Sisyphean Bills

How about drafting Auflick?

So, the Bills suck so bad that every draft pick is a starter! Wahoo!

Instant starter! Wahoo!

Tom Donahoe will be giving you a call soon...

They probably flushed their only cell phone down the toilet (money is tight), so no need to mess around...

"An OL is just 5 fat guys."

Sounds like a replacement for Sam Aiken, from that.

Chan Gailey -- crap into something less stinky.

I'm thinking Ray Lewis is going to be all over this kid and kicking his ass to get in shape. The Ravens got a project, but they have the locker room leadership to make him lose the laziness. In contrast, in the Jauron locker room, players got gold stars for showing up with a smile and saying they'd try harder next time.

I'm thinking one of the major problems with Jauron's defense was Jauron's retard-rollercoaster offense. You know, the unit that couldn't move the chains worth a damn. I guess we're counting on Spiller and Chan Gailey's mad skilz as an offensive jeanyus.

Switching to the 3-4 is looking smart. Completely retool the defense, which was the lesser problem...

Still, the 2000 draft as a whole had very little high-value talent in retrospect. That's the way it goes some years.

Not like we had a NT... or a run defense...

Well, your OK guys did something never seen before. Congratulations.

Even at $0.50, you'd make up for it in volume there.

Like I've been saying since the day he was hired ... Nix isn't the only guy in the room. Follow the money, dude. Russ Brandon is the CEO and is still the highest paid man in the building.

There's a reason for that.

You were expecting Nix to candidly say, "We want Lynch outta here now!"?? C'mon. Of course, they still want Lynch; and if they don't get an acceptable offer, they want him to come back and be ultra-motivated to rip it up on the field instead of ripping $20 bills out of some woman's hand.

I wonder how long Buddy will be here if he really is actively undermining the quixotic owner.

I'm not sure I'd call him a "luxury pick", but he plays a position that wasn't a desperate need for a team with a ton of needs. It seems obvious that the new draft room has a different set of priorities than the last set of heads. These guys went after a top talent rather than a projection at a position of desperate need. That's a good thing for a team that focused more on keeping the merry-go-round spinning than getting better for far too long. Spiller can help in the short-term because he is an explosive offensive player with world class speed. Hard to say that can't help on a team without weapons. He also opens up options to pedal Lynch. It's pretty clear that the suspension last year of Lynch did have an effect on his production, although some argued it wouldn't matter at all. On the other hand, it doesn't address some of the major gaping holes on the team. Overall, the team is looking to be worse and taking a few steps back from the 7-9 heights it had attained under Jauron. If that means a couple years of picking at the top of the draft to re-build with a stable of solid young talent, then that is not unexpected. If there were an All-Pro LT there and they took him, then they would be looking for weapons in next year's draft; so, it is a bit of chicken vs. egg. I wouldn't be surprised for the Bills to make a play for McCoy tomorrow.

How could they trade down when they rushed to the podium? But, we knew these guys were wet behind the gray-haired ears.

Pretty much. Spiller doesn't fill a hole that they created, nor is he a guy they "need" to fit some new scheme the coach has a woody for (despite it making no sense at RWS), nor is he a guy that is a tweetin' leader. He is a stud player and they took him. Now they have the option of putting Marshawn on the trading block to see what they can get for the pothead. They need to fix the lines still (of course) and a variety of other things, but that's always the case when you're bad.

Stud player. Too bad our line sucks.

Having seen them both play erratically multiple times, I don't really care to look up "numbers" and guess what you are hinting at. (FWIW, 2.0 is the version after 1.0 -- so yeah, some things may look a little less nasty, but it'll still malfunction when you need it most.)

Good having company on the bandwagon though.