Albany,n.y.

I'm getting tired of the Mularkey apologists saying he deserves another chance because he's still learning. I didn't hear anyone say that John Fox was still learning on the job when he led the Panthers to the Super Bowl in his 2nd year. I don't hear anything from Chicago that Lovie Smith needs more time to learn to be a good NFL coach. Why is it that the 2 guys TD hired were learning on the job during their entire friggin tenure, but other teams hire coordinators for their 1st coaching job and they don't need to matriculate like our guys do.

Palmer was just about as bad as JP in his 1st 4 starts last year, Lewis kept him in and the benefits are obvious this season. Pulling JP after 4 games & letting him sit now, especially with the record we have is sheer stupidity by a coach who is morphing into a combination of Hank Bullough and Wade Phillips. Terrance McGee won the game for the Bills on Sunday. If JP had started, there's a good chance we would have won and maybe today we'd be comparing JP to Boller as 2 QBs that the light went on for. In JP's last game the team took away Eric Moulds and made JP's failure against NE a lot easier. If Mularkey was sent here by another team to wreck JP's career, he couldn't be doing a better job.

Wade's last game as Head Coach was a 42-23 victory on the road (Seattle) with a veteran QB back at the helm after a California native was injured in a prior game. Wade still got fired.

I thought the most interesting part of the column was this (A possible Bills GM?): Great drafting has set the Bears' foundation. Nine of their defensive starters have come in the draft the past six years, including five Pro Bowlers - Brian Urlacher, Tommie Harris, Mike Brown, Lance Briggs and Nathan Vasher. The Bears' director of college scouting is Buffalo native Greg Gabriel, a Bishop Neumann High and Canisius College graduate.

I was just watching Ch 6 and they just ran an ad saying Bills-Bengals tommorrow at 1. Finally a road game on home TV!

The rumor I heard was that Flutie & Johnson both were brought in to interview. Flutie basically said he'd run the offense that GW was installing, but if it didn't work he was going to do what he usually does & not stick with GW's offense. GW couldn't have a QB who would question his authority if his O was less than successful & the team chose Johnson as a result.

KC got him in 2002 for a conditional pick, which turned out to be pick 78 in the 2003 draft. Meanwhile, our brilliant GM thought it was better to draft Mike Williams and pay him Willie Roaf money when he could have drafted ROY Williams and would not have had to overpay Lawyer Miloy. I'd rather have Roaf, and Roy Williams and have given KC a better offer for Roaf (the 3rd rd pick in 2002 that we used with our 4th to trade up for Denney would have done it). But of course, TD was right and we're so much better with Mike Williams, Ryan Denney & Lawyer Milloy than Willie Roaf & Roy Williams. That's why he's such a great GM. TD fiddled while our OL burned

I've been saying for years that Ralph Wilson probably wanted nothing to do with John Fox because he quit on his buddy Al Davis in training camp when he was the Raiders D coach and couldn't stand Davis anymore. This is what Mort said today (copied from another string) Chris Mortensen: (12:05 PM ET ) Donhoe was the only guy who waited to interview Fox and Lewis, who was tired and not enthused about the job. A league source said Ralph Wilson didn't want Fox.

IMHO I think you have it backwards on Willis. A team that is a playoff contender drafts for today, a team that is in a rebuild can better afford to wait a year for a potential superstar because they are not in win now mode. The more holes you have, the more you need to fill them with best available player. The Bills knew Travis was a toke away from suspension when they drafted Willis for the long run over a fumbler who also had legal & character problems. At that point in the draft, Willis made the most sense, despite what some in the media have said.

This answer makes no sense. Since he traded for Henson before the draft, Losman was not a factor in the Henson trade. He could not have predicted that Losman would or would not be available where he drafted, he had a chance at Henson who he knew at the time of the trade he was getting and took it. With Henson on the roster, he couldn't take another QB of the future when JP was there at his pick. The only conclusion that can be drawn is at the time of the trade for Henson, before the draft, Dallas though Henson was talented enough to groom for the future.

That was when Mularkey started to lose me. Just like our prior two coaches, he started showing signs of indecisiveness-something that will doom any HC in the NFL.

Unless Joe DeLamielleure is named GM. Joe D loves Hank Bullough & even mentioned him during his HOF speech.

I heard a week ago that the Bears have no injuries to their D. "Hello Rusty Jones, goodbye injuries"

The media guide says the guy you're thinking of is Jason Bostic.

But our GM acts a lot like Cliff...and has the fans ready to jump over one.

It's too bad the home season ended. A great idea for the future-have disgruntled fans in two cities make a pact. For example: Thousands of Bills' fans bring in Fire Millen signs to the Ralph & thousands of Lions' fans bring in Fire Donahoe signs to the Ford.

You fire a coach as soon as you realize he is incompetent. Mularkey has proven this with his poor handling of his players. At various times this year he's lost Adams (left the stadium after Mularkey insulted him & deactivated him, his agent even saying "He Hate Me"-well not really, but close enough); Moulds-everyone knows, no need to rehash; Losman -Do you think when he said he was angry, he wasn't referring to Mularkey?; and most important-Willis "It's chaos"McGahee-first he called him out in public early in the season. We're now seeing the effects of a player with no respect for the coaches, Willis will be great next year, unless his coach is Mularkey. I don't know how many other players he's PO'd that we just haven't heard about. But he's proven he's got to go. In the past the Bills have waited too long to pull the plug. Gregg Williams shold not have been given year 3, Hank Bullough should have been fired after the 2005 season ended-it was obvious he didn't have it after replacing Kay, Kay Stephenson should have been fired after 2004. Even keeping Jim Ringo for the entire 1977 season may have been a few games too many. We've had a lot of duds as head coaches & Mularkey will soon join that list.

I'm hoping there are no delays. My train is scheduled to arrive in Depew around 5:30. Petrino is picking me up there and his friend is driving us to the game. Is anyone else going to be on that train?

He has Fred Smerlas on 2 times a week and Freddie has been filling Matthews head with "Haslett has always wanted to coach the Bills" for years. Maybe he's just brainwashed.

If he's the bus driver to the stadium, maybe. But more likely, he'd figure a short cut to outsmart the traffic flow, get lost & the game would be declared a forfeit in the Bills' opponent's favor. I think the anti-Mularkey replies by posters who read this before me sum up my thoughts quite nicely.

A tradition of signs in Ralph Wilson stadium is dying. Why? -Because of the arrogant jerks who are running the organization. Years ago, the stadium was filled with signs. The Buffalo News would always have a paragraph on Monday-"Best Sign (or banner,whatever)" Since Commandant Donahoe has taken control, the sign is a dying art form. The correct criteria is to prohibit obscene and offensive signs. Since when does a sign offensive to one man (Donahoe or Mularkey) qualify for banishment. Maybe it's time to let Ralph know we want our team & stadium back. The tradition of calling for a coach or gm's job has always been with signs across the NFL, suddenly it's gone in Buffalo and other places. I remember watching tv games where Philly fans had "Joe must go" plastered all over the stadium and one Thanksgiving there was the famous "The Lions need to G(et) R(id) O(F) W(ayne) planted conspicuously in the end zone where a camera won't miss it. Now, they won't even let me write "Fire Mularkey" in the snow below my seat. This policy is ridiculous!

Unless TO can block & pass rush, he's a luxury we can't afford-on the salary cap & in the locker room. Moulds will be replaced by a veteran free agent, not Josh Reed. This team is 2 years at best from contending for any championship-I can just see TO's reaction to Buffalo-the guy didn't want to play in Baltimore, why would he go to Buffalo? Get Real!

Falcons | Ritzmann signed Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:25:06 -0800 AtlantaFalcons.com reports the Atlanta Falcons have signed Buffalo Bills DL Constantin Ritzmann off of the team's practice squad.

You're half right. I looked up the salary cap stuff & deleted my post before I saw your reply so I could straighten things out. However-get this straight-GB LOST NO PICKS. The league gave extra picks to the Eagles at no cost to the Packers. So if I appologize for the cap stuff, you have an applogy due for the GB lost 2 picks stuff.

Willis will be fine once a new coach comes in and gives him a good kick in the @ss. He's just demoralized as is 1/2 the team.