IronyAbounds

The Colts, which have had an all world QB for all these years get Luck, who will be a big star in the NFL, and the Bills are stuck with Fitzpatrick. Makes me want to puke.

Gailey and Nix will be given at least one more year, little progress will be made, and eventually another round of hiring inept coaches and front office personnel will occur. Rinse and Repeat. I have to laugh at those who say a team that finished 1-8, and for the most part were blown out of games, is making progress. The word delusional immediately comes to mind.

Nowhere Fast

How anyone can be above despair is beyond me. Fitzpatrick is simply not a quarterback who can lead a team with marginal talent to the playoffs let alone a Super Bowl. In fact, no team with Fitzpatrick at QB could win a Super Bowl, so at best a team with him at the helm can make the playoffs, but that is only if he is surrounded by a hell of a lot more talent than he is ever going to see in Buffalo. Who are the potential Pro Bowlers on this team? Dareus maybe, Jackson, if healthy? Then... Some one mentioned this is a four to five year process. Good luck with that. Teams don't stay together that long . By the time you get the final pieces of the puzzle in place the first set of pieces is off via free agency or injury or age. The teams that win consistently have great organizations that know good players when they see them and foster an atmosphere that draws in the quality free agents. The knuckleheads at One Bills Drive would have trouble finding their rear ends with two hands and a flashlight. I want to be optimistic, I really do, but as they say, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 12 friggin years in a row - I'm not that stupid.

The State of Suckitude

If they have a shot at Luck, Barkley or RG3 they would be nucking futs not to take him. Which isn't to say there aren't other pressing needs. After all, this organization is so inept that there will always be pressing needs. At least get a potentially great QB in place for when a quality GM and coach are hired.

Crappy drafting leads to less depth. Remaining considerably under the salary cap leads to less depth. Bad DC leads to bad defense. Relying on a mediocre QB as your future leads to lack of improvement. Someone noted earlier that the Bills have a lot of FAs after the year end, some of whom may be resigned but others won't. The NFL is a continual rebuilding project and good organizations know how to deal with that. It not only shouldn't take 3 or 4 years to turn a team around, it almost can't because of free agency and injuries. It isn't like you can keep all your good players every year and only jettison the bad ones. Players leave, are hurt or otherwise don't pan out. The best organizations (NE, Pittsburgh, Baltimore) win consistently because they are always able to adapt to roster turnover. The middling organizations have ups and downs, but take advantage of the NFL's scheduling breaks and the draft to make the playoffs at least once every two or three years. The utter crap organizations, with the Bills perhaps being the poster child for that particular category, are ALWAYS in rebuilding mode and never are able to put together a quality team. They make stupid drafting errors (McCargo, Maybin and Spiller being prime examples), hire mediocre coaches that are rejects from other teams (Jauron and Gailey, come on down!) and for the most part make all decisions based on the perceived financial consequences - in other words, sucking on the tit of the NFL's socialist system, while ignoring the financial benefits of actually having a winning team. Add in an owner who has one foot out the door (or, if you are less tactful, one foot in the grave) and not willing to commit to a city, and the result is what you have with the current incarnation of the Bills. A team that never makes the playoffs.

Doesn't matter where the Bills draft or who they draft, Nix will botch the pick. No other team gave him a chance to be a GM for a reason. Just like no other team gave Gailey another chance to be a head coach. They were cheap, stopgap picks to get Ralph closer to the point where he (or his estate) pulls the plug on Buffalo. The odds of Buffalo ever seeing another playoff team are growing dimmer and dimmer. Every day that goes by without a firm agreement for an extension of the lease is another tiny nail in Buffalo's NFL coffin. After all these years of futility it is virtually impossible to be optimistic about this team. Not that I'll stop rooting for them, until they move to another city, but frustrating doesn't come close to expressing what it is like to be a Bills' fan.

The new owner has pledged to keep the team in Jacksonville. I was hoping the Jags would make the move in order to make it more likely the Bills will stay put, but doesn't look like that is happening. I just want to get some certainty into the Bills staying in Buffalo. Then again, if they moved, I wouldn't have to have my heart broken and sanity challenged every year by this putridly run franchise.

Good Lord, the Broncos are winning because of their defense and in spite of Tebow, not because of him. Not to mention the fact that they haven't exactly beaten great teams. If Miami doesn't botch that onside kick, Tebow might not have even played the next week he was so bad. San Diego is imploding, KC sucks, the Jets are mediocre and Oakland was going through a QB transition. The comparisons to Flutie are ridiculous. Flutie had talent and could pass the ball.

I think Johnny Gold has been drinking a bit too much Jose Cuervo Gold. "Great Day to be a Bills Fan." Are you crazy? The team just insured no playoffs for the 12th straight year. They let a crap QB drive about 80 yards for a winning TD. The Bills will likely end up with 2 more wins than last year. Very little progress and with the brain dead brain trust in the front office drafting a bunch of losers, you really think they will win the SB next year? You are on some very potent meds buddy.

The last two drafts have not yielded much talent. Dareus is a stud, but the 3rd pick would have been tough to mess up. Otherwise, Nix has not brought in much talent at all. Merriman was a terrible mistake. Smith was idiotic. He does get some props for Barnett, but otherwise the Bills are both thin and not terribly talented. There is a reason Nix didn't get a GM job until he hit 70. With the AFC being so mediocre this year the Bills would have had a shot if Nix had done a halfway decent job.

The Jets are going to suffocate Tebow. The Chiefs stink, as Buffalo showed, so completing two passes against the Jets ain't going to cut it. If Newton were as talentless as Tebow he never would have made it past opening day. Why does Tebow get cut so much slack?

You can't go back in time, but, taking Spiller last year looked goofy from the get go. Seeing how TE had been a need position forever, Gronk would have been a more logical pick. Or an OL. RB just wasn't a position of need.

So...you're saying CJ might well end up slashing the throat of his ex-wife?

Hey, that would be great. Thanks for the offer. Seriously though, there is never a guarantee for what the future may hold. Even if the Bills are on the "upswing" this year, there is no guarantee that next year will be better. The team put themselves in the playoff picture and to miss out, yet again, will be very disheartening, even if it looks like they may be getting better. You have to take advantage of any chance you get because you may not get that chance again. Anyone happy with 8-8 or even 9-7 this year, after the way things started, is easily satisfied.

Yep, no way this team makes the playoffs. Even 10-6 would be iffy, and you have two certain losses to the Jets and Pats away. That means you have to go 6-1 in the other games to be confident at all. That ain't happening. Today's game was a must.

You think that with the injuries to the receiving corp they'd find a way to get Chandler more involved, yet since game 1 Chandler's played an ever decreasing role in the passing game. Given his size he should be a good possession type receiver. Was he just a flash in the plan? Are we seeing why he didn't really stick with any other club previously?

Bills have given away both losses. Would have been nice to have both in the bank for the stretch run

Terrible underthrow from Fitz.

Dareus needs to step up

got a score here, don't let the game get beyond a one score game

Chandler seems to be less and less involved every week. I guess it's a function of the schemes they are running, but I'd like to get him more involved.

Florence just seems lost out there

It's obvious. Ralph is divorcing Mary and marrying Jim, which is now legal in NY. That way Jim gets the team tax free.