8-8 Forever?

understood and agreed. but we are just Fans, which is short for "fanatics", so the sun always comes up in the morning and a bright new day dawns again for our bills. truthfully, barring a rash of injuries, they do look to be better the rest of the season. Ravens play good D, and ChanFitz basically shredded them from start to finish.

Yep. he's big enough (if he is too small, then Hasselbeck, Brees, et al are way too small), his arm is more than adequate (if his arm isn't good enough, then neither are Hasselbeck, brees, et al arms), he is fearless, unlike half the guys in the position in the nfl. I like a QB who reads, reacts and acts quickly. He is the first one we've had since Bledsoe. He pays at NFL speed, without just checking everything down. Liked him last year, like him a lot more this year. Why not? It will take a rookie QB years to become good. We don't have years. exactly.

Sounds crazy. 0 - 16 teams put no one in the Pro Bowl.

Bruce Smith went through pretty much the same drill. Wasn't ready to play when he came in, stunk up the joint, got his stuff together by year 3 and away he went. Maybin may be similar. Cocky, overhyped, gets B word slapped, gains a few pounds and a little humility, and away he may go sometime next year...

If we go 5 - 5 the rest of the way, that means Fitz is playing well enough to keep the job longer term, so don't need the no. 1 overall pick (not that Ralph would pay even if we did have it). If we go 2 - 8 the rest of the way, that means Fitz is not Matt Hasselbeck and we need the no 1 overall for a QB. Pretty simple. I think Fitz is going to be good because Chan has always been able to throw the ball and score with whoever he had. Therefore, barring a bunch of IR injuries that blow everything up, my sense is Fitz keeps the job long term, we get the no. 5 pick or something and draft something other than a QB, probably front seven on D.

Oh and Six (and counting).. Yep. Bills find a way to screw it up again.

Typical WNY person. Looking for the handout from the State or Feds to pay for his lifestyle. Sad..

The Ravens will absolutely destroy the Bills. the game will be unwatchable. The NFL analysts have been dead on right about the Bills for months. Nothing has changed.

Agreed. This is just a long training camp/preseason now.

We will lose very badly. 31 - 0 shutout. At least one Ravens defensive TD. Not sure Fitz survives this game physically. Ravens will run the ball and the clock, score on long drives and play tampa 2 against what will become a pass only Bills playcalling game. Meaning Fitz will get killed somewhere late 3 Qtr. The Brohm era, short as it will likely be, may begin Sunday . this will be ugly. dont watch if you can avoid it.

Stevie Nix is taking a nap.

31 - 0. Bills absolutely get shut out. the only question is how many Ravens score... that is it

I agree. Ralph will not put out $50m guaranteed on some unproven college kid. Not happening. Anyone who thinks it is is dreaming. Bills are screwed because no one will want the pick either. No one trades for the No 1 overall pick anymore. too expensive. poor bills. all dressed up (having the no 1 pick) and no place to go (can't pay for it). Man it sucks to be a Bills fan. No rookie cap in 2011 my friend. Of course that's the year Ralph has to pay up for the no 1 pick, after years of franchise mis management. And he won't. This could be the first no 1 pick to go unsigned and back into the draft in 2012. Actually a good strategy for the Bills. refuse to sign the no 1 pick, go 0 - 16 again in 2011 , pick the same guy and pay dramatically less under the rookie cap.. hmm.. interesting strategy... might just work...

Poz = Kelsay. Whoopeee.

It will be a Steelers home game. Probably the worst possible game to go to this year. Steelers will be rolling and the Bills will be deader than dead. Bills fans will sell their tickets to Pittsburgers ... bring your terrible towel..

I for one will not be watching another game until Brohm is the QB. What else is there to look forward to, other than the draft?

the tampa 2 defense made byrd. he actually has to cover people now.

by the time they are good again, they will be gone. what's the point? find something else to do/

Smart move. I'd want off this sunk ship too. By the time the Bills are good again, they'll be gone.

Agreed. The Bills as a winning team in WNY are over.

no one really cares anymore... this team has a real chance to be 0 -16.. when can we get a look at Brohm?? that's all that's left in this season... that's it

so why is Sully still around? because he is a reflection of the general population of the area. downer, negative, nothing is ever right, etc etc. he is perfect for the WNY market.. Howard Simon is terrific. If he didnt have family ties to the area, he would have been gone long ago.. must turn his stomach to have to deal with such a crappy media market..

No. But the guys who have success in sports management and coaching generally have strong bloodlines. Players are different than management. Player talent is player talent -- not much else needed. Especially at RB, DB ,etc. Talent in management and coaching and QB play comes from great experience with winning coaching, organizations and ownership. Warner became warner because he was surrounded by Vermeil, Martz, Pace, etc. Gailey, Nix, Jauron, et al are not from these kind of organizations. They may figure it out on their own, but that will take a great deal more time than if we had Shanahan, Cowher, Wisenhunt, etc. these guys have already learned what to do and how to do it -- but we can't get those guys because they refuse to be exposed to the post-Ralph uncertainty. And yes, the NFL is a win-now league, no question about it. If you don't have an organization geared to win and win soon, it trickles down to the players, as better ones leave in free agency because they want to win -- the $$ they can get anywhere,, top notch organizations are more rare.. so the situation in B Lo perpetuates itself.. until Ralph is gone and a new, say, Jerry Richardson-type high energy leadership committed to winning emerges. This type of leadership is unlikely to exist locally, as factory towns don't breed these kind of leaders. Therefore, hard to imagine the Bills re-emerging short of ownership change/move. Someone make a counter argument.. love to hear it...

Given the absolute fact that when team is sold the whole front office and coaching staff will be replaced (no one spends $700m without also bringing in their own people to manage it) why is it at all reasonable to believe the current front office is "competent" -- the current management/coaching team are "dead men walking" keeping the chairs warm for those who will replace them sooner rather than later. That's why the top GM/Coaching candidates avoid OBD. We do not have the best and the brightest at OBD.. just guys hoping to hang around the NFL a little bit longer...

There you go... finally someone is on to the reality of the situation. No quality GM or Coaching candidate wanted to come to the Bills. That's how we end up with the Gaileys and Nixs of the world. The Bills are the universal "last resort" team for guys looking to either extend their time in or get back into the NFL (Donahoe, Stroud, Florence, Kelsay, Jauron, etc) . Why would anyone work for an ownership about to change (and clean house again) unless they were your last resort? The Bills are screwed until long term ownership is in place. God love him, but Ralph is not long term. Sully sees these NFL hangers-on like Jauron, Gailey and Nix and just calls it like he sees it. Good for him. He cannot write the above story underlying WHY we are stuck with these clowns, so the fans get mad at Sully for being negative.