Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

[BillsFever21]

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Buffalo Bills coach Chan Gailey questioned his players' mental toughness on Monday, one day after the team's embarrassing -- and near-historic -- second-half collapse against the New England Patriots.

Placing the blame on everyone, including himself, Gailey called it his responsibility to address how the Bills squandered a 14-point lead, by allowing the Patriots to score 45 second-half points in rallying to a 52-28 win.

"You can't be ahead 21-7 in the third quarter. And if we're mentally tough like we need to be, that game doesn't end up the way it ended," Gailey said. "And that's my responsibility, to work on the mental toughness and the mindset of this football team."

Gailey was unhappy with how his high-priced defense missed too many tackles and was pushed around in allowing 580 yards of offense -- the second-highest total allowed in Bills history.

Gailey dismissed a question of how the Bills now have given up 100 points in two games against AFC East foes.

"You can throw statistics and numbers out all you want," he said. "I'm more concerned about how we play, the intensity and quality of play than I am the numbers that are thrown out there right now. Our quality of play is not where it needs to be."

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[BertSquirtgum]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

Do something about it Chan. I have no faith he will though.

[Skooby]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

I'd fire this guy right now if I had the authority.

[BLeonard]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

I'd fire this guy right now if I had the authority.

I wouldn't have hired him to begin with... But, that's who the Bills could get for the money that they were willing to offer...

Anyone that thinks the Bills offered Shanahan, Cowher or any coach $10 million and they turned it down is delusional.

Guys like Brian Billick (a Super Bowl winner) and Marty Schottenheimer didn't even get so much as a phone call...

Nope, the Bills pick the guy sitting at home on his couch, after Kansas City fired him before the season even started... Kinda like how they hired their GM out of retirement, because Ralph saw his name on a piece of paper and recognized him.

13 years without a playoff appearance... To put that in perspective, a person who was born on the day of the last Bills playoff game will be heading to High School next fall.

-Bill

[BillsFever21]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

The playoff drought will be hurting their fan base in the long run. Most people develop their love for a team when they are a kid. Most kids aren't going to fall in love with a team that hasn't made the playoffs most of their childhood years.

[BLeonard]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

The playoff drought will be hurting their fan base in the long run. Most people develop their love for a team when they are a kid. Most kids aren't going to fall in love with a team that hasn't made the playoffs most of their childhood years.

The hell with the long run, they're losing people that have been fans for 50 plus years. They had to spend $100 million on one guy just to get their season ticket base back over 40k...

They finish with a piss-poor record yet again, they might have to start paying people to come to games... Yet, Russ Brandon has the audacity to ***** about the Miami game in November not being sold out yet.

-Bill

[BillsFever21]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

The hell with the long run, they're losing people that have been fans for 50 plus years. They had to spend $100 million on one guy just to get their season ticket base back over 40k...

They finish with a piss-poor record yet again, they might have to start paying people to come to games... Yet, Russ Brandon has the audacity to ***** about the Miami game in November not being sold out yet.

-Bill

If we keep this up and end up 3-6 then the last several games at RWS might be pretty empty. We only have 2 road games left after that and everyone knows how the November and December games go. If we're out of it and playing bad then the game doesn't sell out. There might not be very many Bills games on television the final weeks of the season.

We're guaranteed at least 4 of the 7 games on TV since one of them is on the NFL Network, another one is is Toronto and two of them are on the road. The other three will be up in the air though.

What's that say for this team when we rarely ever get a nationally televised game and it still isn't sold out especially against a divisional opponent? People would rather wait and see how we're doing before they fork over hundreds of dollars and I don't blame them one bit.

[Skooby]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

If we keep this up and end up 3-6 then the last several games at RWS might be pretty empty. We only have 2 road games left after that and everyone knows how the November and December games go. If we're out of it and playing bad then the game doesn't sell out. There might not be very many Bills games on television the final weeks of the season.

We're guaranteed at least 4 of the 7 games on TV since one of them is on the NFL Network, another one is is Toronto and two of them are on the road. The other three will be up in the air though.

What's that say for this team when we rarely ever get a nationally televised game and it still isn't sold out especially against a divisional opponent? People would rather wait and see how we're doing before they fork over hundreds of dollars and I don't blame them one bit.

How we're doing ?? 13 straight years of crap is how we're doing.

[YardRat]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

The intensity and quality of play is something that should've been already established in the first year, year-and-a-half of his tenure.

[coastal]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

Signing a guy with a history of questionable toughness for $100 million?

that doesn't have something to do with a lack of toughness?

yeah... Let's put Chan in the Brazen Bull! That'll solve this organization's problems.

[Historian]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

13 years without a playoff appearance... To put that in perspective, a person who was born on the day of the last Bills playoff game will be heading to High School next fall.

-Bill

It's funny.

My wife and I were talking about where we were watching SB XXVII, and my 15 year old daughter chimed in:

"The Bills were in a Super Bowl???"

I had to chuckle.

[Turf]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

The decision to play two injured half backs while the backup amassed over 100 yards rushing pretty much tells me hes out of touch with his team. Not only that he set those guys recovery back even further.
Why doesn't he call out the stach? Could it be he still doesn't know why he lost?

[GingerP]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

Right, toughness. Playing a dime defense against a double-TE set wasn't the issue, those defensive backs should be able to take on and shed blocks from guys they give up 100 pounds to.

Maybe they would be tougher if they got some LB on the field when teams are running the ball.

[OpIv37]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

If we keep this up and end up 3-6 then the last several games at RWS might be pretty empty. We only have 2 road games left after that and everyone knows how the November and December games go. If we're out of it and playing bad then the game doesn't sell out. There might not be very many Bills games on television the final weeks of the season.

We're guaranteed at least 4 of the 7 games on TV since one of them is on the NFL Network, another one is is Toronto and two of them are on the road. The other three will be up in the air though.

What's that say for this team when we rarely ever get a nationally televised game and it still isn't sold out especially against a divisional opponent? People would rather wait and see how we're doing before they fork over hundreds of dollars and I don't blame them one bit.

They will black out the game locally on NFLN if it doesn't sell out. You aren't guaranteed that game.

The Toronto game won't be shown in Buffalo if it doesn't sell out, but with Rogers Center being so small, it shouldn't be an issue.

[OpIv37]

Re: Chan Gailey questions Buffalo Bills' toughness after loss

Also night games are always a tough sellout for Buffalo because so many people come from places like Rochester, Syracuse, Toronto, etc. Rochester is an hour away- the games usually don't end until midnight- throw in a walk to your car and stadium traffic and it's 1 am before you're on the road and 2 am or later before you're home. Syracuse- add at least an hour onto that. That's tough for anyone who has to work the next day, anyone who has kids in school, etc.

Hell I hate night games because I'm too mad to sleep if they lose, and if they win.... well I don't really know. It's been a decade or so since they've won a night game so I can't remember.