thewildrabbit

No I didn't, I was laughing at it.

that is funny I highly doubt Bill Polian would have allowed any of the moves that the idiot Jauron did to himself. In the draft, in personnel moves, in hiring. Jauron also had two years as de facto GM and basic complete control over the team, schemes, and players. He took a 7-9 team and made it worse before he left. If Marv should have never been given the job as GM ( a HoF HC ) who was asked by his old friend Ralph Wilson to help him out. Then think about letting a loser like Jauron have complete control. P.S. Those 7-9 teams had enough talent on them to win, it was the bad coaching, the horribly bad schemes that held them back!

You might not have liked the hire ....but you sure seem intent on defending him...or provoking me.

Totally different thing from hiring a head coach that will be micro managed by the owner and the world knows it, to hiring an assistant coach. Jauron took the safe, lazy and easy way out by promoting from within.

Hey man, you won't get an argument from me that Jauron was a complete tool, he screwed up in so many ways. Not only was he bad at talent evaluation, and picking the wrong players he also had no balls!! The man must have been scared to death to hire a real experienced NFL offensive assistant for fear that they would steal his job. He was the complete opposite of Marv Levy as head coach, Marv was not afraid to hire anyone who he thought could do a good job for him. The last DC he tried to hire was Tom Coughlin, and instead Coughlin took the HCing job with the Jags. In cases like the 28 year veteran O line coach Jim McNally who retired and Jauron promotes an assistant. Don't forget it was McNally who coached Jason Peters from a walk on tight end into an all pro LT. Veteran OC Steve Fairchild leaves and he promotes the QB coach ( this might have been an ok move if Jauron had some real insight on how an NFL offense should work, and could have guided the OC's more) Jauron did this not once, but twice! Jauron may as well have been calling the offensive plays because all it was shotgun pass plays with a few runs mixed in. Like I said in an earlier post it was half way thru the season before Schonert called for a "play action" pass play. The only area of the team that Jauron would hire an experienced coach for was the defense. Jauron might have been on to something by looking over his shoulder so often because It was and experienced NFL coach who replaced him in Perry Fewell. You guys think I forget about the 2008 season ? The one that Tom Brady gets a season ending injury in the very first game, and the only QB on their roster hadn't played a football game since high school. That's right, Matt Cassell didn't play at all while at USC. Wanna see Cassell stats at USC? In 4 years 20 attempts for 192 yards, and most of those came in one game. With that inexperienced QB behind center the Patriots still beat the Bills both times 10-20 and in that windstorm in Buffalo that the Bills should have won because they had the better running game with Lynch and Jackson. This was the year that Jauron promoted the assistant line coach from within, and this was the year that Trent Edwards suffered that horrendous hit by an unblocked blitzing safety. Edwards completed that pass, but that hit probably eventually ruined his career.....that hit and the next 4 concussions over 3 years. This was also the year the Bills started out 4-0, and then went to 5-1 after beating the Chargers in Buffalo. Following that game they lost 3 straight in the division to Miami, NY and NE. then lost to Cleveland with Brady Quinn at QB That year the Bills had a real chance at winning the division if they had replaced the departed coaches with people who knew what they were doing. Jauron was such an offensive moron that he promoted other morons to run his offense, that was his biggest downfall. That and the fact that he and his staff of buffoons ruined two young QB's P.S. What most of you fail to realize is that Jauron's short comings were in the fact that he failed to hired experienced NFL offensive coaches. Chan Gailey did the exact same thing when he was hired, only he hired his old friends from his college days at GT. That IS the biggest reason for 4-12 & 6-10. That and the fact that Gailey is trying to be the head coach while also trying to run the entire offense.

And yet went 7-9 with basically the same players...only with Losman & Edwards at QB. Like the OP points out, most of the best players on the team last year were all from the Jauron era. Like I said, I like Gailey / Nix. But they haven't proven anything yet. P.S. I highlighted Aaron Schobel because he was the only star the team lost and didn't replace. Expecting Maybin and Merriman to take up the slack was grasping at straws, and a huge mistake.

I understand how much you resent the Marv Levy GM / Dick Jauron HC / GM era. I tend to agree with you to a point. But as moronic as Jauron was in many aspects, he wasn't doing the scouting and talent evaluations, Tom Modrak was the head scout. No question as to the reason why Nix fired him after that 2010 season. Modrak was reason the Bills made so many bad selections in the draft the last 10 years. So I'd have to say the brunt of the blame for for the Levy / Jauron era should be shared equally between Jauon and Modrak who did the scouting and choosing. Marv Levy stated as GM he would only recommend a player and let the consensus of scouts / HC ultimately decide the picks. Both Dockery and Walker went back to their respective teams after they were let go by the Bills, and both went on to start and play another year or so. Can I mention a name that Buddy Nix brought in as a free agent RT and paid the man 2 million, and has to be the very worst FA acquisition in the history of the Buffalo Bills. As bad as Walker and Dockery might have been they were no where near as bad as Cornell Green who was quietly benched and released after playing only a few games. To set the record straight that line in 06 was-Peters- Gandy- Fowler- Villarrial- Penningtion. It wasn't until 07 that the Bills brought in Walker and Dockery who both played with the bills thru 07-08. they both played 2 full seasons and didn't do to badly until the starting O line coach Jim McNally retired. I'll grant you that neither one was worth the money paid them. But either of them were infinitely better then Cornell Green. The only difference that I can see in 2009's starting roster, Gone are -WR Terrell Owens, LB Kiwaka Mitchel,OT Kirk Chambers, DE Aaron Schobel. 2010 roster additions that became starters were- TE David Martin, OT Mansfield Wrotto, LB Reggie Tobor, LB Aiken Ayodele, Erik Pears. Kraig Urbik. So in 2010 RT Kirk Chambers was replaced at first before the season started by Cornell Green, then Wrotto, then Pears. The latter two were plucked off the street out of desperation mid way thru the season I happen to like both Chan Gailey and Buddy Nix and honestly hope they can turn this franchise around... but with almost the very same players Jauron had the previous year the Bills went 4-12 under Gailey. Not to mention fielding the very worst defense against the run in the 50 year history of the franchise....now that is shameful.

If you read everything I posted, watched the Bills games during the time Jauron was HC and still come away with the thought that the Bills didn't run the Mike Martz passing scheme..... Jeez guy, let me try to enlighten you a bit. Can we forestall the fact that JP Losman was drafted as a mobile down the field passer with a big arm, but rarely had the time in the pocket to throw deep because of an inadequate O line. You don't recall Losman throwing deep bombs to Lee Evans? Remember that game against the Texans where he threw 2x TD's for 83 yards each to Evans in 2006? Trent Edwards OTOH was coached to run the west coast offense in college while at Stanford. Edwards did have some success in 2008 when the Bills opened the season 4-0. Then the Bills went down to Arizona where on the 3rd play of the game Edwards suffered a horrendous hit by an untouched blitzing safety Adrian Wilson. Edwards suffered a severe concussion from that hit, and that more then probably ruined his career. So Edwards wasn't always a dink & dunk QB his entire time in Buffalo, 5 concussion in 3 years was the reason why. Both JP Losman and Trent Edwards were ruined by Jauron, Schonert in that Martz passing offense which calls for very a aggressive passing system and deep throws, and were plagued by inadequate protection the entire time. Don't you remember both QB's being in constant shotgun sets under Turk Schonert? Just because the QB chooses to dump the ball to the RB more often then he throws down field doesn't dictate what scheme the team runs. The Bills OC would call for a 5 step drop deep pass over the middle and the QB would dump the ball off to the RB or the underneath WR simply because it was the safer pass. In the end of Edwards career in Buffalo he didn't trust his line, his WR's or his coaches, and was always looking for that outlet to dump the ball off. kinda why he was cut after two games in 2010

that's Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson's line, both of them Long way till Sept 5th 2012.... 100+ days or so...too lazy to actually count them. Bills fans want the season to start tomorrow

Because he is a conceited jerk? I'd rather see the Bills give Dallas Clark a long look. Seriously tho, I'm surprised Chandler ever see's the ball in Chan Gailey's offense. The TE is supposedly the QB's best friend and outlet, and yet previous to last season Gailey was noted for not utilizing the TE very often in his offense.

Dick Jauron had a reputation for being a running the ball type of HC from his days as head coach of the Bears. When he first arrived in Buffalo all the media did was talk about the strong defense and a strong run game that Jauron would install with the Bills. Instead, Jauron / Levy hired Steve Fairchild as his first offensive coordinator, the then OC of the St Louis Rams. Mike Martz called the plays in St Louis but Fairchild was the technical coordinator. So now the media talked about the Bills building the "greatest show on snow". The St Louis Rams had the nickname "greatest show on turf" when they won the super bowl in 2000. Fairchild had previously work for the Buffalo Bills in 2001-2002 as RB coach. He then worked for the Rams in 2003-2005 as OC & QB coach. He worked for the Bills for a season and a half (2006-2007) before taking the job as head coach of Colorado state. Fairchild didn't do to badly in his only year with the bills as he called 431 passing vs 420 rushing plays.Farirchild brought with him the Rams playbook and the Bills wanted him to install that famous Mike Martz passing offense from the Rams to the Bills. In 2006 Jaurons first year the bills went 7-9 up from the previous year of 5-11 under HC Mike Mularkey. This is where Dick Jauron made his biggest blunder of his coaching career with the Bills, after Fairchild left the Bills instead of hiring another OC with some NFL experience, he then promoted Bills QB coach Turk Schonert to Offensive coordinator of the Buffalo Bills in 2008. Can anyone ever forget that infamous "roll out fumble" by JP Losman that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against the NY Jets in week 14 in 2008? The Bills basically had the game won, all they needed to do was make a first down running the ball and run out the clock with Marshawn Lynch who had just made several first downs by running, he had 27 attempts for 127 yards that day. The Jets just couldn't stop the bills run game that day. Then Schonert calls that roll out... Jauron took the heat and said he called the play. But there is no doubt in my mind that it was Turk the idiot who called it. Schonert took that Mike Martz scheme and ran with it, always calling shotgun passing plays. It wasn't until midway thru the 2008 season before he called for a "play action pass" to take the heat off the QB. Is it any wonder why JP Losman and Trent Edwards were suffering? If you recall two weeks before the 2009 season started Jauron fired Turk and replaced him with then QB coach Alex Van Pelt. To his credit I thought AVP did a better job as OC then Turk. but it was too late, Jauron had successfully scuttled his own team previous to that 08 season. New OC who was unprepared to be an OC two weeks before the opening game, got rid of guard Dockery, got rid of RT Langston Walker. To be honest that 2009 line wasn't that bad, JP at LT. but it had 2 rookies in Wood and levitre at guard. The center Hangartner played with a bad back all season. Kirk Chambers settled in at RT. So yea, with Steve Fairchild as the only OC with real NFL experience as OC in Jaurons tenure with the Buffalo Bills and with him he brought in that "get your QB killed" Mike Martz offensive scheme that was passed down by Fairchild to Schonert to AVP.. Martz was fired In St Louis, fired in Detroit, fired in SF and now fired in Chicago (technically he resigned) as his offense gets his QB's killed. His offensive scheme calls for way to many 5-7 step back passes with sub par O lines. His aggressive pass happy play calling usually results in getting the QB sacked and concussed. Sound familiar? Ask Trent Edwards about his 5 concussions with the Bills. Jay Cutler was getting sacked so often in Martz's offense that during one game against the Vikings last season (2011) Cutler reportedly stated to a teammate about Martz "tell him I said FU*K HIM! Anyway, Chan Gailey still has a lot to prove in that he can win with the Buffalo Bills. So far 4-12 & 6-10 isn't even as good as Jauron at 7-9 with JP Losman at QB and Turk Schonert calling plays.

Careful here new guy, you just might catch the attention of Nero and his cohorts end thus up being nailed to something or other... This is the year that all Bills fans will finally find out if this current GM / coaching regime is going to put a winning team on the field. Expectations have been sky high since Dick Jauron was fired, and rightly so. Jauron brought in two of the worst schemes ever in the history of the NFL. The Tampa Two defense which is historically bad at stopping the run, playing from behind or even being a top defense without supreme talent. Most teams have abandoned this scheme as even the team that it originated on played horribly without the actual architect calling plays. Then there is the Mike Martz offense which looked brilliant with a great O line and Marshall Faulk running the ball to open up the passing game, very similar to what Thurman Thomas was able to do in Buffalo. But Jauron tried forcing very young players to win games for him by constantly throwing with sub par O lines, not a very bright move by such an experienced head coach. So then, Is it any wonder why expectations have been so high on anyone besides Dick Jauron, who was head coach and de facto GM for a time Chan Gailey has the career resume behind him to take this team to a winning season, or so everybody says... Buddy Nix has outstanding credentials in the scouting aspect of building a team. All Bills fans are looking forward to this season after the Bills signed a 100 million dollar defensive end. We Bills fans gotta hope that Nix / Gailey aren't just two old men past their prime trying desperately to hold on to something they both love doing.

Hey, you are entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. Polian is a brilliant GM / president in my view whether you care to believe it or not. IDC! Andrew Luck was rated as the best QB to enter the draft since John Elway, and that was in 2010. He chose to stay in school another year, and enter this years draft. Don't you find it odd that the Colts have had ( your words) arguably the best QB ever to play the position for the last 14 years and now suddenly find themselves in position to draft the next John Elway with the #1 pick overall! Polian didn't setup that offense or defense. Tom Moore setup the offense and retired in 2010, and taught Manning to call his own plays. The Colts didn't need an OC while Manning was the QB, and its a big reason why the offense was so bad in 2011. Tony Dungy setup that Tampa two defense that is notoriously bad at stopping the run and trying to stop teams when they don't have a lead. But with Manning at QB the Colts usually had the lead. Put yourself in his shoes (GM / Pres) at the start of 2011, You know Manning has a career threatening neck injury and probably won't be playing in 2011. So, whats your incentive to bring in a top free agent QB before the season starts... to do what, hit 8-8? Wouldn't it be wiser to sit on your hands and then finally at the end of preseason to bring in an older Veteran QB you know won't be able to assimilate that offense without Tom Moore there. So your team would be in position to draft Andrew Luck! If there was ever a case for the brain trust of an org to have the team tank to get a better pick, I think you could say this was it! This might be another reason as to why Polian was fired, the Colts owner could have even suspected this, or could have been asked some strong questions by some NFL people, who knows. Again, one bad season after 12 years of winning the division and playoffs, 2 SP appearances and one SB win shouldn't in itself be grounds for a complete housecleaning. But like others have stated, perhaps the owner didn't like Polian's son as the GM http://www.sbnation....n-manning-colts Lastly, I find it facetious that a Bills fan is comparing Manning to Big Ben or Tom Brady, and inferring that Manning should have won more SB's because he is arguably the better player but played on inferior teams. You can try and diminish what Polian has accomplished by making comparisons to other teams that have won more super bowls. You can try... Get a grip will ya, Nix has yet to even field a team with a winning record. So far Marv Levy and Dick Jauron as GM's have better overall records at 7-9, which is downright pathetic.

I see no discrepancy! Polian is brilliant in my view, he set the team up to get that #1 overall pick now that Manning was injured an on his way out. The owner of the Colts is a tweeting to all his fans idiot from what I read. 12+ years of winning and a Super bowl championship apparently isn't good enough for him. One bad season out of 12 and he crap cans the entire regime. OK so now he hires a new GM and that GM hires a new coaching staff. Irsay is so full of himself he forgets what that team was like before Bill Polain, and how many losing seasons with bad GM's and bad coaches he went thru before he hired Polian. Hiring a new GM & HC doesn't necessarily mean he will build a winning team, even with that #1 overall QB. You homers are so smitten by the Mario signing you can't see the forest for the trees. Bill Polian is a proven winner every darn place he has been the GM / president!! 4 trips to the SB with one of the historically worst franchises in the NFL....In TWO seasons he builds an expansion team from nothing into a team that goes to the NFC championship game....Takes the Colts to 12+ years of division wins, 2 SB appearances and one SB win. And yet, most of you would rather have a man that has never had a single winning season as a GM. Like I said, that Buffalo Bills fans eternal optimism...never lose it

What utter BS about rot! ...the difference between the 2-14 Colts and the 10-6 Colts was entirely all on their QB, the team was built around Peyton Manning pure and simple. Without him they stunk because they had no adequate backup QB. The Colts with Manning behind center was a quick strike, high powered passing offense geared around one single player, they had no strong running game to support a back up or rookie QB. The Colt defense was designed to play with the lead. Once the Colts got the lead that smallish quick defense could pin their ears back and rush the heck outta opposing passer. (So that Colt defense could never stop the run very well or play well from behind). Which is the formula that kept them in 12+ years of winning seasons, 2x SB's and one SB win. That 2011 Colt team had the same O line, WR's, same TE, same defense and basically the exact same players from 2010, the only real difference was the QB. So Manning injures his neck and the team fell apart. ...Manning wasn't just the QB, he called his own plays and ran that entire offense. The Colts longtime OC Tom Moore had just retired the previous year in 2010, and Manning was really the only QB who knew how to run that offense without Moore. I just can't emphasize enough how much that offense was dependent on Manning. What the owner of that team realized is the entire offense was in one players hands, and decided to change things. Its probably why he let Manning leave the Colts and why the coaching staff was also fired and replaced, not just the GM and president. So if Bill Polian is such a tool because he didn't have a viable backup QB. Then so is the current president of the Denver Broncos in John Elway. When asked if the Broncos had a plan B. Elway said there is no plan B, only Peyton Manning. Gailey went into last year with Tyler Thigpin as backup, then when Fitz got hurt he didn't use him. Its OK Bills fans, to compare a legend at GM / president to a guy that still has never had a winning season as GM. Its that Buffalo Bills eternal optimism ...never lose it! .

Bills fans comparing Nix to Polian is like comparing apples to super bowl contenders, 4-12 & 6-10 compared to 4 trips with the Bills.... a 2x with the Colts, a SB win with the Colts.... 10 years of winning for the Colts org. Not to mention taking an expansion club to the NFC Championship after one year in Carolina. Bill Polian is a certain HoF GM / president and arguably the best GM the NFL has ever seen, if not the very best over the last 40 years. You can opine all you want about the #1 draft pick and Polian walking into great situations with top draft choices. But the reality is that many many teams have had that first overall pick many times and screwed it up again and again. So many first round picks used on QB's or other players on teams that failed to even make the playoffs much less the SB. One great player isn't going to suddenly take a team to the SB, it takes a team! Polian is a winner and whatever team he was in charge of, that team became a winner! Right now everyone is high over the fact that the Bills finally got a pass rusher in Mario Williams....never mind that it took 3 years,and 100 million dollars to get here. Same thing with the O line, that finally after 3 years Nix decides to add a top draft pick to bolster it. 4-12 & 6-10 we all can hear that baby screaming but still haven't seen anything yet. 3 years of drafting in the top 10 and still no franchise QB. This years team still has some holes and is still very thin as several positions. For the love of gods green earth, Nix hasn't even had a winning season yet Last year the Philly Eagles had a "dream team" with all those top free agents and went 8-8. With pro bowl Mick Vick at QB, pro bowl OT in JP, pro bowl WR in DeSean Jackson, pro bowl CB in Asante Samuel, pro bowl kicker in David Akers. Buddy Nix has had 3 years, and although I like what he has done with the team this year in regards to free agency and the draft. This team still has to prove it can win with Chan Gailey calling plays all season.... regardless of injuries. The Packers won the SB with 15 players on IR. So, if 72 something Buddy Nix decided to retire and there was a chance for the Bills to bring back Bill Polian ( who is also in his 70's)...I'd say, hell yeah!

Now all the Bills need is Reggie Bush to have the trifecta Seriously tho, I gotta wonder why Andy Reid couldn't get VY to work out in Philly, and yet brings in Trent Edwards

I can remember Marv being interviewed after the game and was asked why the Bills threw so often, he stated " you gotta dance with who brought you" . So clearly Marv had no idea what he was doing. Since Marchibroda setup the offense so Kelly could call his own plays he really should have made Kelly run Thurman more like they had done all year. 20 point favorites and the Bills blew it trying to throw against the same team that shut down Joe Montana and the 10-1 49ers by a score of 7-3, a team that had won the last 2 super bowls. Then, the NY GIants beat the 49ers again in the playoffs by a score of 15-13. With QB Phil Simms out with a broken foot I suppose the Bills thought it would be an easy game, and in the coaches stupidity they didn't game plan against the Giants very well, or they simply didn't watch the game film of the Giants beating the 49ers. If they had, they would have had Kelly throw less and allow Thurman to run the ball more pure and simple. Then, like I stated Kelly wasn't very bright either looking at that 5-1-5 defense with an over the hill LT trying to cover Thurman Thomas and while throwing into constant nickle coverages. The other Bills fans around me were saying Kelly was trying to get MVP by throwing so much. 25 rushes vs 30 passes doesn't seem like that much of a disparity. But the Bills used to run more then they passed most games that year. Thomas had 190 all purpose yards in that game and he would have won the MVP if the Bills had won the game. I felt so bad for him that the Bills didn't run the ball more often early in that game to force the Giants into stopping the run first I was at that game and watched as Bruce Smith grabbed Jeff Hostetler's wrist with the football in the same hand, in the end zone! I thought for sure its a sack, fumble and recovery for a Bills TD. Instead Hostetler managed to curl around the ball and only give up a sack and safety...I couldn't believe it. That one play could have changed the entire momentum for the game and forced the Giants to play catch up with a back up QB. Instead of 12-3 it would have been 17-3 and things could have been so different. Not blaming Bruce, just saying lady luck didn't want the Bills winning this one. A 47 yard FG from a guy who was a never miss inside the 30, but never kicked a kickoff into the end zone in Norwood was asking for a miracle.

When Matt Cassell went to the Chiefs from the Patriots I remember reading he mentioned he was taking his mouth guard and helmet with him because he said he wanted the very best protection he could get from concussions. So the Chiefs could setup the same type of protection he had in New England. After reading that I had to wonder if the Patriots are using state of the art equipment to protect their players better then the rest of the league. Schutt instead of Riddell perhaps?

............ Kelly threw too much in the first half, they should have run Thurman more. Belicheat even stated he setup a new defense specifically for that game. A 5-1-5 defense and Lawrence Taylor was the only backer to spy Thurman, so Kelly threw right into the teeth.

Just saying, 240 pairs of shoes is kinda why these idiots go bankrupt. Like the NFL clinics try to explain to these people, it doesn't last forever and limit what you buy. It probably is because of all the houses,cars and women. Even with all that college background you would think that most of them could have some self control. Instead the reality is most don't even consider life after the NFL, they think it was last forever. The average lifespan of an NFL player is 3 years.

The reality is Buddy Nix...did a spectacular job as GM this off season. Have you already forgotten the 100 Million dollar acquisition of Super Mario? and he added another pass rusher to the team in Mark Anderson. If nothing else the defense should be drastically improved. If Nix has had a failing with the Buffalo Bills its with the offense at the #2 WR spot, LT and depth across that entire line for sure.But ya know what, its now up to Chan Gailey to show he can win with what he has! I'm pretty certain Gailey has had a major say in what areas of the team he wants to build. If he wanted a new QB-WR-LT with that #1 pick the last 3 years I'm pretty sure Nix would have accommodated him.

I bet you would be wrong. I think this happens more then anyone knows. Its why the NFL has rookie clinics that all NFL rookies are supposed to attend. In one i watched last year Chris Carter & Herm Edwards get up in front of them and tell them its ok to buy a fancy car ( which all of them do with that first big pay check) But then they tell him to buy only ONE! Buy one of everything is ok, just keep it to one! Most of them can't keep it to one and they end up going broke. Just this year Warren Sap had to file for bankruptcy. The guy made all those millions in the NFL, then got a job with Showtime and the NFL network. He makes about 115 K a MONTH! "Sapp's $6.45 million in assets includes 240 pairs of Jordan athletic shoes worth almost $6,500, a $2,250 watch and a lion skin rug worth $1,200. He also reported losing his 2002 Super Bowl ring with the Bucs and his 1991 national championship ring from the University of Miami." http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1136368-warren-sapp-former-bucs-great-proves-no-wealth-impervious-to-over-spending http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/07/warren-sapp-files-for-ban_0_n_1410449.html Same with TO, it wasn't just the babies. It was all the houses, condo's and cars

Hopefully he stays healthy this year and plays all 16 games. The man was on his way to a pro bowl season before his injury, same with Fred Jackson. I think the drop off in overall line play after Wood was injured last season is the main reason as to why the team went downhill so fast. Huge difference between when he was in there and when he wasn't. The Bills added depth at LT & center in this years draft in rounds 5 & 6, but who knows if those players will even make the team. Like OT Ed Wang who was selected in the 5th in 2010.

I'm just happy as heck guys like you have no authority over what transpires at OBD I'm also happy that the people that do run things at OBD recognize that Fitz will play good enough to win when he has enough support around him. Even the owner knows and understands the current QB situation. He stated we need to get him some runners, some WR's and a TE that can stay healthy, and he will be fine. You certainly are entitled to your opinion about the QB. Just try and comprehend its a team game, and the QB position is only one part of it. You honestly think other QB's in this league could have even survived that 2010 season behind center of the Buffalo Bills like Fitz did? Perhaps maybe Michael Vick..oh wait he was injured and missed games playing behind some all pro players on his O line. How many all pro's on that Buffalo Bills offense the last few years? Is Ryan Fitzpatrick a "franchise" QB? No, not the way Chan Gailey worked him the second half of last season.The other team gets an early lead and all Chan can do is call shotgun, empty backfield pass plays right into the teeth of the defense. Then think about how bad the defense has been the last two years under George Edwards. Think about the lack of talent at WR besides SJ, the lack of talent at TE. Supposedly the TE is the QB's best friend when he gets in trouble, apparently not according to Gaily who rarely calls the TE's number. My take is that 6-10 record reflects more on the head coach then it does the QB, he is after all the man who refuses to draft a QB, and sticks with Fitz.