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And is Gailey a better coach than Belickick? I love this board.

Unlike the Bills ...

Welcome to the Stadium Wall.

It's too early to tell, Spiller has 74 rushes and 24 receptions for his career. 98 touches isn't enough to judge him. Until they give him the ball on a regular basis it's hard to tell how good he is. Perhaps they don't give him the ball because he isn't good, but I have no way of knowing that for sure. Besides Jamaal Charles and Darren McFadden, other successful backs like Robert Smith, Thomas Jones, Priest Holmes, and Garrison Hearst had slow starts to their careers due to lack of touches.

I agree. The ypg were low because the other teams ran all day on the league's worst run defense. The opposition threw against the Bills only 473 times all season, the 2nd lowest number of attempts against in the league, and they were run on 571 times, the most of any team in the league by a pretty substantial amount. If you look at other pass defense statistics you can see that the Bills aren't that great. Opposing QB's had a collective passer rating of 92.6, 5th highest in the league. The defense allowed a TD on 5.9% of the passes thrown against them, 4th highest in the league, and they gave up 28 TD, 7th most in the league. They had only 11 INT, 4th fewest in the league, and they only intercepted 2.3% of the passes thrown against them, tied for 6th lowest in the league. It's all here: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2010/opp.htm The Bills' pass defense is ok, but not elite.

Being an optimistic Bills fan right now is like having battered wife syndrome. "This time it will be different." "He can change." "Things are going to get better soon." "He still loves me." "It's my fault." "Just give it a little more time and everything will be ok." "You just don't understand." I love the Bills and always root hard for them to win, but I just can't muster optimism for them anymore.

I think the Bengals will be terrible and get the first pick. The Bills will be better than 4-12 but they won't win more than 7 games. I hope the defense improves with Dareus etc. but until they play a real game we have no idea what they can do.

I think we're looking at 5 to 7 wins, due to in no small part my inherent pessimism. The Bills have been atrocious against the run for the past two years. They addressed this in the draft but we don't know for sure if Dareus can play at the pro level, and we've been burned in the draft a lot lately. So until I see that the Bills have at least an average run defense I can't see them winning more than 7 games.

I don't understand the igloo analogy. If it's a passing league, don't you need a solid OL to block for the QB so he can pass?

So who are the staring WR now? Even if Evans isn't worth more than a 4th to anyone else, he was a starting WR for Buffalo and I don't know that they have anyone to plug into the hole he left.

I find it really odd that Nix drafted Spiller #9 overall and that Gailey then gave Spiller 98 offensive touches in 14 games (i.e., 7 touches per game). Doesn't seem like a genius plan to me.

I agree with Jauronimo - it's practically impossible for Spiller to get fewer touches than he got last year. What's the likelihood that they use Spiller the way the Vikings use Percy Harvin?

Carolina and Cleveland should be worse than Buffalo this year. I'm still really concerned about the Bills' run defense.