billsfreak

Only one problem, of the 4 teams you list, 3 of them made it to the Superbowl in the last 10 years, we didn't make the playoffs and only had one (barely) winning season.

If you can't find the article go to the front page of TBD. For your information, you can be a big fan of a team and still face reality. I am not sure how old you are, but I was probably routing for the Bills before you were born (unless your middle aged like myself), so why don't you go find a new team, instead of telling someone else to? This board is for opinions, and in my opinion and anyone who removes them from the diehard fandome for a minute and look at the past decade without bias, you will know that article is the truth from start to finish. If you can't read something negative about a franchise that has been nothing but negative for over 10 years and not take it personally, maybe you should go to Disney.com and play some kids games or something.

I feel just like you do, but it doesn't change anything in the article, which is spot on. Yours are feelings of a fan, which alot of us have, his are cold hard facts that don't affect your feelings-apples and oranges.

I agree with most of your post with the exception of after the draft and FA we will know whether they are good or not. Even that is a little too soon, looking at some of the free agent busts over the past decade that seemed like good signings at the time. I guess only time will tell.

I wasn't criticizing anyone, just referring to the title of the post-as if they are doing so much already that they are looking smarter and smarter every day. I was just giving my opinion also, that as gunshy as this fanbase should be by now, we should let them prove something before we bury them in accolades.

I would put Flutie over Bledsoe. I believe he won a much higher percentage of his games and only played what, one year less than Bledsoe.

Nobody that has watched the Bills over the past decade can disagree with anything that this guy has to say. Sometimes the truth hurts-Ralphie! http://www.thesunnews.net/editorial.php3?idkey=7146

I kinda look at Chan Gailey as that last kid at the playground after everyone else they wanted to pick to be on their team turned them down and he was all that was left. I would have loved to have had Marty or even Brian Billick anyday over what they hired, but what is done is done, so maybe in 3 years when they fire Gailey, Marty won't be pulling an oxygen tank around and they will look closer then, but he will be about 75 by then.

I agree, a fireman at a fire doesn't "feel" he needs a water supply, he "knows" he does-same thing here with a quarterback. This team has been burning to death in that fire with no water for years now.

Any team that doesn't need a QB isn't going to put them in their top 20, but I guarantee you any team (like Buffalo) that is in need of a franchise quarterback, has these two in their top 20 if not top 2 or 3. QB is the most important position on a football team, and if you don't have one, you aren't going to win-just watch Bills highlight films of the last 5 or 6 years (not a lot of highlights) and you will see what I mean.

You really can't say they are looking smarter and smarter because of what is on paper or in college. Bring this up again this time next year and most all people will be in agreement whether they are doing a better job than the individuals they replaced or not. They haven't done anything good or bad yet, so with the track record of this organization, most of us will hold judgement on them and just hope for the best.

I think it serves no good purpose bringing T.O. back to Buffalo. Although he did a good job controlling his temperament, which might have been directed by his agent, his lack of effort on too many plays kind of neutralized anything good that he brought. Unless, we are again the only team interested like last season, and agree to overpay like last season, he probably wouldn't want to come here anyway, as I am sure he didn't want to last year but had no other options. The only good veteran quarterback that might be available, will be McNabb and if lightning strikes and he actually came to Buffalo, I don't thing the Bills would bring T.O. back with their history together in Philly. You wouldn't trade for McNabb then bring in the idiot that threw him under the bus over and over with the media.

Maybe a 2nd and 6th?

Well said (although your font is a little annoying), but the original poster isn't the most mature individual that posts on this board, so don't expect too much. Maybe he should change his name to akasshat, might be more appropriate since he enjoys sending personal emails full of profanity to people that don't agree with this childish posts.

Not going to tear you up, some of us on here have a sense of humor (alot people on here don't). Seriously though, I think it was either too late to fire him or too soon. What I mean is, he probably never should have been given the extension and should have been replaced prior to the 2009 season. Since he was extended, did the Bills really gain anything by letting him go when they did, other than meeting the Rooney Rule requirement by having Fewell fill in and interview for the HC position, when we all know he really didn't have a chance at it permanently. Also, any other team that was going to fire their head coach in season, would have done it a week earlier so they had the by week to adjust, but not the same team that fires their OC and cuts their LT right before the season opener, instead of earlier in camp. They also might have accomplished the task of pissing off Bobby April so he quit when the season was over before they had a chance to fire him, which they probably wouldn't have done. April was given the title of Assistant Head Coach but wasn't given the opportunity to prove himself when DJ was canned? Didn't make much sense, but like I said, Ralphie was meeting the Rooney Rule requirements.

Players should be players and fans should be fans, they shouldn't be mixed up. Jim Kelly grew up a Steelers fan, why did they keep him. If the Bills don't add a quarterback to this roster, the easiest choice on the planet is to start Edwards, because the other 3 suck 3 times as bad as he does. Unless Chan Gailey and his staff can work wonders with him, Edwards isn't the answer, but the other 3 have no chance of ever being anything but career backups or training camp bodies.

I would be ecstatic if the Bills drafted Clausen. Unlike most college quarterbacks, he played his whole Irish career in a Pro Style offense and improved and matured every year. He is the type of qb we need at the Ralph, a cannon strong arm and he is tough as nails. The only way for this organization to go is to draft a good young qb and build a team that can stay good for a few season, and not try to catch fire in a bottle and win all at once, because that obviously isn't going to happen here, we have too many holes to fill. To bring in a Thigpen or another teams swept aside, career backups who have failed as starters would be just spinning our wheels and making no progress. I would love to see McNabb in Buffalo, but he would only be here 3 years max, and it is going to take that long to put a good competitive team around him.

With better officiating a few years ago, the Seahawks would already have a Lombardi Trophy.

No #1 reciever who has ever played was able to catch balls that weren't even thrown to them. Wow, you obviously aren't an Evans fan if you blame him for not catching balls that aren't even thrown to him??????? There was so much pressure on the QBs last season to throw to T.O., as if they were scared he would blow up, that Evans was a forgotten man.

Saints!

You obviously don't watch the games do you? If you did you would know that over the past 3 season, every since Edwards took over for Losman, if two balls are thrown towards Evans in one game it is rare. Normally he is lucky to get one ball thrown his way that is even catchable. You are right, a receiver can make a qb look good, but the ball has to be thrown to the receiver for him to do that. There is a big difference between underachieveing and underused, Evans is underused.

Good question, we have at least one QB on the roster now as good as Thigpen, if not better. It doesn't make sense to trade for a quarterback who won't improve the team one bit.

Yea, trade the only really good receiver we have, so when they bring a young quarterback in, not only doesn't he have a line to block for him, he won't have anyone to throw it to. Might as well put a young QB in front of the firing line. Terrible idea.

It sounds like you have some insider information, but my guess is that you are just an idiot. He might be and he might not be the QB in 2010, but I don't think even think the Bills even know that yet, so how can you possibly know that? Free Agency hasn't even started, players can't even be cut for another few weeks for the most part and we are still 5 or 6 weeks away from the draft. You remind me of alot of the weathermen on TV, you want to sound like you know what you are talking about, you are really guessing and most of the time you are wrong.

So Ralph just hired a bunch of new people in the front office, and I assume he pays them millions to make personnel decisions, but they are going to draft on the basis of a statement from a retired Hall of Fame quarterback who has zero experience as a personnel guy? Dude, Jim Kelly is my favorite player ever, and my room is more or less a shrine to him, but get over your Man Crush. What is next, Jim going to go to the moon, become President, end the War in Iraq? If your post had any validity, the whole front office would be an Alumni meeting every day, all ex Players.