Livinginthepast

Trubisky was 2-5 as a starter for the Steelers, Pickett was 14-11. I mean both are mediocre at best right now, but Trubisky has fallen off the cliff in quality.

Better than Trubisky?

After the 13 seconds game I thought he was going to be a superstar on this team. I still really dont know what happened? Was it Gabe or the change of OCs? or neither?

For me the shock of yesterday was minor, it was sad to see Tre and Poyer go but the 2000 purge, as others have mentioned was really hard to stomach. I felt like somebody died that day and the realization that the 90s Bills core were never going to win a Superbowl just seemed so excruciatingly unfair. Felt a bit like that when Kelly retired as well but we got so close again with that team in the 1999-2000 season, I thought they could get redemption!

Not suggesting that all. Just trying to understand why you bring in a backup who proved himself totally useless when called upon last year and costs more money than a rookie would? Heaven forbid if Josh got injured but I would want somebody who might be able to win a game. Even Rudolph was better than Trubisky last year.

Of all the moves yesterday, this one had me puzzled. Trubisky looked so bad last year with the Steelers. Why not sign a rookie instead of this retread. Is this just a move to make Josh feel comfortable? Like theres no competition whatsoever for the starting job? What's the logic here?

Todays cuts had me thinking about the last time we mass released some beloved veteran players. Although I can safely say that I support today's moves and didnt support the cuts in 2000. Todays moves seem professional and done respectfully but I didn't get that feeling about Bruce, Thurman and Andre's release. That smacked of disrespect and cheapness. How do you remember Black Thursday 2000? https://theathletic.com/2106913/2020/10/01/bills-bruce-smith-thurman-thomas-andre-reed/

Irks me to no end that we got Sammy Watkins instead of Mack and that he had a Buffalo connection already.

In the Titans playoff game, Johnson was 10 for 22 for 130 yards passing with SIX sacks. He fumbled twice in the game including once for a safety. Johnson did enough to win on the last drive and I give him credit for his perseverance but he was average to crap in that game. Even at half time the TV hosts like Steve Young were calling for him to be pulled. Yet we should have won that game because just like all of that 99 season, Wade had the defense playing well and they contained Mcnair and George. But just like 13 seconds the Bills found an improbable way to lose. For the record Johnson looked great against Indy the week before in a game where the Colts didnt show up but that was only his 2nd game of the season! No team and coach in their right minds would bench a starter (Flutie) of a team that was 11-5 in a regular season for a cold unused backup on the off chance that they would be better than the starter for a playoff game. Even had Johnson won that game it was still an incredibly bad choice to bench Flutie and there was a good chance that the decision threw the whole team off. There was also a good chance that Flutie would be back as the starter the next week due to Johnson's mediocrity. Absolutely unprofessional and bush league for Ralph to interfere and force that decision and gutless of Wade to allow it. But in the end very Billsy.

This is probably accurate. Dickerson was the number Flutie hater in Buffalo during those years and was responsible for the non stop campaign against him. He fully contributed along with some other of the "B" team radio people at WGR to divide the fan base sow discord in the team.

I was just reminding a buddy of mine of one these pranks where an effeminate voice kept calling the coach a "beautiful butterball" or something to that effect which elicited a furious reaction!

I found this documentary very difficult to watch when it came out. It brought back a lot of bitter traumatic memories of watching each one live in my early 20s. We definitely should have won the first SB and possibly the last. But the first one was ours and we completely blew it. Coming off that destruction of the Raiders, I have never felt more confident in a Bills game ever and never was I so let down. I've still never figured out what happened in that game vs the Giants. Was it the partying of the players and a massive hangover?, a lack of preparation for the Giants and some severe overconfidence? Did the Bills just choke under the national pressure? The Belichick factor? Or just supreme bad luck? We didnt even have the excuse of the 2 week break between games to lose our edge! The next two SBs were just blowouts that were pretty much over by half time. The last one though was on the players who just had a loser mentality and crumbled under the stress. Once things went south in that game, the players just went into their "here we go again mode" and let Dallas beat them. But had we won the first SB, everything is different for the rest!

No! Not the playbook! Wasnt that covered on an episode of the Brady Bunch?

Chiefs are like a Vampire, You have to stake them in the heart or they come back to life. The last 3 teams they beat (including us) didnt finish them when they had the chance and instead crumbled. Had we not had the injuries this season, I think we beat them in the playoffs. I guess its an accomplishment we came as close as we did with the scrubs we had filling in for the injuries. Mahomes, though is just on another level. He just gets it done when it matters. I think Josh is so close to taking the next step but he lacks the coaches and the team depth that KC has built up.

Blocked PAT was huge. Who would have thunk it.

The one guy we should have got from Carolina but didnt.

Did Gene Skelator just disagree with an onfield ref?

That was a bit deranged.

Not a horse collar, it was jersey!

Christie just lost his SB record.

This is an excellent point but trying to do exactly that was intensely stupid on Rex's part. The best part of the forgettable Marrone era was Jim Schwartz's Defense!

Sorry I dont see Carolina in his resume? what gives?

Alcoholism is a demon that stalks you but he is an ex player, with a mega successful son who has the means to at the very least mitigate, if not cure his addiction. Where the hell is the family? He's lucky he didn't kill somebody.

Eric "Sleeping with" Bieniemy!! Sorry That's a little tribute to Chris Berman there circa 1990 for the old folks on here.

I think we also fumbled 2 more times and we recovered them!