Comments on: Buddy Nix expects the Bills to “take a big step” toward the playoffs

By: stanmark

stanmark — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:46:13 +0000

@caveman, you are bolstering a point that needs no proving. if a team goes this long without a playoff appearance- there are some bad things going on there. the coaching carousel has destroyed the chances for anykind of drafting strategy to get put in place.
Last year is my point. and last years sucess is inarguable draft wise.
Marcell Dareus- 3rd overall
Aaron Williams- 34th overall
Kelvin Sheppard- 68th
Da’Norris Searcy-100th
Chris Hairston- 122nd
Johnny White- 133rd
Chris White- 169th
Justin Rogers- 206th
Michael Jasper- 245th

Dareus, Williams, Sheppard, Searcy, Hairston all showed great strides this year. Dareus especially, Aaron Williams played well at corner, Sheppard great start at LB- Searcy was good at times but hard to grasp when Buff has good safeties- and Hairston stepped in bigtime on the o-line.
Johnny White did as well as any draftee could do considering the bills RB situation. Then you have the Jasper situation- this dude is huge, and is loaded with potential,and may end up at o-line. there is plenty of reason to see a new direction .

By: cavemanatl

cavemanatl — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:57:47 +0000

@stanmark,
Read the following review from http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com:
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Draft Grade – 2001 – 2010

Buffalo (C )
Pro Bowlers: 6 (t-16th)
Draftees Active in 2010: 42 (t-9th)
Players with 50+ Career AV: 3 (t-13th)
Players with 20+ Career AV: 17 (t-14th)
Best Pick: DT Kyle Williams (5th round, 2006)
Worst Pick: LB Aaron Maybin (No. 11 overall, 2009)

Summary: The Bills had seven picks in the top 13 in the decade, none of which have turned out to be stars. Considering the extent to which they rely on the draft, they do very little draft-day maneuvering and choose instead to stay where they are and try to fill their needs. Judging by their year-in, year-out mediocrity, it’s not working so great – which could be why they just fired lead scout Tom Modrak. The Bills have put some nice building blocks in place, but not much on top.
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My view is that when you also add to this list the number of draftees no longer with the team, it’s even more futile: Whitner, Posluzny, McGahee, Maybin, Jason Peters, Nate Clements, Kevin Everett (I count him because he was riding the bench when his accident occured), Lee Evans, Losman, Edwards, Antoine Winfield,..etc… Then add washed up busts that they signed: Marcus Stroud, Terrell Owens, other d-linemen etc…and it’s a disgusting display of mismanagement.

By: cavemanatl

cavemanatl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:48:09 +0000

I’m reading the comments and I really feel like some Bills fans are deluding themselves regarding the current talent. I don’t care if the Bills caught the Patriots sleeping at the wheel early this season. They did the same thing years ago with a season-opening 31-0 win only to lose by that exact same score at the end of the season. The Bills do NOT have NFL-caliber talent. The only players capable of starting on other teams in the division are: Fred Jackson, Marcel Dareus, Nick Barnett, Kyle Williams and maybe CJ Spiller (although he still has a lot to prove). At the beginning of the season, the Bills benefitted from teams not having had training camps so our defense was opportunistic and our offense which is built on trickery (screens, dumps etc…) was very successful. Once teams got their legs under them, the Bills fell apart at the seams. The Jets game exposed the Bills and they were never the same after that. I LOVE the Bills but I HATE the current roster. it killed me when we beat the Broncos in a meaningless game for us. it meant dropping that much further in the draft. There was no benefit to winning the game after losing 7 straight! How could we have the longest playoff drought AND the least amount of quality first rounders on the team? Most of our first round picks are out of the league, on the bench or on other teams. Cast aside Dareus and Aaron Williams (who rode the bench for much of the year) and the next ones are Spiller and McElvin, bench players? Explain that to me?????

By: stanmark

stanmark — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:27:39 +0000

caveman, im no fanatic, but its easy to see the bills are headed in the right direction. last season they bolstered the 2nd most injuries in the league. their new qb became absolutely handcuffed after loosing all but one WR out of his corps. Then he lost his all-star RB, after the o-line was going nuts with injuries.
i would point out that last years draft for the bills has turned out to be a raving success. lots of good talent that is staying. a couple FA moves later in the season showed the rest of the league that at least the bills front office cared…

By: cavemanatl

cavemanatl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:37:07 +0000

One other thing: The Bills are not like Detroit right now. Detroit has, in addition to a strong running game, a top tier 1st round caliber QB (Buffalo does not), a top tier wideout (Buffalo does not), a strong defensive front line with high draft picks and young / in-their-prime D-linemen – Think Suh, Fairley, Van Den Bosh. I hope Kyle Williams can bounce back but, aside from him and Dareus, we have too many defensive holes to fill. On offense,…I am not convinced that our wideouts are NFL-starter caliber. Stevie Johnson is a GREAT #2 wideout but is not #1 caliber,…yet to keep him, Buffalo will have to pay him like one. It’s very frustrating to watch because I’ve been expecting a return to greatness since Jim Kelly left. I don’t see it happening anytime soon and it hurts to see Detroit, Houston, San Fran and others get there before us. We’ve had ample opportunity to draft the players and keep good players.

By: cavemanatl

cavemanatl — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:25:20 +0000

I’m also a lifelong Bills fan and I don’t see how Buddy thinks the Bills will be any closer to making the playoffs next year. I’ve been watching this debacle for decades now: sign second tier coaches without proven track records, let top talent go once they are eligible for new contracts, sign over-rated/ over-the-hill talent to sell tickets and draft reaches rather than studs every year. The data suggests that the Bills draft record is at or near the bottom over the past decade. We draft players above their ranking instead of trading down for them or using the pick for known entities. They then either flame out or end up leaving because they want more money. I’m convinced the team will not improve until 1.) Ralph Wilson is gone (guys I love the man for keeping the Bills in Buffalo but he has not invested like others do to win) and 2.) They move to a city that players want to live in.

By: Andee

Andee — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:21:32 +0000

As a Bills fan, may I just say “Torch The Barn And Kill The Rats”

By: stanmark

stanmark — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:35:03 +0000

and just for kicks, you can go to buffalo, hop in the car and drive 25 miles south, get out and be on top of a mountain with 36 snow-covered slopes that measure a full 1-1/4 miles wide, encompassing 700 acres of terrain and served by nine lifts.

looks like i have found #11.

By: stanmark

stanmark — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:26:08 +0000

so lets get this straight gmen. you want to harp on someone for commenting about mountains near buffalo? have you ever said anything that has been PROVEN false? have you ever had anyone put up a top 10 list of how dumb you are? i seem to remember… ah yes. its a classic showing of your idiocy. keep in mind, while you try and make this personal, im in 75 degree weather today, on the water
but what you put up there while you troll bills stories time after time is completely false, im temped to let your idiocy live on while everyone around you makes fun of you behind your back… but what the hey… lets look back at how dumb you are: 10 Diff ways:
Top 10 DUMB/IDIOTIC “points” from Gmen.:
1. “The Bills get a $800,000 per game payment from Erie County. That is welfare.”
well, no, no they dont get 800k from erie county, thats actually false, however, over half the teams in the NFL receive taxpayer subsidies. welfare????
2. “Name a team other than the Bills that collect welfare payments? Only New Orleans Saints get welfare. ”
lol. now that you outed your moronic definition of “welfare”, i guess you must hate your own team as well.
3. “Soon they will be the San Antontio Bills.”
lol. i think this speaks for itself. what a knob.
4. “Mind explaining how the Bills are in the 10 most profitable NFL team list when they have the cheapest NFL tickets and little revenue from corporate suites?”
yep, we covered that as well, you abandoned it because you realized your ignorance.
5. ““Green Bay and Chicago have worse weather that Buffalo.””
LOL, !!!! couldnt have been more wrong again there.
6. “If the Bills are so wealthy, then why do they have the fewest home games of any team in the NFL?”
false again, proven wrong on multiple levels lol. how horribly ignorant.
7. “They are bottom feeders (sort of like a lot of people in Buffalo).”
Welfare rates higher in your NJ home than in Buffalo.
8. “The City of Buffalo and Erie County were so incompetent that the state of New York had to take over both of their finances.”
we all see a pattern here. you merely make up BS and move on to the next point that is made up. thats not how it works lil guy.
9. “If the area fans cannot support a team (without welfare payments), then that team should move to a city that will”
well, a simple lookback shows the BUF fanbase as one of the stongest in attendance over the last 15 years. even when they are blacked out they have nearly the equivalent #’s as 50% of the league stadiums.
10. “The Giants and Jets playing in New Jersey is no different than the Buffalo Bills not playing in Buffalo.”
my favorite here. nope. its not the same. your jersey logic is laughable, and demonstrated by this top 10 list. this is a sick burn on your intelligence.

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:31:20 +0000

It says a lot of the education of people of Buffalo when they say there are mountains in Buffalo and can see them. Put down the crackpipe and meth pipe, dudes.

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:49 +0000

Hey Goobs, who has the higher crime rate, Buffalo or NYC? Hint, it’s the city that has never won a Super Bowl or the Stanley Cup.

NYC knows Buffalo is a joke, the nation knows Buffalo is a joke. Keep enjoying your loser teams. Maybe one day Buffalo will hoist the Grey Cup.

By: stanmark

stanmark — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:31:24 +0000

haha look at gmen, still cant keep up with everyone calling him out. so he still picks up whichever points he thinks he can win. (ie mountains)
who cares?
you say whatever you want about the city of buffalo, they still house a top 10 most profitable football franchise according to forbes. you can bust on the fans, but they still have top 10 attendance over the worst performing decade of nearly any nfl team. they have the worst weather city in the league but still have better attendance than most.
and crime rate?? lol are you saying buffalo has a higher crime rate than any other nfl city? nope, you dont have the mental capacity to go there.
so then, when all else fails, you go back to the win loss record of the bills and how bad they are. like the fans can change this, or like it is somehow the fans fault. good lord you are a sad case gmen. people (normal ones) dont just hop on a winning teams bandwagon (hard for you to understand) the fact that the bills still have more loyal fans than most teams in the league speaks volumes. anything else or are you still trolling your idiocy everywhere?

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:31:52 +0000

catquick says:
Jan 11, 2012 9:55 PM
I guess Gmen the genius couldn’t read the correction to the Appalachians. He wants ME to get my GED? I’m probably old enough to be his daddy(although way to smart), and I’ve no doubt lost more brain cells in the last 5+ decades than he started out with. BTW, crack is a NY thing. Maybe look at a map ignorami and see all those beautiful mountains less than an hour south of Bflo. Maybe google Holiday Valley. One last note, when I was a kid I grew up near UB in the city, and we used to go up there to laugh at all the ugly NY chicks who wore overall jeans and cokebottle glasses, acne scarred skin. It was a running joke in the neighborhood. Funny none of the other Bills have a problem with the area. Many move back here after their careers are over, as do the hockey players. Psst….this is where Yankee great Joe McCarthy lived after he retired from the Yanks as a HOF manager. Scotty Bowman too. Harry Neal of hockey night in Canada too. Not to mention half all the NY’ers who graduated from UB. Still Bermans favorite place, but McGahee trumps them all, right? Time for Wapner, Gmen.

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Goobs, you can’t see any mountains from that dump you call Buffalo unless you consider some of those snowdrifts, mountains. Otherwise almost everything is flat.

It’s not just athletes that want to leave that dump that is Buffalo and western NY, it’s also the general population as well. The population of western NY has decreased for 4 decades in a row. Who could blame those people.

Goobs, the crime rate of Buffalo is also 270% higher than in New York. Keep up your delusional ramblings. All that matters is that the Bills still suck after years of suckage.

By: catquick

catquick — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:00:18 +0000

I forgot Gmen….McGahee probably got dumped and heartbroken by a local who figured out he’s dumb as a box of rocks. That, or the local hookers trick rolled him too many times.

By: catquick

catquick — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:55:17 +0000

I guess Gmen the genius couldn’t read the correction to the Appalachians. He wants ME to get my GED? I’m probably old enough to be his daddy(although way to smart), and I’ve no doubt lost more brain cells in the last 5+ decades than he started out with. BTW, crack is a NY thing. Maybe look at a map ignorami and see all those beautiful mountains less than an hour south of Bflo. Maybe google Holiday Valley. One last note, when I was a kid I grew up near UB in the city, and we used to go up there to laugh at all the ugly NY chicks who wore overall jeans and cokebottle glasses, acne scarred skin. It was a running joke in the neighborhood. Funny none of the other Bills have a problem with the area. Many move back here after their careers are over, as do the hockey players. Psst….this is where Yankee great Joe McCarthy lived after he retired from the Yanks as a HOF manager. Scotty Bowman too. Harry Neal of hockey night in Canada too. Not to mention half all the NY’ers who graduated from UB. Still Bermans favorite place, but McGahee trumps them all, right? Time for Wapner, Gmen.

By: str82dvd

str82dvd — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:28:36 +0000

Stop crying… we had a really fun run in the beginning of the year that none of us were expecting. I got to see the Bills stick it to the Pats, in the flesh, after years over living over there in Bahstan. Wouldn’t trade that for anything.

Yes, we have a lack of depth, as rebuilding teams typically do. Buddy’s doing a good job. A good draft this year, perhaps a trade and a FA pickup or two, and we could be in serious business.

By: dan7800

dan7800 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:09:52 +0000

Fixed

The way things are going in NJ, they will be better than the jets next year.

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The way things are going in NY, they will be better than the jets next year.

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:19:19 +0000

catquick says:
Jan 11, 2012 12:10 AM
Gmen 1987…its about 45 miles south of Buffalo, and called the Adirondacks. The foothills are about 18 miles south and called the Boston hills. People flock from Toronto, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other locales to ski here as there are many resorts for that. I’d love to know what McGahee is doing in Denver that he couldn’t in Bflo.

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Goobs,

The Adirondacks are no where near Buffalo. Put down the crackpipe and get your GED. Doesn’t matter what hills are south of Buffalo, Buffalo is still flat.

McGahee wanted out of Buffalo and he was right about the women in Buffalo.

By: catquick

catquick — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:24:02 +0000

Correction: that’s the Appalachians, not the Adirondacks.

By: catquick

catquick — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:10:07 +0000

Gmen 1987…its about 45 miles south of Buffalo, and called the Adirondacks. The foothills are about 18 miles south and called the Boston hills. People flock from Toronto, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other locales to ski here as there are many resorts for that. I’d love to know what McGahee is doing in Denver that he couldn’t in Bflo.

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:53:04 +0000

danimal1027 says: Jan 10, 2012 3:46 PM

You said buffalo and western Ny is a dump. You’ve obviously never been through western new York. And there r plenty of good Ppl in buffalo Amd the area as a whole the area around giants stadium is a whole and you sir r a tool. Or a goob. Try getting out and seeing something before you speak or at least look at a topographic map douchelips.

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What is the name of the pristine mountain range in Buffalo, Goobs? I’m waiting.

By: ballsohardu

ballsohardu — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:31:43 +0000

As long as they re-sign johnson and have a good draft. It could happen..

Stevie johnson???

By: Sambone

Sambone — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:08:41 +0000

gmen1987, there is a reason I am glad I don’t live in the NYC area anymore, and it is because of punks like you. Clueless, spatting off garbage and probably taking everything that Mike Fatsecessa on WFAN as gospel.

By: danimal1027

danimal1027 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:55:44 +0000

I know the giants r hot right now but you had absolutely nothin to do w it. It’s mostly bc of perry Fewell and three large black lineman so stop talking like you know anything about the ppl Of western Ny bc you read newsweek. There should be government issued muzzles for ppl like you bc it’s ppl like you that are the reason Garth Brooks was a number one artist and that gwb got a second term

By: danimal1027

danimal1027 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:46:54 +0000

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:16:15 +0000

danimal1027 says:
Jan 10, 2012 2:27 PM
So is the area the giants play in. In fact most of east jersey is a dump. And so is NYC and Troy and Hudson Amd orange county. In fact if you don’t live in the adirondacks all of new York is a dump so im sure where you live is too. Buffalo may not be an attractive city but it has solid people. The city itself is hit hard bye poor economics and and ever increasing “dependency on modern technology”. NYC is just as nasty with it’s garbage and homeless and fat cats stickin up there noses yuppy cocaine addicted scum elitist hissidics. East jersey where the giants play is filled with well people who wish they lived in NYC. Bc driving through western Ny is so bad who wants to see beautiful mts. And quaint village towns anyway.

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Goobs,

Solid people, Buffalo has one of the highest crime rates in the nation and is much higher than New York City.

Where are the mountains around Buffalo that you speak of Goobs? Buffalo is in a flat area. Buffalo has tons of abandoned buildings left behind by people that wanted to escape that hell hole and make better lives for themselves. Get off the crackpipe, Goobs.

Buffalo does deserve a franchise, a CFL franchise. Give the Bills to a city that can and wants to support a NFL team.

By: danimal1027

danimal1027 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:27:34 +0000

So is the area the giants play in. In fact most of east jersey is a dump. And so is NYC and Troy and Hudson Amd orange county. In fact if you don’t live in the adirondacks all of new York is a dump so im sure where you live is too. Buffalo may not be an attractive city but it has solid people. The city itself is hit hard bye poor economics and and ever increasing “dependency on modern technology”. NYC is just as nasty with it’s garbage and homeless and fat cats stickin up there noses yuppy cocaine addicted scum elitist hissidics. East jersey where the giants play is filled with well people who wish they lived in NYC. Bc driving through western Ny is so bad who wants to see beautiful mts. And quaint village towns anyway.

By: rcmylott

rcmylott — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:00:23 +0000

gmen1987 that had to be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time. Its been a well known fact that Buffalo has one of the best fan bases in sports. Its easy to sell out a stadium when the city includes 8 million people as opposed to 600,000. If you wanna pay taxes for a football team maybe you should move the team to New York and foot your own bill, and not leave it on NJ taxpayers

By: hardheadcountryboy

hardheadcountryboy — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:49:23 +0000

I still say they should give Polian a call….realistically not happening tho as long as Lippmann is still there… so the solution: Fire Lippmann!!!!!

By: gmen1987

gmen1987 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:45:59 +0000

Lots of NFL and NHL players simply don’t want to play in Buffalo. Willis McGahee was correct in his analysis of the area. Hard to attract prime free agents to a dump like Buffalo and western NY.