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Brandon Speaks Following Bills Loss



Pat Malacaro Reporting
Orchard Park, NY (WGR550)  -- Buffalo Bills Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Russ Brandon was frustrated with the team's performance following the 6-3 loss to the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.  Brandon spoke with the media after the loss, commenting on a variety of topics.

When asked about head coach Dick Jauron's future with the team, Brandon said "I am not commenting on that.  Obviously this is a low point for all of us."  He added he feels for the fans right now and that with the team 1-4 on the year it "is not where we expected to be right now."

The C.O.O. and G.M. was asked what he would do to make the team better.  Brandon told reporters he will do "anything possible to make this better for everyone involved."  Penalties were an issue for the Bills in their loss to Cleveland as well.  The team committed 13 penalties for 75 yards against the Browns.  Brandon doesn't think the errors were committed due to lack of effort, he said, "one thing I will never question or anyone in this organization will ever question, the effort they put in. For it to translate on the field like it did today is certainly not where you want to be past a quarter of the way into the season."

The Bills offense has been running the "no huddle" scheme all season long with mixed results.  The team has only scored one offensive touchdown in their last three games, and are 0-3 as well.  Brandon did not share his thoughts on the system, but told reporters he will "let the coaches coach," and that the inefficiencies are something the media "would have to address with them [coaching staff]."

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10/11/2009 8:21PM
Brandon Speaks Following Bills Loss
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10/11/2009 8:30PM
we stink
we do not have enough talent both in players ,coaching and management we have no quality depth and a cheap owner give up on the season and start building for next year
10/11/2009 8:30PM
oh please
Brandon is frustrated? He doesn't spend money to watch this crapfest.
10/11/2009 8:34PM
clueless
Brandon is clueless just like the rest of them! Maybe he should go back to the marketing department and get a real football guy in there!
10/11/2009 8:35PM
um
i think im going 2 kill my self
10/11/2009 8:35PM
Buffalo
The buffalo rots from the head.
10/11/2009 8:39PM
no he doesn't
spend his own money, but it's his job to serve up the ingredients to this platter or garbage
10/11/2009 8:39PM
Reimbursement
Hey Russo Brando...I'd like to have my tickets reimbursed today along with the food I purchased, the parking, the Jersey I bought. This would be a nice gesture if I have to keep watching this crap football. Total today $248.00
10/11/2009 8:40PM
frustrated?
what exactly frustrates you russ? all the tickets that have been sold this year? or is it the sweet chunk of change the bills are getting with the toronto deal? please, this guy doesnt have to worry about performance when the season is sold out.
10/11/2009 8:41PM
Joke
Glad to know our GM/Marketing Director is "frustrated" maybe if he knew a thing about running a football team that statement would mean something
10/11/2009 8:43PM
Everything remains the same
Brandon told reporters he will do "anything possible to make this better for everyone involved." Translation: nothing will change
10/11/2009 8:43PM
Find a GM first
We have a former head of marketing being a "GM" of this team. Send Russ back to marketing, and get a real GM in here to hire a real coach, and put together a real football team
10/11/2009 8:44PM
The Insanity Ends Now
Fans, do yourselves a favor. Take the chance and stop buying tickets, stop buying merchandise, and stop seeing the games on TV. You'll be much better for it afterwards. So what if Ralphy decides to sell/move the team afterwards? You're more important than that abomination that passes itself off as a pro football organization in Western New York.
10/11/2009 8:57PM
Boycott the Team or Nothing Will Change
To those of you who waste your hard earned money on the happless Bills week in and week out, all I can say is......you deserve it. Wake up, nothing is going to change until they sell the team. Ralph will not spend money on a top notch coach that's goingto command top notch money, not to mention the salaries of the assistant coaches. Why must you torture yourselves, pick another team until Ralph kicks the bucket
10/11/2009 9:07PM
maybin
Is Aaron Maybin still holding out?
10/11/2009 9:12PM
Remember 2-14
Hey maybe if we only see 20,000 in the stadium like we did in 83-84 maybe things will change as long as we bitch and 76,000 show up it will fall on deaf ears. Let's really show them how we feel and burn our tickets outside the stadium befor the next home game and go home then Big Russ and The DEAD MAN RALPH might do something...
10/11/2009 9:12PM
Typical Response
Do everything possible to improve the team? Whats left? Convince Wilson to sell the team to someone who still has a pulse and isnt demented and senile.
10/11/2009 9:13PM
What did you all expect?
They start the year with an offensive line made up of rookies and back ups. Go to a no huddle offense which their top receiver doesn't even endorse ot like, then they fire their offensive coordinator before the season starts and to make matters worse they cannot stay healthy and have one of the worse coaching staffs in the league. Go ahead and bash Edwards. The best thing that can happen for this kid is to get the hell out of here and go to a quality organization.
10/11/2009 9:19PM
unacceptable
Totally unacceptable from top to bottom. Everyone complains about jerry jones and how he wants small market teams like the bills out - he spent over a billion on his stadium how the blank can you fault him for wanting this poor excuse for an organizationout of the league. Wake up buffalo bills fans the party is over
10/11/2009 9:24PM
opps
the Bills played today?
10/11/2009 9:26PM
RE:Boycott the Team or Nothing Will Change
Do it and see them leave town!! Many enjoy having a football town; unfortunately, it infected some fans that want to boycott a team that fate is in jeopardy of leaving. No matter how bad the Bills play show support for our team and no soon to be owner would us down because our fans are the best, good or bad years of football in any kind of weather. One good thing all Buffalonians can say is that we're the Best fans no matter what happens. What's worse a team that goes 1-15 or a team that leaves town? It's a possibility both may happen, enjoy having the NFL in Buffalo. Support this team!
10/11/2009 9:42PM
I agree boycott the team or nothing will change
If no-one shows up or fans flood the ticket office complaining that they don't want there season tickets anymore because this team isn't heading in the right direction. That's the only way something will change.
10/11/2009 9:43PM
Get the Moving Vans ready
It kinda looks like their setting this up for the end.
10/11/2009 9:46PM
clean house
although Ralph won't while he's still alive. live with it Bills fans. the Kelly era was a fluke.
10/11/2009 9:57PM
Would the Bills even beat a CFL team right now?
Things have gotten so bad that I wonder if we would be able to beat a team in an inferior league such as the CFL right now? The foundation is cracked and it's all surely going to collapse. Super glue and bandaids won't fix what ails the Bills! How about Bill Polian new GM and Bill Cowher or Mike Shanahan as next coach! That would give me more hope then adding an aging receiver has been like T.O.!
10/11/2009 9:58PM
we suck
I'm offended to be a Bills fan. I never thought I would say that.If something doesn't change soon we will be lucky to finish the season with 3 wins
10/11/2009 10:02PM
Half Time With Ralph
Hey Ralph, I was waiting to see you at half time today. Where were you? I guess you forgot to show up like the rest of the team. Thanks for nothing. Why don't you stay in Detroit and take Dick, Trent and Russ with you!If you really cared about the team and the City of Buffalo that has supported this team from the beginning, you would sell this team to a committed owner. Your time has come and we all need to move on.
10/11/2009 10:44PM
The Plot
I honestly think that Ralph is purposely allowing the team to tank so that when fans do stop supporting the team he can justify a move by saying "the fans gave up on us." Figure it out Ralph, we love the Bills and you are a terrible owner. Either act like you own a professional sports team in 2009 or sell it to someone that is willing to put a quality team on the field with respectable coaches. I know I don't expect perfection on Sunday, but when even reading the box score makes you want to not watch the next week's game, it is time for change in personnel.
10/11/2009 11:06PM
Lost your mind?
As a lifelong Bils fan from Toronto who goes to at least 4 home games a season (not including the game in Toronto) I, like many, couldnt be more disgusted by the performance of the players (particularly Edwards) or the coaching staff (esp Juron!!!) which now dates back years. However, boycotting the team wont help the situation! I have family and friends in B-lo and know how much the team means to the city. Although the best discision i made today was to turn down my ticket in favour of helping a friend re-shingle his roof, to turn your back on the team regardless of their record will do nothing but streingthen the case for the team to move once it is sold! Eat the money and fire Juron, get a qb (even someone like garcia - even though im not a fan of his), but Billeve in this team and more importantly in the city and incredible fan-base that supports them! otherwise complaing about the record or how they dont live up to the `Kelly era` will pale in comparison to the complaints of how nice it was when there was NFL in Buffalo!
10/11/2009 11:06PM
Didn't expect this?
Well, that's the problem isn't it. That's why you don't hire a salesman to be the GM of a football team.Anybody that knows anything about football knew at the end of last season that this team was lost in large part due to the inept coaching 'abilities' of dick jauron. They would know that the offense was abysmal in large part due to poor qb play. They would know that you don't replace nfl quality offensive linemen (granted they were mediocre) with rookies and castoffs. And they would know you don't fire your offensive coordinator just as the season begins after claiming you need continuity (after going 2-8 down the stretch?). And they would know that you don't waste first round draft picks on project players, especially a defensive lineman that looks like a skinny linebacker. If he can't crack this teams starting lineup, something is seriously wrong.
10/11/2009 11:07PM
Expectations continued...
I don't know about russ, but I expect this team will be lousy until they hire a credible coach and front office, and I'm certainly not very hopeful that will happen anytime soon based on the fact they didn't make the necessary changes after their disasterous finish last year. A good organization would make those changes now and use the rest of the season for the new coach and front office to get a feel for the players we have and what the team needs so they can go into the next draft ready to get some work done. Instead, I expect they'll hire some nobody, yes-man to coach at the end of this season, keep the pitiful front office mostly intact, then waste a high first round draft pick on a cornerback who has a really nice personality.Kenny James
10/11/2009 11:13PM
Edwards
stop supporting him. he sucks, get over it. no, the Bills are not 1-4 ONLY because Edwards sucks, but its certainly a big part.
10/11/2009 11:14PM
Sunday Ticket
I live out of town...but at least the money i spend on NFL Sunday Ticket let me watch something other then thet JV crap I witnessed today. i feel so sorry for you guys stuck in WNY that had no other option but to pay hard earned money to sit through that today.
10/11/2009 11:14PM
THE BILLS SUCK! FIRE JAURON
Jauron is probably the worst coach in the entire league as to this very moment. Something needs to be done about him. He has been the worst head coach since decades ago. Being a Bills fan, I demand results, not some pathetic excuse for a GM to tell us that he is "not commenting on the situation about Jauron." and other issues. Maybe if we lose the rest of the season, then we can get the top draft pick, get Edwards packing and get the # 1 Quarterback. That is just my opinion. Get the beep out of town Russ Brandon or resign. Take your pick.
10/11/2009 11:20PM
a billion dollars
i understand and share the negative feelings about todays game and the results of the last many seasons! To all those calling for Ralph to sell the team though understand one thing, reality! For the billion dollars it will take to buy the team, the last thing that will happen is the team stays in Buffalo! There isnt another local entrepreneur or a corporate conglomorate stepping up with the kind of finances needed to buy the team. Support this team win or lose now and show the next potential owner how big a market Buffalo is and how much money could be made by the team staying put!
10/11/2009 11:29PM
Team Butchered By Injuries
Firing Jauron won't help anything now. This team is continually gutted by injuries to top players game after game year after year. Dick has no one to coach anymore.Just the remaining scrapes from the practice squad. Gibran Hamden will be starting by midseason. This is going to be the longest season of my lifetime and I'm sick of it. I'm ready to take our 1-15 season now and start the draft!!!!
10/11/2009 11:54PM
Let's take up a new Sunday pasttime...
Bills 2009 = LA Rams 1991 Don't worry Bills fans. I was there. Life won't end when your team moves away. We have a few years to prepare.
10/12/2009 12:12AM
the title of this post
is misleading. he was channeling jauron when he spoke. he said as close to nothing as possible in uttering as many words as he did.
10/12/2009 12:41AM
phoney
I'm sick of the lies from Brandon. Have some self respect man. Your just Wilson's stooge.
10/12/2009 3:02AM
Re: The Plot
Unless Ralph lives to 100 , there is not much of a chance the team is going to move until he dies, so I don't think he's the mastermind of an elaborate plot to manufacture an excuse to move the Bills out of town. If he really wanted to move them it would have been done by now and there is enough justification from the dollars and cents end of things already anyway.
10/12/2009 8:05AM
Depressed
I agree with everything below. I'm lost for words and lost for hope. When this team wasn't 'viable' we all went out, bought tickets and even got a senator involved and supported this team as best as we could. This is the thanks we get. I could say more but, in true bills fashion, I'll stop short of any real ___
10/12/2009 9:02AM
Suckiest buncha sucks!
The Bills are a joke, there is no emotion, they are flat lining. Its not gonna change until the entire organization is overhauled. Suckiest buncha sucks to ever suck!
10/12/2009 9:06AM
Reality Check
We are stuck with this until we get a quarterback and head coach. Edwards aka Captain Checkdown" looks like a high school kid out there and the players have no drive left for Jauron.
10/12/2009 9:34AM
Fans should sing!
I went to the Bills game in September 1968 when most of the crowd at the Old Rock Pile sand, "Good bye Joe!" to the melodie of "Good Night Ladies." Coach Joe Collier was fired by Ralph Wilson after the game. Next game, fans should sing, "Good bye Dick!"
10/12/2009 10:10AM
what they should do...
... is fire the coaching staff and then just go to the local mcdonalds and hire all the workers there. I mean why not? they probably would be just as good.
10/12/2009 10:14AM
Recovering Bills Fan
I was a die hard Bills fan since I was born. I finally decided to not watch the game this weekend because I am tired of wasting my time on Sundays. Let me tell you. There is actually a lot of other stuff that you can do on Sundays. Really. It was nice toactually get something done and not be pissed off and yell at the tv. The Bills are a joke from the owner down to the last player.
10/12/2009 10:18AM
Enough With The Platitudes ...
... by the Bills mgmt and coaching team as the Bills fans are more deserving. Also the philosophy of "let the coaches coach" only works when you have an competent coaching staff. Looking forward (hopeful) to how the front office responds in the next 24-48 hours.
10/12/2009 10:40AM
Rotten Top Down
from the last 10 years we have one first round pick playing. Lee Evans, don't count maybin in that category because you actually have to play. Anyone in Player Personnel getting fired? Don't drink the water people. Finishing poorly and getting highpicks is the way to build a franchise, (unless your the Bills) We'll have the number 4 pick and pick a guys slated to go early in the second round. Hmmm Whitner or Nagata, hmmmm
10/12/2009 10:41AM
Really!!!????....
3 points against the 32nd ranked defense!? 13 penalties!? That sounds like a coaching issue to me.
10/12/2009 10:45AM
Totally Discusted
The only problem with being at that so-called "football game" yesterday was that we could not turn the channel to another game. I have never seen such an UGLY contest in all the years of going to Bills games. Just blow up the whole thing and start overnext year...Oh yes, been there, done that before. Form top to bottom everyone from the coack to the front office HAS to go... Do you really think that any of the unemployed Super Bowl winning coaches would want to come here...Don't think so
10/12/2009 10:56AM
???
Brandon will let the coaches coach and let the media take up the inefficiences with the coaches? what a well run organization.
10/12/2009 10:59AM
RUSS BRANDON?
he doesnt know anything about football where did he come from? he's a st john fisher grad who is a professional football gm ? they might as well hired me and my friends for the job. st john fisher a club football team when he was there. STOP, STOP RIGHT NOW
10/12/2009 11:05AM
I caught the end of the gm
I went to the beach instead of watching it. From what I did see, I thought it was pretty obvious both teams were trying to lose on purpose. maybe we can upgrade to walmart workers instead of mcdonalds.
10/12/2009 11:23AM
embarrassing
the bills lose again when a team had no wins. jauron should be fired. trent you can't get a touchdown. i am really sick of bad performances.
10/12/2009 11:25AM
Ralph does not care
Ralph wilson does not care if there is a winning team in Buffalo any more he has made it clear in the past that we are small market and there is nothing he can do about that Ralph is trying to drive the fans away from the team so when they get ready to sell and pull it out of Buffalo most people will just say good bye
10/12/2009 11:32AM
Derek Anderson?
all i hear is how bad Derek Anderson was..bla bla, i saw at least 8 of his throws hit his receivers in the hands then be dropped. Including that beauty by Robert Royal deep down the middle, god i don't miss seeing that guy in the bills lineup.
10/12/2009 11:55AM
Ridiculousness
I am so sick of whining and complaining...but it's all we can do. I have lived in Pensacola, FL for the past five years, and when I got here, my buddies would give me a hard time about being a Bills fan. And we werent even that good. Now they just feel sorry for me. I mean, they really feel bad for me. I live with two Giant fans and after the "game" yest. they actually got out of my way and didnt say a word. That tells me we are not even relevant to be made fun of. I'm moving back to Buffalo soon and will be right back in the thick of this garbarge. Maybe i should stay here, cancel The Ticket, and just go to the beach on sundays. I bet all of yous up there would trade spots with me right now.
10/12/2009 12:10PM
Fire everyone
Brandon needs to get fired along with Jauron. He is just as big of a joke
10/12/2009 12:24PM
Thank God
So glad you JP is gone, he was clearly the problem.
10/12/2009 12:25PM
@Ridiculousness
hey if your up there (look on the bright side) you can at least go the sabres. their not as bad as the bills at the moment.
10/12/2009 12:34PM
Boycott - One game
For one game go to the stadium, tailgate, but just don't go in. Don't buy anything from the vendors. This will get their attention, but won't cause a collapse in the town market.
10/12/2009 12:34PM
Stop calling it "The Kelly Era"
It was the "Bill Polian" era... He was the mastermind that brought 4 consecutive AFC titles here. The players were great, that's true, but Polian assembled them in Buffalo. Fire Russ Brandon, or demote him to Advertising, but get him OUT of the player personnel role and bring in a real GM that understands football.
10/12/2009 1:55PM
Bills are not going anywhere
The team will be staying in the wny area,once it is sold.Might not be in OP,but its not leaving the "AREA".Change is coming fans,this i know of first hand.It might not be tomorrow,but it is in the works.The only thing i can comment on,when these changes do occur,be ready to spend more of your dollars to support this team.And remember how much it costs right now versus what it will cost to see a game.I can`t say anything else.Go Bills and support this team,even though its hard to do when they play like this.Support the team!!!.
10/12/2009 2:04PM
fans at fault
Hear me out...it's the fans that need to be accountable for accepting and being "duped" into "billieving" that they were going to be good this year!! Why are the people of Buffalo selling out the stadium? How many times have you heard that it's abusiness? As a business the Bills are doing fine as they have done in all of that GREEDY OLD MAN'S life as the owner!! WAKE UP and stop supporting the team, they are leaving anyway so...
10/12/2009 2:51PM
And the band played on
In Calif with NFL ticket, we played the game "what will go wrong next?" Maybe the only way to be a winner this year...
10/12/2009 5:35PM
Bill fan well?
why,not get jim kelly to buy the team and start all over with better smarts!!!!!
10/12/2009 6:05PM
Bills are moving
Maybe they will be the Los Angeles Bills or the Anaheim Ducklings! or better Toronto Tweety Birds....
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