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Yeah were going deep in the scrap heap at receiver. Martin plus Buster Davis=superbowl baby!!!!!!! The shout song will soon be replaced by scream your lungs out.
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IMHO this is the worst stretch in team history, without a doubt. I became a fan in the late 60s when we really sucked, that gave way to the 70s and OJ. We had one playoff appearance, the rest of the decade was seeing how many yards OJ would get. Oh yeah we lost 20 in a row to the Dolphins to boot. Knox came in and gave us one playoff appearance and then poof, he was gone. That led to some of the worst Bills team. Then you had the Polian glory years. So you had Bills championship teams of the AFL 60s, in the 70s you OJ and 2000 yards with a playoff appearance, the late 70s early 80s you had the bermuda triangle and knox, the late 80s and 90s you had Polian building a great team and the superbowl years.
So this is the longest stretch in team history without a playoff game. We will most likely break the consecutive loss record to a divisional opponent we set against the Dolphins except this time it will be at the hands of the Patriots. I think of some 6 year old that starting following this team in 2000 and now they are 18 years old and have NEVER seen a Bills team in a playoff game. Thats a generation of nothing to hang your hat on. At least back when I was kid you had a playoff appearance every 5-7 years of so. This year will be a dozen years and ZERO playoffs . When you're working on 2 decades of futility, yes this is the worst Bills era ever(and thats saying something with this team's history) and there isn't a lot of hope in the near future for things to change. I just wonder what are the fond memories of the 2000s Bills, what the 9-7 team that crapped the bed in week 17 to miss the playoffs? Thats pitiful.
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Well 2 drafts into the Buddy and Chan show will produce one starter on opening day, Dareus. So they should have this thing turned around in 44 years.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same in Bills land. I think were looking at 2 full decades of suckitude.
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CJ is threat to go all the way, thats it, just a threat. 74 rushes last year and his longest run was 20 yards. Show me something and you will play more. God if this team will pay a stiff like Kelsay millions they should do it for a guy who actually produces week in and week out. Fred isn't an old 30, he hasnt been carrying the load for 8-9 years. He got a lot in that tank. And hes right, hes vastly underpayed when compared with his production.
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Bills 2011---the 11th year of the rebuild is the charm.
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Were Bills fans, of course we're mentally prepared for another year of sucking.
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2010 74 rushes for 283 yards, 3.8 average per rush and 157 receiving yards, thats 440 yards from scrimmage for 7 million. His longest rush, with his "elite" speed last year, was 20 yards. This preseason, 8 carries for 13 yards or 1.6 yds per carry. If your NOT concerned about CJ you should be.
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Just more great drafting by the Bills, first corner taken in a draft and still not starting years later. He's at least a semi-bust.
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CJ Spiller could be the new Maybin. 7 Million a year for F/A type production?
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I'm not sure what Ray Charles performing America the Beautiful has to do with my point. The point is that, at this point in time, America the Beautiful will never be the "sanctioned" anthem of the US due to the fact that it contains the word god in it. The ACLU and, if it makes you feel better you can throw several other organizations in with it, would never let it be approved because in today's twisted logic on the meaning of the separation of church and state the government could never pass a resolution sanctioning America as the national anthem because it has the word god (aka religion) in it. Lawsuit after lawsuit would be brought to prevent that from happening.
I wasn't making a statement as to whether it was a liberal or conservative point of view but it is their point of view. I'm also not sure what the abortion debate has to do with it either.
You brought up America, the Beautiful and god, not me. Read your post. In god we trust is the national motto and is on our currency. Its been that way for years, sorry but god isnt under attack in America in 2011. Quick tidbit---I work in the food industry and regularly visit restaurants and schools and American legions and VFWs. I walk down the halls in the school on the way to the cafeteria and hear/see the kids saying the pledge of allegiance in the morning. Then in the afternoon I'll be in the legion or VFW and have some old guy tell me the kids aren't allowed to say it anymore in school when I heard and saw it just hours ago. I try and politely tell the guy he's wrong, but he doesnt believe me and he probably hasnt set foot in a school in 40 years. His mind is made up, facts be damned, and I walk away just shaking my head, just like I am now.
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First of all I can't sing a note on key and unlike most pop stars I don't pretend that I can. But I can read music and the song that Aguilera sang last night does not resemble the Star Spangled Banner. The addition of her own convulsive inflections are just not there nor should they be. There are two reasons for this. 1) She does not have the vocal talent to sing the relatively demanding song. She is a POP singer and her own vocals never hit the human ear. They are heavily processed to reduce the abnormalities of her voice and make them sound the same every time. The talent is of the engineers that made the equipment. 2) She made the performance about her and not about the patriotic experience of performing the National Anthem at one of the country's biggest sporting event of the year.
As to America the Beautiful for the national anthem. You'll never get God past the ACLU besides the song is more a celebration of the land than the American spirit. Try My Country tis of Thee, which was the defacto anthem until the politicians got involved and appointed the Star Spangled Banner the anthem. IMO a better representative of what makes the US and Americans unique.
By the way. Whitney Houston couldn't read music either. She was better at adding her own inflections so they weren't quite so obnoxious. And when she did deviate she didn't change half an octave at a time, she changed a note or two. Best idea i've heard was to bring in a chorus from the military service to perform. My own idea would be to hold auditions in the local area to find someone to sing it.
Never get god past the ACLU? Ray Charles has performed America, the Beautiful at numerous sporting events including the superbowl, but dont let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy fantasy. The ACLU represents both conservative and liberal civil liberty issues. Case in point, their defense of students who were disciplined for wearing anti-abortion t-shirts.
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Okay, here's a comment: They're both dullards, their vocal tone is in the same range so there's no contrast (which is tedious on the listener), Buck outright annoys me with his pompous delivery, and neither announcer has an ounce of poetry. Then again, the majority of sports announcers these days are drab non-entities, completely interchangeable cliche-spouting monkeys, Stepford announcers who are unplugged after a game and stored in a closet until the next time they're needed.
But what else should we expect? The whole NFL control and presentation of its "product" has become weirdly plastic, inauthentic and animatronic, a manufactured and staged "production" from top to bottom without heart or soul, all based on market studies and consultant input. One example: A league owned and operated for the benefit of greedy billionaire ego-maniac owners sanctimoniously wrapping itself in faux patriotism with the reading of the Declaration of Independence precisely at a time when it is doing all it can to lower players earnings, increase their work load while ignoring the financial and physical suffering of its many "revered" ex-players. It was as cynical as Al Capone joining the Temperance Union, or the Czar reading the Communist Manifesto.
How's that?
Fantastic post. Reminds me of the quote "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." It's as insincere as flap pin controversies. Did Reagan, Ike, FDR or Lincoln wear flap lapel pins daily?---no, but now it's as much standard politician look as helmet hair. Patriotism is real, like getting chills hearing Ray Charles sing America, or Whitney doing the national anthem, or watching the changing of the guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier. It's how you felt after 9-11. It shouldn't be exploited as a PR gimmick. I hate to see it become cheap and gaudy like a 3 dollar piece of chinese jewelry or some fat slob in a stars and stripes and eagles t-shirt riding a hoveround at Walmart.
And I could give a crap who's wearing pink or who may or may not be gay, but then again I'm not 14 anymore.
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Change is just around the corner, unfortunately were going around a 20 sided building.
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You gotta do some serious crack to talk this way.
Second rule is not talking about where the free crack is. It's this and calling Lenny Pastabelly with all your favorite in-hindsight picks from 3 years ago Buffalo missed on.
Vet, everytime I see one of your posts and read that line on the bottom, about I know we havent had anything in cheer about in a decade, but I think your being negative.....I just laugh my butt off.
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True dat. And if your in a division with Brady, your defense better be able to generate some heat with the rush and if your in a division with the Jets, you better be able to the stop the run if you hope to sniff the playoffs.
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We traded for Bennett, the Colts drafted him and owned his rights, I think we gave a 1, 2-2s and Greg Bell.
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Sometimes I wonder why I look foward to the draft. Even look at the most recent regime and draft. Sorry, but after 10 plus years patience is no longer a virtue for Bills fans. Do something now. We used a high 1 on a quick scat back and paid him millions and the Patriots found one off the waiver wire(Woodhead) who's playing for the league minimum. Going into the 2010 draft if I had told you we would come of out with a first round running back who had 440 total yards from scrimmage, 1TD from scrimmage and a 3.8 YPC, a spot DE, DT and LB, zero help for the line(wang and the kid from Iowa we cut), and 2 IR guys, well that would of been a huge let down. But it is what it is.
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Good post. Won't happen.
Nix will have to be awake early on the 1st day of free agency. Set the alarm, get er done Buddy.
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Apparentely, Elway is there.
Watch Elway bring both Harbaugh in as coach, then get Luck as his QB. Wouldn't the media just love that.
I think Tebows set there, and the Broncos will try and deal Orton for picks.
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Ah, this just in....
...Tom Modrak is STILL Director of Scouting for the Buffalo Bills....
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First rule of Modrak Club: it's never Modraks fault.
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Hey Donte, take a look at what Troy Polamalu has done, thats an elite safety. You are about half the player he is and should be payed as such. The only way Whitner is money is if your starting fantasy football TE is going against him.
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Seeing as how he is Bills Fan #1, and you are Bills Fan #714.. I'm gonna guess he has.
BTW, I agree with you 1BF.
God bless you kool-aid drinkers.
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You have seen our drafting history the past 10 years havent you?
A theory on Chan Gailey
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Well you can't sum it up better than that. Well done.