I mean why do they think they can get things done the hard way?
For example:
1) When in the last decade has a team with a young QB gone to the playoffs when they also had a defense in the bottom of the league?
Seriously is there even one team?
2) Is there a team in the past decade thats gone to the playoffs, regardless of their D or QB, with an entirely new OL at all 5 positions?
Seriously is there even one team?
You just cant stack so many things against yourself and expect to win.
Whats wrong? A mix of everything in my opinion:
1) Our owner is just too old to make strong business decisions anymore. We have had multiple opportunities in the past decade to bring in a GM who can right this ship and win and we failed over and over. Ralph just cant do it anymore. That's not a slight on him, hes a great owner and a wonderful person who brought football to Buffalo. But, hes just too old and not coherent enough to realize what it takes to win in this NFL anymore. I mean, this is the guy who let Bill Polian go. This is the guy that tried to bring back Levy as a GM when he had no experience to fix our problems.
2) Our GM's... see our owner and you can figure out why we didnt get the right GM's.
3) Our Head Coaches. Yes, you can point to the GM's, that fine. I remember a team that traded for a new HC that didnt want to be a Jet... that guy was Belicheck. I remember Donahoe listing the guys he didnt choose and then saying Gregg Williams was the best of the bunch. That list included Marvin Lewis, and John Fox.
4) Our teams players. Take a look again at what we think we can win with this year from the list above. You have your answer right there. Ralph is cheap? No, not always. But what we dont do is add the right rookies, or the right free agents. Well, thats the game in a nutshell. The last time we were even close to the playoffs was with Bledsoe, and that team boasted enough talent at enough spots that we had enough to win. Unfortunately, Bledsoe and others werent good enough to get it done. But now we can win with even less?
Look, Im all for a youth movement. But I want us to have drafted players who were some of the studs of the draft... for several years. I want us to have a proven young stud at QB. And I want us to have several proven studs on the D. I wouldnt mind starting a guy like Flacco when you have Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, and Terrell Suggs on D. Instead we have Keith Ellison, Bryon Scott, and Poz. Sorry, thats not even remotely the same.
This teams fortunes will change when a new owner with a full understanding of who can truly rebuild a team comes in. When a Head Coach is added who is the type of guy that has proven he can build championship teams. And when we skew the odds in our favor with top talent, and great draft picks on both sides of the ball.