Typical TBD Guy

Yeah, not sure Urbik has the footwork to be a RT in this league. Once Wang gets healthy, they should start this line: Bell - Levitre - Wood - Urbik - Wang Hangartner and Green are nothing more than career backups. Since this season is practically over, it's time to start the youth movement.

Agreed.

Doubtful.

I took care of that. I'm curious to see how the "Ralph isn't cheap" brigade will spin this one.

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Hopefully he's not vindictive enough to prevent the Rich family from eventually buying the Bills and keeping them in Buffalo.

They've been saying that about LA for 15+ years now...and still no team. You think Toronto is a more promising market than LA? Both need new stadiums, but Toronto has half the population plus the CFL issue.

Wow. So that's your response? The offense was so much more improved and different under the defensive coordinator, Fewell, that Brohm had no excuse for sucking in that Atlanta game? Your pathologically strong anti-Brohm opinion is now starting to creep me out. Can we at least give him - say - the preseason to confirm that he doesn't possess the talent and confidence to start in the NFL? Brohm has had all of 2 Green Bay preseasons and 1 regular season Buffalo start to prove himself. Lots of great NFL QB's have started their careers out worse than Brohm has done with more time to showcase their skills than that (and by comparison, Trent is now up to 3 preseasons and 32 regular season starts).

Agreed. I'm a bit surprised they never attempted to get LeBron.

You made some respectable points in this post..until the last paragraph. Brohm played one game for us last year, under Dick Jauron's expert tutelage, with a depleted offensive line and without much time to learn the playbook. If that confirms to you that "he's a bust and will always be one," what does that say about the guy whom you claim in an earlier post to be our only chance of making the playoffs? Edwards has been given almost THREE FULL SEASONS here to develop into something more than an injury-prone master of the checkdown and of the 3-and-out? The way I see it, Brohm is a high football-IQ guy with the requisite physical skills to be a capable starting NFL QB. For whatever reason, he has lost confidence in himself. I don't know if he'll ever regain it. Same can be said for Edwards, I suppose. Maybe this team needs to add a QB psychologist to the coaching staff.

I prefer this youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFcecMcS6bA CJ Spiller fun fact, from wikipedia: he was the seventh fastest 100 m sprinter in the NATION (10.42 s) as a high school senior . We've got a potential game changer on our hands. I wish more Bills fans could suspend their cynicism for a while and start enjoying something that's supposed to be entertainment.

On a related note, anyone know the latest on the LA stadium? The Chargers situation with SD? The Jags situation? Rams? Vikings? The sooner that LA market gets filled, the better for us Buffalo Bills fans. After LA, the relocation climate looks a lot better. Toronto would still be a danger, but it has serious issues regarding a new stadium, the CFL, and non-hockey sport apathy.

I could see Gailey doing this: 1. Jackson as the RB getting the bulk of the carries 2. Lynch playing more of a hybrid RB/FB role who sees carries on 3rd-and-short and red zone packages 3. Spiller playing more of a hybrid RB/second WR role who sees carries on 3rd-and-long and various gadget/reverse plays. I'd go so far as to say that all 3 should be in the offense's base formation in the aforementioned roles. Wouldn't you rather see more of Lynch than McIntyre? More of Spiller than Johnson/Hardy/Parrish?

I suppose this could happen if both Troup and Maybin have fantastic years.

It's easy when: A. You are unaware that the Buffalo Bills even existed before 1990 and have never heard of guys like Joe Cribbs and Chuck Knox. ...and... B. You have a nasty case of battered wife syndrome with RW's Bills and conveniently forget more recent instances like the Wade Phillips contract fiasco, Pat Williams in early 2005, the endless parade of 1st rd free agent CB's leaving town, etc.

Good find, frogger, but keep in mind that analysis was written when Kelsay was 21 years old. He's now on the wrong side of 30. Everyone's laughing at Eddie Robinson for being too slow in 2002, but the younger Eddie Robinson was actually a pretty decent OLB for the Oilers/Titans. The Eddie Robinson the Bills ended up with was only a year or two older than what Kelsay is now. Kelsay hardly generated a pass rush when in his prime, playing opposite Schobel and yards closer to the QB...now, of all times, people are coming out of the closet in support of this guy? Do some of you people post for the sake of being argumentative? Or is it the usual preseason rose-colored glasses? I'm not at all happy with Maybin and Ellis as our potential starters, but I'd rather take my chances with these guys and see what we have. If the 2010 season is going to be another season of missing the playoffs, let's at least get some questions answered regarding some of the unproven young guys on the roster. Kelsay has had a long time to prove he can't get it done at the pro level.

Agreed. Plus look at the OLB competition: Schobel - probably retiring Kelsay - will be slowest OLB in the history of pro football Batten - rookie from small college program Moats - same, plus more of an ILB Torbor - seems more of the solid backup type than a legit NFL starter Ellison - Manalac - who? Coleman - undrafted rookie, though I've read promising things about him on this board Harris - converted safety, undersized, no known pass rushing skills Mitchell - health concerns, more of a 3-4 ILB Sorry folks, but we may be looking at a Maybin-Ellis starting OLB duo in September .

Yikes is right. At this point, it looks like Meredith will win the starting LT spot this year. Imagine that: two ex-Green Bay practice squaders, Brohm and Meredith, set to start at two of the most important positions on our team.

Can you legally adopt a 50-year old man?

Yeah, pretty much. RW avoids talking about the issue to WNYers because he knows the franchise is as good as gone to Toronto or LA. And he's okay with this because it will net his family the most money. That will be this "great" man's legacy on this Earth: $$$.

Wow...profound insight there, buddy. And when he dies, there will again be no BUFFALO Bills. You okay with this?

The Buffalo Bills era from 1967-1987 was simply indefensible. Notice how even RW's biggest sycophants conveniently avoid talking about the Bills pre-Polian and focus only on the excuses for the 2000-2010+ era.

I will once again make the point that Ralph Wilson, prior to the Polian Era, WAS in fact one of the cheapest owners in pro sports. Now he's just cheap with coaches and throws money around recklessly to marginally talented players. Anyone care to dispute my post?

Since the late 1980's, this has been true. But before then, he was widely known as a major cheapskate. Ask anyone older than 30 about RW and paying players. As for paying coaches, he has always been a cheapskate. Up until maybe now, where the rumors were that he was courting the Cowhers and Shanahans but was turned down. RW's overall legacy will be 180 degrees between what ESPN and the national media say about him and what WNY thinks of him...for the very simple reason that he has failed to secure the team's future in WNY. To most fans of the BUFFALO Bills, Ralph Wilson = Art Modell.