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I've stated that the Bills should make a play for TJ Houshmandzadeh and then draft a TE and Center in the first two rounds. The only thing I'd do diffently is draft a game changing DE at 9-12 in the first round if the opportunity presented itself. If the Bills obtain a seam running (and catching) TE and a bonified center, Trent Edwards game would improve greatly. In other words, they can win with him!

By the way, the Sabres rallied to WIN 4-3!! It's always interesting how things work out. Maybe that's our sign better days are ahead....

See, that's just it, maybe we need a screenwriter for a Head Coach, because we are ideally lacking a "good story" that makes fans sit up and notice. Now, realistically, the press buried our team shortly after the Monday Night spotlight had dimmed!! Frankly the media LOVES this worst to first scenario. Well we're in last this year. so deal with it world.... The worst to first Buffalo Bills 2009?!?!?!

The chicken or the egg? Sometimes greatness is achieved by simply retooling a team around its specific strengths. O.J. Simpson didn't become great due to his amazing talent, although that was a big factor later, it took Lou Saban to realize OJ was running behind an inferior O-line. When the "problem" was fixed, OJ flourished!! In terms of talent, are the Bills allowing Lee Evans to succeed? My answer would be no, at this point. He needs help, and that help would be a bonified #2 WR and a seam running (and catching) TE. Consequently, Trent Edwards reaps benefits too, and we are talking about how AWESOME "our" offense is next year (Wishful thinking). The trick is identifying the talent available and utilizing it to the maximum. Do our coaches do this with the existing talent? I'd venture that the answer here is NO!! Coaching allows for the efforts players exhibit to count during trying times. Do the Bills have playmakers already and the coaches simply hinder that performance by NOT allowing the player(s) to make plays by putting them in position(s) to make those plays? That's why GM's make ALL that money!! Indeed, chicken or egg......

Has anyone here EVER seen a center snap a ball up his own ass? CLASSIC!! Purely Bills football the last two months or so. This play is unquestionably the item (still photo shot) they should build their season ticket campaign around. Billboards throughout Western New York with "the Duke" inserting "The Duke" where it really doesn't belong!!

It seems to me the quintessential play of the year was Duke Preston snapping the ball directly up his own ass. CLASSIC! When the Bills are selling season tickets next season, here's hoping they have that wonderful symbol of hope (picture of snap) on billboards all over town! Realistically, the Bills need to take stock right now, and I would consider "blowing up" the offense first and foremost. I would NOT flinch if they decided to move either Jason Peters and/or Lee Evans (amongst others) to bolster their efforts to actually "put a face" on this franchise. Does anybody think that the Bills could jettison someone like Robert Royal and find that nobody would even notice? Essentially, what they decided to do 3 years ago has backfired and in all likelihood needs drastic change! Stroud and Mitchell are keepers, but Johnson hasn't impressed me much with his play. I am of the opinion that Terrance McGee is nothing more than a kick returning option and Ko Simpson is not getting it done either. The DE play is abysmal, so Denny and Kelsay could pack too! Keith Ellison isn't starter material, and an upgrade is in order.

DanInUticaTampa, point well taken! They do have a core and the job might be very attractive if Dick Jauron is let go. The mentoring of a young QB is high on my list as a prerequisite to the next Head Coach of the Bills. The guy I'm starting to warm to is Steve Mariucci. I believe that he'd consider this job, if offered. Retaining Bobby April would be my only hope going forward in that type of scenario. The rest of the staff would likely be very good because Mariucci has roots to the San Francisco tree of talent, and the excitement would be palpable!

I don't think they're soft, but I just went to NFL.com and looked at defensive stats.....WOW! They have the complete lists on sacks, tackles and INT's and guess what? NOT one Buffalo Bills player other than Paul Posluszny is ranked AT ALL and he is 27th in tackles!!! Go look for yourselves, but my claim is that this team is nearly devoid of game changing playmakers of ANY sort. Ask yourselves this.... when was the last drive by the opposition stopped by a three and out or forced fumble or INT? Straining for the answer, me too!! The Cowboys have 13 Pro Bowl players and Moorman is usually our candidate, does this say enough about the dilemma when winning is being expected by fans in Dick Jauron's third year? Get him some game changers, and maybe the philosophy will NOT be to play "NOT to lose"!! Oh, and by the way, YES they can be brought in over ONE offseason!!

Mike Mularkey has a 1,000 yard rusher and a 1,000 yard reciever, the last time Atlanta had that combination, they were Super Bowl bound! Maybe it wasn't Mike, maybe he had VERY little talent in Buffalo!

Perception becomes reality when fans have had enough! Ideally, Bills fans would do what they did to Ralphie in the mid 1980's when they simply didn't come! When 20,000 people show up for your "house of horrors" football team, then as the #1 ring master, you know it's time for a change! Don't give your hard earned money to someone you percieve to be "ripping you off" in broad daylight! The argument that that would be the finally death blow to Buffalo Bills football (moving), I'd say that page turned in 1996 or so competitively.... Try and make him pony up again, or else no money in his cofers..... otherwise, how do you spell frustration?

O.K., would any of you make a power play for Donovan McNabb in the offseason? Please tell me the huge difference between the Jets "future" in Kellen Clemens and the ability of the NYJ to acquire Brett Favre and the same percieved "future" in Buffalo with Trent Edwards, and the need to upgrade the position to qualify for a BONIFIED playoff run? All things considered, I believe the Bills would be a legitimate 10-2 or 9-3 with McNabb at the controls of this 2008 version of the Buffalo Bills! This is NOT to denegrate Trent because I believe he is on a steep learning curve, but experience spoke volumes for the Jets and I believe we are better than either the Jets or Dolphins with this type of move! Petentially, Lee Evans, Josh Reed, James Hardy and crew become major weapons with DM at the helm. Add in a legit TE from the 2009 draft and viola', we improve enough to make a SERIOUS RUN! Any takers??

This team has had no game changers in a decade, and those people like Bruce and Thurman had seen better days! It is a mix of poor game awareness, lack of preperation, players that will "go through the motions" way too many times, and coaching that leaves fans wondering what game they actually learned about that qualified them for a coaching position in the first place! Seriously, when was the last three and out that changed a game in our favor late? INT? Forced fumble? On the flip side, offensively, who stepped up their game when it was becoming obvious yesterday that Mike Singletary had convinced his guys that the Buffalo Bills were beatable? It wasn't Marshawn Lynch because inexplicably he NEVER got the chance in crunch time to lead this team during duress. Lee Evans? Josh Reed? Any TE worth mentioning? They simply don't have game changers on their roster, and at critical times (4th and 2), they cough it up! I feel bitter towards members of this team when I percieve a lack of effort, and yesterday would qualify!!! The irony is that I don't feel that they are too far from success. They are NOT as good as the 5-1 start and NOT as bad as the 1-5 circumstance they're in now! In 2009, with some tweaking, they could turn the corner, maybe the expectations were too high this season.

There is an over abundance of blame to be spread around.... ownership, coaching, players, waterboy. Heck, I even had a urge to blame Mike Mularkey, oh, but that's just NOT fair!!!

It's funny, but I am distinctly in this category too! If the Bills are outplayed, I am OK with it if I'm certain that they are battling and giving it their "all", but are simply losing. When I detect that they are mailing "this one in", so to speak, I get highly upset too. The common notion here is that the Bills are better than they truly are and, to me, they better find some playmakers in the 2009 draft because they are literally void of THAT type of player.

Where to start.... the total lack of continuity is baffling! Fifty four points, then three? Offense shows up or defense shows up, but somehow they NEVER arrive at the same time, same day, it seems!! I'd be fine with the team being outplayed if I was sure that they were trying HARD to win the game. The simple truth I'm left with throughout the entire decade is that this team is DEVOID of playmakers offensively or defensively!! The other alternative makes me sick and that's that the coaching staff(s) have NOT been aware of how to deploy the weapons they do have to their best abilities. Finally, I am always wondering why we seem to have a rash of stupidity at clucial moments... This happens with more regularity than nearly any other team in the NFL, sans Oakland. Time management, poor play calling, not being aware of game situations etc etc etc!!! Maybe this team, ultimately wasn't ready for prime time this year.

AMEN brother!!!

Repeat after me... there is NO charity in the National Football League! Oh, wait, Brett Favre did lay down for Michael Strahan on sack #22!! Exception to the rule, to be sure, but in a general sense, NONE!!

I'll concentrate on the Bills.... I don't care a lick if they get media attention, all I want is a healthy team that matures EVERY week, and comes prepared to challenge everyone on that schedule. Dick Jauron and his staff definately have the hearts and minds of these players and the "buying into the program" is becoming well established, IMO! It seems to me that things are breaking their way, and hopefully they will seize the moment. I billieve that the Bills are becoming a fine TEAM and as a note remember that there is a flex schedule this year, so the Bills might be on the networks much more than anyone could have imagined!! GO BILLS!!

If I had a say it would be Trent Edwards! Jim Kelly WAS the toughest player in Buffalo when he QB'd this team and the ramifications of having your QB as the toughest are staggering. I didn't say he was though, and I'm swayed by the Roscoe Parrish supporters!! Roscoe it is!!!!

Pure speculation since we now know that Crowell would have entered the season wounded! A healthy Ellison or a injury question mark in Crowell? Who really knows other than the Bills medical staff?

Encouraging.... BUT, the season is way too young to get overly excited! Oh, heck, GET EXCITED!!!!

Send them a strongly worded letter, maybe you will find them to be more accomodating as a result! Don't let it cause ill will, but do take it up with management. Just my $.02 ........

Going on the assumption that Trent Edwards can get the ball out with his recievers on timing patterns, then that will negate the vaunted Seattle pass rush, and then Marshawn Lynch will pile up yardage, especially in the second half! The Bills have to have balance against this team because if Seattle feels that Trent can't beat them in the passing game, they will sit on the run ALL DAY!!! I'm all for the drive(s) that showed up in Indianapolis, 11 plays and 93 yards in ten minutes!! Sitting Matt Hasselbeck for nearly a quarter is the answer.... My prediction is 23 carries for 122 yards and 1 T.D. Fred Jackson will contribute 5 carries for 22 yards and 3 catches.

I've watched football for a LONG time, and to my eyes Bruce WAS the best ever! If the man had played his entire career in Dallas, the case would be closed in a hurry!! I have never witnessed, nor will I ever again, a player who absolutely scared the manure out of a team more than Bruce Smith! Laurence Taylor was isolated on the weakest links offensively and turned loose, and Reggie White and David "Deacon" Jones played in exactly what your question brought up.... the 4-3!! Bruce is simply the best, in my book, and I feel wonderful every time I think about him being a Buffalo Bills DE!! What memories....

PTR, your word is drool, but your humor is droll, sometimes!