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The Bills aren't going to find another DC at this point in the season. What needs to happen is Nix has to confront Wannstedt and Gailey and tell them that the expectation of the franchise is that they install an attacking, aggressive defense that will challenge opposing offenses at the line of scrimmage. Will Nix do it? Or will he take a nap on the season?

This is it. Fire the guys who currently run the team, but there is no guarantee that the owner and his braintrust will pick anyone better. Wilson shops for the guys who run the team at Walmart, and this is the end product.

I don't know, a guy who plays Madden and blitzes more than 10 times a game? That would be an improvement over Wannstedt.

The fact that the season has reached the quarter pole and the Bills QB succession plan is a mess falls on Nix. How can the Bills have over 5 losing seasons in a row and not have a young QB on the roster that they are developing? Name a GM who is trying to turn around a losing franchise has a strategy that ignores the QB position in the draft?

Yeah, Wannstedt isn't doing anything to help this guy, but with that said, you still have the expectation that he would win his share of one-on-one battles.

I think the only three Bills fans who don't want to see an aggressive, attacking defense is Nix, Gailey, and Wannstadt. Every team that has beaten the Patriots over the last decade have collapsed the pocket around Brady. And it's hard to miss this, because two of those loses came in the Super Bowl. So what the hell was the gameplan for this game? Nickel and Dime packages with 2 deep coverages? Seriously?

Well when you play the d-line head up on the offensive line, with no blitzes, they're pretty easy to neutralize. It's 5 or 6 against 4 every play. Wannstedt is stealing money. Most D coordinators spend their week coming up with blitzes, stunts, twists, and looks. Wanny must spend his week eating cheetos and watching chick flics.

Nix needs to be fired too.

Playing 2 deep zone against NE is moronic.

I honestly cannot figure out the Bills strategy when it comes to QBs. The team is 10-22 coming into the season under Chix, and despite that record, they have spent one pick on a QB in three drafts. I get that they like Fitzpatrick, but most teams, especially teams at the bottom of the league, usually try to spend a pick or two in the draft on a QB to develop. Considering how many of Nix's draft picks have been wastes, it's hard to believe that they wouldn't have taken a flyer here or there on the most important position on the field.

I get that Spiller had a good game today, and that his production is finally catching up to his talent, but do you really want to waste time on a Jackson/Spiller debate? This team has a limited QB with Arena-league caliber receivers and a coach who loves to run a division 2 college spread offense. Those are the offense's problems, not who plays running back. The Bills should be running the ball 50 times a game. No matter how well Spiller plays, the team is going to miss Jackson.

How can a team be 10-22 under the current GM/Coach and have no young QB waiting in the wings? There a bunch of lousy teams starting 1st and 2nd year QBs this year, and the Bills have Thigpen, Jackson, and Smith on their roster listed as backup QBs. This is flat-out front office negligence.

"Honey Badger" is such a cool nickname, that I would like to hear these words spoken before every pick in the draft (even though he's not eligible this year). "And with the 1st pick in the 2012 draft, the Indianapolis Colts select, Honey Badger, Andrew Luck, QB Stanford."

The Bills did trade up to get JP Losman, who, I guess, is a QB.

Or Irsay wanted to go with Luck and Polian wanted to stick with Manning. Polian isn't a young man anymore; he might have wanted to ride Manning on one more SB run before retiring.

This is a giant crapshoot. Flynn could be the next Young, Schaub, or Favre. Or he could be the next Rob Johnson, Matt Cassell, or Kevin Kolb. It's a huge decision for an organization to make to bid for or pass on Flynn. The question is, do you trust Wilson/Nix to make the right decision here? Will these guys even consider the move and evaluate it properly? I say they don't even give it two thoughts. They won't even consider making a move for RG3. They'll stick with their draft position, watch their free agents leave, and then try to plug the multiple holes in the lineup with draft picks, UDFAs, and bargain FAs.

Right, so he gets the same exact injury that cost him playing time if he stayed with the Bills. All things being equal. Before you get too smug with this move and Nix's genius, the Bills started a 3rd string QB and used a backup RB at WR this season. Maybe Wilson/Nix will wow us and package that 4th rounder to move up in the draft, but I doubt it. Meanwhile, Wilson/Nix emptied the toolbox before the season even started.

Rob Johnson

If you want to make an "all things being equal" argument that Evans would have suffered a similar injury if he stayed a Bill, missing most of the season, then fine, great move Buddy. We're sure you're going to tear it up with that 4th rounder . However, you cannot make the argument that with the loss of Evans that Nix built a great receiving corps. The only WR that posted any numbers was Johnson, and it looks like Wilson/Nix are going to let him walk. Parrish remained injury-prone; Nelson hit his low ceiling; Jones was not up to the task; Martin was a waste; and the rest of the group were pretty much roster-fodder. So the Bills go into the offseason needing #1 and #2 receivers. No problem for a team that needs to upgrade the DE, OLB, OT, and CB positions. Especially when that team doesn't believe in rebuilding by signing top-level FAs, prefering to build through the draft (where they usually miss) and by signing cheap UDFAs.

The Bills would have to make a major deal to get RG3, and then make some major FA signings to make up for the loss of draft picks to fill the craters in their lineup. I don't think that Nix (or Nix under Wilson) has the chops to make the deals to make this happen.

Yeah, Fitz's contract isn't really that bad and doesn't prevent the Bills from drafting or signing a free agent QB in 2012.

And they would be playing half their home games in Milwaukee.

If Brad Smith and CJ Spiller are the foundation of this offense getting better, the Bills are completely screwed.

Sticking with incompetent leadership will also get you nowhere. The reason why no good GMs come to Buffalo is because Ralp refuses to conduct a real interview process when it's time to replace the last bozo. You can't hire the next up-and-comer if you refuse to interview anybody but your old lackeys.

Spiller = Ronnie Harmon. A huge miss by Nix with his first pick as GM.