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This is the #1 problem that the Bills need to address in the offseason. Nobody can wear both those hats in the modern NFL and still manage a game efficiently. If they walk into next season with a similar dynamic, it's over before it even starts.

They (Nix/Whaley) had had their eye on him for a couple years, actively pursuing him with a quality contract before he went to Seattle. I think they just saw he was available for dirt cheap and went for it. I've never asked what Chan's opinion is on the matter so I don't know if there is a disconnect there. The question I have at this point, is do the Bill earn a compensatory pick if he leaves as a FA? Did they trade away a 7th rnd pick with the knowledge that they would receive it back the next offseason? If so, it's hard to give them too much grief for acquiring a player they liked at virtually no cost.

Is there a particular reason you've decided to throw my name around? Did I suggest somewhere that having a QB isn't important?

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What the hell was he doing up at 4 in the morning. Hope he's not back on the sauce again.......

He's certainly the most passive co-ordinator I've seen anywhere in the league this year. And with all due respect to Peyton Manning, he'd need to average about 35 points/game with an offense that boasts exactly 1 NFL quality WR and 1 lead-footed TE that can't block. Regardless of what they do in the offseason, this team isn't likely to improve unless they make sweeping changes to the coaching staff.

The problem is that he isn't doing anything. He's the most passive D co-ordinator in the NFL. There's probably 100 guys on this board who could do exactly what he's done this year. No disguises, no overloads, no deception, no efforts whatsoever to make opposing offenses uncomfortable. This team WILL NOT WIN with him calling shots.

I already said I liked him. I wouldn't have had any problem with the Bills drafting him. But he got badly worked over by LeBeau today and picking this afternoon to use him as an example of Nix's incompetence makes the poster look foolish and undermines his whole point.

During the 2nd half of the first NE game. That's when it was all over.

Well he was given teh ball around midfield with about 2:00 left after Tomlin inexplicably tried a 50+FG on the worst kicking surface in the NFL and Mr Dalton couldn't manage to pick up a single first down. Then he stood on the sidelines and watched Ben throw a crunchtime pick from his own 20 for the second week in a row. So yes, congrats to Andy for his outstanding spectating skills today, He finds ways to win, even from the sideline.

Andy Dalton managed to produce 6 points in about 13 possessions, half of which came on a Roethlisberger pick in his own end with 24 seconds left in the game. I like young Andy too but giving Buddy Nix crap on a day where Dalton was utterly abused by Dick LeBeau sounds pretty ridiculous.

Marino was a giant bag of ass well before he became a phin, Putting on that ugly uniform just made it worse. 1- Dan Marino 2- Jimmy Johnson 3- Louis Oliver 4- Randy McMichael 5- Thurman Thomas

Without having actually been on that team and seeing the dynamics firsthand I'm hesitant to say too much about it, either for or against it. I guess it makes me think of a Chris Rock routine I saw once; I'm not saying he should have done it....... but I understand. If a guy is not playing well at QB but he's working hard and appreciates his teammates efforts to help him, they're going to do what they can to protect him and support him; they might grumble about it a bit when they're having beers, but they'll still play for him. But if a guy is not playing well AND he's being disrespectful and treating his brothers like garbage, then he better start watching his backside because the 'ole blocks are going to start coming. And that I don't necessarily have a huge problem with. To me the bottom line is that Scott Mitchell should have treated his 'mates with the respect they deserved and it never would have happened.

Lomas Brown is not the first nor will he be the last guy to pull the cape to get somebody tagged. Although he is the first guy I've ever heard of that said it in front of a microphone. It happens, sometime even for the good of the order. And it appears that in this case, it was to the Lions benefit. I bet every guy in the locker room knew about it and there wasn't any of them not named Mitchell who was pissed at him. I'm interested how some of the former player talking heads deal with this; there might be a bunch of insincere self-righteous nonsense but I wonder if any of them will have the guts to say what they really think.

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I think Spikes just got hurt on that 2nd down play. I hope it was an Achilles

He may be a wanker, but he'd have to be a complete idiot to be taking on NFL defenders at 35 yrs old.

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I respectfully request that you folks who feel compelled to talk about gun laws and such start a thread on PPP and have at it there. This is NOT the place for it.

I said the sheriff is a figurer! Well this has the potential to get pretty interesting.