mike oxhurtz

2000 Erik Flowers Arizona State Defensive End BUST 2001 Nate Clements Ohio State Defensive Back Good Player, but wanted way too much to stay 2002 Mike Williams Texas Tackle BUST 2003 Willis McGahee Miami (FL) Running Back Luxury Pick, wrong player for Buffalo 2004 Lee Evans Wisconsin Wide Receiver Good player 2004 J.P. Losman Tulane Quarterback BUST 2005 No 1st Round Pick, Roscoe Parrish (2nd Round) Miami (FL) Wide Receiver Waste of a #1 draft pick on Losman, Thanks Donahoe!! 2006 Donte Whitner Ohio State Safety The Wrong Pick 2006 J ohn McCargo North Carolina State Defensive Tackle BUST 2007 Marshawn Lynch California Running Back Good Player, Attitude problem & problem child 2008 Leodis McKelvin Troy Defensive Back Too inconsistent 2009 Aaron Maybin Penn State Defensive End/Outside Linebacker BUST (for the Bills) 2009 Eric Wood Louisville Center Very Good Center (health problems is a concern) 2010 CJ Spiller Clemson Running Back Luxury Pick when there were much bigger holes to fill

I'd have to agree with you. The Bengals were a very successful team in the 80's and I used to hate it when the Bills lost to them back then. After the Bengals Superbowl run, they started to decline and really started to suck for a long time. It seemed like every year they would have a high top 10 draft pick and they would blow it. You can definitely make those comparisons over the past 11 years about the Bills. IMO, I think this year's draft is the first good draft in years, but still, that's a lot of blown draft picks the Bills have wasted.

Yesterday on the CBS pre-show, one of the CBS announcers was talking with Santonio Holmes and Plaxico Burress about Stevie Johnson's TD Celebration (where Johnson imitated shooting himself in the leg, ala Burress). Holmes stated (somewhere along these lines), "first off, he's playing for the Buffalo Bills..." With they way Holmes said [Johnson] is playing for the Buffalo Bills, he said it in a disrespectful manner (meaning playing for the lowly Bills) and disrespecting Johnson. Are the Bills going to lie down and take this the next time they play the Jets next year or are they going to step up?

I saw that when Holmes & Burress were discussing Johnson's celebration. By the way Holmes said "He's playing for the Buffalo Bills...", he was disrepecting the Bills (meaning playing for the lowly Bills) and disrespecting Johnson. The Bills of 20 years ago would be very fired up about this, but not this group of pansies!! I hope Chad Kelly is right and "The New Man" is in charge next year.

Compared to Donald "Hands of Stone" Jones who dropped 98% of his passes. I have no clue what Boss Hogg & Cooter saw in Jones to make him the #2 WR? IMO, Jones is a good special teams player, but that's it. Aiken should have been a starter since Week 1, I'm glad to see him finally get his shot.

I thought he was in the WWE?

Great points. Also, the Bills spent good money to get Brad Smith and they barely use him. Everytime the Bills run the wildcat, you know it's a run and it's most likely going to the left side. I don't understand why Gailey doesn't add in a fake run and let Smith pass while running the wildcat. Fred Jackson did that a few years ago and threw a TD to Evans in the endzone.

Great post!!

Great points about passing deep to Jones on 3rd & short, plus that horrendous 4th & inches call. After seeing the same terrible offensive play calls by the Bills, I was saying "WTF are they thinking?"

I'd say they got exposed. They've been playing a creative dink & dunk offense and try the deep ball at the wrong possible times. To name teams: Bengals & Giants also shut down the Bills offense.

You're absolutely right the Bills are for real!! Great way to point out how much better the run defense is this year. We faced the top 2 rushing teams in the first 2 weeks and held them to under 132 yards in each game. Great point about the raiders, they're for real as well, so no one should discount the Bills win last week against the Raiders, considering how they beat a tough Jets team & rushed for over 230 on their defense. If the Bills win the AFC East title again, Buffalo would go just as nuts as they did back in 1988. I really want to see a home playoff game again!!! (It's been too damn long!!!!!)

This is the start of year 2 for CHIX. If you seriously think anyone can turn a sh@t team into a superbowl team in one year, then you're smoking some serious crack.

JJ, I completely agree with you. CHIX has been doing a complete overhaul of the roster from Dickie J & Marv. http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/9/4/2403478/buffalo-bills-roster-2011-buddy-nix-chan-gailey "Now that yesterday's roster cuts have sunk in, it's time to update those numbers: of the 53 players currently on Buffalo's roster, 40 are players that Nix and Gailey have either acquired themselves, or inherited players that they've made serious commitments to." People forget that Nix helped transform the Chargers from a 1-15 team to a consistent playoff team, that had a better win/loss record against one of the top AFC teams of the 2000's, the Indianapolis Colts. Nix stated the Chargers beat the Colts by having bigger lines (both offense & defense). Nix stated he plans to build the team through the draft and mentioned that the Steelers have been successful that way. The Bills defense of the late 90's was awesome and we had some huge guys on defense at that time (which Nix was involved with Butler & AJ Smith for building the defense). CHIX beefed up the defense this year. Next year, you can bet the focus will be on the offense. When your team gives up nearly 170 rushing YPG, then you have no choice but to address it. 8 times last year, teams rushed for over 200 YPG, that's pathetic!! Everyone hates it that it's been 11 years since we've been to the playoffs. With that said, fans should expect a good Bills team that not only makes it to the playoffs, but is a long-term playoff team like Chargers have been since Butler/Smith/Nix took over in SD. Donahoe tried building a quick playoff team through FA and failed.

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/8/18/2371257/bart-scott-tweaks-bills-on-ex-bills-bust-a-maybin-he-served-a-hard-2#comments Between Maybin & Bart Scott running their mouths, I hope Fred Jackson and other Bills players do a Marion Barber and send Maybin flying on his azz.

From watching Jasper's play last night, I saw him pushing back his O-linemen on a consistent basis, but he wasn't able to disengage and make a tackle or go after the QB. I know he is basically new to the NT position, is raw and needs time to develop, but considering how horrible Urbik, Wrotto & Howard were last night, should the Bills FO consider moving Jasper to the RG position? Jasper has played Guard in college, so it's not like they would be throwing him into a completely new environment. Thoughts...

I agree the excitement is too early, but I haven't seen such a dominating display of a pass rush like that from the Bills in a very long time. I guess after the years of the Tampon 2 defense, last night's pass rush was incredible to see.

I hope none of the QB's in the division paid attention to the Bills front 7 last night and don't for the whole preseason. I'd love to see K. Williams, Dareus & Merriman do what they did last night to Tommy Boy, Sanchez & Henne. I know it's early, but that was great to see last night.

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2011/8/10/2355087/why-fix-the-run-first#storyjump Here's a good article on why Nix has decided to build the defensive line up first, instead of the O-line. IMO, I've always felt the right way to build a team was to start with the lines and build out from there. I was wondering why the Bills did not build the O-line along with the D-line, but the article explains why Nix went with the D-line first.

I agree 100%

Holy ass kickings Batman!!! I knew those games were bad, but DAMN!!! Those were some major butt whippings! My hope is for the Bills to not only get a win against the Patriots, but for the Bills to blowout and embarass the Patriots in Foxboro, like they did to us, when they beat the Bills 56-10 at the Ralph.

Another stat which should be mentioned is the huge difference in interceptions. In 2009, with Schobel in the lineup, the Bills D had 28 INT’s (2nd in the league), without Schobel in 2010, the Bills D had 11 INT’s (28th in the league). Last year, with no pass rush, the opposing QB’s had all day long in the pocket. It doesn’t matter how great your secondary is, if you can’t get any pressure on the QB, eventually, someone on offense will get open.

I agree with this 100%

I agree that the offense wasn't good last year, but there's reason to believe that it will be better than last year. Fitz is the starting QB this year and won't have to share reps with anyone, plus he won't have to learn a new offense, so another year in the same system should benefit him & the players. Plus, as others have said, with the defense getting a lot of offseason help to stop the run, they will be able to get off the field more and give the offense more shots to do something.

Very good question. Wawrow said last year, he felt it was 65-70% chance that the Bills will be in Buffalo long-term after Ralph passes. Let's hope that comes true.

Games that stick out over the last 5 years, the Dallas MNF game and the Bills loss to NE (the McKelvin "take a knee" kickoff/fumble). Those are the type of close games that I would like to see the Bills winning in the future.