I don't post comments to blogs everyday, so hopefully I won't be carted off the field this week.

I'd like to request that we open the floor during this bye-week and discuss how faithful WR listeners would turn this franchise around.

I personally don't know where to start other than selling the team.
 

Although you're related to the Bills and therefore likely to have some horrific injury occur, I think you're safe this week.

Let's throw it open. How about three questions:
1) What would you do with management and the coaching staff?
2) Which 5 players would you keep to rebuild the franchise?
3) Any other changes?

I'll put this up on Twitter as well.

Thanks.
 

1. Fire everyone. I like the idea of a holding a press conference with Dick Jauron and announcing it live without his prior knowledge. Make sure the event is sponsored by Yale interrupted every 3 minutes by commercials for Phoenix U.

I like the idea of Marty S. coming in as coach and GM. He's built winners before, and it works with Ralph's pocket book. And Marty was a Bill so he immediately gets love.

2. Keep our two new guards, Maybin, Pos, and McLovin. I'd trade everyone else for young, fast players who love not just football - but violence on Sundays.

Oh, and two large but nimble tackles.

3. Season tickets are going to bottom out next year. The Bills have to do something special to get people to invest. I say 'Take a Buffalo Bill to work day' with every season ticket.

Imagine hanging out at your cube with Fred Jackson? Rad.
 

1) Give Dick a new job description. Let him keep his gig but have him scrubbing down urinals for his 3mil a year.

2) Announce that Ralph Wilson is, indeed, dead. We all know he's already dead, so just come clean already.

3) Get a new strength and conditioning coach so five guys aren't headed to the IR every week.

4) Run some kind of promotion acknowledging the team blows. Something like "We know we suck--but free beer this Sunday!" That should get Bills fans amped and liquored up.

5) Bring back Jim, Thurmon, Andre, Daryl, and the rest of those old fools to run the team. I don't care if they don't know what they're doing...at least it would be interesting.

6) Go for it on every fourth down under seven yards, no matter the field position.

7) Pick out the plays using some kind of random "BINGO" system, no matter the down and distance. Teams will have no idea what's coming because the Bills themselves will have no clue.

I gotta get back to work...but this is fun. I feel better already.
 

1. Hire a real GM. Let him do with the coaching staff what he sees fit. None of this consensus crap that includes Brandon and zombie Wilson. Consensus should be between the GM, coach, and scouting departments.

2. If I had to pick only 5 it'd go McGee, Byrd, Evans, Lynch and Butler. Schobel is maybe more important to the team than anyone else but I dunno how many years he has left. I don't think our roster is worthy of going full-Hiroshima, though, despite our lack of any real superstars.

@Aaron - While watching Jauron suffer might be great catharsis we'll have enough trouble attracting a qualified candidate. We do that and Oakland might be a more attractive destination. We do that and the only guy who'll take the job will be like some special teams assistant at Gallaudet U.

@Bennett - I think Schonert already worked the random play selector. No other explanation for all the 5 wide shotgun spreads he called on short yardage.
 

A couple of comments from Twitter:

Chodester30: @widerightradio Gotta go with new GM and coach to start. Good ones will make the changes required to start winning.

stephenjames716: @widerightradio great show guys...thanks for the humor during these dark days of being a buffalo bills fan.
 

1) Wilson needs to clean house and remove himself from football operations. I know it's hard, as the owner of the team, to cede control, but it must be done. He's 90. I wouldn't want my grandfather running the Bills and he ran his own business. Bring in a real football person and give him 100% of the control. Let him choose his people for college and pro ranks. If Brandon wants to stay on for marketing, fine. Otherwise, goodbye.

2) Bell, Wood, Byrd, McGee, Poz. Schobel's got injury and age issues and I'm not sold on the rest of the D-line, though I think they've played well. If you don't believe this line is the real deal, then we're another 4-5 years away from a playoff team and I refuse to believe that. These guys all have great attitudes with the talent to make things happen. I like Butler, but I don't know if he's the answer at RT because of the change in position and injury issues.

3) Unfortunately, you have to separate the endemic problems with the Bills franchise from what's happening this season. This season, it's all about the failure of the O-line. That may be solved with time (it may not), but long-term the Bills need a front office that's worthy of its fans.

Erie County needs to start thinking about giving the Bills a new stadium and locking them down in Buffalo for a while. I would make sure that stadium is north of the city, making it easier for Canadian and Rochester fans to get to the city. I know the price tag will be a shocker, but it will financially block the Bills from moving (I hope). Remember this team is worth more than the price tag an economist will put on it.
 

Man - the new stadium.

This raises a lot of questions for me. Like, why can't the NFL hold the Super Bowl in every market? Fuck the media and their demands for 'warm weather'.

My vote is to put the stadium downtown. Instead of vendors, do like the Rochester Red Wings and let the local restaurants have booths. Fuck them corporate accounts and start supporting the economy locally. Bring the SuperBowl to Buffalo and boom, our economy gets a much need shot in the arm.

Our economy - I don't even live there. WTF.

And build a museum for Bills fans so we can remember what it was like to be good.
 

You have to wonder what the extra cost is to building a dome in a cold-weather climate and whether that is counterbalanced by, say, 2 Super Bowls over the life of the stadium. (See Minnesota.)

I'm with you. I think Super Bowls should be in all climates. Why is the baseline February in Florida? But the powers that be want their all-expenses paid trip to be somewhere not cold and this is how they control things.
 

Yeah! Fuck yeah!

The only thing better than Dick being shown the door is a bonus episode from Wide Right Radio.

Wohooh.