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Johnny Bugmenot
10-03-2010, 04:49 PM
Consider:

* The on-the-field product is awful, especially this year.
* The owner is a nonagenarian who hasn't been seen much since the Buddy Nix hiring.
* The team has major holes at pretty much every position except running back.
* Teams in Detroit and Cleveland are in a similar mired situation and also show no signs of getting out of it.
* Coaches are spurning the opportunity to coach here, left and right.
* The same front office that destroyed this team in 2001 has still not built it back up again-- and yet is still here.
* The players they draft all seem to be busts.
* The team is going on 11 years with no playoffs, an obscene total in a league supposedly committed to parity.

So, I'm going to put this out there: can the Buffalo Bills, as a National Football League franchise, be saved? Can this team be built back to a playoff team? Or, is it doomed to be stuck in a losing position forever? Obviously, moving the team would mean it wouldn't be the Buffalo Bills anymore, but would moving the team to a stronger market (e.g. LA, Toronto, even Raleigh) bring a solution to the problem?

RoscoeMagic
10-03-2010, 04:52 PM
Ryan Miller for QB!

Historian
10-03-2010, 06:47 PM
no.

TrEd FTW
10-03-2010, 07:07 PM
Not as long as Ralph Wilson owns them.

more cowbell
10-03-2010, 08:08 PM
If they move I dont care what the hell they do

Michael82
10-04-2010, 12:18 PM
:ill:

Ebenezer
10-04-2010, 12:34 PM
New ownership willing to hire football people with real football knowledge.

Mr. Pink
10-04-2010, 12:36 PM
Basically we're all stuck HOPING that whoever takes over the team when Ralph ultimately passes keeps the team here.

If it is a guy like Donald Trump, he's gonna spend money and want to win.

He spent money and wanted to win with the NJ Generals.

G Wolly
10-04-2010, 01:06 PM
Isn't this similar to '85?

Finishing the season 2-14.

With Kelly starting for us the next season, slowly building the team around him year by year until '90 by drafting Smith, Reed, Thomas, etc.

If this is the pattern we have to suffer through to get back to the glory days, it'll be painful but worth it.

Dr. Taylor Zaius
10-04-2010, 01:08 PM
Isn't this similar to '85?

Finishing the season 2-14.

With Kelly starting for us the next season, slowly building the team around him year by year until '90 by drafting Smith, Reed, Thomas, etc.

If this is the pattern we have to suffer through to get back to the glory days, it'll be painful but worth it.
First order of business.........find the next Jim Kelly. LOL:drive:

G Wolly
10-04-2010, 01:20 PM
First order of business.........find the next Jim Kelly. LOL:drive:

Luck, Locker or Mallett

Ebenezer
10-04-2010, 01:26 PM
Luck, Locker or Mallett

Kelly had two years of priming in the USFL. None of those three are even close to JK in '85.

Ebenezer
10-04-2010, 01:26 PM
Isn't this similar to '85?

Finishing the season 2-14.

With Kelly starting for us the next season, slowly building the team around him year by year until '90 by drafting Smith, Reed, Thomas, etc.

If this is the pattern we have to suffer through to get back to the glory days, it'll be painful but worth it.

Going into '86 nobody had a clue that Kelly would end up as a Bill until that summer.