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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Not getting any younger and confident hes put in place a young foundation capable of turning the Buffalo Bills into a winner, Buddy Nix called this the right time to step down as general manager on Monday. "I think at some point, youve got to step aside and let young guys that are qualified have their shot," Nix said during a hastily called news conference shortly after Bills completed a voluntary minicamp practice. "I never put a timetable on it. I always felt like Id know when it was the right time. "And I think its the right time." The 73-year-old Nix will not be leaving the team entirely. Hell instead move into a newly created role as a special assistant. Nix steps down two weeks after overseeing his fourth draft with the Bills, which the team opened by selecting its quarterback of the future in Florida States EJ Manuel with the 16th pick. And his departure comes with Buffalo in the midst of yet another start-from-scratch overhaul under new coach Doug Marrone. "I feel strongly that the team is on the right course for success," Nix said. "I think the thing that probably Im the most proud of will be the next two or three years. I think weve got a really good young roster. I love our head coach. I think hes a guy whos going to win a lot of games here for a long time." Assistant GM Doug Whaley, entering his fourth season in Buffalo, is expected to take over. Though the Bills did not immediately announce Nixs replacement, the team has spent much of the past year grooming Whaley to succeed Nix. In signing Whaley to a long-term contract extension in February, both Nix and team president Russ Brandon referred to Whaley as someone who will "transition" into the top job "when the time comes." Whaley is a former scout and executive with the Steelers. He was heavily involved in scouting this past year, and also involved in the Bills coaching search in January. On Monday, Brandon declined to say whether Whaley will take over. Brandon would only say that a succession plan is in place, but refused to provide a timetable as to when a new GM would be appointed. The next general manager will become the teams fifth since John Butler was fired during the 2000 season. The lack of continuity has been blamed on the teams struggles. Buffalo has not enjoyed a winning season since going 9-7 in 2004. And it has not made the playoffs in 13 seasons -- the NFLs longest active drought Nixs departure is not regarded as a surprise. He had been sidestepping questions about his future in Buffalo for much of the past nine months. On Monday, Nix said he didnt make up his mind until recently. "I already had a flight and was scheduled to go to St. Pete to start on the 2014 draft," Nix said, referring to the teams annual scouting meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. "And to be honest with you, my energy levels good as its ever been, but I wasnt all excited about that trip." Nix also intends to spend more time with his family, starting with attending his grandsons 9-year-old birthday party this weekend. Nix has 50-plus years of football experience as a coach, scout and executive at both the college and NFL levels. After serving as a Bills scout in the 1990s, he left Buffalo to spend the next seven seasons in the San Diego Chargers front office. Buffalo lured him out of retirement to work as a scout in 2009. The Bills then promoted Nix to the GMs job later that year. He took over for Brandon, who stepped down as general manager to devote more time to the teams business operations. Nix has had mixed results, with the team going 16-32 since he took over. That included consecutive 6-10 finishes the past two seasons, which led to coach Chan Gailey being fired on Dec. 31. Gaileys firing was a setback for Nix. Aside from hiring Gailey, Nix had voiced his support for the coach through much of last season. Nixs vision to rebuild through the draft has taken longer than he expected. Aside from Manuel, hes used first-round picks to select running back C.J. Spiller, defensive tackle Marcell Dareus and cornerback Stephon Gilmore. And Nixs one major foray into free agency has yet to pay dividends. The Bills defensive struggles continued last season despite the high-priced addition of defensive end Mario Williams, who was signed to a six-year $100 million contract in March 2012. "I knew the first two (seasons) were going to be struggles. But we thought we had things in place to win more games (last season)," Nix said. "But we just didnt get it done for whatever reason." 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Custom Johnny Bower Jersey .Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have placed centre Cody Hodgson on injured reserve and recalled two players from their AHL affiliate in Rochester. We took two players from this weeks North American League Championship Series Match of the Week between Team Liquid and Counter Logic Gaming and gave them the same seven questions to ponder. First, we have Samson Lourlo Jackson, the vastly improved top laner from TL who has gone from primarily utility last split to one of Liquids leaders this summer. Then theres Jake Xmithie Puchero, CLGs consummate jungler.We ask the questions. You decide who gave the best answers.You are given the responsibility to plan where next years Riot events will take place. Where would you put the 2017 World Championships, Mid-Season Invitational and All Stars?Lourlo: Itd probably be nicer if [Worlds] was in North America, then we could get home-field advantage. For All Stars, I guess [South] Korea, and then for MSI, somewhere in Europe would be nice.Xmithie: Group stages in Philippines for Worlds. For [bracket stage], maybe Africa? MSI, Id like to visit London. [All Stars] in Amsterdam.What are your initial impressions from seeing the teaser for the new champion Kled?Lourlo: It could be a cool champion. Most of the Riot champions that have come out recently have neat mechanics and change the game a lot. Hopefully, maybe [a top laner].Xmithie: I actually havent seen what he does, but hopefully hes a jungler. Because meta or not, its been the same thing for like a year now, so I want something.You get to make a starting five around yourself. The only catch is you cant use any players from North America. What is your teams lineup?Lourlo: Anyone? Peanut jungle. Faker would be the obvious answer [mid], but Id pick Rookie or someone. AD carry, I want Deft. And for support, I want Wolf.Xmithie: Probably Faker. Faker mid. I dont know why, but I want to go for Acorn. I dont care if he plays, but I want [brTT] on my team. Dumbledoge for support.You have South Korea, China, North America, Europe and Taiwan. Rank them how you believe each region stacks up, strengthwise.Lourlo: [South] Korea number one. I think [NA] is even with China right now. Personally I dont know much about China, but every time theyve gone to an international event recently, they always have a good team. So I think theyre still on the higher end. Then I think Europe and LMS are below uus.ddddddddddddXmithie: [South] Korea. NA. China. EU. Then LMS.If your career as a pro gamer ended tomorrow and you were pushed into either a role as a manager, analyst, coach, or commentator, which would you choose?Lourlo: Id want to be a coach, manager or even an analyst, just something I could work with the team with. I dont want to be a commentator. I dont think my personality fits that. Id rather just work with teams because I love the game so much and use what I learned from my whole career.Xmithie: Id want to be a coach. Ive been coached by so many people now, maybe I can turn into one on my own after this.Whats one aspect of your position that people dont normally pick up on from just watching the games?Lourlo: Top lane, obviously everyone knows being the bruiser -- you mainly play tanks and stuff. The main thing people dont recognize, in particular top lane, is wave control and how you manage it. In terms of getting CS leads or like pushing advantages of your wave in the wrong spot, youre going to lose out a lot. Even in our game today against CLG, my CS lead was really high in our first two games because I managed my wave properly and played around the jungler well. So if you can manage your wave, push in the right way, and back at the right timing, you can get big leads off it.Xmithie: No one really knows -- except for junglers -- how we route and how to counter the other persons route. Even if youre mid lane and played for a long [time], you really dont know how [junglers] route perfectly every time. If you know a jungler really well, you can predict his jungle start up to Level 5 and pinpoint him any time. But usually, even in spectator view, no one really knows about that. Its the junglers job to predict where the other jungler is and make the early game as [smooth] as you can.Finally, lets play some word association. I will say a word, and you give me the first thing that comes to mind:Team SoloMidLourlo: ConsistentXmithie: BjergsenTeemoLourlo: StrangeXmithie: SatanFakerLourlo: The bestXmithie: The bestRedditLourlo: XDXmithie: PlagueOverpoweredLourlo: Team LiquidXmithie: Malzahar ' ' '