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Considering how absolutly horrendous the pass rush is even with Dareus getting good pressure up the middle and our inability to stop the run/pass on defense what positions do we draft when next year? What position would you draft next year with the 32nd pick in the 2012 draft?

Other than a 1 minute 3 highlight clip on espn sportscenter of the game "highlights" there is no mention of the blow out on either site. No Articles about how a playoff team last year got beat by the supposed 2nd last in the power rankings. I'd like to see them remain under the radar but on the other hand I'm sick of the B.S. from ESPN massaging brady's ego every chance they get and covering the Jets every chance they get. They are so obsessed with ratings that everything they cover is large market teams. Stinks for guys like me in FLA. with no local coverage of our team. I have to relie on horrible AFC East updates like this one... My link which is located in the AFC East Blog and pretty much states that the cheifs should be ashamed of themselves for losing to such a pitiful team. Wow. No love at all.

SO who is policing the commissioner to not pull stunts like this? It's like there is no one that can prevent this sort of thing so we're just going to have to eat it. Too bad fans. You have a small market team that doesn't deserve National attention.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6856738/baltimore-ravens-land-lee-evans-deal-buffalo-bills-source-says Good luck Lee , I'm rooting for Baltimore now.

John Clayton - It's because of this DipS**T was the main AFCEAST reporter on these rankings. Biggest waste of human life in existance...

LOL. Seems that there should be something in play there after 5 losses. Maybe the NFL will create a new 2nd place trophy and name it the Norwood.

If you can deal with feeling like you are in Mexico and English is a second language. I guess i like living in America. Not Miami/Cuba/Mexico.

So you live in inner city Buffalo or a suburb? Just curious?

If we go .500 in the division i'll do back flips. I don't see us winning against the Jets or the Pats but I hope i'm wrong.

Looks like we're 0-2 against them again this year. We're sitting back this year and waiting for our chance to pounce. I think it's a smart move. We should let everyone else spend their money now so that 4 years from now we'll be the only team able to make moves. It just means that the next two years we'll remain in the "Rebuilding phase". I like watching "rebuilding" football. It's fun. Everyone in our division gets better as we sit and wait.

So you are saying that we'd have to pay more than Oakland would to retain the services of one Zach Miller? IMO Oakland is a crappy place to play. It's the ghetto of CA. No offense to anyone on here from Oakland but hey just being real.

Point taken. I admire those that still have faith in our front office. I myself do not. That does not mean that I don't wish beyond everything else that we will at one point bring back glory to the Bills. I just don't think that this is the right position to take in this free agency where we have an equal chance with everyone else to fill some of the holes we have with high caliber players. I know and everyone talking on this thread knows that Friday is the start of FA Signings. The article on Buddy's statement is what the thread is about. The stance that he says they are taking to stay away from big splashes is almost as dumb as your post.

There is a reason they are big splashes. They are the players that are some of the best at their positions. Evidently we are not searching for any of those. And no , noone has signed a free agent yet but Nix is covering his butt saying don't get to excited cause we aren't going to do much of anything. Why should we be happy with that as fans? I'd rather him say we're going to spend a boatload of money trying to get some quality players in this club. This team (& Nix's statement for that matter) is Depressing hence the depressing thread jeremy.

Rich - The way Nix was putting it was there was no way they'd be even looking at the likes of Clabo with their no big splashes statement. To me Clabo is a big splash. And yes we will have to wait and see but I disagree with the build through the draft sentiment. That is great if you have that kind of time but considering Ralph is no spring chicken and the fact that we've wasted so many high draft picks during the Modrak era I can speak for only myself when I say let's freaking make moves to win not to get gradually better. It is a rebuilding team. I understand that. But I'll take what you're smoking if you really think that Nix's no splashes statement is the way to go. I don't recall naming people when saying overpaying for mediocre players because i do like Poz. Do i think he's a top echelon player. No but he's better than what we have right now.

See Post " no splashes... why Not?"

I completely agree with you. This statement is the epitome of a LOSER mentality. The ole.. "we're going to do the best with what we have". How can you expect the results to change when you keep doing the same things that got us into this mess in the first place.

It's really incredible that Nix would say that they won't spend big money to bring someone in that we all know can upgrade our team tremendously in places of serious need. (I.E. RT Clabo or TE Miller) With the situation in hand that the Bills have to spend a whole bunch of money, why overpay mediocre players to hit that number? Let's make splashes, evidently the whole cash to the cap routine Ralph has implemented during the depression decade of the past 10 years hasn't worked. Get some players that we know they can ball. Sick of the wait for the next draft mentality when there are great options out there NOW. I was all excited to have free agency start and saying to myself, man the Bills can make some good moves here. Come to find out no splashes is the mentality. We'll be at best a 50% win team at best for the next 5 years. VENTING.

You have to be a proud son Scott. That was a great article that Bucky wrote and I'm so glad you shared that with all of us. You'll miss her but know that she's with you forever in your heart and you'll meet her again someday in heaven. God bless through your tough time and it sounds like he has already blessed you with a great family that will help you through this.

My link You gotta love this. We are 4 point underdogs against Cincinnati??? That's incredible. I've learned my lesson about betting on these types of games on the Bills as anyone who has ever bet on them. So in an effort to hope the Bills turn things around this season I will not be placing any bets on them at ALL this year. That's my contribution to the Bill's faithful. This list of teams that are supposedly better than us this year has got to fire this team up. We are going to sweep the dolphins this year but can we beat the pats and jets in at least one game? That would put us at 4-4 in the division games which would at least get us out of the laughable category... Can't wait to see Dareus B**ch Slap Brady this season, hopefully more than once.

With the young recievers we have on our squad (Nelson,Easely,Jones etc) it really feels as though we are missing a reliable veteran presence. I'm a 50/50 guy on Evans and I think we've seen the peak of his career already. It'd be nice to have 2 veteran recievers to help these guys. I'd love to see more 4 to 5 reciever sets this year so why not bring in a Free Agent that has some reliable hands and routes to help the younger guys. Since the Bills are never going to sign a huge namer like Braylon Edwards or Vincent Jackson or Sidney Rice etc. I think you go for someone who is going to be a positive locker room guy. With that being said who do you think would be the best fit? IMO I like any one of these: Lots of options for vets this year though... Brian Finneran (ATL) Donte' Stallworth (BAL) TJ Houshmandzadeh (BAL) Mike Sims-Walker (JAC) Kevin Curtis (MIA) Hank Baskett (MIN) Greg Lewis (MIN) Lance Moore (NO) Johnnie Lee Higgins (OAK) Mark Clayton (STL) Maurice Stovall (TB)

If you stood up and cheered when Brady got hurt... you may be a Bills fan.

If you've ever said "our third string QB could be the answer", you might be a Bills fan. If you've ever found a positive side of only losing by less then a touchdown on multiple regular season games, you might be a Bills fan. If you have insider information about Jim Kelly's "buying group" you may be a Bills fan. If you have ever cracked a beer at 7 AM at the Ralph Parking lot, you may be a Bills fan. on that note... If you would bet your life that there isn't a more die hard fan in the NFL than a Bills fan... you may be a Bills fan.

Is it me or do teams who are established with their systems have a serious edge this year being that there will be no playbooks passed out till there is an agreement of some sort? Having no OTA's and possibly no mini camps is going to turn this rookie class into rookies the following year also... We're stuck rebuilding one extra year then we would have had they not had the Labor disputes. I'm just saying that this really sucks for the Bills and for any teams who are trying to turn a corner. Yes we got better in the draft on D but what good is it if they aren't familiar with the D when we start the season whenever that may be or if at all?

Ralph 20 years ago.

From what all of us have probably heard from Gailey in the news , it's going to take some serious convincing to the coaching staff to even get Maybin on the field during the season this year. A lot of it depends on how he's going to perform in Practice. Some people just can't play the game in a pro environment(Ex:JP LOSMAN) and even with new coaching (Dave W) they just don't have the vision. I just think Maybin had a great year in college against college players got to the pros drafted way ahead of where he should have gone and was tossed around like a ragdoll against professional lineman that had 60 lbs on him on avg. Speed only goes so far..