Bills GM Buddy Nix rips team's D

[BLeonard]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8483150/buffalo-bills-gm-buddy-nix-calls-defense-lack-urgency

"When you miss tackles, usually it's one of two things: It's talent or lack of effort," Nix said. "And we've seen these guys do it before so I think they can. But we've got to get that urgency back somehow."

As for Williams, Nix said it's unfair for the player to take the brunt of the blame, because it would be difficult for anyone to play up to the high expectations that were raised around Buffalo after Williams signed a six-year, $100 million contract.

"It's not just Mario. Mario actually plays better than people give him credit for," Nix said, noting how Williams draws attention from opposing offenses that should allow others to succeed.

"Not to defend him, he can play better. We expect him to, but so can everybody else," Nix said. "I mean, we all need to play better. ... I don't care who's getting paid what, none of us have earned it the last couple of weeks."

-Bill

[YardRat]

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That's what you get when you hire an out-of-touch, over-rated dumbass to run that side of the ball.

[kingJofNYC]

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Profootballfocus has a quick write up about the game, Mario was the most effective lineman, Dareus the worst, with Kyle/Anderson almost as bad.

Joe B will have his OL/DL breakdown soon.

[DynaPaul]

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Why doesn't Nix just admit that the defense is deflated because they know that Fitz is going to throw the game away almost every week?

[kingJofNYC]

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Rather have him admit that his drafting is ****.

[coastal]

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"It's not just Mario. Mario actually plays better than people give him credit for," Nix said, noting how Williams draws attention from opposing offenses that should allow others to succeed.

wtf... again... I saw him singled most if not all of the day.

[BillsFever21]

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Nix is as clueless as the rest of the staff. He is the one that hired them so what does that tell you. His drafts haven't been very good either. We've got a few starting caliber players in 3 years worth of drafts but that's it.

I'd tell Gailey that if our defense doesn't improve in the next few weeks then Wanny needs to be fired at the bye week and have an interim coach take over for the rest of the season. By improve I don't mean just do a better. You could say 30 points a game is an improvement. They better be showing that he has the ability to turn them around and make them a respectable defense.

I'd also give him the warning that if the overall team doesn't improve that he won't last the season as the HC or at least make it past this season. He probably doesn't want that though because it will admit failure on his part. Most likely Ralph wouldn't fire him and eat his contract too and he would stay on and get a few more years while we started the process of another coaching staff.

[NOT THE DUDE...]

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the fact is spiller, dareus, gilmore, shepp, maybe bradham, have been good picks, IN 3 YEARS. and now the top pick, dareus, has a motivation issue...( THAT IS REALLY BAD)

the most horrible fact is this. when nix took over a horrible team, he neglected the qb spot, which would have brought some hope. now we have to restart, AGAIN......

[cookie G]

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Sorry Buddy, it was your decision to use 90% of the draft and FA assets on the defense. It is your baby.

Maybe you can change the scheme again.

Or draft another defensive back.

[imbondz]

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it would be difficult for anyone to play up to the high expectations that were raised around Buffalo after Williams signed a six-year, $100 million contract.

Bull****!!

let's blame the fans for setting tooo high of expectations about a player who signs a $100 million contract.

[OpIv37]

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That's what you get when you hire an out-of-touch, over-rated dumbass to run that side of the ball.

wait, this is the Bills.

When you say "out-of-touch, over-rated dumbass" you have to be a lot more specific. It could apply to Ralph, Nix, Gailey or Wannstadt, at least.

[Extremebillsfan247]

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it would be difficult for anyone to play up to the high expectations that were raised around Buffalo after Williams signed a six-year, $100 million contract.

Bull****!!

let's blame the fans for setting tooo high of expectations about a player who signs a $100 million contract.

For real, signing a player for that amount of money, he better be your best hitter. He's not even better than the average DE's around the league right now. We should expect more out of a 100 million dollar player who is 29th in tackles and 32nd in sacks among just Defensive Ends in the NFL. That's pathetic production considering the amount this team spent on him in my opinion.

[BillsFever21]

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wait, this is the Bills.

When you say "out-of-touch, over-rated dumbass" you have to be a lot more specific. It could apply to Ralph, Nix, Gailey or Wannstadt, at least.

Isn't that the truth. We have a trio that nobody else in the NFL wanted for the position their in except for the Bills.

We have a 60 year old HC that lasted a few years his first time around and that absolutely nobody would touch over the past decade or so as their HC. He was even fired as an OC. He ran off to college football for a number of years and failed there too. Somehow he ends up in Buffalo as the HC though.

We have a 70+ year old first time GM who was decent in his last position but that nobody besides Buffalo wanted as their GM even after all these years in football. If you're almost 70 years old and nobody has offered you a GM position there's usually a reason for it. Not in Buffalo though.

We have a DC who spent quite a bit of time as a HC but failed miserably. He also ran off to college after that just like our HC and failed there too. Upon being shown the door at Pitt nobody wanted him as their DC until Buffalo came knocking on his door.

So the three main pieces of our team wasn't good enough to get a call from any other team for years for the position that they're in now. What's even worse our HC/DC combination had already failed once together in Miami but the roles were just reversed. Wanny was the HC and Gailey was the OC. I guess Buffalo thought the outcome would be different with the roles reversed.

Our problem is that we have three guys out of position. Nix and Gailey are both a step above the level they should be at in the NFL. Wanny may have found a DC in the NFL outside of Buffalo but even that wasn't a guarantee. One hell of a staff we have assembled here in Buffalo and some wonder why we're not any good.

[BillsFever21]

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For real, signing a player for that amount of money, he better be your best hitter. He's not even better than the average DE's around the league right now. We should expect more out of a 100 million dollar player who is 29th in tackles and 32nd in sacks among just Defensive Ends in the NFL. That's pathetic production considering the amount this team spent on him in my opinion.

Outside of a couple years Mario Williams was never more then an above average DE. Williams didn't pay himself the 100 million dollar contract with 50 million of it guaranteed and nobody else probably would've given him that kind of good money. He would've got a good chunk of change but not that much.

This one is on Buddy Nix since he's the one who gave him the money. Just like with Fitzpatrick after a few great games after years of average play before that. The player isn't going to turn it down and say give me less money then that. It falls on Nix and the Bills front office to make sure they don't overpay for guys or make the wrong decision on guys they should pay.

You could even lump Merriman into this group to an extent. He extorted about 10 million from us and played a handful of games. Nobody else was going to give him 7 million dollars last season except for old Buddy Nix and the Buffalo Bills. At least he didn't hang onto him for another season for another 7 million give or take.

[djjimkelly]

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"It's not just Mario. Mario actually plays better than people give him credit for," Nix said, noting how Williams draws attention from opposing offenses that should allow others to succeed.

wtf... again... I saw him singled most if not all of the day.

not true watch game again