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The season is not over.

Spiller will succeed, and probably be influential in the win over the Jets. PFT's headline will be in 14 point font: RUNNING BACK CONTROVERSY EMERGES IN BUFFALO ESPN jumps on the Spiller train. This board erupts in a Jackson/Spiller debate that eclipses the famed Johnson/Flutie debate. The injustice of Fred Jackson not getting paid will continue because the cosmic forces really didn't like the cafeteria food at Coe College the one time they were called in for a Kohawks game.

We have one capable of being an all-pro on the roster. You only become an all-pro TE if you are used consistently. If you're in a system, however, that absolutely, must, for some inexplicable reason, use 4 receiver sets constantly, your chances at being an all-pro TE are diminished.

You guys read way too much into press conferences. It's like Philly fans trying to pull relevant facts from an Andy Reid presser. Professionals don't give up when things get tough, especially when future contracts, playing time and incentives are on the line. If anything, the motivation to do well is greater at this juncture than at any other point so far. Fitzpatrick needs to earn his deal otherwise he could be cut in theory. Spiller needs to avoid bust-ville. Guys like Williams, Searcy, Hairston, Aiken...want to earn their way. If you are Nix and Gailey, you don't want to tank on a team who's owner is 90+ years old, and an ownership change could occur at any moment. Winning is job security. Not player development. On a practical note, "player development" is a major loss in revenue when selling tickets is already difficult with a team still in the playoff hunt. You want fans buying all the new jerseys and merch, buying tickets and willingly handing money over to your business in support of the team. The season is not over.

I hear you....but it's tough to grab a free agent center off the street and drop him in to the game three days later. Learning line calls, snap counts, just gelling with the quarterback...it'd be the Costa/Roma debacle magnified five times.

He won't fail. Probably the opposite. He runs over the Jets. Propels the Bills into the playoffs while Jackson is sidelined. This board is daring the football gods to be benevolent this holiday with the CJ>FJ and FJ>CJ watch the board burn debate.

It will be our luck that Spiller goes Walter Payton on Sunday and the Monday morning headlines read "Running Back Controversy in Buffalo? Should Jackson Get a New Deal?"

Better have a heavy dose of McIntyre and Chandler/and Smith to go along with CJ. Isn't Lee Smith supposed to be good at run blocking?

I watched quite a bit of Aiken in college following a friend's kid who played for Memphis. I'm a fan from what I saw, and I was delighted he fell to the Bills as he was one of the best receivers in the draft. Super strong, great hands. UCF, and Aiken especially, saw a lot of press coverage and he often beat it.

Let's hope Gailey gets this message. I think all of you have relevant points about our stale offense.

I think Dareus is this generation's Warren Sapp. Dareus will be an absolutely dominant lineman with reinforcements behind him. I wouldn't change the pick.

Beat the Jets, and then I'll believe you, Mr. Mystery Guest. You and your teammates don't need any more reasons to go out, impose your will, and win this game.

The decision to promote Aiken to the 53 man roster is what just won the Jets game. I feel he's that good. He should have been at WR2 out of camp. He will be the receiver that Fitzpatrick and Johnson need.

Draft defense, get your WR help through free agency.

I think signing and then turning around and suddenly cutting players isn't going to make Buffalo an attractive place for free agents. While you can do this sort of thing in Madden, it's toxic insofar as business relationships go and the Bills have more than enough challenges landing free agents already.

I wouldn't dump Fitz. Upgrade the WRs with proven WR talent as an appropriate investment in your QB and offense. No rookies or practice squad guys or feel good stories. 2012 will have some very good talent available.

The Bills can't go heavy on the shotgun this week. I'm worried when I read Urbik has practiced most of the snaps out of the shotgun formation. The Jets will be able to diagnose the plays almost instantly. And Spiller without McIntyre isn't going to scare the Jets.

I agree. I'd love to know why the Bills continually try to make positions on a football team extinct. I'd run the Jets to death again like the Broncos did. Run and pound away at them.

While I'd love to share your optimism, I don't have optimism in Gailey coming up with a different game plan. If he goes into the this Jets game with the same ol' same ol', the demolition will be twice as brutal. It was the Jets who figured us out.

I'd go sign Hank Fraley today and bring in Gilyard, Gage, Randle El and Clowney for a look-see.

It was one of the biggest criticisms when he was at Tech and I'm convinced that the problem has resurfaced in Buffalo. He violates one of the larger nuggets of wisdom from the Most Interesting Man in the World when it comes to play calling. Find out what it is in life that you don't do well....and then don't do that thing."

I see ego being part of the problem. Not for the players, but Gailey. What teams get blown out three games in a row? Predictable ones. Gailey's belief in his coaches and his schemes are beyond what they've delivered the past couple weeks and this is what started happening in his Dallas and GT stops. Refusal or slow to adapt to changing conditions and opponent strategies. Get game tape on Gailey and you are set. You need to fire or demote Edwards immediately, get a true free agent center and some replacement WRs, and switch up your play calling. The NFL game is about out-adjusting your opponent and that's on him to do. The Bills are predictable. If we as fans know what plays are coming, you know for sure the experienced coordinators and coaches on the other side of the field have game planned for every move.

It'd be nice if the front office would go out and get some WRs and perhaps a C this week instead of screwing around with practice squad guys who've played as many NFL games as we all have. I'm not going to be amused if Gailey uses Levitre at Center again. It didn't work. Do something else. It is shocking that despite us being nuked from near earth orbit the last three weeks, we are still in it. Should KC pull off something big tonight, it will indeed tell me the cosmic forces for a Bills playoff berth are not only aligned but refuse to go away despite our best attempts.

Me too. I think I'm done for the year watching their games. I'm going to go enjoy my holidays. If they don't fire George Edwards by Monday night, there's no point in watching the rest of the games.

The Broncos gave the Bills the game plan to beat the Jets last night. Run it and punch them in the mouth. Time and time again and run over Revis. I see the Jets layoff working to the Bills advantage. The days upon days of withering media and fan criticism won't motivate. You throw in Buffalo and New England wins this weekend, and I bet some of those Jets players start packing it in. I see it with Philadelphia living in the Eagles media market. The unfortunate thing to the layoff is that LT and Greene get healthy.