Playoff Bound

I think the Chargers are free to leave San Diego anytime they want and there is no way the citizens in San Diego County will fund a new stadium. I bet the Chargers move north to LA first. Maybe the Rams will go back to Anaheim.

Time will tell about Wilson & Kaepernick. I would agree you need a franchise quarterback to be competitive year after year, but even that doesn't guarantee a superbowl. Payton Manning would be called a franchise quarterback but he has only delivered one superbowl win. The same number as Trent Dilfer has delivered, and he was no franchise quarterback. The Bills should not reach in this years draft or they will just throw another draft pick away and pass on a player who could really help them. I say stick with Fitz. That practically promises no better than a six win season and gives us a better draft position next year. Fitz is the man to deliver a six win or worse season.

Bingo, Manti Te'o makes me think of Aaron Maybin. What a waste that pick was. Add to that the speculation of not putting it all on the line as a Business decision and being "Catfished" and the picture is not good. You didn't see Andrew Luck make a "business decision" and leave for the NFL a year early. If this guy can't put it on the line for the National Championship that should worry everyone. But that is just speculation. What seems to be real is a lack of real world awareness in dating a non-existent person. This guy is dumb as wood or gullible at a level which should be a major Red Flag. Bingo,

Bellacheats magic hoodie has let him down again.

I share this opinion. I think the coaches have a lot to do with the performance of the players by the systems they put into place. That is why good teams can lose key players and still perform as an offensive or defensive unit. The Bills coaches were just bad. These stats just confirm that.

Kelly should sign with the Bills. We are much more patetic than Cleveland. Reviving Philly is no big deal either. If he comes here and turns this team into winners he will have nothing left to accomplish in life.

Rivers is a good quarterback when surrounded by a good line and receivers. He is not an elite quarterback. The last few seasons he was known for throwing the big interception on the potential game winning drive. Two years ago the Chargers were at the top offensively and defensively and finished 8 - 8 with this guy and in a division where the Broncos and Raiders stunk.

The blog really is interesting reading. In nine seasons with Chicago the Bears were above 500 five times, below three times and had one breakeven 8 - 8 season. Their best years were early in Lovie's time with them. The last two seasons they started strong and ended weak. The blogs really shows a lack of ability to beat good teams. Remember when the Bears went into San Francisco at 7 - 2 this season and got steamrolled by the 49ers. That marked the beginning of the end for their season. Not necessarily a bad choice but not a sure thing either.

Shame on all of you who don't think anything has changed at OBD. Clearly Ralph was making all of the decisions the past 13 years and more importantly the last three years. Nix didn't hire a lame coach like Gailey, Ralph did. Nix doesn't draft running backs in the First Round only to trade them for Fourth Round picks. Nix didn't hitch the team to Fitzpatrick, it was Ralph. That was Ralph. Its all good now since Ralph is stepping out of the way.

I will be disappointed if this happens. My feeling is that this is just a rewind to a few years ago. Brandon assumes control and hires the head coach. Nix stays as the GM until the end of the draft and has input into the hiring of the next head coach. What is different from three years ago when that same dynamic duo brought us Chan Gailey and his all-pro coaching staff? Hiring from within the organization is never a good idea, unless you have a strong organization.

That is the question, would he assemble a good staff. That is the key.

When Nix said he wanted continuity and not change, which meant he supported keeping Gailey for at least another season he lost my support. How can anyone honestly think going 4-12, 6-10 & 6-10 is making progress? Maybe it is progress by Bills standards. Nix needs to retire or just go away.

I hope this is the news Bills fans have been longing for. I hope Ralph lives forever, I just don't want him owning the Bills any longer. He has played a significant part in the dismal performance of this team. Its time for a new start.

I just watched the 49er's dominate New Orleans, after they had just dominated Chicago. That team was a mess two years ago, with Alex Smith as a quarterback who looked like a bust. I don't think the niners made a change at GM but they did with the headcoach by bringing in Jim Harbaugh. They went deep into the playoffs last year and look like they may be the best team in the NFL right now. Alex Smith is no franchise quarterback. Maybe Kaepernick is but that will have to be determined in the future. The bottom line is that you have to have a top flight head coach who brings in the right coordinators. They put in a system that brings out the best of the talent they have and build from there. It starts with the headcoach. This is another lost season for Buffalo. I don't know about Nix but Gailey has to go.

This is an interesting viewpoint and I think it has merit. There will be cases which are tied back to concussions and cte but this will not always be the case. There is pressure to perform. I also think that Seau loved football and being in the limelight so much that it became his identity. I don't mean any disrespect to him either. He lived to perform in the big game, to be the difference maker. When he retired that void didn't get filled.

Glad to see Whitner still tackles like he did in Buffalo. He wiffed on the last two Saints TD's. Go Niners!

I was born in Rochester. My family moved to San Diego in 1960 when I was five. They used to go to see the Bills come to play the Chargers in old Balboa Stadium. I remember a ticket was $1 if you had a Huddle Club card. I guess I was hooked at an early age. I have been a diehard Bills fan since. I used to go back to back to Utica to visit my grandparents about once a year in the 1980's so I got a taste of upstate New York and I liked it. I recently drove up to San Jose to see the Sabres when they came west. I usually catch them when they are in LA or Anaheim. I am looking forward to the Bills coming west in December.

"Well, we do have the coaching in Buffalo that it takes to win...and the talent. But will I be a part of the turnaround?" Lets see, the Bills have gone from 7-9 in 2006, to 7-9 in 2007, to 7-9 in 2008 to 6-10 in 2009, to 4-12 in 2010. I would say maybe the turnaround will come once Super Safety Whitner is playing for someone else.

The reason so many fans keep reliving the past Bills drafts is because they have no confidence in future Bills drafts. Its true this will only be Nix's second draft but with no impact players or game changing players drafted last year there is no confidence things will change. Just show me the impact players from last years draft. Thought so, there weren't any. Bills fans have every right to be very concerned.

The weather is nice most of the year so they can rent out the parking lot for swap meets and RV sales. That should cover the shortfall in revenue on the rent. Really though, the two teams that still have a following in the Los Angeles are the Chargers and the Raiders. I would give the nod to the Chargers. The Chargers have been pushing for a new stadium in San Diego for years and there is no support for it if it requires public funds. I could see them moving to Los Angeles and I could see them with fan support. The entire Los Angeles population extends south to Orange County, east to the Inland Empire and north to Santa Barbara. They would support one team with no problem, especially one with "roots" to the area like the Chargers have.

It is hard to go back in time and relive those Super Bowl loses. They should have won at least one of the games. The only Super Bowl I felt they were overmatched in was against the Redskins. Levy was probably the best coach the Bills have ever had but he wasn't a Super Bowl caliber coach.

Defense usually wins over offense whether the offense has a franchise QB or not. Bills fans only have to look back at the New York Giants Superbowl wins against the Bills. The Bills offense was high flying, state of the art for its time, with Jim Kelly as the franchise QB in his prime. The Giants defense pretty much shut the Bills offense down. Defense, Defense, Defense. The road to the Superbowl starts with Defense.

At this point I don't care who represents the AFC as long as its not New England. Lets face it, love them or hate them, Pittsburgh knows how to win the big games.

Ralph will is cheap and is the biggest reason the Bills have been in a steady decline for 11 years. With that said I would love to see Wannstedt join the coaching staff. He is a proven winner as a DC.

No one can offer much of a defense for the poor drafting the Bills have done. They are almost legedary in this area, maybe except for Detroit and Cleveland. But if we are to believe they have turned the page on poor drafts then this team needs to be as highly seeded in the draft as possible. With that said, for all of those who believe that the Bills should always play to win and that no game is meaningless, what would you say if they were 11 - 4, with a playoff spot already wrapped up? Then resting the starters and playing the backups would be fine because they were looking to their future playoff game. Look at it this way that playoff game isn't next week but it may be next year. The game against the Jets is meaningless and I hope they lose.