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Devldog131, good for you. You are a fan just like the rest of us. Dont let the guys like bdlam run you off. There are a lot of pessimists on this board. I can be at times i must admit. I grew up watching my father scream at the tv every sunday. I did not really know who Joe Ferguson was, but i knew my dad did not like him much. My family actually worked for the orginization in the 70s and 80s. So i grew a bills fan. I think what you are hearing on here, is that most of us are use to being dissapointed, year after year. Even in the " Glory Days" we still dissapointed. When the Bills get back to the Super Bowl, and When they win it i think we will all stare at our tvs and the field, waiting for something to take it away from us. The disbelief will turn to tears then. We are all hoping that the Bills win. I think most guys here have had their heart hardened and are sick of buying into the team onyl to have them break their heart. I am a fan and think we could win out, but we have to play every quarter with the same desperation/determination we played with in the fourth quarter of monday nights game. Save the last three plays. Hopefully our Coach learned from that mistake. I hope. We do have a good young team with a lot of potential. And if they get that fire back like last year they can finish this year strong. Someone needs to have a players only meeting up there and clear the air. Get these guys back to playing football and haveing fun doing it.

We all are frustrated this morning. After the big catch on the last drive i was hoping Jauron would not just run the ball three times. And after Cleveland calls time out on first down, you definetly try to throw a pass. Hell do a quick flair out to Lynch or Jackson, something safe. Or let one of them bleed out into the middle of the field after everyone has been run off. But no. Jauron gets conservative and sends his Kicker out there. 47yder into the wind on a cold as hell night. Ridiculous. I am done with Jauron. He is the right guy to come in and stabalize a team,but not the guy that is going to take you to the next level. Trent could not have looked worse in the first quarter if he tried. He did let it bother him for the next couple of quarters on top of that. But in the fourth you started to see the o come together. But then Jauron takes the ball out of his hands. "Hey dick that was your chance to build your qb up and let him get his confidence back for the last third of the season"! But instead you sat over there looking like death and just said well lets see what happens with our kicker. I am sorry if you asked all 53 guys what they would rather do, go for a td to win or kick a field goal? 52 say go for the td. All this clowning starts at the top and works its way down. We are the only team in the league w/o a GM. Get a real GM who gets a real coach. Look what Atlanta is doing this year. They went out and hired a great YOUNG GM and he started to build this team. If you ask me Wilson is just as bad as Jerry Jones from Dallas. He is just more passive aggresive about it. Hire guys with your same conservative approach, and hope for the best. We should have had the TE that Cleveland jumped up to pick ahead of us. But no we played it safe and thought he would fall in our laps, Just like lastnights game. Worse part about it is we are stuck watching this crap for 3 more years. I love the Bills and will watch them no matter what. Last years team was 5-5 at this point. Only problem was that last years team played with heart. Where has that gone???

Jimmy, You should stop making fun of the people on this board you are here too. Oh and calling people names and putting yourself above them is very funny. And by how many posts you have on here i would say you either dont have a job or are in high school yourself. The Bills do have a big OL, And now that the weather is about to start turning colder, just watch and see. The run game is going to pick up. Big guys hate hot weather. And that will nullify many of your original posts. OL will look better, Lynch will look better and and the back up qb will never touch the field. But i suspect you dont really care about any of those things , you just like a good debate. So go back in your room, lock your door(so mom won't walk in) and have a debate with yourself.

I saw that too last night . He is on here locally in Atl every week with one of our radio shows. If the Bills win this week (and i think they will) i am going to call in and get his opinion. And try to see if and when he will start BILLieving like the rest of us. Maybe Berman's love for the Bills has turned him off. Who knows, but yeah he does not like/trust the Bills are for real.

My grandfather worked for the Bills in the late 70s and 80s. First time had to be around 1980. I remember i was wearing a Falcons coat and Fred Smerlas got pissed(jokingly) so he and Hasslet made the trainer find me something else to wear. I grew up loveing the Bills and whenever we went back my grandfather would get me into the stadium and locker rooms before and after the games. I think that is where i learned all the swear words i use today.

oh yeah and Dawgg he admited to being there....get your facts straight before you post that crap.

Ok first of all if you think Vick got special treatment one way or the other you are just wrong. He got what he deserved. I live in Atlanta and have heard all the excuses for why he should not have been sent to prison...at the end of the day he broke the law. Sorry if you dont like the law but it is the law save all the other bs for someone buying it. he knew he was doing something wrong and still did it. As far as going after him. The other guys all got similar sentences and yes they do normally go after the ring leader in a case like this...thats the way it goes. As far as him as a player as one of you guys was saying...i watched him since he first came into the league. He had/has amazing talent...but he is a bubble head. He started getting a little older and taking a few more hits and suddenly he was a step slower. That step that use to help him get away from defenders. And in Atlanta here they have had the same problem Buffalo had (until last year) a terrible o line. He could no longer make those great runs and thus the offense went down hill quick. Marshawn does not deserve special treatment. And i do not think it is special treatment if he settles with the woman. Which i can almost gaurantee will happen. I can not see him doing any time for this. He will hire good lawyers ie expensive ones.Ones most of us can not afford. But thats not his fault that our legal system. And it is America people. We can all work hard make money and thus afford the privledges that go with it. The only person keeping you in your $40,000 a year job is you. Would you rathe rlive in a country where the goverment mandates everything? If so pack your bags and head to Cuba. I beleive it is one of the few remaining Communist countries left. These athletes have a special talent and i hate to see any of them waiste it. If they make a mistake...break the law then of course they are going to do anything they can to lessen the punishment. So would any of us.

Thanks all you guys for the nice words. We are definetly working on The Royal. Its was my old mans favorite. We always would have to stop at John and Marys place before we went anywhere.Then it was onto Demitres for some "sliders" not my fav but my dad loved them. I still go to those places when i go back home and have a slider for dad. I personally like Teds and my wife loves hot dogs so i always take her there when we go back. Got to wash everything down with a logan berry and have an Andersons for desert. No wonder i am fat. Buffalo has the best food. I always tell people the city of Buffalo has the best food in the world and you can get it at anytime of day. Not like here where you got to go to Waffle House late. Oh and i like taking my whole family out to a nice Italian Meal in Buffalo complete with wine...everyone eats an awesome meal for like $200 try doing that anywhere else.I have always been a guy that thinks whats on the plate matters most. Could not care if i am eating it on a white table clothe or newspaper lined tables. Thats what the city is all about substance not so much style.

BUffalo is a great city. It is where i am from. I moved away when i was kid to Atlanta but never lost my love for the Bills and the city. My grandfather worked for the Bills in the 70's and 80's. We have stayed friends with Hojo the head trainer even still today. 8 years ago my father and i opened a Pizzeria in Atlanta because we got so tired of not being ablo to get good Buffalo Pizza. Our menu is totally based on all Buffalo foods we even have beef on weck. So in a way you can say Buffalo is how i make a living. I lost my own father 4 years ago much the same way Luke lost Tim. My father suffered a massive heart attck while i was on vacation and died at the restuarant. Today is a hard day for all of us sons who have lost our fathers. My heart goes out to Luke who must be so scarred, hurting, and confused today. My life as gone on and late in 2007 i opened another restuarant and business has been great. There are so many people from Buffalo that live here and i get to talk about the Bills everyday. These southerners love good Buffalo food. I still go back every year for one home game and to see my family that live in Kenmore and Tonawande. Buffalo has probably the greatest people in the country that live there.But unfortunatly they also have some of the worse Politicians. if every one could ever get on the same page and develope the water front Buffalo could restore its national pressence once again. Till then we have the Bills,our great food, and our pride in our city.

I never met Tim, but lost my own father to a heart attack 4 years ago. I was stunned that day and today when my uncle called me from buffalo to tell me Tim died,i have to say my eyes filled with water. I was stunned again. For some reason i sit here saddened for a man i never knew. I di dloose a friend today a man we all could respect wether from Buffalo or not. but i am so proud today maybe prouder then i have ever been to be a Bills fan. We were lucky to have him as an ambassador of Buffalo. He was as classy as the come. The good do die young. My prayers go out to his family and son during this time, i as many of you know how hard today is for them. I own a restuarants in Atlanta the is based all on foods from Buffalo. My father moved us from Buffalo when i was a kid, but Buffalo was never taken out of me like Tim. God Bless and rest in peace. Now you have the best seat in the house on sundays Tim.

The Bills SHOULD be improved over last year. I mean they signed some key guys (Mitchell and Stroud). If those guys play up to what they have been and stay fairly healthy,plus guys like POZ comming back.Also with the talent from the draft,how can you not get excited about this team if you are a true fan.I am just like the rest of you and have been suckered back in too many times over the last 8 years. But i really do believe with all the young talent that got time last year plus some other signings ( believe Willie James in the secondary is a nice little pick up too), the Bills are an improving team. As far as the record goes we all have no idea. Hell everyone thinks the Pats and Colts are already a forgone conclusion,but what happens if Brady or Manning were to get injured.Then those two teams just got very beatable. Tha NFL is all about which team makes it thru the year with the least amount of big injuries. Look at SD last year...one could make a strong arguement that if LT, Rivers, and Gates are 100% maybe the outcome is different. I dont know about you guys but the Pats started looking really old near the end of the season last year. All good things must come to and end at some time....ask Rick Dutrow what he thinks today about an "unbeatable". Lets just keep our fingers crossed that the injury plague knocks on someone elses door this year. I will line our Starting line up right now against anyone and feel as if we have a fighters chance. The OC has a lot to show us all,but if he comes thru then just maybe in January we are not talking about the Draft but how well we will match up against our Playoff opponent. Alot of maybes and what ifs right now but heck thats what everyone is doing at this point in the year...its all just speculation.

Wow he was a Vike and nothing happened to him. And the Pats thing is crazy.Next thing you know you will be blaming them for high gas prices.Get over it.Vick had some good lawyers too. He is going to spend half his time in a fed min security program for drug abusers. He smoked some pot and then went in and failed a drug test.I am sorry no one is that stupid not even Vick.

Whats the number one thing you think of ,when you think of Scott Norwood?......Ok my point exactly. He is Buffalos' Bill Buckner. Buckner had a nice career, but will always be remembered for that one play. It sucks i know,but it is what it is. From what i understand he has a great life and sells realestate in the Virginia area i believe. Let him go on with his life.But there are a lot of other guys who are much more deserving of getting on that wall. I appreciate Talley,he is the ultimate class guy. And was probably the man that was able to keep that locker room together for all those years. I value his opinion but i do not agree with it in this case. Plus a kicker on the wall? Elam maybe in Denver. But not Norwood here.

I like Evans.I really do. And i hope he has the kind of season that would allow him to make the big bucks. That would mean the Bills would have probably a pretty good year. The d will be much improved,unless 7 starters go down. Lynch and Jackson are a nice 1 2 punch running.The only thing missing is a passing game. If Evans goes for maybe 85 catches and 1000+ yds then i can not see why the bills would not be looking at a 10 win season.The only way he gets to those numbers is Hardy or Reed or even Roscoe step up and take some coverage off him. Evans IS a number one receiver but he needs a good number 2 to be great. The Bills find that second threat and all us FANS are happy come January. Then let the front office "find" the money to pay him. Honestly this regime has done a good job lately of knowing when a player is worth the investment or not. I finally trust the front office. And i do mean in the past three years.

First time posting here.But i just could not sit here any longer. At the end of the day Trent is the quarter back.Support him. He is young and may be a good quarter back,only time will tell that.I too was/am a JP fan because he is a Bill. The coaches and front office know a lot more about this team then any of us guys,sorry but that is true. All i am saying is if the kid is going to be successful he will need all the support from not only his plays and coaches,but fans too.So all you guys sitting there in your seats waiting for him to make a bad play,so you can jump on him.Shame on you be a fan. Support your team and stop all the Losman/Trent crap. The best man will play and win.