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Time tested rule of management: If an employee shows real signs of not wanting to be around, get rid of them immediately. Trying to convince someone to stay only wastes your time, let's them play you off of the other job, and worse, starts the rest of your group wondering why you aren't working so hard trying to convince them to stay as well. Not saying Jauron is applying this, or even knows about it, but he's better off this way.

Before Chaos ensues...it might be helpful to add a little structure. So, here's my format: 1. FA 2. Draft 3. O Scheme changes 4. D Scheme changes 5. Coaching changes 6. Miscellaneous(this should be fun) Here are my changes: 1. FA Go out and get another O lineman, preferably a center. I'd much rather get a proven guy than roll the dice on a draft pick. I have read that the O line class this draft isn't so hot anyway. I'd also take a look at getting a LB similar to Mitchell. We can't go with Ellison again. 2. Draft GET A TE. I don't care how, I don't care what we have to give up. I would trade draft picks for an existing player, whatever. Get a good TE. Edwards needs a TE, a TE will do more to free up Evans than anything, a TE will help our running game, get a TE. Derek Fine may work out, but we need 2 anyway...get rid of Royal. Then get a DE, LB, and more D and O line. Get a later round project QB with a big upside. 3. O Scheme I don't really know enough about this, but I would say we need to change our blocking scheme. Something has to change. We can't expect to do the same thing as this year in the running game and expect different results = definition of insanity. I actually thought the passing game was pretty good. It will be even better if we can run better. 4. D Scheme I need to see a general departure from the Cover 2. We need to blitz more. Period. Every time we blitzed, which was hardly ever, good things happened. Poz is a natural born blitzer, so is Mitchell. We have a great secondary now(because we drafted them BillinNYC ) , we can count on them in single coverage a hell of a lot more. 5. Coaching Changes I'd fire Studesville, or whatever his name is. The running game was terrible and he was the running game coach. Jauron has to hold people accountable, or he needs to go back to being a coordinator. 6. Miscellaneous We need a bad-ass on this team. A Ray Lewis-type "intimidator". We seem to have great leadership, but we need another guy, like Ray Bentley/Jack Lambert/Lawrence Taylor, who isn't quite right in the head.

Hey I'm not saying they were world beaters... I am saying that Trent Edwards threw 4 damn picks in the Jets game....almost in a row...and the D kept us in that game all the halfway into the 4th quarter regardless. They did a great job a lot more often than the offense. Your boy Trent is at a crossroads. He can be a pro-bowler, but he's got to learn how to take a hit and not get spooked.

Good. Actually...excellent. IF we make the right moves in the off-season, there's no reason to think we won't sweep them next year, and then we can torture him/their fans with this comment. It's far past too long for our rivalry with the Dolphins to start up again, just as its far past too long for the Jets and Pats* to return to the roles they've had most of my life = pissants. There were never better games than us vs. the phish, with the playoffs/division title on the line. We were seeing our guys playing against real players who really hated us...not plastic players(Brady*) who only care about their next endorsement deal = might as well be pro wrestlers. I want a new Bryan Cox. I want a new Jimmy Johnson/Don Shula...especially if that coach sits on the competition committee and therefore gets all the calls from the refs = its even better when we beat him. I want people I can legitimately dislike working for the Phish. They started off well with Bill Parcells, and they seem to be moving along quite nicely.

Bad guess. Read the bottom of this article. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/6222073.html Gibbs’ goal is similar to Kollar’s. “Like Bill said, they have a great offense here, and the defense needs to catch up to the offense”, Gibbs said.

How can there be any confusion here? Kollar took an obvious shot at the ENTIRE Bills offense on his way out the door. He couldn't care less whose specific fault it was, mainly because it doesn't matter one way or the other to him. What difference does it make if Trent throws a pick, the O line misses a block, Royal fumbles the ball, or the entire stadium knows what the next playcall will be before Schonert even calls it? The defense was asked to bail out the offense's sorry ass over and over this year, and the usually did a pretty good job. But it's got to get annoying after a while. The O are supposed to be professionals too, and you should be able to expect at least "mediocre" out of pros.

Wait a minute! Wasn't Birk the guy who basically ended Minnesota's chance at winning their playoff game with 2-3 bad snaps in the second half??? Otherwise, I agree in general. We have solid talent at all the skill positions that is either already there, or can be developed. The only thing I would add for sure is a late round QB...a project pick= big talent, less experience, etc. I don't care as much about center as I once did, now that Folwer is gone. Instead, we need to be aggressive in getting the best TE we can find. I don't care how. On multiple occasions this year, Edwards was able to roll/step up in the pocket and find the TE. The problem was: the damn TE would drop the stupid thing/not get out of bounds, etc. The only reason I would defer getting a TE is: if you think that Derek Fine is going to play as well as his name.

VMS is DEC. Had to get rid of those too. VMS sucks the big fat one. Edit: oh, and of the things I try to remember, the OS on a PDP doesn't make the list. One of my guys just called me about f'ing Sybase page locking. I will probably never rid myself of that crappy ass DB.

Had to decommission one of those once. Not as bad as getting rid of a punch card system, though, had to do that too. Of course, that was another government client as well.

and farting.

Taking it too far is part of the fun! Besides, some of the posts here are so often skewed beyond ridiculous that it's necessary to load up my counter weight to even attempt to balance things out. But you made a great point = "well intentioned" and you deserve a response: the thing is I have lived these "equalization"(or whatever) attempts by the so-called "well-intentioned" on many occasions: 1. I was a magnet school kid in 3 different cities(Buffalo was one), i.e. I was shipped off on a bus to a school where I was an instant minority. This was done every time based on the premise that I was a "gifted" kid so therefore my mere existence in the classroom would motivate the other kids to do better in school. The theory is called "inclusion". Seriously, there are Ph. D idiots out there that thought that was is a good idea. Yeah, 8-11 year-old nerdy white kid who just moved back into the country, who doesn't know any sport but soccer, that's the guy we send to sort out the "bad black kids"? Buffoonery. So clearly there was trouble(mostly for them), but, the positive side was: I learned how to fight quite well and I learned at a very early age the truth about black people = they are the same as every other population, they have their cool people and their !@#$s. But, none of this is supposed to be happening to a grade school kid, and all the "well-intentioned" people did was create a life-long enemy of their stupidity. 2. I have been enrolled at or worked at a series of "Ivory Towers" and in every instance I have encountered minorities who immediately assume that I think they don't belong there, because it was handed to them, due to their race. I have always been dumbfounded at that. I was a supporter of Affirmative Action, because I had been told by my teachers that it was "right". Suddenly I was being told that I was not only a racist, but a dumbass racist who couldn't tell if other people, black or white, were good enough to be standing next to me(never mind the fact that I had my own insecurities as to whether I should be standing next to them). It's these kind of bizarre results that make me think it's time for Affirmative Action to end, because it's not actually doing what it's "well intentioned" proponents had hoped: it's working in reverse! It's giving those it's intended to help a friggin' identity crisis, and making those of us around them question not their qualifications, but their sanity! 3. I have a fraternity brother who made a point of talking to me before accepting an Affirmative Action schooling/job opportunity. Aside from my shock as to why he would care what I thought about it, I was doubly shocked that he was assuming that I would think ill of him if he took it. I told him to take the job, kick ass, and win, like we expect from all of our guys(and hose some pigs of course ). He responded that he was sure I would have said the opposite, but was going to go out and do precisely what I said. Again, we are talking about an otherwise cocky-ass fraternity guy(deservedly though) having doubts about whether his dignity would suddenly be questioned by a guy who has had his back in multiple fights. Once again, bizarre. These are real stories and they form a clear pattern. Therefore I have every right to question the real intentions of these "well-intentioned" people, or at least their methods. Is this about them, or is it about the minorities/poor they are supposedly trying to help? Moreover, since this has been an issue I have had forced on me over my entire life, I'd say it's about time we stop separating people into groups and treating them differently, because the opposite approach has been failing miserably, and I have literally lived the proof of that.

In all war, throughout history, I can think of 2 examples of when there has been peace without victory first. So let's see, that's about 0.0001% of the time peace without victory actually happens. (Disclaimer: It's not war if one side isn't shooting back, that's simply murder, or genocide, etc. Although our socialist friends will claim that this qualifies as war, as they have so many times in the past, that's BS.) But with so many ignorant of history, or busy trying to rewrite it, here and elsewhere, I suppose it's no big surprise that somehow these same idiots think that all Israel's problems will be solved if they simply stop fighting. Worse, there's a fundamental misunderstanding of war here and elsewhere that approaches childish, or better, "A-team" like. War means automatic and heavy weapons, and firing those within 1k of a civilian area almost guarantees civilian deaths, even if you are trying to prevent them. The "A-team" mentality somehow assumes that those weapons can be fired 10 feet from each other and nobody will die, or even get hit, and that the whole thing stops because a barrel being used for cover falls over/it's time for a commercial. Also, the civilians who condone and support Hamas and Hezbollah are not innocent. It's no different than the laws we have against complicity/being and accessory in a crime. And when their children are inevitably killed, they have no one to blame but themselves. If they allow rockets to be fired right next to their homes, right next to their children, thus making their real estate a military target, then they have to suffer the consequences of that targeting. To put it another way: If you live in relatively populated area, ask yourself, would you let some idiot fire a weapon near your property, for any reason? While your kids were around? If you did, wouldn't your neighbors do something about it? If not, wouldn't you expect that sooner or later some neighborhood kid would catch a round? Reality=you'd be calling the cops in a heartbeat, and if they refused to do something about it, you'd go down their yourself and sort the f'er out. You would do it, even if you feared that your crazy-ass neighbor would come after you because: you aren't a coward, and you care about your kids. Or maybe you are a coward and expect somebody else to do your fighting for you? In that case you better be giving to your local police charities and supporting our troops. "But it's not their fault/what can they do"? They can stand up against these terrorists, and stop being cowards. If they choose cowardice, then they are also choosing hot lead raining down on their street. It's really that simple. And if they aren't cowards, but instead are choosing to accept, or even support, those rockets being fired from their street, then again, they are not innocent and have no claim to any relief from anyone. And no, this is not the same as what happened on 9/11, because we weren't launching rockets at Afghanistan from Battery Park.

The question is about repopulating the world right? Then there's no question: I have to choose a woman. I mean, no sense in taking chances on finding a pipe downstairs instead of a vent. Besides, why would I want to doom "New Humanity" to looking like "it"? They'd probably end up killing themselves anyway.

So I guess the "walks like a duck" rule doesn't apply here? So it's "similar" but not "the same"? Huh? How? I am gonna guess that you think Obama's constituency is somehow more entitled than Bush's? Re-creating the welfare system by giving "tax breaks" that end up paying out money to people? How in the hell is that not paying off Obama's political constituency? How about forcing these auto bailouts with barely any union concessions? How is that not THE SAME? The point was: Obama is no different than Bush in that he is simply attempting to pay off his end of the bargain for getting elected. Hillary gets caught doing the same thing, and where is all of your phony indignation? Where is your self-righteous BS and phony moral arguments? You and the rest of your ilk falsely characterized this nonsense as a Republican problem, when you should have been saying it's a politicians/government in general problem. Gotta love it when the hypocrisy and stupidity creates a circle. So basically you are marginalizing people like Keith Olbermann, hell, all of MSNBC, MoveOn.org, many of the posters here and practically all of the Democratic party who have done nothing but complain and use every setback, but self-imposed and not, Bush has had to deal with for political gain? Well of course I agree with you. All of them deserve to be marginalized because they have done nothing, especially the Democratic Congress, but complain about everything, and offer nothing, and they are a dime a dozen. Glad to see we agree. Did you work at the highway department too? I had a summer job there, and I have never heard more whining from grown men, ever. They whined if we broke a sweat, they were constantly telling me to slow down, they couldn't stand that I loved swinging a sledge hammer and jackhammering(seriously who doesn't love that?), and they screamed and cried every time they gave us summer help people a job to do and we got it done that same day. Worst of all, we were all "political appointees", but I guess they didn't count on a bunch of college kids actually demonstrating this crazy concept called: "work ethic". But yeah, the unions of today are no different than the union my grandfather helped start. We should continue to support these morally and fiscally bankrupt institutions? Why? Nostalgia? This is the exact specific advice that needs to be given to all labor unions. They aren't serving their people in any capacity, they are simply trying to stay relevant in a world where they have no chance of being effective anymore. Bingo. Time to face reality, and put the ideology on permanent hold. By definition, you cannot "make people equal" by making them unequal. There's more to it than simply $$$. There's a certain level of dignity that says: "I pay too, I may not be rich, but I am a part of society and my tax money is just as important as everybody's". Of course, socialists can't abide this concept: their entire ethos is based on setting people against each other and finding scapegoats. It will be interesting to see if Obama can ignore this part of his constituency and actually keep his promise of uniting this country.

Seconded. Yell at me all you want, but I will still try to buy 3-4 sets of game tickets next year. Edwards, Lynch and Jackson are too good to fail and are going to be fun to watch regardless of who is making play calls.

So much the "superior leader"'s "stunning record". I wonder if the thin air will make it easier to move Shanahan's ego?

This is the point that trumps the "Dick is a good guy/won't "throw people under the bus"(god I am getting sick of that saying)". There are soooo many people who think that "supporting their people" rises above all priorities, even getting results, and it crushes them in the end, every time. I have had to learn this the hard way. There's a time for loyalty but it should never take on a higher priority than accountability. Clearly, it's time for Jauron to focus on the latter. Also, how do we know that this isn't a "you can stay, but Fewell and Schonert have to go....Mularkey/Jauron quits 3 days later" scenario? I almost guarantee there is more to come....

LOUD NOISES!

This is your response? What are you jealous that I like Tom's posts and not yours? I'm sorry, I will do a better job of paying attention to you from now on. But, in order to impress me, and most of us here I would assume, you have to say something that is rational, reasonable, substantive, and isn't just a repeat of something you heard from Sean Hannity or MoveOn.org. Tom does this on a fairly regular schedule, setting aside the whole "3.5 affair" of course. I may bash him for talking about health care and not actually doing anything about it like me, but that doesn't mean that what he says is automagically BS. And, from what I remember from your posts, we can basically replace them with whatever is on the front page of the leftist hack sites and notice zero difference, so why bother listening to you when I could just go and read them? Moreover, if you disagree then kindly show me specifically where Tom has BSed us and I will take a look at it. I'm sure there's a few examples you can come up with....

This will never happen. Never. Why? Because far too many people in state government brag that NY is NY and we are therefore "better" than the rest of the 49 states. Yes, they are proud of the fact that they "serve prime rib where the rest of the states serve mac and cheese" when it comes to Medicaid. But think about it for a sec. Weren't we all raised to think that NY is a better state than the others, in general? But that was about: smarter people, harder workers, etc. Hint: It was never meant to apply to "bigger bloated programs". This mindset is killing our state, and it doesn't end with Meidcaid spending. The real trouble is: NYS doesn't actually end up serving "prime rib". By the time the money actaully makes it down to the patient/provider, we serve Ramen noodles. So there's nothing to be proud about at all. The average medicaid patient gets a hospital, nursing home, or home health care provider a whopping $18-25 a day. So how does 45.4 BILLION turn into $18-25 dollars a day? Easy. 1. Ridiculous quality regulations that have no chance of ensuring actual quality, reimbursement schemes that make the simple complex and over-simplify or ignore costs that are real, paying for government employees that must manage the other government employees, who need still more government employees to help them do their jobs, who then require more managers......all of which has exactly 0 chance of improving care, but that require extra staff on both sides of the equation. 2. We are "helping" health care providers by forcing them to hire multiple nurses, that don't provide one hour of care in a year, contrary to the stated objective of a "health care provider". They instead are filling out the endless forms that the legions of state/federal employees must continue to come up with in order to justify their existence, and of course you need to let multi-million $ contracts to "hired gun" regulators who get paid on how much they find that is "wrong" with the paperwork. Thereby adding additional stress and cost to an already over-stressed and cash-strapped environment. 3. Because of 2, nobody wants to work as an RN, DON, or Administrator, regardless of how much you pay, because it sucks, thereby exaggerating the demand for nurses = the salaries go up across the board = the cost for providers goes up even though the market is not supporting this increase. The average nursing home administrator lasts 2 years on the job. The average Director of Nursing? 1.5. The HR problem alone costs providers dearly in terms of replacing their staff over and over. So you have an inefficient government program, that gets meddled with by even more government people, and it causes massive costs that ultimately filter the amount of $$$ that gets to the people it's supposed to help. This is directly due to states and municipalities all getting their "taste", in terms of government jobs, before it gets to the blind, elderly, etc. person it's supposed to be helping. Great. No amount of added spending on Medicare or Medicaid will fix this problem because??? The governments, Fed, State, and Local, will end up stealing it/re-directing it for their own purposes, and the providers will still end up with $18-25 a day. Until you get rid of government's regulation "profit motive", this will always be the case.

Only an affected person would look at a story of personal achievement based on hard work and self-sacrifice and call it "sad". Have you ever been in this "terrible military thing we should all hate so much"? If not, where is your perspective, and therefore the basis for your judgment coming from exactly? Oh, I forgot, all crazy left people are immune from actually knowing about the material before forming an opinion about it. They are "intellectuals" after all. Do us all a favor: go out and ask 10 random soldiers/officers in the Army if they feel or felt "forced" to do what they do/did, and come back and tell us the results. Of course that won't matter, because you are supposed to be doing the thinking for them anyway, right? And you think that they should have or could have done better for themselves, right? For the life of me, I have no idea who put you in charge of "how other people conduct their lives", but I would like to know why they did it.

That's not true Tom. I bet most here like you. You just seem to attract the nuts like Molson and this guy. Usually you are the flame of reason and rational thought, and they are the moths of leftist ideology. I haven't figured out why, but they can't seem to stay away, even though they get burned, over and over.....

It's Monday so that means I feel the same way I did: before the game during the game after the game because I know that this is all for fun. I enjoy talking with reasonable people about the Bills/draft/football in general. I don't enjoy people being negative for the sake of being negative, and taking it out on the rest of us. You, Mr. 19-0, should know that better than anyone. I do this merely for fun when I'm not working. Or, in some cases while I am working. Right now I'm supposed to be listening intently to some other "experts" on this call talking about the health care regulation/reimbursement mess you and the rest of your "team" have "oversighted" and legislated us into Specifically, how to define quality standards that will replace the idiotic ones you all decided were a good idea = hey you passed the laws, so I don't wanna hear it. And, right now there is some lawyer babbling on about HIPPA standards, as though they don't represent a little less than what we do anyway in every other industry I have ever worked in. It's called: doing it right. Jesus, this guy seems intent on telling us all what we already know. Been going on for 10 minutes now with no end in sight. That's something to get genuinely annoyed with. The Bills don't even rank in my top ten of "things that annoy me". This is the post that was cathartic for me, not the last one. It would be even better if you could explain to me why lawyers = the people who created this problem, think that more laws and lawyers are going to be the ones who solve it. Maybe Brown Chiari running some more commercials during Sabres games will fix it. Now I feel better....

...running the football on them. We can, we have, we were, and there was no reasonable excuse for why we got away from it last game against them(or the Jets, or the Dolphins). This doesn't let the passing game off the hook, because you have to pass to keep the Pats* d honest, but it does mean that "when in doubt, run" needs to be pounded into Turk's head this week.