drops for Brady.

Patriots getting curb stomped at home make this the best opening game ever!

I've seen better crowds at the circus.

Right, because charging NFL prices to root for future draft picks is going to make fans happy. Screwing fans is part of building a culture of winning.

Loyalty means support, but it doesn't mean unquestioning support. We'll be there when this team finishes 3-13, but we're going to have some serious questions and concerns. And loyalty to the franchise doesn't mean loyalty to the players or the GM or the coach.

The Bills are my team, and I plan to spend my Sundays watching them try to play football. And they'll be plenty of stories to follow, like : what is their current draft position who is the baby Jesus QB prospect of the week what QB(s) they passed over in the draft is blowing it up how historically bad is the offense when is Peterman going to get the chance to be sacrificed behind the rotting offensive line why this team needs no players under the age of 28 how many more years will the 'process' take to make the Bills full participants in things that make following the NFL fun So it's going to be a banner year. And as their needs now officially outnumber the number of first-two-round draft picks they have over the next three years, we'll be able to have these same conversations for the foreseeable future.

How does trading Shady win fans back? Is there a fan backlash against him? Trading dynamic, exciting players is not going to win fans back. And even if they admit what this year is about, at this point, they're almost past the point of no return. With the gaps they're creating in the lineup, there is no way this team will be competitive over the next 3 years. Fans are in no mood to go 20 years without the playoffs, while the latest amateur hour plays out on One Bills Drive.

Unless they have to make an RG3 deal to move up to draft their baby Jesus QB. If that happens, with their average RB age being 29 and their "best" receiver on a 1 year deal, they will be f'd.

Seriously? The Bills were disciplined enough to win over 50 games during the SB years but they lost 4 because of a lack of discipline? And they lost to the Cowboys because Dallas was more disciplined? Charles Haley and Mike Irvin would make this board's collective head spin off its shoulders if they were Buffalo Bills. Bill Parcells was Lawrence Taylor's biggest enabler. And Bill Billichick has put up with Gronkowski's antics and injuries for years. Do you really believe that Bilichick didn't know Aaron Hernandez was a scumbag when he drafted him? The only thing that Johnson, Parcells, and Belichick care about is how a player performs on the field. They don't care if the guy is a great citizen, or shows up on on time for stretching sessions, or tells the media that he needs more the ball more. These guys are great coaches because they know how to maximize the talent on their rosters to win games. It has nothing to do with culture, or process, or adherence to scheme.

I find it difficult to believe that a GM couldn't build a winner with the talent Beane inherited. The team does need a QB, and Beane could have drafted one this year, but decided to defer to next year, acquiring an additional first round pick. Last season, the Bills were a .500 team mostly due to an F'ed-up defensive scheme and limitations at QB. However, if you could have combined Schwartz's defense with Roman's offense, the Bills would have made the playoffs. The best coaches create a scheme based on the talent on the roster. The worst coaches try to jam talent into a pre-determined scheme. The Bills have spent the last 17 years trying to cram talent into the scheme of the latest lame-brained coach they hired. And the GMs have gone along with the ride. Roster-building be damned. It's always been 1 step forward, 2 steps back. I don't want a coach that talks about process or culture or scheme. I want a coach that maximizes the talents of a Watkins or Dareus or Hughes. I want Marv Levy adopting the no huddle. Mike Tomlin abandoning his Tampa 2 scheme for Dick LeBeau's 3-4 zone blitzing scheme. Bill Bilichick adjusting to a deep passing scheme with Randy Moss on the roster. All off season I've been looking for signs that Beane and McDermott were going to maximize the Bills talent on the roster. That we fans wouldn't have to go through yet another rebuild. That McDermott wasn't another one of those clueless coaches that reject a majority of the talent in the league because a player don't fit the definition of being one of "my guys." I don't know, maybe it'll work for McDermott where it didn't work for Williams, Mularkey, Jauron, Gailey, Marrone, or Rex. Hopefully McDermott can be successful doing the same thing that these other guys failed trying to do.

Obviously the Bills are planning to build the team through the draft by trading all the guys they have recently drafted.

Sure dump him and add DT to the positions the Bills need to upgrade. A month ago those positions included QB, RT, and MLB. McBeane added WR and CB to the list. Now they dump Dareus to turn this into a 6 year rebuild. 17 years of making the same mistakes over and over again. Culture and process over skill and talent is not a winning formula.

10 sacks from the DT position last time he played in a 4-3 front. The Bills don't need that. They need culture and process instead.

A lousy coach with a super bowl trophy. And Bills have had it called on offense and special teams.

Sorry, if your NFL team can't figure out how to line up by the 3rd game of preseason, you are a lousy coach.

Does McDermott understand formation rules?

Still trying to find something this preseason to indicate that the Bills will be a well-coached team.

Belichick is more than happy to tolerate Gronkowski's insanity and distractions. He drafted and played a guy who was convicted for murder. He signed Randy Moss when no one in the league wanted anything to do with him. He signed LaGarrette Blount to his team twice, the 2nd after was suspended and then basically quit on the Steelers. Belichick as a disciplinarian is a myth. His only measurement of a player is how they perform on the field. McDermott is following in Dick Jauron's footsteps, not Belichick's.

I thought the Bills weren't going to sign injury prone players.

If McDermott was the Bills coach in the mid-80s, the Bills Super Bowl years never would have happened. His 'team rules' would have ended the Buffalo careers of Smith, Kelly, and Thomas before they began. McDermott better figure out how to coach difficult personalities or he won't be around long. Nobody pays to watch 'culture,' or 'the process,' or a 'system.' They pay to watch great players maximize their potential to make great plays to win games.