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Of course Wannstedt is the answer here. Many of those games lost last year was due to the predictable defense being carved up like Thanksgiving turkey. That's why you saw the Bills defense get shredded after halftime. The other team adjusts, Wannstedt did not. Frankly, it's a whole coaching issue for the entirity of Dick and Chan's time here. The Bills would start out hot in September but once teams got tape on them, it was all over.

Don't let the media feed your panic and paranoia, which for the most part is what gets folks down during the offseason because the media stokes the opportunity cost freakout in all of us. We see Team A doing something, anything and we're automatically thinking we have to do that and when we don't...panic. Media says Dolphins are the winners in free agency. Team financials are somewhere between dumpster fire and nuclear meltdown. Media says Bills must take a guard at #8. Bills bring in no guards for visits. Media says Bills roster fourth worst in NFL? Yet Bills finish 6-10, drafting 8th, not 4th, with no team anywhere near a complete roster for 2013. I think fans believe the media as fact checkers and truth tellers and they are not paid to do either of those things. The majority of sports media is typing out opinions...just like we all do on here because there isn't a lot to write about and sportswriters have to write to get paid. You're not going to know who the 2013 Bills are until about 5 games into the *regular* season, so it's best to enjoy the draft and your summer.

I don't think Kolb is as bad a player as the media or "experts" portray him. That situtaion in Arizona from the almost imaginary offensive line to the mediocre coaching to the mediocre running backs was not one where a quarterback was going to flourish. Big deal you had Larry Fitzgerald. He can't block pass rushers or catch balls out of the backfield.

Inspire: I think Marrone/Pettine are the real deal with tactics, strategy, will adapt at halftime. Spooky/scary: Team still lacks identity and leadership on the field.

The man had an imaginary offensive line in Arizona. It'll be interesting to see how Kolb performs with a real one.

I enjoyed the OP. I especially liked the retro graphic. I'm not worried about the defense. Talent has always been there. Hopefully the Bills have removed (for good) the crappy coaching that's been the bigger problem.

I could care less. I think both sides of the debate would actually hate to see the "issue" resolved since the advocacy for either side is a multi-million dollar business, not to mention, all of the attention that comes along with it.

I'd support the signing of Davis. The Bills need a TE with the skills he posesses.

Buffalo easily. Why? Major League 2. God really hated that movie and Tim Couch, Romeo Crennel and Lebron leaving are only downpayments on the punishment.

Both *Die Hard in the White House* movies look horrible borrowing the tried and true #1 plot point of any Steven Seagal film or television show: 1. Steven Seagal may be a cook, cop or EPA officer, but before taking those jobs he was a decorated member of the US Army Special Forces, CIA, or both...and he's still got it. Both these lousy White House movies have agents who just so happened to have been in the military or Special Forces. Yawn. Give me just a regular old tourist or MacGyver.

LINO Linebacker in Name Only at this point in his career. Just like Ray Lewis, sure he's out there on the field but you've got to strategize to mask his diminished skills.

I thought last night's episode was one of their top three (if not the top) in the history of the show.

This show is awful because it creates little drama. The bad guys either win or it's a draw every episode. There's really no movement of plot. I'm ok with a show being implausible but this show is just too much. A cult with a seemingly endless number of highly trained operatives in the right place at the right time, an FBI filled with inept agents and helicopters that just escape and no one knows where it is. And you *know* that's total bull. We can track planes from Detroit.

Coffee is for closers. I wouldn't want a quarterback that *wanted* to be a backup.

I like the idea of keeping it in Orchard Park. OP and Erie County get screwed if a new stadium is built elsewhere, left with an old stadium property to redevelop, and needing millions of taxpayer dollars to do something with it. It's akin to having a decomissioned military installiation. To do the Beth Steel site you'll need a lot of money. A lot. You'll need federal dollars and probably a program similar to what's been started in PA where a zone is established and the state tax dollars in that zone don't go back to the state but to pay off the bonds for any development in the zone.

Well that's a real goddamnit. Strong as about four oxen but has the back of a 70 year old man.

Some of you guys would be the worst builders ever (of anything) and probably sucked at puzzles. Half built and you're ready to say "this looks like total crap. We should quit..." and get all depressed. This team is half built as of today with hundreds of players in FA out there, the draft and camp yet to come. Talk to me after training camp.

This panic/woe/doom response is how some generations (those born in the 80s and 90s especially) react to cause and effect because society has generally turned to one of instant gratification. We get our news, food, coffee, electricity all nearly instantly. Trained to want and expect things almost immediately, when it doesn't happen, there is this almost automatic response of panic. The Bills not gobbling up free agents in the day is akin to the power being out for a half hour or a cell tower down and we can't get on Facebook.

I wouldn't take that bet. NFL Security is mostly retired FBI and DSS and the NFL is pretty persuasive. If the NFL wants it investigated, I'm pretty sure it's going to happen. The manhunt starts with "Barry" from Deadspin. Bet he gives up the names in +/- 30 minutes.

You don't have to be an analyst with the NSA nor an attorney to figure out that about five state and federal laws were committed with that stunt. Good luck with all that, Barry. Not only will you have NFL security coming round, you'll also get a visit from your local FBI field office. Yay for you. FWIW, I don't think Nix is senile or delusional. He doesn't tell anybody anything of value., especially to a team that will be looking at the same players as the Bills in FA. Just sounds like cordial chit chat to me.

Give me the QB that performed the best in poor weather conditions. Wind, snow, rain. I don't think either of these guys are it. The Bills play in a division where weather is a constant factor whether it's Miami or Foxboro. There are no domes, no Chargers weather. This is why I don't like Barkley. Has played nearly every down of his football life in the confines of comfy SoCal. Smith while growing up in Florida, has more elements experience with WV weather but performed below average. I'd prefer the Bills get a QB in the 2nd. I don't think there is value at #8 this year for QBs.

I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan when I'm not cheering on the Bills. The Pirates haven't been to the playoffs since 1992. For both teams, I'm optimistic and energized every offseason because I look forward to the year that the teams break their playoff droughts because that's going to feel very very good. And of course you know the year you divorce your teams, it'll happen.

As a guy who grew up watching the Rams, the day Georgia Frontiere took the Rams out of LA was the end of football in Los Angeles forever. I don't think you'll ever see a team back in the confines of the city. You want a dramatic movie about football with intrigue, politics and backroom dealing, that story would be a top nominee in my opinion. And...the Bills were involved, ironically.

I think the cosmic forces saved us from ourselves again this year (Meachem, Alex Smith, and now a movie). I'm telling you, they are warming back up to the Bills. ;-) The last time Reitman had a hit, the Bills were still in Super Bowls, and really his very best stuff like Stripes and Ghostbusters was back before Jim Kelly was even in the NFL.

Haha. Thanks for the LOL. Great quote.