Albany,n.y.

May the best Cory/Corey win.

Back in those days there was no EZ pass. When I returned to Albany that night, I handed the ticket to the toll collector & said "We just saw the greatest game in NFL history". Back then I used to tape all the playoff games. When Petrino & I got back to my apartment & before he drove home, we watched the game again to see what the TV announcers said. I had numerous requests for the tape both in Albany & Buffalo. After I filled the Albany requests, since I had 2 VCRs & could make copies, I sent the tape to a friend in Buffalo who was a HS teacher & he had the AV department make copies for anyone who wanted one.

The backup QB turned over as much as the punter this year. Next year Corey Bojorquez will be the punter the entire year and hold. In earlier days the backup QB held for the Bills. Yes, Frank Reich was the holder during the Super Bowl years, but back then there was a lot more stability on the roster with the same K, H, LS staying around for years. The only change during the Super seasons was Christie replacing Norwood. Also, I thought the Bills should have IRd Hauschka right after the Jets game & brought in someone who was 100%. Hauschka was clearly injured.

Colts over Saints. Reich gets his 2nd straight Super Bowl ring.

It must be a slow day for Rodak to bother mentioning this guy 99% of Bills fans never knew was even in Buffalo this season. I have a different interpretation: The guy will never be on an NFL roster, so he's going to be home playing Madden against the Bills. When he beats them, he's going to take a photo of the score, address it to Beane, then put a stamp on it & mail the photo to 1 Bills Drive.

"Cutting or trading away the players is what creates the dead money. They could have kept Dareus for the same amount of cap space they used for Star." Dareus was a problem in the locker room & off the field. Late for meetings, drugs, drag racing, etc. They couldn't have kept Dareus and preached process. I haven't heard any negative stuff about Star off the field.

I think it was common knowledge that the 2013 draft was the worst QB draft in years before the draft was held. I wrote on another board that January that the Bills shouldn't draft a QB and compared it to the 2007 group of QBs, and that was years after I stopped studying the draft like I did in the 1990s and early 2000s. About the only ones who didn't know were Nix & Whaley, evidenced by the fact they were the only ones who took a QB in the 1st round that year.

I can't agree on your QB premise that they weren't planning to draft a QB. The Cardinals were actively planning to move up and get a top 4 rookie QB before & during the draft (Ironically, they loved Allen but it turned out they did not have the draft ammo to ace the Bills out of him once the Bills got ahead of them with the Glenn trade, and settled for Rosen). The whole reason Bradford was signed was so the rookie would sit & learn behind him. Sure they were hoping to be more competitive with the veteran while the rookie sat, but Wilkes was hired when they knew they wanted to draft a QB, so I can't buy that they would have hired an offensive minded coach. You don't need a HC to come from the offensive side to develop a QB, all he has to do is hire the right OC & QB coaches. My guess is that after Rosen, who was supposed to be the most NFL ready (remember, they wanted Allen who was supposed to be the least ready and would sit for a year if they got him) played so poorly, they blamed Wilkes and his offensive coach hires for Rosen's lack of development. In the end I'm kinda in agreement as to why Wilkes got fired-they want someone to help Rosen's development. However, I believe that it was more the result that Rosen wasn't progressing enough and management blamed Wilkes and the offensive coaches he hired rather than the idea that he was originally hired without the intention of getting a top 4 QB in the draft.

Here's the problem, it just doesn't look good when 5 of the 7 black coaches are fired in the same season. However, they all underachieved and as Bill Parcells said you are what your record says you are. Living in eastern NY I saw firsthand how bad a coach Bowles was. Lewis outlasted his expiration date by about a decade. Anyone who saw Hard Knocks knows Jackson is not head coaching material. If Cincinnati hires him, Brown is out of his mind-or wants the #1 pick in 2020. I haven't seen enough of Denver & Arizona to know what went wrong there other than their records were bad. The big question is : Why were these guys who were fired hired in the 1st place? If they were impressive in their interviews, then didn't deliver on what they said they deserved to get fired. If their hands were tied by the GM, then maybe he should have been fired too. I hope their hiring wasn't an overreaction to the Rooney rule & they were hired over better candidates so the owners could feel they were contributing to better minority hiring. Whatever the reasons why they were hired, their firings, on a case by case basis are all justified, but as I said in the beginning, it just doesn't look good for the NFL that these corrections all came in the same season. The owners & GMs should have done a better job in their original hires, or maybe in Arizona & Denver provided them with a better roster. Elway's only success as a GM has come when he lucked into getting P. Manning. He's living off his name and should have been fired with the coach.

Did you listen to Beane when he came here. He said the #1 priority was to get a franchise QB. So of course he gave away multiple picks to draft a QB, just like 10 GMs did of the last 11 QBs taken in the 1st round of recent NFL drafts. He didn't sign Dareus, Glenn or Taylor to their ridiculous contracts. McCarron was a mistake, but at least he got a draft choice when they figured out he was a bum. Coleman was a risk to try to upgrade the worst WR corps in the league. Why should we care that you don't trust Beane's talent judgement, his track record in his 1st rookie class indicates he's pretty good at talent evaluation.

Probably a closet Dolphin fan who is still reliving the agony of Sunday's defeat. The Dolphins could have traded up for a QB but stuck with Tannehill. Now they'll have to get another QB or renegotiate his contract. The Dolphins are the only AFC East team going into next year looking for a QB. I'd love to see Tyrod on the Dolphins next year, playing like he did in Cleveland before Baker nailed him to the bench. The Dolphins WRs will love going out in patterns & never having the QB throw them the ball because a CB is 5 yards away and the QB thinks it's too close.

He's technically under contract but it's unlikely his option will get picked up: https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/12/26/nick-foles-carson-wentz-philadelphia-eagles-contracts-2019 1. The Eagles must decide if they are going to exercise the option to keep Foles (and his $20 million salary) 30 days prior the 2019 league year, meaning in the week following the Super Bowl. 2. If the Eagles do not exercise the option, Foles becomes a free agent. 3. If and when the Eagles exercise the option, Foles must make a decision in the five days after that. 4. If Foles decides to void the option and cancel the contract, he must concurrently pay back the Eagles $2 million, the amount of his 2018 signing bonus, and he will then become a free agent. 5. If Foles decides not to void the option and remain with the Eagles, the $20 million salary becomes fully guaranteed on the fifth day of the 2019 league year (March 18). To summarize, the Eagles have the first decision point: whether to keep Foles at a $20 million salary. But even if they do, Foles can invalidate that decision by paying back $2 million and becoming a free agent. Alternatively, Foles can accept the option and his contract would become fully guaranteed if he is not released prior to March 18.

The guy was a one man wrecking crew to the special teams, bad punts & bad holds on kicks. The good news is Cory & Corey will be the 2 punters in camp next summer and Darr will be able to crawl back under the rock he came from.

Colts, because I want Frank Reich to win one before the Bills take over the AFC.

If Josh Allen was a 5 year vet, he would have been out of the game by the middle of the 4th quarter. When Hoyer replaced Brady last week did that mean Belichick lost his killer instinct?

Yeah the SF 49ers have had a real tough time finding coaches. In 2015 Jim Tomsula was 1 & done as was his successor in 2016 Chip Kelly. Kyle Shanahan went there without fear. This isn't the 1st time the 49ers had multiple coaching changes in back to back years. From 1976-1978 they went through 4 coaches. Monte Clark went 1 & done in 1976, Ken Meyer went 1 & done in 1977, then in 1978 they outdid themselves, firing 1st year head coach Pete McCulley after 9 games, then firing his successor Fred O'Connor after the season where he coached the last 7 games. Fortunately, Bill Walsh was not afraid to coach the 49ers in 1979 , lasting 10 seasons and finally providing some stability. The graveyard of coaches, Cleveland hasn't had a coach make it through 3 straight seasons in a decade, including one & done Rob Chudzinski in 2013, yet they still get coaches who want to coach there and with QB Baker Mayfield, have one of the most coveted of the coaching openings this year.

Not only did Indy get the player they wanted, but they got 3 extra 2nd rounders from the Jets. They got picks 37 & 49 in 2018 & the Jets #2 this year which will be in the mid 30s of the entire draft to move down 3 slots. Anyone criticizing the Bills for trading up to pick 7 (and getting pick 255 which didn't work out) by moving from 21 giving up Cordy Glenn to get to 12 & then trading picks 12, 53 and 56 should realize that the Bills made a pretty good deal. Looking at the trade up from 12, the Bills moved 5 spots & gave up 2 lower 2nd round picks. The Jets gave up a lot more for Darnold than the Bills gave up for Allen & at this point the 2 are pretty equal.

Bills will be giving most of our O-line 1 way tickets out of Buffalo.

Parking in Downtown Berkeley sucks. Otherwise, it makes a lot of sense. They get out of Oakland but give the fans one more year.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2810334-oakland-sues-raiders-nfl-for-illegal-move-to-las-vegas-in-federal-court

I feel a little sad since I visit there every year & will never see a Raiders game in Oakland again. Too bad they ran the team into the ground their last season there. The worst part is nobody knows where they'll play next year. It will either be a year in San Antonio or they'll play in the 40,000 seat Sam Boyd stadium in Las Vegas for a year.

They most likely won't have a home playoff game if they lose the division. The NFL's worst nightmare is the Chargers getting home field throughout the playoffs with the prospect of the conference championship game played with 28,000 fans in the stands.

The Bills finished 8-8. There were 2 teams with 10 wins and 1 team with 11 that vied for the 2 wild card spots. EJ started the Bengals & Jags games, both losses. Josh Johnson signed the week of the Bengals game and would have had only a few days with team. No coach would have started Johnson over EJ the 1st week Johnson arrived. The OP's logic indicates he doesn't know how the 2015 season progressed. I didn't go through the 2015 tie breakers but even if the Bills won both of EJs starts, my guess is they wouldn't have made the playoffs anyway.

Tyrod was the QB in 2015. What are you trying to say? Do you think Johnson holds a clipboard better than EJ?

If they release him they don't pay his salary since none of it is guaranteed. Released after the season results in the $16 million left of the amortized signing bonus-that $16 million is the dead cap hit.