Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

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  • Johnny Bugmenot
    Will not tolerate vandalism.
    • Apr 2006
    • 4311

    Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

    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
    Registered User
    • Aug 2008
    • 1831

    #2
    Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

    Ryan Miller for QB!
    Internet Breeds Complacency.

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    • Historian
      2020-2023 AFC East Champions!
      • Dec 2002
      • 61938

      #3
      Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

      no.

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      • TrEd FTW
        Registered User
        • Sep 2008
        • 647

        #4
        Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

        Not as long as Ralph Wilson owns them.

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        • more cowbell
          Registered User
          • Apr 2006
          • 1489

          #5
          Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

          If they move I dont care what the hell they do
          The last time the Bills made the playoffs was 1999.

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          • Michael82
            Registered User
            • Jul 2002
            • 82328

            #6
            Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

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            • Ebenezer
              Give me a minute...
              • Jul 2002
              • 73867

              #7
              Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

              New ownership willing to hire football people with real football knowledge.




              For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.

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              • Mr. Pink
                Peterman Sucks!
                • Mar 2006
                • 35303

                #8
                Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                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.

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                • G Wolly
                  Registered User
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 9387

                  #9
                  Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                  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.
                  Last edited by G Wolly; 10-04-2010, 01:06 PM.


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                  • Dr. Taylor Zaius
                    Senior Zoner
                    • Sep 2010
                    • 805

                    #10
                    Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                    Originally posted by G Wolly
                    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

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                    • G Wolly
                      Registered User
                      • Mar 2004
                      • 9387

                      #11
                      Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                      Originally posted by Dr. Zaius
                      First order of business.........find the next Jim Kelly. LOL
                      Luck, Locker or Mallett


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                      • Ebenezer
                        Give me a minute...
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 73867

                        #12
                        Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                        Originally posted by G Wolly
                        Luck, Locker or Mallett
                        Kelly had two years of priming in the USFL. None of those three are even close to JK in '85.




                        For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.

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                        • Ebenezer
                          Give me a minute...
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 73867

                          #13
                          Re: Can the Buffalo Bills be saved at all?

                          Originally posted by G Wolly
                          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.




                          For all the education and practice each of us undergoes, the achievment of mastery is ultimately the outcome of a personal quest for understanding.

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