TheBrownBear
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God, not already...a thread listing horrible coaches like Marty or Billick and then coaches who wouldn't set foot in Buffalo. No, say it hasn't come to this already!
Will these people just realize that a 94-year-old man still owns this team?
Lol...I know. There is no chance of turning this thing around until there's a new ownership group in place. Just get used to it and enjoy the level of mediocrity we've been treated to for 13 years or stop watching until Ralph Wilson is no longer the owner. I've chosen to stop watching...though I can't seem to stop whining about them on this board.
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Make that 14 years without the playoffs, at a minimum. Even under the best case scenario where we hire a competent coach and draft a franchise QB in the offseason, you're looking at a minimum of one season to develop the QB and install the new coach's philosophy. So, if everything falls just right for us, you're looking at a team that could possibly have a chance at the postseason in January 2015. Given our history, my guess is that we get the coaching change/frachise QB thing wrong for one more cycle (an additional 3-4 years), so we're looking at playoffs in 2018-2019. That would put us at roughly 20 years since our last playoff game.
It's funny, I remember my Dad and I laughing and making fun of my mother for crying after we lost the Homerun Throwback game. We told her it was just a game and that they'd make the playoffs next year. If only we knew, we would have been crying right along with her.
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My biggest problem with Fitz is that he totally blows in the clutch. He's really only been clutch in two games that I can remember and they occurred in back-to-back weeks last year (Raiders and Pats). Compare that with the games where he has either thrown a huge pick or failed to move the ball in the 2 minute drill to cost us a game (Chiefs, Pats, Bears in 2010; Giants and Cinci in 2011; Tennessee in 2012...just off the top of my head).
Agree with the general premise, though. By most objective measures, Fitz played well enough yesterday to win if we had even a below average defensive performance. Unfortunately for us, our defense is putrid.
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We have a culture of losing and it will stay this way until Ralph passes or we luck into a competent GM and/or coaching staff. You almost have to try to suck in order to miss the playoffs for 13 straight seasons in today's NFL.
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stupid fitz!
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if we had a real QB, D could play loose and aggressive.
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I blame fitz.
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way to get 'em ready, wanny.
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Never.
Outside of the Bills, I am a die-hard UCLA basketball fanatic. My freshman year at UCLA was 1997. I attended every home game from '97-'02. Our last championship was in 1995, when I lived in Buffalo and UCLA wasn't even on my radar. Since I've been a fan, we've been to the Final Four three times (three straight years) and lost them all. Now were mired in mediocrity under the guidance of an inept athletic director (sound familiar, Bills fans?).
The Bills, Sabres and UCLA Bruins (b-ball and football) are the only teams I have a legitimate rooting interest in. Given the state of things, I doubt I'll ever experience the ecstacy of a championship.
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Beyonce elicits a "meh" response from me. If you're going the pop route, I'd prefer Katy Perry to be honest.
I typically find Bono insufferable, but U2 was the best halftime show I've seen - followed by Prince and the Stones.
I'm only a casual fan, but I agree that the Foo Fighters are tailor made for the Super Bowl halftime act. Too bad they're on indefinite hiatus.
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These guys just make some dumb choices, it's not a talent thing for them.
Wrong. Rivers has no arm. He constantly underthrows guys and his deep throws consist of short punt-like fluttery jump balls. He has fallen way off in the last two years. Here's a sampling of the recurring themes I've heard all morning on San Diego sports talk radio with regards to Rivers:
- weak arm
- choker
- regressing
- no confidence
- underthrows the deep ball
- doesn't hit receivers in stride
- statue
- need to draft franchise quarterback
Any of this sound familiar?
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Rivers? No thanks. We already have a noodle armed turnover machine who chokes in big games. Don't need to swap it with the immobile version.
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27 tds 20 picks over 4500 yards passing almost a 63% completion pct and that was without Vincent Jackson for most of last season. His overall play was down from the prior few years but that might have something to do with gates being injured getting older, Matthews being injury prone. Their oline sucking. Ron Rivera leaving their defense and special teams which cost them more games then anyone last year. Speaks far more to the failings of AJ Smith then the shortcomings of Rivers as a qb. Contrary to the status quo opinions. When players age, get injured the overall numbers of a qb regardless of who they are will go decline steadily. Rivers still put up high level elite numbers. This is a team who again didn't have Vincent Jackson most of the season last year. Sproles left. Their special teams cost them off hand about 4 games last season alone. Their defense has lacked. They've done nothing to help out the oline. Now they lose Jackson/Tolbert ask Floyd to step up and be the #1 and still deal with oline and defensive issues
I live in san diego and watch more chargers games than bills games. get your facts straight. vincent jackson played all 16 games last year. it was 2010 where he held out for nearly the entire season (actually one of rivers' best seasons, so there goes the absence of vjax argument). you also left out rivers' 6 lost fumbles - and he literally fumbled away the chiefs game last year.
Rivers was great, statistically speaking, from '08 - '10, but he's been totally mediocre since then. And he's been at his worst in the clutch and in big mathups (tonight, 2nd half last week, last year vs Pats, Jets, etc.). The guy is slipping fast and it appears his best days are behind him. He's quickly approaching Carson Palmer territory.
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Rivers has sucked for two years now. He's fitz with more freedom and better weapons.
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guy went 1-8 down the stretch last year. Yoou think they're gonna bench him when he's won 4 of 6? Get real. Lol.
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gailey cost them this game
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lol...61 yards? Only the bills...
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looks like were being treated a textbook Bills loss today.
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here comes the defensive collapse. Book it.
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here comes the pick six
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I'm already there. Watching the Bills brings no joy or entertainment value. I watched ten minutes of the opener and the first quarter against the Browns and that's been it. I don't miss it a bit. Been using my Sunday's to fit in marathon training and/or hanging with my family.
I think the NFL in general is an inferior product to what it was 10-20 years ago. It's more like a 7 on 7 passing league at this point.
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this team is so freakin soft. I'm officially done with gailey. Should have hired marty.
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Lol...how quickly we eat our own. yeah, he's sucked, but it's only been 4 games and he's coming off a torn pec.
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Our linebackers and defensive philosophy suck. Other than that, we have good personnel. With the right defensive coordinator, this would be a legit top-10 defense.
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Lol...thank you for that one. Made my day.