ben35

Too bad the Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn't have a section to honor former players for what they accomplished AFTER their football careers. Jack Kemp would be inductee #1.

Through their history, the Bills have never been good at selecting and developing quarterbacks. The only one who came to the Bills with no experience and developed into a good QB with Buffalo was Ferguson. The only other two good QBs here, Kelly and Kemp, came with previous successful pro experience - Kelly in the USFL, Kemp with SD (scary thought – what is Kelly had come as a rookie and been left to develop under coaches like Stephenson and Bullough). The best of the rest, Bledsoe and Flutie, also had considerable experience prior to playing for the Bills. Not that the Bills have always been that good at picking up experienced veterans – take Ferragomo and Flores for example. The Bills did have two QBs that started their careers here, but succeeded only after leaving Buffalo - Lamonica and Harris. Not a very good track record. Makes you wonder if we’ll ever see another decent QB in a Bills uniform.

Add to the pain of those failures is what they cost us in draft picks, especially JP and RJ. In adition to being the best of the (pitiful) lot, Flutie was a free agent.