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I HATE the franchise tag. NFLPA are some numbnuts. They're allowing teams to bet against their player. DeMarcus Lawrence on the Cowboys too.. Sign the player or let him hit FA market. Football is too dangerous for 1 year deals for players that can get market price including more guaranteed money. LeVeon Bell finishes his rookie contract and he can't hit the market because? The Steelers can force him to stay. So he misses a season because the Steelers just want to keep him away from the field. He didn't play didn't get paid. He essentially just did jack all.. not under anyone's contract. Just under Steelers rights. Makes no sense

Nah it's pretty unanimous on this board that the millennial Bills fans are the greatest generation.

^was uncomfortable hitting the showers full of genitalia in highschool football. Stank like all get out all 4 years.

Big Ben completed the same number of passes to both of those WRs in week 17

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And New England drafted Tony Eason. Grounds for butthurt IMO.

We always blame the prima donna WR. It's apparent quarterbacks are primma donna's too. Newsflash. They're the face of the franchise.. not that hard to see them taking it to their heads and tick off their WRs.

Brady doesn't call his team mates out in PCs. He does it in the game, which is totally fine. Certainly practice as well.. Brown can take that. It's the PCs. Brown cites his "ownership" mentality. Dude has too much control. Brown totally f***** up with that last episode. But not 2 weeks earlier did Big Ben tank a game against the Raiders by not playing the 3rd quarter for some injury only to go back in the 4th perfectly healthy to lob up a touchdown as they lost the friggin Raiders. Roethlisberger took a big hit on a sack late in the second quarter. Dobbs took the field for the Steelers to start the second half. Roethlisberger later emerged from the locker room with his helmet, but he did not re-enter the game until the Steelers fell behind, 17-14, with 5:20 remaining in regulation. After returning, he led the Steelers down the field and threw a go-ahead touchdown to JuJu Smith-Schuster with 2:55 remaining. The Raiders answered with a score of their own, and the Steelers lost, 24-21 Does NO ONE remember this?? I'd get out of that situation in a hot minute. Is that not Ben also quitting on his team? He's a baby and a great WR.. He wants to go somewhere else. Who cares, he'll do perfectly fine. I just don't think he owes Ben jack honestly. The dude is a dog**** leader. "I've earned the right to throw teammates under the bus. I'm the captain" Once again, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw a teammate under the bus for what he felt was a contributing factor to his team losing a game. This time the target of Big Ben’s scorn was wide James Washington for dropping an easy touchdown pass in the Steelers’ loss to the Broncos. Ben Roethlisberger after every Steelers loss that was his fault pic.twitter.com/ILjpAGaMm9 — ✭Boss Universal✭ (@JesseGladsaget) November 27, 2018 In defending himself after being criticized for being a bad teammate, which he kind of is, Roethlisberger said he has “earned the right” to throw other players on the team under the bus because he’s the captain. One player who knows all about being Ben Roethlisberger’s teammate is current Bronco Emmanuel Sanders who caught passes from the QB from 2010 to 2013 before signing with Denver. During his appearance on The Rich Eisen Show on Wednesday, Sanders talked about what he would do if it were him that Ben was throwing under the bus. “If I was in that locker room, that wouldn’t sit well with me because that’s a situation that I feel like you handle in-house instead of talking about it. Obviously he’s the leader of that team, he’s the quarterback of that team and everybody looks to him to lead. So in doing that, in going to the media and saying those things, I definitely would pull him to the side and be like ‘hey man, if you have a problem with anything I do on the field, I would rather you talk to me in person about it than talk talk about it on the radio, because there’s ways to avoid that,'” Sanders told Eisen. “Obviously, his emotions are probably running high after the loss and the interceptions and all that stuff… still, some things you keep in house, and Ben knows that.” You mean this interception? PICKED! Wowwwwwww. ?: CBS #BroncosCountry pic.twitter.com/hHxU7Ww5cR — NFL (@NFL) November 26, 2018 Eh, I’m sure that was all the receiver’s fault too.

hahahahaha he cried.. nice little nugget slipped in there. Probably a good thing the USFL got him introduced to playing football as a job. It ain't college, you can't choose where you go (unless USFL gives you money and choice lol). You go to friggin Buffalo, the guys that drafted you, and you take your money, and you don't cry.. At least until you last until whenever FA became possible. Probably not literally, but still sounds like the maturing was a good stepping stone for him for professional football.

Eh I have fun on Pro Football Reference. Well it's easy to miss the point when you say Ben "created [AB] out of a 6th round pick."... WHEN WHAT YOU MEANT TO EXPRESS your point is he's a great WR on his own accord that may get less production from other quarterbacks. AB prefers more respect from his quarterback. I'm sure there's plenty that can toss up 1200 (if they're not forcing to AB, their doing it wrong), while appreciating him. I like AB's quote about how he wants criticism, thrives off of it.. but not when given criticism in the media than privately in house than after a loss. I'm sure there's 31 quarterbacks that don't do that sort of thing.. and 20 that can give him a respectable clip no more than 200 below what he's getting now. Whatever. we'll see how he does. I find it hard to imagine he doesn't have a TO career where he really gets production out of most any quarterbacks. Total nutcase tho. Whatever. Just don't pull a fast one on week 17 and you do you AB.

Wow.. I never thought about it, but the man had immense pressure after jilting a team and showing back up to all that fanfare. I know he went off in the USFL.. but cmon, it's USFL. Props to Jim Kelly for having the nads to not skip a beat and give the fan base everything he took from them and more. Millennial Bills fans are awesome. We have NO reason for it! We're just plowing ahead with 1 playoff game in 20 years. And we ain't band wagoners from the 90s teams either lol. Just aware that good things used to happen for the Bills.

I hate this take. AB created AB. And being a 6th round pick doesn't matter when the camp battles start. It clearly wasn't a problem for AB to rise from a stacked WR group including Hines Ward, Emanuel Sanders (picked in the same draft as AB.. where is he on the Steelers?), and Mike Wallace. Big Ben clearly didn't make the other receivers as good as AB who the Steelers recognized as their priority at receiver while letting the others go. Terrelle Owens was a late(ish) draft pick that wasn't made by Steve Young. If anything he made Jeff Garcia relevant and went on to have great production with every quarterback he had in his prime. Yes Ben force feeds his primary WRs. But the Steelers are the best in the business at getting WRs through the draft. Sanders is still productive. Mike Wallace was pretty overrated but has certainly had a few seasons at almost the same clip the he had in his 2 productive years with the Steelers. Ward simply retired, but got plenty of production without Ben. Plaxico Burress wasn't made by Ben (I don't even think their time at the Steelers coincided), and he had just as good seasons with the Giants as a primary (and a absolutely remarkable playoff performance to a SB win) as he did with the Steelers. They draft great WRs.. and they have a good QB. That's all there is to AB, great WR and a great QB. Really there's just Santonio Holmes who has a very unremarkable career with one good Big Ben season. That's "making a WR". no quarterback makes a WR with 6 consecutive 1200 yard seasons. JuJu is a good WR in his own right. Ben isn't throwing him 1400 if he's not a good WR. Like.. honestly how does a 6th round pick being successful mean the quarterback made him? lol. He beat out first and second rounders on a roster and was the last standing with a fat contract. I bet AB does fine. He won't be force fed (as much.. maybe) like in Pittsburgh but he certainly will get his season production reduced by at most 200 yards from any Big Ben season with like any top 20 of the 32 quarterbacks in the league.

Larry Bird famously said "you're guarding me with a white boy?! get someone else man this is too easy" White CBs are Unicorns, as are black hockey players. I never thought it was necessarily derogation. And it's fun to make light humor of it. "What does Lynch playfully harass his quarterback about? “Mostly, just for being white,” Lynch said in the NFL.com feature." I get it's a double standard sure.. but players in the sport joke about this in the locker room. Things are said between players that should never be said in normal society. It's a bunch of multi-racial jocks in a locker room. No white player in basketball is offended by what Charles Barkley said, football player offended by SSS or Marshawn Lynch. Hell Incognito received more grief from his texts when it leaked in the public, than he did among his football peers. You KNOW he was saying messed up racists things.. but it was IN THE (sort of) RIGHT CONTEXT. In front of his multiracial teammates. Athletic circles have their own view of what's acceptable between their peers. Most of us wouldn't understand. The locker room is a sub-society that allows what wouldn't be otherwise appropriate. Of course you're a bigot when you say something to intentionally tick someone off. When you're using locker room sports jargon among peers.. cmon, if they said it publicly, it's been said a million times and far worse privately amongst the sports cultures. As a soccer player in Texas we had fun mocking latin style of play vs white players.. as did they to us. Latin players constantly flopping and playing with too much flair instead of being fundamental and not drawing fouls like us boring white guys that couldn't buy a goal with our style of play.

He's rates as the best cartoon character in television history. Really fleshed out for a cartoon character, developed as a person more than anyone. Everybody loves Bobby. But "that boy ain't right" that's for sure. Certainly represented the generation of texas kids slowly becoming less friday night lights Hank Hill stereotypes and more like the rest of middle America as half the country started moving into Texas in Bobby's generation and it became less isolated from the culture of sitting around drinking beer all day talking about dumb high school football and being severely confused as to whether the next door Laotian was Chinese or Japanese. Bobby gets it. Lmao the gout episode..

Probably him being jobless in a failing league that couldn't afford him was a pretty strong persuasion tactic. "You know you HAVE to play for the Bills if you want to make good money playing football right? We packed you some cold weather clothes. You're gonna love home field advantage here after a few years bud."

nah my neighbor. I'm more of a Bobby.

Drinks.. an impressive amount of wine cooler and isn't fazed. Really holds his liquor, er, wine cooler.. and more than makes up for the stigma by drinking so darn much of it.. And ONLY Mad Dog 2020 Habanero Lime-a-Ritas.

I was getting triggered. Took long enough for someone to get to the Shield. Best series finale of all the greats too... I'm a sucker for good cop/detective shows. I'll throw "Bosh" out there too. Just knows exactly what kind of show it wants to be and executes the genre perfectly. King of the Hill. Arlen, TX hits so close to home for me too lol. Makes it all the more true of the Hank Hills of the world. "So are you Chinese or Japanese?"

Drinks wine cooler

Man all sports have their merits. I'm not going to try to convince to you love the NBA but the soap opera is a damned good time for NBA fans. NFL trade deadline is an all out snore, as well as the off-season compared to NBA. It's just different leagues. I'd hate for the player power dynamics to be the same across leagues. The NBA is a blast following from an outside neutral perspective. Whiney babies.. whatever.. all the more whining is constantly shifting the NBA power dynamics. Creates heroes and villains. Don't like Kyrie? Awesome! Root against him! It certainly ain't WWE lol.. it's reality television, no script. The NBA demographic for teenagers up to people hitting their 30s is huge, and the primary kicker for the NBA's explosive growth. NFL is going for that, but is a much older demographic really. All sports are awesome because the whole culture makes a unique experience. I don't want everything to be so constricted like the NFL. That's all the off-season nothingness getting excited about keeping a journey man special teams player on a 93 man squad I can handle. All except baseball. Baseball sucks.

Family alleigences absolutely make you more partial to other teams your loved ones are rooting for. My brother's got the Packers, Bucks, Wisconsin Badgers. Me Bills, Knicks, Syracuse basketball and both of us Texas diehards growing up with Cedric Benson, LaMarcus Aldridge, Vince Young, Ricky Williams, Jamaal Charles, Colt McCoy, Kevin Durant heroics. Family's all on board with that.. but I'm still Syracuse #1 by all means. He's Wisconsin #1 (although he thinks JJ Watt and Russell Wilson are total tools) Some families move around the country in your formative days. He's all Wisconsin teams, I'm all New York. Great reason for us to bond together. What else is sports about than to find reasons to enjoy it with others? The sports bars are a great way to find comraderie with other NFL fans and talk about how much the Pats are d***s Unless you, everybody you know lives and dies in Buffalo your whole life there's tons of reasons to pull for another team. Doesn't make you any less of a Bills fan. I love the diehard fans that came into Bills fandom on their own without Daddy forcing the issue. Not that there's nothing wrong with that but takes a lot of guts to pave your own path in sports, as my brother and I did moving around.

Sounds like we should fire ourselves!

It's all about my super original chant "Da Bills da Bills da Bills da Bills" when Bears fans are near at the sports bar. They HATE it.

This thread will solve all unsolved mysteries and get to the bottom of this. But seriously??? **** her lol.

Did you assume the USFL would last longer or was it's downfall all but apparent.. knowing you'd get Jim Kelly soon one way or another. I'd point my anger on FO for underestimating the USFL and not doing their homework on Jim Kelly making it clear he hated the idea of playing in Buffalo. Nevertheless they picked the right quarterback in retrospect. Those 2 years I'd be the knee jerk idiot calling for his head.