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Ryan Fitzpatrick is just as good of a QB as Eli Manning. The difference is that Fitzpatrick had a much longer learning curve. If you judge these two guys on this season, then you will see no difference between the two. Actually Fitzpatrick looks better than him. If Eli Manning can win a Superbowl, then so too can Ryan Fitzpatrick. Give him a defense that chases down QBs and gets turnovers and this team will be extremely hard to beat. Your notion that he's a #2 QB is just plain stupid. The guy has played solid QB over the last 11 games he's started. This isn't some "fluke" streak anymore. You're painfully slow in recognizing what the intelligent followers of football already know. I count 11 NFL teams who would gladly take Fitzpatrick over their current QB situation and make him their starter. It's so ironic that you used the "forest through the trees" metaphor.

You're right, it's a darn shame that Fitzpatrick couldn't have been more accurate on that pass to Johnson in overtime.

There is plenty of evidence. Fitzpatrick/WRs' phenominal play, the defense is showing vast improvement, Jackson is solid. The last 6 games alone should give you the evidence that this isn't the same Bills of the last ten years. This team has a bunch of ballers that are ready to take the next step with a little more help. I'm thinking with maybe four or five new starters (1st round DE, 2nd round LB) and a few free agent signings (TE, LB, OL) this team is well positioned at making a run at the playoffs. Nobody is going to want to play the Bills next year. In two years this team should be VERY good, even Superbowl champ good. That Giant team that won a few years ago should be the model for this team.

You're the one who's delusional. The intelligent posters here can recognize what's going on. Can recognize a team that's quickly closing the gap in a watered down NFL where there are no longer any "elite" teams. This isn't the NFL of a few years ago when it was clear only a few have a shot. The Steelers and Ravens no longer have the unbeatable defenses, the Pats and Colts no longer have the unfailable offenses. The Jets???? Oh please, they're not the juggernaut that you profess them to be. The Bills will have a great shot at making the playoffs next year and the Superbowl in two years.

Dude, their last four losses were to DIVISION LEADERS by a grand total of 12 POINTS. Three of those games are bonafide Superbowl contenders (Ravens, Bears, Steelers). If you can't acknowledge, appreciate or maybe even fail to understand what you're watching is a long dormant team that's back on the rise, then that's your problem. "The goal is to win games," ok Lombardi...gee, thanks for the pearls of wisdom there.

Bull****, the Steelers knew going in that the Bills game wasn't going to be easy. I could see them taking the game off as an excuse if the Bills were a crappy team that was getting owned every week. But that wasn't the case, was it. The Steelers KNEW they were going to be in a battle and they STILL needed a dropped ball to beat them in the end. Wow, are you gullible.

If Eli Manning could do it, so to can Ryan Fitzpatrick. Give him a few pass rushers and a TE and this team can win it all. Fitzpatrick looks like a cross between Drew Brees (short, but very smart and quick on where to go with the ball) and Eli Manning (passes don't always look pretty, but he gets the job done). Now all Fitzpatrick needs is a pass rushing defense built and couple of players on offense so that a dream playoff run like the Giants did a few years back can become a reality. I can totally see the Bills winning it all with Fitzpatrick.

Dick Jauron put this team in limbo for four years. I regard him as one of the worst head coaches ever in the NFL. The guy basically turned one magical season in Chicago into 8 seasons of a perpetuating myth that he was indeed a good coach with bad luck due to injuries. Why is he one of the worst? Because he played not to lose. Because he never trusted his players. Because he was the worst head coach ever at evaluating latent. Dick Jauron deserves every bit of the trashing of his coaching abilities. I'm amazed that there are still fans that still believe in the myths that you do. This team did a HUGE quit on him last year that led to his freaking MID SEASON DISMISSAL. Where do you get off trying to perpetuate the myth of Dick Jauron???? Here of all places????? I must say, you got real guts brother. Perry Ferrell proved ten times the head coach that Dick Jauron was and that was clear by anyone with intelligence. Perry let his team play, played the right QB, played to win, playing without fear. Knock yourself out, go be a Dick Jauron cheerleader and cry about his miserable luck, but please don't insult us Bills fans by trying to perpetuate the myth we had the misfortune of witnessing for 4 loooong seasons. Bills fans finally see what it is when a real head coach has his team really fighting and playing hard to win game in and game out. This is the best Bills team since 2002. I don't care about the record, I can see it with my own eyes. This team would kick the ass of any Jauron led Bills team.

The Bills will have a real opportunity to play AFC East spoiler in the final two weeks. They'll probably end up being nationally televised games. I'll be at the final game in New Jersey rooting them on.

Sunday was a VERY good memory. I hear and read all of the "woe is us" comments and I have to laugh at the over-all general stupidity. This was a "measuring stick" game, and guess what...it turns out that the Bills measure up very well against the so-called elite AFC teams. It also turns out that the Ravens game wasn't a fluke, the KC game wasn't a fluke, the Chicago game wasn't a fluke. The Bills are very close. Barring injury, this team is clearly on track to go to the playoffs in 2011 for the first time in 10 long years. They are learning what not to do to blow games this year and it will only make them a tougher bunch to beat next season.

You and the original poster are a couple of frikkin morons. Fitzpatrick may throw a few off target during a game, but that in and of itself DOES NOT MEAN HE'S INACCURATE YOU DUNCES!! Right now, Fitzpatrick is much better than Sanchez, and in a year or two Tom Brady will start thinking about his face, mental capacity later in life, keeping up with his sprite supermodel wife and he'll retire early from the NFL. The Bills are clearly on the rise, have their best QB since Kelly and you two guys are obsessing over the occasional off target throw. Like some other poster here mentioned, why don't you two knuckleheads go root for Peyton Manning and the Colts, because that's the ridiculous gold standard you've set for any Bills QB that would be worthy of your goofball support.

One bad day of the dropsies can't stop my man Stevie Johnson. Deep down, he knows a true Buffalo Bill just comes back twice as hard the next week. I don't know about anybody else, but I love seeing a Bill be so emotional and passionate about this game unlike the last 10 years of the "walking dead". It will take a lot more bad games for me to get down on this guy who plays with so much heart. Shake it off Stevie!

I know which play he was talking about, and it's still the dumbest thread topic ever.

Congratulations, this is the dumbest thread topic I've ever seen posted here at TSW.

A Jauron/Edwards led team would have been blown out today. Seriously, anyone doubt that? This team is clearly heading in the right direction and anybody who tears into them today just isn't seeing the forest through the trees. The pre-superbowl Levy/Kelly led Bills had their shoot-themselves-in-the-foot losses as well. Though this loss sucks badly, I see a team that is TRULY on the rise. The Steelers knew we were a threat coming in and they still couldn't beat us, they in fact needed the Bills to hand them the win more than once.

Harshest allowed? Show us where it says you can't be suspended for cheating. I find that hard to believe.

Hey, I was clamoring for Johnson to be the #2 receiver before they brought in TO. I always believed in the guy. But all things considered, he looks to have absorbed a lot of TO's qualities. Who knows if he'd even be as good as he is if TO had never came here.

Considering he was caught cheating and the Patriots had a ton of picks half a million dollars and a 1st round pick (high 20s) was a slap on the wrist. A long suspension was in order for that kind of a violation. His handling of that was a joke and this discovery of more cheating backs me up on that.

I blame Roger Goodell and his limp-wristed handling of Belichick by not handing him a good long 4-6 suspension. Ever since that weak response, I've always seen Goodell as a joke. There are two NFL standards for Goodell, one for players and one for head coaches who get caught cheating.

Spread formation baby! It's the only way the Bills have a chance to win tomorrow's game. I also think Fitzpatrick's going to have to provide a few good runs off of busted plays. If they try to run Jackson up the gut it's going to be a loooong day for the Bills.

I think Stevie Johnson's rapid matuartion as a receiver is directly related TO's presence here last year. Looks like Johnson picked up on a lot of what made Owens a great receiver.

Why? We need one desparately. Nick Fairley's true position is a 3/4 defensive end at the next level in the Richard Semour mold. He's an unbelievable pass rusher and you don't waste those special guys in the middle of a 4/3 defensive line. The Bills would be stupid to pass on that guy.

Though I think that Pittsburgh gets the win in a close game on Sunday, I have a weird feeling the Bills will finally put an end to their losing streak against the Pats in Buffalo this year.

Playing defense, causing turnovers, making FGs, extra points and a running game would go a long way in winning games. Jackson's 100 yard game was the first time he had help in that matter. Almost all good to great QBs throw interceptions. Eli Manning threw 20 interceptions in the year the Giants won the superbowl. Drew Brees has averaged 14 interceptions since he's played in NO, and that doesn't even include this year where he's already thrown 15. You're basically saying that you will not be satisfied until you have a QB like Peyton Manning who rarely throws interceptions. That's being so ridiculously unrealistic.

QB rating in Fitzpatrick's last 10 starts... 4 games over 100 1 game over 92 3 games over 83 2 games over 60 In the two games with "lousy" QB ratings... KC game he threw a TD pass to send the game into overtime and drove the team for the game winning FG. First one went through...time out...second one missed. In Chicago game he threw one TD pass and set up two more TDs with long passes inside the 10 yrd line. Were it not for a missed extra point the game would have went into overtime. Your "one hot month" characterization is a complete joke. That's ten straight games buddy.