The Big Cat

Marino? ****. I would have settled for Chad Pennington. Since 2014, all this team has needed is a top 18 QB. That we've been unable fulfill that ask...I need a drink.

I believe history has been kind to our takes. It was patently clear that we were playing NFL football with guys who might have struggled to start in the CFL--though JP Losman did lead the Las Vegas Locomotives to the first ever UFL Championship. Jauron got a bum rap. He really did. If I'm going down in violation of the TOS, I'm want nothing but rainbows and sunshine shooting from my ass.

Bolded for clarity. It was always him that needed re-inventing, not his style of football. You can win playing the way he wants to play. But I believe that as a person/leader/head coach, he's lacking the kind of organization/focus needed to get that horse power to the rear tires. Something's missing, but it's not tactical.

I go back to the Jauron days. Earlier somebody reposted a column after the 2009 6-3 loss to the Browns. Thinking back on those rosters...Jesus. We are lightyears from having rosters as woeful as those. I think the bar is very much higher--as evident by being on the doorstep of three consecutive non-losing seasons for the first time since the drought began, and still being pissed and displeased with what happens on Sundays. Baby steps, to be sure. Just think back to 2006-11 and realize how far we've come. We're not that far off.

Agreed. My biggest fear with Rex since the day they hired him was his tendency for feast or famine. Never struck me as a details guy, the exact opposite of Doug Micro-Managing-Hardass Marrone. Well, we've seen the feasts and we've seen the famines over the last 29 games, and the inconsistency has not been in favor of our winning percentage. The insane part is: there is an enormous likelihood that he'll be the first Bills coach to not have a losing record since Wade. And there's still a snowball's chance he breaks the drought this year.

Schefter is the legit source. But his language here is curbed enough to sound like he's just piggy backing on Sunday's hack job from Jason Never-La-Confirms-His-Sources.

That you've brought me up at all is weird. That you've done it several times--trying to worm away from it on a technicality won't dispel this truth--is sad. It truly is. I think it speaks to your general character that you puff yourself up as some kind of anonymous tough guy when presented with the opportunity to rub somebody's face in disappointment, to gloat about being a deterrent to somebody's enjoyment of something, no matter how trivial. It truly is a baffling use of your finite time on this planet. It's petty, and it's small and it's bizarre. Is it really hard to understand that someone would rather just not associate with people like you on a message board? Make no mistake, you're not alone. In the past couple weeks I've seen tomes written about why everyone's wrong about our standout RB. Can't understand why people move away from this board from time to time? Can't grasp how things here become loathsome and pointless when tiny, rotten people like you have their way at the expense of other people's happiness? No, of course not. You'd rather mock efforts people make to contribute to this board in a positive way. Hell of a way to go through life.

Dude. Get a !@#$ing life. This is about the fifth time you've brought me up in the past week. It's pathetic, really.

Nope. Still alludes you. And visa versa.

This is fundamentally false. And it's been explained many many times. You just refuse to understand it. The "ground" part of "ground and pound" involves sustaining drives and bludgeoning the defense over and over and over and over. You honestly think that's how the offense has operated the last two years?

Jason Never-La-Confirms-His-Sources

The pettiness, disorganization and chaos of the Buffalo Bills rivaled only by the media who covers them. Can't wrestle with the pigs without rolling through the mud. It was insinuated here last week that the local media is content to stay in Buffalo rather than chase better jobs elsewhere. Right. Because the most esteemed publications on the planet are knocking down doors to get at these intrepid crackpots.

Lol

Was it asinine to assume that Rex couldn't succeed with Carrol's players?

Damn shame we don't. It's a shame, too. There are legit critiques of this team and its coach and the FO. But they get lost in the sea of EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY SUCKS NOW AND FOREVER. It's a boy who cried wolf scenario and it's getting old, mostly because when you're a Bills fan and 100% negative, you're right 75% of the time, regardless of whether you're a pain in everyone's ass.

Here's a hypothetical: The Seahawks have playmakers all over their defense--Sherman, Bennet, Wagner, Chancellor, Thomas. We haven't had a single playmaker on defense since Rex took over. If Pete and Rex switched rosters, do folks here honestly believe that the players mentioned above would slip into obscurity under Rex and that under Pete, equivalents to Sherman, Bennet, Wagner, Chancellor and Thomas would emerge? I have my doubts. I acknowledge that the right coach shouldn't have to have all-stars at every level of his defense. It just so happens that the best defenses typically do.

Ihedigbo is the sixth safety to end season because of injury. No impact though.

Yeah, sliding from like 9 to 14 could kill this team.

Yes, the Steelers have 140 yards. Top three reasons: Can't tackle Can't get off the field on third Offense just hands them the ball right back

Unless this goes in the entirely opposite direction starting very very soon, I'm done with Rex.

Nothing to tell you. You're right. About everything. You even post the sarcastic laughy emojis to prove it. We all bow at your worldly knowledge and yearn for the right to be educated by an individual of your esteem.

No, no, he's totally right about this one. My career working in/with/against/for/on behalf of/in spite of the media, and all the relationships I have and all the things I've come to understand about the industry/the individuals who work in it/why they work in it, all those things are/were wrong. He's shown me this. I have a lot to reconsider.

Right, because if there's one thing I've proven time and time again it's that sometimes I don't have anything to say. Trust me, you'll know when I'm kidding. Or not. In your case, probably not. I believe that's what the common meme is meant to imply, yes. I balk at your use of "deviance," however.

Sure thing. Whatever you say. You've definitely convinced me that I was wrong. Your time spent typing that was not at all wasted.

Yeah, but that contract...