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"Best player available". That never fails, does it?

No more than you were when you declared it a preseason game. But use your head and think about it for a minute.

bull ****. 100% rationalizing bull !@#$ing ****. No one on that team is guaranteed a job next season on this team, much less any other. They had everything in the world to play for both as individuals and as a team. And how about a little pride if nothing else. The other team is fielding scrubs and kicking your ass in every way up and down the field, and openly laughing their asses off at you while doing it. It was a preseason game for the Jets perhaps. For the Bills it was a very large embarrassment. God I hate this "they didn't try because the Jets rested players" ****

For the hell of it on 11/15 I decided to write down what this web site, which is basically a site that runs lots of simulations all season, predicted as the most likely outcome for the AFC East this season. It came up with Jets 12-4 Pats 11-5 Fish 8-8 Bills 3-13 Actual Pats 14-2 Jets 11-5 Fish 7-9 Bills 4-12 If you take into account the fact that Brady and the boys tore everyone a new a-hole the last half of the season which skewed everything, it wasn't too bad. I wish now I had written down all the divisions. http://www.sportsclubstats.com/

I agree with you. But I doubt it will be Buffalo. Then again last year at this time if you told me they were going to draft Spiller (or any running back) first I would have doubted you then too.

Wow. You just took the fine art of optimism (or crack smoking, one or the other) to a entirely new level. You hit every possible point I think. Fitz a franchise QB. A couple years not from the playoffs, but from the SB. Whew. And my favorite part I quoted. The feel good, can we all just get a group hug, screw the facts this is a playoff caliber team right now dammit homily. You my friend absolutely have to be the #1 Bills fan and my hat goes off to you.

Rather than that, I'd rather see a league formed much like the Juniors in Hockey to develop young players. What's the point in pretending these players are qualified after college for anything other than football anyway. Take it out of the colleges and pay the developing players. Don't take just some of the hypocrisy out, take all of it out.

Unlikely to happen in my opinion. Even if your theory stands up, the Panthers will trade down to get more decent picks and fill their other needs. Some QB hungry team will be willing to sell their soul for Luck. Are GMs free to start playing lets-make-a-deal now or do they have to wait until after the SB or some other date?

Looks pretty sweet. Click on the "watch the demo" link. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Demo-Enhancing-your-sports-experience-with-Windows-Media-Center

Or one or two good games to start seeing playoffs looming on the horizon. This season was what it was. And thank God it's over. You don't think that was more than counterbalanced by the fact that the Jets didn't even dress their starting corners or safeties? And gave the Bills worst-run-in-the-league defense a present as well by not dressing either starting running back? And after putting their "Sanchise" starting QB in briefly to hand off a couple times, put their second, and then the third string QBs (who both managed TD drives on the Bills starting Defense) in as well? The entire Bills organization has a lot of work to do the next few years. That much is clear.

Excellent points. I just don't see Spiller as a impact running back in the NFL. Catching short passes is a great idea for him because he can clearly do some damage when he gets some open space. Maybe a slot receiver? Overall I think we are more than a couple of players away from being competitive. 3-4 seasons if the current regime doesn't !@#$ up.

All of these discussions about taking Luck, trading up for Luck etc. etc. are predicated on the fact that if he was drafted by Buffalo he would agree to play with Buffalo and not pull a Elway/Manning and say "F U ... trade me". Given the state of the Bills and in particular their offensive line, I might well walk away from Buffalo right now if I were him. That tactic worked out pretty well for both Elway and Manning. There is no way you mortgage the rest of your draft by trading up and take someone that won't play for you. Just sayin.

A team hires young (probably attractive) women to massage athletes and the athletes proposition them for sex. I'm not seeing the "news" here. If the team did not expect this to happen they would hire burly men. My guess is that either these two girls were very naive and didn't understand the unwritten (for obvious reasons) job description going in, or they (their lawyer probably) understood perfectly and in the wake of the Sterger thing are now trying to get paid. Why else wait until now to complain? I know a couple female massage therapists and they get propositioned almost daily to give "extras". They don't care for it because they consider themselves to be professionals and are a bit insulted when it happens. But they just say no and get on with life.

This is not news. Anyone who has watched this season objectively knew this already. Even most people watching the season through red and blue colored glasses saw it in the last 2 games at least. Before this season began Nix and Gailey were talking about how it will be a long process and not to expect miracles overnight. I know that a lot of people were thinking/hoping lightning might strike. But it took more than 10 years of neglect to get this bad, it will take at least a few years of doing the right things to see real improvement. Unfortunately, in my opinion anyway, this years first pick was not a wise choice given the state of the team. So this was year 0 of the 3-4 season rebuild. I am hopeful Nix and company will do a considerably better job this time around. We will see.

Go to some practices of 8-10 year old teams when they are taught how to wrap up and tackle instead of the horseshit dive at the players legs or grab the shoulder pads that is in vogue these days. Same could be said for most DBs in the league.

I doubt Luck will fall to #3. Someone else will trade down before that happens. But I like the way you are thinking!

Oh no! The Fitzmagic was in the beard!

Is it? I'm not so sure overall. I guess we will see.

Actually the last 2 weeks should have showed him how far away from the playoffs the Bills are. I still don't expect Nix to hit the free agent market heavily. I think he will stick to the draft philosophy unless forced. And I do not see Mr. Wilson forcing Nix to spend a ton of cash on free agents if he doesn't want to. Gailey does not make the #3 selection, Nix as GM would do that. Brandon no doubt is going to be looking for some hook he can exploit to not lose any more seasons sales. But I doubt he can force a QB down Nix's throat if Nix is opposed.

What the "koolaid drinkers", for lack of a better term, cling to are the intangible things they feel got better. For example you see things like "the team is better than their record", or "with a few breaks this was a 9-7 team", or "the players have bought into the system" etc. Things that are just opinion that cannot be quantified. And for those things, they feel Gailey, Nix, and the team as a whole improved from last season. Your opinion may vary.

Not starting Fitz yesterday was a smart move. Our QBs were taking some big hits yesterday and the line was horrible ... even non existent in some cases. Fitz had his confidence shaken in the NE game, no need to pile it on yesterday. He almost certainly is the Bills starter next season no matter who is drafted so let him heal and shake off the one very bad game to get ready for next season.

You could see it was friendly to be sure. And the Jets players were yukking it up the entire second half on the sideline (and the Bills players were not, BTW). But do not kid yourself. Both teams wanted to win. It's just that the Jets did, while resting a bunch of their starters. But thank God it's over, and on to the draft!

A nice try. But the Bills lost to a SB contender which you can't feel real bad about, and a JV team. Don't waste time making excuses. The Bills sucked this season, again. Hopefully they won't waste they first pick again this draft and will be better next season.

I generally agree with you. With the only caveat being if Nix and Gailey both see one of the players as a franchise QB and said QB is still on the board at #3, then they take him. No way they trade up and give up picks for a QB with Fitz playing as well as he did this season. But I never would have guessed them taking a RB last year so my powers of deduction are definitely in question

Sounds like bull **** to me. How would some announcer know what Nix/Gailey are thinking? Either one might have said the Bills were generally interested in him, but they would not have said which pick. Makes no sense.