JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS

Me too, brother! That's why I'm not sweating this one.

It is WAY too early to go there!

You may need to fast forward a year. Consider this game a learning experience for EJ and Doug.

You need some beer.

Just part of Marrone's plan to make Brady feel overconfident.

Show him the pain and he'll crumble. I want to see fetal position.

Don't forget, Marrone's a rookie too.

Wishing you a happy birthday

After 12 years of Ticket I finally switched from DirecTV to FIOS - so - "watching" the game on TBD. (If we win I'll watch NFL REPLAY tomorrow). GO BILLS!!! BTW if we beat the Pats I'll change my avatar.

Somewhere someone is saying "the Bills are a mess. They will mismanage the hell out of him. Poor EJ."

EJ Manuel is cheap!

No it's for when he gets winded

Agreed. Kolb = Fitz. Russ is hoping a turd by another name will smell sweeter, until we get a real QB in the 2014 draft. Something to be said for this, but I don't expect much.

Is he really cheaper when you factor in the $10 million we have to pay Fitz this year for not playing for us? He'd better be a significant upgrade to justify the overall cost of this move.

Not me.Growing up in Erie I could have been a Stillers or Browns fan. But I hated those teams. On just the right day we could get Bills games via Toronto. In 1986 they acquired (or reacquired) this phenom QB named Jim Kelly. I thought, "this team has nowhere to go but up." I decided the Bills would be my team and I would follow them to the SB . . . which I did . . . those were the days! Little did I know I would marry a gal from Buffalo and end up with an extended family of huge Bills fans. Glad I didn't go with the Browns . . . or even the Stillers. I'll root for my adopted team forever, or no team at all. 19-0 baby . . . GO BILLS!

Buffett is cheap!

We should start a contest to see who calls the date the first "we should lose out this year to get a great draft pick in 2014" thread starts.

Agree we'll take a QB (or two) in the draft, but that leaves another position of need unaddresed with a 1st/2d rd pick. Well here's hoping for the best. Draft day coming soon.

But we start in the hole having lost Levitre and our starting QB. We need two big signings just to stay even.

I can't help but notice from this graphic display, just how abysmally bad we are at free agency.

TBD is cheap!

If true, and I hope it is, Marrone has one season to get this done. If no forward momentum at the end of this (non-playoff) season, the FO will again make gimmic moves that will doom Marrone to 3 and out and keep us in the basement another half decade at least.

TBD is cheap!

What if you added the chroise of Hamdan?

I think your post shows you still care, which is good.I started in 1985 and I'm pretty much where you are. For years I followed the Bills to get back to that SB high and this time get the win. But the SB years are so far away now you have to redefine success. Just getting back to the playoffs is the goal now but even that seems out of reach. I'm trying to decide if I will shell out the $300 for Sunday ticket and frankly I don't see much hope this year. I do see some opportunities though, if nothing else the new regime is finally taking a long view and not just trying to fill seats this year. A lot will depend on QB and there is time for that to play out, so for now I'm guardedly optimistic in the long term.