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Except that Lebeau fields leading defenses. Rex is an alltime leader in hype before the season, it's a shame that isn't a useful stat when trying to get into the playoffs

Lets face it like adults, the Bills, while still able to eke out a few more wins, maybe 3 or 4, aren't going to do anything this year. Call it what you will, bad luck, injuries, getting jobbed by the refs, whatever, the league bases it's playoff participants on actual wins and losses, not 'moral victories' or shoulda beens. Given that (and I wish I was wrong. I'm not) I think the secondary goal for us as Bills fans is to see someone knock the Pats off their perch. This Bills team isn't built to beat them. The Jets *might* be. Play solid D, don't get stupid penalties, and have an opportunistic offence. Most of the guys I work with are Jets fans, so I've paid more attention to them than other non-buffalo teams. They're not spectacular, and outside of Revis and Richardson, there aren't any superstars, but they play better as a Team than this iteration of the Bills. God how I miss last year, when the D could be relied upon. This week will be telling. I expect another piss poor showing by the Bills, but who knows maybe the Jags show worse. I know this, giving Bortles all day in the pocket isn't a recipe for success, and if the Bills do that, then Thurman should be fired before the plane leaves London. The game I'll actually watch this week (because I'm not sitting watching the Bills stream on my ipad at 930 in the morning, that's pants on head retarded) is pats/jets. If the game looks like ours against the pats, which lets admit, was nowhere near as close as the score indicated, then yeah the Jets can come back to the pack with us and enjoy being bridesmaids once again. If the Jets lose, but keep it close, and fight hard, that's a pretty good indication of their program heading in the right direction. if they win, which 538.com only puts at 16% likelihood ( then we'll know that they've arrived.

Hiding in plain site, you see. If we continue to 'blitz' like this, we'll lull the rest of the league into a sense of complacency, and next season, Rex will have the best D in the league! he's a wizard!

Watch next week, the DL will be Gilmore, Roby and maybe the punter, while incognito will play CB with EJ Manual at safety. you guys don't get it, rex is a wizard

There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. Right now the Bills and Jets aren't even on the same planet. Look at games against common opponents, that's your best barometer. We both pounded the colts, and we did a little better against the dolphins. We'll see next week when they play the pats.

only fan petition that counts is when people stop buying tickets. Having said that, if this team quits, which feels very much like what happened yesterday, OBD will have a much harder time selling seasons going into next year. It's going to be a lot harder to manufacture hype with the evidence staring us in the face that this is a brittle, undisciplined, boring team.

I'm mad too based on the last few weeks half assed performances, but all the top QBs in the world wont help if you have dumb morons committing penalties on virtually every play of over 5 yards. My wife, who works in HR, suggested yesterday that for each personal foul (taunting, whatever) that player be docked a week's pay. It would never work with the crybaby union, but if it did, that behavior would stop on a dime

an entire team built of rice paper and balsa wood. They are like those planes you put together as a kid, fun for about 5 minutes then they would just disintegrate

I thought you were talking about Tissue Paper Watkins

So then he's a coach who can make a horrible team close to average, but he can also make a good team close to average. Coaching by regression to the mean!

You know Romo will probably be back by week 16, right? Bills cant beat a JV QB, much less a perfectly adequate one. In fact, I suspect the Bills game will be where the media announced that Romo is truly back after throwing for 400 yards and 6 TDs, while the Bills get 17 penalties for 150 yards, outgaining the O.

Ha, yeah. We can't win at home, so I'd go on and assume the phins is a loss, plus they'll be looking for revenge when we accidentally showed up and played a game. We'll win 1 or 2 road games because TT is a baller, probably KC and DC, so what, 5-11? I wonder where that puts us on the draft order. The good news is, we'll have a high draft pick. The bad news is, we'll bundle it with the following year's first to reach up for a tissue paper fragile skill player that will play injured for a year or two then fade into obscurity.

God Almighty, is that stat correct? So what does that mean, the best he can possibly do is 8-8 or 9-7 year over year? I'll admit, I was giddy when they hired him but I'm feeling now like there was basically no due diligence done on this guy. I'm just a dopey fan, I can't imagine how the Pegulas are feeling. Even a billionaire can't be too happy about throwing $25m down the drain.

Same. It can't be overstated that Rex leaving the jets and coming to the bills made the jets better and the bills worse. The bills arent talented enough to overcome bad coaching, and make no mistake, Rex Ryan IS BAD COACHING. Also, I'd like to add, it really really pains me to say this, but the Bills were a better TEAM last year. if they had TT, I bet they would have won 1, maybe 2 more. We would all be grousing about another year under Marrone, but at least we'd have a solid D to rely on, this year it's a disgrace.

find me 5 games on the remaining schedule we can win

Agreed. I preferred the teams that never won but tried, this is disgusting

I think it's time to face it - we're a fragile, undisciplined, and marginally talented team, led by a horrible coach.

it's easier to cheer for the slow kid that tries hard than for the one with all the talent in the world that sulks around and under delivers

Or, conversely, maybe it's better to just look for moral victories, that way there's no pressure to be a top 6 team in the conference, and when we beat some playoff bound team, we can consider it our super bowl victory and get back to arguing about who to draft

We heard in the off season that he played hurt all year. Ribs, was it? Then this training camp, he was playing on a hurt something or other, now he's actually out. The point is we haven't seen the 'real' Sammy Watkins for any stretch yet, or have we? edit: and, yes, when you spend 47 years of first round draft picks plus a year's supply of Freddie's donuts to Cleveland for the pick, you would like to see the guy play at full strength every now and again

Actually, I think it's the only real thing to criticize him on. I mean, what else is wrong with him besides he's spent basically his entire tenure with the Bills injured?

Or, you know, flail around the next 7 weeks then catch fire the last 6 and miss the playoffs by a game. Although past performance is not a perfect indicator of future performance, it's about as good an indicator as we have.

I sure hope he doesn't hurt himself testing his calf, or walking in from his car, or putting mayonnaise on a sandwich

1. Honestly, he's no worse than the other choices 2. Fits Bills team profile of doesn't live up to expectations 3. Has good nickname That's 3, I'll expect an apology from you now

Lol, that means he's perfect for the Bills system. We need a RB that requires "space" in order to perform. Only niche role players need apply! edit: now that I'm thinking about it, who could be a better match for the 2015 Buffalo Bills than Trent Richardson. They're, in their own way, both excellent examples of High Potential, Low Achiever. Rex could get the team all spooled up before games, it's us against the world, us against the refs, and whatever other motivational techniques he's been using, and maybe, just maybe the Bills could break a record this year! Of course, the record is the 1998 Chiefs and their 158 penalties. Right now the Bills are averaging 11.75 penalties per game, comfortably ahead of the Chiefs 9.875 per game in 1998. But as we all know in Buffalo, it's hard to win in the NFL, so the Bills really need to double down, and focus on One Goal, simply put, being the least disciplined team in league history. The team and the coach are built for it, but do they have what it's going to take to punch through and grab the ring? Time will tell!