BuffaloRebound

I agree. A good GM could do much more with the money that is currently being spent on the roster. Spend on elite talent, not Dockery and Kelsay. Looking back, it is somewhat understandable why Peters took the position he did. Stupidity is the amount of money tied up in Dockery, Walker, and Kelsay.

The last one was Spikes. He was a beast before he got injured. Why overpay for mediocrity? There are plenty of street free agents like Bryan Scott or Gaines (TE last year) who are adequate and hungry. Cut Kelsay, Mitchell, Schobel (if he's not 100%), Dockery, Royal and Walker, and give Haynesworth or Peppers significantly more money than anyone else is offering. One Haynesworth is worth those 6 guys and more and could be had for half as much as those guys collectively make.

The only positions not in need of an upgrade are RB and CB. Get impact players. Stop over-paying guys like Kelsay, Mitchell, Dockery, and Walker and over-pay for true difference makers. Game changers like Haynesworth make average players better and then you don't have to worry about over-paying for the Kelsay's of the world.

On a side note, what's it gonna take to get his name off the stadium? Even if the county can only get $10,000 per year in naming rights, I really don't think Ralph deserves a stadium named after him. He's all about the bottom line and the county/state should be too. We can't force him to sell the team, but this seems like something that is fully in the power of the tax-paying fanbase.

Letting Polian, the most successful small market GM of recent memory, walk whatever the reason has to take the cake. Thus proving that a loser like Ralph doesn't know how to handle success when he luckily stumbles upon it.

Do you honestly believe Ralph ever lost money one year on the Bills? Arguments about him turning down more money to move are irrelevant now. No city/state is going to put $1 of taxpayer money into building a new stadium for $1billion NFL fanchises. Regardless, the way the NFL is structured now, Ralph's Buffalo franchise is not worth significantly less than places he could have moved to like Seattle, Tennessee, Carolina, or Arizona.

I'm sorry. Anyone who has made the amount of money Ralph has on this team and feels no sympathy to field a winner for the loyal fans is an !@#$ in my book.

Something does smell fishy. I have no idea what joy Wilson can take continuing on this path. He's 90 years old, has probably made/will make close to $1billion on his $50,000 investment, and is worried about $5 million he'd have to pay Jauron? Wilson is either the cheapest, bitter SOB in the world, or is selling the team.

No big name free agent interested in winning is coming here under the current regime. I'd rather trade someone like Peters and roll the dice on hitting it big in the draft where players have no choice where they play and are too young to realize what a joke the Bills franchise has become. Get the best DE, TE, and Center in the draft and pray it works out.

Ralph asked the League if a cryogenically frozen person can own a team. Jauron, 7-9, and $30m in profits in perpituity.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I just can't understand what joy Wilson can get out of running the team like he is. Does he really need more money?

I don't think people have an appreciation for how bad the coaching job for the Bills is. Oakland is probably the only worse job. A 90 year old owner with a history of running the organization on the cheap who hasn't made it known what he'll do with the team when he's gone, 7 home games, a GM with no football background and in a division with Belichik, a revitalized Miami, and the deep-pocketed Jets about to move into a brand new stadium. The competitive advantage of the Bills is the craziness of the fanbase, college atmosphere, and the weather/Rich stadium factor. Wilson has even managed to weaken that by selling a December home game.

What is there to decide? Hopefully, all this does is allow Wilson an extra couple days to somehow get Jauron to quit so he doesn't have to pay him.

I think Marv was smart enough to see this coming and was one step ahead of the lynch mob. He is loved in WNY and I bet he wanted nothing to do with selling a home game to Toronto and the potential of going out on a sour note.

I don't think a lack of national attention on Jauron's job security mean anything other than nobody outside the Bills fanbase cares what happens to Jauron and the Bills. This is what irrelevance looks like.

I like Edwards but an upgrade at QB is needed to compete for the playoffs. Why waste any more time? Buffalo is a unique place when it comes to weather and the toughness of its fanbase, and Edwards isn't a good fit.

I don't know. He seems to have all the tools. Good arm strength, accurate, good size, decent mobility, and smart decisions. An upgrade at QB is a must. Edwards doesn't have the arm strength to excel in Buffalo.

Carroll is the type of guy this organization needs. He is an extremely high energy positive guy and I can't see him letting Ralph miser his way to mediocrity. That said, unless he loves reclamation projects, there is no good reason Carroll would leave USC for Buffalo.

Is Commander Tom still among us?

The only undisputed fact is that Polian had no problems landing another GM job and has been wildly successful everywhere he's been.

So what you're saying is a GM not only has to deal with a cheap, meddling owner, he has to deal with his daughter too?

Polian has already won a Super Bowl in Indy and I believe he still has strong ties to the area. I am not familiar with what Polian said to Ralph's daughter. I thought Polian didn't get along with Ralph's accountant and that was the reason for the split.

Most owners care about winning first and foremost. Ralph has repeatedly shown the bottom-line to be more important than winning. Selling a home game and canning Polian, his most successful GM, are just 2 examples. No in-demand GM or Head Coach is coming here with Ralph as owner. My dream scenario would be Ralph selling the team to the Kelly/Golisano? ownership group and Polian coming back as GM/President.

No one good is coming if Wilson is still the owner. Why would they? He ran the only good GM he ever had out of town and no one knows what will happen when Ralph passes on. Anyone who cares about their reputation would never accept the GM or head coaching job with Wilson as the owner and in a division with Parcells and Belichik. The only good news may be that Ralph is running out of options to appease the fanbase and in this economy the Bills aren't going anywhere except Toronto and that is a long-shot as well with Rogers out of the picture. It would not surprise me if Ralph sells the team this off-season. He's too old to change and even he has to see that is exactly what this organization needs.

I saw the same thing. Dockery was an embarrassment. On both sacks, he stopped playing. Over-paid bums are a cancer to a team. I'd add Denney to your list too who routinely gets blocked by a Tight End but I don't think he gets paid more than a backup which is what he is. Simpson needs to go too as he is allergic to contact and never makes a play on the ball.