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Where are the Pro Bowlers Nix has drafted? With 6 picks in the first three rounds of the 2010-11 drafts, only perhaps Spiller is worthy of any mention. Troup, Carrington, Dareus, A. Williams, and Sheppard are all either ineffective starters or backups. He's failed to deliver on draft day for a guy people lauded as a top talent evaluator. And that's why this team is on the merry-go round of failure. One more draft won't make this any better, nor will more UFA spending. This issue goes so much deeper it'll take an underwater drill to reach.

There are candidates for those teams' HC jobs. Meanwhile, this team conducted 2 real interviews for the HC job, one obviously a Rooney rule option in Leslie Frazier. They also conducted 2 in-house interviews for the GM job, one of whom was fired weeks later and was their minority interview. Read between the lines and take your head out of the ground.

There's a lot going unsaid about the sad state Buffalo has become. When coaches and front office types decline to interview for the team, it's safe to say the organization is known as something of a NFL Siberia. Players, agents, executives, other owners, the commissioner, all of them know this team is the worst in the NFL. And that was before they played today's game.

Does the track lead over a cliff or into a mountain?

How much does this game worsen America's trade deficit?

Most teams aren't the Bills.

They're making up for SB XL one game at a time.

If this doesn't get the team awake, nothing will. Sleepwalking since the first snap.

Pete Carroll versus Chan Gailey?

I would take those DJ coached teams that were guaranteed to be 7-9 and lose in heartbreaking fashion. Those were the days.

Send in the clowns...

Yep. Ralph's ownership guarantees the team remains in Buffalo and that it will never move beyond mediocrity for the reason you note.

I thought Kyle Moore was another of Buddy's street free agent/practice squad diamonds in the rough?

He's a gunslinger. Too bad he locks onto his target all too frequently.

You have to love the Bills playing the shout song going into the half after giving up 31 points. Maybe that's Ralph's strategy with Brandon executing it.

Whenever Wannstedt is shown things get worse. And that's saying something for this defense.

Results be darned, the roster is better now. Right?

And who would win in a battle of the Bills starting O versus their starting D?

Thought the defense was getting better. I guess it helps when you play inferior competition.

This whole inactivation of Jackson just seems deeper than getting practice reps. He's started for 2 other franchises, and it's not as though Fitzpatrick is doing anything ultra-creative either. I wouldn't be surprised if Nix and Gailey agreed that not activating T-Jack was necessary to protect Fitzpatrick from further scrutiny. In their world, the Bills front office is all about protecting themselves and their players from criticism. But, it's the Bills, and they're run like a third rate organization, so anything's possible.

I'm not on board with draft position being a luck thing. There are no guarantees in the draft, but with QB supply far exceeded by demand, fortune favors the bold. GM's who need a QB or but remain unwilling to pay the price to move up when they draft outside the top 10 typically are those drafting high again. For this team to ever have a chance, they'll need a GM who doesn't take 4 drafts to realize his team cannot put a good QB on the field. Because doing so mean a bad to mediocre football team, as evidenced by the three seasons of this supposed "rebuild."

Typically you don't keep the former starter around to mentor a younger guy. That is, unless you're the Buffalo Bills and don't cut J.P. Losman after he's been demoted in favor of Trent Edwards.

In the five drafts from 2005-09, there were 18 QB's taken from picks 20-100. Of that group, only Aaron Rodgers is what I would consider a long term starter. If you add in the 2010 and 2011 drafts, there were 6 guys taken in this range, and early returns indicate that 1 of them will be a long term guy (Dalton) with one having potential (Kaepernick). That's 24 guys with, at most, 3 having a high enough ceiling to be a starter. Each draft is different, but with the value teams place on QB, finding a guy late in the first or in the second and third isn't that great of odds. This is what happens when you don't get one from the beginning and stubbornly reject conventional wisdom of taking one high early in a rebuild.

Gailey/Wannstedt being worse than DJ/Fewell/Van Pelt is quite telling after 3 years of rebuilding.

I would love to see the fallout if Chan, Nix, et al. go to RW's house after the season and the owner tells Chan to have someone else call the plays. The offense has regressed and we've seen RW call for coordinator heads before. After all, if your best assets, Spiller and Johnson, aren't being utilized so Chan get get his people on the field, it extends beyond play-calling. It's a waste of the owner's money.