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Here's one: "The Make Our Defense Suck Wind and Oxygen On The Sidelines By Forcing Them to Play 35-40 Freakin' Minutes A Game As We Go 3 And Out In 40 Seconds About 10 Freakin' Times A Game"....offense. If this really is going to be a full time offense, Perry had better be running his defense extra wind sprints from now until the season starts in New England. No huddle offense? Why? Why not just copy a dynamic huddling offense like the Colts, Patriots and Steelers run? All those teams have managed to do is win the last 3 Super Bowls, that's all. The best no huddle offense in the history of the NFL went a cool 0-4 in Super Bowl games. I for one (and I don't care if I am the only one), am not looking forward to watching the Bills play a full time no-freakin'-huddle offense this season. I really hope they only use it part time.

It will have to be Fine or Shouman. Nelson will need his entire rookie season just to memorize Turk-ey's playbook and realize he will not be allowed to make one rookie mistake without getting buried on the bench. Turk-ey believes in Jauron's mantra....."It's hard to win in the NFL.....and if you can't memorize our 2000 page playbooks, it will be hard to play for the Buffalo Bills, no matter how much natural talent you may have or how many plays you can make.....we have a 7 win per season tradition to uphold here."

...until he records his 4th sack of the season playing less then half the snaps Stiff Kelsay plays this coming season, right? Barring the Bills' rookie injury curse, I predict this kid to record at least 7 sacks this season, shutting every one of you "draft gurus" up......until of course the Bills pick again next April.

And if this is a load of sh*t, so is your friend and his friend. Nice thread.

No. Winning a SB did not keep the Frontierre family from putting the Rams franchise up for sale, and winning a SB before Wilson dies won't prevent his family from selling the team after he finally passes away. Why would it? And after the team is sold, even if it is to the Jim Kelly group, (if it really exists), will winning a SB help Western New York build a new stadium in Niagara Falls, or will it increase the income of the fans enough to afford PSL's and more expensive premium seating the new ownership group will be forced to charge? I don't think so.

Good point. And better avatar.

Why would a downtown stadium make the Bills a more profitable franchise then staying in OP? Even if they took you up on your idea, and 1 million volunteers worked to move the Ralph brick by brick, saving everything and adding nothing new, and all the trucks and equipment were donated for free, and it was all completed in time for the Bucs game in September, how would that make the Bills better, being downtown? Let me ask you a question. Would you be willing, or could you and 73.000 of your closest Bills friends be willing, or afford to pay the Bills an average of $2,000.00 every 2 to 5 years for PSL's, on top of the increased price for your game tickets? These are not suites I'm asking about. These are the exact same seats you sit in at the Ralph right now. PSL's and game ticket increases up to about 20%, are what would be needed to keep the Bills in Buffalo, in any stadium, once the Bills are sold to an ownership that even would want to keep the team here. Why? Very simple. The new ownership would have a nice "mortgage" to pay off of around $800 Million dollars, or so, that Ralph Wilson has never had to concern himself with. So as we toss around our fantasy ideas of old stadiums being moved downtown, or new stadiums being built in Niagara Falls or Lovejoy for that matter, try to keep in mind the financial ramifications of Buffalo Bills post Ralph Wilson.

Oh is that all they have to do? Just go 6-0 in the AFC East, and split the other 10 games to finish an easy 11-5-0? That should be no problem. How about a somewhat more realistic prediction here. If the Bills can manage to go 3-3-0 in their tough division this season, and then a nice 7-3-0 record the rest of the way, for a 10-6-0 6th place finish in the AFC and a playoff game for the first time in 10 years. I'll take that in a heart beat. Stop making the first game at New England their Super Bowl, and prepare for another 16 game marathon, folks. Would anyone really be shocked if Lindell kicked an OT field goal to upset the Pats in week one, we spend a week reveling in the win and the media attention, and then the Bills came out flat and lost at home to the Bucs the very next week? Come on, it is a looooong season, and every game means as much as the one before it.

What story? Exactly one moron was reluctant to rent his home to Owens in Orchard Park. That's the whole story. TO joked about the situation with reporters, and that's the last I heard about it. I'll check back in with you after Owens catches his 10th TD pass for the Bills this year. And oh by the way, as long as he comes close to catching those 10 this year, I don't care if he takes a limo to a Toronto hotel back and fourth every single day of practice this season!

Sorry, I don't have stats to back up that statement. I should have said, "in my opinion, no teams have done less after big wins or more after bad losses in the past nine playoff-less seasons." Go ahead and make more out of the first game of the season, win or lose, if you want to. I will be taking them one game at time, to borrow the aged old saying, until the Bills really do clinch a playoff spot next year, or ever.

This opening game has exactly 1/16th importance in the 2009-2010 NFL season. No team in the NFL, over the past 9 seasons, has does less after playing a great regular season game, or has done more after playing a horrible regular season game, then our ever-inconsistent playoff-less Buffalo Bills of the 2000's. My advice, even with these awesome looking rookie road graders, a tougher looking center, and T.O playing for the Bills this coming season?: Expect nothing, and enjoy the good games!

Now that is a new one on me. An NFL player, with a number of teams wanting him, choosing the team that did not tell him he would start from day one. Let me guess, the Bears offered him the least amount of money for his pathetic one year $1 Million dollar "mega-contract" he signed too, right? So this is how he is bad mouthing the Bills? "Damn those Buffalo Bills, they wanted to pay me more money (maybe), and make me their starting strong side linebacker, too!" Screw them, I'm going to the Bears and earn less money (maybe) and have to compete to be the starter after earning 3 times as much last year for the Rams and leading them in tackles!" And you posted this moron's thoughts why?.....

I take issue with Joe Mesi. The fight before he bravely won a nasty battle against a very good heavyweight, but received his infamous brain bleeds which ended his career for all intents and purposes, he drew over 15,000 fans into the HSBC arena and beat the crap out of another highly regarded young heavyweight fighter. Those two fights legitimately put him into the top 10 contender list. Who knows if he had the talent to win the championship, probably not, but a nobody out of Buffalo, NY making it into the top 10 is pretty damn good if you ask me! As for your local anti-hero list, I only have one name to make up my top 10: 1-10) O.J. "Killer" Simpson. Presently spending about 9 years where he should have been spending the rest of his life, in prison. What a complete insane, egocentric, myopic, criminal he turned out to be after his NFL career ended! I always thought he and his oldest son teamed up to kill those innocent people. Well, he was legally aquitted and his son has never even been accused. Only God knows the truth, but I still hate the man anyway. It was fun watching him take that 9 years in the big house for breaking and entering with a loaded weapon.

I agree, I was pissed that Mckinney wasn't starting over Fowler and Preston last season, from his back up guard position on the Cleveland Browns, or was it the Detroit Lions?? Either way, what was wrong with that guy? Cleveland or Detroit to Buffalo is only a short distance. He could have driven in on Sunday's in time to start at center, and then been back in his home in Cleveland or Detroit by Sunday night, right?? And if you read the quote you posted above, an educated fan would feel pretty good about two rookie guards, in their first practices with their new NFL team, being rotated into the first team a good portion of the time! You instead come out of that statement with them being "far off" from starting.

1) "It's hard to win in the NFL." - He certainly lives up to that one. 2) "Roscoe just has to fit into our scheme and understand what we're doing." - Because his schemes and what he is doing has been so successful these past 3 years! - Is it just me, or would most NFL coaches fit Parish's special talents into their schems and what they are doing, instead of vice versa?? 3) to 100) Everything else that comes out of his un-emotional Yale educated mouth.

The comparison is not valid. It is not the fact that Wilson is cheap while Kraft sticks to his priciples. It is more the fact that The Pats have other Pro Bowl players on their team all over the place, while Peters was one of only two from last season. And during the 9 year playoff drought Wilson's Bills have been in, Krafts' Pats have won 3 Super Bowls. And other stars with some very good years left, such as Drew Bledsoe and Lawyer Malloy, have been traded or cut from the Pats and traded to or picked up by Buffalo! Results? The same. Zero playoff games - Buffalo. Three Super Bowls - Pats. I suppose I could go on and on here. In the end, it is always the same thing, scoreboard. Who wins, who loses, that matters.

This company could have received a call from the Bills before Ralph and Russ cut their deal with Toronto, to possibly explore adding more suites into the Ralph or something. Or, they could have made a call into the Bills and were told "something might be needed". A new stadium makes zero sense at this time.

Not to be too obvious here, but do you think it may have had something to do with the fact that Leodis was a......................ROOKIE last year?

No. It all depends on everyone on offense being able to memorize Turk-ey's ever expanding playbook. To "open things up", he most likely has added another 500 pages. I've heard this tune before.....during every off season for the past 10 years, as a matter of fact. I'll believe it when I see it. As for Nelson, right now he's practicing in last years' Hardy spot, trying to understand what foot to move first for each of his 27 different reads and responsibilities - for the running plays. He's not ready to run any of the passing plays yet. You've heard the saying "Coach 'em up?" It seems as if the Bills' coaches are more determined to "Confuse 'em down.", instead of just allowing their natural talents to shine.

Why appologize for your age? You went to your first Bills game two years before I went to mine, at 9 years old. Just because that game was played in War Memorial Stadium in 1968, doesn't mean you are any less of a die hard Bills fan at 30 then I am at 50. I'm sure there are some 70 year old Bills fans who consider old school the Buffalo Bills of the All American Football League of the 1940's. That old league brought the NFL the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts and San Francisco 49ers. Plus, the Bills of that day just missed out on that NFL expansion, or so I heard. Think about that. The Buffalo Bills could have been in the National Football League for 10 years before the old AFL even started, if they were brought in instead of the Colts or Browns! Bills mania has no age requirements.

Finally. A sports writer who is thinking outside the 7-9-0 box about the Buffalo Bills. Sure, maybe the guy is high on something thinking the Bills will win 10 games and make the playoffs. (They could win 10 or even 11 games and still not make the playoffs, see the Pats of last year.....wouldn't that suck?) Every season has it's Miami and Atlanta and Baltimore of 2008. Why not the Bills in 2009? If you say DJ, well even he was the head coach for a 13-3-0 division winner once in Chicago, right? I mock DJ and Turk-ey with his 2000 page playbook every day out here like most. But in the back of my mind, I'm still hoping against hope the better talent will finally come to the forefront and the Bills and T.O. have a special year in '09. It's nice to read at least one writer from one media outlet think the Bills might have a chance to do just that.

I don't think Jimbo can "teach" Edwards how to run the No-Huddle offense. There are many reasons. The biggest one is that when the Bills' No Huddle K-Gun was cranking, Kelly called all of his own plays, and only used about 5 different ones to choose from. Who out here thinks Turk-ey will allow Edwards to call his own plays? And who out here thinks Turk-ey will allow Edwards to shorten his 2000 page playbook down to just a few calls like Kelly did? My gosh, how on earth will the wide receivers know where to line up, what route to run, who to block, etc etc etc if all 2000 plays are not studied and implemented each week into the gameplan??

Well gosh, let's see....could it be because the Ralph Wilson Bills are just going into year two of their 5 year 78 Million Dollar mega-deal they signed with Rogers Communications to bring at a regular season Bills game to Toronto each season? If Rogers turned around and brought the Rams into Toronto, I guess that would mean the NFL Toronto Rams wouldn't really still need to add a Bills "home" game to their schedule, would it? And on top of that, all of those Southern Ontario Bills' fans would now have their own NFL team to root for up in Toronto, meaning even less Bills fans for Buffalo.