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It’s Harrison Phillips!

Uggggggh not a fan Yep I was absolutely wrong! I have eaten crow on this and it never tasted so delicious! 😋

I used to drive to Ohio to buy fireworks. Maybe they are going there to pick some up to welcome the new draft picks with a bang!

Yeah that move by Donahoe was probably the reason the drought lasted as long as it did. He either should have pulled the trigger moved up and gotten Rothlisberger or waited a season and taken Rodgers the following year. The irony is the Bills moved up because they were worried the packers were going to take Losman.

That is right, I think is thinking of the Jason Peters trade which did get us the pick that got us Wood in 2009.

Yeah very good point and man OJ got around and considering his choices in life he probably would have ended in a similar spot.

I never heard that either, wow it is seriously not only a game of inches but beyond football a life of inches. I hate to bring it up but you do wonder how different everyone’s life would have been (talking about OJ’s post NFL stuff) if Rutkowski (sp) had crossed the goal line.

That is really facsinating to me how a franchise can become something, good,bad or both, on one move. Hypothetically had we not made that trade we would not have been bad enough to draft OJ which eventually we traded to get Tom Cousinaeu in the draft which we then traded for the pick that got us Kelly. Just kind of crazy how one move can take you in a different direction for decades.

Thanks for insight into that it sounds like history would have been different had they not made thst trade. Also it does like the same emotion to the fan base happend then as when Ralph fired Polian in the early 90’s

Which in turn got us Shady so not too shabby.

I keep seeing this one come up in the thread. For someone like myself who waas not yet born, what was the story behind this? Insee on his Wikipedia page that he had a great career after the trade and also lit us up for 6 TDs in one half when we played him. What was the reasoning behind it and who made the decision to trade him?

Yeah in fairness he did have a good career but I just remember being so aggravated by the pick not so much because we took him but where we took him. The pick came so out of left field.

Yeah good call on that one. If you want to rank reasons for the drought that move by Donahoe could arguably rank at the top.

I will go back to the 2006 draft, the organization was left in shambles by the bungling Tom Donahoe. We had just brought in Marv and there was hope that he was going to bring us back to the glory years. With the 8the pick there was some serious talant on the board and we take Donte Whitner. A guy we probably could have gotten if we had still traded down and some even had 2nd round grades on. We then procced to trade back into the first round and who do we take Jon McCargo. Yeah for me that was the moment I look back on as the crossroads of the drought and we took the road that kept us futile for the next 10 years. Interesting to note I would say in the drought era we probably got the best draft pick in that draft based on value with Kyle in the 5th round.

My source is Two Bills Drive!

4 of the last 6 games are at home that could really help us down the strech.

Love it!! No Thursday game and my Sundays will consist of Bills, beer, wings an nap!

Even though I didn’t think there was a place for him on the Bills this year and trading him was definitely the right move, especially for what we got, I am rooting for him to have continued success in the league.

If I could choose I would have all 1 PM (noon my time) games.

This is a more general question about development projects in Buffalo having moved away from the area 10 years ago. Is it even possible to get through all the bureaucracy to actually build a stadium downtown? I remember they couldn’t even figure out how to build a Bass Pro shop. If the same red tape is in place something tells me a new stadium might be a little bit more tricky.

People sometimes use the retractable roof stadium in Indy as an example for what Buffalo should build. Having been there for two Bills games on both occasions it felt more like going to church than a football game the atmosphere was so mellow and quiet . Maybe it is just the culture of the Indy fan base but I would fear the Bills would lose a part of their identity if something like that were built.

I saw that too, way to leave every Bills fan on Twitter hanging Shday! Lol

Was Cap Capi capped because of the salary cap?

My lord can you imagine a championship parade marching through Olean and Allegheny?!

I went up to Green Bay last time we played you there back in 2010. It was such an amazingly fun time I almost foget how badly we lost too you guys. I think that was Captain Check downs last game as a Bill. I would love to go back this year so definitely early in the season when the weather is still warm.