chris heff
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Lately the anti-Ralph argument is seldom about how much/little he spends.
The argument as to why Ralph is the reason for failure is that he's the top man and bears ultimate responsibility.
The argument is bolstered by very, very limited success in 51 seasons of football.
More specifically the argument is that he's "built" an organization with less-than-qualified people who work in an environment that is not committed to winning… and that this lack of commitment results in the top people in the field not wanting to work for the Buffalo Bills… or something like this.
There's a belief I share that many of the things the team does points to an organizational ineptitude.
This is the world that Ralph has built… and it has given his detractors plenty of ammo and his supporters very little.
I agree that it has been 51 years of limited success and I think that is putting it nicely. I have been a fan for all that time. Prior to the great team of the late 80s early 90s Ralph Wilson was not considered to be a good owner. In fact he was considered to be one of the worst. Why do you think guys like Jim Kelly originally refused to play for the Bills?
I could sight multiple bone headed decisions made by his organization over the last half century, but most of you already know what they were. However there is no taking away what the man did for the sport of football and he deserves to be in the HOF.
I met Ralph Wilson, he was very nice and he loves the Bills and loves talking about the team. That being said I think he is ill equipped to run a modern NFL franchise.
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Please correct me if I am wrong, but among other things didn't Bill Polian call Ralph's daughter the most offensive thing you can call a woman? If I am right about this, then what choice did Ralph have? And how stupid of Polian.
The other thing is hiring one's son when it is not your family owned business is a mistake. If Chris Polian can't do the job, then both have to get fired. I believe the same thing will happen with the Shanahans.
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I think if Merriman can pass a physical, he is back. The Bills are incredibly weak at the position he plays. Whether he makes the team remains to be seen.
Please correct me if I am wrong but juicing aside, didn't his problems in San Diego begin when he refused to have knee surgery in the off season? Then a couple of games into the season decided to have the surgery and went on IR, sound familiar? I think tha he is reluctant to go under the knife. He seems to think that in time he will heal, his problem is he is running out of time.
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Actually 1998. In 2001 there was a site crash that wiped out all stats prior. I probably have 19-20K posts.
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And you're a robot
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How is this guys accuracy and arm strength? He can obviously move and has good pocket awareness.
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I have been a bills fan since the day they came to buffalo. It occurred to me this morning that we might lose to the last place in the division qb'd by JP Losman. I can't think of anything worse that has ever happened including our two win season. Can anyone think of a game that would be as humiliating as that in all of bills history?
I was at a game at the old rock pile in 1968 when Ed Rutkowski was the starting QB. As a QB Rutkowski was a good politician.
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Agreed. And all your points about the stadium and facilities are correct; Lambeau is old, like the Ralph, but it's a historic stadium and receives significant renovations regularly. Equating the two as the other poster did is inaccurate.
I really don't understand the stadium/amusement park/mall/food court thing. I go to watch a football game, which means spending about four hours in the stadium. I understand the need for luxury boxes but I think all the other amenities are to get people in the building and out of the parking lot.
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Post of the Year. Hands down.
I concur, brilliant.
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"4) Will just ONE supporter of the Spiller selection come forward and tell me that he is a bust. Yes, a 100%, total, complete bust. It's OK to admit it. Look, I thought that Rob Johnson was going to be a great quarterback. Just step up if you will. Or, defend him some more."
I was roasted for saying in the pre-season that Spiller was fast approaching the Maybin bust line. But you all we right, Spiller is now well below it, at least Maybin is getting on the field and giving some production in NY.
Unless Spiller can rush the passer or cover someone or coach, I fail to see what he has to do with anything. This game was over before it started, when you are down 21 in the blink of an eye, your offensive game plan is gone.
Three hundred yards in the first half! Are you kidding? No personnel can be that bad. It is bad defensive coaching. If you don't think coaching is important loof at the 49ers, basically the same team, yet not the same team. Did they make some big personnel moves in the off season?
If you didn't think this D coaching staff is clueless, all you had to see is Dareus dropping into coverage. Are you kidding me?
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This team reminds me of the '87 Bills (although not quite the same talent level as the '87 team). A team on the rise that can blow people out one week, but gets sent home with their tails between their legs occasionally. They are entertaining, and other than today, they have been "in" every game that they've lost. I still think we finish with a winning record. Wild card is a question mark, but we may sneak in as the 6th seed. Time will tell . . .
I've said it before, enter Bennett and Lofton. The acquisition of those guys changed that team. We are a few players away. Too bad about Merriman, it was a nice try. Had he been 80%
of his former self this would be a different D.
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d823d1676/article/lt-jets-not-worried-about-bills-pretty-ball
Revis clearly wasn't concerned about who would hear the mockery since there was a CBS camera filming him and he was screaming at the top of his lungs. Sad truth was that he was right. Question is now, what do the Bills do about this next time they face them?
Sanchez runs up to McKelvin in the endzone after a TD pass and mocks him with the overly dramatic "excuse me ***hole" hands up brush by move.
Rex Ryan chest bumping Holmes.
The laughing and guffawing on the sidelines.
The Bills were openly mocked at home to a divisional team that clearly has zero fear of them since they did this knowing they still face each other in three short weeks. Sorry, but I can't ever recall seeing this kind of brashness before. As a fan of the Bills, it was truly embarrassing. What will the Bills do about it? Are they afraid of the Jets? If I were Chan I'd show the mocking on a loop in the locker room during Jet week.
I his pre game speech Tomlinson said the Bills were the same old Bills. I would replay that all week before the next game.
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"This thing we call 'Failure' is not the falling down. It is the staying down."
I've seen the 2011 Bills come back from 18 points against the Raiders. The very next week, I saw them come back from 21 points against the Patriots. Don't try to tell me that one bad effort at an inopportune time makes this team a bunch of losers.
Nobody ever said the road to the playoffs would be easy. Maybe they don't make it when the dust settles. But I sure as hell know that they have the intestinal fortitude for it.
I love this team, on most Sundays they have been fun, but they remind me of the Bills of the late 80's pre Cornelius Bennett, and James Lofton. They are missing some people.
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At the beginning of the game, he actually talked up Gailey a little bit. He said that Jerry Jones always said that firing Gailey was the worst move he ever made...all the while I'm thinking, "Wasn't it YOU who wanted him gone?"
Anyways, Aikman kept harping on the Bills for the wildcat plays saying how much he hated what it does to a QB and the offense. He even went so far as to say when he played they tried to install the wildcat on third downs to which Aikman replied, "Well you better be ready to use it on first and second down too cause I'm heading to the showers."
I thought exactly the same thing. He didn't like Gailey's offense, wanted him gone.
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Here you go (scroll to bottom):
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7091341/nfl-49ers-jim-harbaugh-looks-wise-keeping-qb-alex-smithl
You are an evil genius.
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It must be, I believe that was the date on the SI Cover with Drayton on it that's floating around.
Or it could actually be from the future.
I got all choked up reading it and then after explaining it to my wife, she asked with a completely straight face, "so now do you want to buy a house on that street.".
I didn't say this, but yes I do.
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Except they are thinking the K-Gun was named after Kelly, but it's actually named after Keith McKeller.
I thought it was Kent Hull.
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Hello All!
I am brand new to TwoBillsDrive and happy to be here. I recently moved to PR and decided to join an online Bills community to mingle with fellow fans. I was just curious though, I tried to join the Buffalobills.com message board as well as TwoBillsDrive but it says,"registration has been disabled".
Anyone know anything about this?
Either way, happy to be here and even happier to see the win over Oakland.
Jim is that you?
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Awesome game. My dad was there, it was the season opener of 1974.
But the historian in me is compelled to say that the first MNF game at Rich was in 1973 against the Chiefs. Bills won 23-14, and OJ had 39 carries...
I stand corrected. When did the stadium open?
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I was at the first Bills Raiders game played at The Ralph which was also the first Monday night game played there. September 16 1974.
Bills won 21-20. George Blanda had a chance to win it with a 47 yard FG, with 47 seconds left.
The kick came after midnight, so it was the 17th, Blanda's birthday, his 47th. He missed it.
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I went with Fitzmagic, but I like the Amish Rifle too. They're all "Fitzlicious"!
Please do not ever say or write Fitzlicious again. This is for your own good.
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Yeah, my cousin is a die-hard Raiders fan since his youth, he is now dam near 50 and is from Buffalo,
although he now resides in South Florida.I would loove to text him some smack, but I will wait until
Monday to do so. Still a little cautious, but always BILLieve!
How could someone that age, from Buffalo be a Raiders fan? Doesn't he remember the worst trade ever? Lamonica for Tom Flores and Art Powell.
Flores had no right shoulder, Powell was blind in one eye and couldn't see out of the other and he was about 50.
Ralph bailed out Davis and the Davis cheated him and Ralph wasn't even old and crazy yet. Well he wasn't old anyway.
I live in south FL, were is this guy? I will go have a talk with him.
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Those idiots on Football Night in America made it look like the Chiefs were a fantastic team that had an off day, and that they lost control... The reason they lost control is because Buffalo had it, period. I'm so sick of those clowns. Then they went on to show snippets of the KC presser and gave the Bills almost no credit whatsoever.
They also said that young teams with young coaches coming off a good season can just expect to win. So you see the Bills really had nothing to do with the win.
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What is this TE you speak of?
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I think they started calling the difference "playoffs" some time ago.
I liked the red helmets better.
My response is simply see the Redskins.
I always hated the red helmets.
What can we learn from the Broncos?
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