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OJ Simpson is a human scum bag. He should have been rotting in prison since 1993, but at least he found his way there anyway for breaking into that guys' hotel room with a gun. I say screw his accomplishments from football. His name should be taken down at the Ralph and replaced with Lou Saban's name in the same spot. He should get kicked out of the Hall of Fame and if I owned any Simpson gear, I would sell it to collectors' like yourself, and donate the money to a battered women's organization.

After that 4th consecutive SB loss to Dallas after the '93 season, I stopped caring about other franchises winning SB's before my beloved Bills. Let's face it, they had four straight chances to win just one of these damn games, and blew them all. Sure I'll respect those 4 consecutive Conference championships, a feat most likely never to be repeated again in today's salary capped free agencied NFL. But now I only want to live long enough to watch my Bills win just one SB. Unfortunately, Ralph Wilson has to live long enough at 93 years old, while they still are the Buffalo Bills, for that to happen. So although it seems crazy that Tampa Bay and New Orleans have won their SB's before the Bills have, who really cares? Cleveland and Detroit fans have never even gotten the chance to watch their teams play in even one SB, and we Bills fans have experienced that feeling 4 times.

I was not saying Bledsoe needed to win a SB the same season Dilfer did. First of all, Bledsoe was still in New England, starting for the Pats during the entire 2000 season. Rob Johnson was running out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage sacking himself all season for the Bills in 2000, remember? What I meant was that Dilfer started for the Ravens and helped them "not lose" the SB, (as you put it.), while Bledsoe played 3 years for the Bills and did not win a SB for them. In my opinion, that makes Dilfer a better QB for the Ravens then Bledsoe was for the Bills. And that put him number one on my list, comparing him to all the Bills QB's of the last 10 years. Listen, I'm not void of logic. QB's like Trent Dilfer, Mark Rypien, (damn him), Brad Johnson, Jeff Hostetler (damn him too), Doug Williams, Jim Plunket and even Joe Thiesman, all were not as accomplished career-wise as Drew Bledsoe over Drew's entire career with the Pats, Bills and Cowboys. But they all won a SB (Plunket won 2!), as starting QB's, and they all deserve credit for that! Just ask Jimbo and Marino if they would not have loved to have won just one SB during their Hall of Fame careers. So yes, I would say that Trent Dilfer, from 2002 to 2004, the years Bledsoe played for the Bills, would have been a better option due to the fact he would have been coming off a recent SB win with Baltimore, and he would have been much more conservative based on the fact he did not have Bledsoe's arm. Plus any QB had to have been more mobile then the statue was from '02 to '04, even Dilfer.

Great post. You know we were screwed with the very first Donahoe decision - when he chose to keep Johnson and dump Flutie. With Flutie, Donahoe may not have felt the desperate need to trade for Bledsoe during the horrible Gregg Williams years. Flutie would most likely have kept the Bills in many games Johnson could not in that pathetic 2001 3-13 season, and with Doug being as old as he was, but still capable of handling Williams' high school offense, maybe Donahoe would have opted to draft a QB after the '01 season, like perhaps Drew Brees, to play behind Flutie a season?? (That plan worked out pretty well for the Chargers until Brees took over).

Curses, foiled again. Even when I try to give Ralph credit it turns out bogus. Oh well, I hope Edwards doesn't get seriously hurt by continuing his career after that major surgery. I knew he had it, but I did not know Denver and Seattle thought he was too much of a risk by failing him on their physicals.

Your list should consider ONLY the years these QB's played for the Bills, compared to Dilfer's years with the Ravens. 1. Dilfer - the other thread was right, after all Dilfer won a SB as the starting QB for the Ravens. Bledsoe did not. 2. Bledsoe 3. Edwards 4. Holcomb 5. Johnson 6. Van Pelt 7. Fitzpatrick 8. Lost-man (I hate the guy, and always will - freakin' first round pick in 2004, what an idiot Donahoe was!) Sorry, but I only counted 8 different QB's on your list, after all Drew Bledsoe is not two people.

Great offensive mind. If he had a little better of a defense during the Fouts era in San Diego, he would have won multiple SB's. I'll never forget the Joe Ferguson "Bad Ankle" playoff game against his Chargers after the 1980 season. The Bills number one defense did an amazing job holding down Air Coryell and Fouts the entire game....until about 2 minutes left, when Fouts hit someone on a bomb (it wasn't Jefferson, was it somebody Smith....Ron Smith maybe??), to win the game at the end. Coryell was a great NFL coach (had success with St. Louis before going to the Chargers), and he will be missed around the NFL.

Here's s quote from Dwan Edwards in an article from his home town paper: "I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a business decision," he said of joining the Bills. "From a business perspective it was the right place for me,...." Keep in mind that Edwards visited with Seattle and Denver before choosing the Bills. I don't know too much about Edwards, but he obviously is the highest profile FA signing for the Bills this year, the first and biggest of the Buddy - Chan regime, that's for sure. For once, it was nice to hear that Wilson must have out-bid Denver and Seattle. Of course in recent years Wilson has stupidly overpaid for other FA's, most notably Dockery and Walker of the infamous 2006 FA class. But in this case, Ralph was leaning on his new football guy Buddy Nix and new coach Chan Gailey before impressing Walker enough "business - wise" to choose his Bills. If we accept the facts that Nix was important to Butler (God rest his soul), and A.J. Smith during the rebuilding of the Chargers, then Dwan Edwards should be an excellent addition to Chan's defense, and I look forward to watching him play this season. Article Link: http://billingsgazette.com/sports/football...1cc4c002e0.html

Those of us with logical minds that have watched Buddy Nix and Chan Gailey don't subscribe to ESPN Insider. With idiotic headlines like those, why does anyone pay to read the rest of the idiotic articles?

Fitz sucks, period. Career back up at best, and even then who knows if he could get you 2 out of 4 wins due to a 4 game injury to your starter. In my opinion, Fitz should have already been cut and Levi Brown should be getting his reps!

My historical sense of the Bills goes back to the late 60's, but I never knew, or completely forgot, that they signed Bruce before the draft. Not bad, one number one pick out of only 50 drafts in their history. Boy, I should stop over-reacting, right? And allow me to use one of your adjectives to describe your point about Jimbo: idiotic. How "heroic" of Wilson to get off his butt and listen to Bill Polian when the USFL folded and Kelly had zero options left but to sign with Buffalo. Don't worry, if not for Polians' desire to turn the Bills around into a winner and to use Jim Kelly as his foundation, I will never believe anyone else could have convinced Wilson to sign Kelly for that kind of money in 1986. And why am I convinced of that? Because before Polian was GM, THREE FREAKIN' YEARS EARLIER, when Wilson drafted Jimbo, he allowed him to take the USFL money and run, wasting 3 valuable years of his and the Bills' development. So allow me to correct my post. EXCEPT for the years Bill Polian was GM, December 1985 through 1993, Wilson's Bills have never been salary setters, EXCEPT for when they signed Bruce Smith before they drafted him in April of 1985.

Who cares who he's ahead of or behind? Let's face it, Lou Piccone could come back and make this team at WR this season. Evans had better become a superstar this year.

Of course he'll hold out, if the number 8 pick and the number 10 pick don't sign before he does. The Bills never have and never will, as long as Ralph is alive and well, be salary setters. They would never make a good enough offer, in my humble opinion, to either of their top two picks, that would prompt them to sign before the other rookies picked just before or just after them, uncapped year or not. For Spiller, who cares? He's been learning the offense, and running back is the easiest position to learn as a rookie anyway. But I'm hoping Troup gets in from day one. He should, being a 2nd round pick, but it all depends on the guys drafted right around them, even in the second round. Once you get to the third round, I would be shocked if Carrington isn't in camp on time.

Why are you still predicting new quarterbacks coming to the Bills this season? Chan is set at QB, end of story. He and his "OC" Modkins, and QB coach What's His Name, from Canada, are all convinced they have the answers to bring out the "NFL Starting caliber" out of one of these four guys already on the roster. Please stop thinking Buddy is even interested in adding anyone else for 2010.

There is only one way to "attack" a great secondary. Run the ball down their throats for big gains on first and second down, forcing them to play up on third down. The problem with that strategy, is you have to have an offensive line big and strong and talented enough to be able to do that. Chan is saying the same things Dick used to say, which were the same things Mike used to say, which were the same things Gregg used to say. We will be a run first offense. Now Chan is known for being a good offensive coach, who can mix up plays and find weaknesses in defenses. But what he has not done differently then the losers before him over the past 11 years now, is trade for or draft any proven talented offensive linemen yet. So regardless of whether Evans may or may not be worthless for both the Jets' games up against Revis, this offensive line I see starting in September doesn't seem to be good enough to knock the Jets' front 7 off the line either. And then Chan will end up doing the same thing the others were forced to do, tell his QB to take 7 step drops on 2nd and 3rd and long to have time to find someone open past the first down marker, and end up getting sacked all over the place. But that's just my humble opinion.

So let me understand this. Mark Sanchez has his mega-deal being the 5th pick from last years' draft. Darrelle Revis could be signed for 100 Million dollars soon, D’Brickashaw Ferguson is closer to getting his new deal then people think, and David Harris and Nick Mangold are still waiting for the Jets to sign them to big new contracts, too. What "salary cap" do the New York Jets play under?? Everybody understands the Jets a mega rich franchise in the biggest of all sports markets, and also have their brand new palace to charge ungodly prices for, they are sharing with the Giants. But don't they still have to fit all of their players under the same damn cap as the rest of the NFL teams do???

Does it really matter? I'd be happy if Chan kept all 5, and any two made it all 16 games without getting injured, and won the "battle" by default. Obviously Nelson is our potential pass catching "threat", but overall even with him in the mix, this group sucks IMO, per NFL standards.

Hey, it worked just fine for our former FIRST ROUND bust, Lost-man. He's getting reps in the OTA's for Seattle right now. If Brohm gets dumped by the Bills, he should follow J.P's footsteps and put on one of those God-awful ugly UFL uniforms immediately.

The Jets kicked the Bengals' asses in Cincinnati in the playoffs last year, and Rex Ryan could care less about who knew that his defense was a base 3-4 or not. In fact, every team announced what their base defense is, (other then the Bengals, I guess), in order to sign the right kinds of free agents every off season. Andra Davis knew the Bills were going base 3-4 and I'm sure that played into him signing on with Buffalo. Your point about Mike "sneaky" Zimmer is basically senseless, because even in the quote you provided, it announces that his base is 4-3.

Allow me to be the jackass right off the bat. Despite all of your optimistic rantings about subterfuge and long list of players whose best years are ahead of them, please come back into the real world for a moment and realize that the Bills still do not have enough TALENT to compete in the AFC East, and in the AFC even for a Wild Card.....yet. Buddy Nix drafting I like. Two more Nix drafts added to this first one, and unless Gailey turns out to be as horrible a head coach as Williams, Mularkey and Jauron were, I would expect the Bills to compete for the division and make the playoffs. But certainly not this year, and definitely not with Trent Edwards as the starting QB. So although I don't have a real "list" of why the Bills will be bad this season, you are still nuts to try and "list" reasons why they will be good. The Bills will most likely have an interesting season, hanging around .500 most of it, and then ending up around 8-8-0 or another dreaded 7-9-0 finish. But that will be OK. I trust Nix and his new staff to draft the best talent available around the 10-15 range a hell of a lot more then Levy / Brandon did 3 straight seasons of 7-9-0 finishes under Dick.

Oh that's right....LEVI Brown. Sorry. Time will tell, but I'd still feel better about the Bills future if Tebow were in the mix instead of LEVI Brown. But I'm hearing that most of the first team snaps are going to Edwards anyway, so it appears that until he goes down with his annual 2 to 4 game injury, Gailey will give Trent his chance to lose the starting job.

Very funny Green Lightning. This was way typical of just about every Tebow-hater post leading up to the draft, until the Broncos, a highly respected organization with two SB Championships on their resume, drafted him in the first round, and began to work with him immediatley on his poor throwing techniques. And, with "little Timmy's" work ethic, he seems to be slowly working his way up the less then Pro-Bowl caliber Broncos' QB depth chart 6 weeks before training camp even starts. That's the thing I liked about Tebow all along. He was a winner in college, and has a great work ethic. But sure, I would have been happy if Buddy drafted Clausen or McCoy or even Tony Pike. You 2010 QB haters really must be mocking the Panthers right about now eh? They drafted both Clausen and Pike before Buddy drafted Eli Brown in round 7. But who knows? Buddy Nix is a lifetime football guy with a keen eye for talent, so maybe Eli Brown might end up being the Bills franchise QB if he hangs in there a couple of years learning the ropes. Anything is possible.

I think the whole Tebow situation in Denver is hilarious. While I predicted Tebow should have been the Bills pick at number 9 overall, and everyone thought I was crazy, he now seems to be the front runner before training camp even starts, to win the starting job for another NFL team that did draft him in Round One. And to think I started to waver and just hope the Bills would grab him in the second round, after reading all the posts out here and in other publications at how Tebow would never make it at QB. Oops. Tebow was not around for the second roud was he......yes sir, Denver took him later in the first round. Simply laughable. Yeah, that Tebow will need 4 years to figure out how to hold the football and where to release it from, right all of you "experts" out there?? Look for Tebow to be starting QB for the Broncos no later then half way through this season. And by then, with the way things go for the Bills at QB since Jimbo retired 13 freakin' years ago, our offensive geniuses who have taken over the Bills will most likely be benching Edwards and going onto their second choice also. The difference is the Broncos will be playing Tebow because I believe he will be their franchise QB for the next decade and will decide not to waste his entire rookie season. While Gailey will simply be benching Edwards because he will suck even trying to run his great offensive scheme, and Chan's second choice will not be the Bills Franchise QB, will he??

No. Joe Montana didn't win "a" SB by being a "captain checkdown", he actually won 4 Super Bowls by being arguably the best QB in NFL history. But nice job comparing Trent Edwards to Joe Montana. What will your next post feature, comparing Lee Evans to Jerry Rice by asking us; "Didn't Jerry Rice have to catch passes from his captain checkdown, too?....and that's why Evans will break every record Rice set just as soon as Trent wins that elusive starting job, right???

Yeah, you're right. And I would wager that 99% of every NFL sports show media outlet or personality or prediction magazine will agree with your "total crap" possibility. Sadly, when that happens, the very best we can expect is about average, which will still be an improvement. Personally, I will be satisfied if this new scheme and group of players playing new positions or playing for the Bills for the first time or playing in the NFL for the first time, can all get together and somehow keep their opponents under 150 yards rushing all 16 games!! Oh yeah, and maybe if they can get together and average at least 2.5 sacks per game, for a total of 40 sacks for the season, which would be a solid 25% improvement over last years' pathetic sack total. But be realistic. We have a first time DC (as usual when the Bills hire a new coach), George Edwards (who?), coaching a group of 4-3 defenders a brand new 3-4 scheme, with only ONE rookie penciled in as a starter so far. (Troup). So that means every single defender who starts this year that was on the team last year, will have to get used to a brand new defenseive system. Even those good defensive backs (and I agree they should be very good this season) still have to study brand new calls and assignements and keys. And didn't our best FA pick-up, Dawan Edwards, play in a 4-3 in Baltimore his entire career, too??? (I don't remember Ray Lewis sharing "Inside Linebacker" duties with anyone else as long as he has been THE MLB for the Ravens these past 15 years or so!) So I am only hoping for AN IMPROVEMENT this first season of huge change. I would certainly forget about your "totally dominating" possibilty, if I were you.