mattsox
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Andrew Luck. The ONLY OPTION.
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I highly doubt it. I think Chan is a good coach, but he has no talent to work with. Imagine if the Cowboys didn't give Jimmy Johnson a second chance. He went 1-15 his first season. Well it actually might of been good for the Bills, LOL. I don't always think it's coaches, its the players. Gotta have good players that make plays. Unfortunately half of our roster belongs in the unemployment line.
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Q: What Happens when Ralph Wilson dies ? A: The Team becomes competitive instead of the laughing stock of the league. That's what happens.
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There is a 0% chance that Ralph Wilson takes a QB, unless there's a rookie cap by then. He doesn't have the stones to pay a QB what the Rams paid Bradford.
They better Improve the offensive line and DRAFT A QB or no one will be at the games next season...
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Single worst moment: The Firing of Bill Polian
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Finally, the last piece of the puzzle. Now we'll be able to compete
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Perry Fewell is looking pretty good right now !
Chan and his pee shooter offense, its like lipstick on a pig !
So Is Tom Donahoe. We should put up a billboard of Pollian ala Bush on the 190. Miss Me Yet?
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Yep, Gonna take about 2-3 years to turn this around. We'll def get a top 5 pick and we're gonna be in position to have a great draft. So it's up to Good Ol' Buddy to get er done. What makes this so disappointing about this season is that they didn't draft well nor did they go after impact free agents. Cutting Lee Evans or Whitner or whoever is a bad Idea. We need these guys. It's not our money so who cares. I don't care what they pay them. Just go get the talent. We should have got Julius Peppers and impact players like that. If they continue that trend next year, it may take 4-5 years of great drafts before this team competes for a championship.
Next Year if they go after big time free agents and draft good talent. They should be back to about 3-6 win range. But a another bad draft and not getting big name free agents, it's a recipe for disaster.
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I agree with Mort. I think this franchise would be in far better shape today if TD had been left alone. Sure, he made some bad moves, but he never overpaid schlock like Dockery, Walker, etc. And, I do think that Buffalo had a much more solid franchise, before he was banished.
Yeah. I believe he made some good moves. The bad thing about TD was his stubborness. He really started getting stupid with the drafting of JP Losman and of Course Mike Williams. He did fail big by not keeping Winfield, Clements and Pat Williams and Jonas Jennings. Those were some solid players we needed in key positions. But to play devils advocate: Williams still plays in the NFL and JP has won a championship in the UFL. Alot of his players made a differece and the man made moves. He got the Defense better in 2003 season. He got big name free agents in here and got this team out of cap hell. He got us a QB, Yeah Drew Bledsoe and Yes Losman was the heir apparent. He made moves and did things consistantly via draft and Free Agency. If he was bit more consistant he would still be here, and may have gotten us all figured out. But ya never know. Going back I'd love to see what he would have done in the offseason before the 06 season.
All good points. The beginning of the end for TD was the day it was formally announced back in 2004 that Gregg's contract would not be extended. It was clear in the press conference that TD was not thrilled with this decision and he went on to lament some of his challenges, directly bad-mouthing some of the Buffalo constituency in the process. He may have been right in what he said that day but many fans never forgave him for it. That 2006 team had boasted a top 3 defense that year but was let down by a declining Bledsoe and lousy offense.
As you said, TD did some good things, but Mort shouldn't overlook his blunders either:
1. Going with RJ over Flutie. This one wasn't such a problem, as Flutie was on his last legs -- but in keeping RJ around they operated under the possibility that he could be their QB of the future. Thus, they side-stepped drafting one that year. Gregg maintains that he wanted to draft Brees. I am not sure if I buy that or not. Even if it was true, Brees was a slow starter -- it took him until his 4th year to get cranking, and he would likely have burned out in Buffalo by then. Also, remember that as an expert at ESPN, Donahoe had opined that Flutie was the superior QB to RJ. Even RJ had told his friends that he expected to be the one to get cut. This tells me that someone BESIDES TD made that decision.
2. Drafting Mike Williams. We know now that it was a huge mistake. However, at the time it seemed like a very good pick. McKinnie obviously would have been the better choice, but his demeanor I think had the Bills worried. If you recall, McKinnie pulled a Crabtree and held out with the Vikings for several weeks into the season. Big Mike was actually pretty good as a rookie -- and I had I high hopes for him heading into his sophomore season. Of course, it just went downhill from there. Is TD to blame? Sure. Is this with the full benefit of 20/20 hindsight? You bet.
3. Trading for Bledsoe. After 2002 this looked like a victorious trade, as Bledsoe became the first QB in Buffalo history to pass for over 4000 yards. After the laughable 2001 season, he brought a respectability to the franchise -- and his presence served to inflate the value of Peerless Price, with whom TD was smartly able to steal a 1st rounder from Atlanta. It was impossible to gauge that Bledsoe would fall off the mountain as fast as he did. Based on just 3 years of production, giving up a 1st rounder now makes it a bad trade, but sadly the Bledsoe years (2002-04) were the best that the team has had over the course of this decade from hell.
4. Drafting McGahee when we had other needs. I have to say that there was some flaws in the logic with this pick that extends beyond the obvious fact that the team had other pressing needs, most notably at WR, TE, OL, and DL. The flaw was this: McGahee was coming off a severe knee injury that had caused him to fall toward the end of the 1st round. The Bills spent so much time delving into the nature of the injury and the prospects for a full recovery that they neglected to ask the question about whether or not a HEALTHY McGahee was a worthy first-rounder. He's shown flashes and is still in the league after all these years -- but he probably wasn't worth all the fuss, when a decent OL (Steinbach) or TE (Dallas Clark) were more conventional choices there.
5. Drafting JP Losman. When it is all said and done, this one may go down as the worst mistake that TD made during his entire tenure with the Bills. The Williams pick had been costly, but this one was magnified by the fact that the team gave up a 1, 2 and 5 to get Losman. Moreover, his presence led to (perhaps) a knee jerk release of Bledsoe -- and 3 more years of trying to figure out whether or not JP would ever be the answer. I have always blamed Sam Wyche for this one. Wyche was present at the Eli Manning workout at which Losman supposedly put on a clinic of his own. There was never denying JP's talents -- he just didn't have the total package. How sad is it that a 6-10 record the previous year only netted the 13th pick overall in that year's draft? For comparison's sake, the Bills went 6-10 last year and wound up with the #9 pick in April. Had that happened in 2004, the Bills could (and WOULD) have taken Ben Roethlisberger.
6. Allowing Pat Williams to walk. In terms of TD himself, this is the most unforgivable decision that I believe was all on him. He claimed at the time that he didn't want to empty the bank for a player that was beyond the age of 30 and likely past his prime. Obviously, he was wrong about Williams' expiration date. Worse, the Vikings signed him to a very reasonable deal. I think TD was guilty of playing hardball in this situation and ultimately put off Williams and his agent. That is the same sort of tactics that we are seeing with AJ Smith out is San Diego.
7. Coaching hires. First and foremost, we will never know what limitations were placed on TD by Ralph, who is notorious for not wanting to invest big money on a head coach. Would the Bills have been better off with Gregg at the helm for another few years? Maybe. He certainly had his shortcomings, and maybe his fate is to be a fantastic DC but not a good HC. Mularkey looked like a good find in 2004, but when someone imposed Losman on him in 2005, things went south in a hurry. And, when the infamous octogenarians forced him to fire his assistants, he wound up quitting himself. And we wonder why the team had such a hard time finding someone willing to be the new Bills head coach this year!
I like your thinking
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Wow the moves this week, make this team look like little league. Wow I can't believe it. This organization is a complete joke. Not until we get a new owner will this team get anywhere. 0-16 here we come!!!
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I wish Whaley was the GM. I think he'd do a much better job than what's currently going on here. How much of a say/influence do you think he really has here??? I think he knows how to build a team. Give him the Keys and let him do the job.
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These coaches are idiots, and starting to make jauron look brilliant. They had the entire off season and 3 years of game tape to evaluate and then cut him after two games. I count the days till this set of boneheads is fired...does it never end
Wow! Yeah, this is getting ridiculously stupid. I can't believe our coaching staff is so out of the loop couldn't figure this out. If this is the case. We won't do anything ANYTHING until we get a new owner who wants to build a championship and stop going "Good Ol' Boys" on us fans.
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Many wanted to get rid of him before the season started and go with TE, Brohm, and Brown.....
Fitz is a benchwarmer not a franchise QB which this team desperately needs. Fitz is not a starting QB. Come talk to me next week when Fitz gets 4 Interceptions against the Jets
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To clarify, the Bills were right by NOT bringing Campbell in, but they were wrong because they did NOT bring Campbell in?
That almost sounds like a Sully argument.
The Bills were right for benching Edwards, but they were wrong because they failed to wait 2 more weeks.
And when you combine the two, the resulting analysis comes out as:
The Bills are desperate and in "panic mode" because they benched their starting QB, but the Raiders are "more organized" because they benched their starting QB.
Sometimes I really wonder if the team is dysfunctional or if the fan base is.
Here is the logical clarification of this. Bills fans are desparite to get a QB in here that can win. Obviously all the QB's on our team suck. And unfortunately Cambpell is just as bad. His name was brought up because he is someone else. Unfortunately just because he is someone else than what we have, doesn't mean he's a good QB or an answer to our problem. Obviously he belongs in the unemployment line along with our 3 clowns at QB.
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His best move will be when he resigns.
You got that right. Time to take a seat Grandpa and get a young and ambitious GM in here and take charge and build the team via Draft and Big Time Free Agents. The Good Ol' Boys mentality of this franchise is so embedded with the owner, it just breaks your heart as a fan. When you see other teams go out and build a team up right and correctly and this team year after year does the same ol garbage and try to sell it to us, the fans. It just breaks your heart and this is why this team has become as irrelevant as the lions or raiders. It's sad to think our owner won't go out and get new blood because he doesn't know them. Well Ralph, everything you've done up to this point has failed. You failed the team and the fans. It's time to go in a new direction, otherwise look forward to the same old crap year in and out from Good ol' Nix and Co.
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I think it would be good for the players to hold out. They make waaaay too much money. Instead, they should be taking that money and putting it into a retirement fund or half of what they get paid goes to it. I'd love to see the scrubs play. Probably be more entertaining and the Bills might actually end up doing well if everyone is on the same playing field with the talent level.
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That's great, but he's going against an angry Patriots team this week. Not a take the week off because we secured our playoff spot team.
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It better be one of those QBs, otherwise, it's gonna get ugly...
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Well I'd be extremely surprised. I just think we don't have the talent to compete against NE. If we did win, we'd have to play out of our minds and really be on the same page. I don't see this team all of a sudden just becoming that team, due to the lack of talent, but if they win, it would be great, and really put a bullseye on NE's back.
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It's hard to throw the football down the field in the NFL. Well maybe if you have no talent and or have no OL in front of you...
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I sure hope not. We need to draft and develop a QB. Oh yeah I forgot we can't do that. I'm not sure if the Bills ever did that actually...
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Hey, I think it's great Fitz is QB. As sad as it is, he is the best QB on our team right now. But please come on. We are playing the Patriots this week coming off of a loss. The Bills will be lucky to get 150 Yds passing this week. The talent between our two teams is night and day. It's gonna be another blow out folks. 34-17 Pats.
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It's been bad bad drafting costing this team. You draft bad, year in/year out. You'll get nowhere fast. Like we see today. The team is bad because they keep missing when it comes to drafting. They have major fails over the past decade. It's sad but true. We need a better scouting and someone in charge of our draft. I have little faith in the people in that position now. This past draft has thus far been an utter failure. No impact player has yet come out of it. But we'll see...
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JP sucked and so does Trent. Yeah I said it. Why would I trade one piece of crap QB for another. Come on. JP is out of the League. We cut Trent tomorrow and so is he. Grow up and move on. Fitz is a good back up, but that is all. We don't have a QB on this team who can lead this team. THERE IS NO FIX THIS YEAR... We Need A QB and we need to rebuild the OL to have any success whatsoever. Looking forward to 2011!
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Yep, sucks when people become abusive and personally start attacking people. It just has come with the internet nowadays. Had my own personal attacks and had it happen to loved ones. Makes you a whole lot more critical of what you post on here.