Sisyphean Bills

The only mark? How about 7 wins?

There is a difference between trying and actually making progress. This defense is much worse now than when Nix took over. It's one of the worst run defenses ever put on a football field.

Maybe he thinks you are Adam?

They are both winded

FWIW, Buddy does still hit the road and do scouting.

On Sanchez: "His football IQ is ... well ... not very good."

Bingo. We have a winner.

Darn you, you stole my follow-up! This thread should be retitled "Get trolled here". How can anyone say they want Wannstedt as the next HC here with a straight face? C'mon, man! He's poised to have led the worst Bills defense in their history. Head coach??

Stories. That is not the only one.

Wannstache has already failed in two HC gigs. You may think the actual stories of his !@#$ed up attempts to inspire his players are nothing, but others may see something that smells like a lack of leadership.

Maybe he tweaked someone?

Selling them pre-season scrimmages was like selling a snow ball to a polar bear. Nice job, but might be more difficult the second time around.

Tebow and Spiller as Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside could be entertaining at least.

If you want it straight up from Jerry Burns.

Sign me up for some Pornstashe. I want a head coach that can't remember how to put the picture, the bible, and the football in the garbage can!

Brandon has an uphill battle in marketing this operation. He does a good job at that and he's trusted by ownership, all of which goes to explain why he keeps getting promoted.

Ralph Wilson was once asked about the Toronto money in an interview and said point blank that none of that money would ever be made available for player contracts.

I was debating the points you've made in this and other threads. I don't know you, but I respect that you have an opinion. My comment about blind faith was purely a response to what you wrote bolded above.

The trouble is your "reasons" aren't very sound. 1) Unspecified "tweaks" might happen. 2) Nobody knows for sure what might happen. 3) The Bills have tried new coaches before and it hasn't worked. You've cloaked yourself in the red, white, and blue of a true fan. Blindly believing in the decisions made by an organization that has proven time and again to make very poor decisions in many aspects of their business is your choice. However, "continuity" is seriously flawed reasoning. It's working backwards from an effect. The actual mistake is hiring the wrong people in the first place. If you read the original article, who is it that has stuck by Fitzpatrick the entire time? Who continues to make that decision every week? Fixing the mistake means hiring the right person, not sitting in fear or stubbornly prolonging the inevitable.

This probably belongs in another thread, but the 49ers situation is an interesting one. They were in a very similar pattern to the Bills for quite some time. They have emerged out the other side, and the Bills have not. Besides the coaching difference, which is quite obvious, there is another large difference. The draft. Crabtree, Staley, Iupati, Davis, Davis, Gore, Miller, Smith, Kaepernick, Smith, Willis, McDonald, Sopoaga, Bowman, Brown, Goldson are all starters that were drafted by the 49ers. Furthermore, none of them are rookies and most of them have been with the team more than 2 years. The 49ers have 6 of their own 1st round picks starting if you count Smith. Compare the Bills: Only 1 first round pick not selected by Nix is even on the team and he was a backup to Aaron Friggin Williams.

Here is a list of reasons why continuity makes the most sense. The Bills are completely incapable of hiring anyone better. They shouldn't even try so as to avoid the embarrassment. 15-31 is good enough for a city like Buffalo. The fans should genuflect and be thankful for it. Not even reaching the same winning percentage level as Dick Jauron, the coach fired in-season and that the team Photoshopped out of its official picture, is perfectly acceptable and a clear indication that things are being built the right way. In the 3rd year of your rebuild, fielding potentially the worst defense in Buffalo Bills history is another indication that you're pitching a perfect game and got things going in the right direction. With a defense that has been a freak show and hasn't improved, an offense that has regressed badly, and football follies across the board, it makes perfect sense to assume that more time and time alone will fix all the problems. Poor decision making and lack of direction and leadership from the top on down to the bottom is well-known to correct itself in a highly-competitive environment by taking no action and making no changes.

You jump out of the station wagon and "tweak" Gailey. We'll sit here and watch. How much tweaking of the systems do you see Gailey and Wannstedt doing? Be honest. How does "tweaking the system" help when the players have quit? How does the same guy walk into the same room and say "Listen up, I'm going to tweak a few things!" and turn into a leader of a group of guys that aren't even interested in trying? Are you expecting more than muffled laughter?

When does doing the same thing the same way time after time crossover from trying to make progress to being stubborn or even idiotic? If continuity is the shrine of the one true path, then Nix, Gailey, and even Fitzpatrick must stay. That is continuity. But is that progress? What does it mean when many players are playing at less than full speed? How does continuity cause the sort of fight with everything you have and then some response that's needed?

Nix has said very plainly that he's not a contracts guy. It has also been said that the Bills like to work a priority list, one player at a time. In that light it does seem odd that they would start with Urbik, who should be the cheaper of the two guards to re-sign. On the other hand, it seems exactly right.

The only way I could see Jackson coming back here is if Gailey is fired, he gets very little other interest, and the Bills offer him the best contract. Even then, he might take a chance to compete for a starting job elsewhere for less money over a better Bills offer. Playing him at this point is just giving him audition time for other teams.