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I agree, this is a very difficult schedule, no real easier stretch to it. We should certainly expect sub-.500

Agree completely that winning is the KEY... recall back in the Super Bowl years, even Adam Lingner, our Long Snapper had his own radio show.

How exactly do you "prove" it???

Since only so much impact can be expected from this year's draft, we have to look at who's on the roster that may be key players. Here's a possible start, this is a lot to have to go right, so we should expect a poor season... Offense -- QB, HUGE issue, I'm just not sure Trent Edwards can stay free of injuries and doesn't have damaged confidence to enable throws downfield -- WR, Hardy / Johnson, one of them has to step up big -- OL, Wood has to be able to return from injury and further improve -- OL, Rookie Pick or Bell needs to be able to play LT well Defense -- LB, Maybin needs to be able to convert and excel at OLB -- CB, McKelvin needs to be able to return from injury and be shutdown corner Special Teams -- We need to get McKelvin and Parrish back to having a big-time return game Coaching -- We need far better in-game decisions than we've seen from our last 3 head coaches,... use of time outs, 2 minute drill and half time adjustments -- Strength/conditioning coaches fix the overwhelming injury problem on the last few years and very few lost game injuries of starters/key reserves How's that for a list to start?? If we can do all that, we'll be good

Thank you!!

2nd funniest post this off season... The first one still has to go to the Brandon Spoon thread of wimpy football names and someone came back with Lucious Pusey http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1205061football1.html High laughter at both though!!

Let put a numerical example to this so we can all be clear.... Let assume player is given the following simple 3 year contract that includes $3M Signing Bonus, $1M in Year 1, $2M in Year 2 and $3M in year 3 NFL rules allow that contract to be counted against the cap as follows amortizing the bonus over the life of the contract: -- Year 1 $2M, ... Year 2, $3M, ... Year 3 $4M The Bills would account for the player in their internal budgeting as -- Year 1, $4M, ... Year 2 $2M, ... Year 3, $3M the entire bonus counting in the first year That overstates the first year of the contract and limits other signings whenever signing bonuses are paid. They could achieve the same thing by not paying a signing bonus, making the first year of the contract guaranteed and giving the entire bonus amount as salary. I don't think the Bills do that. I think they're amortizing the signing bonus contract per the NFL rules, while voluntarily limiting further signings when they've reached their salary + signing bonus cap level (cash to the cap) for a given year, simply as an internal budgeting process.

I agree,... I was hoping it was Nix reading the rest of it, until I got to the last line.

That was good for about 1/2 hour of laughing to myself!!

I'm surprised the ESPN story wasn't discussed here. While not advocating for Morhinweg in any way, the story put together a compelling case...

hahaha!!!! you definitely have me laughing!

Very nice,... good post!

I think we use him. Everyone should be smart enough to react to what we see properly. If the outings are poor, then he'll get a "mulligan" and be able to start fresh next year. If he does well, then everyone can go into the off-season excited about the possibilities for next year.

I don't think I care about reason #3 either... so because the line sucks, no QB can be put behind it and evaluated in any way? This is a guy we plucked off a practice squad, not the #1 pick overall we invested $xxx Million dollars in. If he can't be put out there this season to see what he has then we should probably just forfeit the remaining games.

Thank god, I was getting a shiver down my spine with all the accolades to Fitzpatrick / Fewell... We should give Brian Brohm a 3 game tryout before we closeout this miserable year and this also re-proved that the Bills do need to start from scratch and don't have their head coach or QB among those who have played this year. I don't have a clue or opinion on Brian Brohm, but would like to see him in 2-3 games this year to see what he's got.

If I'm not mistaken, Cowher's family is in North Carolina?? He's looking for the Panther's job to open up....

Dude, it was a joke posting to distract us from the actual team...

I'm surprised nobody's started this one yet,... especially as we need a QB http://www.ufl-football.com/stats/player/passing

Agree completely!

Small, fast guy, with great hands who should theoretically be elusive and difficult to cover.... while I wholey agree that he hasn't lived up to that, the comparisons make perfect sense to me. He should be everything that Welker is, he's one of the fastest guys on the team. While I used to think it was our poor coaching, its looking more that Roscoe is the problem... so much potential unrealized!

Didn't see the whole game but just looked at the NFL.com highlights. Byrd's looking BAD on every long run the Jets had. Great job in coverage, but the run support has to get way better if he's to get beyond "good potential"

Amen, brother!!

Yep, you got it! Everyone on the board would have bashed him as a bust. We would have let him go just as they did and then where would we be... lamenting what could have been if we had just given Brees a bit more time to develop. Think of the amount of anguish thats been saved. For all the things that haunt Bills fans, there's not too many ex players that we lament losing.

Kelly by 100 miles... the better questions is not Kelly v. Simms, but Levy v. Parcells. How many SBs would we have won if he was our coach. Levy got outcoached in each SB!

I agree, he showed a pretty good game. Lets not pile on just because it was fashionable before the season started. No LBs are going to cover Wes Welker, that's a scheme problem, not an Ellison one. With that said, Poz will be out a while and we need to get someone, because Buggs ain't doin' it.