BigPappy

When we are kids (pee wee), we have no idea what the inherent dangers are in the sport and we see these professionals playing and making tons of money and say, WOW look at all the money that guy makes playing a game. as we get older (High School) We start to understand the dangers in the game but by that time your hooked. You love playing and in our youthful minds we think "that will never happen to me", but we still know and understand there is a danger in playing the sport. The funny thing is knowing Football or any other sport for that matter is dangerous, is not the same as knowing what that danger leads to. Its dangerous to play Baseball, Soccer, or even Golf but generally speaking there is no serious danger of brain damage unless you take a serious beaner to the head.For Football, they are doing studies on just what happens to the brain in normal play, forget about getting a concussion, we're just talking about taking normal average hits playing the sport year in and year out. Even now with everything that we do know, its still only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding the brain. My point to all this is that while there has been a slight drop in kids playing now, I think over the next ten years as more is learned you will start to see a significant drop in kids playing. Especially in areas where kids have, more less dangerous options for their future. Where you will probably see less or no drop off is in the very poor areas where kids have fewer opportunities to remove themselves from poverty. Overall, I believe that by the time I am in my 80's (if i live that long (hopefully)I'm 42 now) I would not be surprised that Football is all but gone from the spectrum of sports you watch on TV or at the very least it will look like your watching a group of armatures running around playing tag or flag football.

Thanks very much Astro! Enjoy the rest of your summer with your Grand Kids.

Well Said Shaw! And may I also add..... Mr Boldin, we are in desperate need of a receiver of your caliber both on and off the field to be"that guy" to mentor your net teammate Sammy Watkins. Like you, he is an exceptional talent, but he needs your guidance. With your experience and knowledge he can finally get to the level of play that he is capable of. Sincerely Bills Fan

My name isn't Doug.... It's Saint Doug you mo*!$rf$#ke*@

Yeah, the dude will never have to worry about money. He's a freaking genius! Harvard degree in finance i think. Not to mention he scored a 48 out of 50 on the Wonderlic Test, finishing it in 9 minutes.

Is this really a question being posed? the answer is obvious. because they CHEAT! Thats why they are called the Cheatriots.

While I understand and appreciate the data, the only statistic that matters are wins and losses. I don't care how good or bad you are, if your not getting the wins.......for better or worse every other stat does not matter.

Kirby, I agree with your premises but the fact is they have had way more misses than hits over the last 17 years. If they were working in any other career they would have been let go years ago. Do I feel bad that they lost their jobs?....sure, a little but not that much, and here is why. They weren't very good at their job and the last 17 years of mainly poor talent on this team proves that. Maybe they didn't have to let go EVERYONE but they did. oh well. Speaking from someone that has lost their job because he was told he did his job to well and was no longer needed anymore, I can't...scratch that.....I wont feel all that bad for them. BigPappy

Hard to believe its so long ago. I was a freshman in college during SB 28. Since then, I went to college, got married, had 2 kids, and then went back to college....lost all but one grandparent and then both parents, then got divorced from the bane of my existence.

THIS!!! You build the best team you can every year with the best players you can find via FA and draft. Your early round draft players are geared to help now and your lower rounders are geared for depth and future while you get the best FA's available within your cap space. option 2 is for a low character person who doesn't want to compete and that isn't any coach in the NFL. You find me an NFL coach who would tank a season for a high draft pick and I will show you an NFL coach that is in the unemployment line. option 3 should not even be an option. There is no such thing as a full on rebuild in the NFL anymore. Coaches and GM's get fired, new ones come in. They replace a few key players and re-tool with what they have to try and win ASAP not 2 or 3 years from now. Flame away.

Strategy 1 like you said is crazy. I would love to see it happen but we really don't have the draft leverage to pull off a trade of that caliber for a "high caliber" QB. I can definitely see strategy 2 happening and I think I would be okay with it as long as they get rid of Whaley. I just can't get behind the guy. His drafts picks have not worked out more often than they have worked out, and there has been mention to a leak within the organization and I think its him. eball, Excellent analysis and great response. I don't know where anyone gets off saying that the Bills or any other NFL team would be unattractive to come to. This is the NFL. there are only 32 teams to coach for. I don't think the coaches get enough credit for understanding how blessed and lucky they are to be able to coach in the NFL and no team is ever "unattractive"

This does not make her a bad girl.

Jeremy is correct, the only way they can't prevent him from interviewing is if he interviews for a head coaching job. Otherwise he is under contract and promotion or not it does not matter. Chilly, that was some funny Shiz nit! If i had been drinking my coffee, it would have been all over my screen and keyboard!!!!

I think Shady got a bad wrap in Philly. Not that he was totally innocent in all of the crap that went down there, but still . Have to agree with Hondo, I was not a fan of this trade either. But I was wrong and not ashamed to admit it. Agreed Kota, He has become one of the leaders on the team and its great to see. He is one of the prime talent players on the team and should be one of the leaders. But its nice to see that he actually stepped up and became one of them. In the past as a team, the top talent just didn't step up like they should have.

Top answers of the day! I Loved this one the best.

With Elway being pretty high on TT, I'm not sure it will matter that Kubiak is gone. Seriously? He can't hit an open reciever here. What would make anyone think he can do it in Denver? I agree with this.

Playoffs? seriously. It will take a miracle on top of a lot of luck to get us in. I am tending to agree with this statement. I am not convinced that they have decided to give Rex the ax. I think if the games go well and they finish 9-7 I think they give him another year even though we will still miss the playoffs. If we loose both games, I think they let him go. No matter what happens, I don't see Coughlin coming to Buffalo. I think you are confusing age and health. One is not dependent on the other. I think the concern from the "he's too old people" is that he is 70, 71 when the season starts and that he is at the age that most people are contemplating retirement. I for one, don't want someone coming in and if by chance builds a winning program after 2 or 3 years, then have to find another replacement because he's decided that he wants to retire.

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And what experience do you have as a President of Operations as RB does, that your experience tells you that it's not his job to attend meetings regarding the operation of the team. Last time I checked if the owners are meeting with the GM and coach to discuss how the team is doing and what went wrong or went right, those are operational discussions. Not to mention who give's you or me or anyone on this board the right to say he does not belong in the meeting. Those meetings are done by invite so someone obviously wants him to attend. He as of today is still the President of Operations. GET OVER IT and MOVE ON! You seem to have very little life experience that you don't know how the world of business works. Fadingpain, Please read the above. This is how you make the argument against Russ Brandon.

No, you are incorrect. He WAS a marketing guy. He is now the President of operations. Why would he not be in this meeting? The fact that he seems to not know a thing about Football is irrelevant. He is the president of Operations and would be in these meetings as it is a part of OPERATING the company. Good god..... way to make a mountain out of a mole hill. This point exactly. Can always count on YoloinOhio to be the voice of reason and give an intelligent response. Actually, I think your missing the point. It's his job to be there. You may not like him, he may not be doing a good job, but its still his job and he belongs there.

Sorry, can't put the offensive woe's on Lynn. I have been watching these games and I see receivers open......WIDE open. TT just can't get it done. whether he can't see over the offensive line or or that its he would rather scramble around I don't know. What ever it is it's TT not Lynn. He is supposed to be an NFL QB and he can't even lead his receiver into a throw. He is pathetic and has to go.

The Short answer to that question is that he makes money for the organization. And lots of it. You don't fire your top sales guy just because he's a d-bag. You may not like him, but you don't get rid of him. I don'y disagree with your thoughts on the matter, but Money is the answer to your question., This post here from Jeff proves my point and he is 100% correct. RB is a re branding master. The organization has been selling us manure branding it as gold. We look at it mid season and realize its manure and accept it. What's worse is every year we go back and buy more.

OMG!! ROTF LMAO right now. That there was an awesome one liner.

Amen to that Wayne. I used to be the same way when I was much younger. In my twenty's and early thirty's I took this game way to seriously. Getting pissed off and grumpy at emery loss. Now into my forty's, its just a game. My kids avoided me every Sunday because the Bills lose so often. Now they avoid me because they are teenagers. LOL! The defense is not the issue. Its not even the offense as a whole. This lost falls squarely on Tyrod. The OL was holding up on passing downs, TT was holding the ball way to long. Receivers were open, he just just missing the open guys. The OL was making running lanes, Shady and Gillisllie were running well. TT is who collapsed today. Not the Bills. The defense was playing well until the Offense kept going three and out. Then the D got gassed. No way the D was going to hold up under the circumstance.