jester43

I think we should see if the Ravens will take a 4th for Lee Evans. That sounds like a fair trade, doesn't it?

This is a great opportunity for Ralph Wilson to show the fans what he's really all about. Of course we all should fear that he'll do just that...

haha...ok, i pray you for you that you will not be put on the unemployment line for getting one letter wrong. he's a columnist. he's supposed to have an opinion. are you disputing that our starters are underpaid? ...that ralph had nickel and dimed this franchised into permanent mediocrity? we just dumped evans and hangartner because they made too much money, and it's a sin to point out the bills don't pay the going rate for their most productive players? what is it with you guys who need to have smoke blown up your asses every day? for the record, assuming the worst about this team over the last 10-12 years is always the safest bet. one big win doesn't get the smell off this franchise, but i'm sure you boys will be right there to scapegoat the sports columnist for writing about the disaster when the injuries start and we are in a freefall due to lack of depth. i am amped up over sunday's game too, but there is still a lot to be wary of. i just don't get why the pollyannas attack a columnist for expressing an opinion. it's so funny and predictable...it's like, you gotta drink the OBD kool-aid on this site OR ELSE! i have been following this team for 40 years and personally i'm glad there's a guy writing for the buffalo news who's wiling to be honest about the way this team is run.

The win was a thrill, but I am afraid Ralph's latest salary dump is going to bite this team in the ass when the injuries start. And they always come, don't they?

um, ok. once again this site is the online equivalent of the 8th grade girls cafeteria table...pretty much every thread that sullivan is mentioned in is like that, but now we're hissing because there was a typo on the website. what's next? yeah casey, i'm sure you'd expect to be fired if you misspelled a word at your job.

Yes, he obviously was. Because not only did he habitually run the people who put good teams together out of town on a rail (saban, knox, polian, butler, etc). He has proved again and and again he doesn't know how to hire winning replacements. he is a career loser and a scourge on the fanbase here. it disgusts me that we're supposed to owe him our loyalty just because the bills still "exist," when for all intents and purposes, they are already dead.

first of all I AM SORRY. I was having a fit of insomnia and that was way too harsh. But to say that the bills are better off settling for the ravens 4th than the 3rd from the jets or n.e. is something I disagree with, for the reason I stated. You can't try to get in the beancounter's heads and justify it, because there is no strategic benefit to it all. yuo CANNOT spin that move to make any sense at all. If we were a legit playoff contender, that logic might make a shred of sense. But, in the position we're in now...? It is just complete idiocy to turn down a 3rd and accept a 4th. Unless you really are counting every last bean and thinking about next year's payroll. And give the history here, you can't dismiss that possibility. In fact, you have to assume it until proven otherwise.

ok, most sane fans know this is a stupid pick. and they also know jackson is still a better player. should we have chosen him at all, let alone at #9? probably not. is he a bust yet? hell no. i can only hope he started in denver because it was a pre-season game and the coaches wanted to see what he looked like with the first team. if they can't see by now that jackson is obviously the better player, they're a bunch of idiots. spiller is an example of a guy who, if we dumped him (which is not likely, but with this regime ANYTHING is possible)would go to another team and make the pro bowl with reasonable blocking. the fact that jackson can do what he does behind this line means that not only should he start, but there should be a !@#$ing statue of him right outside the main gate of the stadium.

John effing Wawrow, thanks for writing this. It does seem like more and more of the pollyannas are waking up in and around Buffalo. Hopefully they'll have the good sense to treat Ralphy Burns to half-empty stadium on opening day. The only word for the way this franchise is being run is CYNICAL. Cynical toward the gm (whether or not he's in over his head, he's still being forced to fight with one arm behind his back), cynical to the coaches (who just lost a solid contributor for no good reason at all), and most important, CYNICAL TO THE FANS who've made the Wilson family richer than probably every member of this site put together, yet aren't even provided a credible ILLUSION that things are somehow changing. These scumbags (Ralph and the beancounters) have the good and loyal Bills fans by the 'nads and they know it...so they just keep stooping lower and squeezing tighter. A team this bad starting it's fire sale (the Evans trade) before the season even starts is a disgusting insult. Is Wilson even aware what he's doing to his legacy as "Hall-of-Fame" owner? It this rate he's going to die being completely vilified by the people who should adore him most, other than his own family. And speaking of his family, I wonder if they care about any of that? With all their piles of f.u. money, probably not. I'm more convinced than ever the team is as good as gone when he dies, and as far as I'm concerned Ralph (even if doesn't know this is happening he's responsible for giving the others power to do it) Wilson has gone from being MERELY cheap, meddling and inept to the NFL equivalent of Saddam Hussein blowing up the oil wells on his way out of power.

Are you talking about that cheesy trendy 7 man rugby or the "real" 15 man game? in authentic 15-man rugby you don't drop kick the 2 point conversion. you place it on a tee. in 7s, it is a dropkick. but yeah,backing it straight out from the goal line for the e.p. is the way to resole this. it makes it a lot more interesting.

who the !@#$ cares when we're not going to be competitive with either of those teams anyway!?!? IF YOU'RE DUMPING LEE EVANS, YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO COMPETE. PERIOD. only a complete moron would, as the gm of a bottom-feeding team, refuse a 3rd and take a 4th for lee evans. UNLESS you were more concerned about next year's payroll. my god this board is like the twilight zone the way some people defend the actions of these idiots.

here we go again....ok pollyanna, what did he say that you disagree with,..

i am watching the replay now...didnt see it last night. all i can really say is that while rahim moore is certainly a dirty cuunt (i assume it was discussed that he is also the guy who tore spillers helmet off after the whistle in the first qtr), we really look like the exact same team as last year. another embarrassment for us all. and i am glad at least that jackson came in and confronted moore but there should have been 10 guys there, so as far as that goes, it's still the same old bills as far as i'm concerned. they were amped up because they realized after the first series that they were gonna have a lot of fun beating the **** out of us. if the bills were going to learn from this, they would have learned that lesson last year, or the year before or the year before, etc. i bet rex ryan is laughing his ass off at what they're going to do to us.

i'm pretty sure ralph doesn't have any idea it's happened

my first bills game! we had front row seats in the scoreboard endzone. and man what an awful awful tedious effort from the bills. i still remember how dreadfully dead the stadium was.

haha...yeah that's what's going on! that might make sense on another team, but around here when you assume the obvious (buddy's a lackey and ralph's committed to smallball and the fans can eat ****) you're almost always right.

it's not like he had a choice. he's was hired to be a yes-man and he's going to deliver. just like darcy under golisano. we're going to find out if he was the personnel genius some here seem to think he is, but in the meantime, he's done what was expected of hom by ralph and the beancounters. what really cracks me up about the whole situation is that some folks seem surprised.

All the best to you, Scott. I hope the well-wishes and company of family and friends will bring you solace.

yes, and why is that so hard for some people to comprehend? he's the monty burns of pro football and he couldn't give a fug whether the team is good or not as long as the money comes in. there were a few nie years in the 90s when he seemed to think otherwise, but for at least 80% of his tenure, he's making fools out of the fanbase here.

yeah really, poz was a fraud. he was so good that he's even succeeded in making london flethcer seem like a hall-of-famer. that's not good. now as to whether the bills are capable of upgrading the position...well, we've been down this road before, and don't hold your breath...

ha! you "suspect..." yeah everything bad is jerry sullivan's fault. jerry sullivan is out to get the bills. unbelievable how having honest opinions about our mess of a team makes you the permanent bad guy among pollyanna buffalo fans. ralph said himself in front of dozens and cameras and microphones that he didn't understand it. that (unfairly) made him a laughingstock, but he said it himself, not jerry Sullivan.

they took spiller last year. be afraid of these clowns.

wgas...the guy is right. our team sucks. although i've seen much more clever insultws hurled our way over the years...the best of them by members of this site.

beerball you are correct. microfracture surgery is done when the cartilage is so torn and degraded there is nothing left to cushion the end of the bone. they drill into the end of the bone and the fluid that leaks out contains stem cells that, when rehabbed correctly, can harden into a cartilage-like material. the problem is, it is not as strong as the original and is not likely to hold up to the rigors of pro football. i know this because i had it done in order to try to return to competitive running. i was no professional, but i was pretty good by most peoples' standards. the microfracture procedure was unsuccessful for me. i went from being an 80-100 mile/week runner with no prior injury history at all to someone who can only tolerate 10 miles a week of slow jogging. for 2 years after the surgery i couldn't run at all. terrel davis had the same surgery in his ankle if you recall, and he never made it back. i would not touch this guy with a 10 foot pole.

wow you're kidding? never knew that. used to refuel there after playing hockey all the time. in fact they were arch-rivals with our team (the jesters, of course) for a couple of seasons. A fine establishmnet.