The Big Cat

I also think the team's trajectory indicated that this was possible. But, it's impossible to say that TT, Clay, Harvin, Incognito and/or Shady, or any of the combination of the three would have come to Buffalo this year. And it's highly unlikely Greg Roman would have too. When you think back to the offensive vacuum left in the wake of Orton's surprise retirement, it's hard to imagine things playing out the way they actually did. ****. Our backfield might have been Spiller and Jackson in 2015, had Marrone/Hacket stayed. We just don't know.

The 'continuity' debate really flared up THIS year because many fans like myself were skittish about the idea of doing a HC search in back to back years. Once he quit, he lost any/all support from fans. That much is clear. I don't know where that talk came from, since it still doesn't sound like that would have happened, that the only person who would have removed Marrone was Marrone himself, as it happened. But, Bills fans really need to stop listening to what brass says on WGR. I mean you can listen to it, but it would significantly curtail a lot of frustration if we all accept the notion that high ranking officials, of any kind, don't owe the gen pop a shred of honesty when speaking with the media, and that any outrage or feeling of betrayal that comes when one thing is said and another thing is done, all of that is self-imposed, resulting from a mixed bag of naiveté and/or willful ignorance to the reality of 21st century media.

They were? He up and quit two days after the season ended. I don't recall ever having the debate.

Wait. So the woman who rose to MySpace stardom didn't have a longterm plan?

I am on record saying that he should have sat in weeks 16 and 17. Fact, period. Look it up. I don't know why Rex didn't. I imagine it's because by that point in the season all the other "preferable" DE's you've listed here wouldn't really have made that much more of an impact having to get caught up to speed in less than 15 days with a defense that every player on every team Rex has ever coached says is difficult to learn. I imagine it's also because he's the highest paid player on the team.

The latter part of your point is where you started to make some curious assertions. Okay,

Bro, it wasn't clever the first two times you posted it, either. I agree with this. I don't think Rex's system is "outdated" though.

which available de's would you have preferred they sign?

strawman? want to show me anywhere that anyone said that rex had absolutely nothing to do with mario?

Ha, okay,

Then you should be thrilled that Thurman is no longer coordinating.

Well that's an insanely inaccurate oversimplification, but whatever helps make your point, I guess.

The connection eludes you? Or do you remain obstinate on the matter of why Mario wasn't removed from the lineup?

I love how we've framed the injuries as if they had no impact on anything in 2015 and that getting anyone to budge from that point has proved entirely fruitless.

Oh look, another windmill named "Rex." Battle on, amigos. How this even debatable by now is just befuddling.

I have and continue to happily concede the areas where the team suffered because of Rex's short comings. How you can watch what Mario did (or rather did not) in the latter part of the season and objectively decide the coach is to blame is inexplicable.

Can't help but notice your stance serpentining wildly.

what was it the byproduct of when he pulled the same shenanigans four years ago with a different team/coach? mario should be ashamed of himself for how he played. he's a 30 year old millionaire. if you're certain he needed a coach to make him do...anything...then you're fully acknowledging the fact that he's a child.

We're talking about Mario. We're talking about Mario. You can ignore his patterned behavior and make it about Rex, that's fine. It's curious. But it's fine.

If you're still asking the question in bold, it's because you won't accept the answer. My guess is because you want very badly to somehow pin his selfish behavior (which left him with very few friends in Houston, as we all know) on Rex. It's not that difficult: the guy is kind of a putz.

Sinatra has a cold. Dunne is great.

And as I've said over and over these past couple weeks: certainty is foolhardy. Nobody knows if it's a good move, but some people like aspects of it and dislike others. Why do we have divide ourselves? Nicely put. I don't know who's insistent upon soliciting his input, whether it's him, or whether it's ESPN, or whether it's both, but he's treated as SME, whose expertise, at this point, is being leveraged entirely for entertainment. So. You know. That.

Yep. If the Bills do something I don't like, the only thing I can "do about it" is divest from the team in every way. That's not happening. So I change my perspective. Why fight it? Why get yourself and others worked up about it? If it fails miserably, oh well, moving on. My paycheck won't change, my personal health won't be immediately affected and the choice to spend time watching games every Sunday is mine and mine alone. What you call "defend" some of us call "support." I'm not compelled to "defend" anything the organization does. They are not paying me to do so.