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In today's world the media decides what it is allowable to say or think, if what you say in public doesn't match their view of correctness, you will be castigated.

Glad your mother didn't feel that way.

After observing what happened at PT after my wife had one knee done, I would encourage you to do both at the same time. Many Docs want a week in between. The problem is that PTis long and painful, with them both being done at roughly the same time you will only spend half as much time dreading PT. I have volunteered at a local hospital for almost 15 yrs and I have come to believe that the patients who are sent to a PT facility a day or two after surgery , for about a week, as opposed to being sent home for in home visits or for self applied continuous positive movement machines have the best outcomes. In either case it's a good idea to take some kind of pain med before PT sessions. The knee doesn't really hurt until they try to get you to bend it 130 degrees. GOO D LUCK

My first pick also

These 2 guys play like 25 year olds and are the two biggest leaders on the team. BRING EM BACK!!!!!

ABSURD! The biggest problem this team has had for the best 2 decades is the constant changing! Every year we have a new system, 4-3, then 3-4. The new regime says the last regimes draft picks don't fit the system, get rid of them and bring in new picks-------------------2 years later new coach, new system---the last guys picks don't fit the new system . Every year the guys come back and instead of improving on what they learned last year---------they spend months learning ANOTHER new system, whether it's offense or defense. Let's get some continuity! The individual units, be it Oline, DBs , LBs or QB/WRS or TEs or even RBs, they need to know each other and be able to anticipate how each will react to a given situation. This doesn't happen because someone, either a HC, a coordinator or QB is run out of town by the media {see Jerry Sullivan} or the fans. Yes, I believe the new regime has made some mistakes, especially leaving the team without an experienced QB to guide or back-up our young guys. I wonder if they had made our all-pro guard Incognito a decent offer instead of a pay cut----would he have gone bonkers and left us with 40% of the Oline changing? It was probably obvious to almost everyone that Robert Wood and Chris Hogan were PLAYERS----wouldn't we love to have those two guys NOW! They've made mistakes, but hopefully they've learned from them. Let's give them some time to develop that continuity that every good team must have.

As the year began, I and many others thought our defense would be good but our linebacking might be a problem with a rookie [20 yrs old] calling signals plus a 2nd year guy [Milano] with practically no experience and a 35 yr old. I think they have been great! Germaine has lots to learn but he WILL be very good. Milano has been lights out and Lorenzo has been playing better than he ever has. This entire defense looks great, even Jordan Phillips as new as he is has been a good addition.

How about building with the draft. The scouts are apparently doing a great job-----half dozen draft picks from this year making significant contributions-----using cap money to extend players proven to work in OUR system and already under contract instead of waiting til expiration when price is likely to go up. With the amount of cap space available next year we certainly could do some extensions AND pick up a couple of sure fire free agents. I believe the idea of continuity especially on the oline where familiarity within the UNIT seems to mean almost as much as shear talent can be more important then continually bringing in guys who may not meld well or don't perform in OUR system the way they did with their former teams.

Yeah, I agree. From what I've heard we got a 2019 5th rounder which gives us 10 picks next year. I also heard that AJ represents 3Mill in dead cap this year. If we end up ,[and we probably will] needing a 3rd qb for the reasons you stated, we'll have to shell out more dough. I would have rather kept AJ as a backup, and see if some teams got needy in the middle of the season due to injury to their QB. By that time maybe the o-line will have jelled a bit and we could afford to risk having only 2 qbs plus at that stage of the game we could probably do better than a 5th rd pick. I'm not sayin, I'm just sayin.

Just turned 80. We've been living in south Florida since 1972. We were original season ticket holders and very active in the Booster Club until a job change took us south. The family still gathers every Sunday for THE GAME and dinner. We have also traveled to B'lo for a number of games over the years and still love the atmosphere at the stadium. The Bills were still playing at the ROCKPILE when we left. Due to Booster Club activities we used to be able to spend time with and get to personally know many of the players back then. Among the friendliest and easiest to know were Sestak, Edgerson, Duby and Tommy Day. Lots of great memories from those days. Hope the enthusiasm never dies! Go Bills!!

We used to go to Elmira to visit friends and we laughed when we would go over this bridge which was over the Chemung " river". We thought it was funny they called it a river. About 200 ft. down was a trickle of water that struggled to be a brook. I think it was early summer of probably 1971, an early season hurricane, came up the west coast of Florida and shoved some water in Tampa Bay and caused some flooding downtown. Then that storm went up the east coast of the US and dropped an incredible amount of rain, flooding was epic and I was told that bridge I spoke of was knocked out by HOUSES floating down what had been a trickle of water. I lived in Buffalo, Cheektowaga and Lancaster til I was 34 yrs old and saw some good lightening storms, but in 1972 we moved to the West Palm Beach area. They say Florida is the lightening capitol of the US--------------believe me I HAVE NO REASON TO DOUBT IT! My houses have been hit 3 times, a tree 20ft. away from where I was driving got blown into toothpicks and I have a nephew who claims he was hit 3 times in his life. The nightime cloud to cloud lightening that I call the "southern Lights" is beautiful to watch but the ones that come down can be pretty scary. By the way, about 25 yrs ago it rained 30" in North Palm Beach in 24 hrs.

In my mind, it seems that the never ending negativity coming from some Buffalo writers particularly Sullivan is partially responsible for the Bills lack of success.Yeah, I know that sounds ridiculous. I just wonder if some of those GMs, Head Coaches, Quarterbacks etc who failed since the great Super Bowl teams, could have gotten the job done if they had not been pressured or chased out of town by the press drumming up disfavor against them. With some of these writers you get 2 yrs to get to the Super Bowl or Pro Bowl if you haven't done it by then, the pressure is on to make changes. I understand that the Bills have made some bad choices and they are the primary reasons for 20 yrs of failure. None the less the public is bombarded with stories about lack of leadership, hopelessness, and how the organization does not go all out to develop a winner. I was personally turned off by Sullys never ending discouraging columns.

By the way, as I understand it, because he had severe dementia when he died, his family had scientists look at his brain [probably part of that NFL study] and it was basically mush. Another aside, even though he pretty well did as he pleased with regard to team activity and practices and he had multiple scrapes with the law---------------the guys who he played with viewed him as a sort of Superman, an indomitable figure who could do things no one else could. I wonder what he might have accomplished if he had gone to college and played in the NFL with coaches who could control him. { I think he was a 28 yr old rookie when he came from Canada to Buffalo]

You are absolutely correct. He always seemed to WANT to run into someone. I remember when he was kicking off, he would kick the ball, then run down the field with his arms spread and make noises like an airplane and knock down several of the opposition on the way down the field. On 2 separate occasions, he ran into Patriot DBs and cause them to swallow their tongues. In spite of the fact that we also had Wray Carlton, an excellent ball carrier in the same backfield, when it was 3rd and less than 5, there was no question who would carry the ball and they STILL could not stop him.

Indeed he was a "D9" but Cookie was very fast for a 250 lb guy and I remember John Wooten who was A guard with the old Cleveland Browns, telling me that even when Gilchrist tried out for Cleveland when he was 17 yrs old, that he was a better blocker than Jim Brown [but of course JB was DEFINETLY not known for his blocking]

Tom Day did play both sides of the ball [not in the same season], Cookie was an all Canadian MLB before coming to B'lo and while with the Bills did some kick-offs and FG kicking.

I think you did a great job. I was never a Stew Barber fan so I would go with Joe Devlin. I wish there was a special teams category for Steve Tasker and I would have put either Kyle or Pat Williams in front of Dunaway

As they say in the south, "CNN__ they'd rather climb a tree to tell a lie, than stand on the ground and talk the truth"

Yeah, I forgot about AW, he was a GREAT tackler.

What??? mustaches???

IMO he was the best tackling DB since George Saimes

Not the first time someone suggested I was brainless. IMO the Bills HAD to find out if they already had their future QB on the roster. It didn't work out as they hoped for sure, but I think we learned very little about NP that game and I still believe he can be an NFL QB, but I also believe that of A.J. and Josh. If I had ever failed a math test in my first year of high school------------I would hope the teacher, my classmates and my parents would not have written me off as hopeless failure with no future.

All the networks especially CNN are so anxious to get their spun versions of everything political on the tube, that I've stop believing any of it. Trump who is an expert at making a fool of himself---- made a fool of CNN and NBC by winning the election, they will never forgive him, and will certainly never stop harassing him especially when about half the country agrees with them. If these North Korea and Iranian deals works out as we hope these networks will start looking even more foolish.

As an original Bills season ticket holder, I had to go with Cookie. I absolutely love Thurman, Shady, OJ [as a player], Joe Cribbs and Fred. Cookie was from another planet. Third and 4----they knew he was coming, but nothing could be done, he could not be stopped, it was this that gave birth to the iconic "LOOKIE LOOKIE HERE COMES COOKIE" saying. Once into the open field, a defensive back was looking at the end of his career if Cookie was coming at him. At 6' 3' and 245 lbs, Gilchrist LOOKED for collisions. I forget his name, but there was a Patriot DB who , on 2 separate occassions, swallowed his tongue after colliding with this guy. At a booster club meeting, attended by not only a bunch of Bills but a half dozen players for the Cleveland Browns [they were in town for a charity basketball game against the Bills] I was talking to some of the Browns about Cookie, They knew him because immediately after high school when he was 17 yrs old he tried out for the Browns at fullback when they still had Jimmy Brown. They liked him and followed his career in Canada [where he played MLB and fullback], and then with the Bills. One of them a guard named John Wooten, told me that he thought Gilchrist was just as strong and fast as Brown and was a far better blocker. From what I understand the Browns came under some fire from the league for trying to hire a player under 18. He was a living legend among the guys he played with. I'm not sure he was completely wired right because he did some REALLY bizarre stuff. I don't recall why----but for a time, he kicked off and also kicked FGs. He would kick off, then run down field with his arms out wide and made a sound like an airplane as he blasted one opponent after the other. He was also a bit of a problem OFF the field. He had a number of confrontations with the Buffalo PD, it seemed he did not care to be told to leave places that he chose to be at. He ended up paying a severe price for his ferocious style of play. It seems like it was about 5-6 yrs ago that I came across an address for Cookie and emailed him, and asked how he was doing. It turns out he was doing very poorly and had severe medical problems that he was unable to afford treatment for. He died not long after and his family donated his brain to whatever entity was accumalating info on brain injuries common to football players. I read that his brain had suffered catastrophic damage, that I'm sure was a result of his violent style of play. I won't go into it here, but if you're interested, look up the story about going to an all-star game in New Orleans and finding out that the black players were told they couldn't stay at the same hotel as the white players. Like I said before---- he didn't like being told he had to leave some place he chose to be at----it made an interesting story if you care to look it up.