Sisyphean Bills

With something like 10,000 players on the Bills IR list (I kid ... I think), how were the Bills going to avoid bringing in players off the street and FAs off other practice squads? Just wondering.

Here are the starters today for Washington. Offense: Grossman, Torain, Sellers, Moss, Brown, Montgomery, Rabach, Leichtensteiger, Williams, Cooley, Armstrong. Defense: Hall, Carriker, Kemoeatu, Gholston, Rogers, Alexander, Fletcher, Macintosh, Orakpo, Doughty, Moore. "Much more talent"? I'd like to have Cooley, Williams, Fletcher, and Orakpo but would pass on the rest. In the non-20/20 hindsight department, Donovan McNabb would have been vastly preferred to Trent Edwards back in August by nearly anyone that knows football. In fact, despite having a dismal season, McNabb probably still would be. On the other hand, Fitzgibbons has really blossomed nicely in Chan's offense.

Clements was let go in free agency because Marv Levy made a gentleman's promise to him that he wouldn't franchise him again. The clear problem there being that a GM's job should be about stocking the team with the best talent in players and coaches possible and not about making gestures that compromise the team's ability to be competitive.

So, I can't ask a question about an odd looking stat line? Shouldn't you be fluffing your pom-poms?

Is that right? Spiller has 6 carries for 10 yards and a long of 12?

The Dolphins secondary was busy looking for Lee Evans.

Spiller may have split the load with the 195th pick in the 2009 draft while both were at Clemson for reasons other than that CJ was fast.

What's wrong with this chat room? http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/index.php?app=ipchat

I'm not speaking for JohnC, but that's all you got out of an 7 page thread?

Is not agreeing with you that the Bills are better off than the Redskins, really "defending" the Redskins? It's pretty clear that JohnC is really saying neither the Bills nor the Redskins are in great shape.

So, Wang might be the next Brad Butler? Ouch. Butler was injured all the time and retired before his career got off the ground.

Say, has Tom Modrak sent out the memo on which players he'd have really selected yet? It's cover-your-exhaust-pipe December.

That's debatable and too early to evaluate. Since the named players were roster purges, the protracted reassessments involved actually defer decisions being made. That's not competence so much as procrastination and ultimately setting the horizon out further. I'm curious why you say that the Jauron/Levy regime was unprofessional. Do you think bringing in T.O. was unprofessional? Or maybe it was firing Schonert? I think if anyone was unprofessional in the Schonert situation it was probably Schonert, who basically didn't want to do what his boss wanted done.

That's pretty much it. From a pure accounting perspective, Whitner is not worth overpaying. Factors such as him wanting to be here, being a pretty solid player, and well respected by teammates aren't quantified on the ledger. If he was willing to hug his ankles to help out the home team, he'd have been extended already and welcomed back regardless and irrespective of his play.

Will he do it pro bono? For a can of shaving cream?

Which is great, because maybe a team like the Cowboys will take him.

Chan's probably got enough on his plate without having to babysit divas.

This team has a lot more than a few mediocre players. You failed to mention them, but this team also has some downright bad players, guys that get beat on most snaps. Unfortunately, raiding practice squads is a long-shot way of finding elite players and the Bills unchanged college scouting department's record is atrocious.

I didn't say I liked the fact Shanahan turned the Bills down. But then, I know the difference between emotions like pleasure and misery and debating arguments. Ah, yes. Break out the coulda, woulda arguments. Good work, Fact 'bot. And, if you're trying to imply I wrote "the Bills are doomed without Mike Shanahan", I'll save you the time. I never wrote that (until this post, technically speaking).

Oh. So, it's not that you weren't a little butt hurt that Shanahan laughed off the Bills courtship? http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/116745-do-you-think-nix-would-like-to-beat-the-redskins/page__view__findpost__p__1922785 Speaking of waiting for "when the facts reveal themselves", 8 or 9 wins, eh? http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/116091-better-worse-or-the-same/page__view__findpost__p__1911568 Still, it's a great point. Who'd think posters would express opinions on a football message board?

You answered your own question, right? A buzz for the sake of a buzz (signing T.O.) isn't developing a team.

Easy answer. Because the 6th and 7th round are Modrak's Wheelhouse in the draft. (I do kid and know where Levi Brown was drafted.)

Yep. There is an obvious reason why the Bills business cash flow is being kept in the black. There is some schadenfreude going in this thread, for sure. Some people would have it that Shanahan has created all the problems in Washington (because he is on their target list apparently), but he inherited just as many headaches (more probably considering some of the characters on the Redskins roster) as did Gailey and has many of the exact same issues as well as some that are quite different. None of which means the Bills are better off than the Redskins; both organizations are just trying to figure out a way to climb out of the gutter that systemic dysfunction has thrown them in. Was the Washington job really a "better situation"? Hmm.

You forgot that QBs sell tickets.