Sisyphean Bills

But, think of the money the Bills saved.

Like the Rock says, "This game sells itself."

Are the Bills the only team with QB issues in the NFL? Have the Bills been good at finding and developing diamonds in the rough of late, especially at QB? If you say no and no, then explain how a kid you think may be a bona fide franchise QB could ride the Packers practice squad for over half a season and nobody but the Bills, after Jauron was relieved of his duties no less, happened to notice or give a damn. Edit: I hope the Bills get a QB coach in the building and can develop this guy. But, WTF? Should we be betting everything on him to be the savior? Holy ****, Batman!

Craig Nall? Kevin Eakin? Gibran Hamdan?

They cut the depth at RT to save a buck.

Steve Young and Joe Montana ring any bells?

Poor Browns. They just don't see the advantages of waiting for a hot coordinator.

Fine example of biased officiating there. The linesman was looking right at Jacobs when he threw that punch. Ridiculous.

A team that is, according to most media heads, much more attractive than the Bills.

Do you really think that the Bills coaches don't know that Trent was playing behind a line that wasn't very good? A coach doesn't bench his starting QB because he is doing well and others are !@#$ing up.

OK. Fitz is obviously a starter then.

Kind of comical. Brohm paid more than Fitzpatrick who was paid more than Trent.

The wrong thing to do is to start by creating holes on the roster. The FO needs to get the "live with who you got until you can upgrade the position" message pounded into their skulls with a ball-peen hammer. Creating holes just means you are placing your team squarely in the rut of drafting strictly for need and other teams can paint you into a corner in the draft. It hasn't worked yet.

Seriously, it is more fair to evaluate McCargo's draft class. It is pretty condemning really. After that draft, the Bills said they had Whitner rated at the top of their board and his selection was a no-brainer. The guy is a backup S at what should be the height of his professional career. They also said that they had McCargo rated just as highly as Ngata. McCargo will be out of the NFL very soon. Given that, is there really any question that the scouting department needs a purge?

The truth is that he's not a dominant player. If he were a dominant player, he'd still be a Jaguar. The guy's rep is living off John Henderson's fumes and that the Bills have had some real garbage at DT prior to his arrival.

Hardy wins the award. I heard he even had to go get a step ladder to change a light bulb in Dick Jauron's Perry Fewell's office.

So, let me get this straight. It is the Bills fans that are to blame for the Bills struggles as a football team. The players know that the situation, playing winning football, is out of their control. Riveting stuff, really. Any more self-loathing cart-pulling-horse stupidity you want to toss out there?

I hear ya. I'd say the sack numbers are deceptive though. The Bills QBs have been throwing the ball off their back heel as waves of defenders roll over them, while Big Ben has taken sacks trying to extend plays and make things happen. The look of the execution is very different, the latter won games last year and a Super Bowl. Still, a sack is a sack and they aren't good offensive plays for sure. Pittsburgh lacks balance. Their running game tailed off last year, but that was offset by effectiveness of their passing game and a stout defense. This year the defense has slipped and without the running game, they have become a one-dimensional team that is ever so close to not even making the playoffs.

Oakland has a much better defense. Seattle has some much better talent, but they are playing some true scrubs with all their injuries. At this point, they are about the same. Chicago is a clone -- a horrific offense that can't do jack and a tiny, banged-up Tampa-2 defense.

For all that investment, the Bills get exactly two more man-games. Not exactly a big deal.

The trouble with the McKelvin pick wasn't McKelvin as a player. The trouble with that pick was that Ryan Clady was still on the board and if the Bills really had issues with their LT and his contract demands, they should have been proactive about it. Further, the pick of a CB given their defensive scheme was more of a luxury item. Greer proved he was up to the job and they took a swarm of CBs in the later rounds to develop for the nickel and dime. And, before we go off and say Greer was "for sure" a goner, the Bills tried to keep him and offered him a decent but somewhat lower than market contract. He would've stayed if they had ponied up, but they no doubt felt they didn't have to be too competitive because they had drafted McKelvin. So, they chose a CB despite it being a position of relative strength, despite other needs, despite their defensive philosophy, and despite a deteriorating contract situation they apparently thought they could hard-ball their way through. In 20/20 hindsight, the move was just another mistake and it didn't make the team better.

Well, hopefully... but, from what I've seen so far, I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you.

The trouble with Maybin is that by the time he is ready (if ever), the Bills will be well into a new regime with no ties to him, and with their patience will have moved on.

When do the Bills release details on finalized negotiations let alone initial offers? OTOH, who cares? Jauron, unless he is brain dead, knew he was a dead man walking given what transpired this season, and it's really not all that much of a beneficent gesture to pay a guy to sit home versus let him try to do his job and see if he can work any sort of a miracle. Letting him go mid-season, Photoshopping him out of the team picture, etc. is a total slap in the face. It's publicly stamping "total incompetent" on his file. And, so far, it has all the look of "a plan" that was nothing more than a knee-jerk marketing move; a chance to respond to a billboard and negative fan polls while tossing the unwashed masses a few crumbs about courting legends... Edit: But, we can spin that into thinking that they are really more interested in some hot coordinator. Until it pans out like it did for Donahoe and all the hot coordinators go elsewhere and the Bills end up eating with the vultures.

He should've checked it down.