Sisyphean Bills

I haven't read all 224 pages ... has it been discussed how this will affect Mr. Kelsay?

Says the guy who offers no evidence. Say, maybe this is another example of your negative premise logic: since you don't believe the evidence, you conclude there is none. By the way, tough guy, what do you conclude from the fact the Bills have not signed Mario Williams? I'm sure you have the inside theory.

Play nice, now.

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If you start a thread raving about his IQ, it'll be the first. BTW, think of it as "Doc logic" where the absence of something proves whatever you want.

On the other hand, it's not like Stevie gets accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed that often.

with a lower ceiling.

Plan B? Man, can't you just be happy they tried?

Not to mention that Buffalo was also his best offer.

Exactly. A team that converts 1st round picks into 4th rounders in trade could do worse.

Sure, why not?

Dude, that was like a lightning fast decision loop. I mean it took 32 games to figure out George Edwards was incompetent.

There shouldn't really be any question, Stevie Johnson has been the Bills #1 WR the last 2 seasons. But what's true here may not be the full story. Ocho Cinco was a #1 WR for the Bungles for years, but he couldn't even get on the field when he went to a better team that throws the ball nearly every down, a team that demanded he play within their offense, know what he was doing, etc.

Are you referring to wanting the Bills not to be the only team in the NFL not to make the playoffs since 1999 as unrealistic?

"The Masque of the Red Death" wouldn't have worked as well for a team name as "The Raven".

It was merely a comment on the OP's point that it was said it would take 3 years. Nobody of significance promised that specifically originally. The promise was more open ended, that it would "take time".

Buddy, when hired, mentioned it would "take time" and "we're not that far away", but the 3 years or bust sentiment wasn't coming out of One Bills Drive. More recently, he's come around and admitted that this next year is crunch time. We can speculate that facts like 10-22 and firing your incompetent DC to replace him with someone already on staff may be starting to wear a little thin with the guys that call the shots.

He has been very candid that he does NOT do contracts and negotiations and has said point blank that it is Overdorf's job. Yes, he did. "I don't git into all that contract talk stuff. My area is more helpin' out with evaluatin' playahs." It might be worth noting that the financial side of the business has been in place and intact since before Tom Donahoe was hired. Ever heard of the concept of gamemanship? Trying to mislead the competition by boldly proclaiming smokescreens as your intentions during the off-season team building process? Didn't think so.

Maybe he already does.

He's actually better suited to be a DT in a Miami 4-3 defensive system where he could use his relative quickness to penetrate, etc. He was horribly miscast as a linebacker, an act of desperation, stupidity, or both.

Yeah, this is all true. Young is very intelligent. Of course adding the intelligence of a doorknob like Favre to Young's IQ does nothing to advance the total sum, but... Having seen Thigpen play the position, I wouldn't be surprised if the coaches felt Fitz at 2% was a better option.

Welcome to the board. You're right that Fitz isn't a great QB. You're wrong that the revolving door solution at LT (which features a guy that is always nicked up and has missed more practice than not the past 2 years) is perfectly fine.

The IR body count isn't a very good indicator frankly. Do you remember people going off about the total IR numbers during the Dick Jauron era? Some people even tried to inflate the importance of that number by counting street free agents that ran down on kick-off coverage once before going on IR as "valuable starters". It was all in a valiant, if ill conceived, defense of Dick Jauron's coaching prowess and how the Bills were "just fine" and "on the right track", etc. Both points are true last year. 1) The Bills suffered a lot of injuries to their better players. 2) The Bills will suffer more injuries next year, just like every other team in the NFL. There is no correlation that a rash of injuries one season will prevent or guarantee injuries the next season. The real point is that the front office can't continue the idiotic Shawne Merriman sorts of "big gambles" -- and by that I mean putting all of their eggs in a single basket, forgetting the basket has holes in the bottom because they love the color of the bow on the handle -- and really expect to be competitive in today's NFL.

The good news is that this year, unlike the past umpteen years, the Bills will make it through the year without so much as a scratch.

Yeah, but I was talking about all the decoy yardage he added by causing NFL defensive coordinators to drop bricks in their shorts, knock their knees together, and quake in fear and horror.