DrFishfinder

Couldn't agree with you more. Keep Shoebel, Spikes, Fletcher, McGahee and Evans. Everybody else had better brush up their resume's. Including the entire team management and staff. Especially the strength and conditioning coach, since the team can only play for one series before they collapse.

Actually, that is a pretty good marker for The Great Slide. The Next Great Slide was letting My Yami back into the stadium and then laying down and spreading their collective legs. Guess Mularkey gets his jollies from having his club breath life into an opponent that is all but dead and buried. Jerry "I Wanna Be A Head Coach" Gray, too. But yeah, after getting whomped by the Pitter's 8th stringers last season, including the Steelers' bus driver and sign painter, and at home no less, lets just say the sails went out of their wind. The team believes in Mularkey like I believe Norwood put it through the uprights.

You'll notice that Mr. Mortensen didn't say exactly what Tom Donohoe was highly qualified for.

Here's what has bounced in Mikey's direction: Abyssmal play calling that would baffle the unbaffleable An offensive line that has been MIA since Kent Hull retired A running game that has run right out of The Ralph and disappeared into the Niagra Falls Mist A defense full of Jerry's Kids that give up after half time and act like the Eleven Stooges. If they'd run into opposing players like they run into each other, that would be an improvement A defensive coordinator that has been proven to be a fraud A team ready to mutiny, no matter how much Fletch and Adams tow the party line I'd love to see a CEO get up in front of the majority stockholders, give the same reasons as to why the company is tanking, and see how long they kept their job. About one fiscal quarter is the going rate.

Like a fire in a kleenex factory.

The Fletch goes on to natter to the effect that "coaches don't play, players play". While this is a true statement in and of itself, this is further indication that: A) The defensive scheme really is that good, but the players really are that bad or......... B) Mularkey, Gray and Their Band of Most Excellent Coaches really ought to get out there on the field against Cinci and show Jerry's Kids how it's done. Mularkey has been quoted as saying that "Things haven't gone their way, this year and he really can't explain it" as the reason for the abyssmal tanking this season. Gee, if Bill Gates or Jeff Imelt said that to the stockholders.......

And I quoteth from the Fletch.... "To Jerry's credit, I think he's put us in really good defenses. Even against New England, it was a blowout, but the defenses he called were really good defenses." This is: A) Classic textbook denial of the last remnants of reality. B) Classic textbook delusional meanderings, based on one too many blows to the cranial region. C) Classic textbook defecation canapé, plus A & B. Sheesh, next the sun will be revolving around the world, which is flat. Hrrrmp.

I guess we should have known, getting a head coach with a name like Mularkey and being a Fort La Dee Dah native to boot, that should have been one of Letterman's Top Ten Reasons Your Team Is Doomed. So, putting that little omen aside for a minute, lets address Jerry Gray's, ahem...., defense. A couple of words come to mind; fraudulent undisciplined unconditioned incompetent uncaring If ever the term "Paper Defense" could be uttered, now is the time. Between incomprehensible penalties, utter incompetence and Keystone Cops-like execution, this is just downright painful to watch. It's starting to look more like an audition for a Three Stooges movie than an NFL football team. Yes, Donahoe is off in his own fantasy world, and yes, Mularkey routinely calls plays that reek of Robitussin Abuse, but the defense has turned into, ta daaaa, "Jerry's Kids". And I know there's going to be at least a partial evisceration for me saying that, but if we take off the scarlet colored glasses, that's an appropriate, if politically incorrect, analogy. The defense, from Jerry Gray on down to the last player, with the possible exception of Schobel and Fletcher, are challenged, impaired, disabled and bed-bound. "It All Starts, Or Ends, With The Offensive Line". True enough. But imagine how the offense feels when they go out and score on their first drive and then watch the Defensive Eleven Stooges do their best imitation of The Ministry of Silly Walks? Remember when the Dolphin's offensive line was arguably one of, if not THE worst in the game? Remember when the Bill's Defense actually got to Ferrotte this last debacle? Remember when the only thing that changed behind My Yami's offensive line was the quarterback? Remember what happened then? Jerry's Kids. Buffalo went from having one of the best defensive units in the league to being the laughing stock. Jerry's Kids. It's time to let Jerry Gray go and pursue his dream of being a head coach somewhere. I'd say, "Right Now", but I'll settle for "Right After The Jets Game".