8-8 Forever?

Exactly. Been waiting for this "minor league". Perfect for the AAA Bills.

Andrew Luck and RGIII are the reasons. Not the Bills, I assure you.

Correct. Once Ralph passes on, all bets are off, it's all business at that point. If a buyer pays $800m for something, I believe he or she can do whatever they want with it. I personally believe the Bills are moving to L.A. to Farmers Field paid for by someone else. All they need now is a team and the stadium will be built by 2016. All other options either require a stadium to be built (expensive and slow) or are outside the U.S. (total wild card for an owner trying to attract players and coaches). The NFL very much wants a team in L.A. Then the Chiefs can finally move out of that division and into the North, with Ravens joining the AFC East. We need to hope Ralph lives to be 100.

This is a polite way of saying we will lose 12 games and get utterly killed in a half dozen of them.

Guys hasn't OC'd a single game in the NFL and he is on this list? Not much of a list. Bills will do very little on offense this year. Too many rookies and no huddle offense will not make a difference for long. About week 4... put it on the calendar. Once there are 3 or 4 weeks of game film DC's all over the league will find ways to defeat the Kollege offense.

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Every time a recent Bills starter is cut and then ignored or signed and quickly cut by another NFL team shows you the lack of talent on this franchise. I'd love to see a list of Bills who started games who were later cut who were on NFL rosters opening day the next year. I bet it is a very very short list.

he is great example of why i never begrudge NFL players for the sometimes huge contracts they sign. it can all be over with a couple of the right kinds of hit. just over, just like that

Hmm... the Kelsey point is interesting, but Kelsey, like Stevie, Fitz and McGee and others before them, if you kiss the ring, you get paid. If you (like Peters) have an agent play hardball, you do not. Say goodbye to Byrd. He is likely gone due to the tactics and attitude of his pit bull agent (no disrespect). Assuming high-character Byrd personally really wants to stay, his mistake was hiring and being led by Eugene Parker, who has no use for such sentiments. Need to sign and trade him for a 2nd rounder next year or something like that (just as they did with Peters). Still a couple months to go, so we will see, but typically, Hardball negotiations are just not what this little backwater 3rd tier franchise does. They draft replacements and let the best players go. So many examples of this.

Dream on. 4-12, hopefully Kolb for 8 games at 1-7, canned for EJ week 9 who goes 3 - 5 but shows glimmers of hope. You know that is how its going to go. Lots of historical precedent for this. This is the NFL. Young building program teams get killed by the top 15 teams all year. Bunch of O Line guys go on IR because they are playing from behind all year and throwing 45 passes a game. Spiller gets pissed b/c he isn't getting the ball, decides to leave. The storyline is so easy to write. They blew it up. The franchise is starting over (again) and this is the honeymoon season for Marrone, Whaley and Co. where the record is not held against them. "they are trying to build a team" ,etc etc. 4 - 12, "but on the way up" .

For 50% of game fans, the tailgate IS the game. If suddenly, tailgating were prohibited, I wonder what would happen to attendance at Bills games. I really wonder. The parking lot drinkfest is the draw for most fans IMO. On the team front, they are making the right moves; in fact a sign and trade for Byrd (who obviously wants out regardless of the money issue) for a high draft pick or picks would regrettably be a good next move. The fact that most fans don't recognize is when they canned Gailey, Nix, Fitz, Barnett, Jones, Nelson, etc and crew, THEY BLEW IT ALL UP and are for the most part starting over from scratch with new offenses, new QBs/WRs (who are the key to NFL offenses today) New Defenses (we have 4-3 personnel suddenly stuck back in a 3-4.. never woudl have gone after Mario under the new regime, for example as he is a 4-3 DE) . We have like one NFL experienced LB as we fired all the guys the prior management brought in. Yes they were not Pro Bowl players, but now we have rookies and inexperienced players being stuffed into a scheme some have never played in. Gonna be a long year people. For this year, Enjoy the tailgate and watch the replay on NFL Rewind. You'll have a better time and saving a couple hundred bucks a game.

Yep. Expansion team WR corps. Will they improve? Absolutely. Will the passing game be great this year? not a chance, especially if EJ starts from day 1. This is a complete restart people. Get used to it. They wlll improve and hopefully the upside is tremendous. but 2013 will be ugly. Too many first year NFL coaches and players at key positions. Sorry. it is what it is.

yes. he will do a Whitner. lots of money and playing with a top 10 franchise not afraid to spend money for talent.

Yep, gotta sign him first. however, People don't trade #1's for safeties, i don't care who they are. Everyone needs to accept the fact that his agent is getting him both the money and out of this franchise, both good moves for Byrd. The guys in the prime of his career and he is with what looks like an expansion team.

I believe it would take a lot for the Bills NOT to be drafting in the top 3. Boy, chances are good Bills fans are in for a big big letdown this year. They needed (I guess) to make all the changes they made in the off season, but Kollege coaches or rookie QBs never fare well their first season. We have BOTH this year. We play AFC North and NFC South. We are all fanatics, but this cannot possible go remotely well. From WR to LB to QB to coaches to front office, the Bills look like a freakin' expansion team.

yes, this is a fan site. the facts scream that this team will get killed this year while it starts over (again), but, hey, this is a fan site (fan = fanatic) and after all, this is the high point of every season, so everyone on board !! EJ to CJ to TJ...

If the team would not pay Levitre the 8mil per year the Titans gave him, why would they suddenly be OK giving Byrd 9mil per year? Both safety and guard are possibly similar positions in terms of replaceability and importance. You can get guards, you can get safeties. There are lots of both around, tackles are more important than guards and pass rush is more important than safety play. I don't see the Bills breaking the bank for Byrd. He is leaving. Eugene Parker will see to that.

I would take them as seriously as they take the Bills, which means not much. The Bills have dropped out of the NFL conversation to the point where fringe media people have effectively forgotten the franchise exists, therefore their research on the team is minimal leading to "insights" that add nothing. That is bad, but missing the playoffs for 13 seasons will do that to you. The Bills have been for awhile and are still in bad shape. Plain and simple. If and when they start winning, people will start paying attention. But until then, they are the laughing stock of the league that rewards winning and not much else.

1. My sense is Byrd and his agent simply want out of Dodge. Life is short in the NFL and the Bills are on a 3-5year rebuilding plan (again). Money is not the issue, He will get paid big by someone, that is for sure, unless he gets injured this year. This is his big (and maybe last) chance to do a "Whitner": get big $$ from a big time contender and go play in big games and have your play count for something. And he is better than Whitner, so do the math. The guy is outta here. 2. While the Bills have gone young and talented-with-upside and ditched the old wood (which is what it is), that does no good for wins and losses this coming season, where either Kolb will get sacked 30+ times and happy feet another 100 times or EJ throws 25 "growing pain" INTS, one or the other will likely happen in this particular coming season. So get ready for NFL Network to alternatively dis and ignore the Bills once again.

Agreed. When Ralph passes (could be anytime), highest bidder gets the team. I still cannot imagine someone paying $800M for a franchise and trying to make it work financially in a place like WNY, when L.A., London, Toronto, all places where Goodell wants a team, are out there. Cannot imagine the numbers working at all in WNY, even at higher ticket prices. Hope I am wrong, because new ownership will bring more confidence from prospective players and coaches.

from a wins and losses standpoint, yes, it is going to be a long season. but 2-14 gets us Jadaveon Clowney, the best d prospect in a long time and the next Lawrence Taylor in most peoples opinion. Just enjoy EJ's high points and lets go from there.

buffalo still has an NHL franchise? well fancy that

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Agreed. So everyone just needs to get comfortable with the inevitable reality that he is gone.

Don't laugh, I believe the league does what it can to promote the success of its marquee players, coaches and teams (to pump the TV contract up based on the national TV games having teams with good records playing them). The Bills franchise is not and has none of these, so they are set up to be the "homecoming game" opponent as much as the scheduling allows.