Sisyphean Bills

Nothing like watching a football game with almost no fans at the game and the only sounds other than the commentators are crickets and a couple of guys arguing about the need to buy another bag of peanuts...

Ouch, indeed.

The stadium is still leased in 2011!

The Bills in the 0-for-the-70s had a bit of a "club" reputation where some players were accused of working the system to be placed on IR rather than practice or play through their dings and dents.

You wouldn't believe the calls the Bills get. Must be 30 QBs a day calling, and lineman ...

Well, since they are both partners in ownership, Fred can just cash out his shares and invest in another mutual fund.

While I agree with what you're suggesting on the surface, it is also true that Overdorf has made roster moves unilaterally without the knowledge of the GM and coaching staff. He reports to only one person and one might speculate that he has conducted roster trimmings behind the scenes like part of his retirement hinges on the sale price of the franchise.

Or he might have had a bad case of gas. Just saying...

People tend to forget these sorts of things when coaches change ball caps, but Gailey was greatly disliked by the players on the Cowboys when he was the head coach there. I distinctly recall Troy Aikman blasting him with both barrels.

I take that to mean that you think Nix was banging on the table and nobody listened to him. What does that tell you about his management skills and his ability to persuade others? He's not going to win every battle, obviously. But, the Maybin pick is legitimately one of the worst picks in franchise history -- a franchise that has made many terrible picks. If someone can't head a !@#$ up of that magnitude off, what is your purpose as a National Scout? That's why I used the word "conjecture." Here, this might help you. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/conjecture He has no track record as a GM as he's never held the position before. I realize it is popular for some revisionists to assume he made all of AJ Smith's decisions for him, but I'm sure those people have never met AJ Smith. Sucks to be you.

I'm guessing he means until Ralph's heirs get their big pay day.

That's Buffalo Bills dysfunction. (Yes, I realize that is redundant.) It's a bit like hiring a second financial adviser, one who happily "goes with the flow" of your current adviser, investing your rubles in Enron stock, then quickly firing your current adviser and hiring the new one as Enron plummets. Why not giggle about it?

Realizing it is just conjecture, but what do you think Nix did? Did he sit there when they were talking about draft strategy and check over his investment portfolio, thankful that Ralph had given him more bullets? Did he sit there mute as a stump, having spent hours upon hours reviewing film, listening to everything that transpired, so he could later torpedo Jauron and the others to Ralph behind closed doors? Or was he banging on the table, saying what he saw in the film, and advising against moves that would set the team back years, and everyone else in the room selectively filtered him out as a crank? Or maybe it was somewhere in the middle, where he didn't really have much input, no real strong feelings, and offered up the occasional one-liner for comedic effect, which begs the question of why the Bills hired him as National Scout in the first place?

The silver lining is that compared to Maybin, he was a solid draft choice.

It might be less about getting a group hug and more about everyone knowing who grades out better and thus wondering if they are wasting their time for an organization that seems to have an agenda that doesn't include putting the best players on the field (despite the reflexive rhetoric said in front of cameras). The Bills do have a precedent of having bean counters and contracts overrule solid football decisions.

That's downright frightening to consider.

The secondary isn't very good.

How long did it take for them to figure out that Kelsay was atrocious playing in coverage? (I think you're on to something by the way. The offense has been regressing ever since Hangartner went down last year.)

Some will say that compared to Maybin and McCargo, he was a solid pick. Now that those two are gone though, yeah, he's pretty much a bust. The first CB taken and in the prime of his career and he's, well, still a backup prone to looking bewildered on several plays a game.

Put another one on the "We Hate" list...

Maybe he can bulk up and play OT.

Evans was double teamed everywhere... why once, he had to go relieve himself, and -- well -- you should have seen Lee and two defenders squeezing into that stall.

and if you subtract all the losses where somebody was injured...

You missed the point. If they took a chance on Maybin developing into an OLB, then they could've taken a chance on a guy that actually looked the part developing. The reported interest in Gibson was because anybody that watched the Bills knew that their LBs last November were terrible. When the GM says he is "constantly looking to improve the team" and the team obviously needs help at LB (with several DEs struggling), it's not a far fetched idea that they would consider adding a player there. They don't hold a special draft in November for teams to draft the pieces they couldn't acquire in April. As far as stealing reps, it would've been terrible if he had taken reps from Mike Balogun, I know. You can laugh all you want about it, because the Bills LBs were laughably terrible as a group.

Wow. You clearly didn't spend all your English classes texting your friends.