TheCockSportif

Forget the multiple batshit crazy quotes in the article. Watkins was a deformed action figure in the land of misfit toys at OBD. It would seem that those days are behind us and the team, and I am looking forward to the upcoming season whenever it plays out.

So I guess I have to ask why you didn't consider taking a trip to Boston and vetting out your strategy of bringing discord -- by wearing your shirt there? After graduating from UB I chose Boston over NYC or California (I work in tech). NYC is too big for my tastes, as someone who was born and raised in the smaller communities of WNY. California is far too expensive. People from New England are totally fine, and once you chip through layers of crust you have friends for life. Boston is a great city, oh, and these days when I'm in the city I come across more people who are not from New England than those who are from New England. It's gentrified now, and has been for almost the last 15 years. Having written that, everybody I know who's a native New Englander knows that I'm a Bills' fan and gives me ***** about it. Everybody. And their brutal honesty and ribbing about following the Bills is like how any healthy friendship goes. But you do you.

There are two teams who I am obsessed about this year, well, outside of the Bills. First is NE. I really can't convince the OP that they will be good. Could they be good like the 2008 squad? Could they go 11-5 again? Sure. I have no idea how the QB situation will shake out, they seem to have shed talent, I have no clue about how their draft/FA will play out, and it could turn out like the 1997 Bills. Or maybe it turns out for Belichick like the year (1993?) he benched Kozar for Testaverde. Or maybe the 1995 squad. You never know. Second is TB. Brady there with Gronk would seem like a no brainer, in particular when paired with a coach I really like in Arians. Still, I don't think that either guy has the goods anymore. Time will tell.

My preference is for the team to not recycle players. Plus Karlos has practically no track record in the league -- outside of working himself out of it. There's no need to bring him in. This is a team on the rise and everybody knows it. Look forward, and don't hope for what might have been.

Jerry Jones has had decades to bring a championship back to Dallas, and has shown loyalty before business sense more times than I can count. Here are the top 3 off the top of my head. Jason Garrett. Enough said. Dave Campo had no business being HC in the NFL. He was HC for 3 years of the Cowboys. Tony Romo outlived what he could do at the position and he was still extended. So I agree with you that overpaying a QB will put the team in salary cap hell, and when you look at teams who are in salary cap hell, the majority of them have overpaid QBs. But we're talking about the Cowboys here.

Either 1987 (they were supposed to be good that year then strike plus other stuff meant for yet another disappointing season) or 2004. In 2004, I remember watching the opener against Jacksonville @ The Harp in Boston, and wondered if the team had squandered an opportunity on that day. Sections of the highway 93 were being abated with a torch and claw hammer and were falling to the ground, if memory serves, because the Big Dig was nearing completion, and would make a huge thud as they fell into a dump truck, parts onto the pavement, etc., on that day. Watching that distracted from yet another completely underwhelming effort from this team.

I like McD, but this slogan sounds like the title of a song by Fleetwood Mac, and maybe it already is.

Ol' Dan has been trying to find a new tune to sing -- ever since his perpetual Curse of the Bambino schtick antiquated itself.

I don't remember Russ Brandon, and I don't think he was mentioned on any Bills-related message board.

Shoulder injury, nobody has picked him up as FA already, I mean how can you explain that away?

Nobody says that Barkley is good. But Cam Newton is money that this team does not need to spend... on a backup. I will never forget Newton in that Super Bowl, and I suspect that many others won't as well. He literally cowered his way out of winning it.

That was 5 years ago. A lot has changed in his profile since then.

Sarcasm though? Newton is old now and he is not what this team is about. At all. He's what the Bills brought online with Bledsoe, maybe, but probably worse at this point in his career. Absolutely not. Yesterday is yesterday in this league.

I'm glad that they seem to not be pursuing Newton. Like, for real. I could not be more pleased.

I think that Brady realized a few years ago that the avocado offerings at Wegman's weren't to his liking and he started thinking about moving on. Seriously, though. I had thought that he was going to call it a day there a couple of years ago. You should sense the dissonance even back then.

Bojo though. He drives me crazy. I'd prefer consistent but not flashy play from the position for the time being.

You know, he could still sign with the Bills and his family could stay in KC. It wouldn't be easy for any of them, but there are harder things in life.

This freaking exactly.

Hmm, I had to ponder this for a second or two. Going into the glory years, the Bills had been terrible for 6 years (and yeah, I'm lumping the 1982 season in there) and then laid an egg in 1989 ("same old Bills" was the thinking with many in WNY back then). Before that the 1970s were the very definition of mediocrity -- and with OJ and the Electric Co no less! What I'm telling you is that we enjoyed the ride while it lasted, oh, and those 4 SB losses were crushing. The band-aids the team put on the later 1990s squads were exactly that. If 40+ years of fandom has taught me anything it's that being a Bills' fan makes you anything but spoiled.

I remember when the Bills did this kind of *****.

I'm laughing at my lack of insight here. I totally thought that you were talking about Spiller!

Fair assessment, and I really like that you back referenced guys like Spiller. It's nice that this team could be in a position to fill spots with these guys rather than to clamor over we should be rooting for late round picks like Xaiver Omon once the season is already lost.

True, but 5th round QBs to me is like buying a "manager's special" in the meat department. It probably won't kill you, but it's not filet mignon.

Could be a decent backup, and if he's coached up then he can be traded for a 1st rounder in the future. It must be true; I read here on TBD a few days ago. ?

Maybe it was a stool sample?