[Dr Frank Ryan Browns QB Dies at 87]

43 minutes ago, Codger said:

Ryan to Gary Collins on the "post pattern".  Team of my youth. 

 

And the posts were sitting right there on the goal line, just waiting to pick off the defenders.

[The best part of the loss to Miami is that the bandwagon finally has some vacancies.]

42 minutes ago, Tipster19 said:

I also agree wholeheartedly in what [Kyle Brandt] said about Bills Mafia, stating don’t make be crybabies and hide behind excuses. I believe that the majority of fans out there know about the Bills being decimated with injuries and they were playing in extreme weather conditions. It’s a good way to alienate people, nobody wants to hear excuses. 

I believe that Kyle Brandt's 'instruction' to Bills Mafia was actually a subtle way of making sure that everyone else would be aware of, or keep in mind, the injuries and debilitating weather conditions, since none of the others on the GMF crew had yet made mention of any of this by the time it was his turn to talk.

[How about giving Gilliam some touches?]

12 minutes ago, beacon said:

Seems like a very good all around athlete, with some juice and size. Short yardage alternative instead of Moss.or maybe even Allen in certain situations. Great draft pick. Another small school hit. Go Bills!

Wasn't Gilliam an undrafted free agent? Even better, eh?

[Rookie Jersey Numbers]

11 minutes ago, Dave_Bills said:

Can’t explain it but for some reason I love 24 for Elam

 

Booker Edgerson

[Did the Bills Super Bowl run in the 1990's really influence your love of the Bills?]

1 hour ago, eee1776 said:

I am old and those 4 years put me into therapy. LOL It never stops.  Wide Right, Music City Mistake, 13 sec, Still love my Bills, its a like love- hate relationship with your wife. There is hope, light at the end on the tunnel . 

 

As I remarked to my brother at the time, the 13-second game was a sort of mandatory initiation into Bills fandom for younger fans (including Josh Allen) who had not yet experienced a truly agonizing playoff loss. Now that we're all initiated .....

[Did the Bills Super Bowl run in the 1990's really influence your love of the Bills?]

 

I've been a fan since 1960, having grown up in North Tonawanda. So the four super bowls were not a factor in my fandom, except for the disappointment.

 

1 hour ago, Royale with Cheese said:

If the Bills had nothing in their history like the Browns and Lions....would your fandom be as strong?

 

Just to set the record straight, the Brown won four AAFL championships and, since joining the NFL, they have won four NFL championships. The last NFL championship was in 1964, the same year the Bills won their first AFL championship. (That would have been a great superbowl.)

[What’s your earliest memory of the Buffalo Bills?]

Drafting Richie Lucas in 1960. (I'm running out of time for that first Super Bowl victory. 😨)

[Rosenthal: True QB value rankings from 1-35]

3 minutes ago, msw2112 said:

 

 

Third year in the same system,  a young quality RB, Diggs and 2 other good WRs, a quality line that will be in its second season of continuity and could be even better (Ford may improve and they got the new OL from Carolina), Knox and Sweeney improving and Kroft staying healthy at TE,  I'm a big Allen fan, but agree that he'll be out of excuses this year.

 

Perhaps he will indeed be "out of excuses" this year, but, truth be told, I have never ever heard him make a single excuse for himself in the past. Just the opposite.

[Did anyone become a Bills fan later on in life or convert from another team?]

1 hour ago, hondo in seattle said:

Weird how many Bills fans are/were Browns fans.

 

You have to understand that during the 1950's in the Buffalo area we had the Browns on one TV station every Sunday and the Giants on another TV station. So we all became either Browns fans or Giants fans. The arguments were great, by the way. In those days the Giants had a way of bottling up Jim Brown, and we Brown fans suffered through a few bad beatings by Sam Huff, Y. A. Tittle, Frank Gifford and company.

 

Then the Bills and the AFL came along ... but we still rooted for the Browns or the Giants in the NFL.

[This is why Josh Allen is a franchise QB]

Or the one to Foster on the run.

[Bills Training Camp Day 13 (8/11)]

1 minute ago, JoeF said:

McKenzie is a more polished receiver right now than Ray Ray.  Ray Ray basically threw away his learning year.  Now that Ray Ray's work ethic is right, he could use a year on the PS, but I am afraid someone will ***** him.

 

Zay fits the culture.  That is really important to this staff. He dropped what was essentially a perfect ball on Thursday night, but he also got open a lot -- he had good separation on 4 of his 5 targets...Caught two, was overthrown on one, dropped one and the last was incomplete.  Josh targeted him on 5 of his 11 throws.  I think he's an important piece.

 

Maybe Zay was being featured for a reason against the Colts -- in the way that Sammy Watkins was featured in an exhibition game just before he was traded.

[Coaches you don't want]

If we hire Polian, and he wants to hire as coach someone whose best record in the NFL was 9-7, and whose most recent record was 3-6 in a shortened season, and whose claim to fame was winning Grey Cups, what would we say?

 

Too bad the Stadium Wall wasn't around when Marv was hired.