IronyAbounds

Well, if the choice is between watching at home or spending $600 for a day's entertainment, then yes. If the option is a reasonable price of admission, then the excitement of being there in person is quite compelling.

Then again, the NFL is pure socialism, so maybe the greed is coming from another source.

Redskins' stadium is less than 20 years old, and yet Douchebag Snyder is already looking to stick it to the taxpayers of D.C., Maryland and/or Virginia so that he can have a shiny new stadium. Nothing has turned me off of sports in general, and professional sports in particular, than the avarice and greed of all parties involved (even the NCAA is getting Gordon Geckoish). You can not tell me that FedEx Field isn't a perfectly acceptable place to watch a game (and there is no way it has come close to paying for itself after merely 17 years). Most of the criticisms of the venue have arisen since Synder has deliberately downgraded the experience for the standard fan in order to increase revenues from the super rich, yet that has to be more luxury boxes (so the 1%ers don't have to mingle with the riff-raff (which is predominately the 2%-5%ers - God forbid the middle class being able to afford attending a game), more amenities and monuments to the ego of the owner. As much as I love the Bills, maybe it would be best for them to move so I would then have no reason at all to care for the NFL. http://profootballta...-a-new-stadium/

Whether you're a pessimist or an optimist, at this particular point in time the Bills are tied for first in the AFC East, and tied for home field advantage throughout the playoffs. What's your realistic view of the best and worst the Bills will do this year? IMHO: Best: 10-6, 3rd wild card team Worst: 5-11, last in AFC East Most Likely: 7-9, tied with Fins

The irony is that the OP's attitude about things is just as goofy as the attitude of those he is calling out. It may be silly to say the sky is falling before game 1, but unless and until the Bills actually perform at a playoff team level on a consistent basis, it is just as silly to be overly optimistic. Fact is the team is one big fat question mark waiting to be answered. Given how the last 14 years have played out, hoping for the best but fearing the worst is about as optimistic as I can muster.

I'm curious why people get upset about threads in general. You don't have to read or respond to any thread. No one gets beheaded as a result of any post on this board, and no one's financial situation is impacted in the least. Nothing digitally reproduced on this board has any impact greater than a butterfly flapping its wings. And yet, some stupid thread gets started and people respond like there's something going on far beyond a bunch of Bills' fans BSing about the Bills just because it's fun to BS. Just don't get it.

The Hughes trade was a very good trade, but it is a bit hard to go overboard praising the front office for trading a flop that should never have been drafted, not to mention the fact that the guy actually started. Of course, Whaley is a huge upgrade to that old doof Nix, so that may explain a lot of things.

You left out Nick Foles, another starting QB the Bills could have had instead of whatever boneheaded move that senile fool Nix took. It is hard to imagine the Bills bungling the QB situation more than they have. Best approach would have been to ask Nix to screw up on getting a QB and the Bills likely would have an All Pro manning the helm this year.

Yes, in the race to suckitude the Bills will not be beaten!

I wonder if you noticed that the guy calling out the Bills' fans, the guy who has done very little in his time on the Bills, and one of the guys you claim is trying to change the culture in Buffalo has a Twitter page with him in his Texas uniform? Who the hell is he to question any Buffalo fan when being on the Bills apparently doesn't mean squat to him.

"Gee guys, you know, maybe we might all have our asses handed to us after this year"

I agree completely. They seem obsessed to find O-linemen that can play every position they can't find anyone who is really good at one position. Jack of all O-line positions, masters of none.

People were saying the O-Line was going to be a strength this year, but doesn't appear to be the case. The announcers mentioned that they all look like left tackles. Perhaps there are too many left tackles and not enough guards and right tackles.

First round picks don't get multiple seasons to come through. Another mediocre season and the new ownership and new head coach will try and find someone else - although the Watkins pick pretty much nailed that coffin shut for the next draft.

It would be hard to tell with the Dolphins. Even the change to the dolphin on their helmets is just a minor tweak. In any event, more than the uniform, it's the standing buffalo that is the real throwback for the Bills. I love it because that was on their helmets when I went to the Rockpile to watch the Bills as a kid all those many many years ago (and it was on their helmets when they won their two championships in '64 and '65). I recognize that other people's mileage may vary.

The Browns only kept their name because Cleveland was clearly screwed over by Art Modell and holy hell was raised because of the move. What is more likely to happen is like what happened to the Oilers. They moved to Tennessee but Bud Adams was a dick and changed the name to the Titans but retained the rights to the Oilers so the new Houston team could not use it. The Oilers helmet was so beautiful in its simplicity it is a shame it wasn't able to be resurrected. The Texans' helmet is just so Arena footballish. My guess is that when the team leaves Buffalo it will use a new name and the Bills name will be lost forever, not that Buffalo will ever be able to get a new team.

Well, I guess somebody has to reshuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic. Taken aback about questions regarding SJ; Crossman not fired on Black Monday; Moorman coming back; EJ already annointed starting QB. Blithering idiots, the lot of them, just a terrible organization. If either Hackett or Crossman are still on the staff next season Marrone should be instantly fired.

It's not just Marrone, although there is absolutely nothing about him that suggests he is a head coach who can take a dismal franchise and lead them to the playoffs. The whole organization is just a steaming pile of turds. The talent level on this team screams 8-8 at the very best, and that lies completely at the feet of the front office. $20M of unused cap space screams dollars mean far more than winning. Marrone's assistants are mediocre at best with the possible exception of Pettine (Hackett and the special teams coach are absolute clowns unworthy of being associated with an NFL team). This year has produced nothing that an unbiased observer would point to that gives hope for the playoffs in the near future. The whole organization needs to change, from the owner to the waterboy. Bills' fans deserve so much more than the crap teams this franchise produces.

The jury is still out on EJ, maybe he will develop and suddenly develop the accuracy that was missing in college and thus far in his fledgling NFL career. Even though it was a stupid pick, they made so they need to find out if it will pan out. What concerns me the most is Marrone saying they may have to simplify the playbook for EJ. I mean, wtf, they have been coddling him all year, and now they want to make it even simpler? That is a big warning flag.

I thought I made my disdain for Graham clear. If the choice was Rogers or Graham, give me Rogers. Graham is pretty much useless and Rogers has more upside. Still, one game with Rogers with Indy and having Luck to throw to him doesn't mean he will be productive in the long run.

I thought Graham should have been gone long ago, but before we anoint Rodgers as the next Jerry Rice, consider that he was thrown to by Andrew Luck today. If Rodgers had EJ throwing to him he would have had plenty of thrown to but overthrown plays.

If your franchise doesn't go to the playoffs for 14 straight seasons, and you have one winning season in those 14 years, comparatively speaking your organization is full of dunces. There is no way a well run franchise has those kind of results (and the evidence you cite, the releases of Fitz and Jackson and the signing of Kolb only bolsters the case that OBD is full of people not capable of making NFL quality decisions. Moreover, suggesting that EJ shouldn't have been picked is the first round is hardly the same as saying he was some D-III product. Suggesting that I said that or even implied that is, in your words, juvenile and irrational, not to mention just plain stupid. I still hope EJ turns out well, but nothing I have read or seen to date indicates that EJ has demonstrated that he will be a star in the NFL.

Neither. I think it was clear that Fitz was not the guy and they panicked. Plus, we can't dismiss the notion that Nix was never GM material so he just made a mistake. I don't think they wanted Nix as a fall guy. It is not unlikely that no one at One Bills Drive is all that bright. Let's face it, the organization has been hapless for a long long time.

I too thank you for the link, It confirms in my mind that the Bills drafting EJ in the first round was a bridge too far. I was ready for Fitz to go, but given the lousy QBs in the 2013 draft and the Bills being under the salary cap this year, they would have been better off waiting a year to draft the franchise QB. As many have noted, they won't draft another QB in 2014, so unless EJ turns things around the Bills are stuck with mediocre QB play for the next few years.

Born in Buffalo, still have the program of the first game I can remember attending (1962 game against Denver), sat in the stands in freezing weather watching the Bills lose to the Pats in the 1963 playoff game, the last real game I attended in Buffalo. Watching the Bills be so inept over the past 14 years is hard. It's like watching a child who has turned bad, perhaps like an addict that keeps going to rehab and you hope he is better this time, only to see them slip back into the same mistakes. Gotta keep loving them though.