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Matt Millen was one, IIRC.

I guess the fact that Belichick has Tom Brady pulling the trigger and had established a running game and Mularkey had a rookie QB and a non-threat running offense has no real relevance.

The Moulds situation, whatever it's cause, was an attempt by management to reestablish control over the team. Mike Mularkey trying to establish that he is the man. Given the way the Bills played today, this attempt sailed wide left.

The only way the Bills get Bush is to trade-up, which will be very costly. So, even as bad as the Bills have become, they haven't even managed to be bad enough.

I'm going to go take a nap. Watching all those players sleep walking through the game did me in.

Donahoe trying to out-Millen the GM in Detroit?

s/thinking/knowing/

I don't know. Having the team give up, lie down, and lose to its arch-rival like they did last week isn't exactly what I'd call "having won them over."

Flutie Johnson ... This stat will decide it. Wins in playoffs with Flutie: 0. Wins in playoffs with Johnson: 0. So there!

Again. Whether they go undefeated and win the Super Bowl or not, the Colts are a great team and can go up against anybody, anywhere, anytime. Colts fans should be very proud.

He's a bust because he was expected to be an elite player, someone that wanted to excel at his profession, dominate the game, and become a leader on the team. He was the first lineman taken in the draft. The guy was expected to be a rock at LT for a decade and a player the team could build around. What the Bills got was a guy that never played a down at LT, isn't even in the starting line-up, can't beat out a TE at RT, and can't even beat out a complete stiff at LG. How is he not a bust? 'Cause he threw a couple nice blocks once in a while? The "blind squirrel" defense is just pathetically flagging when it comes to defending someone like Mike Williams that the Bills had such lofty ambitions about.

Still talking about Flutie??

He was reading the paper actually... But now that I think about it ... maybe it was the Buffalo News ... hmmm ...

OK, seriously, why does Mikey have to say anything about it at all? Is "No comment" just not in his vocabulary?

I saw Jim Mora in LAX the other day... So, sure, it'd be pretty amusing in an evil sort of way...

You're missing the point. Sure, people catch the flu in Buffalo this time of year -- the question is, "Why?" Clearly this is just another facet of the NWO's continued suppression of the Buffalo Bills!

I heard he was looking at houses in the St. Louis area...

IMO, what will cost Mularkey his job is what appears to be a complete lack of managerial skills. Both on and off the field. (I say appears because I can't tell whether or not he is merely a hand puppet.) As far as offensive identity, Mularkey was the toast of Pittsburgh just a few years ago when he ran the Gadget Play Offense down there. His heyday was when Tommy Maddox was airing it out all over the lot. I'm not sure it is mere coincidence that the same coaches that turned Tommy "Bust" Maddox into Tommy "Comeback Player of the Year" Maddox felt they could gadget around another unknown commodity at QB...

Let's see what we do know... 1) Adams disagreed with Mularkey about being made inactive and left before kickoff without any repurcussions. 2) Moulds had a dispute of sorts with the coaches on the sidelines and did not play most of the game last week. 3) Moulds criticized the play calling. 4) Moulds agent claims Moulds was hurt. 5) It was reported that Moulds missed a meeting with Mularkey *and* Mularkey was quoted as saying he and Eric had a good conversation. (Hint: someone is wrong here.) 6) Moulds was excused (newspeak for told not to attend) practices this week. 7) Moulds had to chat with Wilson before any official suspension. ___ Let's read the tea leaves now. It's crystal clear that Mularkey is on the verge of losing this team. Players are walking out of the stadium, possibly taking themselves out of games, questioning the play calling. Not just random no-name players, but the veteran leadership of the team. We have other players saying to reporters that the clubhouse is "in chaos" and so on. Mularkey may be feeling things slipping through his fingers. He's not getting great effort on the field and he's not getting much respect off the field. The Moulds situation may be nothing but timing and frustration. Moulds frustrated with the coaching, the way the season has soured, how he may be leaving Buffalo on a major sour note. Mularkey frustrated because the team is disintegrating around him, he's losing games badly, and he's losing his players. ___ On the handling of this. No question, this situation was horribly botched. If it's "in house", it shouldn't be across the front page of the paper! Everybody knows that. Once it was leaked that Moulds may be suspended, Mularkey should've cleared the issue and made a decision. (It's the 21st century people; ever heard of a phone?) Either make an example of Moulds (and get permission if that's truly the way it's done in Buffalo -- which really speaks volumes) or talk to Moulds as two honorable men and settle it between themselves. I don't know what really happened to cause Moulds to "blow up" nor to cause Mularkey to "blow up". But it is clear that everyone takes a blackeye on this one and "we don't want it to become a T.O. situation" may be the intention but clearly not how things have played out. Moulds looks like a crybaby, malcontent. Mularkey looks like a powerless head coach. Donahoe looks like he's asleep at the wheel of a ship sinking beneath the waves. Wilson looks like a meddling owner. Or rather, a father figure who can't figure out how its gotten so bad that two of his kids are feuding with each other... And the Buffalo Bills are a brutal, mismanaged laughingstock. Bad things. Bad business. Ultimately, the buck stops with Ralph and it surely looks like his people have let him down in a big way. He's going to have to make some difficult decisions in a few weeks...

Hey, does anyone know why Ralph is deciding this? Isn't Tom Donahoe the President of the Buffalo Bills? Where the heck is the chain of command? Sounds very screwed up. Like Moulds was suspended but Ralph stepped in and quelched it, "Not before I talk with him you don't," which would mean that the front office has lost Ralph's support...

Signed Gil Grissom.

What're my choices again? "Run the table" vs. "run and hide"? The latter. Yep. Definitely.

"The evidence never lies."

Some players regress. Some players regress badly. With the Bills offensive line, we should be very used to it. It seems like only yesterday that we'd start to see the line gel the last 4 to 5 games of one season and then the next year they'd look like 5 fat guys pulled out of the stands before kick-off. Year after year... Kent Hull probably has his cows marching in lines across the field now...

Nope. It's really me. As far as the interior, Pat Williams was the real deal on the inside. Sam Adams, by comparison, is an out-of-shape loafer prone to nagging injuries and long stretches of vacation time. Adams has always been lauded for the great talent, but he doesn't always bother to flip his switch to the on position. (I've been watching his play since college. He was a bust in Seattle but getting dumped and working with Marvin Lewis and Del Rio in Baltimore lit a fire under him. Adams has historically needed to be paired with another great DT to show much of anything. When he has to be the rock in the middle, he folds.) He could've went to a press, I guess, but his best cornerman was playing like a turd. I haven't seen much of the Bills this year (probably a good thing after seeing that game Sunday), but I can't really bring myself to blame Gray for that mess. The secondary was a mess, really. His safeties are over the hill and can't run anymore. (My my, Lawyer Milloy is nothing but a shell of what he once was.) McGee was literally lame. And his best "playmaker" was getting undressed. And, the front 7 looks pretty bad as well. Schobel and Crowell were out there hustling to make plays, but too bad hustle isn't enough. Adams was another lame gimp. London Fletcher is still the same as always -- overrated and making his tackles 15 yards down the field.