clayboy54

Euthanasia might do it.

Like others, I wish everyone would stop with the "garbage time" comments. Watch the video, look at his fundamentals. This was his first ever regular season NFL action. The kid looks the part. Is he ready to pick apart top-10 defenses? No way. Does he deserve to start? Not yet. But NP clearly looks like he has a sound foundation for future consideration. Let him sit and learn as he currently is. Put him in when a game calls for it, to get him a little more game experience. Yes, in "garbage times." Next year he'll have fair chance to compete.

At the start of the season, we were slated as a 4-12 to 6-10 team according to many professional prognosticators. While they're not always right, they are expert at using their formulas to predict results based on talent. As we sit today, we will meet or exceed those expectations even under the worst-case scenarios. This is not due to misrepresentation of talent, but rather due to the coaching and management. We have discovered some positive results at positions of need, such as our secondary. We have cut ties with players that don't fit the team model. We have also identified areas of future need, such as the OL and DL. Though, we have found some players that may grow into those roles, or may not. We have found guys like Matt Milano who will eventually make sorting out the LB roles easier. It's easy to second guess this process when you view the microcosm of single games or even first seasons under this staff. If instead you look at this year as the learning experience that it really is, we ought to be pleasantly surprised. We may have fewer holes to fill than originally believed, and at the same time, we have a few holes to fill that we believed were passable. As we move through the second-half of the season, I bet we'll win some games we didn't expect to win, and undoubtedly, we'll lose some we should've been able to win. At the end of the year, we, and the coaching staff and management will have a much better idea where to use all those draft picks and cap money to fill those holes and take the next step. Kudos to McDermott and Beane for overachieving with a team that none of us figured would be any good. Honestly, I can't wait to see how this develops over the next several seasons. That's what makes this sport so darned much fun!

Which finger is it coming out of?

Person1: Waz Up? Person 2: Can you hear me now? Person 3: Dilly Dilly! Old lady in next room: Where's the beef?

Hopefully, Kraft will hire Rob Ryan to replace him.

I was a season ticket holder for All 3 of Cookie’s years with the Bills. He was a force that defenses couldn’t handle. The late Larry Felser spoke openly that the consensus among league historians was that had Cookie played in the US his entire career, he would have held the GOAT position that Jim Brown currently occupies. However, he didn’t. And his prime years were spent in Canada. Yet, the legacy of the great Bills teams of 63 thru 65 (AFL Champs in 64 & 65) we’re due in large part to his unstoppable running style, and how he opened up the pass because defenses had to stack the box to stop him. Of course, he was a troubled man. His later years lived as a recluse. And, like those kneeling today, Cookie led the movement for equality for players of color. In the 60s, that was not a popular position, especially in the South. But, the game is better because of his efforts, along with the support of his cause from the late Jack Kemp. Sadly his personality disorders effected his off-field life, and when it spilled into the locker room, he was sent to Denver in 65. Maybe it was CTE, even though it was not diagnosed way back then. Like OJ, Cookie’s legacy on the field is legendary. His off-field problems should not lessen his contributions to the game. As a major part of some of the very best Bills teams, his place on the Wall is deserved.

Yeezus is way worse than SaviorP. However, isn’t it interesting that so many others agree with their takes, however bizarre? It is just mind-boggling how an enjoyable win can bring out so much doom and gloom from so-called fans.

Between the politics of kneeling during the anthem, and the pisspoor officiating, the league is killing the golden goose. It’s a shame actually.

If the Bears lose due to that pick, it’ll be tough for the kid.

So, I'm guessing none of you want to buy my home and away Watkins jerseys.

Perhaps Mills has a brother that we could hire to replace him!

Boy, I thought Winston and the Bucs were supposed to be good. I guess not.

Tyrod kept us in the game for 1st overall pick. He speaks the truth!

Remember, we knocked an official out of the game. It's just like killing a cop. After that, you are dead meat.

@Ralph, can you please translate your post? I can't understand anything you wrote.

That's the best damn news I've heard today!

My wife's pissed off, but not at the Bills. LOL

If Shady can't run behind this line, we really might not win a game.

Is it CHEAP?

Joe Flacco

Interestingly, part of the "culture" comes from outside of the team. I know that players and coaches say they don't read the news, but they're out in public and experience the community mindset. They can't help but feel the culture of losing from our community. Remember the "lovable losers?" As a WNY ex-pat, it is clear to me that the way of life in WNY is to accept being second best. Buffalo has always been second to NYC. When the NFL expanded in the 50s, teams from the old AAC like Cleveland and San Francisco got into the NFL. Buffalo was left out. When Branch Rickey's Continental Baseball League was to become the third major league in 1959, Buffalo was chosen, but we know how that turned out. Again, Buffalo was left out. When MLB expanded in 1968, Buffalo again was chosen, then somehow we ended up as the Montreal Expos. I still don't understand how that happened. But yet again, Buffalo was on the outside looking in. And finally, how about those four consecutive Super Bowl losses. People from all over the world still bring that up when you mention Buffalo. We're always second best, or left out. Whether it's the local government or the sports teams. WNYers have always been left playing second fiddle. We were all born and raised that way, and it's not going to change. Unless the Bills can find another ultra-self-confident leader, like Jim Kelly was when he got to Buffalo, that community "second best" culture will always be present in the locker room.

Sure, but even then, he averaged over 1,000 yards a season over his 10-year career. His average yards per catch was 18.9. They didn't keep YAC stats back then, but he was usually running pretty free. Those are pretty awesome numbers for the 1960s, don't you think?

The most remarkable WR I ever saw in-person or on TV was Lance Alworth. In an age where receivers weren't untouchable like today, Bambi tore up the field. He was fast, agile and was a great route-runner. His hands were soft and he almost never dropped a pass or fumbled the ball. And, he was hit by some of the best, when high hits were legal, too. While his coach Sid Gilman revolutionized the game to what we have today, he couldn't have done it without a receiver to fit the bill. Alworth is the closest to today's elite WRs that you'll find from the old days. He'd clearly be elite if he played today. You can't say that about many if any old players at any position.

Wilbon & Kornheiser make absolutely no sense to me, either. Interesting!