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  1. Leaving the office shortly and headed to the game tonight in Palo Alto. Can't wait... Sadly, the buzz here is not what you'd expect for a game of this magnitude. The Bay Area is definitely not a great college town.
  2. Check out my avatar...it's our new assistant schredding on the guitar! He's a metal legend...
  3. Good positive vibe from Schein on the hiring from an alum that obviously talks with the who's who around the NFL regularly. Good stuff. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000123802/article/doug-marrone-can-solve-buffalo-bills-ryan-fitzpatrick-problem
  4. Nicely said and well played. I don't think I could have summed it up any better. Listening to Russ Brandon is painful. I have an MBA and try to listen to all of his business speak carefully and it's just insulting at times to the average fan. I understand he's just towing the company line and can't say too much, but come on, we're not all idiots and most of us are realists. This just appears to be the perfect example of a rudderless ship. It's as if we are attacking a naval warship with a row boat that has no oars and a hole in the hull.
  5. It's like sex panther cologne... They've done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time...
  6. The other thing that irked me this morning with the interview was when Buddy backtracked about the playoffs being the next step for this team. I don't have the exact quote, but he said something to the effect of "I've never said the playoffs was the next step" or something along those lines. Yet, before the season, he seemed to infer that it was playoffs or bust this year.... Some of the quotes like these may come back to haunt him: Expectations for your team. Are they getting out of hand? Does that concern you a little bit? "No, I like high expectations. I've never been many places where if you didn't have 'em, that good things happen. So I think they oughta expect a lot of us. We expect a lot out of ourselves. New England, the AFC -- they don't scare me. I think we can compete with any of 'em, and our intention is to try to win the division." The 2012 season for the Buffalo Bills will be a success if ...? "Well, I think anything short of going to the playoffs for me, personally, would be a big disappointment." http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/22...s-gm-buddy-nix
  7. I listened to the interview this morning, too, and the one thing that kept ringing in my head is who is going to enact change that is above Buddy? Ralph? For all we know, he probably thinks Buddy is doing a great job and that the team in on the right track to make the playoffs sometime in the next 7 years. Let's say the Bills go 6-10 this year. Clearly, that's not progress in any of our eyes, but again, who's going to drop the hammer on Buddy or anyone else for that matter? There's no accountability upstairs and essentially this is a rudderless ship. We'll be spinning our wheels for years with this staff because they all think it's going in the right direction and that we have the right people in place, and there's no one upstairs that's going to tell them otherwise.
  8. I just listened to local (SF) radio at lunch time here in the Bay Area and they had on the 49ers insider to talk all that is SF Football. They didn't mention the Bills once and even talked about several of their games in the distance. Suffice to say, the Bills are not even a blip on the 49ers radar right now and there is no talk amongst the fans locally about the upcoming game. The talk show hosts had more to say about the game after the Bills against the Giants. I think the general sentiment around here, both with the 49ers team and their fans, is that we (meaning the 49ers nation) have a softy coming up, so let's punish them physically like we do to everyone else and move on to bigger and better opponents. It's just a sad state of irrelevance for the Bills and us Buffalo fans. So frustating and pathetic. Oh well; i'll be there on sunday to take my weekly form of punishment and harrassment.
  9. Sorry if this was posted already today since I haven't been lurking too much, but this is what Sully reported in his blog today at the Buffalo News: "After making the rounds on the weekly media day at One Bills Drive, here's my best answer on why the Bills decided to cut veteran Brian Moorman: Bruce DeHaven, the special teams coach, wanted Moorman to kick more directional punts, instead of the long, booming punts for which Moorman was well-known. Moorman resisted. He and DeHaven had never been on the same page since DeHaven returned to Buffalo two years ago. One person close to the situation described the relationship as "oil and water."' Philisophical differences, as they say...
  10. as per Chris Brown and BB.com... No team reps for Shep Posted by Chris Brown on August 2, 2012 – 2:55 pm "Kelvin Sheppard was back participating in individual position drills, but there wasn’t much more after that. Shep did not get any team reps and just left the field with athletic trainers. He didn’t make anything worse just limited in his participation." So, hopefully it's not anything too concerning and just more of a precaution at this point. We're not in good shape in the middle after Shep.
  11. I say why bother even caring about this stuff any more, at least not for this week. Anything Bills related at this point will just make our heads explode. I don't even want to get into the sabres on top of all of this garbage. What a mess - goodbye 2011. Instead, we should just enjoy classic Xmas memories and movies, like Christmas Vacation. Cousin Eddie delivered several beauties like these... "They had to replace my metal plate with a plastic one. Every time Catherine revved up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour or so. I don't know if I oughta go sailing down that hill with nothing between the ground and my brain but a piece of government plastic." Pure awesomeness!! Merry Xmas everyone!
  12. Did you ever hear "Against all Odds"? So take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face Take a look at me now, 'cos there's just an empty space And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face Maybe Buddy can dial up Jeff Bridges and add him to our offensive arsenal next year.
  13. The Bills are a rowboat without oars and have been tasked with attacking a naval battleship. Or, to look at it in another sense... We've just been dropped off on the beaches of Normandy with no weapons and have been instructed to use nothing but harsh language for the invasion.
  14. This x1,000 So true. Say what you want about us as fans at times like this, but honestly, how much more of this can we go through? You'd figure at some point in the past 10+ years that we'd even get lucky and fall into something that would gives us some much needed hope and excitement. The first half of this season was fun, no doubt, but weren't we all waiting for the bottom to drop out at some point? Life of a Buffalo fan...
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