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I think we won't have to wait to long to laugh at him. My prediction is that we will be at worst 4-4 by the half way point.

Despite his paper skills and straight line speed, if he cannot work on getting open and catching balls (see the ball bounce off his hands in Cincy game) he is a gonner. I know he has been injured a lot but if there he is not producing (whatever the reason), he will be cut by this staff. I think we will have Evans, Parrish, Chad Jackson, Steve Johnson and Nelson as our WRs with Roosevelt and Hardy on the bubble.

It did the last few years.

.. and running out of road

So far we are making last season's team look like garbage.

Ofcourse its just a scrimmage. So now Corner has an INT return for TD. And our second in two games. How does that help in the regular season ? I am messing with ya, Mark. As you didn't pick up on my sarcasm, I am coming clean. I am loving all of what I am seeing since the last game.

Stupid play by Fitz. Should have thrown it away

Butter fingers Hardy

See ? We now scored with a backup QB and an undrafted rookie. So why are we going all gaga over the first team O ? Big friggin deal.

But this is only the pre-season, see ? So we really should not get emotional. Remember the superbowl Bills used to regularly lose in the pre-season and then turn it up in the main season. The fact that we appear to be competent on O, we have a baller rookie and can deliver pressure with the D means squat.

Not that we want to know whats in your hand

Oh good. Now I have something to do at work next week.

I second that.

What was your question ?

I am in the honeymoon period where I would find it cute if he got drunk and pi$$ed on the living room carpet. Seriously, as Coach Tuesday said, it all sounds good but we have to see results during the season. Is the team improving ? Are the coaches planning and executing games well ? Are they putting personnel in the best position to succeed ? Call me gullible but I have initially liked every coach we hired in the recent past (except Jauron whose handiwork I had seen at Chicago).

I suppose that is a rhetorical question but I will play along. I can give a regime a pass for one but not two blown high picks in a three year span. I look at this list and weep: http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft...0&type=team

Sad isn't it ? I was hoping Hardy would develop into a Moss or TO kind of receiver. Looks like that is not to be. Unless Johnson and Easley develop this year, we will have little talent at the # 2 and # 3 spots.

Bell is unproven and so is Spiller. As we are in the speculative world right now, I would like to believe we could have traded down and acquired another pick. But Dean does make some good arguments but I stand by my opposition to picking a RB with our top pick this year and would love to be proven wrong.

I would say no based on what I have heard. But I need more than serviceable from a #9 pick. If we traded down and got two players at positions of need, we would be better as a team and any shortfall at the backup RB position could be filled with an UDFA or cast-off. Do you really not get my point or are you just playing with me ?

Now that it is official, I would like to say a big thank you to AS for a wonderful and self-less career for the Bills. I wish things had turned out differently in that he would play this year, contribute, help the youngsters and then retire a Bill. But that was not to be and I wish him success in the future within or without the NFL.

My point is that it is not difficult to get a serviceable back-up RB off the street. Bell just happens to re-inforce that view.

I know I am re-hashing an oft-debated item, but if Bell ends up playing well, it will add to an already strong stable of RBs including Jackson and Lynch. Which further re-inforces the question about why we used our #9 to draft a RB. For those wondering what my position is - I would have traded down if there was no player we liked at #9.

Well, I would agree with you. But so what if he shuts down Evans ? We have .... umm.... aahh...... Nevermind - I agree with you.

Good to see Nix take this approach. Schobel's career with the Bills has been good and if he had decided that he would play one last season and then retire, then it would have been nice to have him. However, his indecision and resulting lack of commitment to the team must have forced Nix's hand. I am sure Nix wanted to end the uncertainty and move on.

Well written and fair, however depressing it is. I look forward to your article next year about how Nix and Gailey turned the franchise around.