Brandon

I don't know. As long as he plays well and that shoulder doesn't cause him any problems, I think he's a lock to declare for 2010. He already screwed up once by not declaring for the '09 draft and I'm sure he saw million$ of dollars flash before his eyes when he got hurt in that first game. I doubt he takes the chance again.

I have concerns about all of them, but the truth is, I think I'd rather the Bills select any of them than keep this poor man's Kelly Holcomb around next year. Whatever. I'd choose either Bradford or McCoy if given the choice.

Yeah, but Brian Orakpo went to Texas. Texas! The same team as Mike Williams...and he sucked! Obviously, this means that Orakpo sucks, too! (This is what passed for logic on this board prior to the draft)

It depends. If he remains as the starter, I give him about a 50-50 chance of returning, with a 1st/2nd round rookie drafted by the new coaching staff. If he gets benched at any point this year, he's probably gone by the time training camp opens next year.

Nah, its not too early. I think they have to start looking for another QB, as bad as I hate to say it. I'd probably pick Sam Bradford. Barring that, I think its well past time to kick the 4-3 to the curb, so if not QB, I start looking for 3-4 defensive linemen with that pick.

Time will tell, but I think you're right, at least as far as Orakpo is concerned. As for moving Maybin to OLB, the question I have is whether he had any experience dropping back in coverage at Penn State. If the Bills played a 3-4, I'd say go for it, but I'm hesitant given the scheme they play.

His coaching strategy IS similar. The results? Not so much. He's been a head coach for 21 years and in that time, Marty has had only six teams that didn't achieve winning records and four of those were .500. I'm not a huge fan of Schottenheimer, but he's proven that he's a much, MUCH better NFL head coach than Dick Jauron.

The head coach is ultimately responsible for everything that happens on the field and in Dick's case, as has been mentioned, he has significant input in decisions in the offseason as well. As such, to answer your question, yes, a good portion of it IS Dick's fault. While there's plenty of blame to go around, he has definitely done his fair share of damage.

If the Bills offense had looked anything close to competent, I might have considered allowing them to score the TD. Unfortunately, the offense has played like utter crap, so the decision to force a FG attempt seems to be the correct one.

Absolutely not. If the Bills were to trade Lee Evans, they need to get him out of the division. Give the guy a real QB who isn't afraid to throw him the ball and he can be a very good player. Say what you want about JP Losman, but look at the numbers Lee Evans put up in Losman's only year as a starter.

In fairness to Lee Evans, I don't necessarily blame him for saying that, even if he doesn't believe it. If he were to speak out against Jauron, it would undoubtedly bring a great deal of controversy and unwanted attention to his own doorstep. Then again, maybe he does believe it???

I don't think it matters. The two RBs are probably last on the list of things wrong with this offense.

Well, that's nice, Ralph. But why now? Wasn't that finish last year embarrassing enough? Wasn't DICK's career record embarrassing enough when you hired him in 2006? Honestly...you're JUST NOW embarrassed?

Screw him. If he's too much of a coward to admit that he and this team played like absolute, utter sh** then he's no kind of leader for this team. Either that, or he just doesn't care. Cut him. Yeah, I said that. They need to make an example of someone. This season is over and I doubt Edwards returns next year, anyway. May as well start the housecleaning 11 games early.

Agreed, but the funny thing is, a lot of Razorback fans, myself included, will tell you that what you just typed sounds awfully familiar...

I guess I need to watch more football then. Jones was a better athlete than Mallet, no question, but I live in Arkansas and saw roughly 2/3rds of the games Matt Jones played in college. One thing he was not was a good passing QB. Mallett is quite clearly superior as a passer, as far as I'm concerned, which makes him far better in this type of offense. The only complaint I have so far is that he's not consistently accurate, but that's something that can probably be corrected. Given that this is just his 5th game at Arkansas, and only the 2nd year of a completely different offensive scheme, I think he's played extremely well. He's easily their best QB since the days of Clint Stoerner, in my mind, though Mallett is much more talented. Is he an NFL QB? Not yet, but he still has two and a half seasons of eligibility remaining. Lets see where he is at that point.

I can't say that I blame you. I don't consider anyone a 'bandwagon jumper' who is still here after the sh** sandwich the Bills have served the fanbase this decade. Myself, I have absolutely nothing invested in this 2009 team. The front office made it pretty damn clear at the end of last season that they just don't care. If they don't care, why should I? Maybe they'll get their act together eventually, and maybe my attitude will change when it does, but at this point in my life, I have better things to do than get emotionally invested in this crap anymore.

It doesn't make a bit of difference if the coaching staff and the QB can't find a way to get the ball to him. The Owens signing is indicative of another major problem with this front office. They do everything half-a$$ed. They bring in an aging future HOF player like Owens, but they don't support him by making moves to improve the lackluster talent around him, both players and coaches. They signed him as a bandaid and considered the problem solved. Obviously, it wasn't.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing Edwards or poor QB play in the past. I'm just saying that its hard to expect any QB to really play well when the front office has made its decisions on offensive coaching to a price point. In that sense, they've exactly gotten what they paid for. Even if they bring in a new QB, and they probably should, the end result likely won't change until they make a real effort to upgrade the coaching half of the equation.

There haven't been any, but that's the point. The Bills have had about a dozen QBs in that period, some more talented than the others, but they all look about the same on the field and suffered from the problems you mentioned. Meanwhile, what hasn't really changed? The sh** quality of coaching that the QBs and the rest of the offense have received over the same time period. Until their philosophy of hiring the cheapest coaches they can find changes, the lousy play of the QBs and offense in general won't change, either.

That's been said of every QB the Bills have had since Jim Kelly retired. Edwards is a bit limited, but I don't think he's as bad as he looks on this team. Coaching is the real problem. In the last decade plus, the Bills have tried to get by with the cheapest offensive coaching staff they can find and in the end, they've gotten what they paid for, which isn't much. The QBs are victims of this type of front office idiocy as much as the players at any other position.

Is it really that much of surprise, though? They've ruined every young QB they've brought in for almost 20 years now. I'd hate to be a QB drafted by the Bills.

I'd much rather they'd hired Sherman, but that said, I'm not sure the end result would have been significantly different. BTW, Sherman's Texas A&M team got stomped 47-19 by Arkansas Saturday night.

I'd say that the Raiders are easily the worst run franchise in the NFL. The Bills? They're somewhere in the next group of three or four teams along with St.Louis, Detroit and perhaps a couple of others.

I'm not a fan of Dick Jauron, in fact, I think his firing is well overdue, but I can't criticize him for that decision. In fact, its the same decision I would have made in his shoes. As others have said, the difference between being ahead 10 and being ahead 13 is that the latter forces a weak Tampa Bay offense to score two TDs. It seems like an easy decision to me. Maybe it was a safe, dull choice, but it was the correct one. I can't blame him for taking the points under the circumstances at all.