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Maybe we can get Ralph in here... to not pay any of these players... ya know, for old time's sake.

Perhaps for an AFC Championship trophy... they've already won that 8 times in the last 15 years... ridiculous. But no, not renaming the Lombardi.

I don't see it. How is kicking an extra point any different than a 30-35 yard field goal? I know Carpenter seems as reliable from 35 as he is from 45, which is strange, but wouldn't a young player who often kicks FGs in the 30s be exactly that accurate at XP's? Seemingly a lower stress kick, too, so you can't even factor in pressure effecting the XP even as much as a similar length FG.

Didn't the Bills arguably just "dumpster dive" two pro bowlers in 2015, and those two just returned to the pro bowl again in 2016, plus two more?

I think when he said 2 kickers, he meant kicker and punter.

Wow, pretty cool that Fitz was just 1 year away from 3rd place on the Bills' career passing yards leaderboard.

Team Chaplain/ Replay Review Coordinator. Keep up.

I actually hope that when one retires, that the other one is left behind for 2-3 years to do some serious losing, and show that the other was more important to the success... I just can't decide which one I hate more, to hope for the other one to retire. Likely, Brady retires, and Belichick stays and they max out at 10 wins for the rest of his career.

I don't like the idea of a tank, to end up at #1 next year, bexcuse our roster is top veteran to do that approach... but I would be VERY interested in moving back in the 1st round this year, just enough to aquire a 1st round pick next year (maybe to #23ish?) and then using our 2 first round picks next year on moving up from our 6-12 range we will likely be picking in, to get our guy.

I think Rob is confused, and thinks he is interviewing to get Potatoskins.

I tend to lean this way... but... I would like to know what your scouting report was on Brady, Brees, Romo, Wilson, and Prescott were, in their draft year. There ARE players out there, available in a round outside the 1st, worth having. Not every year, but maybe every 3 years or so you can find a gem.

Yeah, I don't think that it's unfair to consider anybody got off on a bad foot with him and his public invites for his "women-only frolic" as soon as he was traded to Buffalo, but he certainly had a good, "gutsy" season.

Oh good. We can rebuild the powerhouse 2011-2013 Minnesota Vikings.

McVay will be the Rams' head coach, not San Diego's.

I heard about thar call but didn't hear it... do you remember what day it was? I want to go back and listen to it...

With Winfield on the other side, after seeing this hit, realize that Clements was our 2nd best tackling CB. I really miss those two. Not these shoulder-throwers we have all over our defense, now.

It came across to me as though Whaley would be compiling the list of his candidates for the HC position, and obviously all parties would be involved in interviewing the prospective candidates. This does not seem like a change in strategy.

We haven't done a whole lot with any helmets... maybe get rid of them, altogether? Might encourage form tackling, instead of just throwing shoulder...

Steve Saslow, the man who runs Bills Daily, has been a Bills fan for a long time, and has ran that site for almost 20 years. To have to create content on a nearly daily basis for a team that had its last playoff appearance the first season he began the site has to be a side-job that I would not want to do. All of us have been Bills fans for some time now, but have endured various levels of disgust at player aquisition/retention, coach/gm hiring and firing, and countless on field embarrassing performances. He has gotten to bat and updated the site after every one of them, sometimes with a positive outlook, and sometimes with disgust for what the current team has done, to embarrass/outrage us as fans. This Whaley press conference certainly takes a top 5 instance for crap being flung and either having the top of the organization being wildly incompetent, or flat out liars. Personally, I like the human element Steve brings to the site when big news like this happens. It is not the black and white corporate Bills talking points, and it is not the sometimes wild, inflammatory, over-reactionary tone that TBD sometimes gets during these occurrences, but is done in an appropriate manner.

I believe John Madden was the OL coach of the Raiders before he took over as HC, with great success. Just the one off the to of my head, though.

Yes please... Former N.O. OCs have never done us wrong.

That was not the nature of my post. What I posted was to be read as if you have 1 excellent team who is annually a top 3 team in the league, and who officially owns the division, the other teams under them will experience an inordinate churn in personnel and players, as new regimes take time to establish the change in culture, and accumulate wins to reinforce that they are on the right path. By being in the same division as NE, we are almost always having 2 wins stacked on us as soon as the schedule is released, which undermines the culture change and impression of being on the "right path". If you replaced NE with Indy twice per year, how many more wins would we have? I assume 1.2-1.5 more wins pee year, whigh over the last 4 seasons would put us at about 9-10, 10, 9-10, and 10 wins, which wins half of the divisions in any given year. So if we have "won the division" 2 out of the last 4 years, how much call is to tear everything down, and rebuild it from the ground up? Likely none; the talk would be centered on finding that "final piece", that 2nd WR, Safety, 2nd TE, whatever, instead of contemplating which cotton candy vendor we should be switching to at New Era Field. Having the pressure of the very successful team sitting on top of us, as NE is, causes us to be panicky and over-reactionary, and get rid of adequate players, or coaches, that could help us become a good team, but we end up throwing out with the bathwater because we want the sexy NE team, and we want it yesterday. And this feeds right into NE's hands. Miami, NY, and Buffalo keep thinking their models are flawed, because the well oiled machine in NE bombs our airfield before we even get off the ground, and we keep tearing it down, and therefore helping them maintain their dominance.

I know it's difficult to sit here and drink in our 17th consecutive season without the playoffs, it sure is for me (that's more than half my life). But let's not look at every other team and try to copy them, as though all of the teams are playing in a vacuum. There is not a coincidence to the fact that Brady/Bellichek has had all of their success during our drought. Other teams make their moves and squeak into the playoffs from their annual turnstile of divisions, as the 4 teams in each division typically rise and fall. Not New England. We have been stuck behind them, only leaving us to fight for a wild card spot amongst the other 11 non-division winners, and sometimes we are there for the spot until the end, and sometimes we just don't have the team, and are out early. But to compare us to almost any other team but the Jets or Dolphins would be inaccurate. No, we haven't been great, but we also haven't been "no playoffs in 2 decades" bad, on our own, until you factor in who has been stuck at the top of our division, blocking the most likely path to the playoffs every team has (where they compete with 3 other teams, to win the division, vs. 10 others that we have had to fight through to get to the wildcard spot). I don't think we're as bad as it seems, and things will improve in the next 2 or 3 years, when NE weakens. Just don't blow it up now, as an overreaction. Have faith. We will get there.

I guess we now know what Doug Whaley's incognito user name is here on TBD... NICE TRY, DOUG!!

Maybe Newman and Rhodes traded jerseys?