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The Bills have even trained the fans to not want a quarterback. It's like some weird form of Stokholm Syndrome.

Is this guy serious?

I'm waiting....

Amazing response.

Great post. I agree completely!

We've all been there! Exactly. We probably should have continued to draft QB's even WITH Manuel. We have to put more eggs in the QB basket, and no I don't mean TJ Yates or whoever we signed as a QB3 this offseason.

Gilmore is a perfect example, actually. He was a stand-in starting CB that was good not great, and in the end, we couldn't afford to keep him. We missed the playoffs all four years, and now he's gone AND we got nothing in return. A complete waste of a pick.

I had to dig it up, but here's a post I wrote that got buried in another thread, but basically lays out why spinning the wheels and re-drafting positions is the main reason why we've been so mediocre:

Really? I never read anything by the Buffalo media and I agree with JM. We're too far along and seem to be treading water for Whaley to continually get my pass.

I'm starting pile on a bit with the Whaley hate. Obviously all of these errors pale in comparison to hiring Rex, or standing idly by while the President/Owner hire Rex, and then re-hauling the defense you spent so hard to build up. Whaley is the man with no plan. That much is evident.

Why even sign up for an account here? If someone criticizes your spending habits would you respond with, "well how did you spend my money when you were me?"

Which of our 1st round picks have been worth it? Maybe Dareus? What's the point of taking another McKelvin or Whitner? You need a QB. Who cares about drafting another Gilmore only to bail on him when his contract is up??

The idea that we should continue to be passive in our search for a franchise quarterback blows my mind. I love how Denver has approached the QB position since Elway took the reigns. Go after the best guy you can (Manning) and stockpile QB's that might be franchise worthy. If you don't think they're good enough (Osweiler), move on quickly and continue the search.

Isn't this a La Confora post? Does he have any credibility left?

Here, here. Something we can absolutely agree on.

You do? That pretty much confirms it, he's bad.

I'm really coming around to this. It might have been overreacting the first few times, but at this point... I don't think there's a plan.

The only truth to this is that the Patriots have Brady and that makes the rest of their moves easier. You're delusional if you don't think that Belichick, who's been poaching players in the division for years, doesn't realize the importance in financially hamstringing the teams that he plays most frequently. This is a win-win for them and only because we're in his division. He couldn't care less if we fall for the ploy and sign TD Mike for this outrageous salary. If anything, The Patriots are making us pay for the salary we give to McCoy, a fancy, shiny piece to a puzzle that we shouldn't have at this point. Whaley has scouted well, but I've lost all hope that he's capable of building a championship roster.

There's definitely some truth to this. Our team makes it incredibly easy for RB's to succeed, but both of those guys had an undeniable nose for the endzone. It's mostly baffling how hard it has been for the Bills to retain the players of value on their roster. Hemorrhaging the rest of the team for a "star studded" defense and then hiring Rex Ryan to lead them is one of the worst decisions I've ever seen. You'd like to say the GM needs to get fired, but we all know if was the marketing guy and the owner that did this.

If we retain TD Mike at this price we are falling for the sunk cost fallacy. For the Patriots, this is a win-win. They either get a very promising RB, one that will likely be their starter, OR they force the Bills to overpay for their backup. We would only signing him at this point to either want to get a return on our investment (which is very very low), or to prevent him from signing with the Patriots. I love TD Mike. He runs very hard and was one of my favorite Bills the last two years... but you'd be blind if you didn't notice how easy it seemed to be a RB for the Bills last year. The defenses needed to account for Tyrod as a legitimate rushing threat on each play and we ran out of a run-heavy playbook with an offensive line that was bred to block for long runs. The Patriots out played us here. Accept the loss and pray Mike doesn't pan out for them. That's our only move.

If you wait for the sure thing at QB you will never draft one. I have no problem drafting EJ Manuel, he was the best QB in that draft and it's a shame no one panned out. It happens. It also set the team no farther back than say...drafting Maybin. My only problem with the Manuel pick is that the team did not draft a QB the year before or continue to draft a QB the following year.

Drafting a QB is the only way to waste picks? See here I thought the way to waste picks was by drafting CB's or RB's you don't retain. Or maybe it's wasting top picks on guys like Maybin or Spiller or Whitner or McKelvin or even Mike Williams? It sounds like the whole thing is a lottery, doesn't it? Draft a QB. Keep drafting a QB. If you don't do that you wind up in situations where Tyrod Taylor is the best QB you've had in 20 years. That's right, we're now at a point where we celebrate average starting QB's that are mostly inept as passers simply because as a franchise we've neglected to groom at the very most important position.

Excuse me, but...that's how you interpreted my post? Yes, no one is saying that. No one. If you think that's the counter to your argument then you've completely misunderstood it.

You can't win if you don't score. I'm not sure how you ever get a franchise QB if you don't take shots to get one. Calling out people that want a QB amidst one of the longest playoff droughts in NFL history is genuinely laughable to me. I'm sure we were better off drafting Watkins, Gilmore, Dareus, Spiller, Maybin, Wood, and McKelvin, right? That's how you build a team, right?

Yeah it's almost like we want to win or something.