Livinginthepast

I've seen a lot of bad Bills efforts in my years as a fan but this half could be one of the worst because each side of the ball, the special teams and the coaches have all been ABYSMAL. 100% terrible effort with mega penalties and inept ball skills.

The Bills recovered that fumble in bounds!! why no challenge!!

One of the worst fgs I have ever seen.

what on earth was that? Peterman's RJ imitation?

sorry but that offside on the punt was BS

This is an excellent point. Rob Johnson was so bad for the Bills that his trainwreck of a career obscures that he did further damage because of who they potentially could have picked in round #1 in the 1998 draft. I looked up the 1998 draft and the Jags chose Fred Taylor at 9 (with the Bills pick). Taylor was a pretty solid RB for the Jags and obviously far superior to RJ. In addition the Bills might have drafted Randy Moss as well, like Minni did at 21. But here is one of the weirder ironies of the RJ trade. Who did the Titans pick at 16? Kevin Dyson who beat the Bills on the home run throwback. The Bills might have had him to and changed their future, and we would have never had that nightmare play. Instead of any of these picks they got RJ robo sack.

He was a solid coach and a class act. I became a Bills fan with his teams of early 80s. The Bills were in good hands under him. A great long life, well lived!

I was dragged to that event by a friend who thought it would be some drunken entertainment. Rome arrived at Pilot field in a white Bronco a la OJ and him and the "coach" who was I think wearing a moo moo (some XXXXXL Hawaiian shirt?) began to rip into Doug Flutie with their guest, an awkward Rob Johnson. The whole spectacle revealed to me what dbags Dickerson and Rome were. Dickerson as a radio host was entertaining and very opinionated but like most blowhards, he tried to cover his ignorance with a smoke screen of faux knowledge of the "playbook". Schopp is condescending but at least he tries to form a coherent argument with some evidence. Hard to believe that Schopp and the Coach actually hosted a show together for a year?

I'm seriously wondering if Zay will ever play football on his own terms ever again let alone at what the team or the NFL might do to him. This is a serious situation. If Zay had a mental breakdown that's one thing but the types of drugs that might have triggered this situation are enough to get you suspended or cut very quickly. He's very lucky he is still alive after that kind of detachment from reality

Thanks, that was a great article!! LT truly belonged in the HOF for so many reasons!

Karlos also got a bad concussion during his rookie year. I wonder if that had any effect on his disintegration as an NFL player. Excessive marijuana use before your mid 20s can sometimes trigger schizophrenia and other mental issues as well. Then there is all the stress of instant success when you have no support or bad influences around you. All in all , a recipe for disaster for a pro athlete.

I cannot believe what I am reading on here. All these people who want the rule to stay as is??? and not change it?? Sorry but the officials are getting WORSE in this league not better and the amount of bad PI calls last year that resulted in huge and undeserved gains down the field was ridiculous, especially in the playoffs. The sad fact is that receivers in the NFL are now like soccer players and they fake PI and "simulate" it when they cannot get to the ball to get an undeserved call. A bad PI call swung that Jags/Pats game in the playoffs. I think this would be a great rule change because it would mitigate the damage from inevitable bad officiating that is only going to get worse!! The current punishment for the crime of PI doesn't equate to the offense. Its literally the worst penalty you can take in football. Even unsportmanlike or unnecessary roughing (far more serious offenses) are maxed at 15 yards yet you can gain 50 yards or more on a phantom PI call. That is simply ridiculous.

I remember a mock draft at the time saying that Ngata was an obvious pick for the Bills. I didn't know anything about him before the draft but once I looked him up it made perfect sense they would pick him. Then they mysteriously didn't pick him. Another boneheaded move by the Bills. Most of the drafts of the past 20 years, its like the Bills management and the scouts did zero homework on many of these picks and were just guessing.

Johnny Football comes across as a guy who never thinks things through and lets his massive ego get in the way of life decisions. A full season in the CFL would have shown what he could still do and especially would have been a showcase for what we know he is good at: scrambling, throwing on the run and adlibbing. I think this is a bad decision borne out of impatience and entitlement.

LOL this might be my favorite thread of the entire season/year/decade!! I'm glad to see that other people's lives are so mundane/empty that they too have been driven to rage by these cheeseball jingles on WGR like me! Sometimes I picture that WGR's ad dept is run by a 97 year old man who was a guru of commercials in the 1950's. Because it is truly a timewarp to another era. There also seems to be a link to the male singer and the female singer(s) because they appear in multiple spots but always are awful. Some of my other favourites not listed above include: Buffalo people know how to eat and Buffalo KNOW how to have a good time!! (cant remember the bar) Paddock chev Golf dome (where golf dreams are made) Lenko Lumber Riverfront auto.....WOW Any of the Indian Smoke shop. Jeremy White selling his soul to tout duct cleaning My wife patently refuses to listen to WGR for any reason in the car but esp after she heard the Puccilo ad!!

Anyone remember Billy Smith, the NY Islanders goalie from their dynasty in the early 80s?? One of the best goalies of the era and also a total dbag. He never shook hands after a game at the end of the series when they won those cups. I don't ever remember anyone else ever doing that before or since. As for Brady, he was probably still pissed at getting the ball slapped out of his hands on that fumble. He looked like he was blaming someone on the sideline right after. Even though it was entirely his fault for not sensing the pressure. In any case a pretty classless move not shaking hands with Foles. Maybe he was jealous that Foles can catch?

Yes I get your point esp about the players other than Hobert on that list but I was joking about them and they didn't scam anyone, they just sucked. But Hobert quite literally WAS a fraud in every sense of the word. He signed a contract to be a QB with this team in 1997 and probably thought that he wouldn't play. He ended up playing against the Patriots and the performance was godawful. Like they took some guy from the crowd and put him in the game. After the loss he admitted to reporters that he didn't know the Bills playbook and was subsequently cut immediately. So basically he was getting paid and faking that he was he was NFL QB. For sure I could see this translate into crime in the real world but it was actually Shane Matthews who is the guy going to jail, who if I remember was a decently hardworking journeyman QB. Not who I expected at all.

Foles is obviously capable of brilliance. These Philly playoff games were some of the best played games by any QB ever. The problem is inconsistency. Foles has never shown the ability to sustain this brilliance over the course of a season or more than one season in a row. That's always been his problem. Can he win another SB? Can he ever do this again? It will be interesting to see. At the same time Foles is an amazing example of coaches working with the talent they had and the limitations and producing an offensive plan that worked perfectly. It just seems so obvious looking at what Reich and Pedersen did with Foles, tailor your offense to what he does well and play to his strengths. Yet over and over again we see these boneheaded, stubborn coaches who want their players to fit their scheme and wont accommodate anything. Dennison was probably one of the worst coaches I have ever seen who didn't bother to adjust his scheme for a QB and was terrified to trust his QB to execute any complex play. Now TT may have derailed him by being overly cautious but I get the impression that Dennison was too full of himself to change anything for his QB. I think that as the NFL has expanded over the past 25 years the talent pool and the concentration of quality intelligent coaches has plummeted to an all time low. I can only hope we might get a return to common sense coaching in the future to compensate!

I thought for sure this would be Hobert. He committed one of the biggest frauds in Bills history when he got paid and had no idea of the playbook in 1997. Rob Johnson was another fraud who took the Bills for millions with nothing in return. There's a whole bunch of Bills (non QBS) who should be charged for fraud and have to pay back the fans. Mike Williams, Aaron Maybin to name a few.

Its very fitting that Frank Reich gets his SB ring by using a backup QB in a big game. I think Reich and Pedersen deserve an enormous amount of credit for thinking on their feet and perfectly adjusting their offense to Foles. Smart coaching results in success who would have thought. Reich will always be a legend for the comeback vs the Oilers but I always felt bad for Reich that he had to step into that terrible situation in the first Bills SB vs Dallas when Kelly went down. The game got out of hand and there was no comeback miracles that day. I remember Reich just being humble and matter of fact after the game about the epic beat down they received. It must have felt great after all these years to become a champion!!

Sadly I must agree with the GOAT analysis for Brady. However his record in SBs should be 3-5. Pedersen didnt blink last night and stayed aggressive, didn't do full brain cramp/choke like the Carroll and Quinn did. Had those teams gone for the throat or not given away their advantages the Pats would have lost both games handily and Brady would have been forever tainted. That didn't happen and instead Brady got a lifeline and was able to prove that he was the GOAT.

Just try it, just try anything innovative, cool. Dennison was so afraid to do anything complex.

Could TT have caught it? Yes to your question, not sure on mine!

Hell yeah!!