I just watched it and have one thought. When is he ever going to show emotion, good or bad? When Wade Phillips loses, he actually looks and seems totally heartbroken. Bill Cowher and Bill Parcells were just pissed off by losses and didn’t seem to ever satisfied about wins either. Jeff Fisher is showing total and genuine pride in his team. Jauron is way too even keeled whether the Bills win, lose or lose badly. He also looks like he can’t be that ass-kickin’ motivator these young guys need.

is he said how we are 5-4 this year and that is better than where we were teh last 2 years….It’s like he knows what the prognosticators think, and anything better than that he feels like he is winning…..DJ, stop worrying about what the MEDIA/FANS think and start motivating this team. He is really starting to piss me off with his non-charismatic post-game pressers in which the same old company line is totted. ACCOUNTABILITY needs to be had, and it starts with Jauron. I am a big backer of the guy and his philosophy but we HAVE NOT SEEN JAURON style football lately. Whether you hate him or back him, the football lately has been lacking any discipline, structure, or anything that should resemble a NFL Team

Ralf will not fire Jauron because he is intentionally trying to drive down the price of the Bills so Jim Kelly et al. will be able to afford to buy the Bills and keep them from moving to Toronto. Anyone buying that?

and the Bills – in just three weeks – have gone from worst to first in their division.

If this were the case this discussion would be moot.

are only really as good as their players and depth. I am frustrated as heck with Fewell because we keep hearing how they weren’t ready for the quick game with Arizona, or how the patriots messed with their heads by putting unexpected personnel groupings out there. On the other hand, we have a very, very, young secondary and the defense is still a top 15 defense.

I’m worried that the coaches will get thrown under the bus. I remember how Kevin Gilbride was run out of town for his crazy system and now he’s an offense genius with the Giants. Also, Mularkey’s brilliance has returned with the Falcons. I think we should hold the coaches accountable but be careful not to run them out of town because ultimately this coaching staff and team will be very successful. (BTW, I’m not advocating a return of either one of those men—it’s just that the grass is always greener . . . and if it really is greener on the other side, it means they have a higher water bill).

I was thinking this morning that Walker did pretty good filling in at Left tackle in the beginning of the season, he really did well against one of the premier DE’s (Kerney). So why not switch him back to LT and send Peters to the RT or maybe even try peters at RG ? Peters has not been doing well this year and maybe he needs a change of scenery. He is way more agressive/athletic than Whittle/Chambers/Preston. At this point they need to pull out some stops.

Stop throwing the ball to Robert Royal! Get Fine in the passing game instead!

Another thing that is really pissing me off is the ludacris third down play calling. It seemed like we had a 3 and 1 4 or 5 times this games only to line up in the shotgun and not convert. Then, after a great drive by the offense to get within scoring range, we have a 3 and 4 from inside the ten and we run it and get stopped.

So let me get this straight, we don’t trust our running game to convert a 3 and inches but then when we need points we run it on 3 and 4? Why not, instead of doing it at the end of the game when its meaningless, throw the ball up for grabs to Hardy on 3 and 4, apparently it could have worked. And while we are at, instead of throwing to Roscoe on 3 and 1 for an incompletion, why don’t we then let Marshawn grind out the first?

It makes no sense! No sense at all!

with the sentiment about agressiveness as it pertains to the youth. Time and time again it has been shown that coaching faith in a young player’s ability is key to bringing out the best in them.

It’s really not too late to revert to this approach and I fully expect to see these guys “let loose” in the coming weeks. What do they have to lose?

I’m not as fatalistic as your average BIlls fan because I just hopped on the bandwagon, so I have no qualms in pointing out that this thing is far from over. Don’t write ’em off yet.

this blog i don’t know how I’d make it….living as a Bills fan in Minneapolis, and like many of us on this site are displaced Bills fans, having a community to vent is crucial. I mean, my friends who are all Vikings fans just don’t understand although our two squads have many similarities. In fact when teh Bills lose, I hope to see the Vikings lose cuz there is nothing worse than when your buddy is on could 9 and you are a ticking time bomb ready to go off at any sec…..

But, come next Monday it will be alright, Come Monday 1st place will be in sight. Cuz if it isn’t, THERE WILL BE RIOTS AT THE RALPH

If the Bills do the following I believe they can be successful:

1. Pick a formation and stick to it. They could run hundreds of different plays from the very same formation. Shotgun or I, to run all the plays from small variations would eliminate predictability. Too bad the tape can’t really show them which ones play to Marshawn’s or Trent’s strengths because they pass from one and run from the other. It would do the Bills a lot of good to pick a drive in the next game and go all run. There was a drive in yesterday’s game I believe at the start of the fourth quarter where they ran Marshawn a few times in a row with success and then pulled him to facilitate the demise of the drive. Maybe a “JUMBO” goal line package all the way down the field. Call me old school, but it’s always thrilling to see a team assert their will in that fashion.

2. Past the fifty yard line, 5:00 left in first half or anytime in the second half, NO PUNTING!!.. I believe this stance falls under the Play to Win category.

that we’re all smarter than the coaches, we come up with all these opions as to what’s wrong with this team, way can’t they see it and if they do why is it not corrected? We all better get accounstomed to it because dicky boy is here for the next 4-5 years and I couldn’t agree more that his press conferances are all the same you only have to listen to one to hear them all it’s the same week in and week out it never changes he’s driving me nuts, whats the worst this year is that we got sucked in to thinking that we had a real team this year they just went in the tank later than usual. Why does Trent get in the offence lines face even during a game you see it from other QB in the league who don’t like getting hit because some bozo misses a block you can’t just shrug your sholders and say it’s my fault I held the ball to long call these guys out. like Leo d said nice guys finish last. I need to see some passion from this team nobody seems pissed accept us fans. They go to work and accept being bad they get these hugh pay checks and have no pride in there work. The largest line in the league and they should be blowing ever team off the line. It’s let get this over so I can go home with my pay who gives a sh1t if we win I get paid wheather we do or don’t. I am so fed up with these players. God I’ve never been this pissed with a Bills team before. There just letting this year go out the window.

I’m not asking for help, Michael, just take off the handcuffs.

That one’s for you Turk. Stop being so dang predictable and make it difficult for Defenses to predict what you’re doing. Bring some variation to the O….screens, slants, outside runs, end arounds, a trick play, whatever. Just try!

It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.

I don’t hate you as a man Dick, just as a head coach. Strictly football. I wish you would make adjustments, try something different, force your coordinators to make changes, be a more aggressive leader, light a fire under these guys, etc…

Only don’t tell me you’re innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry.

To Dick Jauron, stop telling us that 5-4 is better than last year or other years. Expectations should have been higher this year and after 3 straight stinkers, saying garbage like that just insults Bills fans’ intelligence and ticks us off.

Women and children can be careless. But not men.

Quit the mistakes gentlemen! Making the same stupid errors over and over is infuriating!

The Don: I like to drink wine more than I used to.
Michael: It’s good for you, Pops
The Don: ANyway, I’m drinking more.

That’s like us watching the Bills this year! We are drinking more and more to feel better about this junk!

And what a win vs Cleveland might mean:

Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.

Hopes will be up again, playoff possibilities may return, yet I still see us disappointed soon after. That’s the life of a Bills fan I guess….

I find TE to be pretty exciting, at least most of the time. Yesterday was an exception. Which leads to…

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Since this is the designated “open gripe thread,” I have to mention how helpful it is to have some other people to vent with. I would be lost in a dark place today without the ability to express thoughts like this: “AAAAAAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggg!! MUTHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRRRRRRRRRRRRR uv JEEEZeeee?%$#&$# For ThE LOve of BAAALLLLZZZZZ PUUULLLLEEEEzzzzz WhERE’s the mercY??”

This Bills football, (Buffalo Sports for that matter) We all should have known what to expect. If you didn’t know that this was gonna happen, you are not a Bills fan. This numb feeling in my gut is just all too familiar.

I save my anger for game days, then wallow in sorrow for the rest of the week. I’m normally good come Thursday/Friday.

I’m from Buffalo and I make it home at least twice a year. I love my city and the people, but sadly, the Bills are a reflection of the town they play for. So much potential, yet constantly mismanaged and going nowhere. Largely ignored, and nobody wants to stay there.

I can’t believe I just typed that

But hey, there is always next week. I will ride and die with my team (and my city for that matter) Go Bills!

This is the year of creativity in the NFL. Miami brought the wildcat to the pro’s…it’s time for Buffalo to make it’s mark. I call it the Turk Tumble. Much of the failures of any team can be attributed to the play of their offensive line. The Bills mammoth line has proven, definitively and without a doubt, that they can not run block. Their pass blocking isn’t always up to snuff as well, but that’s another matter. There is one strategy however, that takes advantage of their expansive girth. The scheme is simple. The Bills line up in a close formation with two tight ends in the backfield (split at the HB position) and one RB at FB. At the snap the TE’s rush toward the 2 gaps between the guards and center. The RB takes the hand off and hurls himself at the middle. Now the next part is the key to the whole plan. The 5 offensive linemen fall down, hopefully forward. By the time they get to the gaps, the TE’s should also fall down…something they are adept at, especially when they’re not dropping passes. The result would be a massive pile-up that no defender can break through. I suspect some defenders might even get caught under this massive human pile. Having trouble visualizing, just look back at the dinosaur stampede scene from the latest King Kong movie and you’ll get the idea. Using my infallible calculations, factoring in weight, height, velocity, draft, pregame meals and other important variables, I estimate that this would gain exactly, 3.34 yards each and every play. Assuming the Bills start at their own 20, a typical drive would consist of 24 plays and chew up about 18:50 in time. In the words of Gill (voice of Willhem Dafoe) to Nemo when describing his escape plan: “It’s foolproof”.

The best part of the whole approach is that it takes advantage of two of the offensive lines strengths, being big and falling down. Some Negative Nancy’s will say that this will make the game exceeding boring. Well, it’s true, but no more boring than the Bills have been these past few weeks, and a lot less painful for their fans. And it has the added benefit of helping the Bills actually win games. Imagine Randy Moss on the opposing sideline pulling out his hair waiting for nearly 19 minutes for his chance to get on the field. I tell you, some players will spontaneously combust; it’s happened before. Only the stoic unemotional Jauron could lead such a simple, predictable and utterly boring plot, that will become known world-wide as ….the Turk Tumble. During away games, fans will be heading for the exit as the utter futility of the Turk tumble is revealed…over and over again.

Alas, most Rumblers have retired for the evening and will never see this post…but Turk, if you’re out there…think about it…what better way to use your players greatest strengths.