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Brett Favre was a rookie who didn't play & was traded for a 1st round pick. Young is much better logic, but he was still traded for picks. Busts get released, not traded for high picks. So I'll ask again-name me an outright bust QB drafted in the 1st or 2nd round who failed in one place & thrived elsewhere. You can't answer that one because there are none. PS: an over the hill player on his last legs, like McNabb isn't a bust.

Is anyone around here really sold on Bell at LT? I think we should be in the market for 2 starting Ts, not just a RT.

The bottom line is, until they prove otherwise, I'm not ready to say Nix/Gailey are the answers to turning this team around. Many people here have expressed confidence that they are. I'm going to look at every decision & idea they have before I join the Nix/Gailey bandwagon. If they are right on players unavailable to them, at least it gives me a reason to get near the bandwagon. If they're wrong on both Bills' picks and other teams picks, I'm going to be concerned. You don't have to make up things. I asked a simple question: Look at all the 1st & 2nd round QBs who busted. Find me one who succeeded with his next REAL team. It's not that hard that you have to make up something like a guy going to a team he didn't go to. Just look at the guys like Leaf, Harrington, etc who failed everywhere they went.

I can't agree with this. Tell me the last highly picked QB bust who failed one place & succeeded somewhere else. If the guy busts in Carolina, he'll bust league-wide. According to your logic, Maybin has a chance to thrive in NY. A bust is a bust is a bust.

This makes a lot of sense. I wish someone could make a case for our offense like you did with the D, because they better be scoring points on defense if we want to win some games.

They NEVER had a chance to move up. So it's if he's good-Bills staff is an improvement. If he's bad, it's same old scouts-nothing more to read into it.

Weren't you one of the guys who also had his eye on Brian Brohm going back to his college days & was lobbying for us to put him into real games to see what he could do? Don't quit you day job in hopes of getting a scouting gig.

Assuming the rumors on the Bills being high on Newton were correct, Newton better not be a bust for the simple reason that if he does bust, how much confidence can you put in our front office, whose predessors' records leave a lot to be desired.

Even if by some miracle he makes the Jets, he'll never be activated.

7-9 looks about the best to me. The optimistic me can agree with you on all but the sweep of the Jets. Give the Jets those 2 games & we're 7-9. The pessimistic me can see wins only against the Raiders (too much for them traveling W to E, over the years stats pretty good for the home team vs far west teams); Bengals-we always beat the Bengals & this year they're odds on to be the worst team in the NFL; Dolphins at least once because they're as bad as we are; Titans-assuming Hasselbeck is done & we play Locker at home; Broncos-home field and the possibility of Tebow finishing out the string. Worse for pessimistic me-we still suck royally but with 5 wins have no shot at Luck.

So what if the Jets signed him? He'll never make it to September 11th. They might keep him to the final cut, but he'll be long gone from the Jets by opening day.

I've revised your post to the 2007 version. The more things change, the more they stay the same. So far, there is no evidence that Nix and Gailey are succeeding any better than Levy/Jauron or Donahoe/Williams, Mularkey. Until I see more than 7 wins out of this duo, I'll remain a skeptic. The 1st season we got 4 wins, this year .500 is still a pipe dream.

That's not true. I'm retired, no job & I still pay taxes. So, the next time you call someone a moron because "by definition" you assume something, think before you type.

Just think, a year ago some people were serious about cutting Fitzpatrick.

This is about as dumb as the start Brohm posts from 2010. Levi Brown has no chance of making the team unless someone gets a season ending injury.

They had to sign an experienced backup-Who else were they supposed to sign to back up Fitzpatrick? It's much better to sign a guy as a backup who knows your system than bring in some guy who doesn't with this season's lack of mini camps. How is the backup QB, the last guy as a coach you want to see in regular season games, going to help the team turn things around? If Peyton Manning declared "I want to play in Buffalo" and the Bills chose to keep Fitzpatrick as the starter and signed Thigpen instead of Manning, that would be a big mistake. Signing the best backup available who knows your system, even if it's short term, isn't anywhere near a big mistake. There were pretty slim pickings for the Bills to choose when it came time to get an experienced backup. No need for an internet search-I'm old enough to remember that stuff.

George Allen, John Rauch

There are a lot more things that do matter in preseason than you think. What does matter is starters on starters early in the game & guys battling for the last 5 roster spots showing more than their competition. If you really believe the whole game is meaningless, go back to when the O was struggling in preseason a couple of years ago and DIDN'T turn it around once the season started. Go back to 1987 when JP's regression was evident in preseason and carried on the rest of his career. Go back to the (numerous) years when we could tell the O-line was horrible in preseason. Coaches have lost their jobs in preseason-remember the Bills, Bucs and Chiefs (Chan) all firing coordinators in preseason. About the only thing that doesn't matter is the score-because any team can leave a higher level of player in the game longer and if your backup QB is starting caliber, you have a great chance of winning-regardless of your regular season talent level. PS: How is signing an experienced backup QB familiar with the offensive philosophy a big mistake?

I'm not sure what you consider as delusional, an optimist, a realist or a pessimist. If you're knocking people who flame statements made by the delusional, then I disagree. On the other hand, if you're flaming the ones who have made statements in my pessimist category, then right on! Here are my definitions based on what I see. Delusional: This team will make the playoffs. Maybin will not only make the team but be in the Pro Bowl Gailey will be Coach of the Year. Extend Bell, and Pears NOW, best O-line in the league. Optimist: Merriman will stay healthy & the D will be greatly improved This team can stay in the playoff hunt until December Some of the questionable players will emerge, big time. Realist: We can grow as a team, improve our win total and settle some positions. Merriman will be a force if he can stay healthy. Fitzpatrick may be able to earn a starter's extension. Darius can be Rookie of the Year. Pessimist: We're almost the worst team in the league & will go 2-14, but Miami will go 1-15 and Andrew Luck will haunt us for the next decade and a half as a Dolphin, while we never make the playoffs again & move to LA. Merriman will end up on IR before mid-season. All the draft choices will be busts Gailey will get fired Because of the bad O-line, all the QBs will go down by week 6 and Brian Brohm will be called back to start.

Smith will play more than Thigpen, but won't start ahead of him if Fitz gets hurt. There's no chance Brown makes it over Thigpen. They want a backup who has started in the NFL & only Thigpen has starting experience among the backups. It doesn't matter how bad Thigpen looks with the scrubs, Gailey brought him in because he knows what he can do with 1st stringers.

Camp fodder-When the Bills signed both Thigpen & Smith, any chance he had at making the team went away.

Best waiver pickup from SD since Jack Kemp.

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Baltimore got 4 seasons out of McGahee, that's one more than the Bills got out of their 1st round pick who spent his rookie year rehabing his knee. They don't have to make Evans great, they just have to have him take some heat off Boldin.

Atually, in the 1st preseason game, the only thing that matters is the 1st quarter, when the starters are playing. Miami's starters are worse than the Bills' starters.