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Don't let the door hit you on the a$$ on the way out!!

Absolutely brutal. Not only just bad, but you knew they would spend far too much time reminiscing about the good ol' days, which they did. Whoever decided not only to have Gibbs and Theismann as color analysts, but to pair them up, needs to find a different line of work.

The talk of Harbaugh as a candidate doesn't surprise me at all, and I think he could eventually be a good NFL coach. But at the moment I think there are more qualified candidates available.

Yes, we would certainly know when the Bills played "atrocious".

DJ & the rest of the 'braintrust' had a chance to draft Ngata or Bunkley, and instead chose Whitner, supposedly because neither linemen fit their 'system'.

If you can't get your facts straight, then don't post. Stop wasting everyone's time. Don't go away mad, just go away.

Well, except for when he was the OC in Minnesota. That team set an NFL record for points scored in a season, and is why he was offered the HC job in Baltimore to begin with.

I watched Ngata play when he was with the Ducks. He was a force, and was the guy I wanted the Bills to draft. Instead they took Whitner. Ngata was just named to the Pro Bowl. 'Nuff said.

I would have bet my mortgage that you would have been flamed hard, and you were!! To compare Josh Reed to Andre Reed is ludicrous. In 10 years from now, Andre should be in the Hall of Fame. Reed will have been forgotten.

I wholeheartedly agree... if it truly is a new era, then lets make a clean slate of it all. Those unis are horrendous, and the 'throwbacks' look much much better. I love the idea of using the Kelly era uniforms as our new alternates.

I wrote to Chris Brown several months ago and asked him why the Bills didn't take Orakpo instead of Maybin. He replied that apparently the Bills' front office felt he took too many plays off. If he takes too many plays off (11 sacks now for the Redskins), I wonder what Maybin does...

It would be nothing short of poetic justice if Marty was hired, and with Nix rebuilt the Bills into a playoff team, and then won the Super Bowl. Then Marty and the rest of us could spit at the rest of the league.

Looks like Shanahan could be in Washington soon: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4777140

I agree, it doesn't. However, it will be good to see Tebow stop the Sunday School activities like the bible verses on the eye blacks, when he gets to the NFL.

Does he? Take a quick look at his career. He was considered to be an offensive 'genius' when he was the OC for the Vikings, with all-world talents with Carter, Moss, Cunningham, Robert Smith, et. al. Most OCs would probably excel with that group. So he becomes the head coach in Baltimore, but never, the whole time he was there, could ever get an offense that could do any more than the bare minimum. He had an all-world defence and managed, thanks in large part to Ray Lewis' leadership, win a SB. He was never able to develop a QB or an offense in his time there, and his playoff failures outnumbered his playoff successes. That, combined with his arrogant, abrasive personality, finally combined to get him fired. No NFL club has looked at him since, and probably with good reason. Billick would be no better a choice than Jim Haslett or any of the other retreads whose names have been tossed around here. I would take Marty any day over Billick.

Yep. But its not inconceivable that we will see him play, possibly even start, before the season is over. I think we already know what we have with Edwards and Fitzpatrick, so I would love to see us give this guy a shot. Numbers from his senior season at Louisville: PASSING GP Effic Cmp-Att-Int Pct Yds TD Lng Avg/G Brohm, Brian 12 152.43 308-473-12 65.1 4024 30 81 335.3 Over 4,000 yards and 30 TDs, and 335 passing yards per game. I haven't seen stats from Edwards and Fitz' best college seasons, but I doubt they put up numbers like this.

Agreed that there seem to be a high number of Bills going on IR in the last couple of seasons. As a coach myself at the youth and high school football levels, I have seen directly that usually the best conditioned teams have fewer injuries, including pulled groins, hamstrings, etc. Teams that I have been a part of that are not as well conditioned seem to have a higher number of injuries. While it is true that any kind of injury can happen at any time in football, players who are not as well conditioned get tired faster, which leads to them being unable to react quickly enough in situations that demand it, resulting in a greater likelihood of injury. In the case of the Bills, I hope that strength and conditioning is one of the areas that comes under scrutiny with a coaching change. One season with a high number of players on IR is an anomaly. Two seasons with a high number of players on IR is a trend.

Marty Ball does work... he totally turned around the Chargers, and has gotten teams to the playoffs no matter where he has coached.. He has done that everywhere he has gone. It's winning in the postseason where he has the problem. However, since we haven't even been there in 10 seasons, it seems like a good place to start.

Yes, the same Dick LeBeau we had here in Buffalo a few years ago, but were too dumb to hire as our own D-Co-ordinator...

Yeah, but how successful have the Bears been - really. I hate the Cover 2 that Perry Fewell brought with him by way of Lovie Smith. Ask any Bills fan if they would like to keep our current defensive scheme, and I'm sure you would get a resounding 'NO!'. Chicago's current philosophies don't work. We need a fresh start, not another re-tread from Chicago. I like Ross & DeCosta though.

Yep, I have to agree, letting Pat Williams leave was the dumbest by far. He wanted to stay, and would still be anchoring our defensive line. The McGahee selection would be up there for sure, considering what our needs were at that time. I think Dumb-a-hole wanted to make the big steal of the draft and get the next Walter Payton. No one has mentioned spending the 2002 #4 pick on Mike Williams, but as the previous poster mentioned, we could go on and on with examples of drafting incompetence exhibited by successive front office staffs.

Great post, I think you hit the nail on the head. Poz is too slow and isn't nearly physical enough. I don't see him starting at MLB for too many other teams. There's a reason he didn't go in the 1st Round of his draft year. Of course, I was one of those who wanted to trade up and take Patrick Willis, but the Bills' braintrust wanted to outsmart everyone instead.

His brain already *is* cryogenically frozen....

I like McCoy... Tebow would be worth a look too, if we could get him at the proper point in the draft.