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If this doesn't get the team awake, nothing will. Sleepwalking since the first snap.

Pete Carroll versus Chan Gailey?

I would take those DJ coached teams that were guaranteed to be 7-9 and lose in heartbreaking fashion. Those were the days.

Send in the clowns...

Yep. Ralph's ownership guarantees the team remains in Buffalo and that it will never move beyond mediocrity for the reason you note.

I thought Kyle Moore was another of Buddy's street free agent/practice squad diamonds in the rough?

He's a gunslinger. Too bad he locks onto his target all too frequently.

You have to love the Bills playing the shout song going into the half after giving up 31 points. Maybe that's Ralph's strategy with Brandon executing it.

Whenever Wannstedt is shown things get worse. And that's saying something for this defense.

Results be darned, the roster is better now. Right?

And who would win in a battle of the Bills starting O versus their starting D?

Thought the defense was getting better. I guess it helps when you play inferior competition.

This whole inactivation of Jackson just seems deeper than getting practice reps. He's started for 2 other franchises, and it's not as though Fitzpatrick is doing anything ultra-creative either. I wouldn't be surprised if Nix and Gailey agreed that not activating T-Jack was necessary to protect Fitzpatrick from further scrutiny. In their world, the Bills front office is all about protecting themselves and their players from criticism. But, it's the Bills, and they're run like a third rate organization, so anything's possible.

I'm not on board with draft position being a luck thing. There are no guarantees in the draft, but with QB supply far exceeded by demand, fortune favors the bold. GM's who need a QB or but remain unwilling to pay the price to move up when they draft outside the top 10 typically are those drafting high again. For this team to ever have a chance, they'll need a GM who doesn't take 4 drafts to realize his team cannot put a good QB on the field. Because doing so mean a bad to mediocre football team, as evidenced by the three seasons of this supposed "rebuild."

Typically you don't keep the former starter around to mentor a younger guy. That is, unless you're the Buffalo Bills and don't cut J.P. Losman after he's been demoted in favor of Trent Edwards.

In the five drafts from 2005-09, there were 18 QB's taken from picks 20-100. Of that group, only Aaron Rodgers is what I would consider a long term starter. If you add in the 2010 and 2011 drafts, there were 6 guys taken in this range, and early returns indicate that 1 of them will be a long term guy (Dalton) with one having potential (Kaepernick). That's 24 guys with, at most, 3 having a high enough ceiling to be a starter. Each draft is different, but with the value teams place on QB, finding a guy late in the first or in the second and third isn't that great of odds. This is what happens when you don't get one from the beginning and stubbornly reject conventional wisdom of taking one high early in a rebuild.

Gailey/Wannstedt being worse than DJ/Fewell/Van Pelt is quite telling after 3 years of rebuilding.

I would love to see the fallout if Chan, Nix, et al. go to RW's house after the season and the owner tells Chan to have someone else call the plays. The offense has regressed and we've seen RW call for coordinator heads before. After all, if your best assets, Spiller and Johnson, aren't being utilized so Chan get get his people on the field, it extends beyond play-calling. It's a waste of the owner's money.

The Bills did not sign and draft multiple players the preceding 3 seasons, change schemes twice, and expect to only begin playing tough D mid-way through this season. They were thought to be a top unit entering the year, and they could not improve until competing against lesser competition. If you want to stalk me on TBD, so be it. If your standards of excellence are low, so be it. But don't tell me about negativity when the current regime is 15-30 and will most likely miss the playoffs in their third and the franchises 13th season.

I would hope there'd be a defensive improvement when your last four opponents have been Miami, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, and Saint Louis. That said, UCONN is right that the league isn't concerned about defense. It's offense the league knows attracts fans and they've enforced the roughing the passer and PI penalties so as to inhibit defenses. The recipe for a championship team features an explosive offense like Green Bay or New England and hope to get a few stops and/or turnovers on defense.

Buddy said a lot of things at his introductory press conference later proven as complete fallacy and hyperbole. When he said building the right way, I wasn't sure what the wrong way was, because every team builds through the draft. But Nix went out and showed how to rebuild the wrong way: forcing a defensive scheme they weren't near ready for and failing to find a QB. Those 2 items are guaranteed to stop a rebuild in its tracks. Nix was very arrogant that New Year's Eve Day, making fun of the Raiders, claiming to get 35 calls a day for the HC jobs and saying they weren't far away. And while he claimed not to be the smartest guy in the room, he thinks he is. 15 wins and 3 years later he's been proven to be anything but smart.

If you quantify success or failure based on metrics only, then sure, Fitz looks OK. And while this isn't a black and white argument (the HC bears fault) Fitz cannot do certain things well enough to win games. His deep ball remains the worst or near worst in the NFL. He is wildly inaccurate on even medium throws and there's nothing suggesting this will change. Go on citing stats as evidence that he's better. He's not, and while not the biggest problem, he hinders more than helps the team at the most important position.

Buddy and Chan were kicked to the curb not long ago and have been out to prove everyone wrong. Changing course now on their appointed QB would undo what they've been striving for, i.e. an admittance of a terrible decision showing they're unworthy of their respective positions.

Football is a tough game for tough people. Too bad Chan isnt tough and a mediocre coach. Rebuild faul and on to a new coach...hopefully.

Is this because they're hiding people using funnels and other alcohol guzzling implements? Just kidding. We'll be pulling in tomorrow to Hammer's Lot.