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Fitz, Jackson and Stevie were never given a chance during the Jauron regime. Stevie posted back-to-back 1000 yard season only after Gailey ran the offense. Fitz got his chance only with Gailey (who also goofed by giving Edwards the Starting job). The OL was so bad, that Jauron and Co had to make automatic choices to plug holes in the line. In fact, Jauron erred pretty badly by moving Wood from Center (in College) to Guard (in the NFL). When Wood finally played Center, he showed that he can be a dominating Center that can protect the pocket for the QB. Jauron should get minimal to no credit for any of these players development.

with our improved defense, we should be a Run..Run...and more Run team. We have to load up and force the other teams to stop our run. I still can't trust Fitz with this team. He just makes too many mistakes.

Every professional Job requires new employees to develop in their organization before giving them the big raises and bonus and stock options. The NFL should be no different. If an employee hired by Microsoft is fired after two years because he was not doing his job, do you expect Microsoft to have paid the Maximum for the employee for the 1st two years ? Considering the type of money thrown to rookies prior to this CBA was just asnine...and was blocking from teams giving the people who have really excelled the kind of deals they need to be given. The only weakness of the CBA would be that the teams should not have been given 4 years of exclusive rights to these players. It should have been 2 years and a 1 year of restricted right (at least for the 3rd to 7th round players). That gives these players some upper hand if they have beaten the rookie contract. Isn't that what a company like google or Microsoft would do.

The CBs also can rank higher if the defense has a pass rush.

I see the Steelers taking the division. They just reloaded..

I just think that GB made the mistake of not trading Flynn the previous season. Sometimes, things just don't fall your way....Brees was let go as a FA by San Diego because of injury.

And he sucked with the Expansion Panthers

Why doesn't the NFL make it a home-game for the Bills in alternate years...That way the Bills will lose only one home game to Toronto every other year. The NFL already does this with the London game without penalizing the same team every year. Ganesh I agree that the Bills could do a better job on that front. May be they run a helicopter service to the Stadium so that the business folks in Toronto can fly in/out of the game quickly.

Norv Turner doesn't coach their defense.

The Obstacle Remover.... Lived in Pittsburgh PA for a long time, before back to where I was born and raised. Have been on the board for 10 years and on the news group for several years prior to that. TBD is home for all Bills stuff....Really thank SDS for this wonderful site.

+1

Due to the ownership situation, the Bills will always be in the LA conversation. The Bills, Jags, Rams and Raiders have question marks about long term ownership and hence LaLa land will always be enchanting to the new buyer...Who will not, when they look at the opportunity in LA vs Buffalo. Until one of these teams actually move to LA, the rumors will never go away.

Time has a way of healing things, including the high stakes NFL.

I think the Steelers had a huge draft by filling holes on the OL with great talent in the 1st and 2nd round. Sometimes, your best moves are the moves that you don't make and there are probably some teams that did just that. The Steelers and Ravens probably had as good a deal as the Bills did.

Why is it that former Bills players are not turning into hosts on local radio shows in Buffalo. I see a lot of that in Pittsburgh, but not in Buffalo. It also provides them with a good career path. I am assuming that most of the former bills players don't live in Buffalo post their Bills careers

And that one thing missing for a good long run is to have a Franchise QB. I hope the Bills will find that soon.

The actual salary is not guaranteed until he is on the roster on opening day. Hence, it does not make any sense to release Edwards now. What if we have a similar season ending injury. Veterans are cap causalities either when FA starts (mainly due to them have Roster Bonuses) or in the 1st wave of training camp cuts when you are unlikely to have season ending injuries, Edwards is either traded now or will be on the roster till the 1st round of cuts.

To be fair to Smith, the wildcat was run just a couple of times the whole season and he took a knee in most of KRs (again thanks to the rule change). Brad was not used well. Of course the Offense crumbled after the game against Washington and everyone was out of sync.

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Agreed. We lost out on Maybin and Spiller due to stupid hold outs...especially Maybin.

Every loss hurts

I don't think this is even an issue. I believe in the last two years of voting, Andre Reed was ahead of Carter in getting elected to the HOF.

Not to mention that we unnecessarily picked a RB with the 9th overall pick that he could not start a game in his rookie season and only got to start because Freddie was injured. We could have used that pick to a pass rusher or tackle in that draft.

The "Ifs" are really big ones though to be ignored... 1. If Kyle Williams will be able to regain his Pro-bowl form since having surgery on his leg. 2. The team is switching from 3-4 to a 4-3 and also a change at the DC position. Will the players adapt to a new scheme quickly. 3. Do the LBs have it in them to get to the ball carriers @ the line of scrimmage. In spite of having Dareus, the run defense was still horrible last season. And these are just on the front 7

Actually Mike Wallace is available. It is just that it will cost the Bills a 60M contract and also a 1st round pick (Though I believe the Steelers will take a 2nd rounder). The Steelers hold the upper hand in the negotiations and will not budge to Wallace's demand and he is likely to play on the One year contract and be a FA next season (Unless he stops being greedy and decides to give the home team a discount).