Saint Doug

Dog fighting aside, I don't understand why we would want a 33 year-old QB who has been benched on a 3-9 team. A QB who completed 58.5 percent of his passes in nine games this season, threw nine interceptions and lost five fumbles. Really, someone put forth an argument on why he thinks Vick is the answer. And "he's better than Fitz" isn't a valid argument.

No, you're not. I always though Nix was a straight shooter, always giving us the truth. But this is the first time I find him straight lying to us. He is full of crap here. It's funny how we always see Nix trying to get better at every position. They're always looking under rocks, signing free agents, collecting UDFAs in search of better players. Case in point: cutting Moorman. All except for the QB position, the most important position in football, which Nix has completely ignored. All while we see other teams snatching up QBs that seem to be working out for them. And why exactly would we want to pick up a QB that was just benched on a 3-9 team? Are you being sarcastic?

Nix is lying out his ass. It was never their intention to fill other areas of needs first then fill the QB position last. Their intention (and hope) was that Fitz would be that guy. Plus, QB is not a position you just plug in. They usually take a few years to develop.

This is the concrete way of thinking (and I use this term losely) about this question. Did Indy really lose out last year? There seems to be more way than one to win at this game. What happened to the "winning atmosphere" that was formed during the first half of last season?

I like the way the Colts did it. Painful, but quick, and the payoff was tremendous. 1 losing season, not 15.

Is it all that unusual for a player to be celebrating a score by gesturing excitedly towards his team? Are we reading too much into this?

It doesn't. First, we are not players. None of us here are Bills players, so our thinking on this board could not possibly have any effect on the Bills players' mentality. Second, the Bills are notorious for winning against bottom feeders this time of the year (and losing to the 2nd/3rd stringers of playoff-bound teams too). So far, this "winning" apparently has had no positive effect on the likelihood of winning during earlier parts of the season.

As we look back 5 years, this win will have proved a costly one. Way to beat the scrubs. 6-10 here we come.

Or as another poster recently wrote on this forum; We win = Whip cream on ****.

Kind of creepy that he drove to Arrowhead to kill himself. Wonder why? Edit: to thank Pioli and Crennel? Still very creepy. Were they really the most important people in his life?

Geno Smith being compared to Jason Campbell and Alex Smith is not what I would call flattering.

Disaster? I don't get it. To me disaster would be the Bills winning this game on a field goal in OT.

That's because it's November. By March and April, we witness an inexplicable phenomena where GMs start falling over each other for QBs and they shoot up the boards. As for the McShay article, I think he meant there are no elite prospects. Which is true. There are no RGIIIs or Lucks. This doesn't mean that 2-3 of the QBs in this class will not turn out to be elite QBs. Nobody knows this - not even McShay. Flacco, Rodgers, Dalton, Wilson, & Brees (or Kapernick, but its too early to judge him) were never considered elite prospects, but they're not doing too bad in this league.

I'd sign him for a receiver position. As a QB? Ah, no. He's no better than Fitz (could be a little worse though).

This is a must lose game for us. But in true Bills fashion, we will probably end up winning this completely meaningless game. I was thinking Jamarcus Russell wanted a mulligan.

I think Whaley is a bit too young for Ralph's tastes.

Good research. This is the sort of stuff Byrd's agent will be singing at the end of the year. Better delete your post.

JJ Watt is playing for one of the best defensive minds in football. He certainly wouldn't be a bust, but I don't think he would be blowing it up on the Bills. As for MD blowing it up if he was on Houston, I guess we'll never know.

He may have the arm, but I don't think Geno Smith is a consensus top pick anymore either.

True, but people want to keep making excuses for him (injuries, etc), but for the last 2 years he hasn't experienced any hardships that other starting QBs haven't experienced. Injuries are part of the game, not unique to the Bills. I'm just upset that Nix refused to draft any QBs over the last 2-3 years because there have been plenty of young QBs available at the spots we have picked that seem to have great potential. Serious blinders there. Now he's in panic mode to draft a QB. I sense a reach coming. Hope it's not a Losman-type reach.

And Johnson was once thought to have a "hot hand" and a "higher ceiling" than Flutie, so let's not get all carried away just yet. Plus, harbaugh's in a perfect situation with this one. He doesn't have to make any decision this week and he still gets to figure out exactly what he has here. The big decision will come next week.

Correct. Brees was lighting it up in SD before he left, but only his last year there. All the other years he sucked enough for them to draft Rivers. It is a very good story and a reason why teams shouldn't be so quick to give up on their QB (unless they are a proven journeyman QB who was a former 7th round pick).

I think he'll be able to put on his big boy pants and deal with it. If he has any sense of the history of the Bills, he'd understand.

I'm going to have nightmares.

I like that song then. May get up and do that dance right now.