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Since this is based on what we know only from the "on paper" stuff and the limited exposure to talent in camp, can the people who think this team is going to lose 11 or 12 games tell me what those games will be on the schedule. I can name at least 5 non-divisional games which the Bills should have at least an even chance in winning.

Again, and without hesitation, you don't get to decide at what threshold something is true or isn't true. You are nobody important.

What has Chan Gailey not accomplished in his coaching career that you would like to have seen him accomplish? Are we saying that only Super Bowl winners are worthy of admiration, praise, or anything other than cynicism and paranoia? Chan made the team more fun to watch last year. When you're winning 4 games or 7 games, that's worth all the gold in Tut's tomb. Why are we presuming that 2 drafts and 2 off-seasons is enough to turn any struggling team around? This essentially sounds like impatience.

But they don't play all of their games on turf, and I have absolutely no interest in pretending that you're an authority on anything. Because, you know, you're not. There is no rule that defines when a catch phrase does or doesn't make sense, especially not one written by "DreReed83". They're not even actually all dead Bison hunters named Bill, either! Why are they not the "Orchard Park Black and White and Asian and Other Tall and Short and Fat People Who Lose Sometimes and Win Other Times, Too" of Anaheim. Dre should get right on this.

The Rams didn't play every game on turf, either. Hockey isn't actually "the coolest game on ice". Do you understand the purpose of a catch phrase?

It works but it's somewhat unreliable. Feeds cut off, get disrupted for copyright, they tend to stream a minute or two behind the actual action, etc etc. If you don't mind switching 3 or 4 times per game and missing a half a quarter of the game as a result, then it should be good. If you're the kind of fan who needs to see every play start to finish, you'd probably want to stick with your NFL Ticket.

What is the mysterious "other position" that he can play? He was drafted as a DE. Already pushed back to LB. He doesn't have the speed for the secondary or wide receiver. He isn't strong or physical enough to block or own the middle of the field as a tight end. Do you want him just to be the world's tallest, most expensive full back? LB is the only spot for him. Either it works or it doesn't.

Whether or not Buffalo is a pit, it is probably 28th or 29th in terms of the quality of city of the NFL. There are simply better options. And people who read that and get so blindly upset. It is not just the quality of the city. Obviously Green Bay is a bit of a pit too. But they have franchise stability and a quality roster. The Bills do not have either. Players value those things, because it impacts their job security. Look at P. Hillis with the Browns. He said just yesterday that he wasn't that upset with Denver anymore because their organization did not seem very stable anyway. And that's Denver. The problems with Buffalo are immeasurable compared to that. Also, we did not sign Drew Bledsoe, we traded for him. Additionally, it is hard to properly measure the quality of Marv Levy's GM tenure because Jauron was coaching, which probably had a severe impact on some players development. His tenure could have both been fantastic or awful in different circumstances. His big error was hiring Jauron, which doomed him from the start.

What more, other than leasing some facility space and putting Marshawn Lynch on a literal auctioning block would the Bills have to do to let people know he was up for trade? The entire league knew it. The national media spent two weeks talking about it. There was literally no one in the entire football stratosphere who was not intimately aware of the fact that the Bills were shopping Lynch around and that they wanted a high mid-round draft pick for him. And what else, the Bills are either guilty of talking to the Saints and being told to call them back or not knowing what the Saints wanted and having no idea that they wanted Lynch? It is literally impossible for a rational person to find fault in the way the BIlls handled the situation. The only negligent team in such a situation is the Saints. No, a "respected media member" (which is false, by the way), also said this season that it was profoundly disconcerting that Buddy Nix did not speak on the record about the failings of the team, and Nix didn't hold a public press conference for upwards of three weeks after this accusation when this happened. Regardless of whatever notion you have that the Buffalo Bills are interested in "appearing good in the eyes of the media", the multitude of evidence that suggest otherwise, that suggest that they don't care what the media thinks at all is staggering. I'm quite certain that if this was true (which it most likely is not), that even then, Buddy Nix would not care. He, like the rest of the Buffalo Bills organization, absolutely, positively do not care if you or Jay Glazer think he's inept.

Why? They have to deny every ridiculous assertion that comes before them now, or it's true? If that was the case, all they would ever do, all day long, is deny malicious rumors about the team. They don't owe it to anyone, especially people who *think* they do, to personally deliver special denials on every ridiculous report that comes out of the woodwork.

So the Saints called the Bills, and said, "We're not going to tell you what we'd offer for Lynch, but if you call us we'll tell you what we would offer for Lynch. Okay, so I'm going to hang up now, and you call me back and then I'll tell you."? Yeah, this story is bogus.

The team was remarkably well coached by Gailey this year, considering the absolute lack of talent. If Ralph does this to his coaches, it doesn't seem to have hurt Gailey very much. I don't think Gailey could have squeezed another drop out of this team. Several remarkably close games against playoff teams, a big comeback victory, beating one of our division rivals.

Because he isn't going to be used as an "all around running back", and was never drafted to be an "all around running back" and for whatever reason you and the obnoxious nincompoop that is Mike Schopp seem to be judging him by that standard.

Ryan Fitzpatrick was and is on some bad teams. A good quarterback on a bad team doesn't interest me, a good QB on a good team does. I'll take Billy Joe Hobert on a 11 win team before I take Peyton Manning on a 3 win team. I want to win. Why do I have to find another team and when I have I ever indicated that I am not willing to get Fitzpatrick a chance? I think Fitz has earned himself another full season and I want the team to win. This has nothing to do with front running. I just think it's silly and typically Buffalonian of people to take the smallest modicum of success and begin comparing Ryan Fitzpatrick to hall-of-famers and the league's top tier quarterbacks. Jump on board what? What does that even mean? I watch every game, discuss them on this board, have opinions, support the team financially. What else do I have to do to jump on board? Sit in unquestioning silence so that you feel better about your own assertions? Don't be a fool. Perhaps you should exhibit the same amount of patience and optimism with fellow posters as you have for the Bills losing. And finally, I'm not playing "Mr. Hard to Impress". The team was losing and is still losing. They're certainly more entertaining than they used to be, and I like that. And it also seems like they care and they are trying, which is what I like to see. But the goal is to win games, not to be impressed or unimpressed. Instead of getting so defensive of what I'm trying to say, why don't you try to get outside of yourself for a second and actually let it soak in. I'm not saying anything negative about Fitz that isn't true, and nothing that discounts that he's certainly the best QB we've had in a very long time. But it's still not good enough.

These comparisons are always so silly. You can just as easily draw comparisons to the 2000 or 2001 Bills, for instance. This year's team is the 2010 team all over again, and next year they will be the 2011 team all over again. To heap this sort of praise on current guys is also unfair to them. We are in a salary capped era now, where assembling that sort of talent on a team is incredibly difficult if not impossible. As long as the system stays the way it is, there will NEVER be another team that can replicate the sort of success that Bills of the late 80's and early 90's had on a position-to-position basis. There will always be weak spots.