The Senator

Bill Belicheat*

A good head coach knows how to swing his sword, and is in touch with his 'inner-pirate' - just like...

And the Bills should be interested in any of these 3 losers because of what? Their miserable results as head coach after leaving the Cheatriettes*???

He lost his inner pirate. Just like Jauron.

Can anyone imagine Dick Jauron reviewing summer movies? When it comes to interviewing football coaches, the best show on TV is...

Jauron doesn't know how to swing his sword. He might be the luckiest man alive, and not even know it. He needs to find his 'inner pirate'...

When you consider that the NHL plays an 82-game season to eliminate 14 of its 30 teams from the Stanley Cup playoffs, a 64-team NCAA Div 1A playoff is not as bizarre as it first seems... Calls for college football playoff ring louder Mike Leach Pushes for 'Mainstream' 64-Team College Football Playoff

Actually, a 64-team playoff makes a lot of sense - that way, instead of arguing who's #1, the argument is more likely to center on why someone's the #54 seed, instead of #32, or something like that. In fact, it has already been suggested by the Mad Scientist himself... Mike Leach

2 years = 'annually' ??? (Peters = POS)

DWA

Probably not nearly as interesting - or entertaining - as... Mike Leach Make Leach HC/OC. Have him teach Hardy how to run routes like Wes Welker and Michael Crabtree. Then teach Trent Edwards and Ryan Fitzpatrick how to play QB, or - better yet - bring in Graham Harrell, who already knows how. Let him spread the field with Owens, Hardy, Evans, Nelson, and Lynch. Watch the points pile up. Problem solved. GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

P-Town - with the rest of the Fagsboro Fops.

Kemp > Lamonica

And the reason the other 31 NFL teams have no interest in him is...?

Yeah I'm envisioning something more like this... Coming off back-to-back road wins, a pumped up RWS crowd showers their beloved HOF owner with love and goes wild for Fitzpatrick's first home start, as TO finally demonstrates why we signed him... BuffTown Bills 33 Houston Texans 10 15 and 4 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

Some needs to explain that to Runyan, I guess - he apparently thinks that no feedback is 'no feedback'.

Coming off back-to-back road wins, a pumped up RWS crowd showers their beloved HOF owner with love and goes wild for Fitzpatrick's first home start, as TO finally demonstrates why we signed him... BuffTown Bills 33 Houston Texans 10 15 and 4 baby!!! GO BILLSSS!!!! REVERSE THE CURSE!!!!!

Don't think Ralph will hire Fisher, but accidentally tuned in to WGR while at the drive thru yesterday and heard Sullivan saying he thinks there's a chance Ralph would bring back Marv...as coach!!! Not a bad idea - give Marv a one-year stint to get this coaching bug out of his system once and for all, and bring in as Assistant HC/Offensive Coordinator a young guy by the name of... Mike Leach

Yeah, I remember a fair amount of vindictive being spewed at Ralph - and Marv in particular - for not breaking the bank to keep Clements. Looks like the Bills and 'Stupid ol' Ralph' were right on that one, and will probably be right about Jason Peters as well.

Just curious - was Kevin Everett a 'bust'? I guess, because he tore up his knee on the first day of his first minicamp, struggled back on special teams the following season, then nearly broke his neck in a career-ending freak accident the first game of the next season, some would define him as a 'bust'. For me, the defnition of a 'bust' is player who, after a few seasons, obviously is never going to play up to expectations folks had for him - i.e., Mike Williams, J.P. Losman, Ashton Youboty, Trent Edwards, etc. I don't define a guy who had a few starts, got hurt at the end of his rookie season, and has yet to play a game this season as a 'bust', since he really hasn't had the opportunity to show whether he's going to be All Pro, or suck out loud. Just sayin'.

Nice catch - even I missed that one So the going rate to have your name on the stadium would come to about $1M per game. Yeah, plenty of companies are gonna do that.

Enjoy the MAC O/S and save yourself a bundle on H/W at the same time - for around 400 bucks you can build yourself a... Hackintosh

Exactly - beside the vast difference in coaching and offensive execution, Hardy started only 3 games last season, and none this season. There is literally nothing to compare!

As I pointed out to JohnC, facts are sometimes useful when trying to make a point. The deal for naming rights at our baseball stadium is not with Fortune 100 Coca Cola Company, but with the locally-owned and privately-held Coca Cola Bottling Company and includes 'pouring rights - enabling them to sell several thousand gallons of sugar-water at exorbitant prices every home game. Since Rich Products and the Coca Cola Bottling company are both family-owned privately companies, financial figures for the naming-rights deal have not been disclosed - but I would imagine naming rights for a Triple-A ball park are considerably less than for an NFL stadium. Do you really, think the Bills have that much marketing cachet? There isn't a single F500 company headquartered in WNY, and the largest privately held ones are controlled by tightwads like Bob Rich and Jeremy Jacobs. Whom do you suggest might be interested in paying $6-7M a year to have their name on the football stadium in Orchard Park? Because if Ralph could squeeze $120-140M out of anyone for a 20-year naming rights deal, I GUARANTEE he'd listen. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones has not been successful interesting anyone in naming rights for Cowboys Stadium, even though Dallas is home to several Fortune 50 companies and the Cowboys have a worldwide marketing cachet that far exceeds the Buffalo Bills'. It's been suggested before. I supposed it'd be equally noble if the Cardinals changed the name of their facility from University of Phoenix Stadium - named for the world's largest marketeer of on-line degrees - to Pat Tillman Stadium, but don't look for that to happen any time soon.

Check your facts, John. Of the 31 NFL stadia, 13 (just slightly less than half) do not sell naming rights - Arrowhead Stadium, Candlestick Park, Cleveland Browns Stadium, Giants Stadium, Jacksonville Municipal Stadium, Oakland Coliseum, the Georgia Dome, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Soldier Field, the Louisiana Superdome, Paul Brown Stadium - named for the founder of the Bengals, Lambeau Field - named for Curly Lambeau, founder of the Green Bay Packers, and Ralph Wilson Stadium - named for the HOF owner/founder of the Bills and one of the original founders of the American Football League and driving force in the AFL/NFL merger - link EDIT: You can also add Cowboys Stadium to that list, at least temporarily anyway - to date, Jerry Jones has not been successful extorting what he considers a fair naming rights fee from anyone. I'm amused at how viscerally you emote. Given the intensity of your feelings toward the man and the team, I'd think you'd find "THE RALPH" an appropriate name!