Livinginthepast

I cannot for the life of me understand how Peterman gets a 2nd chance let alone a 3rd chance to start. He is terrible and has shown nothing in the regular season to merit a start. In fact he has proven every case for anyone to cut him outright. As for Tuel, he played better than Peterman in the chance he got but that pick 6 at the goal line vs the Chiefs is the play that will haunt me forever! Neither is an NFL calibre QB.

I thought Judon's shoulder to the chest of Allen was one of the dirtiest, least sportsmanlike plays I have seen in the NFL in a long time. It wasn't an insignificant hit, Allen went down pretty hard and was angry. Most players on the sideline would have bear hugged him to stop his momentum but Judon gives him a shoulder. If that wasn't enough Judon hits Allen late in the head on the field a few plays later and gets an unsportsmanlike penalty. What bugged me more than the dirty play? The Bills players wimpy reaction, nobody backed up Allen or went after Judon.

"It’s gross negligence for Beane to have surrounded his young quarterback with this deficient an offense" Absolutely spot on Sully. What the hell was Beane thinking? No incognito and no Wood and no replacements?? what did they think was going to happen? Instead of planning a game plan for the scenario that the crappy line was going to be overwhelmed and maybe running the ball or making quick throws. They arrogantly seem to have thought that their offensive game plan would work anyway with Peterman no less.

Been watching since the 1979 opener when I was almost 11. Now I am almost 50 and that has to be the worst opener ever. I don't remember them ever looking so bad out of the gate. Every possible thing went wrong for them. I cannot believe that Beane would have had no idea about the shortcomings of the team and just hope for the best. An absolute embarrassment from top to bottom!

Truly a pathetic performance. And the scariest part is that Baltimore really isn't very good either. Can you imagine if we played the Pats or Philly?

OMG the most amazing toe tap and the Bills are being pounded.

Absolutely but what sane GM would have traded for Peterman?? He is penny stock right now!

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.