Buddy Nix

[TigerJ]

Re: Buddy Nix

I've got you by about 6 years, Tiger, so I guess I'm the guy. You're just a kid.

Seriously, though, what does age have to do with Buddy's ability to do the job? He has tons of experience, which counts for a lot.

There you go, pulling age on me again, Jan. No matter how old I get, someone still keeps calling me a kid.

[DrGraves]

Re: Buddy Nix

I agree he may be 'changing the culture' but I'm not handing out any props until he brings the team back to the post season. There is no partial credit in football.

I love the "he hasn't done anything" posters...

If you don't have more hope now than you have at any point in the last ten years, I kind of feel sorry for you. Nix is changing the culture of this team. Bemoan the trades that sent Lynch and Evans out of town...the "failure" to resign Poz, or even Whitner, but this guy is exorcising the demons and bringing in football players.

To think that Nix doesn't want to win a Super Bowl is a little crazy. That is exactly what he wants to do. You play to win the game, if I can channel my inner Herm Edwards, and the Super Bowl is the biggest game of them all.

This team is Nix's, but that is only on account of him knowing how to run an organization. He doesn't step on Chan's dick, and he won't. He won't piss off Ralph. He knows how to do what he does, and he is able to piece together some signs of progress, in order to call off the dogs for the time being.

We haven't made the playoffs, but we have players on this team, and even a lay person like myself can see that there is a direction. Surely the mini-GMs all over this board have to be able to see some semblance of progress.

I didn't think there was a question about Whaley's being the heir apparent, unless we are out of things to talk about again, and just going to go back to stating the obvious. Que the guy with his anti-Fitz bull**** in 3, 2, 1....

I tip my cap to Nix. He came into a job that had been done so poorly for so long, and whether every single player pans out, he had a legitimate plan, and executed that to the best of his ability. We drafted impact players, we signed FAs, we have a team that seems to be unified, hell, we have veterans coming here saying they pick up what he is putting down and recruiting other players.

There have been a lot of ****ty times to root for this team, but this is not one. Nix has been recognized nationally, and not as a punching bag asking to be hit with the "What the **** is Buffalo thinking?" that Bills' GMs have been for the past decade. It wouldn't take a very compelling argument to convince a lot of us that it has been longer than that, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel...here's to hoping it's not a train.

[MattyNH]

Re: Buddy Nix

I agree he may be 'changing the culture' but I'm not handing out any props until he brings the team back to the post season. There is no partial credit in football.

That is where I am too. We have been fooled a number of times over the last 12 years. It looked like we were going somewhere with Mularkey and G Williams too. Do I have more "hope" now? Yeah probably, I do think the roster is getting better. They do have a huge question mark at QB.

The most important position and it is not close is QB and Fitz has not proven himself to be a consistent top 10 type QB. I think you need a consistent top 10 QB to be consistently competitive in the NFL today. That was not as true even 10 years ago.