Rocky Landing

I heard Gisele's been arguing with Belichick over the uniforms-- wants to dress Tom in something more stylish.

Well, I live in Los Angeles, so I take what I can get. But, if I could get my hands on it, I'd be drinking Genesee Cream Ale every Sunday.

This thread should be renamed, "Bills Poetry Slam." Open it up a bit.

I love this move. CJ is a versatile player (remember when Chan had him at WR?), whose versatility is underutilized. IMO.

I can't stop! Our backup RBs aren't just filler or benchwarmers for FJ and Spiller With Dixon, and Brown Two new sheriffs in town Our 1-2-3-4 punch is killer

One more: Our head coach is Douglas Marrone He makes miracles out of baloney He won't try to please ya Like Mother Theresa Just call him our Good Saint Jabroni

Written without a shred of irony...

I'm glad of the Orton pick-up. I think we made a mistake ditching Thad. If this is considered a "panic" move, it is because the FO didn't see a single, viable back-up on the roster. Personally, I see the coaching staff looking too much at the preseason, and not enough from last season. Thad did alright by us, given the situation he stepped into last season. That shouldn't be so easily discounted.

This was a very inspirational read. Truth be told, it is really a puff-piece, and has to be taken with a grain of salt. That being said, I don't believe there is any fabrication here, and we can all hope that his preseason, and past-season woes were not entirely indicative of his ability.

Limericks are better: There once was a quarterback named EJ The Bills bought him cheap off of eBay Unfortunately his knees Were made out of string cheese But the fans gave him plenty of leeway. -OR- A quarterback named EJ Manuel His career didn’t start off too well But in spite of the boos During preseason blues He threw the ball like a bat out of Hell -OR- A Buffalo Bill player named Williams, And Williams, and Williams, and Williams All said to each other Don’t sweat it, my brother Mediocrity will still make us millions Whatcha all got?

I'm a little amazed at how may people are declaring, "give him a full season." I would bet that 95% of these folks (all but the most stubborn of the stubborn) would be singing a very different tune were we to go 0-8 by the bye week.

Interesting thread How many on TBD Even know Haiku?

Golly...

This is hard to hear. Even as a Pat, he was hard to dislike, and even harder to disrespect. I wonder which one it was? Adderall, and Ritalin are both amphetamines. The "why" to this story is important, as well as the "when." Amphetamine is used for a variety of reasons. If he was doing it after the game, he was probably doing little more than damaging himself. Before a game is an entirely different story. Neither are cool. The bad part is that amphetamines are considered a performance, and cognitive enhancer.

So, when your marriage goes bad, and "run its course," you divorce, and jump into another one? I would suggest that a better, more apt analogy (unless you really are a cur), rather than "marriage gone bad," would be "bandwagon not going anywhere." Obviously, a bandwagon that only sees six, or so wins a season is not much of a bandwagon. And so, you hopped off, and climbed aboard another one. Fine. But, at that point, looking over and informing us (an "us" you no longer belong to) of your "unbiased opinions," will be perceived as intellectually dishonest nose-thumbing. That is my unbiased opinion of you: an intellectually dishonest nose-thumber.

The Bears are favored by 6.5 points in this game, and I think that is about right. But, I think it will be a low scoring game. Cutler will get it done. EJ will struggle. But, our run game should be effective. The Bears were horrible at stopping the run sat season (worse, I believe, even than us). That should be improved from last season, but only so much. For me, in this game, Hackett is more of a question mark than EJ. Will he properly utilize our run game? Will he be able to use our run-heavy offense to take pressure off our passing game? Will his obsession with with the hurry-up run our own guys into the ground and befuddle EJ?

I'm sure Fitz would be happy with that.

I read the link. There are two ways this thread could have been titled: 1) "Stevie Johnson Struggling to Secure #3 Spot with 49ers" -or- 2) "Stevie Johnson Competing to Secure #3 Spot with 49ers" I'm so sick of the SJ bashing. Get over it. I will almost always wish a former Bill well. Stevie Johnson's heart, mind, and spirit were always in the right place, and he did right by us during one of the worst periods in Bill's history-- a period we are still in. We could use some of his bright, optimistic energy right about now, in fact.

I think that if the design of the play was to throw to FJ, then he had time. It wasn't- FJ was an option, and clearly not his first read. FJ was also in his blind side. There are QBs who can go through their reads that quickly, see the defenders coming, and get the ball out quick enough. EJ is not one of them. Also, very poor blocking by Richardson that caused EJ to take the sack. EJ needed to protect the ball better, but in preseason, it's more important to protect himself. And, as another poster alluded, had he gone to FJ that quickly, we very well might be reading a thread making comparisons to "Captain Checkdown." Just my take.

Not sure why this is supposed to make me feel better about anything. Nice beard, though.

I think that a good definition of an “internet troll” is someone who, from the anonymous safety of their computer, will goad others into a pointless, no-win debate with the goal of creating conflict. The internet troll, while utilizing rhetorical semantics, is not interested in logic, resolution, honest discourse, deliberation, or even changing minds. The ultimate goal of an internet troll is to elicit as much anger as possible from those with whom they disagree (even slightly). It is this thrill of conflict that gives the internet troll their feeling of power, and validation. No one on these boards should be surprised at the insulting, disrespectful, and ultimately childish tenor of Johnny Gold’s posts. His blindness to his own hypocrisy has been on display in this thread, and others. In an earlier post he complained that someone had made fun of his screen name, and then in the very same post, lamented that he had been censured for calling someone a “faggot.” For real. Who would want to engage a person with such a clouded self-image? Not me. Of course, this sort of cowardly prodding is nothing new, and it can be found all over the internet. In the above post, he tips his hand rather obviously when he declares, to whomever he hopes to offend, “I am smarter than you.” From the comments sections of CNN, to Craigslist Rants and Raves, it has become utterly commonplace. And, while even the majority of our most incendiary posters know better than to sabotage their own viewpoints with such childishness, TBD is not immune.

Quite a "glass half full" perspective you got, there. There are several other, less optimistic, ways you could have interpreted those numbers. For example, you rather arbitrarily picked 11+ teams as the litmus. I think that might apply better had we been somewhere in the neighborhood of nine or ten wins ourselves, last season, or the season before. But, of course, we weren't. We've been 6-10, or worse, for the last five seasons. A more realistic litmus for teams better than us would be 8+. That would be 11 (8+) teams this season, as opposed to 8 (8+) teams last season.

Cheers!

I have enjoyed reading through this thread, and reading the opinions of pessimists, optimists, and realists alike. But, I do wish this thread had been started by someone other than a person who exhibits such disdain for the players. Certainly, fights during practice, while not uncommon in the league, are not the most productive, or encouraging moments of the offseason. But, the notion that this is endemic of a team that would not be capable of winning more than two games in a season is beyond defeatist. And, the OP's continued assertion that he wishes an 0-16 season (when we have no first round pick to look forward to), is offensive to every fan, and spits in the face of every player.

As far as the national media is concerned (and, for that matter, local media as well), just about every single story concerning the Bills is peppered with some variation of the phrase, "...it all hinges on EJ Manuel..." Often, a Bills article will open with that sentiment. Sometimes, it is in the title. And, so far this preseason, EJ has not shown much to be hopeful about. Chris Wesseling, of NFL.com, took a big, steamy crap on EJ's head today. I know of no other team for which the entire season has been so utterly condemned to defeat, entirely on the failure of its quarterback-- after two weeks of preseason. The Bills will absolutely suck... until they don't. Which, who knows? Might be this Saturday.