2020 Our Year For Sure

He also might suck on Ryan Leaf proportions. None of us know. Definitely not worth it

Sure I can. He wouldn't give a crap and the thought would never cross his mind There isn't a big difference between picking first and picking elsewhere in the top 5. We just drafted 3rd and got by most accounts the top prospect in the draft.

Johnson, Evans, Nelson, Roscoe at wideout with Spiller out of the backfield, or Spiller as a slotman with Freddie out of the backfield... Plenty of weapons for Mr. Harvard and ole ball coach to play with

Seriously. I get so amped up every single Sunday I'm lucky enough to watch the Bills play. I don't care if they're 2-13 headed into week 17...I'm gonna have butterflies in my stomach on gameday hoping the Bills make me proud. I just cannot imagine watching the games any other way. To those who disagree I have to ask, in that 2-13 scenario...would you sit there and watch the game and literally cheer if Fitz threw an INT first play of the game? It's just not in my fan DNA to root against my own team.

I saw people suggest that Russ Brandon is directly under Ralph Wilson in the food chain and above Buddy Nix. But Whaley speaks only of helping out Nix, Coach Gailey and Mr. Wilson. Let the absence of Brandon's name in that sentence serve as proof that he is no longer an authoritative figure in any way on the football side.

Every player has to take criticism...this is a small and incredibly fast WR so it's natural for a critic to call him a one-trick pony. Personally I've seen him make too many plays in the intermediate game to agree. I do think he rested on his laurels a bit last year, but moreso I feel he was way under-utilized. Any route that Stevie J can run Lee Evans can run, Chan and Fitz need to Free Lee.

Evans has never been a one-dimensional deep threat and never will be. He's made plays on all kinds of routes... Just a matter of Chan and Fitz having confidence and chemistry with Evans. Way too many balls went Stevie J's way last year. Lee has been a great receiver his whole career, why wouldn't he be now? He's made circus catches and big plays on posts and digs and slants and every other route in the book. Just throw him the ball and watch him make plays for you, he's a proven weapon.

7-10 are great! Sorry I can't agree with the majority of your list though, you don't have to cook food or drink beer or even be at the stadium to be a fan of the Bills.

The things I'm hearing about Spiller not understanding the plays after Fitzpatrick would call 'em in the huddle do worry me. How dedicated are you that you can't show up knowing the playbook cover-to-cover? I hope last year was a wakeup call and C.J. understands the preparation it takes to succeed here. Eball is right, the talent is sick. He has a physical advantage over everybody else, you'd think big plays would be ahead.

Is this a covert message to your drug dealer?

Much better than claiming Miami and St. Louis had immediate turnarounds You make this board worth reading

Why was Evans' route running never a problem before? Just throw the guy the ball, Chan. He'll make a play on it as he did his entire career before you got here.

Nor did he have trouble hitting his nostril with powder Anyone with half a brain would've realized instantly he meant yards from scrimmage, provided they're not playing dumb in an effort to highlight someone's mistake...

How? Multiple picks for Losman, multiple picks for McCargo, multiple picks for Poz, drafting Spiller 9th overall, trading a 1st round pick for a past-his-prime Bledsoe, drafting McGahee when he's already hurt, releasing our starting LT Walker 2 weeks before the season starts...risk-adverse isn't the conclusion I draw, "stupid" seems a more fitting term. On the field is a different case, it doesn't get much more conservative than Jauron (though Gailey is a different animal). But they've taken plenty of foolish risks in the personnel department.

I know its nitpicking but I'm a sucker for saying what you mean. Again, your original post: "I see other teams change staffs and start winning right away, Atlanta-Miami-Baltimore-St. Louis." Still waiting to hear which St. Louis staff we're talking about because I'm positive you don't mean the one led by Steve Spagnuolo that went 1-15 their first season. If Gailey doesn't progress to something in the neighborhood of 7-9 in his second season just like Spaggs, then you've got the formations of a legit beef. And my point re: Miami is that they had one random good season at 11-5, pissed out of the playoffs and now went 7-9 twice in a row. That isn't the kind of "re-building" we're after in Orchard Park-- surely we'd like to see one that results in a bit more sustained success. Your examples of immediate turnarounds in Baltimore and Atlanta are legit! Baltimore, though, started from 5-11 but with a roster far more ready to win than the one Nix & Gailey inherited. Time will tell

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Which St. Louis staff are we talking, surely not Spags? (RIP Leslie Nielsen) That hasn't worked out very well for Sparano either.

Poz has only gotten better with each passing season, and makes plenty of tackles around the line of scrimmage. Improve on last year's porous defensive scheming and defensive line personnel (which we've hopefully done on both counts), and he'll make even more plays around the line of scrimmage. Early in his career Poz had a habit of getting overexcited and overrunning plays and things of this nature...thats been all but eradicated and he seems to be in the right gap more often than not. Good at shedding blocks and a reliable tackler. This "only makes tackles 8 yards from the L.O.S." is the same bogus criticism I'd read about London Fletcher, who was an outstanding player and only made better whatever defenses he played for. If Poz is retained you won't see him sitting on the bench while Danny Batten and Kelvin Sheppard man the middle anytime soon.

"Oh no I've gone cross-eyed."

To me a real fan never wants to watch his team lose. No contest

Yeah the Raiders are no "mess," that's a solid football team that went 6-4 over their last ten and swept all three division opponents in 2010. Would be a nice win for the boys in blue...

So they're giving him authority over the college scouts as well, interesting. Those who said this is our GM-in-waiting might be onto something.

I'm no agent but I wouldn't think it'd take more than 2-3 million per season to retain Florence. Gotta get this done or you're leaving a ton of question marks at the CB position I wish I shared your confidence here, but after seeing them draft two corners (plus a safety that played corner) this year, and seeing Buddy talk about getting younger in the secondary, I'm not so sure.

This! Florence was our best defensive back all season long in 2010, period. No other corner or safety even came close! Considering how cheap he'll be and how inexperienced our 2011 secondary projects to be, it would be a real bonehead move to let him walk.