Decade Of Fail

i get what you're saying and i don't really disagree. i hated T.O. before he came here, and wanted nothing to do with him. however, i think he really tried last year and once i saw how badly the media would try to egg him on into outbursts, i started having doubts about who was really the most immature party involved. that said, i'm not saying the bills should have kept him or signed him for longer. i'm just questioning all the people (mostly on the national level) who questioned his ability after a lackluster season with the bills. it's almost like buffalo is where careers go to die.

this. the guy has the right attitude and mental capacity to be a successful NFL QB, he just lacks the physical traits. which is sad. if only there was some way to transplant fitz's brain into jp's body...

assuming you meant "bye week" i'm not sure i'd want to throw brohm out there against the ravens in baltimore... unless you just want to take him out of the QB equation altogether, because he'll certainly be out at least the rest of the season after that game, and perhaps the rest of his life.

as a season ticket holder i've seriously been contemplating selling off some of these games to fans of the opposing teams as a "guaranteed" win for their squads. if their team doesn't win, they get a full refund.

1.) he doesn't seem interested in a high-pressure type job anymore and while he says he's not the type to just sit around, he does seem a little burnt out from the career he's had. 2.) he obviously wants something easy, and what the bills need is about as far from an "easy fix" as possible. 3.) vince lombardi could rise from the grave to coach this team and we'd still be 0-4.

if you can't learn to do something well, then learn to enjoy doing it poorly!

for the most part i agree with your plan, but want to make the following notes: 1.) the other guys on this board are correct in saying that it's unlikely you'll get a 2nd round pick for either lynch or evans... but perhaps if you cut out the middleman altogether and package them BOTH for a 1st round pick, you may get it. but you need to find a team with a good defense, and a good QB that just lacks offensive weapons right now. not sure who that would be. 2.) this plan neglects one big key, and that's the public relations aspect with the fans. sometimes you have to draft a QB ahead of a G or a OT, even if it's not the best choice, because it will give people hope and put butts in the seats. it might not be the best "football" move, but this is a business as well, and it's not going to survive without people going to the games. besides, you can always keep the newly drafted QB on the bench behind fitz/brohm for a year or so while you try to ease him into things without getting killed.

this guy knows. A+

at this point i'd almost rather trade jackson or spiller than lynch. i can't imagine either one of the being a backup to the other. lynch fits the backup role very well.

people tend to forget that a great receiver like T.O. operating at only 90% capacity is still better than 90% of the league... even if he has declined from his own personal best. would that have helped buffalo this season? probably not. we could have the best receiving corps in the league, but when your QB spends the entire game either on his back (with his pants down) or running for his life, it's not going to do you a whole lot of good.

you could have cowher, shanahan, parcells, whoever in here with this steaming pile of a team and they'd still be 0-4. not to mention that the bills have stunk so bad they couldn't even get those guys to return their phone calls. so cross out the coaches that weren't interested and take the best of what was left and this is what we've got. good coaches have to start somewhere. cowher didn't have a superbowl winning resume when the steelers hired him. levy didn't have years of championships and undefeated seasons in his resume either. you don't recover from a decade of fail overnight. yes, it's frustrating that we've been "rebuilding" for 10+ years, but if you keep pulling the plug when the rebuild is only half complete, then that's what happens. it gets to the point where you have to just pick something and stick to it. if you wanna delay things even longer, pull the plug on gailey now and see what happens. who do you realistically bring in to take his place with a team as dysfunctional as this? no coach with an impressive resume is going to want to risk tainting his legacy rolling around in this muck.

i'm not sure how anyone can know how significant any of gailey/nix's moves are yet. the polian/levy era began almost 25 years ago, so history allows us to judge the end result. gailey/nix haven't even been in town for 10 months yet.

my friend is a 49'ers fan and is dreading this actually happening. haha... i'd be happy for edwards though. i don't think he's a bad guy, sometimes things just don't work.

cutting edwards now was a brilliant move by chan gailey. it eliminates any talk of a QB controversy should fitzpatrick get hurt or have a bad game or two. because you know that talk would bubble up in the media and on messageboards in no time. i'm also certain, that in spite of his on the field actions, trent has friends in that locker room that could spread some dissension if fitzpatrick's play tapers off. it's obvious that gailey isn't about to take the bullsh*t that jauron did (remember him pulling the tv's from the weight room and actually making the players work out?). gailey has seen all he needs to see of edwards, realized it's not gonna happen, and is moving on. excellent timing and execution. you could say that there shouldn't be any QB controversy because edwards sucks. true. but that didn't stop people from having a battle royale over losman/holcomb.

seems to me like gailey was handed a steaming pile of sh*t and told to make a team out of it. i don't care if your name is cowher, shanahan, or parcells, you're not gonna do that overnight. it's fairly obvious that he's using this season to evaulate what he's got, who can stay, and what needs to be moved/replaced. unfortunately, in some cases, game film, preseason, and training camp aren't always accurate indicators of real gametime performance. sometimes a player will fail under one coach, but thrive under a different coach. sometimes they don't... that's what he's learn about edwards, so now he's gone. i give gailey credit for not dancing around the subject and taking swift decisive action for a change. this season is not going to be an end to the fail, but perhaps it's finally laying the groundwork. if we wins a few games along the way, great, but gailey's operating in a hole here that was dug by previous administrations. i'm not about to put the guy in the HoF or anything, but i'm not ready to crucify him after 3 games either.

the mentality that "you shouldn't draft a QB this year because there's not a lot of good ones" is stupid. no matter how many "good" QB's are in the draft, your team can (typically) only take one anyway. it doesn't matter if there's 3 good choices or 20, your odds are still the same.