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Being asked to compare who is worse, Sullivan or Wilson, is a difficult thing to do. They're both at the bottom of their professions. But when you consider that Sullivan being mediocre really doesn't affect you nearly as much as Wilson being mediocre, then it becomes more about Wilson. I mean, the drivel Sullivan writes in his column has very little chance of ruining your week. You can easily find analysis about the Bills that is more on the mark. Watching the Bills blow another game under Wilson's direction, however can ruin your week, or month, or year. Because you're a Bills fan, and that means you're not ditching this team for another, you're stuck with Wilson's ineptitude, hoping against hope that he has a Grinch or Scrooge moment and decides to sell all or part of the team to a local owner before the inevitable happens. So if Sullivan writes another lousy column, who cares. But watching Wilson hire another cheap, mediocre coach, at this point, is almost too much to take.

I agree with you. Baltimore and Atlanta are going to the playoffs with rookie QBs, and both are coming off of worse records than the Bills last season. The new, rookie coaches were able to change the direction of the franchise. Miami brought in a rubber-armed QB and have gone from the second worst record in the history of the league to challenging for the divsion. This isn't rocket science, and after watching football for many years I think we can figure out when a coach is calling a good game or bad game. The fact that the Bills did not play bump and run against Ted Ginn is inconceivable, especially since there was extensive tape on DBs being able to push this guy 15 yards off his route every game. The fact that the offensive coaches couldn't scheme against a max cover defense, costing the Bills the games against the Dolphins, Browns, and 49ers is unbelievable. The short yardage playcalling in the 2nd half of the season has shown a coaching staff that was choosing to try to trick the opposing defense rather than playing the percentages. After 2 years and 15 games, the offense still does not have an identity under Jauron. Is the talent that bad? Of course not. They have one of the biggest O-lines in the league. They have two RBs with the best yards-after-contact ability in the league. They have two burners at WR. So what should their identity be? Again, this isn't rocket science. They should be a running team that builds its passing game off of play action. They should be the AFC version of the Panthers. But we don't see that. We see empty set, shotgun formations on 2nd and 3rd and short. Opposing defense face dozens of plays were they don't have to worry about Lynch and Jackson, the Bills two best offensive players. I've seen what Jauron has to offer, and it's not good enough for the talent on this team.

No doubt they have some talent. They should take the Ravens approach. Add some players and adjust the schemes. Poz and Whitner would look a hell of a lot better if they trashed that cover-2 scheme.

I agree that we're pretty helpless here, but supporting him isn't going to make him a better coach. If he was going to become a better coach, it would have happened by now. We can debate whether Ralph 'should' bring him back, and I don't think he should. But Ralph has shown that the team's record is secondary to his pocket book and ego, so I agree that Jauron probably will be back, and that there is nothing we can do about it.

It's like that cliche: What's the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

The team's record has not improved in 3 seasons. I'm more interested in Edwards claim that he was not prepared for the Brown's defense than his praise of how nice a guy Jauron is. There's no excuse for that, Jauron needs to go.

Baltimore, Miami, and Atlanta prove that 'blowing things up' isn't the horrible idea that everyone makes it out to be. The team has talent, enough to beat SF, Cleveland, and the Jets, unfortunately they were badly outcoached. Winning those 3 games would put the Bills into the playoffs. You can't overlook that in making the decision on a coach, especially one with extensive experience in the NFL. Jauron is just not an NFL-caliber coach.

I really hoped that I would never have that affect on another man.

McKelvin will turn out all right. Not sure about Hardy.

Yeah, and don't blow it next week! Shanahan deserves to watch his team collapse after deciding to go one-dimensional in the 2nd half.

Holy crap! This feels good!

Nice play McGee!

Is it too much to ask for another turnover here?

Why play the cover 2 if you can't defend the pass? Start blitzing linebackers up the middle!

The Bills should petition the league to move to the AFC West.

You'd think that all these DBs in zone would actually cover somebody.

It's amazing how effective blitzes are in this defense. Too bad they only do it once every 30 plays or so.

Where the hell has this playcalling been all season? Setting up play-fakes with the running game? It's a Xmas miracle!

Nice flag on an under-thrown ball.

You almost hope that Wilson is senile, decrepit, or doddering. It would explain the moronic decisions he has made in running the Bills all these years. Unfortunately, Wilson has left his stamp on this team for the last 40 years; his incompetence pre-dates any mental decline he may be suffering. His entire stint as an owner in the NFL can be explained away with the "Blind Squirrel theory," finding the occasional "nut" (Saban, Knox, Polian), before losing his mind and running that "nut" out of town. Now, the fact that Sullivan a complete tool shouldn't diminish that Wilson has been able to exploit the WNY area's love of football to make a mint while proving himself to be completely inept at performing the most basic functions of an NFL owner. Bottom line, Wilson is among the worst owners in the NFL. He's nothing more than a egomanical clown. And the entire WNY region, a passionate, football-loving fanbase, has to put up with this clown, because, as we're constantly told by him, Buffalo is a "small-market" that doesn't even deserve a football team. Wilson can go to hell. Buffalo has always deserved better than him. Imagine if the Bills had an owner like the Maras or the Rooneys. What if the passion of the fans was matched by the quality of product offered by the owner? What if the Bills had an owner that stood behind a HOF GM rather than a run-of-the-mill bean counter? How incredible would that be? Instead, Buffalo is stuck with a certifiable ass-hat as an owner.

It's not a secret that Losman is terrible. That doesn't play into the decision-making process? Again, who would you have picked to try to close out the game? Lynch/Jackson or Losman?

Yeah, and after the two minute warning the Bills would have 2 more plays to run, right? So even if Lynch and/or Jackson can't average the necessary 2.5 yards on 2nd and 3rd down, that's another time out the Jets would burn leaving them with one. Mormon would switch the field on them, and they would have to drive the field with one time out with about a 1:30 left. Keep in mind that the Bills completely shut down the Jets in the 4th quarter. So, AGAIN, do you put the game in Lynch/Jackson and possibly the defenses hands, or do you put it in Losman's hands, who has proven to be a total f$%k up as a qb? That's why you're wrong. With the way that game played out in the fourth, there's no way you pick Losman in that situation. No freakin' way.

The people who agree with you are wrong. If the Bills couldn't average 2.5 yards on 2nd and 3rd down to get the first, with the way that Lynch and Jackson were running the ball, then they eat clock, force the Jets to waste timeouts and kick the ball away. By the way, the Jets didn't get a first down the entire 4th quarter. A good coach would have placed the game in the hands of Lynch/Jackson, and the defense. A bad coach puts the ball in the hands of their lame-duck, mistake-prone, washout of a qb (who hasn't won a game in over a year), hoping that he plays against type. There's no defending that call.

So the Jets weren't stacked against the run the previous nine runs when the Bills average 6 yards a carry? Sure they were stacked, but the Bills were in Joe-Gibbs and Bill-Parcells nirvana, having run down the Jets defense through the fourth quarter. This is what running teams do, wear out the defense so it doesn't matter if the defense is stacked or not. I know this, I'd rather trust Lynch or Jackson with their 2nd-effort running against a tired, stack defensive line than Losman on ANY type of pass play in that situation. I believe that with the way that Lynch played, he deserved the opportunity to run the ball on SECOND and five. (It's not like they were running on a passing down.) Bottom line, stupid play call by a stupid coaching staff. It's amazing how much time people waste defending poor players (Losman the last four years) and poor coaches.

How come Jauron couldn't make that same request of Lynch. Who's the real leader on that offense, Lynch or Losman? Losman is a whiney B word. Lynch took the blame against Miami when he didn't have to. Lynch and Jackson are the leaders on the offense, and Jauron and Schonert continually play away from them. You don't become a power running team by taking the ball out of your bruising RBs' hands in key situations. Losman is nothing more than a cog for this team. His job is not to make mistakes. He's not the guy you trust in the clutch because he has failed there too many times before. It should be Lynch's job to win the game. Only idiots like Jauron and Schonert don't realize this.