Homey D. Clown

Actually the team has had 21 winning seasons, with 10 of those winning seasons coming between 1988 and 1999. I think the sum of winning seasons would be ghastly if Bill Polian never manages the team.... simply ghastly!

I know, it's funny how well and how poorly Kelsay can play, at the same time, and in some instances, on the same play! It's like when you see water on fire....

HAHAHA!!! Hilarious.

Not dedicated to winning is how I classify him. Dedicated to making a profit, yes, incompetent, not really, you don't get to be one of the most wealthy sports business owners by being a bonehead. A great poet once summed it up best: Ralph is Cheap.

I couldn't have said it any better myself with regards to Ralph Wilson, he has always run the team strictly from a profit point of view, and has always put very little, if any focus on winning championships. The only man hard headed enough to punch a hole in Ralph's wallet for almost a decade got fired, which had very little to do with losing superbowls.

Nobody held a gun to your head to post in my thread, which I'd like to share and hear the opinions of those who ask this particular question... Why even post a comment then? Just to be rude to others? Two games for sure stand out in my mind that should have gone the other way, well, make that 3, cincinnatti, new jersey giants, and new jersey jests. A healthy Kyle Williams alone may have had an impact on those games. I still think it's early to lay blame on the GM just yet, I am looking forwards to the pivotal 3rd offseason where this team tries to get some real depth at a few positions. As for Lee Evans, I loved the guy, but I think having him here this season wouldn't have had any impact, I don't know what happened to him, but he seems to have really faded. I watched a few youtube highlight clips of the guy, and it's night and day between the 04-06 lee evans, and the 07-10 player. I do wish him well though if he can revive his career, great, I just didn't think his style of play fitted what Chan Gailey wants to do here.

In looking back at the season where the team started out quite deep at a few positions, and had some talent at a few others, they seemed to actually play better as the game wore on, but slowly as the injury bug hit, the strong finishes in games also seemed to fade away. It seemed to have started with Shawn Merriman, and while there are a ton of those threads already where people don't think he was doing anything, I saw him as very effective with respect to how much attention he drew. Next other key players like Roscoe Parrish, Kyle Williams, and so on and so forth out for the season. Looking at our IR list is almost like looking at our opening day starting roster, it's staggering, so my question is, How do you feel the season would be so far given just a few key players weren't lost for the season on both sides of the ball? Personally I think we're probably looking at a solid 8-4 record without all the injuries to most of our key players and positions, and just this alone has a lot to do with how the team has slid. I find it hilarious how all of a sudden we see buddy Nix threads starting to pop up questioning whether or not he should be fired. I don't think you can place blame on him for what has happened to the team with regards to injuries, which I'd like to keep this thread based on(Bolded question) If you want to bash Buddy Nix, or Shawn Merriman, please take that stuff somewhere else, If you want to post a few random Ralph is Cheap comments, feel free.

Sometimes I just sit back and wait for these shots... merriman has nothing to do with the amount of injuries the team has endured over the last 6 seasons, it's almost like you replied to the wrong thread with this garbage.

I see no reason to think this team is not headed in the right direction, and just because they got our hopes a little higher this year than we thought possibly doesn't mean this season will be a bust. If a new defensive coordinator is had, along with some OLB and corner help, this team will win quite a few games next year. I'm disappointed like everyone else, but I agree with the OP.

"Dig a hole my men," Sir Andrew said "A lot I'm hurt, hemorrhaging blood, and fading from delusional consciousness to the blackness of cold death, but not yet slain" "You bastards better wait till I'm dead before covering me with dirt though!!"

I simply disagree any team not having any depth or game changers on their team at a position can even have any pick be classified as a luxury, and I also can't understand how any player can be deemed a bust without getting the chance to play. I'm not arguing your strategy isn't more sound than what the GM decided that day, I can't control that, but the point of this thread was that I did agree with the pick, still do, even though other players have had more opportunities to play, hindsight is 20/20, and i didn't want to go there, I want to stay on task that it's not always doom and gloom when we pick in the 1st round, but Buffalo fans love to poke holes in paper houses when it comes to draft picks. It seems like the satisfaction they get from saying "I told you so", or "look how bad our GM is" is all that keeps them around. It's obvious the problem is much deeper than one draft pick, but CJ has been an easy target since the Maybin pick gets worse by the minute, damned if you do(picking him), damned if you don't(cutting him). It gets old reading the constant bashing and brow beating these guys take, and I am starting to wonder if players, coaches, and even front office staff actually lose their jobs over what is said in the public open media, we have a meddling owner who just might have the sense, or lack there of, to act on such nonsense. And now with Freddie injured, how on earth can anyone sit around and think the top RB in the draft is a luxury? What frickin luxury? Nobody really though Lynch was getting any better in 2009, nobody, INCLUDING the rest of the NFL. Who else has the potential to break runs on this team, or possibly score on offense? I stand my ground that they saw that potential in Spiller, I saw flashes of it Sunday, there's no doubt he will be good, so the arguments against him get thinner by the moment. The depth at that position simply was not, and still is not there past Freddie. It seems they have had a plan on offensive line, and it actually seems to be working, and defensively it looks like a DE or DT again since other picks have not panned out.

So your point is that we weren't very deep at RB, since neither were considered elite talent at the time of the draft... glad you see it my way.

actually the team went 2-14 in 1984 and 1985, then 4-12 in 1986, 7-8 in 1987, but I get your point... Injuries and a bit more help on defense and this team would not be collapsing this year, so as disappointed as I am with this season, I have really liked some of the things I have seen from them this year.

No worries, have fun with it... it fits this team so well it should be printed in the game day pamphlets at Rich Stadium

link to what? you didn't hear it on TV? where you asleep or not listening to any of the radio shows on Monday after that game? You have to be kidding me you didn't hear those things being said on the air in the media...

CJ would have gone in the first round guaranteed, and probably would have started on the team that picked him, making his career further along than it is now, and everyone around here would have pissed and moaned on how we passed on the guy. He was the highest rated player on the board at #9, so you pick him since you had one running back with a career 3.7 YPC average who wants out, and the other at age 29 who hasn't been a starter in the league at that point. So yes, your facts actually prove the RB position was a position of need, so it's completely senseless to pass on the highest rated RB in the draft at the time. This thread is not about any other RB picked by other GMs in the past, so lets leave that dead horse alone. As far as finding top tier RBs deeper in the draft, yes, it's possible. I'd love to have a rebuttal that doesn't point to a useless Marshawn lynch, or an unproven Freddie(at the time), neither player was a game changer, or elite talent, so enough with that argument already, it's lame, weak, and just proves why you would take the highest rated RB in the draft at the time. Again, I'd like to point out that I posted this after Spiller finally got a couple games under his belt, and I also will go so far as to say he will be a better back than the likes of Reggie Bush. I have no doubt this kid won't have any trouble starting where Reggie struggled. In one full game he already has more highlight runs than the guy we sent to seattle. I still can't for the life of me understand how people simply want to ignore the fact that a team with 0 pro bowlers at the RB position can see it as a luxury pick... just blindingly hard to understand.

I literally laughed aloud when he did that. I thought it was funny, and something that just a young kid having a little fun with a situation that was blown so far out of proportion it was laughable. People saying cut him, or trade the guy, give me a break...

you can hang this one and every other one on the defense. they simply can't stop anyone on any given play.

It's hard to celebrate in the NFL.

If you do what you've always done, you get what you always got.

A lot more slack should be given to Chan Gailey's offensive game plan considering the team has one of the worst defenses in NFL history. I can't imaging having to try to put together a plan that calls for your offense to have to score on every drive. Now he'll probably get that slack IF he gets rid of the DC.

Well put, and most of the reason I feel the need to post this as soon as I did was to prove a point. I am not calling the guy a bust, but I am not exulting him to pro bowl status either. I just want the guy to play some games before he gets a TSW label. I hope others reading this "get it" that I posted this so soon after he had a decent game, and see in my original post that I called him nothing more than talented, not the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ.

If opinions were like A--holes this place would be an airport.

You got me, you're so smart. I've been just sitting by my computer with the shades drawn, chain smoking cigarettes, sifting through every post on TSW just WAITING to post this. It's funny though how it took only his 2nd game as a starter to look pretty solid as a starter, whew!!! I really had to wait long for that. This post is funny. the team has 0 play makers on offense aside from Freddie on a regular basis, and at the time the Bills picked him, there were no running backs on the team doing it game in and game out. when you're 6-10 every year, there isn't a pick on the board you can make that could be considered a luxury pick, but hey, it's been said around here, so it HAS to be carved into LAW. I find it hilarious how an idiotic notion that a 6-10 team could even have a luxury pick on the board. Did the team have needs elsewhere, absolutely, but this team has holes to fill everywhere, and in no way can you prioritize when you simply don't have any play makers. They didn't at the time, I don't care how many times people try to rationalize it with the roster at the time. Was Freddie a game changer at the time NO. Was Marshawn 3.7 YPC Lynch a game changer? NO. Spiller was billed as exactly that, and since Lee Evan was a ghost at that time as well, how does anyone even try to rationalize the pick as a luxury? Seriously, try to rationalize it with stats, because you can't, period. All people have around here is simple-minded sarcasm, and that is it. After the 2009 season, who went to the pro bowl on offense? NOBODY. oops, I just made a valid point, yikes!! Good thing we had 2 pro bowl 1000+ yard running backs on offense, and both happy to be in Buffalo.... oops, we didn't have that either. Yep, Spiller was a luxury pick. This is probably the dumbest thing every said on here i have read in 10 years, and there is a lot to pick from. What it really boils down to around here is that no matter what happens in games, on draft day, in practice, whatever, people just aren't happy being Bills fans unless they have something to question, 2nd guess or criticize. Have fun with your luxury pick band-wagoners.

You are exactly the type of TSW poster I am referencing, and I even made the comment that at a 3.7 YPC average, Marshawn Lynch was HARDLY a stud running back, and Freddie was not proven to be what we saw this year at the time of the draft. CJ would have been a luxury pick if the Bills had Adrian Peterson and Matt Forte, but we didn't, we had 2 running backs that could barely cross 1000 yards, so in no way were the Bills deep at RB in any way. The team needs players everywhere, absolutely no pick could be considered a luxury when you're perennially 6-10 or 7-9. Sorry, you really didn't make any ground in the weak argument that the Bills didn't need him.