Why the panic on Fitz, Chan, and the team as a whole?...Hold tight.

no panic on Fitz – he just isn’t very good and we need someone who is

and it better be considering the contract he signed…Before I write him off as a good QB, I want to see a healthy WR corps and O Line. Stevie, Parris, Nelson, and perhaps a Justin Blackmon and he doesnt have any excuses in this offense, especially with FredEx back there with him.

We woulda gone 8-8 and that woulda been a drastic improvement from last year. Even despite all the injuries we only lost to Cincy, NYJ, and NYG by a few points, as well as Tennessee. There have been some recent blowout losses, but I think last year was the true rebuilding season, and this year we needed to be healthy to see some true growth. We saw it early. The offensive line and secondary injuries have been catastrophic. Gailey wants to admit it every press conference but he swallows his tongue, cause he is never one to make excuses…Gailey has next year to make this an above .500 team otherwise he will be gone.

The guy might still put up 3800, 25 TD’s and 19ish INT’s on team that if your not a Bills Fan or a complete fantasy football dork you probably only know one WR on the team. And those same people likely didn’t know Fred Jackson before this year. Its all about expectations. Our quick start gave us high hopes, but its not that simple. Next year we will go 9-7 or 10-6 and make a push. Mark my words.

Rec’d. Spot on. You just can’t lose that many key players from a team and keep winning.

That was a devestating loss and we had that game won. We coulda at least settled for a FG but Chan drew up a go route to Stevie and Webster picked it. I assume with the Bills we need to go 11-5 or 10-6 to make the playoffs and with @ NE, @ NYJ, @ SD remaining on the schedule I was worried. Maybe “doomed” is the wrong word, but I told my buddy who watches Bills games with me at the Bills Bar in Portland, OR every Sunday…“There goes the playoffs”. Much like that Dallas MNF game a few years ago, I saw a bad loss like that being the turning point in the season…But the injuries is what really put the fork in us.

The Bills haven’t really been the “clutchest” of teams over the last few decades. I was hoping for a 7-1 first half and then assumed we could split the last 8 for 11-5. Thats why I thought we were done, knowing we had a few games with the Jets ahead of us, who absolutely own us right now.

The D suck – but should get better with age.

The O is talentless to a large extent.

If we can get a talented No 1 WR, a slightly better Oline and a medium D then we can judge Fitzy. I think OLB is the most important because 1 (or two) pass rushers will make all our CB’s, coverage LB’s and safeties better players … 1 better player = 7 or 8 better players.

Bolts Sigh With Relief — It’s Finally December: Philip Rivers, who leads the NFL in turnovers with 22, nevertheless is 24-2 on his career from Dec. 1 on. The Bills, hot early in the season, now have not won in the United States since early October. In the Bills-at-Bolts contest, Harvard’s Ryan Fitzpatrick had a quarterback rating of 31. If every pass a quarterback attempts falls incomplete, his NFL rating is 39.6. When Buffalo was hot early, Bills management rewarded Fitzpatrick with a lucrative contract extension. Before the new contract, Fitzpatrick had 12 touchdown passes versus six turnovers, and the team was 4-2. Since the new contract, he had eight touchdown passes versus 12 turnovers, and the team is 1-6. How long till the Bills are looking to unload Fitzpatrick? Perhaps February.