Ray

If you have lived in Buffalo and listened to many intervies with Jim and others you know that something is in place. To answer the question why donn't they just say it? Well, if you are Ralph this is your passion and probably one of the few things that keeps you going in life. Despite what some say he loves the Bills and this has been his baby form the beginning. Furthermore, once something is announced then you have people trying to push him out the door when he wants to be involved. Obviously JK does not have the money but he has the personality and charisma and face to put a group together to buy the team. We have a stadium, great fan base, history in the league, etc....The team is going nowhere. It will happen when it happens.

Amazing how many could have told you this 6 months ago. I could have saved them a lot of time by telling them like almost every NFL commentator also said "The Bills have the least amount of talent to convert to a 3-4" Coaches really seem to be so full of themselves and how smart they are that they can convert anyone to the system they want. A good coach sees the talent and asks how he can get them to be most successful. Having C Kelsay as an OLB is certainly not the best position for him to succeed. LBs were clearly a deficiency on the team so why go to a 3-4 when they are the most important and you know every center in the league will play KW one on one and he will not be double teamed....I like his heart a lot he is just no NT. Hadn't played it before so maybe they should have thought why?

Marv's drafts did not kill the team although certainly could have been better. His drafts were '06 and '07 and he left after that....'08 was not his draft. There are decent/good NFL players from '06. I agree with those that have said M Lynch is a good back. Both he and K Williams have gone to Pro Bowls and he brought in F Jackson as well. The poor drafts have gone back to J Butler as his last draft could have been the worst draft in the past 12 years for the Bills. Donahoe's were no great shakes either. I think what has definitely hurt as well is the turnover....every few years you have someone with a different philosophy. You could argue as sad as it is Marv has been the best "GM" in the past 10 years for the team....his two years were the most successful (that is a sad indictment on this frnachise).

It is mostly about players but somehow Fewell was able to take this group of players and make it work a heck of a lot better. Plus, he obviously could make the logical conclusion that CK is not an OLB and has no business trying to cover the better TEs in the league. Not only does this group think he can, they are paying him top OLB money to do so! If you looked at the tapes from last year you would say the D was pretty good and could be very good by going out and getting a tough big DT and one good OLB. This regime did nothing of the sort and also for whatever reason thinks K Williams is a NT and that the front four can generate some type of pass rush.....it can't, it has not and it will not. So you better start bringing 5-6 players and ask your CBs who are good to cover 1:1 because that is what is going to need to happen

We do love torturing ourselves don't we?

Could not agree more. He is a good footbal player. Not what you want out of the 8th pick in the draft but of the top 10 players picked that year he is in the middle of the pack in terms of how they ave done in the NFL. Matt Leinert, Vince Young very up and down, M Huff another safety etc... He does run his mouth too much for my liking but he is a good player. He plays hard, was 2nd on the team in tackles last week and he's the safety. That is NOT his fault. I think he would be pretty happy having a front 7 like the Vikings

I would urge people to listen to the WGR interview Howard Simon and Jeremy White did with the AP reporter John Wawrow this morning. Basically the biggest thing to come out of it is that odds are very good the Bills have a plan in place long term to keep the Bills in Buffalo. Signs are there that it is happening but nothing 100%. Good interview. So the Bills are unlikely to go anywhere. The owner does not want that, we of course do not want that and the NFL does not want it.

I really like their defense and obviously their running game but if they get behind they are in trouble. Mark Sanchez passing under pressure like in the second half last night is not a good thing for them. He is an average QB who benefits from tremendous D and running game but good for him. They are as in good shape as anyone to make it to the Super Bowl. People probably think they are overrated just based on the fact that they are vulnerable and not like a Pats '07 great team. You could see probably 8 teams beating them but at the top there is no dominant team. Wait until the weather changes though and Sanchez will have some trouble.

So it's his fault he is covering WRs 20-30 yards downfield and has to make tackles 20 yards downfield b/c our front 7 is so bad? You cannot blame him for that. If you go to the games and actually watch the plays develop it is NOT the defensive backfields' fault. Donte Whitner is far from the problem on this team. If the board wants a "whipping boy" try the front seven....they are terrible.

CJ is a good move and will be a very good NFL player for a long time. Dwan Edwards an okay move......all the rest are unfortunately very suspect and worrisome

Wish we had the Vikings defense. Are people on this board bitching about the Tampa 2? Poor Vikings D will tire out in second half as the Vikes offense is putrid, in fact 2009 Billsesque

Whitner is a guy who ends up making tackle sand plays the front 7 cannot make. If you watch the Jets run thru the Vikings tonight the Vikes safeties look pretty poor tackling. Whitner made some very good plays yesterday and is a leader on this team. K Williams is a guy who has heart but has been WAY overmatched in the trenches. Great heart but on most teams is probably not a starter. Gotta like his attitude and heart though.

Fitzpatrick should be at least 2-1 right now. He has played well and the kind of guy if you had a Defense he is a suitable QB

There is absolutely no creativity whatsoever. Four rushers, nobody can come within 5 yards of the QB. Our DBs are good and since we have no pressure why not blitz and leave them 1 on 1? What do we have to lose. The one time we did blitz it was a sack yesterday

You sound like a realist....I just feel bad your first experience will be a poor one. Don't think that's how it always is going to be

Clausen has looked horrendous.....probably will be a career back-up at best. You will not see the "draft gurus" complimenting the Bills for NOT taking him with their 2nd or 3rd picks. But I agree it is early to tell but sometimes you can get an idea if a kid can play or not as a rookie. Matt Ryan and Flacco for instance.

You may be the only one there. Atmosphere will be horrible. Hope it does not sour you on the great game day experience it can be....it's like a college atmosphere, crazy people, rabid fan base but all of that has pretty much been erased this year. Only 58k yesterday with a winnable game, 70 degrees and sunny. Absolutely beautiful and the team has destroyed the will of the fan base for the most part. I would not be surprised if only 30k people show up at that time...mid- November they could be 0-8

Why "rebuild" with a system that is not suited for your players when those players will not even be here when we plan on being better? It's different if you think you are missing a player or two....say a NT and an OLG. We are missing 6 players on the front seven and they obviously think Kelsay is a suitable OLB and are paying him $6M/yr. That in itself says they cannot evaluate talent well for this system. If all of them will be gone or at least the vast majority, then why switch systems now? They actually thought they could pull this off and that is what scares me.

You are 100% correct and it can put us back another 3 years or so waiting for a QB to develop and worse if it is the wrong one. We could take Tim Couch and then Brady Quinn and be the Browns etc.... Remember those QBs were all the rage. We need a QB and if you hit the right one your franchise is set for more than a decade as a great QB covers up so many other deficiencies. But what scares me is that are more misses than hits on all of those QBs.

You can expect there to be some growing pains but NOT the WORST defense in Bills history over 50 years. We had the 2nd best pass defense in the league last year and in the middle of the pack total defense. They have managed to take that defense and make it much much worse. That is bad coaching and not just growing pains. That is a horrendous evaluation of talent and horrible coaching. You look at your talent and see what you can do with them and you do NOT force a system on them. There are even now players talking about the talent and personnel not for a 3-4 now. Kyle Williams as a NT. Anyone who has watched this team could have told you that is a terrible idea

If you were at the game Whitner had a good game. He is a good player but if you watch the games he is 20 yards downfield doing his assignment and then if forced many times to shed a couple blockers and make a tackle 20 yards downfield. He made a couple of very good tackles yesterday. We expect a lot from an 8th overall pick but put Troy P and Ed Reed on this defense and you are saying the same thing in terms of where are they why aren't they making plays. When your front seven is horrible the defensive backfield will suffer a lot.

And people want to trade away our decent players for draft picks that take 2,3,4 years to develop. So you want more of this for the next 3 years? The guy is a rookie and expect him to play like a rookie

I think where people like myself have the problem are that this "regime" came in looked at the personnel and said let's change to the 3-4 when you had absolutely NO players suitable to it. Stroud had never played it, Williams is NOT a NT. You were switching Kelsay to an OLB where he would be playing in space against TEs etc....Anybody who has watched this team (we did not need to watch the game tape) could tell you this was a huge prescription for disaster. And it has been. If you watched this team last year you would say this team is a LB and very good DT away from being a very good defense as the secondary is fine. I know yesterday they tried different things....things they have not been doing and by doing so many players looked lost. Do you really want Poz covering a WR and Kelsay a TE? Why not blitz at all?

Yes the best thing a terrible team should do is trade the handful of good players you have and create yet even more needs. This team needs about 5 more front 7 players if they are committed to the 3-4. An OL or two, a franchise QB. So why not add yet another need that is a splendid idea. For those of you at the game like myself yesterday this teams offense is VERY serviceable and good enough to win games. Had we had this offense last year we could have won probably 9-10 games.

I think our secondary talent is fine. I do think Byrd has been out of place a few throws. However, most of it has to do with EVERY QB we play having 6-7 seconds to survey the field and you can literally see every route develop just as scripted. No pressure at all. But you are correct in that some plays....like the TD play with Kelsay covering a TE yet again (really?? The coaching staff has not learned this doesn't work). I saw that play develop and as soon as the snap occurred you could see the mismatch. Same as on the TD where Poz was covering. The Bills coaches seem to have a knack for putting the players in the positions they are least likely to succeed. The CBs overall had very good coverage, it is just very hard to cover for 5-7 seconds while at the same time letting the QB step into throws as there is no pressure up the middle at all.