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I really questioned signing this player for 6 mill per as he really hasn't done anything ever as a WR mostly because he has never had a 1000 yard season receiving or more then 6 TD's. But then after watching him play with Buffalo I changed my mind thinking he would be worth the money if he can stay healthy. It must be so difficult as a pro player to be let down by your body year after year. I sure hope this isn't what the future holds for Sammy Watkins. Starting to look that way though. Good article, I can relate.

Man that #1. I wonder if you asked Marv now if he would still deem the cost to high. Some context is needed when you look back at those godawful Bills years. The Bills owner really had no clue anymore, and apparently didn't trust many people. So he hired an old friend who he sought out and asked him to be his GM. Marv was a HoF HC but never meant to be an NFL GM. Marv took the GM job probably thinking he could be the head coach again, and Ralph Wilson told he that wasn't going to happen. That became news worthy which suggests he was interested in being the HC again. What led up to the Whitner pick is interesting because Whitner was a reach after the Raiders took S Michael Huff the pick just before the Bills pick. A safety was a basically a necessity after Marv got rid of a player he deemed to greedy meme type player in S Laywer Milloy. What I'm kind of bothered by is that everyone seems to be so upset with the Whitner pick they forget the Bills traded back up into the first round and took a complete waste of a pick in DT John McCargo. Shades of Aaron Maybin on that one. Some Bills fans need to let the Whitner pick go... seriously the guy is still playing in the NFL after all these years. Made the pro bowl three years in a row on a top defense that went to the SB. Besides, He didn't choose to be picked #8 overall. Marv Levy knew what he wanted to build in Buffalo as the new GM. The problem was he went about it all the wrong way, and was guided by some really stupid people in the draft process. Plus, he made the worst choice of all in picking Dick Jauron as his HC. I'll take one bad draft pick over four years of bad teams any day!

I can only wonder how good Cutler would have been if he had stayed on one team and been coached by a decent OC, QB coach most of his career. Bears OC Mike Martz Ted Sundquist makes it sound like he and Mike Heimerdinger were the Brains on that Broncos staff, and I think that's far from the truth. That was Sundquist's only stint as an NFL GM. Shanahan had all the power on that team. Anyway, Cutler was amazing at Vanderbilt having that team playing in the SEC, and putting up the numbers like he did surrounded by a bunch of nobody's. Like his teammate John Lynch said, "If this guy can take a bunch of future doctors and lawyers and have them competing against the Florida Gators, this guy is a stud."

Looks like this could be the same type of injury that has plagued his career. "Although Ryan said that Harvin's hip isn't the issue, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora believes it might be. La Canfora reported on Sunday that the team is fearing a "long-term absence." http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25348731/percy-harvin-misses-london-trip-for-personal-reasons-bills-being-mum

Amen! It looks like Rex is still saying wait until the end of the year...

Any glimmer of light huh? The only team that the Bengals scored more on was KC by two points. 34 to 21 While the Bills managed to take out AJ Green, Tyler Eifert to a degree. The Bengals still put up 355 yards of offense, and Dalton threw for 3 TD's, no INT's. The Bills lost in all three aspects of that game, and the Bengals had the better offense, defense, and special teams. Then the Bills had 8 penalties for 93 yards vs 3 for 20 yards. One team was a well disciplined solid team that made few mistakes, and the other team was Buffalo.

While the optimism is great! The reality is that the Bills defense was only mediocre with Aaron Williams, Kyle Williams, and unless Rex Ryan gets over his stupidity of running coverage schemes rather then blitzes the defense will probably only get worse. The offense continues to be injury riddled, and we don't know the status of the skill players Karlos Williams, Sammy Watkins, Percy Harvin or if Shady McCoy can stay healthy. Then, as bad as Henderson was playing RT he is still better then Kounandjio. Whats up with Tyrod Taylor with his injury and will playing on it this Sunday Aggravate it? Then, I can see the Bills beating the Jags mostly because they are dealing with injuries to their starting TE, WR, and the Bills seem to be able to take away the opposing teams #1 WR. It really all depends if Rex Ryan continues to run his stank coverage defensive scheme. OTOH, The Dolphins seem to have found some new resolve under interim HC Dan Campbell, and the Bills haven't won a home game so far this year RB Miller played better last week which took heat off Tallywhacker. Toss up! The NY JESTS who currently have the #1 defense in the league, and have a top ten offense. If Rex can't get his defense to stop the QB's who can get the ball out quickly, then he won't stop Fitz. RB Chris Ivory is the #3 RB in yards so far, and WR Brandon Marshall seems to have found new life in NY. Advantage Jets Then @ NE again with WR Brandon LaFell back on offense. Really everything is dependent on mostly two things, injuries, and Rex Ryan's stubbornness with his defense. Is the man working to get fired from Buffalo so he can still make his 5 mill per Buffalo, and get a different job sorta like Marrone did? I really have no answer as to why Rex Ryan's brain suddenly loves soft coverage schemes over his past overload blitz scheme. Ryan says sacks don't matter, wins matter. Well sacks and wins go hand in hand in my view simply because if you are beating the hell out of the other teams QB, and leading the NFL in sacks that will help win games. Sacks matter, as does creating havoc while getting pressure on the QB. Its a passing league right? Well then the more you can harass the other teams QB, and get pressure on him the better for the defense. The Eagles do not have better talent on their defense, and yet their scheme got to Eli Manning, and thus held the Giants to only 7 points.

Percy Harvin absent with mystery personal issue http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000562212/article/percy-harvin-absent-with-mystery-personal-issue The NFL’s concussion protocol consists of a three-step process that a player must go through before being cleared to return. There is no specific timetable listed, as “each player and each concussion is unique,” the protocol states. A look at the three steps: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article35258697.html In that baseline exam they ask the player questions and watch his response "These baseline tests and post-injury tests are computerized assessments that measure Reaction Time, Memory Capacity, Speed of Mental Processing, and Executive Functioning of the brain. They also record baseline concussion symptoms and provide extensive information about the athlete's history with concussions." http://www.cdc.gov/headsup/basics/baseline_testing.html Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article35258697.html#storylink=cpy

Or Rex could try Chuck Pagano's special trick punt play every series. The only person the team had trained to snap the ball got hurt, and the team ran it anyway.

and probably why they didn't fly in early. Shady chillin McCoy took a load off as he got his Uberboard to help him carry his Louis Vuitton luggage at Heathrow Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-3279435/Buffalo-Bills-touch-London-ahead-Wembley-NFL-showdown-against-Jacksonville-Jaguars.html#ixzz3pCXhNUle Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-3279435/Buffalo-Bills-touch-London-ahead-Wembley-NFL-showdown-against-Jacksonville-Jaguars.html

Underwhelmed? This years defense was supposed to be record setting great, and not record setting bad!! 466 passes by Brady set a franchise worst in the 55 year history of the team all because of the lame soft cover defensive scheme. C'mon man when every player on the D line is complaining of how they are being miss used this season then you know you have a major disconnect on defense. As for the owner picking the HC when said owner had just bought his first NFL team, and has had no prior experience in any aspect of the NFL besides watching TV like the rest of us. Clearly the man didn't become a billionaire making stupid decisions, and I have a hunch he will rectify the situation by hiring someone with actual NFL experience in such matters. He should have done that to begin with, and was told he could do it.

Hey man, according to some Bills fans its all EJ's fault as he threw that pass to specifically injure Sammy, and furthermore EJ's super accurate pass placements have been the main reason as to why Watkins is so often injured.

That's classic Now you just need one to say the D line players are to dumb to understand my superior complex defense

NFN, but the Jags have played in London in previous seasons (2013 & 2014), and probably understand that a just being in a foreign country is a bigger distraction then any other road game. So who knows.

I know I;d be happier had the team taken ODJ, and gotten that first pick this year

I dunno what happened. All I do know is this years Bills defense was supposed to be as good as the 85 Bears defense. The 75 Steelers Steel Curtain. What sucks is the NY Jets currently have the #1 defense in the NFL, and the Buffalo Bills are ranked 20th! The Jets are #1 in points allowed, #1 in yards allowed #2 in passing yards allowed, #2 in rushing yards allowed and if that wasn't bad enough their offense is in the top ten, ranked #7 in points scored, and #8 in yards with Ryan Fitzpasspick at QB!!

If I'm not mistaken it was the CEO who prodded the new owner to hire the head coach he wanted, and told him he would know who to hire after he spoke with him. Clearly the wrong move for a first time NFL owner, hockey man to pick an NFL HC. (Perhaps it was the fact that Terry Pegula had talked with Bill Polian, and had a plan in place for him to be the football czar. That might have made made him nervous. That plan for Polian all fell apart once Doug Marrone quit though) I can see why Terry Pegula was so enamored with the boisterous, charismatic Rex Ryan. Heck, even the Jets owner Woody Johnson hated to fire the man, and even most of the Jets fans still loved the guy even after four losing seasons. This when Eric Mangini was fired after a 9-7 season. Anyway, the Bills still should still hire that NFL experienced football czar, and allow him to run the football operations side of things. JMO On another note Rex Ryan has done a decent job of bringing in talent Tyrod Taylor, Richie Incognito, Percy Harvin to improve the offensive talent. While hiring a decent offensive coordinator in Greg Roman. Ryan's fault so far is his choice for DC, as Donnie Henderson stinks. Sort of mind boggling I know. Whaley's fault is not building the offensive line to be able to run Greg Romans power run scheme, and a lot of his choices for skill players look like they are made of glass. Save TE Charles Clay so far.

C'mon guys, we all expected greatness out of this years defense!! Mostly because that notable defensive guru became the head coach and installed his defense from his days in Baltimore, and NY Jets. The man has a pedigree for building great defenses, and even he stated that this is the best talent he has ever had on a defense. The Bills defense this season was supposed to be the best area of the team, and I don't know about the rest of you but I expected this years defense to finally dominate, and shut down Tom Brady! To beat down a 5-0 Bengal QB that has shown he can be rattled!! Instead we see a very mediocre Bills defense that only allowed ONE pressure on Andy Dalton all darn day. Sorry guys I expected more!! I expected greatness of the 85 Bears defense!! I expected the greatness of the 76 Steelers with that dominate D line who had Mean Joe Green. We have that in Super Mario! we have that in unblockable manster Marcell Dareus! We have that in wild-man Jerry Hughes! This defense has four pro bowl players on it, and they all earned that status from being great at rushing the passer!! Wanna run a Dick LeBeau zone blitz, and ask the D linemen to drop into pass coverage? Then have Doug Whaley trade away the current front four D linemen for four all pro linebackers, and then it won't matter when you drop an average D linemen into pass coverage!! Lets face some facts here! Not only is everybody disappointed that this years defense isn't great. Many of us are heartbroken that the supposed defensive guru somehow managed to castrate the strongest area of the defense! This years Buffalo Bills defense is not only not great, they are not that very good even with some of the best talent in the NFL. I'd even go as far to say that this years defense is Dave Wannstedt / George Edwards bad. Here is hoping that Rex Ryan can fix this his errors!

"I'm going to let you in on a little secret. That team Rex Ryan is always touting and raving about, the one that bullies people on the ground and assaults opposing quarterbacks and batters opponents into submission? It exists. Only not in Buffalo. It's all happening in New York, with the Jets, the very team Ryan left. And worse yet for Rex, the team he has in Buffalo looks increasingly more like the mess of an outfit he ended his Jets career with a year ago." http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/jason-la-canfora/25345471/rex-ryans-bills-keep-talking----and-losing----while-jets-play-speaks-for-itself Sadly, the 4-1 NY Jets have the #1 defense in the NFL, and the 3-3 Bills are 20th in total defense. 24th in sacks with only 9

The Bills have dropped Kyle Williams into pass coverage too, and he got a good grade for doing it. Rex Ryan had Jerry Hughes covering Rob Gronkowski, and he did pretty good also. When these guys drop into pass coverage the Bills then sometimes only rush three Bills players. You would think that after the Bills D getting burned by Tom Brady for 466 passing yards in week two(Which set a franchise worst record) they would have changed up the defense. Instead the coaches blame the players by stated they are to slow to adapt to this "complex" defense! What a bunch of crap!! Those are four pro bowlers on the Bills D line. Last night a team with inferior defensive talent in the Eagles had their D linemen spaced in a wide style which allowed the players to get to Eli Manning quickly. Just like Jim Schartz's wide nine used to do. Manning looked confused most of the game going 24 of 38 for 189 1 TD, 2 INT's and one was a pick six. Rex Ryan was given the keys to last years #4 defense in the NFL, and #1 in sacks, and drove it into a muddy ravine.

That is strange! Whats funny about it is some Bills fans are blaming EJ for throw, and whats more is that EJ threw it specifically so Sammy would hurt his ankle Anyway, Thurman Thomas stated he played on two sprained ankles his entire career. He would have the trainer tape them up and go out and play. Plus, he played his entire NFL career with a torn ACL that was never properly repaired

Whaley has his warts for sure, and I agree that trading up for a WR when the team didn't already have a franchise QB was blatantly stupid, and would have cost him his job with any other NFL team. A big problem with the current team is the lack of quality play from the right side of the offensive line. Even if Whaley would have obtained the O line players like he originally planned with guys like Jarhi Evans, Bryan Bulaga, and even those two wouldn't be enough without Incognito. The offensive line remains a huge concern particularly since LT Glenn in his last year. While Ryan is credited with bringing in QB Tyrod Taylor, WR Percy Harvin, and OG Richie Incognito, and those three are a big reason why the offense improved. His defense has taken a huge step backwards from what Schwartz built in Buffalo. I gotta wonder if Hughes, Dareus knew then what they know now, if they would have signed to stay in Buffalo. The Pegula's need to take a long hard look at this coaching staff, and perhaps the GM too if this staff can't fix the many problems that plague this team this year. Injuries aside, and happen to every team.

Both QB's have their positives, and negatives about them. Tyrod needs to find a way to complete more passes in the first half of games. The team needs to get their skill players healthy, and both QB's will have a better chance to win games Thank you for the common sense. The defense is far more of a concern to me with currently being 19th equals about as good as George Edwards / Dave Wannstedt. the Bills are 24th is sacks with only 9. Rex Ryan took the keys to a Ferrari of a defense, and turned it into a dump truck. #1 in sacks last year to #24 this year.

All we can do is hope that Rex can fix the defensive scheme, and cut down on the penalties more. Then there is the special teams that looks so much worse then last year with the same coach. The season is far from over but it will be a whole lot less painful if the coaches get their heads out of their arses, and can fix this mess.

I gotta wonder if Jerry Hughes knew beforehand that he would be used to drop into pass coverage so much this year, and the team would be so toothless in the sack dept because of the D linemen dropping into pass coverage. Would have he resigned with Buffalo or happily said goodbye? All the D linemen are not happy with this new scheme. Dareus has been complaining since TC, and then Hughes. Now Mario has stated they are all unhappy with this new defensive scheme.