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These articles are usually just the tip of a very big iceberg, sadly. Freakin' Kiper.

FWIW, if you watch tape of Maybin while he was at PSU, he's in the 4 point stance. However, he's lined up quite a ways off the OT in everything I watched, so that when the ball is snapped, he does not have to take on the OT face to face, where the OT can use his size and strength but at the angle, which benefits Maybin's speed.

I agree 100%. The four point stance completely eliminates his speed. This is why I think the defense problem is more on the coaching and not the players. Anybody can see Maybin's too light to be lining up like that against a monster OT. I have no idea why the "creep* defense isn't used instead of this nonsense of switching between 4-3. 4-2-5 and sometimes, just maybe, a real 3-4.

That drive-kill statistic is all I need to know about Cornell Green. I'd rather take my chances with Howard until he starts killing drives too. I love the in-depth analysis of line play. You don't see that anywhere too often.

It wouldn't surprise me at all that when this finally plays out, it'll come out there was some grand plan all along. Which will surely fill all of us fans with elation and irritation, as is customary with the team.

I'd pay Haloti Ngata and David Harris whatever they want.

I'm in agreement that it's largely the coaching. I think the players look lost, and when you're a player and thinking too much about where you are suppossed to be, you're slow, or overpursue. Despite the fact Kelsay gets burnt time and time again, there remains no adjustment for it. The secondary, despite being one of the best in the league, is rarely in the position to get a takeaway. I think it's an act of desperation to try all these schemes. 4-3, 4/2/5 and the occasional 3-4. Again, this isn't Madden where you can have the same group of players running out there with a different defense every down. What's next? Will we see the 46? I'm still perplexed as to why this team does not bring in some available outside linebackers like Burgess or Thomas.

Nix is following the Butler/Nix blueprint of the Chargers, circa 2001. None of this should surprise anybody on this board. Bills West to Chargers East. I know patience is low, especially with how this season began, but "the" plan worked in San Diego, and I don't see any reason why it won't work here.

If it's a weighted lottery, makes sense to lose awesomely if you're going to lose anyway. Imagine getting some San Antonio luck in 2012.

Way too early to give up on Nix or Gailey. This isn't Madden where you can blow up and recast a roster in a half hour. The front office is essentially building a football team from scratch. It's what Nix was part of in San Diego. I wouldn't cry to see Evans or Whitner traded away for picks. Neither of them have impressed for years.

Trading players from the team you love is akin to trading in your car or old jewelry. You always think it's worth more than what's offered.

+1. Anybody who believes Seattle is a good football team needs to watch this past week's game and not buy into the Carroll hype. Lynch isn't going to help that old, porous defense. Hell, they have Lawyer Milloy out there still at age 65. I think those will be fairly high draft picks at the end of the season. Better than what they would have received from Philadelphia or Green Bay.

I agree 100%. However, of potentially available players on the Eagles, whom would be attractive to the Bills? Since the NFC East is wide open, the Eagles won't be parting with their "good" players, and they don't have a lot of depth, so draft picks looks like the only viable thing coming back to Buffalo from Philadelphia. If Lynch goes anywhere, I don't think he'll go to the Eagles or the Packers, but to the Redskins.

Depends on the team that he'd be traded to. If it's the Eagles, only draft picks make sense. The Eagles play a 4-3, with players that best fit the 4-3, and they don't have any offensive linemen that I'd be interested in.

Ralph Wilson is the only one sending the message. To Erie County. To Western New York. To Albany. It got personal back in 1997, when Wilson was negotiating improvements to the stadium with Pataki and Gorski. Fans are caught in the middle. My .02 is that Wilson was told that there was no, and never would be support from Albany for a new stadium, and that he was lucky to get the deal he got in the late 90s. From that point on, Wilson decided to match NY's minimal investment in the stadium and team dollar for dollar. I'm sure it was a dagger in the eye to see the *very* generous support for other New York stadiums (New Yankee Stadium)from the state assembly. I think the relationship between Wilson and the state is all but burnt to the ground. If you think Wilson has failed the Bills, it's only fair to lop in Albany along with him.

I drove up from PA this weekend. First Bills game at the stadium for me in over ten years. The positives...NY has superior roads, local folks were nice, and enjoyed the stadium. OP and Buffalo have a lot to be proud of. This sometimes visitor to town is impressed. The negatives...lousy weather, even lousier performance on the field. I saw a defeated fan base in attendance today. The spirit just sucked out of everybody, and it's something that you can only appreciate in person. I'll never quit on the Bills. However, I am less optimistic about the direction of the team than I was 24 hours ago by seeing just how bad it is. Perhaps, too, I'm pissed I sat out in sub 40s with a cold pelting rain to watch yet another blowout.

I thought he had a Jones fracture. Those are tough to fix and heal. He'll be lucky to see the field this year.

Sometimes the Bills front office fails (at its peril) to listen to the Most Interesting Man In the World: "Find out what it is in life that you don't do well, and then don't do that thing." Why the Bills seem intent on screwing around with Maybin and Moats, who knows. These guys were successful in college with one mission in mind, get at the QB at all costs. Why not let them run around the field and do it? Especially, in Moats' case. Put Moats in the four point, and take Maybin out of the four point. Right now, the Bills have it backwards.

I agree with Talley. The defense, as a whole, works way too much from the 4-point stance. It's not just Maybin.

+1.

If a new stadium were to be built, I'd say it will be built right across from the existing one. Stadiums are expensive, that goes without saying, but they are completely infeasible if you have to go out and buy the land or go through the expensive and time consuming process to condemn it for public use. It's one of the reasons you see NFL/MLB/NBA facilities built adjacent to the existing ones. The authorities or municipality own that land already. In light of the legal quicksand the Cowboys found themselves in when they constructed the new stadium, I'm sure officials who are even considering new stadiums are very apprehensive about using eminent domain to take property for a new stadium. You are almost guaranteed a drawn out legal fight from private property owners.

I've seen the rotating offensive linemen before. It's not new. The Bills aren't the only team that does it. The days of an OL playing every snap in every series is long over. It's very common to see it in college ball. Keeps the players fresh, so they aren't running on fumes in the 4th quarter.

Have defended many of Nix's moves, but this will not be one of them.

The Denver Broncos started last season 6-0. Wow, Denver really has it together! Let's get that Josh McDaniels COY right now. No playoffs. I can't believe the day has come where Todd Haley....*Todd Haley* is considered a good coach.

That article is all over the place. Complain about the quality of the food, or how much it costs, or that there isn't enough...blah blah. The Washington Redskins comment is where I stopped giving the standard 2% seriousness I give to articles such as this. The female writer is complaining it has Hooters. Is it because Hooters has bad food? Or is that she's opposed to the restaurant concept, irrelevant of the food quality?