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What the hell is so great about Casserly? Seems like another Donahoe to me...moderate success running a franchise (if you want to call the Texans success moderate), makes a name for himself and seems smart on TV. Maybe Bobby Beathard is looking for work too...

A lot of it has to do with where you live. I live in San Antonio, and would have only been able to see the Browns game at home with basic cable or whatever. 20 bucks a week for the ticket or 40 bucks a week drinking and eating at a bar? There's no choice there IMO. Maybe if you lived in a place in the northeast where you have a good chance of getting quite a few Bills games aired through local affiliates (Albany, New England, etc.) it makes more financial sense to skip the package. Not in Texas. As an added bonus, when the Bills aren't playing I can watch other relevant AFC/AFC East games instead of the freaking Texans every week.

Since it would never get to Wilson in the first place, why not just pack up all your Bills gear and mail it to me?

The Bills should probably worry about finding ONE mean DE that an offense will fear before they worry about having the next Bruce Smith and Reggie White as their bookends.

Agreed with whoever said we need playmakers, difference makers...Crowder is not one.

Credits to Jauron: -going 7-9 in '06 with 4-12 talent -going 7-9 in '07 with 7-9 talent and a brutal, almost unprecedented rash of injuries Negatives: -going 7-9 with 8-8/9-7 talent -game-day decision making He's not the worst coach in the world, so I hate to see everyone bash the sh-- out of him. I don't think the Lions go 0-16 if Jauron was their coach, for example. They would have squeaked out 2 or 3 wins. But what he does best is making bad teams respectable...he hasn't shown any ability to make a decent team good. When it all boils down, as an above poster stated, the biggest problem is the team not having a real GM. It impacts the personnel, obviously....but a real GM would have a different coach too. Jauron isn't the right coach for the Bills anymore. For two years he was. I would have liked to see a replacement, but at the same time realize some other random "hot" coordinator wouldn't likely do much better. Either way, I hope Bills fans can at least respect the guy for us not being a laughingstock throughout the league in 06 and 07, when they very well could and probably should have been. That doesn't mean he's right for the team moving forward, but I sure hope people don't remember him in the same vein as brutal coaches like Williams, and bad, underachieving paranoid ones like Mularkey.

Player personnel-wise, I'm not so sure we have Cowher type players in here now. He'd probably love Josh Reed. But he would laugh at our linebackers, and I don't know if we have the defensive line personnel to make a 3-4 defense work. We'd be in desperate need of a nose tackle.

Cowher beat Belichick in a playoff game while Belichick was coach of the Browns...that 1-5 record stated above isn't accurate.

That Jax game definitely WAS blacked out, and I believe the home playoff game against Miami the year before had to have the blackout extension twice. I remember hearing that it was going to be on TV from Rick Jeannerette broadcasting a Sabre game the night before it.

I think injuries are always going to be the trademark of a team that values speed over size. We're smaller than the league average it probably every position except offensive line. I don't know if it's a coincidence that offensive line has been the spot on the team where we've had the fewest injury problems over the past couple years...

Dockery, Denney, Schobel, Kelsay, Stroud, Reed, Peters, Evans, Greer, Spencer Johnson, Losman, Mitchell, Moorman, Lindell, Royal, Fowler, McGee, and Walker can all reasonably be called veterans at this stage of their career.

Exactly...it's not worth it. Tampa, for example, could be fighting for a top 5 pick next year. They're OLD, not very talented, and losing Kiffin. New Orleans can't win on the road. Carolina is so jekyll and hyde from year to year you never know what to expect from them.

The Cleveland game was the best example you gave. Settling for a field goal of that distance was insane. I'll give him a pass on the Jets game. Running the ball there guarantees nothing. Yeah, I know they were running the ball well...but they tried to WIN the game, not just let the game end. If they were up 4 there, a run was the call...but up only 3, I don't blame them for passing at all. Like any coaching move, it looked stupid because it didn't work, and in this case, the player executing it sh-- the bed in a way you wouldn't even expect a high school player to. The pass in Toronto- wasn't that an audible? Losman said it was. I guess you could blame him for that too, for giving Losman audible power...but he's gotta be the only QB in the league dumb enough to audible from run to pass on 1st and goal from the 2. The debacle at the end of the half in the New England game didn't matter. It was bad coaching for sure, made the team look like morons. Certainly didn't cost them a win though....they didn't have a prayer. I think the most blatantly obvious case of bad coaching this season was one that you missed: the San Francisco game at home. Allowing his OC to only give Lynch one 4th quarter carry in a game where he averaged 8 yards per run, running Jackson (not Lynch) on a crucial 3rd and 1 deep in SF territory late in the game, then going for it on 4th down and failing. Inexplicably, with the score the same and 5 minutes left to play, they drive inside the 20 and go for a field goal (that missed, of course) instead of trying to tie the game. THAT was the best example of why Jauron needs to go that we've seen this season, IMO.

Not to defend Wilson, but I think you'd find this to be the case for most NFL franchises. Naturally it's going to be harder to hire experienced coaches with proven winning records....because if those guys want a job, they likely already have one.

Pretty sure there is some bad blood between Wilson and Carroll...remember hearing a story about Carroll (after getting his first NFL win on opening day in Buffalo in '94) basically confronting Wilson in the tunnel after the game and taunting him. Maybe it wasn't Wilson, maybe it was Butler or somebody- I don't know, but I remember a story along these lines from way back.

We don't have the right players for any specific scheme except a prevent defense. They really don't play Cover 2 much at all, I don't know why that's such a big thing here. Their corners are always way off the ball and retreating at the snap, one of the safeties usually ends up in man against the tight end with the other safety playing center field. I'm no football coach, but to me that's the cover 3. And they play that a hell of a lot more than you see the cornerbacks releasing into a zone and leaving the WRs downfield with safeties...the Bills would be torched if they did- these safeties can't cover. Again, looks like they play a lot more cover 3 than cover 2 to me.

Should be interesting...if it really does get that windy, hopefully the coaching staff won't have McGee playing 15 yards off of Moss all day. Edwards doesn't have the strongest arm in the world, we all know that...but it's stronger than Cassell's IMO.

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I want to disagree....and I want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but considering that he got "hurt" in the 2nd to last game last season and skipped the finale too...it really makes you wonder. Especially because I don't think he's missed a game due to injury his whole career prior to the Pro-Bowl picks being announced.

I hear what you're saying, but didn't Belichick make a comment a couple of years back that nobody on the Bills roster could start for the Patriots? I remember hearing that, thinking about both rosters, and concluding that he was pretty much right. I think at the time he said it, Peters was the only one that would have been an obvious starter in NE.

I don't think Wayne is a fair comparison- the past 2 or 3 years, Harrison has benefited more from having Wayne with him than the other way around. Wayne and Evans can both make spectacular catches...but the Manning factor puts them out of the realm of comparison IMO. Who knows what Wayne would be without Manning? It's just guessing. In terms of guys around the league, I think Evans compares pretty closely to Bernard Berrian, Joey Galloway (before this season), Santana Moss, Chris Chambers, and Greg Jennings...a couple of those guys are more productive than Lee, a couple not as productive...but overall, combining style of play, QB situation, and the type of talent possessed, I think those are better comparisons than Reggie Wayne.

If people need to stop hating on him "just cuz" he was picked so high, others need to stop thinking he's very good "just cuz" he was picked so high.

Yeah. Green Bay...they don't get any pass rush from their D-line either. They have almost as many INTs as the Bills do INTs and forced fumbles combined. And a bunch of those picks happened to go for touchdowns. They didn't do it because of a great pass rush...they did it because they have guys in the secondary that make plays.

Crazy as it sounds, there ARE teams in the NFL with worse d-lines than Buffalo. Their safeties generally make more big plays than Whitner anyway. Maybe it's some big accident. As for the scheme, I don't know...I see the Bills playing more cover 3 than cover 2 these days...

I agree with pretty much every player listed in the thread (except Kavika Mitchell)....