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Buddy Nix actually came out ahead on this deal. Good for Buddy! What do you want? A parade? The Colts GM also gave a 1st round pick for Trent Richardson. These trades may say more about the Colts stupidity than anything else.

Have you ever seen a homeless person digging through a garbage dumpster? The Buffalo Bills of the NFL looking for a QB!

Incompetence runs rampant at One Bills Drive. The glimmer of hope for Bills fans is that a new owner is imminent. Bills fans can hope for an owner who hires professionals. A serious top notch club CEO or president who hires an experienced GM with a winning track record. The new GM will hire a head coach with the same attributes. The current management is a joke. Russ Brandon has no football pedigree. He is largely an empty suit. Doug Whaley is inexperienced and hasn't proven he is a legit NFL GM. Doug Marrone looks like a high school coach. The coaching staff, with a couple exceptions, is way under-qualified. (i.e. offensive coordinator) New owner = clean house = hope for the future!!!

Brandon, Whaley, Marrone. I've been saying this all along and nobody cares. Trading two 1st round draft picks for a WR is easier when you know you're out on the street in less than a year. The future owner and GM and others will have to clean up this mess!

The Bills are re-arranging chairs on the Titanic. This move only shows how bad the Bills QB situation really is. This will be a trivia question in about two months.

Irrelevant. Different times, different circumstances. How would Abraham Lincoln have handled Viet Nam? Pointless.

No worries at the QB position since the Bills plan to use their 1st round pick in next year's draft for a QB.

You are correct, Sir! He doesn't pass the eyeball test or the smell test. I don't see a quality NFL QB in Manuel no matter how hard I squint or hold my nose. Isn't he supposed to bring something to the table? Why does every Bills QB have to be some massive re-construction project from the ground up? It's ridiculous how blind people are when they can't admit a mistake has been made. Why aren't the Bills looking for a veteran QB to school the newbie? The fact that the Bills have Tuel and Lewis as backups just shows how inept this organization really is! The new owner can't get here soon enough. The house needs a total cleaning.

Agreed the offensive line is a mess. The defensive backfield is a mess. The tight end position is embarrassingly poor. The QB situation is a complete cluster "mess". How does this add up to a winning team? It doesn't. This is another reason why giving up two 1st round picks for a WR was a luxury the Bills couldn't afford. Maybe the next owners will hire professionals to do the job correctly. Marrone looks clueless. Whaley looks like he is in over his head. Brandon was a marketing guy who schmoozed his way into a position for which he has no aptitude. The Bills desperately need leadership from a savvy owner who understands that you hire the best people possible. Was Marrone the very top candidate in their entire football universe to become head coach? He wasn't in the top 100 imo. As a comparison, the Eagles went out and hired Chip Kelly from one of the three best college football programs in the country that had an outstanding record. The Bills hired a guy from a mid-tier mediocre conference with a mediocre record. Which team has a brighter future and is more fun to watch?

There were 3rd stringers in there to be fair. Good summary.

I really don't understand the tremendous amount of support for the current regime of Brandon,Whaley and Marrone. A neutral observer might ask what exactly have they proven or accomplished? The neutral observer might answer truthfully, "Not much!" The only conclusion I can draw from these unofficial poll results is that Bills fans are so accustomed to mediocrity that they have forgotten what success really looks like. If the Bills finish 6-10 again this year will the poll results look different next year? Probably not.

Which teams in the NFL have a worse trio of QB's than Buffalo? None! The Bills won't be contenders until the QB position improves dramatically. Until then, the Bills will remain non-contenders in the 6-10 area. The only hope is that the new owner (unlike the previous owner) won't settle for mediocre when hiring a new team president, new GM, new head coach, new staff and new trainer.

What evidence do we have that Marrone knows what he is doing? I haven't noticed anything that rises above mediocre. Why is he better than the 5 previous Bills head coaches?

EJ is not the answer.

Especially on TwoBillsDrive!!!

Here is the elephant in the room: the offensive line is a jumbled mess!!! Let's put it this way- top contending teams almost always have an established and settled O line. The Bills line needs work. Until the offensive line gets tight and efficient, it won't matter too much what the RB depth chart looks like. P.S. You could probably make the case that Brown could start.

You can tell when you watch certain players that they have the natural instincts to succeed. They might have a terrible game, but you can see their innate ability to understand the game and to adapt instantly to changing conditions. You can't teach this natural ability. Unfortunately, EJ Manuel doesn't seem to have this ability. He doesn't have the knack for the game. Sure he's big and has a strong arm etc. but he doesn't know how to play!!! I thought the Bills made a mistake, based on desperation, when they drafted him. I was appalled that they drafted a 3rd rounder at best in the 1st round and I have seen nothing to this point that changes my mind. I thought Tuel showed more instincts and that is not saying much. The Bills near term success will ride on the QB position. EJ Manuel is not the answer. Yikes!

If Ralph Wilson wanted the team to stay in Buffalo indefinitely, he wouldn't have allowed the team to be sold to the highest bidder after his demise. It could have been arranged beforehand. He had the opportunity, but he didn't do it.

I said this a long time ago and I have no reason to change my view: there is a 95 % chance that the Bills will move to Toronto. The fix is in. The NFL wants a team in Canada and Toronto is the only real viable option. Also, I heard from an NFL owner, in a private conversation, that the Bills are headed to Toronto. The NFL is motivated by MONEY!!! The owners are greedy and not loyal. They can make more money with a team in Toronto vs. a team in Buffalo. It is all about the money. Now as a Bills fan since day one back in 1960, I don't want this to happen. In spite of the huffing and puffing from politicians, former jocks, and community leaders they are powerless to stop it. Prepare yourselves Bills fans. There is little room for the small markets like Buffalo in the Billionaires Boys Club (aka NFL).

I can imagine a bunch of NFL owners sitting around laughing at how they get dumb*ss taxpayers to subsidize their toys. Taxpayers should let these billionaire owners support themselves. The fans support the team, but the owners should pay for their private playgrounds. Donn Esmonde doesn't have an agenda, but he does have a brain.

It is becoming clearer that Marcel Dareus is an idiot. I wish that wasn't the case, but his behavior speaks volumes.

The title of the thread, "Vegas has released their win total projections" is not valid since the Nevada sportsbooks don't project wins and losses for NFL teams. This is one of the most misunderstood aspects of setting the betting line. ESPN is also famous for spreading this misinformation. The betting line is set by the sportsbooks to to get equal betting action on both sides of the number. In the Bills case, they have determined that 50% of the betting public will pick the Bills to win more than 6.5 games and that the other 50% of the betting public will pick the Bills to win less than 6.5 games. It is purely a number to balance their betting books. The house takes 10% of all bets so they want the action to be equal on both sides so that they reduce their risk to zero. They will make a guaranteed 10% of all the action if the betting is equal. They can get really hurt if the betting is lopsided to one side or the other. In summary, the betting line is not a prediction. For example, it is wrong to hear people say the Patriots are 8.5 pts better than the Dolphins because the line is NE -8.5. This is not what the odds makers are saying at all. They are trying to even out the betting on both sides... period!

Nobody knows at this point. If someone gives the Bills an "A+" or somebody else gives them an "F" then they are equally ridiculous. Equal. If you think the Bills had a great draft then your opinion is as nonsensical as another person who claims they had a horrible draft. The are equally and logically pointless. In 3 or 4 years, it might be fair to determine if the 2014 draft was productive or not. Until then, all opinions are useless.

Why can't you wrap your head around the FACT that the Bills did give up TWO #1 draft picks!!! The Bills got one in return, but they did give up two.

Three years later and the Falcons finished 4-12. Oops! There is a price to be paid for giving up future top draft picks just to move up.