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100% agree....put it all on Fitz....anything less than playoffs, then the Bills should make a skins like move and draft the best QB they can next year.

What 34 are you a fan of? Certainly not Thurman or any Bills player right? As much venom as you're spewing about Fitz and the team, and hoping a guy you think has a future goes to denver instead of Buffalo, I assume you're some front runner who still rocks his Bo Jackson throwback....bought last year. I guess my real question is are you hoping to grab a Brock / Denver jersey after the draft or just keep representing in your brand new Manning jersey.

I like the comparison because it let me know immediately that you are out of your mind. Romo is a true franchise QB, and likely a top ten QB, who is constantly undervalued by arm chair GMs, spoiled Cowboy fans, and lazy reporters just looking for something to write about. I would be making my playoff plans now if Romo was the Bills QB and if Fitz can even comes close to playing as well as Romo for the entirety of this season then the Bills playoff drought ends this year. Unfortunately, Fitz isn't Buffalo's Romo...he's Buffalo's Fitz which is much, much worse. That said I still hold out hope that he can be the Bills Rypen or Hostetler or Sims, and be just good enough to finally get the Bills back into the playoffs.

Does anyone have, or know of, a complete list of potential 2012 draftees that have been brought into Buffalo to visit with the Bills? Hoping Kuechly has visited, but generally curious about who they've brought in.

It seems like coaches in the NFL have term contracts, as when they get fired they are typically paid the balance of their contract. So a coach quitting to do something other than an NFL job could be sued for damages.

I'd never want to see this happen. Bills need to take the BPA this year and see if Fitz is playoff capable. If he isn't they need to make a redskins esq trade for a top QB next year in the draft. The Bills have playoff talent, but cant afford to mortgage future drafts until they are sure they have a proven franchise QB. Fitz has yet to prove himself.

It seems clear right now this was no conspiracy. To me the funny part was how much this release has changed the dynamic in the league office. One of my college roomates works for the league office and over the weekend he indicated the suspension of Payton was likely being reduced. When this news broke I texted him to see if that was still the chance and his quick response was fat chance.

"While Buffalo's team sack total will rise in 2012, offenses will know exactly which front-four member to target on running plays: Mark Anderson." It is never impressive when someone makes an obvious factual statement, but treats it like a big reveal and proof of their argument. Wow. Teams will run at Anderson given their choice of the Bills front four? They won't run at two of the best run stopping DTs in the NFL or a DE who might be the best run stuffing 4-3 DE in the league? Instead they will run at the other guy? Well that does it, that other guy must be overpaid. Forget for a second that there are probably only 5-10 guys in the entire NFL who teams wouldn't run towards when facing the other three options on the Bills line. In his first draft did the writer include the fact that Anderson is also overpaid because he isn't likely to be as effective at throwing the football as Fitzpatrick?

Passing on Blackmon because he isn't a field stretcher would be like passing on Larry Fitzgerald. A bad idea the team would regret for a decade. If Blackmon is there the Bills should be sprinting up to take him. To bad there is zero chance he makes it past 6.

Dude can't read or doesn't care. Either way the Bills should avoid like the plague. Statistically he should have scored better just filling in all As.

Wallace wants the same money as Calvin and Larry.....AND he would cost the Bills their first pick. PASS.

+1,000,000. As the one who started the Buddy Nix thread I'll chime in. I use to try to play it safe, play that Karma game BS. Not make any crazy statements or happy predictions and what did it get me. 2 lost SBs (I bragged before the first 2) and decades of dissapointment. You can play it Karma safe, but the team is still going to get shredded by the injury bug if universe bounces that way. You can tiptoe around co-workers who hate your team and avoid saying anything that makes you look like a homer, but at the end of the year you're still going to catch hell if the team sucks. I say you're better to just lean into it. Support your team, make crazy statements, and be proud of your Bills....just don't vote for SJ on the Madden cover that curse is real.

If you love the Bills you should only be voting for a Patriot on the cover of Madden.

First he resigns Stevie for relatively cheap...you might even say dirt cheap given what some bum WRs got this year. Next he gets THE free agent prize at DE. Then he gets another solid pass rushing DE in his prime (Anderson)...and keeps the guy from returning to New England. And on top of all that he does a pretty decent job of resigning some sinificant role players. If Buddy et al put together another stellar draft this could be the best offseason the Buffalo Bills have ever had.

This coming from the organization that was so smart with the contracts they are in a mess welker. They could have signed him for less than the Bills gave stevie if they would have acted before FA started. Now that big money is being handed out to borderline bum receivers Welker is going to hold out for a lot more.

I remember an article on him shortly after he left the Bills as there was talk he might be interested in reversing course and going to a 4-3 team, ironically Houston back then, and Shobel talked about how he didnt want to do this and said he was tired of having to maintain a strict diet and workout all the time. I cant see a guy with a mindset like that staying in any kind of shape but round.

I feel like this thread and the general Mario mania needs a theme song. I propose the 1980s hit by Mike and the Mechanics, All I Need Is A Miracle.

It's a fine line...the key is never to place yourself between the exit and your target...and of course not have keys to a van in your pocket.

Maybe Nix has truly outfoxed everyone and the plan is to simply keep him in town until training camp starts...build the undeniable momentum of default. I've sucessfully implemented this strategy on a girl who was waaaay out of my league before....and had it done to me by a number of girls I really should have stayed away from.

I like Fitz, but I fear the Fitz we saw last year is the "real" Fitz. I fear the large sample set that shows Fitz capable of being great in small stretches but average to below average on the whole is what he is. Flynn has a small sample set, yes, but it's all good. I'm not saying there isn't risk, but I think a risk is worth taking at the most important position in the game. Flynn is a younger guy with a stronger arm. My suggestion was if he is willing to sign an incentive laddened deal, why not do it. If he bonks, the Bills took a shot and Fitz wins the job, and the Bills are in no worse position than they are now. I was in no way attempting to "Troll." I didn't think it was a big leap to say that since Mario is headed out of town in short order and the fact that it is now being reported that he will meet with other teams, starting tonight, that he is not going to sign with the Bills. Standard rule of FA and negotiation in general is when the other side leaves the table, it's over. I've seen this in the NFL time and time again and I see this every week first hand in negotiations for my client.

Matt Flynn isn't drawing near as much interest as expected. Now that the Bills have struck out with Mario and Meachem, why not get a potetial franchise QB and huge upgrade with am incetive ladened deal?

If he leaves without signing, it's over. Mark it zero.

I truly hope the Bills arent this dumb. Stalking horse bids never work with high profile NFL free agents and small market teams. If he leaves he's gone. That's why the only hope the Bills ever had was to offer the sky and tell him the offer expires the second he leaves town. Otherwise they are just helping to set the market for a team that isn't as dumb, or unappealing as the Bills.

Game over....well it was fun and painfull while it lasted. In the end the Bills are still the Bills. A for effort, F for results. Hey, at least Buffalo showed they are willing to try not hard enough, right? Im sure that wont lead to further ridicule from the national press.

So far this offseason the Bills have resigned two starters at extremely reasonable prices. That is it. Does it prove Ralph is cheap...well not until we see how he books the contracts (uses last years roll over or not, cash to cap book keeping or not)...but it sure as heck does nothing to prove he isn't cheap. Again, book the contracts to create maximum cap space and then actually sign some money FAs and maybe the cheap label is innaccurate. Until then, any label Ralph has earned through years of bs is his to live and die with.