Dr. K

Ever since high school the whole evangelical "Fellowship of Christian Athletes" thing has given me the creeps. I can tolerate it in someone like McDermott but I really do not like it. God does not care whether you win or lose a football game and has absolutely no hand in it. Should coaches practice astrology as well?

The Bills did not trade up to get Manuel. They traded DOWN form 8 to 16 and picked up an additional second rounder they used to draft Kiko Alonzo--who eventually was traded for LeSean McCoy. I'd say that was some compensation for the Manuel miss. At the very least don't repeat what is not true.

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I spoke out about the Rex Ryan hire at the time. You could look it up. I thought it was a mistake from day one.

Watching the Bills try to score points under Flutie in 1999 was agonizing. People don't remember that he was being bailed out by the defense all season. Then Johnson comes into the last game against the Colts, who were 13-2 at that point, had won 11 in a row, and needed to beat the Bills to secure home field advantage throughout the playoffs. And under Johnson the Bills had their best offensive showing of the season and beat the Colts 31-6. THAT's why Flutie was benched for the playoff game against Tennessee.

Hiring Rex, which necessarily meant getting rid of Schwartz. Moronic move, and I put it on the Pegulas.

And Seabiscuit beat the crap out of War Admiral in their match race.

Maybe the Jets or Miami. That's a pretty tough road schedule, when you realize Andrew Luck will be back with the Colts. If the Bills come out of the pre-season looking strong I will alter this prediction. If not you can tell me, "I told you so, you idiot" when they win 10 games.

It's too early to trust these predictions and I'm sure I'll have a different take after training camp & preseason games, I hope a more positive one. But for now: at Baltimore L vs LAC L at Vikings L at Packers L vs Tenn W at Houston L at Colts L vs Patriots L vs Bears W at Jets L vs Jags L at Miami L vs Jets W vs Lions W at Patriots L vs Miami W That totes up to 5-11. I might add a win against the Jets or Miami to make it 6-10.

This. Add in some of the (I believe) questionable roster moves he made last season, and there are reasons to question his judgment. Judging him really does depend heavily on whether the Allen choice works out.

I have never met the gentleman.

Wow. It really looks, on paper, that Allen is headed for bust territory. It's worrying that whenever people start discussing him, the arguments in his favor sound increasingly desperate. Hope is not a plan.

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Or his post-Bills team. Look at Robert Woods and Marquise Goodwin the minute they got away from Tyrod.

We should all do our jobs. Who's going to argue with that? Nobody's going to say they aren't doing their job. But what that means is subject to interpretation, as all such slogans are.

Exactly like the editors and publishers I know. If a book becomes a bestseller, they say, "Look what we did with this bag of horse manure." If it flops, they say, "What could we do with this bag of horse manure?"

Of course you do.

I respect your opinion but we may never find out. If things go as they should he will never see the field this season.

Peterman is better than you think he is.

I am on record as being unhappy the way many Bills fans have turned "the Process" into holy words that excuse all decisions, but you make as good a case as can be made for this regime. And despite my lack of confidence in the choice of Allen, Beane & Co. were right to pull the trigger and take a shot at drafting a possible franchise QB. If they picked the wrong guy, it was still the right thing to do, and I expect they will suck it up and look for an alternative if that becomes evident. We just have to see how it plays out.

Gillislee?

And he can't hit the broad side of a barn. The one thing I would think we would have figured out over the last twenty seasons of QB play in Buffalo, given Losman, Fitz, EJ, Tyrod, etc., is that ACCURACY is vastly more important to successful QB play than arm strength or height or escapability. The Bills drafted the one QB of those touted for the first round who has the most trouble with accuracy. If he is successful, I will come here and say I was wrong.

This is the thing that has just driven me crazy about McDermott and Beane from day one: their conviction that they are the smartest guys in the room. Their continual insistence that we should "trust the process" which is simply a mystical smokescreen for "trust our decisions no matter whether they make any sense." I think Allen will be a huge bust and, as you say, that they will be out of here in three years.

Wow. That article is devastating. I was very skeptical before, and granted this is one person's opinion (though apparently lot of others see the same problems), but this suggest the Bills are headed for a major disappointment. From day one I have not been impressed with Beane's personnel decisions. This one could be the one that sets the Bills back years and defines his tenure as a GM--and shortens it.

I see a 2-6 start and no more than five wins for the season.