Omar Little

I get more and more baffled by the day that there are still Nix/Bills apologists in existence. It's like religious fanaticism. A franchise that has missed the playoffs for 13 straight years and has shown zero discernible signs of progress doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt from anyone. It's inarguable that this team has many needs, a decent amount of cap room, and only six draft picks. Despite that, the Bills have signed just one guy - a mediocre-at-best linebacker who was a backup in Cincy - to address any of their issues, and they haven't even been rumored to be interested in anyone else. So, any fans who are upset about a lack of movement have a right to be - it has nothing to do with an "ADD generation" or any other reasons concocted by lemmings who are trying to sound intelligent. I mean, today a viable starting strong safety in Pollard signed a one-year deal. The Bills' current starting SS is terrible. Shouldn't they have been in on that?

So who are the receivers and linebackers, then? Nix has made a !@#$ing mess of this team.

Hands out big contract to a career backup, passes on Dalton, Kaepernick and Wilson - not to mention that Nix has run three drafts and the only quarterback he has bothered to pick has been a seventh-rounder. So yeah, that's not the "evaluator" I want selecting a franchise QB for the Bills. Why he's still in place as the GM is a real mystery.

The Colts know QBs because they took Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck with separate No. 1 picks? A monkey could've made those selections. Indy, for a long time, employed such venerable QBs as Jim Sorgi and Curtis Painter as its backups. That's a big reason why they went 2-14 without Manning two years ago.

Amen. It's just something fake and unprovable for the intangibles crowd to cling to. Guys like Luck, RG3 and Wilson were certainly mentored to greatness by "wily" vets last season. Who knows what kind of horrific seasons those three would've turned in without established passers like Chandler Harnish, Rex Grossman and Matt Flynn instructing them on the ins and outs of succeeding in the NFL. Anyway, I'm glad Hasselbeck isn't a Bill. This is the same Hasselbeck, by the way, whose mentorship clearly made a big impact on Jake Locker last season (note the sarcasm).

And it's paid immediate dividends in many cases, without question. Goes both ways.

So he's better than Jackson. Who cares? Both Hasselbeck and Jackson are different shades of awful. Why bother with this tripe? Draft a kid, which everyone knows they're going to do, and put him in. Enough bull ****.

Rookie QBs play nowadays. They don't sit behind washed-up veterans for one to two years and "learn." The Bills would be spinning their wheels with Hasselbeck. He's not. This isn't 2007. None of his past success means anything anymore. It's ancient history.

Great comeback. You really got me. Even after I looked in the mirror, Nix is still 16-32, the roster is still littered with problems, and the Bills are still in a 13-year playoff drought with no end in sight. Sorry that I offended you with the facts.

Not that I was interested in seeing the Bills grossly overpay Greg Jennings and handicap their future cap situation further, but the Vikings sold him with basically no QB in place. Ponder and Cassel are warm bodies. That's about it.

The Bills are the smartest organization in the NFL if you're to believe the majority of posters here. It's pretty amazing how much they give the Bills the benefit of the doubt despite the fact that the franchise has done nothing to earn it. Because there's basically no risk in it and these vets could help push them toward the playoffs. It's smart.

yeah it's not like this team has gone 16-32 under Nix and still has massive holes at QB, LG, WR 2-3, TE, LB x2, CB or SS despite all of his "fine" work oh wait

Right - because Nix has such a lofty history as a GM of finding good players. Seriously?

Am I to infer you think the guy is ignoring common sense by bashing the Bills' inactivity? Should he expect the Bills and Buddy Nix to do things right? If so, why? The organization as a whole has almost exclusively failed at everything since 2000, evidenced by its playoff drought and one season better than .500; meanwhile Nix has done an utterly horrible job in his GM tenure, evidenced by both the 16-32 record and the copious amounts of needs on the roster after his three years. Right now the Bills have cap room and, as mentioned, many problem areas to fill. Nevertheless, all they've done this offseason to address any of those problems is add a mediocre linebacker who wouldn't start for the vast majority of NFL teams. That's not good enough.

No, there's not.

Because Buddy Nix is a human disaster and the Bills are a trash pile of an organization.

The only recent Giants team that the 2013 Bills will compare to is the '04 squad that went 4-12. Facts: No QB; one combined threat between WR and TE; best O-lineman gone; underperforming D-line with a $100 million player who's more Aaron Schobel than JJ Watt; zero good LBs; major questions in the defensive backfield other than Gilmore and Byrd. They're not going to adequately fill all (or even the majority) of their need areas between now and September, especially with a.) such an incompetent GM at the helm, and b.) only six draft picks. This is going to be an absolutely horrible team next season.

Solution: Don't watch their ****ty coverage.

He's a backup-caliber QB. So is Fitzpatrick. Get over it.

He's right.

@JasonColeYahoo Great game of musical chairs going on as Tenn, Indy & Bills chase top Gs Andy Levitre, Louis Vasquez. SD chance of keeping Vasquez is slim

Laurence Maroney was talented; hence the reason he was a first-round pick. He didn't do anything close to what Ridley just did last season. Your argument went from "Brady makes Ridley" to "Brady hasn't been able to make other guys because they weren't as good as Ridley." At least you acknowledged that Ridley actually is good, I guess.

By this logic, shouldn't every starting running back the Pats have used during the Brady era been a top-level producer? With the exception of Corey Dillon's 2004 season, the year Ridley just had was better than every No. 1 RB the Pats have used during their run from 2001 to now. The rest of ther starting backs have been mediocre during that time frame. Brady's presence didn't elevate any of them to special heights - certainly not to the heights Ridley reached in 2012.

You're welcome. If you'd rather have 30-year-old Jackson than 24-year-old Ridley - who finished seventh in the NFL in rushing and third in rushing touchdowns - you're absolutely lost. Be my guest if you want to keep living in the past, though.

New England has Ridley, who's better than Jackson.