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The only controversy is how much pot people are smoking who actually think Fitz is good and that he had a good season last year. He was below average and the Bills won 4 games.

I did see when Brohm went in. He closely resemble Fitz from the week before against New England. Brohm was 10/23 with 3 INTs and 1 fumble and a 17 rating and Bills scored 7 points, the week before Fitz was 18/37 with 3 INTs and 2 fumbles and a 37 rating and Bills scored 3 points. When Fitz played the Jets he was 12/27 and Bills lost 38-14, without Fitz the Bills lost the Jets 38-7. I fail to see how Fitz makes this team any better at all, he flat out sucks and brings nothing extra to the table. It is pretty evident TO THOSE WHO WATCH THE GAMES, LOOK AT THE SCORES, LOOK AT THE STATS, AND COMPARE HIM TO OTHER QBS, THAT FITZ IS TERRIBLE.

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If the offensive line is that bad, and the coaches and front office have not addressed it, then why isn't everyone up in arms about getting rid of Nix and Gailey and everyone else right now then/ Fact is Fitz sucks regardless of who is blocking for him. If people keep banging on the offensive line sucking, and the Bills did nothing to change the offensive line, and people use the offensive line as an excuse to why Fitz played so bad, then why in the world would anything change? Fitz is still turnover machine and inaccurate and 4 win Fitz and the offensive line is still the same, will everyone still be making excuses for Fitz's horrible QB play again after this season too? How in the world can Fitz get any better when people are just apologizing for his crap play?

USA should just annex Mexico!! No one would be illegal then!

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QB ranked 22 in the NFL with a backup who is a 7th round pick with no experience sounds more like C- to me than a B-. If Bills are a B- at QB then so is the 49ers with Alex Smith, Titans with Kerry Collins, Lions with Stafford and Hill, and Raiders with Campbell and whoever as backup. You are a generous grader.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=Ak7_afeo41cSOZEe1P2DtQE5nYcB?slug=nc-cotsonika-will_nhl_work_in_winnipeg_this_time053111 This is a pretty fair article written by Nicholas J. Cotsonika of Yahoo Sports. It talks a lot less about fans apathy towards hockey which is really much closer to the truth. Enjoy this, Winnipeg. Soak it up and celebrate. Fifteen years after you lost an NHL team, after so many false starts and false hopes, you have another NHL team now. The highest level of hockey is coming home to the Canadian heartland. Hockey fans in Winnipeg celebrated the news of the NHL's return. The challenge is to support the team at a level that will keep the club in town. But make no mistake: This is not what the NHL wanted. This was a last resort. Just because the Atlanta Thrashers have been sold and will be relocated to Manitoba – pending the approval of the league’s board of governors on June 21 – does not mean the team will succeed or necessarily even stay for good. Business took the Jets from Winnipeg and made them the Phoenix Coyotes in 1996. Business took the Thrashers from Atlanta and will make them whatever they will be called now. And business – not nationalism, not romanticism, not anything else – will determine where this team goes from here, and it faces plenty of challenges and uncertainties. The NHL did not allow the Thrashers to be sold to a group intending to move them to Manitoba because the league wanted a seventh Canadian team. It did not do this dreaming of prairie kids playing pond hockey. Canadians want to own the game. But the owners want to grow the game – and therefore grow their revenues and their profits. The league wanted the Thrashers to work in Atlanta, a large market with a large corporate base and a large affluent population, not to mention a large group of transplanted northerners who, in theory, could help transplant the sport. But the Thrashers had bad ownership, bad management and a bad team for much of their brief tenure. They made the playoffs once in their 11 seasons and got swept. They parted with their best players – Dany Heatley(notes), Marian Hossa(notes), Ilya Kovalchuk(notes). They never gave the sport a chance to succeed, and attendance plummeted. “I think people would go (to games in Atlanta),” said Ray Ferraro, a Canadian and 18-year NHL veteran, who played for the Thrashers from 1999-2002, their first three seasons. “It’s just, they’re not going to watch loss after loss after loss. They just aren’t – in any market, in any sport. OK. Let’s talk about Winnipeg. Say that team goes there and they have four playoff games in the next 10 years. You think the building’s going to be full?” Ferraro isn’t saying that the NHL won’t work in Winnipeg again or that he doesn’t want it to work this time. He’s saying he doesn’t know if it will work. The truth is that no one really knows. The Thrashers leave behind some die-hard fans, as well as some fans who never had a chance to see them play. The landscape is definitely different than it was when the Jets left 15 years ago. Winnipeg has a new arena and a committed ownership group. The NHL has a salary cap and a revenue-sharing system. The Canadian dollar is strong. There no doubt will be a honeymoon period in Winnipeg. People will buy tickets. The MTS Centre will be sold out and loud. The team might even contend for a playoff spot from the get-go. This is not an expansion team. The lucky part for Winnipeg – and the unfortunate part for Atlanta, which does have some die-hard hockey fans and countless others who will never know what they were missing – is that the Thrashers were the NHL’s surprise team the first half of the season before falling off. They have an up-and-coming core of players, headlined by defenseman Dustin Byfuglien(notes). The problem is that Winnipeg’s arena will be the smallest in the NHL. It seats only about 15,000, which means even if it is sold out for every game it can average only about 1,500 more fans than the Thrashers at least claim to have drawn last season. Though the NHL has a salary cap and a revenue-sharing system, too many teams are still losing millions of dollars, too many are still looking for buyers or investors, and the collective bargaining agreement expires after next season. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, painted as a villain when the Jets left under his watch, now must be the new team’s champion. He must not only keep the new system in negotiations among the owners and with the NHL Players’ Association, now led by executive director Don Fehr, he must try to tighten the system so that small-market teams can compete on the ice and be viable enterprises. Oh, and the Canadian dollar better not weaken again, too. Passion is not enough, as Winnipeg proved the first time. Population is not enough, as Atlanta has proven twice now, already having lost the Flames to Calgary in 1980. There must be a mix of the two, and it comes down to economics. Some foresee a northern migration, with the NHL returning to Quebec City, which plans to build an arena, and the league putting a second team in southern Ontario. Maybe so, but only if the system allows and market forces dictate. The league's landscape has changed since the Jets left Winnipeg 15 years ago – but a lot of challenges remain for the city's NHL reincarnation. Let’s assume the landscape stays just as it is today. The new team must operate with maximum support and efficiency just to make it work. What if Winnipeg can’t keep up as the salary cap and salary floor continue to rise? What if the team can’t keep its own players and attract free agents? What if it fails to draft and develop well? What if it doesn’t win year after year? Will the people of Winnipeg continue to support it enough? Should they? Why did the NHL leave a large American market and return to the small Canadian market of Winnipeg? Because the Thrashers stunk and never connected with enough fans in Atlanta. Because the Thrashers’ ownership group fought within itself, lost a lot of money, couldn’t find a local buyer and couldn’t wait to sell. Because the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Ariz., pledged a second payment of $25 million to cover the NHL’s losses while it works on the sale of the Coyotes. Because a $60 million fee for relocating the Thrashers will help, too. Because the Winnipeg ownership group kept its mouth shut and checkbook open as a backup plan for a long time – unlike BlackBerry baron Jim Balsillie, who made repeated public attempts to strongarm his way into NHL ownership. Because Winnipeg, with its loyal, hungry fans, can provide something of a happy ending. But this is just the beginning, and there is only one way this story can be happy: Now that the good people of Winnipeg have an NHL team again, they have to keep it.

I don't think any of these movies look very good. Only one I might see at the theater is Pirates. I have heard Bridesmaids is funny. I bet it is finnier than Hangover 2 but I will find that out at Netflix time.

I bet it was weeks ago. This has been a foregone conclusion for over a month now. Just a matter of dotting the I's and crossing the T's. Really, this has been in discussion pretty strong 4-5 months now, it was a disruption for the team that was actually in the running for a playoff spot but did nothing to help the team and sputtered for much of the time when this discussion began. Many Thrashes fans have known for over a month the team was gone. I don't think it is fair to just sum up Atlanta's sports market that way. College football is most popular, but NFL is right there with it. There is a lot of hockey fans here. I guess we all lose.

I am surprised not a bigger effort was done to keep the Thrashers in Atlanta. It is after all the largest airport by volume in the world and pretty easy to get to on a direct flight from most every NHL city.

New owner, should have just got a new HC for the Sabres too. I was ready for a change from Ruff, wish it was Dineen.

Those snakes go hide in dens all winter and get run over by cars all the time. People voted for it and it won, maybe people will vote for cold blooded animals that hide all winter in a very cold place. I am a Sabres fan so I will miss seeing them in Atlanta. There is a nice arena that will go unused and some bars and restaurants that will likely close now, sad for the city I live in. That is one thing fun about Atlanta, people from every where live here.

They still average 13,500. There was a good fan base, I am sick of people saying otherwise. They knew they would never got tons of people on a Tuesday night. This was not fan apathy at all, this was a poor ownership group who did not care about the fans and did not make a good enough effort to make the changes necessary. Your idea of using a snake must be stupid, afterall, the Thrashers nickname came from the state bird, the brown Thrasher. I lose because I will miss NHL in Atlanta but your post is just full of crap and a bunch of lose.

Sure hope it is Nashville. Really sad about Atlanta losing the team, I would always go to both Sabres games and about 8 others. Watch several others on TV when I wasn't watching the Sabres. Sad news. Detroit will fight hard to get into the East, they want to renew a rivalry with Toronto and would love the chance to play more games against East coast teams. They also have more pull then many other teams.

Fitz was the primary QB on the worst team the Bills have had since 2001, this was the 9th worst record in franchise history, the Bills only had less wins 7 times, Fitz was horrible. How can you give Fitz credit in those games and not criticize him for how truly terrible he was in the last 5 starts. Bills averaged 12 points a game, and I don't want to hear any crap about the WRs were hurt. If you want to say that then you need to take away the big game against the Ravens. They had 3 CBs hurt, and cut one of the guys that started the game after. Besides stinking just as bad as Buffalo, the Bengals had both CBs, starting safety and nickel corner not play the 2nd half, yet people want to give Fitz all the credit for when the opposition was hurt and give him a free pass when he was worse than pathetic because Bills WRs were hurt. Makes no sense. He was one of worst rate starting QBs last year, bottom 3 in the NFL, and is clearly the worst returning starter in the NFL with no competition. Those are facts. I don't hate Fitz at all, I met him before, he is a nice guy, just better suited to be a backup, and nowhere near starting material for a winner.

Please get off the Te position people, unless you want a new coach. Chan Gailey is not going to change his offense even if he had Kellen Winslow reincarnated.

Ask anyone, it's true, black folks just are not good patrons. They have no concept of tipping and are very demanding. Same for Europeons visiting the USA, perhaps not as demanding but no concept of tipping at all.

Hilarious stuff from some people here. Fitz is on his 3rd crappy team for a reason, and lost the pre season starting QB battle to the likes of Trent Edwards for a reason, was traded from the Rams to the Bengals so they could keep Jamie Martin as primary backup for a reason, was not resigned by the Bengals who kept Jordan Palmer and signed some other crap QB instead of him. Fitz has proved he has sucked for 3 teams and the love some people have for him is borderline serial killer. Fitz is no better than JP Losman. The love for him is unreal for a guy who has proved already on 3 teams he is not capable of leading a team to wins.

Only in fantasy football. You can't really be serious. Wins and losses are the primary stat for the most part, and second is 4th quarter drives for wins. That is why John Elway was one of he best ever.

Andy Dalton will start for Cincinnati. Could have had him and he could have started at like game8 or 10 this year when the Bills are already out of it. Couple other guys too.

Totally agree. LA can be a complete cluster. Why they would want to take an adequate franchise on the east coast like Carolina would not make sense to me, Panthers suck at the moments but that division is set nice with all the teams not too far away from each other, might be the most structured geographically division in the NFL as it is now.

How so, please explain. I can debate just fine on this, however, you have no comebacks at all. Your last two rebuttals to me describing what actually happened were one liners that did not even try to show what I wrote is not true.

I will agree with Harvey, Gailey out thinks himself on offense like Jauron on defense.

I can go on....besides, I said the offense let the team down. Bills played Ravens the next game and Fitz once again was outplayed. In that Ravens game Fitz had 2 big INTs, and Bills lost 2 fumbles and Gailey had Fitz in shotgun on a 4th and 1 yard line when the Bills were down a field goal at the Ravens 34 and Fitz took a sack. Bills were up at the half 24-13 and first play of the 2nd half Fitz was in shotgun and threw a dumb INT and the next play Ravens got a touchdown, bad Bills QB play and bad Gailey calls on offense. Flacco had 0 INTS. You get ouplayed at QB you typically lose. In games after that, the defense really did not play that bad all season after that. It was an inept offense with lots of turnovers and 3 and outs that contributed big time to losing. It is undeniable, Bills just did not do nearly enough on offense. I think the defense played better in the last 10 games, but the offense just crapped on the defense the whole time with poor play, much of it on Fitz stinking and bad play calling.