BringBackFlutie

Tough game for tough people...

They're clearly better. It's simple reasoning- slightly upgraded offense with the same system/coaches and a vastly improved defense with one of the best "inside linebackers coaches" in the league. Add a sound beating of a playoff team who beat us last year... It's not rocket science, it's 1st grade arithmetic.

I can't believe it. My Bills Backer bar here in Nothern VA couldn't get the game on their HD receivers and actually went to their employees' houses and snatched some older boxes and brought 'em in so we could all watch the game. Direct TV way over-charges for NFL Sunday ticket, and it is absolutely absurd that they could be down for every single opening day game until the 3rd quarter this year. I think 100% that people who paid for NFL Sunday Ticket deserve a refund for this week without question. Today was unacceptable- period.

The sprinkler... Looks like it.

I think you just summed up the content of this and other BB boards for the past 7 years.

Had Vick come to the Bills, it would have been for a one year deal in the same year we had T.O. Things would have gone the same and we would have lost him at the end of the season before the chance to give Chan a crack at him.

Ah, I see the now. I thought you were being sarcastic saying that we clearly should have gone after FAs because it would've been better than our constant "development" of players like Maybin. Since that seemed completely unreasonable (given our current situation at LB), your post above makes far more sense to me.

Can't disagree.

I don't think White, Moats, Batten, Coleman, Sheppard, or even Carrington are as bad as Maybin. How can you even equate my statement to such a situation? "Evaluating" is much different than waiting for two years for a 228lb 4-3 DE to make a miraculous transformation because the prior regime decided to invest half the team (exaggeration) in him. To constantly ask why the Bills haven't signed every FA released by a respectable team regardless of track record and position is bizarre to me.

Park at Pittsford Mendon HS- rarely crowded and usually on a quick cycle. I always stood on the fence after practice for autographs. Players don't all sign autographs, usually it's just a couple here and there that will do it on their way back in from practice. I bet you could draw Marcell over if you hold up your jersey Players have their own markers.

Man, he probably has 0 time for fun outside of football. He has two little kids.

Can we evaluate all of our linebackers and get them all healthy before we start going after MORE? I think the O-Linemen are a little bit more in need.

Well, looks like if we were dependent on only our 1st round picks we would be last in the league. Figures.

Besides with Gonzo, it seems like Chan likes to use his TEs in the red-zone...

It may not be just a matter of versatility and what they lose... It may be a matter of having all around good receivers that can handle the coverage and make it actually EASIER to go deep because now it won't be a "throw it deep when Lee isn't triple covered" kind of thing.

Regardless of Cleveland's overall performance, DJ is a pretty darn good DC. Horrible, conservative, piece of crap HC, but a good DC.

One can dream...I think they're just trying to see how versatile their depth is, since they have so little of it.

Agree.

The Dolphins ran a gimmick offense that produced a single season of winning. They also apparently were one player away from winning with Pennington (but it is proven that they are STILL rebuilding, because they quickly regressed). The Falcons went from Harrington to Ryan from 07-08, and from 7-9 to 4-12 from 06-07 after losing Vick and their coach. For what it's worth, there are many who think that the make or break for Buffalo this year is a hole at RT and QB. So in many people's eyes, it can be the difference of one player. But even if this is true, Buffalo had way more holes than a QB or RT at the beginning of the off-season, and two years ago the holes were all over the front office and coaching staff as well. I don't see what's so difficult to understand about this. Our franchise isn't on a downward trend, it's been marinating in the mildew of the basement for years.

Is all of this true? These teams were devoid of talent in nearly every category? Their front office was a disaster? They had endured 10 years of bad draft choices and personnel decisions? Out of any of the links below, what team's records actually show a complete sustainable change from being in complete despair for 10 years to being in the playoffs 1 year after the new regime entered? They all built off of what was already there (ATL), didn't really improve (NYJ), or improved for one year (MIA). http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/nyj/ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/mia/ http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/atl/ A new coach and a few "missing piece" players is not a rebuild. Our team has been literally gutted and rebuilt from the ground up to GM. Rebuilding is rebuilding, not remodeling.

...And I'm sure they had a reasonable thought pattern that led them to believing we'd win more than the year before. They were wrong. Noted. However, in a discussion at this time of year which is based only on the prior year's performance and what we have now as opposed to then, the power-ranking argument is quite weak. In other words, I'm not saying my predictions will turn out to be correct, but from a logical reasoning standpoint, based on last year's performance and the latest additions/subtractions it's pretty unreasonable to say we're going to be worse this year.

...my first guess would be that Williams was more highly rated than the CB and/or O-lineman they could have taken in his place. I think it's obvious that Nix refused all trades because he wasn't willing to give up our early picks in each round because we needed the value and the sure-fire picks more than anyone else. To say we could have had both positions in one round is probably accurate, but you have no way of knowing if those players would have been reaches at their respected picks. He did what needs to be done in the mid-stages of a rebuild- he decisively fixed multiple holes contributing to one major problem, and he did it with the highest-value, lowest-risk picks he could. ...Who has room for risk when they don't have a team to begin with?

So wait, Cornelius Bennett sacked John Elway 3 times and then told him he needs more protection? Or is this just inferred?

I think winning it all for the Bills is actually more than 100/1, I think it's 160/1.