Buftex

The bass/drums on "Everybody's Got Something to Hide..." are stellar, in the new mix.

Happy birthday Harry! One of the good ones...

I am about to be 5-4 in my league, trying to hold onto a playoff spot. The #1 team made me this offer: I get Josh Gordon (Patrots) and Joe Mixon (Bengals) for Mike Evans (Tampa Bay) As it is now, my team strength is WR (Evans, Robert Woods, Tyler Boyd, Mohammed Sanu and DeMarious Thomas. My weakness is runing back...beyond Ezekial Elliot, I have mostly "junk"... Chris Ivory, Duke Johnson, Jamal Williams, Giovani Bernard. I am inclined to want to make the trade, as much as I love Mike Williams. Is Mixon worth whatever I lose in dropping down from Evans to Gordon? I think Gordon is really talented, but I just never trust any player, other than Brady and Gronk, in the Pats offense...they tend to be "all or nothing" type starts. What would you do?

Couple of hosers, I hear.

As it stands right now, Zay is the only WR on this team I would want to bring back next season. Bills fans are pretty quick to write players off. It is the upshot of so much losing. We see rookies coming in and dazzling NFL fans, in other cities, and we wonder why our guys can never do that. People here were ready to declare Edmunds a bust, after two games...and how about Matt Milano? Everybody loves him now...Aaron Williams was a whipping boy a few years ago, before becoming a fan favorite. It may be that bad teams take longer to develop young talent.

Think about it, why would another team want to take on that salary? I don't think Clay is going.

That is rich.

Thanks.

I still think he is human garbage, and I think he is a weak, and cowardly. I guess I am just not as evolved as some of you...

Seriously? They charge an extra $100 to get the games in HD? That is absurd!

This guy just retired, for health reasons..I suspect he makes a comeback. Damn fine songwriter, and great live performer.

Eh...this is the season I expected last year. I kind of like McDermott, but I have some concerns about Beane. Of course, I am not exactly sure where one starts and the other begins. That said, this rebuild is starting to feel a little like the Sabres tank/rebuild. Tim Murray was great at getting rid of assetts for futures...but he wasn't so good at turning those futures into talent. So, consequently, the Sabres sucked, without a glimmer of improvement, for about 2 seasons longer than most expected. Sabres may be finally turning a corner, but it took a second turnover of their roster. I am not a Josh Allen hater, and still hold out some hope that he turns out to be an above average starter at some point...but if we are to believe the rumors out there, he wasn't necessarilly the Bills first choice...just like the Sabres got a really good player in Eichel, he wasn't the guy they really wanted. A little concerned that Beane couldn't get to the position he needed to get the guy he really wanted.

I don't know if Hue Jackson is a great coach, but you really can't blame all the losses on him. They were very obviously dismantling the team, and getting rid of whatever talent they had, when he got there. He was probably a fool to stick around for it, even if it was the only HC job he could have gotten.

I love the Bills. Never miss a game...in fact, I've only missed one game since 1984. It was the game against the Colts (coincidentally) where Howard Ballard missed a block, Jim Kelly got creamed, and the "bickering Bills" were born. Watched it a few monthls later, on VHS. I obsessed over this team since I was 7 (1972). At one point, during the Jauron era, my love of the team slipped a little. I still remember the game...JP Losman was getting his "final chance" to prove that he had any value as a Buffalo Bill. We were playing the Jets. Late in the season. It seemed like the Bills were going to ice away an unspectacular, but hard faught win. All they had to do was run out the clock. For some reason, they had JP roll out and try to run the ball...deep in their own end. Predictably, JP had the ball swatted out of his hands, the Jets scooped it up, and ran the ball into the endzone for a win in the waining moments of the game. I hated Dick Jaruon so much...that season was so frustrating...I remember snapping after that play...everyone in the bar I was watching was angry, and slamming their cups down...I just started laughing hysterically...people thought I had lost my mind...I couldn't stop laughing...I wanted to, but I couldn't. My love of the Bills is still strong, but it has never been quite the same after that...just got so numb to the ineptidtude. I will confess, last season, though I didn't think we had a great team at all, I did enjoy them making the playoffs. I never expected it, never expected them to win that game..but it was fun, for one week, to remember how exciting it could be. I no longer read every article I can get my hands on...never look at team/league stats like I used to...don't tune into the national shows to see how they are talking about us...I just watch on Sundays, enjoy hanging out with other Bills fans, and love it when we win...but if we lose...eh, who cares anymore? I am 53 years old now...I have come to the realization that the Bills aren't likely to win anything in my liftime. My brother passed away last fall...he was 60. He was every bit the Bills fanatic as me...maybe even worse. The last day I saw him, we watched the Bills lose to the Bengals last season. He was really sick, we both knew he didn't have a lot of time left. Our last cognisent conversation he said to me "don't waste too much time on the Bills...there is so many other things to enjoy"

Winston!

It's early, but have Allen or Peterman shown themselves to be better than EJ? I'd say it is kind of a push so far.

Melvin Gordon is good! Personally, until the Bills display that they have a legit NFL offense (it has been since about 2002), I try to stay away from Bills offensive players, no matter how much I like them... I might take Hauscka in a bye-week pinch...

From 2007- 2010

I guess I haven't really noticed that so much. Maybe he just knows that just can't jump 12 feet?

People are really crazy in their desire to get rid of Benjamin. Let me ask, we know he had the one drop on the goal line a few weeks ago, but how many catchable passes has he really had come his way? Everything that goes his way is either 10 feet over his head, 20 feet beyond him (and out of bounds) or 8 inches from the ground...

I'm not even championing this cause, but those who saying it is a dumb idea seem to be judging the "move" as some sort of long term thing...it wouldn't be. No more than sighing the 35 year old (and even less successfull) Derek Anderson would be. And as for "crapping the bed" in that Bears game, while it is true he had two early interceptions in that game, he did actually bring them back in that game, so it wasn't a total crapping of the bed, Peterman style.

Hey I think Derek Anderson is 35 too.

He's had 22 career fumbles in 137 NFL games...2681 career touches...I'd say it is not really a problem.

I'll take a well played lower scoring game anytime. Not saying they all gotta be 13-12, but 20-17 is fine by me. I really miss good defense.

I think it is a combination of both...coaches realize that passing is a better way to move the football, because the rule changes have made it that way. Sal and Jeremy had a pretty interesting discussion this morning about how dramatically passing stats have gone up since 2011, with the CBA, and rule changes that were introduced then. They were speculating that, if healthy, the way the game is now, more than a handful of the current young QB's may very well supplant Drew Brees as the yardage leader...it is the way the game is trending. I love a good shootout, but to be honest (warning: old guy take) I am getting a little numb to them. Granted, if I wasn't a Bills fan, I likely would have found the Bills/Titans game kid of dull, I am not so sure it would have been much duller than the Saints/Redskins game on Monday Night.