Sisyphean Bills

I wonder if people realize what they are implying when they say things like this. So, it took the new guys-in-whom-we-trust one throw-away regular season to evaluate the players they had inherited? Yet, ironically, they somehow knew that switching to the 3-4 was a good move.

Here it is: http://espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/story/_/id/7270010/denver-broncos-waive-former-qb-starter-kyle-orton

Bingo. We have a winner. If the defense is as soft as a jelly doughnut up the middle, the team will be losing too many games and the defense getting trucked by the opposition's running games for anyone to notice that the 1st round X is doing a little bit better on his releases and running his decoy routes than the UDFA would have.

It's easier to stick to your guns for a guy lacking any pedigree or reputation. If he washes out then that was what was always expected, but he gave fans a few good games so no biggie...

Hmm. He might be a threat to our $10M/yr. franchise QB. On the other hand, QB controversies can be fun.

Dareus was the right pick.

John, you just have to learn to completely trust the evaluations of the professionals employed by the Bills.

I remember. The only ray of hope on this front is that they finally got rid of Tom "He works hard putting those magnets up there" Modrak. One could be a little hard pressed to convince a jury that his efforts at draft boards were not active sabotage. Look at the record: Williams, McGahee, Evans, Losman, Whitner, McCargo, Lynch, McKelvin, Maybin, Wood, and Spiller. (I'm not going to put Dareus on the list because it seems that Modrak was left out in the cold in the last draft, only a few hours from his termination coming down.) Several notorious busts, several middling journeyman, and maybe one guy, if he can stay healthy, that could be better than a JAG. Maybe. But, he did draft Donovan McNabb back in the days when they looked at drawings on cave walls instead of college film...

You mean like Owens helped Evans? The Bills have many holes to fill, some more difficult to address than others.

Hopefully the people that matter are impressed as well. It would suck to spend more 1st/2nd round picks on WR to replace Evans, Parrish, and Hardy.

Well, that settles it. You're not Peerless Price.

Another way to look at it is that it is only a 16 game season. Making or missing the playoffs often comes down to tie-breakers in the NFL. How many games can a team that is trying to make the playoffs afford to lose just to save a bit of cash?

Thanks. I've seen the play and you're wrong.

Sorry, but the players do matter. The degree of difference in the final outcome is debatable, of course, but having guys that have experience & have played positions at a passable starting caliber level is quite different than plugging in a spread-option QB at WR or having a guy that's never snapped before play C for the first time in his life.

No. It was Smith. Brad blew his assignment.

While Nix fell on the sword as a public spectacle, there is little doubt that he is not the one originating recent salary dump roster moves.

C'mon, man! He extended Kelsay for cryin' out loud.

Seriously. Somebody other than Spiller can keep the stationary bike whirring on Sundays.

Not only is he unused and useless, he gifted the Dolphins 7 points. Who decided to go after this guy hard as a UFA anyway?

Going backwards is still going... just sayin'.

No. I knew he was spinning a tall tale on many fronts in that interview.

I understand a lot of Bills fans are pissed at Peters, but if they were in his shoes they wouldn't be happy either. Who would be happy to work their butt off at their job, be twice as good as the guy next to them, and make half as much? Who in that situation would be thrilled to be told by management to go !@#$ themselves because there were other less distinguished employees that had to be slotted and paid first? Maybe Fred Jackson would be tickled?

Since Matt Moore looked like Dan Marino out there, it's not altogether unlikely...

The front office at the time told Peters to !@#$ off because they were going to work on a new deal for Lee Evans first. This was all precipitated by paying free agents like Dockery and Walker more money than the kid that they developed. Ultimately, the "rebuilding" answer was to go out & sign Terrell Owens, who sold more tickets than a lineman ever would.

According to Buddy, he spends a lot of time each day talking Ralph out of spending money on players.