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Sisyphean Bills

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  1. Didn't they move Kelsay back to DE and stop the stupidity of trying to play him at OLB and in space?
  2. Look on the bright side. It wasn't Chris Kelsay trying to cover Calvin Johnson.
  3. Moving Kelsay back to DE was an, uh, inspired move by the way.
  4. It wasn't exactly elegant, but it was a win.
  5. True. The dilemma in this case is that it comes down to Luck's personal values. Specifically, it is a reality that not everyone is motivated strictly by dollar signs.
  6. Yep. Done for the day.
  7. So you think a guy that is an NFL QB for 10 years (which would mean he has a pretty successful career) is going to retire from football and then send out his resume in an effort to go to work for The Man like any other debt treadmill graduate?
  8. I like it. An even buffalo billion.
  9. Georgia Tech left the SEC in 1963. They are in the ACC.
  10. Right now, Ralph Wilson is on record saying he wants a QB and Buddy Nix is on record saying best player available. This could be interesting.
  11. It makes perfect sense because it is what has happened. NFL GMs do not typically come right out and say, "We don't want this guy." It's not smart. On the other hand, Buddy Nix did say that he was not interested in and not a fan of Donovan McNabb, the pick that made Tom Modrak a made-man interestingly enough. Now some would wish to read into that and take it to mean that Nix was taking a shot at McNabb after his true interest was rebuffed by McNabb. Of course Nix also plainly said he wanted to see what his young QBs could do and that he felt there was talent at the position already. There have been other cuts and it is pretty obvious that the Bills are short at LB. They didn't put in claims on those players, clearly, because they weren't awarded to Buffalo. You are correct that I am am critical of the front office and the Bills. The Bills are terrible and the worst team in the NFL at 0-8. This after 10 years of bad football. It takes bad management to be that bad for that long in the NFL. That's just the fact of the matter. The criticism is earned.
  12. Well, Buddy Nix said he never talked to Merriman before deciding to pick him up. For the sake of accuracy, Merriman only claimed to have talked to Nix "when everything had gone down." That doesn't contradict what Buddy said, since "everything going down" may just have meant after he was awarded by the NFL to the Bills. The thing is that it's yet another example of talking out of both sides of your mouth. They don't want player X because they are building for the future, but they have no problem picking up player Y because he can help them now. All neatly wrapped with the "Trust us, we have a plan" paper and bow. If he was injured on their practice field then they have to come to an injury settlement, no?
  13. This would be a great argument if one thought every situation was exactly the same even if viewed superficially. On the other hand, there is a big difference between picking up, let's say, a young player with potential that was a victim of a numbers game on a good team with depth and taking a wild hair on a veteran that is almost universally regarded as seriously damaged goods and hasn't played well in years. Throw in that the Bills took the chance blindly and (according to Nix) without even talking to Merriman and it seems a bit, well, spontaneous rather than carefully planned. Throw in the marketing-only angles of holding a press conference and essentially saying in effect, that the fans have to be thrown a bone once in a while and the difference of motives might be what they seem to suggest.
  14. Did anybody else think it was kind of odd that the Bills picked SM up but had never even talked to him? Why have a PC held for picking up a guy that's only played 6 downs of football and off the waiver wire? And what to make of the explanation that "even if it don't work, the move was made and our thought was we tried to make our team better"?
  15. McShay did get the Maybin pick right.
  16. For those new to the board, I was never a Jauron fan and never supported him as the football mind of the Bills. My commnets about winning are not in any way a reflection of Jauron football or Gailey football. Neither coach ever fielded a winning Buffalo Bills football team to date.
  17. If you are willing to settle for "watchable football" then, I agree. So far Chan Nix have delivered and things are going great. Personally, I'd rather win. I'm probably in the minority here, but winning football is far more enjoyable to me.
  18. Drafting a QB is the sexy and most marketable move he can make. Wilson has said point blank that a QB is his intention. The genius of it is that if the QB picks works out, he wins. And, on the converse, if the QB he picks is another Tim Couch or JaMarcus Russell, it will take at least 2 or 3 years for fans (and some much longer) to realize they were duped. Furthermore, it's a built in excuse for next year. They can just come out and say that fans have to be patient with a rookie QB and have to give him time to develop. What do they expect? Everybody to be Ben Roethlisberger? Ralph is a businessman and knows how to turn a profit with his franchise. Like Eric Moulds said, without any investment in the OL and DL, this team is going to continue to be a bottom feeder. We have a poor running game and our defensive front seven sucks the tall cool one. That's why we're 0-8. That's the reality of football.
  19. True. Nothing inspires more confidence than a new regime backtracking on all fronts.
  20. Totally agree on your comment about Edwards fate. If the new operators can only manage 2 wins or less, Wilson is going to demand changes on the coaching staff. He's shown over 50 years that is how he operates. So, barred a miracle, George Edwards is almost certainly a dead man walking. It wouldn't surprise if Smithers has already started typing up the sacrifice list as part of the next marketing campaign.
  21. Joe Ferguson did as well.
  22. Kind of bizarre when you think that the plan going into the season was to use three running backs in a platoon when you see that the implementation barely gets the rock to even two backs.
  23. Reading Ralph's own comments, he knows he may not live long enough to see this mess cleaned up. He's put people he thinks he can trust (that's more important than competence) in their positions and no doubt set the financial constraints under which they must operate. You're right, it is just a business. It's a business that the owner is clearly positioning for sale upon his demise. Wilson has surrendered.
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