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If you watched the first quarter on Saturday and felt that Chris Kelsay was somehow a liability, you are a delusional hater bitching for the sake of bitching. I wish we had a better player too, but we don't. Alex Carrington? Seriously? Bills fans will enshrine any young player who can't get reps due to ability or injury just because they rationalize that ANYTHING must be better than the poor performances they see week in and week out. This is how Hardy was year after year going to be a break out difference maker, and why Brian Brohm earned cult status before exiting the league unceremoniously. Kelsay is fine. He played well on Saturday and was integral in our number 1 defenses domination of the Bears #1s. Deal with it, or drink the Haterade and search the DVR for questionable instances of sub-par play while ignoring the good. Yawn. Predictable.

Boy, there is so much utterly wrong with this post that it is hard to even take it seriously. This has nothing to do with free agent signings, but since you brought them up, they do tend to help teams win Super Bowls. To think otherwise is foolish. Also, to say that websites and magazines predictions are ALWAYS EXACTLY like the season before is ridiculous. Do you have any idea what you are talking about? People who follow the NFL closely monitor the goings-on of each team, and use that information along with upcoming strength of schedule to hypothesize which teams figure to have good and bad records. Use your brain for a second - perhaps the reason why most magazines and websites favor the Packers to be among the top teams in the NFL is because they were the best team last year, and are returning pretty much their entire team plus are getting back a slew of prominent injured players. The reason why most favor the Bills to again be at the bottom of the league is because they took a terrible team and made small changes that most figure will be insignificant. Bookies in Las Vegas have put the Bills at +15,000 (150:1) to win Super Bowl XLVI. They are the longest shot, along with Carolina. The Bengals are the third-lowest at +10,000 (100:1) followed by the Redskins (90:1) and Seahawks (80:1). Hey, they are just regurgitating the standings from last year, right? The Seahawks won their division. How does that compute? You do realize that they have a vested interest in objectively ranking this, and aren't just being anti-Buffalo because of some agenda, right? We get that you love the Bills and that they can do no wrong, PTR. But seriously man, think a little bit here.

Lol trade Maybin. Lots of teams are lining up to send high value draft picks for the 10th best linebacker on one of the NFL's historically worst run defenses. I say package him and the ghost of Erik Flowers for Patrick Willis and Vernon Davis.

The pundits, including the folks at ESPN who everyone here loves to hate, picked the Bills to be among the worst teams in the NFL last year. They were right. I hope they will be wrong this year - it happens every once in a while. But literally every person who follows the NFL that isn't a Bills fan thinks the Bills are again going to compete for the title of Supreme Failure. There is a reason for this. The reason isn't because they are somehow prejudiced against the city of Buffalo. It is because the Bills have limited talent, and year after year fail to make their team better in meaningful ways. We can still catch lightning in a bottle and win some games, but people here could stand to lose the persecution complex. Everyone isn't out to get us - we just stink and have for a decade.

I'm pretty sure that this figures to be the absolute lowest point in Bills history that I expect to enjoy in my lifetime. If you can't be negative after more than a decade of sustained failure, when can you?

FYI - lots of misinformation regarding the cap floor swirling around. Each team is NOT mandated to spend a certain percentage of their salary cap this year. The only mandate is that the league, as a whole, needs to spend 99% of the salary cap dollars to the players in salary. The Bills could spend 90% of their cap, while other teams max it out, go over, etc.

This will come as a surprise to folks out side of Western NY, but most teams don't need a gun pointed at their heads to spend more money. Lots of them are motivated by the desire to win and want the best players that money can buy. I know, crazytown.

Sup bro. That was my OP that reported Chris Brown on the John DiTulio show in Rochester on Friday at around 5:15pm interviewed Chris Brown. Those were indeed his comments. Don't call me a liar when you are in the wrong. Thank you.

The Buffalo Bill way: lose any player that any other team would actually take, and find another whole to plug with a third-tier free agent castaway or 6th rounder from Podunk U.

Consider this: If you were an NFL Free Agent with any sort of options (lol Thigpen), would you choose to play for the Buffalo Bills or perhaps one of the other 31 teams? There is the answer to your riddle - we don't try to sign the top tier of free agent talent because we are resigned to the fact that we CAN'T.

We don't abandon our free agents - they simply don't want to play in Buffalo. It is not like we don't want these NFL-caliber players on our team. It isn't that we don't want Miller or Asamouga or Clabo or any of the top 60 free agents. They just don't want us

Sorry Poz/Florence/Miller/Clabo folks. Poz is gone and we won't go after any of the top players. Might not like him, but Brown is plugged in. Wish we were lucky enough to like a team that gets their fans enthused by some exciting top notch player signings. Oh well, soon enough we will get to break down our new players recycled from benches around the league.

Greetings fellow Bills fans, Didn't expect this would blow up but needed to add some requested follow up information. This interview with Chris Brown was on the John DiTullio Show on 1280 WHTK on perhaps Thursday evening. Just caught it on my evening commute. May have been Friday. I don't have a link to audio - not sure it exists but that wasn't even the point of my OP. I paraphrased Brown obviously since this goes off my memory, but he definitely said don't expect the Bills to go after any of the top 60 free agents and fans should temper their expectations and look toward the second and third tier guys in the 70-100 range to fill out the roster. He was basically responding to a question of whether the Bills would make a splash and bring in name guys. Obviously Brown isn't a part of the Bills war room and is just speculating with educated guessing based on his knowledge of the team and staff. He mentioned again that Nix was a build through the draft guy, using that as support for his hypothesis that the Bills will not sign players that you've heard of/want. I don't think this is really going out on a limb though, despite 90% of the free agency threads that talk about how the Bills should "go out and get Poz, Clabo, Miller" even though there is zero chance of that happening.

According to Chris Brown on a Rochester radio show, the Bills are not expected to make any kind of splash in free agency and target any of the name players. When asked, he indicated that fans should expect the Bills to add free agents in the neighborhood of the 70th to 100th best players available. Looks like we are going to be forced into spending a bunch of that 40 million we are under the reported 2011 salary cap (3rd most estimated cap space in the league) on journeyman-caliber 10th best at their position available type guys. Exciting change from the status quo on this, the most wide open and exciting free agency period in league history. Sorry guys, but Poz, Whitner, and Florence are gone (they'll have plenty of options) and our pipe dreams of Clabo, Bushrod, Tulloch, Miller/Boss etc. arent likely to come to fruition. Predicting a spate of unknowns to sign here off other bad teams benches and practice squads. That is, if you believe Chris Brown.

There is no chance he will be back. Free agents with any sort of options to play for another team never resign with Buffalo, that is just how it goes. And trust me, he has options since he is a good NFL-calibre player.

Don't forget that Poz is a free agent, which pretty much ensures that he'll be wearing different colors next year. Can anyone actually remember the last time a Bill hit free agency WITH OPTIONS and came back to Buffalo?

Nobody is against regionalizing the franchise. Many other teams do this without selling their home games. It is shameful for an organization to sell home field advantage, which is a literal competitive advantage, for cash money. This is only one step removed from selling the opposing team a field goal each game for a million bucks cash. Traditionally, home field advantage is considered roughly a 3 point edge. Selling competitive advantage for cash is gross.

Smokers are now considered by many the same way that religious folks are regarded by atheists. What a bunch of strange birds, doing something so illogical. I know it stinks to be told that you can't do something that you like, but over time, the human trend is to weed out silly, harmful behaviors. And don't pretend that it doesn't happen to other vices - recreational drugs are out, alcohol is becoming ever-increasingly regulated and demonized. In a hundred years, the concept of smoking will be as silly as the concept of the opium den. Sorry for smokers, but your time is up.

You do realize that outside of our little bubble, very few people actually realize that the Buffalo Bills still have an NFL franchise. And those that do would quickly suggest that the Bills might not even be an NFL franchise. Sad times, and no, the Bills will not get the call to be on Hard Knocks. To even pretend that we could "turn them down" is laughable.

Sorry guys, the fact of the matter is that outside of our little bubble most folks don't even have an awareness that the Buffalo Bills even play in the NFL any longer. Everywhere I travel, if people see me in a Bills hat or something, the reaction is always the same: "The Bills? Oh wow, I'm sorry man." I know it hurts to consider that something you hold very dear has been devalued to such a degree, but being sad about something doesn't invalidate it. The combination of relentless losing and the almost total void of relevant, exciting players has ALREADY relegated the Buffalo Bills to minor league status. Only winning with talented, star players will get us promoted back up to the big league.

For a dying, antiquated, failed business, baseball sure makes a heck of a lot of money and is incredibly popular. I think reports of it's demise have been popular and premature for the last 20 years or so.

Oh look, a Ryan Fitzpatrick thread. Summary of two sides of the argument: 1. Ryan Fitzpatrick is a bottom-third quarterback in the NFL 2. But he's better than Rob Johnson, J.P. Losman, and Trent Edwards! Standards, we let them slip a decade ago.

Every pick, and their choice of any 5 of our players.

Watch out for DeMarcus Love as a sleeper right tackle. He has sick versatility and looked dominant every time I saw him play.

I love the armchair doctors here talking about his degenerative bone-on-bone lack of cartilage cripple condition. Nobody here knows the extent of his injury. It is borderline. Some teams think there could be long-term risk, other teams have given him a clean bill of health. To call him damage goods with a knee that is "essentially shot" is funny.