jad1
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This team is run by a bunch of amateurs. Welcome to the end product.
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.
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Assuming that the Bills fire Wannstedt, who do they replace him with? What good NFL-caliber DC is currently available?
I don't know, a guy who plays Madden and blitzes more than 10 times a game? That would be an improvement over Wannstedt.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Just before the game, one announcer said of the Bills D line
"Probably one of the best defensive lines in the league"
What a joke
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.
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Last place in the AFC East, here we come.
I hope Nix fires Chan this week.
Nix needs to be fired too.
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Playing 2 deep zone against NE is moronic.
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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.
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Huh? This doesnt even make any sense. Did you not watch him play the last half of the season? This kid was a feature back last year when FJ went down and was very good then when FJ went down again today he took the offense over once again...what more does a kid have to do? Not to mention, he totally out played FJ today as FJ had not done much prior to the injury...
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.
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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.
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"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."
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Unfortunately too many on this board have the same mindset.
"Oh the pretty draft pics....the draft pics...they fill holes...we can't wager these valuable hole fillers."
Here is a different spin - in 12 years, this team has meaningfully traded up twice (for Poz and McCargo). Neither instance was for a player that has the reward potential of a QB. We have drafted at the designated, pre-allocated spot easily 90% of the time.
What have those pre-allocated, status quo ante, draft selections gotten this team in terms of wins and losses?
In business, investments, and yes, even in sports, it's the risk takers who run the table. The yellow-bellied, intimidated, status quo bunch get walked on.
Risk takers lose plenty too, but generally they experience either significant lows or significant successes because of the strategies' boom/bust arrangement. Interesting thing is, though, that their successes are sustained, and their lows can be as short-lived as the next calculated risk.
Everyone else remains on this long-winded, protracted, sustained ebb or low-degree incline waiting for the right confluence of events to happen.
The Bills did trade up to get JP Losman, who, I guess, is a QB.
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I get the distinct impression Polian was candid with Irsay and flat out suggested that Manning be let go and let the rebuild begin with Luck. But Irsay is too loyal to Manning and all that he brought to Indy and Polian was shown the door. I don't think they'll select Luck number one overall and, with a good chance that the Rams pass (and perhaps Minny,too), there could be some major movement at the top of the draft board. Either by teams in a frenzy to make deals to climb up or for the unexpected fall of Luck to perhaps three or four.
What say The Wall?
GO BILLS!!!
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.
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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.
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The point is, the bum went to another team and still SUCKED. When he was here people were asking "how good could Evans be if he had a QB to throw to him?" Well he's on another team with a good QB and still Sucks.......Get it?
And Evans still Stunk....... 9 games 4 catches 74 yards. WOW!
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.
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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.
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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.
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That's simply not true given the nature of the contract Fitz signed.
GO BILLS!!!
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.
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no, if he were, then the packers wouldn't have been in the playoffs this year or any other in the last decade.
And they would be playing half their home games in Milwaukee.
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Fitz made plays today, and missed plays today. He's stopped playing gutsy and started playing conservatively with his throws. Less interceptions, but he doesn't feel like the Fitz I knew and loved. He is getting more accurate (slowly), though not in the deep throwing game. Brad Smith is finally stepping up, Spiller looks better every game he plays. We're gonna have talent in a year or two. And I'm just as tired of saying that as the rest of you are, FYI.
If Brad Smith and CJ Spiller are the foundation of this offense getting better, the Bills are completely screwed.
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Agreed. While I am not happy with the teamn, or the season, blowing it up now solves nothing.
Ever wonder why good GMs won't (or haven't) come here?
How many changes have we made since John Butler left. We are on the fourth. That is a sad statistic in itself.
So far not one change has been better than the previous.
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.
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Spiller = Ronnie Harmon. A huge miss by Nix with his first pick as GM.
Wannstedt needs to be fired
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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?