thewildrabbit

Your certainly entitled to your opinion, but looking at last year would you really want a guy that had one of the very best running games to work with and still lost every game he started? I have the thought that he is finished as a starter, he flat out stunk it up, and honestly he is to expensive anyway. The free agent QB's stink this year, barring a trade or the draft I think the Bills would be foolish to bring in a FA when they already have 2 QB's with game experience. Lastly, I don't see Kerry Collins even listed as a free agent...

I'd fire Chan Gailey and hire Marty Schottenheimer Draft wise I'd go with Trent Edwards as QB and draft for the O line first 3 picks unless a defensive player was there I couldn't pass up. The reason I'd go with Edwards is the guy is smart (Stanford) and accurate, and used to running for his life behind a horrid Bills O line. No matter who they draft and find as a free agent the line will lack continuity for a year or so, until then I'd rather not have some rookie getting his brains beaten out. As for Thigpin, You really want to know what I'm give Miami for him... I usually flush that stuff.

I agree 1000 % What really gets me is Chan Gailey probably would have jumped at the chance just to be the OC if Marty had been hired, too bad RW didn't feel "comfortable" with hiring Marty. I'll go back to my own thoughts and say this was a good ole boy hiring another good ole boy simply because Nix feels he can trust Gailey. I can understand the logic of wanting an offensive mind in charge because the last head coach was a complete idiot concerning the offense, and he was to afraid to hire someone competent to run the offense. Some how I feel like all the Bills did was hire the offensive version of Dick Jauron. Meaning the offense will get better and get to the top 15 after two years, but the defense will suffer greatly in this move to a 3-4. The Bills will struggle to get to 7-9 again this year. Coulda had Marty, and Marty would have hired his son Brian away from the Jets to run the offense.

Only Dick Jauron would be stupid enough to start a project LT and then announce the Bills will run the "no huddle"

When Chuck Knox drafted Jim Richter with a #1 pick he sat on the bench his first year and learned. Knox was an ex O linemen himself and he stated it took 2-3 years for a player to fully develop. Bell might just become a decent LT, time and coaching will tell. Jauron had the frame of mind that everyone gets treated the same, QB to O linemen, just throw them them in the fire because they only way they learn is to play. There is no denying that playing experience is a must for any new player, its just that coaching can mean the difference between an average player and a pro bowl player. Great coaching can teach proper technique footwork and fundamentals that are needed just to start playing the position properly. The Bills have had some really bad coaching the last few years since Jim McNally retired after 28 years in the NFL, hopefully things will change soon.

By the same token it might take 2-3 years to build an O line with enough "continuity" to understand protections schemes and ACTUALLY PROTECT the QB. Any rookie QB drafted in the first round and the fans and media will force the team to start him, and perhaps ruin him if the line isn't ready. Wouldn't it be wiser and more prudent to draft an LT at this point, haven't we fans seen enough QB regression?

How can anyone expect Alex Van Pelt to go from QB coach to OC under a pair of morons like Schonert and Jauron and be innovative and out game plan Bill Belichick and others? Dick Jauron is now a DB coach and Schonert is out of the NFL afaik.Those two were responsible for the Bills offensive failure the last two years. Most of the posters on this board knew before the season even started the team was doomed to failure. Not replacing Turk Schonert after last season ended with a REAL OC and then retooling every position on the O line with new players and rookies was the reason for the offense failing. Then the Bills drafted a DE who everyone stated needed 2-3 years to develop when they should have drafted a LT to replace Jason Peters. Lets hope Chan Gailey can build a proper offense that can score points and allow the QB to actually progress as the season goes on, and the Nix can fill some holes with the draft.

Good Idea It seems every time this franchise drafts for a certain need they end up getting burned over and over. The current highest priority would be to fix the O line and draft to build the 3-4 defense. If you think about how any QB will need to be trained into whatever offense the new HC and OC implement. There will be a learning curve for any QB, except for someone already familiar with Chan Gaileys offense. If you look at the FA pool it is very week, so that's out. If you draft a rookie you can expect at least a 2-3 year learning curve, "IF" the Bills fix the O line asap. So for my money I'd rather see the Bills build the lines and then get a QB

Really? The "Bills" need to draft or acquire 2 nose tackles and one OLB for depth? NT is not the easiest position to find btw. The current Bills defense is suited to run a 4-3 and the current weak area of the team is the linebacking corp... aside from Poz and Mitchell, who are the starting backers and what position will they play? 54 Harris, Nic LB 6-2 232 23 R Oklahoma 51 Posluszny, Paul LB 6-1 238 25 3 Penn State 96 Manalac, Ryan LB 6-0 235 24 R University of Cincinnati 53 Buggs, Marcus LB 5-10 223 24 2 Vanderbilt 50 Stamer, Josh LB 6-2 242 32 7 South Dakota 52 Draft, Chris LB 5-11 234 33 11 Stanford 57 Corto, Jon LB 6-1 220 25 2 Sacred Heart 59 Palmer, Ashlee LB 6-1 236 23 R Mississippi 55 Mitchell, Kawika LB 6-1 253 30 7 South Florida 56 Ellison, Keith LB 6-0 229 26 4 Oregon State What facts are you talking about?

uhhh, no. Lord, I hope the coaches think differently then you do or next season is a wash. The talent on this Bills roster is very lacking, if they were all healthy all season you would notice that. Currently the Bills have a starting center and guard, aside from that everything could be upgraded. If anything is going to help the rest of the Bills line players it might be the new line coach and OC.

These are the same fools that stated Michael Oher had problems and shouldn't be a top LT

The current players on this team couldn't stop the run and play their assignments and stay in their gaps for the Tampa / cover 2. Now adding a LB position to the weakest area of the defense is supposed to make this defense better? This team is so far removed from a 3-4 its almost as asinine as Jauron stating he will run the no huddle with a batch of rookies on the O line. Not for nothing, but if the defense improves in any area with the current personnel I'll be greatly amazed. I suspect it will take 2 years or more to make the player changes needed to run a decent 3-4 in Buffalo. Although I hope this Bills coaching staff proves me wrong.

Then Marv retired again which left the Idiot Jauron to his own devices! The very experienced line coach retired, Jim McNally (the man that developed Jason Peters from a FA into PB LT) and Jauron promotes from within...a rookie line coach...and the line went right into the ceramic convenience. The experienced OC leaves for a HC job and Jauron promotes from within, the QB coach who had no experience running an offense and should have never been given the chance.(Where is TurK Schonert now?) The combination of those two coaches leaving Buffalo, along with the strength and conditioning coach being worthless at his job resulted in some of the worst offensive lines in team history. This situation might look similar to 06... but it is not. Lets hope this head coach has a brain and understands how to build an offense and O line. Besides, if the Bills had drafted Jay Cutler what makes you think he would have done any better then JP or Trent Edwards in the crappy Buffalo offense behind center of the crappiest O line ever?

Well said Everyone seems to forget his first game against the Patriots in which he had some decent protections and a good game plan, he played very well. "If" the Bills fix the O line and allow Edwards to be free from pinball treatment AND he has a good game plan, good play calls, and his receivers are put into position to make plays. The first thing Gailey needs to do is force this team to learn how to run the ball effectively . If that wildcard playoff game the Ravens had against the Patriots IN New England didn't open up some eyes in Buffalo, then nothing will. FIX THE O LINE

The only GM with the balls to go get Suh if he thought he was worth it...is now the president of the Colts. The last time this team made a big trade and got the better of it was the trade for the "Biscuit".

oh great, the water pistol offense... Does this mean Gailey will try and run a high powered passing offense with basically the same personnel Jauron used, only without TO? Perhaps the Bills will trade away their draft picks for a QB that can run for his life like Trent Edwards did last season, seems to me they will need those picks to draft for the new 3-4 defense.

I've read somewhere that the the Chan Gailey hire is "underwhelming", does that mean he is the offensive version of Dick Jauron and the Bills will go 9-7 or less in 2010? Now I like the hiring of Buddy Nix, I'm just not yet sold on the head coach! A guy that was fired at KC by rookie HC Todd Haley before their season even started in 09. Then reading and hearing that the Bills could have hired him as OC and he would be grateful to have that job. Instead Nix hires him to run the entire show, seems like a fay cry from the 10+ million dollar man the Bills front office was spewing about after firing Jauron. So at first I hear good things like a power running attack and stout defense, which I envision rebuilding the O line and the Bills have a ground game like this years Ravens / Jets. Now I'm hearing about a "pistol" offense and the move to the 3-4...didn't the last idiot head coach try and run scheme's without the proper players? The "no huddle" and "tampa two" were both far removed from the original "K-gun" and the Warren Sapp Buc's defense. Currently there is talk of bringing in a veteran QB to run the "pistol". From looking at the list of free agent QB's...Scout.com listing=#1 RFA-Jason Campbell---#2 RFA Kyle Orton---#3 UFA Chad Pennington---#4 RFA Matt Moore--- #5 UFA JP Losman. http://profootball.scout.com/a.z?s=127&amp...c=16&pid=10 I see no Trent Green or Curt Warner types on that list, frankly I wouldn't care to see any of those players in Buffalo. So, now there is talk of a trade to bring in Donavon McNabb, the guy who seems to be somewhat injury prone the last few years. The same guy who gets hit a few times in a game starts throwing errant passes all over, don't the Bills already have several of those QB's? Besides the fact that the Bills would need to trade valuable draft picks away for a guy who might already be over the hill. I'm not so certain that many fans will be renewing season tickets for 2010, and I don't blame them at all with the current state of the economy. The Bills opted out of hiring a "spashy", 10 million dollar named head coach for a guy who was lucky to get a another job in the NFL, even as a QB coach. Will Bills fans be bull sh!tted again this year with bringing in McNabb the way they were last year with the TO singing? If they make that move all I see is utter failure. Simply because the Bills don't have an O line even close to the one Philly had last year. I guess we will need to wait to see who the Bills draft with that #9 pick. Logic dictates taking an O lineman, a left tackle. Should the Bills conclude that the current Bills QB's are lacking they could always draft Jimmy Clausen / Tim Tebow, a "splashy" rookie QB might just sell tickets.

What would you give up to get another Reggie White? Then again you just might get another Steve Entman-Brian Bosworth- Tony Mandarich- Erik Flowers- John McCargo- Courtny Brown- Kenneth Simms- Mike Mamula- Mike Williams-Reggie Rogers- Huey Richardson Even when you think you know...you never know!

Charlie Batch

I certinly hope the front office doesn't try and bolster ticket sales by bringing in McNabb as we have already seen what happens when he starts getting hits. Not to mention he has been very injury prone the last few years, what a waste of draft picks that would be. I'd rather see someone like Jeff Garcia or Chad Pennington for the experienced QB or perhaps a trade for Troy Smith, Tyler Thigpin.

The thing is that coaching staff tried to make a very immobile QB react quicker to blitzes and yet kept calling for 5-7 step drop passing plays, freaking stupid. Also, they saw what Big Ben was doing in Pittsburgh and they wanted to push JP Losman into the same thing. What they failed to realize is that some QB's take longer to develop and the Bills didn't have the power running game the Steelers had and most notably Jerome Bettis. So instead of beefing up the O line they dumped Bledsoe and inserted a more mobile JP, thinking JP can evade the blitz, again freaking stupid.

Get a freaking grip willyas...look who was developing the Bills QB's since Ted Marchibroda taught Jim Kelly to call his own plays. Blaming the QB's for poor play when you have a team of morons leading them is kinda pointless. JP started out pretty decently under Mularkey as HC and Sam Wyche as QB coach,then Steve Fairchild who at least had some past experience as an OC. That gave way to two years of useless Turk "shotgun" Schonert (where is he now? ) and then AVP. I honestly don't get how an owner of a near billion dollar franchise can let a staff of buffoons run his team for so many years. Well I suppose it is because they came cheap, You know, you really do get what you pay for

The NFL is filled with coaches like Dick Jauron who have tons of experience,playing experience and coaching experience. Guys like him know the game inside and out and have seen everything. The problem is that their limitations keep them from succeeding at some point. He was as decent DC in various jobs, not supremely gifted at what he did so it makes me wonder why guys like him get selected for a head coaching job. At his best he drafted defense over and over and built a decent but not great defense, good against the pass, never good against the run. From what I saw he knew very little on how to build an offense and kept promoting inexperienced people into positions where there is a steep learning curve, which made no sense in a win now league. Look at the history of the last ten years of Bills head coaches after Wade Phillips, none of them had offensive head coaching experience and the result is ten years of "25th or worst" on offense. So how can any of the posters here claim that any Bills QB has been properly developed since Jim Kelly? Yea, this team needs an already developed QB to lead them until Chan Gailey can develop and teach the Bills QB's of the future.

If you were to read some of the articles written by some of the local sports writers you would have read the one about the Bills running backs getting hit at the line and making most of the yardage on their own "after" that initial first hit. The reason Fred Jackson took over the starting RB job is because he is more elusive and able to break tackles and elude that first tackler. OTOH Marshawn Lynch is like a freight train and needs a hole, which this years O line couldn't give him. To state that the Bills had a good running attack and two talented receivers means nothing if the men coaching them are morons. You could have all the talent in the world on the field and it means nothing if you don't have a proper game plan and scheme. When RW stated the Bills lacked "talent" at the end of the 08 season, the area lacking the talent was the coaching on the sidelines.

Like others have posted Trent has been beaten up and concussed and played behind some shoddy O lines. He was developed into an old system he didn't play in at college, with old playbooks and had inferior OC's and head coach. The scheme, the system, the play calls, the line, the entire offense has been horrid for ten years. This is the reason the front office / RW went to an offensive minded HC to rebuild the team. Trent Edwards is clearly not even close to having the ability of Drew Brees or Joe Montana at this point in his career, although he does share traits with both those two, he is a very accurate passer. Knowing this the team needs to spend premium draft picks on the O line. Find a great blocking tight end and fullback, and make sure they can provide great protection for the QB. Build an offense that doesn't need a Joe Montana at QB, a great running game can make even a marginal QB look good.