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if parcells is ever available, I would hope that Ralph would pay him whatever it takes to finish his career in buffalo. Parcells has expressed a liking for the Bills before, and he'd be Ralphs best shot at the big one. and we wouldn't be able to cry about coaching anymore.

You left out the trumpet, who deserves most of the blame to begin with. Sick of this brass. Time Ralph brought in some reed instruments and strings.

//Any doubt I once had that this game is over Mularkey's head has now been officially squashed. He's both in over his head AND delusional. // Scott Gershman (Lake Worth, FL): You always talk about making adjustments at halftime. Why does it seem, week in and week out that we can play decent football for the first half, and then after halftime we fall apart and the other team seems to make all the necessary changes to dominate the second half of games? Mike Mularkey: I don't think it's a matter of halftime adjustments. It's a matter of making plays and we've had a chance to make plays. The ball has not bounced in our direction every time this year like I've seen it happen with some other teams. Unfortunately we have not finished games as strong as we should have, and that has nothing to do with halftime adjustments. We're just not finishing for a number of reasons.

HASLETT SUCKS. He has never fielded a team that played with any heart or character. He's also a loose cannon who is prone to saying stupid schitt. I'd be so pissed if the Bills fired one loser coach for another. LOok at Haslett's record. Why would you want him? Just because he was a bills linebacker? Well schitt, why not sign Daryl Talley? He'd be "good for the city" too.

the sad thing about the bears is, this is year 2 of their new system, under their new coach. These guys were just built yesterday. And this is a team that is truly mentally tough. donahoe promised a more mentally tough team under mularkey and the opposite happened. They have less than we have on offense, but as a TEAM they find a way to get it done. If mularkey is our coach again next year, I'd recommend following hockey more closely next fall.

the problem is, we don't want the Jets to have the #1 pick in the draft. Do we REALLY want to face Reggie Bush twice a year?

The real nightmare scenario is that the Bills come out firing. The defense comes to play, Holcomb makes the throws, and the BIlls upset the Broncos to keep the Chargers alive in the playoff hunt. This fools Ralph into thinking that Mularkey can coach with the big boys, and he retains him. THAT sounds like the nightmare. If he IS the coach next season, I sure do hope he can prove me wrong, cuz he hasn't proven anything at all yet.

poorer tools? teams are supposed to get bETTER every year, and mularkey and donahoe and every1 in the org said they were better before the season began the premise is invalid. mularkey only finished 9-7 last year because we played a coachless browns and a coachless 9ers. We were a 7-9 team last year and we're a 6-10 season this year. mularkey has proven nothing. zilch. nada. offensive guru my ass. look where we rank offensively. he has been outcoached so many times by mediocre coaches that i'd rather not think about the future under mularkey. seems like a nice guy. class act. But not that good a coach. Simply not smart enough to know how to put his players in the best position to win. Not smart enough to call a game to the percentages and use surprises effectively. CHallenges, clock management, when to kick, when to punt, when to blitz, when not to...he has failed every category multiple times. Give this talented roster a coach who knows how to motivate his players and scheme with the likes of belichick. If you can't out-think belichick, why are you a coach in the AFC East? Futile. But hey. He seems like a nice guy. Mispronounces and over-uses (bad combination) the word especially, but hey. He's a nice guy. (If I hear him say eggspecially one more time...and start his sentences with "Again..." one more time, I'm going to transmogrify into a misser of Gregg Williams, for god's sake.)

thanks - it's a really tuff call tho. i mean, collins at home could put up numbers vs the browns, and gado has been a stud, and james is always a stud, and chambers is studly of late, and jimmy smith too. so i'm still on the fence.

Okay, I've made it to the quarterfinals. I won the "choice game" which means I can pick my opponent this week. I can choose between Team A: Bledsoe at skins (I'd think he'd stink here) L.T. (at Indy) L. JOrdan (home vs cle) Burress (vs KC) Fitzgerald (at Hou) Crumpler PK Feeley D Giants Team B: Collins at home Samkon Gado at Ravens E. James (not going to be rested according to reports - at home) CHambers at home A. Lelie at buffalo Jimmy Smith vs San Friggin Fran PK Brown D Fins Who would you rather face? I have been going back and forth all day and I have an hour left!

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a couple years from now we might be looking back on the losman thing with sadness and disappointment. He is going to have to make great leaps in his accuracy and field vision if he's ever going to be a good QB. Unfortunately, those are two of the most difficult attributes to 'teach' or 'learn'. You either have them or you don't. I haven't seen signs of either of them yet. I wish it weren't so, but you can't tell me that JP has been accurate, decisive, poised, or effective. He's made a few throws, and missed a ton of 'em. Don't expect him to be special next year. I know I don't. Hope he is, but I'm not expecting much.

good stuff. gotta love spikes. gotta love that groovy green jacket vest, too.

The injury doesn't sound like a big deal. Suddenly Mularkey thinks that Holcomb gives his team the best chance to win, which was true all along (go ahead and hit me, JP apologists). He's going to try to win these games harder than ever because his job is probably on the line. I think the Bills are going to come out playing hard. The playcalling will proabably be really good. As good as we've seen since the first patriots loss, which was the last game that had any offensive rhythm... At this point, y'know...I think that I actually might prefer to see us lose. First time I've ever said that. But if winning and looking strong means we're stuck with Mularkey, then what will we have gained?

Losman had his worst game since the saints. many people will make excuses for him; playcalling, protection problems, and all of them are valid, but they don't really minimize his weak play much for me. Losman has shown repeatedly that he does not possess natural poise. He doesn't have that calmness you need. Can he get it? Maybe. I don't know, and neither does he. But he was supposed to be accurate. He's not. Argue that if you want but you have no ammo. He was supposed to be smart with the ball but to me that means taking what the defense gives you. He doesn't. He either has a long way to go before he's capable of being a winning QB, or he's a coach killer. One of these 2 is true. We'll see which one. I hope it's the former.

Haslett has always had teams with no heart. If Haslett is ever our HC, Ralph will take Bills failure to his grave, cuz he won't live long enough to see the next one.

better idea: line up a 5'9 WR with a cast on his right arm in the shotgun, and have him throw a 3 yard quick out. Oh wait. We did that. Okay okay okay. Lauvale Sape under center, Bannan and Bennie Anderson split wide, with Johnathan SMith playing left guard - cuz who would expect THAT? Put Ryan Neufeld in the backfield with Holcomb as a FB. Lee Evans in at TE right. Snap the ball, Holcomb runs a cross to block the RDE while Neufeld takes the C gap. Sape takes a 7 step drop, cocks back, and then have Bannan snatch it away in a statue of liberty play, and then reverse it to Anderson running the other way. It could work.

Ok Max. All my posts are negative. Recently, probably. Because it's warranted. But dig a little deeper. Go back a little farther. I want JP to be good as much as anybody does. But I have my doubts, even with the crap OLine we have. JP is simply not accurate. Not yet, at least. His #s don't lie. And yes, Tom Brady would make this a totally different team, are you kidding me? There's usually somebody open on every play, even if it means just for a brief moment. The QB's job is to find those moments and turn them into plays. JP hasn't done it enough to impress me, and I think he MIGHT BE a coach killer. I suspect that your snide reaction to that opinion is based in fear that it could be true. Cuz that would be pretty damn horrible. I like JP. He's talented. I hope that he can mature and learn to see the field better. I hope that he'll cut his hair and not sound like a kid. I hope he'll learn to trust his receivers. I hope he'll learn how to lead them. I hope he'll not overreact to pressure. I hope that a better coach will bring out the best in him. But I'm simply saying that I wouldn't bet on it happening because there's more evidence to the contrary so far. Don't like it? Well, there's reality and then there's hope. And I'm through hopin'.

JP is really looking like the coach killer that many scouts thought he was coming out. He has great talent, but he doesn't seem to have the most important things: field vision, poise, accuracy, and a deep understanding of the game. At least not yet, anyway. ANd I'm not too fond of the idea of letting him learn for the duration of his contract before he becomes any good, at which point he'll be a free agent. Just not seeing the type of moxie and gamesmanship that we were led to believe was there. But I'll be patient with the kid. Mularkey isn't doing him any favors.

This offense is so much worse than it was at its nadir in the gilbride era, that it's amazing to me that Mularkey doesn't just admit that he's in over his head. The guy is simply not sharp enough to contend with the likes of Belichick, and not even Saban. Watch. Next season Miami will be very, very good. They're taking it to the chargers right now, in san diego. In his first season with someone else's roster he's outperforming Mularkey in every single key statistic on both sides of the ball. But hey, we have good special teams.

good coaches know when a given play gives them a high probability of success. bad coaches do not. that's the difference b/t belichick and mularkey but I get your humor, simon. this sucks, doesn't it? do you think mularkey will be our coach next year? think he SHOULD be?

Don't blame losman for this embarrassment. Don't blame Willis for not getting going. This is a coaching failure, and if a coach capable of matching wits with the best of the best is NOT brought in this offseason, then either Ralph doesn't really care as much as we think, or Donahoe has sold the old man a lie. These guys are not good, period.

blocking is terrible. playcalling is terrible. coaching is terrible. willis is just a byproduct of those things.

Mularkey is so in over his head it's ridiculous.

They make it look so easy against us. if you need to be reminded that this is a coach's game, just turn this game on.