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I was wrong about Fitzpatrick. Really was. Yesterday really opened my eyes relative to how he can play, along with his leadership. I will grow a Fitzbeard in support.

I told you guys earlier in the week...this is the day that Fitzpatrick throws for 301 yards on our way to our usual 7-9. :-)

I'd keep the guys we've got (with exception of Modrak) and see if they can build a winner from my embarrassingly large amount of money I'd have as owner and willing to put into the franchise. Oh, and have at least one Fan Appreciation Day a year, where all seats and parking cost $1 a piece. Build new fans, and reward those who have persevered.

After watching last night's game, +1 for Buddy Nix.

He will never be healthy again. He's never going to give you close to 16 games of performance at this point in his career. Sure he's young, but the massive amount of steroids he did in such a short time...tacked on a few chemical years of wear and tear on the joints in his body. It amuses me that those that want Merriman badly do not want Burgess or Thomas.

On Saturday, Andrew Luck will declare he'll be in the 2011 draft. On Sunday, the Bills will start their impressive seven game winning streak with a win against Baltimore. Fitzpatrick throws for 301 yards. Just because.

He'll never be healthy again. Those constant, nagging injuries to the joints and ligaments is the price you pay for steroid use.

There have been plenty of one and done coaches, but in most cases, the owners felt that the team had more talent than the record reflected, and the coach got the ax. Not the case in Buffalo, where Wilson admits the team is short on talent. Gailey, at minimum, gets next year.

These articles are usually just the tip of a very big iceberg, sadly. Freakin' Kiper.

FWIW, if you watch tape of Maybin while he was at PSU, he's in the 4 point stance. However, he's lined up quite a ways off the OT in everything I watched, so that when the ball is snapped, he does not have to take on the OT face to face, where the OT can use his size and strength but at the angle, which benefits Maybin's speed.

I agree 100%. The four point stance completely eliminates his speed. This is why I think the defense problem is more on the coaching and not the players. Anybody can see Maybin's too light to be lining up like that against a monster OT. I have no idea why the "creep* defense isn't used instead of this nonsense of switching between 4-3. 4-2-5 and sometimes, just maybe, a real 3-4.

That drive-kill statistic is all I need to know about Cornell Green. I'd rather take my chances with Howard until he starts killing drives too. I love the in-depth analysis of line play. You don't see that anywhere too often.

It wouldn't surprise me at all that when this finally plays out, it'll come out there was some grand plan all along. Which will surely fill all of us fans with elation and irritation, as is customary with the team.

I'd pay Haloti Ngata and David Harris whatever they want.

I'm in agreement that it's largely the coaching. I think the players look lost, and when you're a player and thinking too much about where you are suppossed to be, you're slow, or overpursue. Despite the fact Kelsay gets burnt time and time again, there remains no adjustment for it. The secondary, despite being one of the best in the league, is rarely in the position to get a takeaway. I think it's an act of desperation to try all these schemes. 4-3, 4/2/5 and the occasional 3-4. Again, this isn't Madden where you can have the same group of players running out there with a different defense every down. What's next? Will we see the 46? I'm still perplexed as to why this team does not bring in some available outside linebackers like Burgess or Thomas.

Nix is following the Butler/Nix blueprint of the Chargers, circa 2001. None of this should surprise anybody on this board. Bills West to Chargers East. I know patience is low, especially with how this season began, but "the" plan worked in San Diego, and I don't see any reason why it won't work here.

If it's a weighted lottery, makes sense to lose awesomely if you're going to lose anyway. Imagine getting some San Antonio luck in 2012.

Way too early to give up on Nix or Gailey. This isn't Madden where you can blow up and recast a roster in a half hour. The front office is essentially building a football team from scratch. It's what Nix was part of in San Diego. I wouldn't cry to see Evans or Whitner traded away for picks. Neither of them have impressed for years.

Trading players from the team you love is akin to trading in your car or old jewelry. You always think it's worth more than what's offered.

+1. Anybody who believes Seattle is a good football team needs to watch this past week's game and not buy into the Carroll hype. Lynch isn't going to help that old, porous defense. Hell, they have Lawyer Milloy out there still at age 65. I think those will be fairly high draft picks at the end of the season. Better than what they would have received from Philadelphia or Green Bay.

I agree 100%. However, of potentially available players on the Eagles, whom would be attractive to the Bills? Since the NFC East is wide open, the Eagles won't be parting with their "good" players, and they don't have a lot of depth, so draft picks looks like the only viable thing coming back to Buffalo from Philadelphia. If Lynch goes anywhere, I don't think he'll go to the Eagles or the Packers, but to the Redskins.

Depends on the team that he'd be traded to. If it's the Eagles, only draft picks make sense. The Eagles play a 4-3, with players that best fit the 4-3, and they don't have any offensive linemen that I'd be interested in.

Ralph Wilson is the only one sending the message. To Erie County. To Western New York. To Albany. It got personal back in 1997, when Wilson was negotiating improvements to the stadium with Pataki and Gorski. Fans are caught in the middle. My .02 is that Wilson was told that there was no, and never would be support from Albany for a new stadium, and that he was lucky to get the deal he got in the late 90s. From that point on, Wilson decided to match NY's minimal investment in the stadium and team dollar for dollar. I'm sure it was a dagger in the eye to see the *very* generous support for other New York stadiums (New Yankee Stadium)from the state assembly. I think the relationship between Wilson and the state is all but burnt to the ground. If you think Wilson has failed the Bills, it's only fair to lop in Albany along with him.

I drove up from PA this weekend. First Bills game at the stadium for me in over ten years. The positives...NY has superior roads, local folks were nice, and enjoyed the stadium. OP and Buffalo have a lot to be proud of. This sometimes visitor to town is impressed. The negatives...lousy weather, even lousier performance on the field. I saw a defeated fan base in attendance today. The spirit just sucked out of everybody, and it's something that you can only appreciate in person. I'll never quit on the Bills. However, I am less optimistic about the direction of the team than I was 24 hours ago by seeing just how bad it is. Perhaps, too, I'm pissed I sat out in sub 40s with a cold pelting rain to watch yet another blowout.

I thought he had a Jones fracture. Those are tough to fix and heal. He'll be lucky to see the field this year.