RuntheDamnBall

With no rookie involved in a competition? I can't think of a worse decision this team could make than to not address the QB situation with at least some competition for Fitz. And that's still awfully unsatisfying. We'd be talking three regimes that get the chance to see what Fitz can do. Has any QB gotten that many lives in the NFL with as little success?

We won't have an answer on this till he gets put thru the "bed a CBS employee while married" skills competition.

There would be HELL TO PAY.

I disagree, I think we really are missing that physical component. And I will be pissed if we try to acquire another speed WR when we already have one without really knowing what he can do.

I posted the link in the other Whitner thread. It's there, too busy for me to dig it up and post it again. Again, I posted a link that says otherwise in the other Whitner thread. Feel free to disbelieve it.

I wonder if they will sell me a jersey with "Sex Panther" on the nameplate.

Kwame Cavil > Kamil Loud

If he would come at three years, 25 with, say, 17 million guaranteed, I think it's worth it. In that last year I think you'd have a decision to make, but one that would be pretty easily answered by his performance. Also, IMO, SJ and Boldin are a better tandem than he and Torrey Smith (though I like Smith). Johnson will draw defenders away from Boldin and help him not have to take such a beating.

I don't know, man, Boldin can still play. I would take him in a heartbeat.

That's adorable.

What sort of concoction led you to this conclusion, given the claims made in this thread? I mean, you're not wrong, but it's still... baffling? We should have a whole thread of these. Bruce Smith > Marlo Perry.

He's just in the wrong system. Not true. I rooted for Takeo Spikes and London Fletcher wherever they went. Whitner rejected more money from the Bills and then cried about the many ways in which the Bills did him wrong, despite making him a top-ten pick and offering him the most money in free agency.

Laughable. If your object is to make sure Byrd and Levitre refuse all future calls, this would be a great start. It would also signal to all prospective free agents that the Bills are a joke. Thankfully they know at least a bit better. Simply put, the scenario you've outlined is not how NFL free agency works.

He likes 'em orange.

Is any draft pick a lock to succeed in the NFL? Be realistic. Smith is the best QB in this draft and the draftek post notes all there is to be excited about. This "he's no lock" business is just more excuse making if the Bills once again don't adequately address the game's most important position. LBs come from all rounds of the draft. Elite QB prospects do not. Nice straw man! Whiffed on Flacco and Aaron Rodgers too because there were other priorities... Now is the time to change course.

God, my head hurts after trying to read that.

Is Joe Flacco the most interesting man in the world? How about Aaron Rodgers? I don't care how much of a rah ran guy the player is. If he can play his teammates will believe in him. If he can't, they won't. A "lackadaisical" player who can play is better than a guy who is über competitive and refuses to ever accept the blame when he has failed.

The team generally played better with him in there, I'll warrant that, but isn't one of the interesting takeaways from this interview that maybe the team was better suited to Flutie's style and that RJ tried to do too much with his feet? In any case, the CFL is a different game. I got excited for awhile with Flutie, but after that Dolphins loss my feelings about him were tempered and I thought he often made himself look petty and hung teammates out to dry.

I think you have to factor in injuries and situation here. It's never all on the player, and it's just as much on the coach who gives them a plan they can execute with a cast that is capable of helping them do that. Tom Brady doesn't do everything perfectly - but he does a few things extremely well and they are very, very hard to stop. It seems like the Bills have rarely if ever focused on this approach in the past 20 or so years.

OBVIOUSLY Flutie went 10-5 all by himself and Johnson lost the Music City Miracle all by himself. I also love how it was the team holding Flutie back but it was Johnson's loss when he lost. GET OVER IT. NEITHER OF THESE GUYS WERE GOOD ENOUGH. IT THEY WERE, THAT DEFENSE WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE BILLS TO THE SUPER BOWL.

You are my hero.

Ah, yes, Jonathan Scott. One of the good men helping to get Big Ben drilled the past two years. That guy was not a good football player, whether he speaks the truth or not.

Yeah. "Know your role" is kinda douchey, because the fans' "role" is to provide these guys the material basis for employment. No fans = empty stadiums = no TV revenue = no millions to make from owners who have gotten rich from fans and advertising. But fair enough. I hope to see improvement from him in his role, and I'll leave it at that.

You can basically have a private twitter feed that is locked and only lets people follow you of whom you approve. And my understanding is you can't DM people that don't follow you, and you can't post something to a private feed. I don't think you're really alienating fans if you simply don't give them something to expect in the first place, and if you don't stoke the fires, they aren't going to get worse. I get that they are people, too, but you can't beg to be left alone and ask people to follow you at the same time. A public life has its risks and its rewards. The President shouldn't have to have Secret Service, either, but s/he has to.

I kind of wish sports figures could be banned from Twitter unless they are really going to be inventive with it like Brandon McCarthy of the Diamondbacks is. It's just kind of a waste of time and these guys basically show themselves to be the kids they are for the most part. It's fine, and I understand it can be interesting and insightful sometimes, but how much is really communicated among athletes and fans on Twitter? Either a guy is likeable / good and sponges adulation from it, or he has a rough game / suffers fools and takes it personally and makes himself look worse in the end. It's so much noise. The phenomenon of fans berating athletes who fail is probably older than the Roman gladiators. Twitter just brings it closer. Again, if you're the kind of guy who is going to ask for fans to fawn all over you and follow you, and then get all bent out of shape when they don't like what you do on-field or off-field, you should probably just steer clear of it altogether. Stevie Johnson is one of the few Bills worth following because he is completely about making it fun and he's ridiculously good-natured. Isn't this all supposed to fun, after all?