Sisyphean Bills

How about asking, "Why do you think it is that people around the NFL view your franchise as one that isn't committed to winning?"

So, the definition of decisive is to spend all spring and summer evaluating tape and watching a guy in practice and focusing on the good things he had done deciding he was The Man going into the season even to the point that no new competition was brought in; and, then after two bad performances in the new offense against a pair of good NFL defenses, games where the coach himself admitted he made some mistakes in his game plan, to bench him and then cut him before the "bye" week. How do you go from spending months with a guy trying to coach him up to making a decision in a week that you never want to work with the guy again and not even as a disaster QB? You know, I remember another regime change in Buffalo not so long ago that came in to a situation with a huge QB issue and they made a decision within a week or so (quite quickly) of taking the job as to which QB they were going with and let the other one go. Half (more?) the fans were pissed by the decision and the move didn't really work out, not that any QB moves in recent memory in Buffalo have worked out but that's another story. I wonder if they had kept Flutie, let the controversy continue to rage all off-season, and then cut Rob Johnson (or vice versa) after 2 games if people would be saying that Gregg Williams and Tom Donahoe had been decisive.

The reality is that each of these players has been both praised and criticized on this board. Even Cornell Green was given the benefit of the doubt before he took the field, I distinctly recall a poster claiming that Buddy Nix made a great move in signing him because he had had a history of seeing Green when he was in San Diego (which was weak argument as the reality is that history was 1 season only).

Based on the outcome, a reasonable adjective to describe the process is fugtarded.

More importantly, what is your new screen name going to be? Just wondering which QB you were going to cast your DOOM upon.

Easy on the Wang there. Just trying to plug some holes.

Say, maybe that's why the Bills didn't sign him. Russ Brandon flew to Denver and Mike Shanahan flew to Buffalo on the same day. What luck.

Yes, he strikes one was quite Machiavellian in his complex oratories shrouded in mystification and propaganda. Might as well just assume he is saying what the people wanted to hear, I guess.

Exactly. In Maybin's case, getting blown over from the breeze of Matt Light lifting his little finger doesn't count as "a tackle". It was a comical play. They look like a bunch of bowling pins falling down...

Don't forget the luck. A little known story: When Nikolaus August Otto was 29, he slipped on a broken beer stein and stumbled into a pile of random metal objects. When he came to a few minutes later, he noticed that the objects had self-organized into the first working internal combustion engine. Nikolaus was a lucky guy. He got the girl too.

If you actually listen to the press conference, this question was asked and Chan replied emphatically, "No." Trent did not ask to be cut.

In any sufficiently large population, there are going to be some holding down the left side of the bell curve.

Why not? He'll be starting by mid-season at this rate.

You can get good deals at estate sales sometimes.

Not really. It's just how logic works. When there is a contradiction, then either one premise is false or the other one is. Having listened to Buddy's PC a couple times, I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying "we're not that far away" as some sort of bait and switch sales job and that he really meant "it's going to be years and years". He point blank said he felt that there was talent on the team and implied that it was misused and poorly coached. Now, certainly, he may have changed his mind at this point, and a few people may be changing their minds about him as well...

By the way, if you are a coach and your plan is that you are going to have a quick hook at the most important position on the team going into the situation and that in following your master plan you will plug and play QBs until you find one, then riddle me this question. Why would you invest all of the 1st team snaps in one guy? If your perfect plan included the possibility that you would just cut the first guy to fail after as few as two games, why would you wait until the 4th week to start getting option #3 up to speed and some reps with the offense? Why start getting your Brohm ready for the clean sweep in late September? I know, I know. Throw away your Socratic questions and just trust the professionals running the team.

In Buddy, we trust. Got it.

Right. Cutting your starting QB as of a week ago with the plan of "we'll do something" is "nothing".

Which would mean the thesis of this thread is incorrect.

It's not so black and white. Instead of saying, "I dunno" he could have said, "We are targeting a couple of players that we are really high on and Buddy is working on bringing them in now." So, no, he doesn't have to announce his plans in plain view, but he could sound confident and like there was a thought-out plan underway rather than a scramble drill to react to a knee-jerk reaction from the accountants.

"I truly believe we are not that far away."

Gailey said he didn't know what they do next and that Buddy was upstairs working on it. Does that sound like an orchestrated plan or simple flailing to you?

More Brohm the savior. Did you listen to the press conference? Gailey said he felt it was "time to start working with Brohm". He also said there was little difference between the 3 QBs. This is at a press conference where he is announcing the team is dumping the QB that he thought was the best of the 3 a mere week earlier. If Brohm was at the beginning just a little behind a guy that gets cut outright and hasn't gotten any real work other than running the scout team, that speaks volumes about your QB situation. Maybe some of the "idiots in the national media" were on to something when they kept saying the Bills had no QBs.

Kirwan has a point. If a team has a decent defense and a good running game and just needs a QB that isn't going to step on his wang every series, Edwards might be serviceable. Heck, he may even chuck the rock now that he got a cold bucket of water to the face sort of wake up call.

Singletary will be very lucky to survive the season. The problems on the field go way beyond Jimmy Raye. Firing the OC early in the season didn't really work out last year for the 3 teams that pulled that chicken out of their bag of nuggets.