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The Hoodie and Harbaugh stand way above everyone else

Not convinced of Watson, Kizer, Allen. Trubitsky will be gone in the top 5 and Bye Felcia is early rd2 Browns pick IMO...

Sammy is like the only one under contract btw....

I swear Bellicheat* is the best talent evaluator in the league... Our talent is severely overrated...

Reich as Player/Coach

I really find it hard pressed that the Bills offense, will be this high again next year. Even if Schwartz stayed, our D would have regressed in 2015 and most likely 2016. Our roster talent is much better than it has been, but still is not good enough. The revisionist in me, feels like Dickie J got a ton out of absolute crap and bottom barrel talent; therefore he really did a great job... Even if Kromer stays?

It's gonna be Foles...I can feel it...

Welp....Pegs apparently trusts Doug to right this ship....INteresting....

It depends on what your definition of success is; if it is simply making the playoffs - sure. Just know that you are gonna get bounced quickly. My problem has been this our stated goal has simply been to make the playoffs; ideally your vision (Goal) should be to get to the Superbowl and win it. The entire organization on the football side of the house, should be working to assemble the right coaches who can develop players, CFB does not do a great job in bringing in ready made talent anymore, the CBA also restricts how much you can really do in the offseason and even during the season now. You coaching staff needs to be able train and develop the talent and be able to use the talent successfully based on their talent and not the scheme; the Pats* do this better than almost anyone else and that helps a ton with their longevity (obviously Tom Lady does too). On the personnel side of the house, you need strong Pro personnel people who can find the gems in the league that you can get a lot of production out of (Whaley seems to be pretty strong in this regard). You need strong scouts to be able to find talent, and always take BPA, always take QBs, etc. We just fill holes and say this position under performed so lets try to position ourselves to draft X player, even though there is way better talent in the draft you could have taken. When you are at the mid-top of the first you should bet getting impact players - CBs, Generational Safeties (possibly DT), QBs, WRs, Pass Rushing Ends - high skill position type players. You can find good OL/TEs/RBs/LBs in the late first and through the 5th rounds usually. 6th and 7th are used for those Listenbee/Henderson type players...just IMO of course.... Our team isn't simply fix the defense or the offense. You want an offense that isn't one dimensional and we are that; you have to keep a defense honest. This will help you move the chains and chew clock when you have the lead. TT doesn't allow you to do that with the areas in which he is still weak after 2 seasons as a starter. You also need a defense that can get off the field, our's can't. In these instances yes you would like an offense that could bail them out, ours can't - they actually put them back on the field more, which is why you end up with the first Dolphins game or the Raiders game. Even a dominant D won't be able to help you get a come from behind win if your offense is one-dimensional (see Denver). Peyton was garbage last year, but he was brilliant at reading defenses and checking out of bad plays. So we do need both a better D overall and more from the QB position. On top of that we are pretty bad at identifying talent in the draft and we are not good at developing players from a coaching aspect either. We are also a team whose stated goal is to make the playoffs; this by definition is your quintessential 7-9, 8-8 and 9-7 team. The Cowboys have talent, the Raiders got talent, KC has talent. Who do you favor for the Conference Championship games and the Superbowl this year? I bet they are all of the ones with a franchise QB....

PromoTheRobot @john_wawrow So you are confirming that the Bills are cutting Tyrod Taylor? John Wawrow ‏ 19m19 minutes ago Not what I tweeted. PromoTheRobot 18m18 minutes ago Then what did you tweet? PromoTheRobot Vague comment that allows reader to fill in the blank? John Wawrow ‏ 13m13 minutes ago My apologies for your comprehension skills. Zing...

Great job on the tear down, which IMO we should do. As a fan I hate it, but it is the right move...

Haven't we played this game enough? Not being a dick, but this is what it is every offseason. Fix this and that and we can win those couple games we should have lost. We lost these 3 games by 3 pts or less, if Carp made that field goal, or those 2 extra points; if the D got a stop on that one drive. If the offense didn't settle for 3 and went for the TD. The results are Jeff Fisher results 7-9, 8-8, 9-7 with an occasional 6-10. The point is, the talent and how this roster is constructed now was set up to try and sneak into the playoffs last year or this year and see what happens; to steal the early Rex blueprint with the Jets. I'm sure that is what he sold Russ and the Pegs. This day was coming and if they were able to get a push in either of those years; they might be able to move a few things around cap-wise to keep the window open a bit longer, but it isn't worth it.... For the life of me, I'm still shocked Pegs hasn't just hit a full reboot at this point; that direction is getting zeroed in on for next offseason more and more as each day goes by....

Yup

Soft rebuild, dump old players and bigger contracts; regress a tiny bit, but rebuild around Darby, Lawson, Ragland, Watkins...

Also since I'm not sure what thread to put this in anymore.... John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 3h3 hours ago For those asking about other #Bills interviews, I can only report what I know. And Goodwin is all I know regarding who is next. Bill N Whats ur take on coughlin? which side do u propose has no interest or is it both? John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 2h2 hours ago Ummm, both as it stands right now. ricky ‏@pawlikIII 14h14 hours ago any update on Lynn? Joe Chenelly ‏@jchenelly 5h5 hours ago No. I know they were impressed with McDermott. Expect the search to continue but already has at least viable candidate.

Sorry for the formatting; I'm at work and my computer isn't pasting well.... John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 2h2 hours ago 2 hours ago For what it's worth, #Bills have been leaning toward moving on from Tyrod since October. Andy Young ‏New coach, potentially new QB, two dozen free agents and some cap issues. That sounds like an overhaul to me. John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 1h1 hour ago John Wawrow Retweeted Andy Youn g Everything is just fiiiiiiiiiine! Tom Applegate really? What if TT led the team to the playoffs and even won playoff games? Please comfort me John - love, confused Bills fan John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 1h1 hour ago John Wawrow Retweeted Tom Applegate Remember, I used the word "leaning." Would make sense that no playoffs=spiraling. John Pitts does this possibly signal that Lynn isn't the coach? He put up good numbers with TT. #Bills John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 1h1 hour ago I'm not privy to that information just yet. Brian Vattimo Baffled about talk of Bills not keeping TT. Offense not issue. John Wawrow 26m26 minutes ago You must then be new to how the #Bills go about doing things.

Nope; should have whacked them both off this year...

Plan? Who needs a plan??

John Wawrow ‏@john_wawrow 35m35 minutes ago For what it's worth, #Bills have been leaning toward moving on from Tyrod since October.

It is good to see that the Pegulas are not viewed in the same light as Jed York (fired Haubaugh) and Haslam (federal charges and has constant turnover). Peeps in the league seem to feel that they are good owners; if they chucked Whaley with Rex or kept Rex we wouldn't even be on the list.... Taylor is only here because of Rex...

Yup, but it will be a typical bills move. Whaley gets canned next year; the new GM is less than inspiring and doesn't want our HC, but has to give him another year or 2 and then they finally both get canned and we hire a GM who hires the yet again new HC and it is almost 25 years before we sniff the playoffs.

Well said! Fans need to step back off the hype train and take the rose colored glasses; there are fundamental issues with this organization and they really need to be fixed...

I still believe our record next year will be worse than this year; too many holes, too many upgrades and not enough resources to get it all done

I unfortunately think this is a very accurate prediction...

Maybe instead of the Taurus tracker and the plane trackers, we should have a Russ tracker