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Sweet. Two 'excellent' running backs. No franchise qb. And one of our excellent backs gets out-rushed (yards and carries) by literally 4 quarterbacks. Hurrah!

Of course the only way we will win consistently is with a franchise qb. Most obvious thing ever. But I almost guarantee that the next reply after mine will be from some clueless yahoo that wants the best player on his favorite team to weigh more than 300 pounds. Lots of Bills 'fans' are scared to draft a qb #1 so the spotlight will shine on us and we might lose our Loveable Loser persona.

Just about every team in the NFL has at least one rookie starter. Some have several. Ask yourself why the Buffalo Bills, a team with such a near complete lack of talent, can not find a draft pick that is better than the incumbent trash. The Patriots plug in a handful of rookies every year. Why is that? Hint: The answer hurts.

Guys, seriously, you'd have thought Kool-Aid time was about over once the harsh reality of things set in. Before the season, I'd express my dismay that we wasted such an unbelievably high draft choice on a running back, when we had good ones. I'd protest that you needed a total stud Adrian Peterson every down type to reach that high. I'd groan about how we drafted a 10-touch a game situational back and the delusional among us would scream bloody murder. And now we see what we have. A running back that has literally less carries than Michael Vick, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers, David Gerrard, Joe Flacco, and Jason Campbell. A half dozen quarterbacks have more attempts than our "workhorse", and several of then have missed considerable time. 63 players in the NFL with more carries. If Eli Manning gets frisky this week, he'll likely catch him. You guys need to stop this dysfunctional cycle of excuses and acceptance. It is killing you.

It's way too soon to express outrage that the team, despite being flush with NFL-caliber running backs used a luxury pick on another back who allegedly would be an immediate game-breaking field position changer, and he can't sniff the field? Spending top picks for a kick returner is dumb, 5 games in or 500. It was dumb in April, and it continues to be dumb. Meanwhile, literally countless picks for other teams are making impact week after week, while we sit around wondering if Troup will get 5 plays on defense or whether Carrington will actually dress for the game. Sweet! We so good.

Truth hurts.

We should trade him for a 2nd round or high 3rd round pick. That's what everyone here thinks all of our players are worth.

Wow you are dumb. So having a franchise quarterback on your team like Peyton Manning is worth LITERALLY SEVEN WINS to you, but you are still so desperate not to have one. I wonder how many games a season your fat lineman is going to win for you. Holy crap it is scary how desperate some Bills fans are to maintain their lovable loser status.

This just in: Bills fans are dumb. Zero risk, high upside. DO NOT WANT.

I agree with giving him a chance, Cornell Green obviously fails the eyeball test for competence. But, to play Devil's Advocate, while there have been a small handful of undrafted players that became good NFL players, pretty much every good NFL player ever was drafted. There is a reason for that

If the Bills draft a linebacker with the 1st overall pick in the NFL draft, they will be laughed out of Radio City Music Hall. Seriously? Draft a linebacker #1 overall? Ouch.

There are three camps on the Stadium Wall right now with regard to the Bills draft future. Camp #1: Andrew Luck Camp #2: Ryan Mallet Camp #3: Draft fat guy I fall into Camp #1, and think that Luck passes my eyeball test for what I want in a QB. As with most Camp #1ers, just about all of us would also be happy with Ryan Mallet, because both camps recognize the absolute critical importance of having elite-level QB play. Heck, people in the Luck/Mallet camp would probably even be able to rationalize Jake Locker, as he is a highly-touted QB prospect and while he isn't our ideal, at least there would be a chance that we'd become a relevant franchise with him. Unfortunately, there are a few hold-out Camp #3 folks who think that the best player on your football team should literally be fat. While people in the Luck/Mallet camps agree that having good offensive and defensive line play is important, we believe that the quarterback is the single most important player on any professional sports team in North America. Get ready for them both to come out and Buddy selects...Mark Ingram.

Um guys, there have been a million threads talking about how Fitzpatrick is the quarterback that the Bills need to succeed, and that we shouldn't pursue elite-level franchise QB play because we're all set with Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Oh no! He reminds me of a 4-time Pro Bowler and is a debatable Hall of Fame QB. No, I don't think he'll make the Hall of Fame, but a quick Google search for drew bledsoe hall of famer tells me that it is at least a conversation. That sounds terrible, DO NOT WANT.

Again, a lot of people are really misguided on this whole, "Don't draft a quarterback #1 or you'll have to give him a BAZILLION dollars and a HUGE SIGNING BONUS!!!!" garbage. Whoever the Bills select with the #1 pick (or #2 or #3) will receive basically the same exact amount of money, whether he be a QB, OL, DE, etc. It really drives me insane to see people spout this same tired drivel.

Sweet. I can't wait for the days when we have a quarterback that is fine. Quarterbacks that are just fine lead their teams to 6-10 to 9-7 seasons, with a flukey outside chance at a one-and-done playoff berth. Buffalo Bills fans: Desperate to rebuild back to 7-9 where it just feels like...home.

Ain't that the truth. That's why I advocate swinging the bat every chance you get until you fluke it one time.

So you're going to base your decision to try to draft a franchise quarterback on how a journeyman back-up does in one game? I mean, yeah, he's going to get crushed, but I think you can safely evaluate Fitzpatrick's long multi-stop career and decide that he simply isn't good enough to win playoff games. Great guy, great teammate, great back-up quarterback.

I haven't seen anything yet that corroborates that ESPN asked Del Rio to use timeouts, and that he did to give ESPN commercial breaks. If I see that, I'll feel really ungood about it.

Kevin Kolb is not available for trade. Top secret reason why: A potential elite-level franchise quarterback is so insanely valuable, that they are literally priceless. He simply is not for sale, because the Eagles recognize that without elite quarterback play, your team can never achieve consistent success. Remember that in April.

I'd rather my team tried and missed acquiring an elite-level franchise quarterback than ignore the most important position in all organized sports. I'd rather my organization recognized that, without an elite-level franchise quarterback, your team is doomed to hope for a miraculous single-season playoff appearance, rather than being able to compete for a championship each year for a decade. I'd rather my franchise shared my belief that having an elite-level franchise quarterback gave your organization credibility and hope for the future, thus helping to persuade high-quality free agents to come play for them. I'd rather my favorite team was committed to the pursuit of championships, and resolved themselves to build for that goal, instead of rebuilding to 7-9, fully acknowledging that striving for that level of excellence opens you to ridicule when you miss on your franchise quarterback. So yes, I'd rather the Bills had drafted Jimmy Clausen instead of Terrell Troupe. At least our pathetic play and hopeless standing in the NFL would be helping us evaluate the potential that we have our next elite-level franchise quarterback.

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Good reply. I give you a consistent gold star for always bringing some stats to the table. I know you aren't arguing against this, but just imagine how good they could have been with a real, franchise-caliber quarterback instead of Gerrard. Instead of an 8.5 win a year team, they might have contended for a championship or two.

Brady beat the Ravens last week. The good quarterbacks in the league can beat them. Ryan Fitzpatrick isn't one of the good quarterbacks in the league, nor is he even a top 20 quarterback in the league. Ergo, he will not beat them.

Maybe so, but realize that you'd just be trading one bad roster for one guaranteed for, at best, mediocrity. No QB = No playoffs. The Bills need a new catch phrase: "Draft the line for seven and nine!"