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Stevie Johnson's Conversation With God
After that catch Stevie twittered to God, but he must have had a chat at some point before or after he tweeted or twittered about it, I wonder how that conversation went?........ Stevie needs to shut up and play football. He nor the Bills are good enough to wear shirts with writing on them for celebrations, you are a 2-9 football team and Stevie, you are an average receiver who had a really good week against another team with two wins.Category: Buffalo Bills | News | Sports
Trent Doesn't Like Extra Games....Playoffs?
Trent Edwards had this to say when asked about playing two extra regular season games:
"I don't know a ton about the situation. I don't know what the reasoning would be. I'm a little naive about the whole situation, but just on paper, to answer your question straight forward, I don't really like it to be honest. I feel like we already, like you said, take a ton of hits. We already go through a long season. Sixteen games is a long season no matter how old you are, but I would have to know a little bit more of the details. Right now, to be honest, I really don't like it."
First, how could you not know anything about it? You play in the damn league, thats been the talk all week, where have you been? Still recovering from your last concussion?
The quote above was from WGR 550's website by Paul Hamilton who I love listening to whether its about the Bills or Sabres because he isn't afraid to be a little skeptical about what hes reporting on.
Category: Buffalo Bills | News
The Worst Is Yet To Come
Whatever happens this season, keep one thing in mind...remember those 2-14 seasons back in the 1980's? This may be one of them.
The fans of the Bills are as band wagony as any fans in the NFL, almost to a fault. When the Bills win a game we instantly think playoffs, when they lose a game, they stink like no one else's crap. Maybe that is because this team has flirted with winning but never gotten there and when they have lost they have lost bad. They have been 7-9 to 8-8 seemingly since their last playoff game during the Clinton Administration, When you have a team flirting with .500 you go through those extreme highs and extreme lows more so than when you outright suck or when you are great.
They aren't even my favorite team and I get that way about them too. I watch them every week because they are my second favorite team behind the Cleveland Browns who I don't follow as closely as I do the Bills because quite frankly I don't see every Browns game. Last year was the last year though until this team plays itself back to respectibility that I will get that way.
I refuse to feel as if a loss is the end of the world and win has them playoff bound. This year may be the 2-14 season anyway. The writing is on the wall.
Say what you want about Trent Edwards but hes no closer to being a better quarterback this year than he was last year, Gailey or no Gailey. Edwards just doesn't have it and Jauron may have ruined what ever Edwards did have. He plays like hes afraid to screw up, not like hes willing to take the risk to make the big play. There is a difference.
The defense while the secondary may have some standouts, the front seven is a mess. They don't have a true nose tackle and the defensive ends? Marcus Stroud is going to be a coverted defensive end, thats the best we can say. Other than Aaron Maybin and Chris Kelsay they don't have another defensive end worth mentioning and both of them have been converted to linebackers....Yikes. Is anyone playing their true position on the front seven of this defense?
The offensive line is not much better but at least they can say the middle of the line is somewhat healthy and able to play together. But they too are learning a new system from the coaching staff and we all know what the learning curve is in the NFL under new coaches.
Special teams through the first two pre-season games have looked awful. I know, preseason doesn't mean jack and thats fair enough but I haven't seen much to suggest they are good or even decent.
So, here it comes, get ready, 2-14. We have seen over a decade of losing football, but no season has seen rock bottom really. They have been a 7-9 to 8-8 team every year. So, its coming. rock bottom is coming, every team has to hit it to eventually get the talent to get back to respectibility. Im going to watch it though, because I think at the very least, the coach may be the man for the job, as long as everyone, fans included realize that this may be that rock bottom year.
The good news? If this coach is the right man for the job, he has started the process of weeding out the junk and mapping out the players or type of players he wants to fill his team with. Its gonna take a draft or two and a few free agency signings to turn it around but in the NFL that turn around doesn't have to take longl. We have seen bad teams become playoff teams in as little as one year.
The bad news is, we have to suck really bad before we get that turn around.
Category: Buffalo Bills | Sports
They Still Suck: Redskins 42, Bills 17
I know its only preseason but the Bills looked crappy last night even by pre-season standards. Trent Edwards was okay for a series but the fact remains the offense still can't put the ball in the endzone. Add to that they have no reciever talent behind Lee Evans and their offensive line is in shambles already...its gonna be a long year.
How much does it say about your quarterbacks when the only one they drafted can only play out of the shotgun for fear of tripping over his own two feet, granted most of their games they will be playing catch up because the defense gave up a boat load of points so they may be playing out of the shotgun a lot in the second half of games.
Regardless of how bad this team performs this year remember one thing, this season will not be pegged on the coaching staff, it can't be, the players on the field have little talent to be in the NFL. They need talent to put out on the field and the Bills are lacking it in several areas. Namely quarterback.
Im not writing this season off yet but, 3-13 should be good enough to get into the top three draft picks next year and we can get a quarterback.
Category: Buffalo Bills | Sports
LA Can Keep Their Grubby Paws Off The Bills
This should be a rule before you go stealing other cities NFL teams, get your facts straight....John Semcken of Majestic Realty Co in LA had this to say about their top two franchises they would like to move to LA:
"Jacksonville and Buffalo are two teams in very, very small markets, he said. “They are teams that have either outdated stadiums or are having trouble filling their stadiums or both.”
Trouble filling our stadium? John, I personally invite you to grab two season tickets to next season Bills games to get your facts straight. Yes, Ralph Wilson Stadium may not be the best stadium in the NFL and no the boxes there are probably not what most NFL owners have in mind to make them the money they need to make, but week in and week out through just the last 10 years of pathetic, losing seasons the fans of this small market team have sold out Ralph Wilson Stadium each and every single week.
We had 50,000 people show up and 80,000 tickets sold this past week for a game that was played in Arctic like temperartures and blinding snow, yet we show up and watch our losing team and buy all 80,000 tickets.
Maybe the Jaguars are having trouble filling their stadium which is way less than 80,000 seats, but this small market team supports this team big time. Keep your grubby, big market hands off our small market, but big hearted team.
Category: Buffalo Bills | News
Buddy Nix New GM
Now Go Get The Bills a Coach Buddy! By this time tomorrow I would be shocked if there are not at least rumblings of a new head coach.
In the meantime, Im going to sit back and watch The Snow Bowl. If anything else it will be interesting.
Category: Buffalo Bills
Jets 19, Bills 13
For any of you who got giddy last week and had delusional thoughts of Perry Fewel being the next head coach and Ryan Fitzpatrick being the full time starting quarterback think again.
Last night was another horrendous effort in which their new coach made the excuse that two games in five days took its toll on how his team played....well boo hoo. What did he think the Jets did last Sunday? Sit on the beach with umbrellas in their drinks? The Jets were in the same boat playing with their mediocre quarterback.
TO continued his downward spiral, there I said it, who gives a care about the last two weeks for him, he payed against inexperienced cornerbacks the last two weeks, put any cornerback with any kind of skill or experience on him and TO folds up like a cheap tent.
The Bills have 4 wins, Im making a prediction right now...they will do no better than 1-3 the rest of the way. 5-11 is their final totals on the season and as bad as this team is, thats a pretty nice record because they probably didn't deserve 3 of those wins. The only two they really deserved to win were the Tampa game and Miami last Sunday.
Don't take this the wrong way Toronto, but you guys don't deserve the Bills. I mean that on two levels, on one hand you really don't deserve the poor quality of football this team plays, on another level, the presentation put on by Rogers Communications by all accounts was piss poor.
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Bills 31, Dolphins 14
It was another one of those games, close, tied into the fourth quarter giving a sick feeling into the pit of your stomach but the Bills pulled it off as injury depleted as their lines were they out played a tough Miami team.
Upon turning on Schopp and The Bulldog after which I do weekly to hear postgame comments I was surprised to hear the leading topic being the Bills running up the score....
I don't get it, the lose we bitch, they win we bitch that they won by too much. Come on guys, be happy. Who cares that they ran in the last second touchdown, that is what they should do on home turf. Miami could just as easily do it to us there.
These are professional football players, if they can't take another 7 points being scored against them, then maybe they better find another profession, maybe they should go play something safer like....with barbie dolls or something where nobodies feelings get hurt.
I didn't see the running up the score part especially since over the last 10 years this team has been on the recieving end of a lot of these types of games.
Category: Buffalo Bills
Goodbye Dick
Finally! Why now though? Why not yesterday? Maybe it took that long for the 4 years to sink into the old mans brain. He should have pulled the trigger during the bye week but for whatever reason it waited until two days after another horrible loss.
Still, Ralph said how hard of a decision it was to make the move. I'm sorry but if its about winning, this decision should have been made last year.
So, its done, now what? Perry Fewell will take over but lets not make this a coach who comes from within, make it a coach who will be here from outside the organization. I can see Fewell for the rest of this sad season, but after this season is over go out and get a high quality coach and GM.
Now we have a reason to watch this weekend.
Dick Jauron finished his career here with a 24-33 record, three 7-9 seasons and 3-6 this year. The football played could politely be described as vanilla at best.
Category: Buffalo Bills
250K For The Bird
Wow, and hes the owner of the Titans, imagine what Bills fans felt like doing after that sad performance. The only difference is, fans won't get fined for giving the finger to the Bills. 250K at first seemed like a lot, they should donate it to the Bills so they can buy a player that can help them.Category: Buffalo Bills | Sports
