shoretalk

Ok ... why don't we project the current crop of high school seniors into their draft order in the Spring of 2014 ... where will the Paris Raiders be selecting that year. Come on ... this is absolutely nuts!! And, the amazing thing is these people actually get paid to feed us this pablum and some of our wall readers and scribes buy into every word that's written. Maybe ... just maybe someone opened up the keg of Jenny a bit early and that's why this showed up on the wall!

Let me see ... we sign someone who can be a great #3 back ... and we know we need a good #2 back for the beginning of the season ... could this mean that the Bills management actually thought things out and saw that Rhodes was a good option or ... do we all have to live in the glass half empty world that assumes that THE BEAST will next be suspended for a year for some unknown future offense when very few players have suffered that penalty? WOW ... sometime even those with their super secret inside can never be revealed unless they die first sources ... just don't have a grasp on it ...

What does WIKIPEDIA say? Let's keep our collective fingers crossed that WIKIPEDIA gets updated some time tonight and that he signs for 25 years and pays the BIlls to play here!

Ahhh the injury bug Didn't it seem like the Bills had fewer injuries when Rusty Jones was our trainer ... the last couple of years (maybe this is a Dick reality) it seems like more Bills have gone out for longer periods of time. Plus we haven't heard the current trainer's wife sing the National Anthem yet ....

And, on more piece of this confusing offensive line puzzle comes together ... my NJ friends who are Eagle/Giant fans are jealous of our receiving corps (Evans, TO, Reed, Johnson,etc. (Maybe even Hardy) and if the middle of the line becomes mean, nasty and effective ... oh the possibilities ... Although Jackson wasn't going to be playing anywhere else the fact that this is a multi-year deal shows that both sides wanted it done. Rhodes will be a great back-up to Jackson and then we will see how THE BEAST fits in once his suspension is served.

And, on more piece of this confusing offensive line puzzle comes together ... my NJ friends who are Eagle/Giant fans are jealous of our receiving corps (Evans, TO, Reed, Johnson,etc. (Maybe even Hardy) and if the middle of the line becomes mean, nasty and effective ... oh the possibilities ... Although Jackson wasn't going to be playing anywhere else the fact that this is a multi-year deal shows that both sides wanted it done. Rhodes will be a great back-up to Jackson and then we will see how THE BEAST fits in once his suspension is served.

There are times when I pause and remember what John Y. Brown did to the Buffalo Braves after Paul Snyder sold them. We, Buffalo fans, were accused of not being able to support an NBA team and so Mr. KFC/Mr. Phyllis George picked up the team and moved them. The truth was ... Brown decimated a team on the edge of a championship era leaving all of us who had supported the team gasping for breath. Of course we didn't come out once the McAdoo's, and DiGregorio's were gone ... and then John boy could smile and leave our community saying we couldn't support HIS team. That was the day I stopped being an NBA fan. Sadly, what Ralph Wilson has done to us as a community is to string us along ... refusing to say this is Buffalo's team and by doing that he has been playing the John Y. game. I agree that Buffalo has enough successful families who can support the Bills even at increased ticket price levels but we want an owner who signs a lease that proves the team will stay. The Bills cost Ralph only a few thousand dollars back in 1960 and today they are worth 100's of millions. It's funny but I made fun of Jason the 'feed my family' sack door opener for demanding more money because he couldn't afford to put his type of food on the table based on what the Bills were paying him but in a way Ralph is telling all of us that his family can't be satisfied with just $100 or perhaps $200 million in profit, which is what the Wilson family would end up with if the Bills commited to staying here and sold for a below market price. His legacy and reputation could be turned right around if he took the bold step of selling the Bills at that below market level price to a group commited to Buffalo such as the one Jim Kelly is working so hard to put together and before making that sale signed a binding agreement to keep the team here for another generation. As I write this I am laughing but ... with his daughter's untimely and sad death and our communal loss of Jack Kemp perhaps ... just perhaps ... Ralph will take pause to think about this community that has packed the stadium whether there were 70,000 or 80,000 seats and supported the team no matter the quality of team he paid for. The team can pay its bills and put a quality team together with TV revenue and ticket sales. The nation's economy is going to erode the 'super box sales' of many teams that depend on corporate purchases so once again we just might be on a level playing field even with the economic situation in WNY. Go Bills ... even living in NJ for more than 20 years now ... even with Ralph ... Buffalo Bills red, white, and blue (even the awful blue they now wear) runs through my veins as it has since the 1960's!

It's funny because it says I am going to be playing LT for the Bills at 5'10" and 210lbs. When you need someone to trust in ... just turn to Wikipedia!

It has been an awesome off season and we have what could be our best draft in years ... I just don't want another greedy overpaid OT. The next thing we will be hearing is Jones saying he needs the extra millions to feed his family because poor little Jason couldn't feed his on the money that he was getting from the Bills. This new Bills team is going to be a nasty hard playing group and if we get "the other guy with the more difficult to spell/pronounce name" just think what our defense will be able to do. GO BILLS ... for the first time in a long time the BILLS MAKE ME WANNA SHOUT in a good way!! Of course Freddie Jackson should have already been signed to a decent contract; he has earned it unlike Jones ...

You are so right as I sit here in South Jersey I know that the Philly media would have been on this one immediately ... get someone outside his house; have a microphone at the ready when he goes to the store. If Peters has been locked up in a room since January then there are some really serious problems going on with him (I think that we already know this is the craziest hold out ever ... come on speak up or are you afraid you can't play for any one of a number of reasons). But, in the end ... Buffalo sports media wants us to think they are so good ... well prove it and get this story. Don't just leave phone messages for the agent ... pin him down because we know he exists even if Peters is in la la land. But, in the end I hope the Bills management lets this guy rot! Every time he changes agents he wants a raise ... the Bills went out and gave him a big contract (for the time) and most of us have been taught to honor what extra's we get in life ... So cheer on Walker and let's watch these Bills play because their 'teammate' doesn't care a bit about them so they shouldn't care about him ... let's all just watch him toss away $3.5 million this year and then next year and then the following year ...