Dawgg

He certainly has weapons. They just pale in comparison to the weapons on the Colts. Thats just IMO.

Those guys are studs.

Great question. Here's the answer: Tom Donahoe is a master at spinning the media and has the ESPN crew in his back pocket from the years he worked there. Not to mention him and Len P are childhood friends. While Matt Millen used to work in the booth, he hasn't built the strong relationships TD has.

This applies only to Tom Brady. No other QB becomes mediocre when he is hit and under pressure.

Yeah. Brady is a B word. Unfortunately, for the past 5 years, the Bills have been Brady's B word.

It's all semantics. Who cares. Bottom line: Brady comes up big when it matters. He engineers game winning drives when they are most needed. He has shown over and over again that he is clutch in some of the most important games. Manning has yet to show that. He's lucky that wasn't an INT in the final drive against Pitt. Perhaps Manning will show that... but until then, Brady has the slight edge.

Dude, you have some serious issues. He lost one game. Overall, look at the past 4 years objectively. Brady has been better.

So is there a cure to this MadBuffalo Disease?

I don't know if that was becuase he was a bad coach or because he had crappy personnel. I tend to think it was the latter. The Saints did not draft properly for many years...

It's beyond laughable at this point. I think the only remedy for such delusional thinking is a winning season for our beloved Bills. We can all use one of those for a change...

Sersiously... this denial is just incredible.

Oh puh-leaze. While everyline likes to suck off Brady, here you are, mouth wide open, blatantly sucking off AKC. Their premise is this (for those of you who don't know): Brady is a system QB. He's not that great a QB, and is probably not even in the top 5 among NFL QBs. He just happens to play for a great coach with a great defense. Tom Brady sucks and the true MVP of the Patriots are Bill Bellichick and Adam Viniteiri. The guy wins all 10 of his playoff games and then after one loss, you're out to dog him. I'm glad the Pats lost just as much as the next guy... but I do recognize Brady as a top 3 QB in this league.

Cowher has a strong personality and is a great leader. Once he asserted himself as the leader of the team, he wanted to take even more of a leadership role and that ultimately led to TD's demise. GW and MM are essentially the opposite. Even if they were successful, it is doubtful that they would have been a threat to TD's position. So it's not necessarily about hiring a "big time" coach -- rather, it's an issue of whether or not he was willing to hire a coach with strong leadership skills. What happened in Pittsburgh must have affected him deeply and I can't blame him. It was his hometown team, he built the team from scratch, worked his way up the ladder only to get booted by his owner in favor of a no-name coach he discovered and hired.

Yeah that's exactly what I said -- NOT.

Wow... your opinions are awfully strong.

Agreed on Willis but I think it's unfair criticism of Gregg Williams. He failed, bottom line. He was a first-time head coach who was in over his head. He liked Buffalo and if it were his choice, he would have been successful and stuck around for a long time. As for Willis, that one's obvious.

Agreed, but things can change mighty fast. He was also "the man" in Pittsburgh until the team encountered success and he lost out in a power struggle with the very coach he hired. I don't know enough to assert that he "wouldn't" hire a powerful coach. But at the same time, I find it rather curious that he hired some of the guys he did.

Bring back Wade!!!

Biggest mistake was hiring MM. The team needed an experienced head coach.

These daily posts are hilarious. Elvis Grbac tomorrow? Or Dan Marino? Surprise me

I remember that. I was with you all the way... back then he used to refer to turnovers as a "disease"

I think that assumption is unfounded. Who's to say that Shell wouldn't be able to adapt to a younger team?

The answer is simple: Donahoe put this franchise in a bind by signing MM to a 5-year deal. Firing him would require the Bills to pay his salary for the next 3 years. Assistant coaches generally have shorter and more managable contracts. While many franchises are willing to eat that cost (see 49ers, Bears, Redskins), Ralph Wilson generally doesn't.

I fully understood your point. To say that keeping Mularkey may or may not be a bad decision depending on the offensive coordinator, to me, represents just how poorly Mularkey has performed. The very reason he was BROUGHT IN as head coach was his expertise on the offensive side of the ball. That his playcalling resulted in one of the poorest offensive performances in Bills history over the course of a season is indictment on him. Now you say that perhaps Mularkey would be effective if the play calling were taken AWAY from him? Ha! Shanahan, Andy Reid, and Mike Holmgren are considered offensive experts. Do you see them struggling by calling plays? Each of them have led prolific offenses. I expected the same out of Mularkey. I was super excited when he was hired becuase I thought we would finally get some degree of ingenuity in the offense; instead, I saw nothing of the sort. Roscoe Parrish lining up as a QB, Drew Bledsoe running on a QB sneak, and Shelton playing a major role in the goal-line package were enough for me.