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bastards. so you are a replacements fan. sucker. as for the rest of you, shrug. jw

given the nature of this thread, wouldn't it be in good taste to spell Stevie's name correctly. Respect. jw

really, we're spilling PPP on to this board. I guess decorum is out the window. good for you for not getting any point at all. silly. jw done with this thread. see ya.

miss the point much. not sure if anyone's arguing Levitre being overpaid by Titans. Fact is, the Bills had an opportunity to get him for less a year earlier. They lacked foresight in failing to lock him up earlier. but please, keep not getting it . jw

I'm faulting The Bills. Nix, Brandon, Overdorf and Gailey. The people who were in power to set forth the direction of this franchise at the time a decision needed to be made. Whaley was essentially a scout at this point. Not sure how you interpret my post as questioning Whaley. jw

you're missing the point. the Bills are being faulted for not being proactive in re-signing Levitre to a long-term deal a year before his contract was up. he was the line's MVP in Buffalo and was a tremendous loss to the continuity he had established with Eric Wood and C.J. Spiller. and the Bills are struggling on the line without him. say what you will about Chris Johnson's struggles in Tennessee. his struggles were apparent long before this season started. the Bills running attack hasn't exactly been consistent this season. and Levitre's absence could be regarded as a cause. in your sheer delight in wanting to pile on Andy, you also miss the fact that the BIlls have allowed 43 sacks -- that's the fourth most in the NFL this season. of course, a rookie quarterback is a reason for that. however, given that the LG spot hasn't exactly been solidified, and the Bills might have to retool this line once again this offseason doesn't exactly help the case you might be failing to make for yet a second time. jw

heh, heh. actually, having beers with a certain familiar "burr" in our side at a drinking spot tomorrow afternoon. i'll tell him hello for you, and we'll send you the bill jw

Thought I'd share a good-news story on former Bills player. http://pro32.ap.org/article/kidney-transplant-gives-ex-nfler-2nd-chance jw

whatever. ignore what i've written and come to your own assumptions. not entirely sure where i've suggested Mr. Wilson is not without fault or blameless. of course he deserves his fair share of blame. i also happen to respect the guy. and if that makes me an apologist, well i'm not going to say sorry. but go ahead and believe whatever it is you think. it's a free world. several times in my conversations with Mr. Wilson, he's taken the blame for his team's struggles. but obamacare, wha? odd. jw no secret about that. it's been well publicized that Jim Overdorf handles contracts. jw

there's a sense that with a team president, gm and stadium lease in place, that the Bills have more stability. that wasn't the case in 2008-09 when questions abounded over the team's future, the lease, its commitment to winning and the lack of a real football-oriented administration. the Bills really had little choice but to bring in Nix and start building a bridge to the future. and the lack of coaching candidates reflected that, which is why they settled on a "retread" in Gailey. the team has shown progress over that time to the point where the coaching job became more attractive. not sure if Mario's signing changed things, but there is a sense things are more stable in Buffalo. and Nix's presence on that front can't be discounted. now, let's see how this front-office proceeds through the offseason and whether it will revert to the one step forward, two steps back mode in regards to filling necessary holes. too often, that's been the trend. #curious. jw

say what you will, but Nix was an upgrade on what they had, and allowed for a transition to move forward. Whaley was being groomed for the GM job ever since he got here. jw

not sure how i can be regarded as a Mr. WIlson apologist or that anyone has pinched a nerve. i simply refuse to take the it's all his fault approach. it's always a dicey proposition for me weighing in on these threads, because as i've pointed out numerous times in other threads that routinely pop up like this, because it's no-win. Mr. Wilson has a polarizing effect on people, who have essentially made up their minds on him one way or the other. i'm merely trying to provide some perspective. but go ahead and provide your kneejerkish reactions. you're not the first and won't be the last. jw

damn, straight. jw

been too long since i was adding to this board, and there was nothing personal or ulterior behind it. simply, was way too busy. that said, i gotta run. happy qveching ... jw

whether or not it's warranted is almost immaterial here. it takes more than one season to develop a quarterback and this offseason is crucial to EJ. like it or not, good teams -- teams that show patience and don't bend to kneejerk whims -- give their quarterback a season and a few months to show what they can do. that's what the Bills evidently signed up for, and that's what teams should do. that's my opinion. now, if there's a can't miss guy at the top of the draft when it comes the Bills time to pick, that is completely up for debate. i'd hate to be the person making that decision. jw

tired of this it's all "Ralph's fault" baloney, which is what i gleaned from the original post as much as i could before my eyes went squirrely. i'll provide you a few examples of how it was not Mr. Wilson's fault, and how people have been allowed to function and make their own decisions without hindrance from above. Tom Donahoe made the pick for Mike Williams and the trade for Drew Bledsoe. No one told him to do that. Donahoe also picked Willis McGahee. Dick Jauron was behind the decision to draft Aaron Maybin and Leodis McKelvin. It was Marv Levy, with input from scouting staff, that made the decision to commit some $70 million in salary to sign Dockery and Walker in free agency way back when. Mr. Wilson stood behind Mularkey in the former coach's decision to suspend Eric Moulds. That said, Mr. Wilson held the suspension to one game, where Mularkey wanted it to last longer. Mr. Wilson attempted to have Mularkey change his mind from quitting. Mr. Wilson signed off on the Mario Williams signing. The one time I know he had input in making a decision was having the Bills sign Terrell Owens. It wasn't all that bad of a move. T.O. was the team's leading receiver and did sell tickets. And the team was far more dysfunctional than he was. Sometimes, Mr. Wilson has been more swayed by the outcry of the mob -- Fire Jauron, Fire Gailey, Fire Everyone, Jerk Nation -- than he is to his own whims. So if you're going to knock the owner, knock yourselves as well. the decision to go with Levy after Donahoe was a wrong one. but i understand why that happened. same with handing the GM job to Russ for one season. all that said, credit Russ for giving it up and hiring an actually qualified person for the job. as for questioning what Whaley does or is doing, stop being a smart-ass here. Whaley spends much of the season scouting. that's his job. to suggest all he does is shill tickets is silly. yes, there will always be so-called "meddling" from ownership. the owner, after all, owns the team. and where's the fun in that if you can't have any say in it. ... see Jerry Jones, Terry Pegula, et al. jw

i coined "EJ apologists" on my Twitter account back in August. not sure if i was first but ... trouble is, many have latched on to EJ as the "savior" and avoided looking at blemishes. on the flip side,many have unlatched themselves from EJ and only see the negatives. this is a work in progress. i'm still somewhere in the middle, for now. jw

since someone still thinks i'm a respected poster on this site -- see some remark on Off the Wall (the guy musta been drunk) -- figured i'd weigh in on EJ. in my opinion and upon my observations, he's shown very little progress since he first arrived. he's not consistent in making all the throws (minicamp observation). he looks sometimes harried under pressure (training camp scrimmage against No. 1 defense). there are times when he finds a rhythm and goes with it (final first-half drive against Indy in preseason, drive against Carolina, etc. etc) i wrote something on twitter in August that i was encouraged by EJ's performance against Indy, but said there's still a lot of work to do. and added that i would have much preferred seeing him produce the TD drive on the Bills first possession of the game rather than their last possession of the first half. strange as it was, i was villified by some for making such a statement. others have questioned my motives in regards to questioning EJ's accountability for coming up with some lame excuse as to how he got hurt against Cleveland. he called it "a freak accident." i suggested on WGR that it was no such thing. he contributed to putting himself in harms way and lost 4-plus games of development time because of it. when he should have been starting to find his groove in October, he was instead sidelined. again, some questioned me for making such a statement. fine. these were mere observations and open to being debated. that said, there's more of a body of work to judge him on now, and the picture remains relatively muddled. i believe EJ, like most rookies, needs an offseason away from the game to digest what took place, how he handled himself, and what needs to be corrected. i also believe we'll have a far clearer picture on EJ next October in determining whether he has a chance to be "the franchise guy." so far, that's not apparent. jw

"... and my strength and fault is an ability to say little with a lot." jw

keep thinkiing one or both fo the G's is silent, which is why i like Gugny, cause he keeps me 'uessin. jw

truly a winner. no argument here. jw

The woman in Dewar's commercial. Her looks, attitude and voice are perfect. Oh, and she's a drinker (or at least plays one on TV ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIgRc0j7u4E jw

heh. that's amusing, too. one day, we'll have that swig of 'shine, man. jw missed the point, as usual, 3d. never wrote anything against the farms. in fact, if i recollect, my stance against the suburbs has been the fact that they stand as some nefarious middle ground between the urban and the country. i have no qualms with those choosing to live off the land. that's a far harder business in some cases than us folk living off the conveniences of the city. i've spent time living in the country and went stir-crazy among the far-fetched, empty fields come fall. and i found the the silence and expanse totally unnerving. that said, there's no way i would begrudge those who choose to live there. it's a noble living, as is living in the city, too. it's the self-indulgent suburbanites who buy into their privileged myths in believing they've arrived at a cul-de-sac shore of mcmansions and applebee plazas that make me suspicious in regards to what in fact they've escaped. jw and hey, if this hits a nerve, well, good.

aren't you on that list? ... jw

i'll take on chief jams with a stanley dan and jethro dull tied behind my back, because he or shee is a mere conglomarate of ineptitude, drunken myopia be damned. jw oh,. sorry, two words: jimmie and goddam flute.