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I am not sure how others will take this article as it clearly highlighting the writers as victims. But when I read it, especially the quotes from Sullivan, Gleason and Graham I can 100% see why the BN did what they did. Specifically: When the editors told Sullivan his editorials were tired: They were correct, his writing was becoming predictable and unecessarily negative. Personally, I am fine with reading constructive criticism, but Sullivan's articles had become somewhere on the extreme side of that. It was clear he had a personal agenda against the Bills and as time wore on the Pegulas. The articles were becoming trite and boring. The writers suggesting if the BN Blitz was more heavily geared towards the Sabres it would have been more successful: This shows how truly how out of touch these writers had become. I am sorry, I know this town loves hockey but the true draw is football. The failure of the Blitz wasnt about football vs. hockey, it was about fans of the sports teams being sick of the tired articles the BN was providing. Few people wanted to pay for a sub standard product. Even 2 or 3 dollars a month was too much for the 1 or 2 times a year Tim Graham knocks it out of the park, because most of the other content was worthless and filled with sarcasm. The BN knew they had to try and start fresh and rebrand themselves, it was a good move, the mistake they made was putting the same bad product in a different wrapper. Pissed about non-guild writers having their articles published on BN Blitz: This is where the writers true colors shine the most. Let me illuminate what the writers are actually saying here, 'We were pissed they hired Chris Trepasso to write for them." At some point, these guys forgot they were lucky to have people read their opinions, and started to think we were lucky to have their opinions in print in front of us everyday. Rather than be humbled by the opportunity, the awards they give one another started to inflate their self perception. Things like this, are clear evidence their elitism and hubris got the best of them. You guys thought you were better than covering the Bills, it was clear in your sarcasm laced editorials and even more clear in how disinterested and snarky you appeared in your post game videos and podcasts. If you didnt want to cover the Bills, and preferred to talk about basketball or Red Sox baseball, then stop collecting your checks and find a job in that space. No one was holding you hostage. And when people got sick and tired of your jaded takes, don't be surprised when they find someone else to do you job, guild or non guild. They Didn't See it Coming: Again with the hubris. Your lack of effort in producing good content lost your company money. And when your company attempted to fix the issues, while still keeping you on, you blamed them. This high brow idea that News is an art, or above capitalism is so out of touch. You guys aren't special, no matter how well you think you write. No clue how they didnt see it coming. The real story here is not they didnt see it coming, rather they thought they were so untouchable they never thought anyone would hold them accountable for their actions. These guys arent victims. They are elitist who feel they are better than everyone else because someone hired them to write something. Additonally, how immature to tweet thank yous to the Buffalo News and then turn around and give takes like this to Buffalo Rumblings, no offense to their site but my guess is some of the writers there are non-guild, but just a hunch. The typewriter bullies finally came up against people (The Pegulas) who had the sway to stand up to them.

Should have never been drafted #1. Mariota and Winston were close enough prospects that the off the field issues should have made it a slam dunk to take Marcus. Koetter and Licht will be fired at the end of the season, and the next regime if they have any sense wont put up with this garbage. All the talent in the world, probably enough to be a top 10 quarterback in the league but too many headaches.

Many prayers for Jim and the Kelly family. Their Faith has been a huge inspiration. My son is attending his first Kelly Camp next week. Cannot wait for him to see this first hand.

Used to go daily for the message board, cut way back after that. I may go once every two weeks to check out the videos, but since Mcbeane took over even those have been scaled way back. Interestingly enough it seems there has been a specific attempt to cut the media back even further this year. Part of me wonders if this has to do with Allen and trying to limit either positive or negative feedback. For the most part I'd say the site is pretty useless unless you are a season ticket holder, which I am not.

Don't care much about Tim Graham on twitter. But, I can say I subscribed to The Athletic two days ago and it is definitely worth the money.

I just signed up. With the local and national coverage its well worth the 40 dollars for the year. Generally pretty stringent about the way I spend my money and never would have spent the money on the Buffalo Blitz or whatever the BN was calling it, but I can tell already this was worth the money.

I'm with you. Thankful for everyday but Summer is the worst. Give me the Fall, everyday all day. Even prefer Winter to this.

Neil Young lost me when he spent his life rallying against capitalism and then created a music player that cost $400 dollars.

Not for nothing, Dad is the guy who raised him.

The comparison to Incognito is off base. The Bills took a chance on a Pro Bowl guard. Bryant is and has always been a lot of hype. Never had more than 50 catches in a season, never had 1000 yards. He has never been worth the headache. He is tall and fast and thats about where it ends.

E.J. Manuel is your starting quarterback in 2015, you win 6-7 games. As you are still in a 4-3 defense you most likely dont give up the 4th round pick to get Ragland and rather than having Cardale Jones you end up with Dak Prescott.

Had a car door break just before I made my way home to Delaware Ave, held real tight as I hit the curve at 33 and 198. Had a belt break as I was moving into a turning lane on Transit Oil leak led to me being stranded on the 290 Blown tire on the 90. Good Samaritan drove me to the next rest stop More recently I had a tire come off it's rim after the mechanic who installed the new valve stem broke the seal

Love all the fellas sitting behind their keyboards body shaming these women. Amazing how acceptable it is to speak on someone's body. Imagine you guys making these comments are in incredible shape? Word to the wise, looks and fitness both change with time and situations. Give people a break.

Thank God for Last Year?

He was well on his way to being thr most dominant player to ever play his position, and may have been the best player in thr league in 2012. But, its not 2012 and he hasnt been the same in 2 years.

1 title with him, 4 without him. Wouldnt call it a hit to their dynasty.

It's for sure got worse over the last two years. Assume its a part of the "process" but if it works Ill take it.

Could have signed him last off-season and didnt. Doubt they give up draft picks for him now.

I've been wondering this for awhile now, and it was further peaked by Malcolm Jenkins "youre not listening" bit from this week. Are these guys doing work in their communities to reverse the trend of African American Males being 8x more likely to commit homicide or illuminating the upward trend of single family homes in those same communities hovering on or above 66% over the last ten years? Or is their more important platform about police violence which in average is a less impactful, but still an important issue.

I think it has something to do with the combined 4 NFL starts of the three guys vying to start at the most important position on our team. Like it or not the Bills have the most inexperienced group of QBs in the NFL and that doesnt often translate to overwhelming success. There are maybe seven teams in the entire league in a similar situation to the Bills in the respect of their top two guys having limited starts or success, Chicago (14 Starts), Cleveland (43 starts), KC (53 starts), NYJ (73 starts). Otherwise you have a few media darling teams with continued success dependent on guys who may end up being flash in the pans Houston (Watson 6 starts) SF (Jimmy G. 7 Starts). And one team who has a franchise QB who hasnt thrown a football in two years (Indi). It may end up being a good season, but no one should be shocked by the thought it may be bad.

Does anyone still believe stuff like this? Tom Brady's security blanket is that he is better than everyone else. It isn't Edelman, it wasn't Amendola, Welker, Troy Brown, Randy Moss or Deion Branch. This happens every off season, and it never ends up mattering during the regular season. The only offseason issue that will ever matter is the one where Brady announces he is retiring.

Personally feel like he should have been a 1st Ballot guy on performance alone and was honestly a little put off when he wasnt elected the first two times. But, I am also of the mind that a player's job in the NFL isnt strictly relegated to on the field performance. There are a lot of aspects that go into their jobs beyond what they do on Sunday, including but not limited to preparation, locker room leadership, and yes even being a representative of their team in the media. I think we can all (maybe) agree that TO really wasn't a Hall of Famer in all areas of his "job." That being said that didnt preclude all time great players like Lawrence Taylor and Randy Moss from being elected first ballot. Aside from all of that, probably wouldn't hurt for TO to humble himself a bit and get over the entitlement, bottom line is he is in and I imagine this is the sort of thing that ends up in regret long term.

I gotta admit, and maybe it's just the #14 but whenever I watched Darnold all I could see was Fitz.

Not arguing that, over a 16 game season I think its fair to put him in the conversation with guys like Mike Evans and A.J. Green. But he has played 16 games once in five years that being 2012. When you talk about player value I think it's neglectful not to mention availability. Gordon has all the potential in the world but much like Sammy Watkins (for different reasons) it continues to be unrealized potential. If I am using a 2nd round pick I want a guy who reaches his potential by the time he is 26 years old. The Browns have won nothing because of him, got 3 seasons out of him in five years, and will most likely need to pony up a great deal of money for him if they want to keep him past this year. To me, it wasnt worth their commitment.

I get that Gordon is an athletic freak but if we drafted a guy in the 2nd round who averaged 6 games, 29 catches and 2 touchdowns a year for us he would be run out of town.