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    hoping we go 4 and 0 in the preseason

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    Howard!  Is that you?   We had some good times at the Playtime Lounge on Bailey Ave. and you delivered mail to my house on Dartmouth for some 22 years before we moved to the suburbs.  Jeanette and I always joked that out third child looked like the mailman.  If so, you have 5 grandkids.  Remember when we rolled the keg into the end zone at the Rockpile.  I could hoist it on my shoulder back then.  Glad to hear you are still alive and kicking

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    Astro Notes: Bills Practice 1

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    You seem to think that we chose to be Buffalo Bills fans.  I am a Buffalo Bills fan. I couldn't change it if I wanted to.  They could make Harvey Johnson coach twice, they could trade Darryl Lamonica, they could let up 51 points in a Super Bowl and I would remain a Bills fan.  I left Western New York 43 years ago and it is as much a part of me as it was when I went to the first game played at Rich Stadium and many at the old Rockpile.  I am eternally optimistic before every season and can come up with a scenario for success every year.  They own me for life as long as they stay in Buffalo.   Go Bills.  

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    Predictable things fans overreact to

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    Having followed the Bills for 56 years I have watched annual trends that are totally predictable.  Here is a list of annual events that you can count on

     

    1. Fans love guys changing positions.  Make a tight end an offensive lineman, make an offensive lineman a tight end, make a wide receiver a safety and he will become a favorite.  It usually lasts a couple preseason games and then it is over but fans anxiously wait for the next George Wilson or Paul Costa.

     

    2.  There is always a big demand for the hot new tight end out of college.  From Kyle Brady to Eric Ebron, there is a clamor for the first round pick to be a tight end.  98% of the time, it was the right decision not to take him.

     

    3.  The pre-season wide receiver de jour.  He is usually an undrafted free agent, sometimes from a small college or the CFL.   He tears things up in the 4th quarter of pre season games and then gets cut to the utter disgust of the fans.  However he usually never gets picked up and the next thing you hear about him, he is an assistant coach at a community college

     

    4.  There is always disgust with the drafting of a running back because as we all know they are a dime a dozen on the undrafted free agent market.  These fans seem to have missed that there are teams that have been looking for running backs for 10 years.  And Barkley and Elliot are pretty damn good.

     

    5.  Did you ever get the feeling that the fans who call for the firing of the head coach and general manager after every loss probably wouldn't have a job if their boss took the same approach?

     

    Please add your own thoughts

     

     

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    If we stay at 9, the only player I’d really be happy with is...

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    One thing I am a little confused about.  I keep reading that if no one is available at 9 we should trade back to get more picks and not overreach at 9.

     

    If there is no one worth drafting at 9, who exactly is going to trade up to get a pick that is not worth a 9th pick?  Why are there all these assumptions that we will find a trading partner who will trade value to get to 9?  The only way that happens is if there is some kind of run on quarterbacks.  That seems increasingly unlikely. 

     

    I guess the best hope is Daniel Snyder.

    I apologize to you all

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    1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

    Because it's New York State. NYC teams, especially Yankees are winners.

     

    In my eyes, the rise of Toronto killed Buffalo.  It's in a foreign country too.

     

    Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit... Different states.

    Personally I think New York City is a more foreign land than Toronto.

    I apologize to you all

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    5 minutes ago, Ice bowl 67 said:

    So are you guys Yankee fans out there or Met fans? Who's everyone's baseball team. 

    I like your posts.  Thanks for coming.  Now a short lesson in New York State geography:

     

    Why do you assume people from Buffalo would be Yankees or Mets fans?  We are closer to Toronto, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit than New York City.  In fact, in many cases, we despise New York City.  New York is a big, beautiful state.    We are far more that the "Big Apple". 

    Noah Fant - trade down and draft a difference maker

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    It seems that every draft, there are a variety of savior tight ends that fans are clamoring for.  I still remember the hubbub when we didn't draft Kyle Brady, not to mention Kellen Winslow Jr.  Tight ends are like running backs, they emerge from strange places, think Jimmy Graham and Antonio Gates.  On top of it, tight ends are on the field about 50% of the plays in the new world of 4 WR pass offense and half that time it is for running plays.   I hope we draft a TE but I doubt it will be a first rounder.

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    Anybody Else Find Themselves Less and Less Interested in the NFL?

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    I would be happy to sell you a used bridge but you are probably not buying.  NO.  I do not believe the quality of the game has fallen apart over the last 50 years.  Tackling techniques got dangerous with helmet first.  Watch some old film and you will see helmets up during tackles.  It was guys like Jack Tatum that introduced dangerous helmet first tackles.  QB's threw for under 50% completions.   The athletes are far better today.   Get off my lawn!

    Anybody Else Find Themselves Less and Less Interested in the NFL?

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    I have been following the Bills since the beginning (at least the AFL version} and I have seen many fans come and many fans go.There are the lifers who have the Bills and pro football as part of their lifeblood.  This often happens through family connections (your Dad, your Son, your favorite Uncle).  It is a common bond and you cant get rid of it any more than a receding hairline.  Then there are those who are not necessarily football fans that discover the fun of following a team, tailgaiting and the ambiance of Bills Sunday.  They often appear when the Bills are winning and fade away when they are not.  And then there are the drunken knuckleheads, usually in their 20s and happy to find a place for drunken debauchery.  They dont care about winning and losing because half the time they can hardly remember the game anyway.  At some point most start to grow up and then it depends if they actually like the games or not.  

     

    There will always be fans whose interest fades and others who are just getting the fever.  It is the cycle of fandom.

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    What was the worst Bills’ trade of all time?

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    6 minutes ago, Leonhart2017 said:

    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. 

    I remember when Juice was with his first wife, Marguirete, he was fooling around with one of my wife's friends from high school (after high school).  I am not sure if living in Philly would have made much difference.   Different groupies, same problems.  

    What was the worst Bills’ trade of all time?

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    4 minutes ago, Leonhart2017 said:

    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.

    Excellent point.  Another moment was Thanksgiving Day 1968, when the Bills were playing their 6th quarterback for the year, Ed Rutkowski, who was not a QB.   For some bizarre reason, the Bills who ended the season 1 -15 took the Oakland Raider to a close game in the 4th quarter.  The Bills had the ball at the goal line and a touchdown wins the game.  Rutkowski who had played some running back ran a keeper that looked like the game winning touchdown but he was hit and fumbled before crossing the goal line.  The Raiders recovered, the Bills lost and we got the number one pick in the draft OJ Simpson.  The consensus number 2 pick was LeRoy Keyes, a running back out of Purdue and a total bust who the Eagles picked.   One play, one game, one trade can turn the whole franchise around in ways you can never predict

    What was the worst Bills’ trade of all time?

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    12 minutes ago, Leonhart2017 said:

    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

    There were always some great rumors that Lamonica was fooling around with Ralph Wilson's wife and he insisted on the trade.  The whole trade was Darryl Lamonica and Bill Miller for Tom Flores and Art Powell.  Powell was one of the great receiver of the early AFL but was done when the Bills got him.  Lamonica used to come in on frequent occasions to spell Kemp and win games.  Bill Miller caught two touchdown passes in Super Bowl II just to add insult to injury.  In 1967 Flores completed 34.4% of his passes for Buffalo.  That trade changed the Bills from a contender to a bottom dweller in a heartbeat. 

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