Casey D

Feel exactly the same way.

Excellent!

Ice Ice baby...

Sounds great. And where exactly do we get that and how much will it cost?

Nice analysis. At the end of the day we got the guy we craved and overpaid a tad to get him. Sort of like with Mario. The ballbusters like Sullivan who claim the trade was an outrage for the Bills simply are making noise.

Your concerns seem dated to me. We have new owners, everything will be different. Our current football side is not even 2 years in place, the preceeding 12 years is meaningless. The deep cut-- old ownership-- is gone. Unless you think all the Bills problems since forever are on RB, then I don't get the point.

It could be, but we don't know that. If they want to do that that is great, but my primary concerns lie where indicated.

Totally agree.

I saw that too. That's exactly the kind of thing you need to know for sure in developing an improvement plan.

Say it's Bill Polian. What should he focus on? To me, he primarily needs to breakdown and totally analyze the offense, to determine where the problems lie. Everyone here has their opinions, it's Hackett, it's Orton, it's the line, it's the young receivers, it's the old or unproductive backs. As a fan, it is impossible for me to know the right answers. For example, In the Oakland game, we ran for 13 yards and people lay that on the play calling and say we should have run more. But to me, the Oakland D-line was overwhelming the Bills O-line making running near impossible. Which is it? Or say the insufficient targeting of Sammy. Is that the play calling, play design, QB play or Sammy not getting open enough? I honestly don't know the answer. Some expert needs to break that all down, come up with solutions and have the team execute it as best possible, i.e., if QB play is the main problem, sell the ranch to make an improvement. If QB is a tertiary problem, and the biggest thing is say line play and the coordinator, fix that and don't sell the ranch for a QB. This team is close. With this defense, we don't need an A offense to compete, a B offense would be good enough. And we have some playmakers, we just need to address the biggest problems aggressively.

The 19th overall pick--- Whaley mortgaged the future of this team for years giving that away... fool...

Of course I am not. Are you, and where do you get it?

Because the coaching staff hates you Dan.

And I understand what you are saying, don't disagree much. I'm assuming he'll have an 1800 yard season one day, and this won't matter a whit... If I had a racehorse that finished second in the Kentucky Derby, I would be thrilled-- and rich... Done

Not excited. But winning for the first time in NE in 15 years is mildly satisfying.

OK. targeting Sammy more should be a goal for next year. He's a great explosive player-- I'm glad we have him. My regard for him does not turn on 980 v. 1000.

A three game improvement is meaningful. But we need to feel we suck, so I guess everything is meaningless short of being in the playoffs.

But that draft pick for Watkins slides further. Where will we draft, about 17? Well he had the chance to go over 1000 today. Over the year, I guess targeting him more would be great, but much of the problem was QB accuracy. OK. The only goal today should have been to get Sammy 80 yards.

Dude, we won. We were sitting on a lead for 1 1/2 quarters. I'd rather win than lose on a pick trying to get Sammy 20 more yards. Meaningless...

Agree... 11-5 was a lot to ask

Seriously-- who cares if he got 1000 instead of 980?

Oakland loss did not matter. We needed 2 more wins...

NFC North soft? U on drugs-- to quote Judge Chamberlain Haller? Or are you confusing the North and South?

I thought what Marrone said yesterday was telling-- that without very good QB play you have a chance to win 10 or 11 games at best. He gets it. That's why our margin for error is so small. Problem is, finding a decent QB is almost impossible based on just skill in drafting. You need to get lucky. And luck is something that the Bills have precious little of. Otherwise you dumpster dive, and the results are predictable. That's the problem when only about a dozen human beings can play QB in the NFL at a B/B+ level or better.

If Denver wins against the Bengals tonight. Otherwise it stays at 1.