Quick Random Bills thoughts

-So much for getting a great look at James Hardy, Steve Johnson and Brian Brohm. Like I’ve written all season, you can’t develop any sort of talent when the environment is this bad. Do I think these kids can play? How the hell should I know?! Their playing with undrafted rookies as tackles and guys from CFL practice squads-

-Whatever the Bills do next season, I believe they need to take their best step forward and find a top tier quarterback. I don’t care if it’s drafting or trading. If you’re lucky enough to find a good quarterback in the NFL, you’ll be in the playoff talk year in and year out. All you have to do is look at the teams who are making the playoffs this season. Guys like Matt Ryan, Carson Palmer, Donovan McNabb and Payton Manning have all resurrected their inept franchises over the years-

-Lets be honest, no one really cared about Sunday’s game. But the big news that came out this weekend was how Mike Shanahan decided to take his name out of the running for the Bills head coaching job. I’m not going to say I was entirely shocked by this development. Looking back, we can all assume that Shanahan used the Bills for leverage to get the Redskins to fork up as much money as possible. It’s no coincidence that Shanahan’s crony at ESPN (Adam Schefter) decided to leak out what it would take for the Bills or any team to sign Shanahan for 10 million bucks. It’s not like he leaked out if Shanahan wanted to come to Buffalo or not. It was all about how much money was needed. Don’t think that the Bills were playing the innocent patsy in this either. The Bills were doing their best damage control to make all the fans take them serious in getting a big named coach. It doesn’t hurt for Ralph Wilson to spend 400 dollars for Russ Brandon to take a flight to Denver and pay for a lunch with Shanahan. The Bills can now at least say “we tried,” which isn’t good enough in my book-

-Last thing on the Shanahan talk. He wanted to go to a team that was willing to spend tons of money on its players. The Redskins are perfect for that. They don’t have a cash to the cap philosophy like the Bills do and won’t sign converted safeties as their starting linebackers. They spend millions on players and their coaching staff. That my friends is why no established coach wants to come to Buffalo. The funny part about the Skins job is how they are just as bad as the Bills are on the field. They have no quarterback, a terrible offensive line, an old linebacking core, and a running back who is on his last legs. But at the end of the day, the Skins have the money to at least try and put a good product on the field. It’s like Bill Parcells said once in his time in New England: “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.” Problem with the Bills is they do their shopping at 7-11 and no established coach is going to put up with that. That’s why Bill Cowher and Mike Holmgren aren’t coming here-

-If you’re one of those Bills apologists who believes the team did everything they could to get a big named coach, realize this: If the Bills were willing to spend 50 million dollars on Shanhan for five years, then you would think they could now take that money and put it in their offensive line or quarterback play. If the Bills are status quo in the offseason with bringing in the Larry Triplets of the world, then I think it’s safe to say they just did this coaching search to just appease the fans. If that’s the case, then you should all feel like fools-