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The same guy responsible for putting Donahoe, Levy, Brandon, and now Nix in charge of the team will be selecting the next front office too, you know.

That's what I always wonder about myself. If your front office can't identify talent the only thing picking #1 vs. #9 gets you is a bigger contract. Plus you had 5-7 crappier Sundays the previous season.

We are so, so screwed.

You should change your screen name.

Trent can start, in the sense that he has a nice easy name to pronounce when starting lineups are announced.

This is very similar to the response I was thinking of making. I would just add that if you can get a couple of players who are bona fide stars at a position like QB or DE, it can cover for a lot of average to below average players at other positions. Yes, New Orleans and Indy have a lot of talented players, but are they stacked with Pro Bowlers at every position? An elite QB is going to make an average OL look good, and conversely a subpar QB will make them look awful. Call it the Rob Johnson effect.

Fitting that Edwards averaged 7-9 over two seasons' worth of starts. He truly was Jauron's QB.

Huh?

I guess if you're not an all-Pro you should just be an emotionless cliche-spewer like Edwards. The hell with that, if you're gonna be lousy at least you can acknowledge that it's embarrassing. Whitner's never gonna be a game changer but I'd rather follow a team that seems to care that they stink.

I am one of those who thought that Edwards was shellshocked by the Cleveland game, not the Arizona game. And the numbers you provided do seem to point to exactly what I saw. I will always wonder if things could've gone differently if Jauron had just given him the chance to go out and win that game at the end instead of his asinine run it into the line 3 times and kick a 47 yard field goal into the wind strategy. Edwards had just completed a nice 20 yard pass to Royal, and Jauron put on the brakes. Did that send the signal to Edwards that he should never risk another bad play again?

OK, but assume for the sake of argument that next season is canceled. What happens in the draft after that? Each team retains their position from the 2011 draft?

I was just wondering if anyone knows what happens to the draft if, as seems likely, there's a lockout next year. Does next year's draft proceed as normal? What about the one after that? Would one of them potentially be canceled? If there's a lockout but both next year's draft and the year after occur as normal, how does draft ordering work the year after there is no NFL?

Then Johnson is just dumb, or he lost his head for a minute. I bet 95 times out of 100 that play would be called incomplete.

Hey, just because it's a bad plan doesn't mean it isn't a plan.

Get a grip.

Why not? Not as the starter, but as 3rd qb. Can anyone come up with a reason the team shouldn't cut Trent and just go with Fitzpatrick? What does Edwards add to this roster except decent performances when nothing is at stake? At least go with a guy no one will be deluded into thinking has some nebulous unrealized "potential".

I honestly don't have a problem with most of his article, but you tell me what he's saying when he says: Rooting for the team to lose so they get a better draft pick is the epitome of loser thinking (contrary to Sullivan's assertions above) and I certainly don't think team management should be throwing in the towel before the season starts. But that seems to me to be what Sullivan is suggesting here.

I thought that was a good, balanced take. Thanks for linking it.

You know your opinion on DW is out there when even Dawgg isn't claiming he'll be cut.

Obviously the proper approach is to clap and boo at the same time, regardless of the outcome of the play.

I had a hard time getting a read on Fewell as an X's and O's guy, but the straightforward talk and energy he brought after Jauron was a breath of fresh air. While I never really cared much for the defensive scheme, maybe working with that talented DL in NY will help.

What's wrong with a little baseless optimism? If I lost my baseless optimism there's no way on Earth I'd still be watching Bills games.

Just out of curiosity - what's your basis for asserting that Stafford is a franchise QB? Is it his 61 QB rating? His 53% completion percentage? The fact that he played in 10 out of 16 games for the Lions last year?

Yeah, I don't get the Vick apologists who are acting like it's unreasonable to suggest that Vick not throw a big party at a club for his birthday. First of all, he's turning 30, not 21, not 50. It's not a real big imposition to expect him to tone down the celebration, maybe just a small thing at home. Second, when one of the terms of your reinstatement is not using alcohol, maybe it's not a good idea to throw a big party at a club for anything.

I don't delude myself into thinking I have a say in the management of the Bills. Ultimately I don't care if they have Tom Modrak, Bill Polian, or Peter Pan guy in charge of scouting, I care about the results. Since Donahoe was canned the Bills have suffered from a lack of organizational structure, and I'm hopeful that that is changing. If the players we drafted this year stink, I know who I'll hold responsible - Buddy Nix. And it won't matter to me if he made bad choices all on his own or based on bad advice from Modrak. If Nix thinks that Modrak can be a valuable contributor to scouting, it's his call.