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With profuse apologies to the Isley Brothers, Otis Day and the Knights, and Animal House fans.
This adaptation is dedicated to the legions of NFL consultants and offensive/defensive strategists who have suddenly appeared out of thin air to hold forth on why the Bills are doing so poorly.
Never mind the fact that we all KNEW this was going to be a rocky season. It's ok to imagine that Losman could magically light up the board in his FIRST season, but when you carry that forward to criticize your team when it's on the ropes it's a whole different thing.
Humbly submitted, with tongue firmly implanted in cheek:
POUT
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Well, you know you make me wanna
(POUT) Throw my brats up
(POUT) Kick the taillights out
(POUT) The sky is falling
(POUT) Fire Donahoe (POUT)
Replace Mularky
(POUT, POUT) Please bench J.P
(POUT) Yeah yeah yeah yeah, come on
(Say you will) Just put in Holcomb
(Say you will) O-line’s in tatters
(Say you will) Say it right now, baby
(Say you will)
I still remember
When I used to be nine years old yeah, yeah
I would follow the Bills
right to the bottom of my soul, yeah, yeah
Now you’re 1 and 2
An’ I’m ready to up and go
I want you to know
I said I want you to know right now
I’ve been good to you Bills
Better than I've been to myself
And if you don’t start wiiiinning
I’m a gonna put my tickets up on a shelf
I said I want you to know
I said I want you to know right now
You know you make me wanna
(POUT) Trash my throwback shirt
(POUT) Throw up my bratwurst
(POUT) Return my tickets
(POUT) Come on now
(POUT) Fire the staff
(POUT, POUT) They’re such a big laff
(POUT) Yeah yeah yeah yeah, come on
(Say you will) Say it right now, baby
(Say you will)
(Say) Keep running Willis
(Say) We’re not ranked number 1
(Say) Why can’t you tackle
(Say) And get more sack-les
(POUT) Parking’s expensive
(POUT) My seat is too hard
(POUT) He threw it too soon
(POUT) My god, a full moon!
(POUT) A little bit softer now
(POUT) A little bit louder now
Hey (Hey) Hey (Hey)
Yeah (Yeah) Yeah (Yeah)
Pout now
A little pout now
Jump up and pout now
A little pout now
Come on (POUT now)
Come on now (POUT now)
Come on now (POUT now)
Come on now (POUT now)
Come on jump up and POUT now
A little POUT now
Jump up and POUT now
A little POUT now
Jump up and POUT now
A little POUT now
Jump up and POUT now
A little POUT now, yeah
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Some nudnick out here will find some excuse as to why he sucks, but its so beyond that. This guy is clutch. Its not the offensive coordinator, its not the teams they play, its Brady.
12 for 12 in the 4th quarter for 168 yards and yet another come from behind victory against a stout Pittsburgh D. I watched the game and could not get over some of the throws he made under pressure.
Don't get me wrong, it pains me to admit this, but how people can still say he's an average quarterback is beyond me.
I couldn't agree with you more. As much as I HATE the Patriots, here are two key facts:
1. Brady is physically talented and bright enough to thrive in the system in which he plays.
2. The coaching staff is bright enough to establish a system in which Brady can thrive.
There is a definite connection between (1) and (2). It's tempting to downplay his performances or give credit to the coaches, his teammates, diet, something in the water, etc. The guy just wins games.
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What I find amusing about all this is that if McGahee had rushed for a buck and a quarter last week with a trip to the end zone and the Bills had won, I wouldn't even be posting this right now.
There are hundreds of people on this BB (and a couple others) engaged in heated discussion borne of a combination of disappointment about an ugly loss and excessive pre-season hype.
If #21 has a solid game, and JP looks like he's starting to feel a little more comfortable, just watch the tone of the posts next week!
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A slap in the face, indeed. And the 2005 edition are a talented bunch. I'm not sure if their as talented as the Bickering Bills, but it is a group that is going to be formidable when it gels. I'm not sure there will be a Super Bowl march, but it's going to be a great set-up for 2006.
Go Bills!
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I'd love to see the Steelers take apart the Pats, but the analysts on NFL radio broke down Brady's performances the game AFTER games in which the Pats lost and he had a mediocre day. The numbers are scary--this is a team that can definitely bounce back.
Plus, they haven't lost two in a row in a few seasons, so the Steelers are going to have to really bring it on Sunday afternoon.
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You can't have it both ways. If the o-line isn't good enough to establish a run game, as some suggest, than there's only one other option.
I'm cool with a 50/50 split, even. I don't care how bad Gandy is, he can hold off a DL long enough for Losman to hit a quick out. I don't care if the pass plays only pick up 4-5 yards, the fact is right now opposing Ds know exactly what we are going to call.
Let's assume that the o-line hasn't jelled enough to enable us to establish a consistent running game week in and week out. Enough of you are calling for personnel changes and player pickups to tell me that you can live with this assumption.
Given that, and given you're the coach--you tell me what play you're going to call?
As far as comments re: "garbage game," and "circus side-show," I respect your right to your opinion, but just offering "we need to establish a running game" is not really advancing the discussion. We all know that. We all get that. If McGahee comes out against Atlanta and has a good, solid game running north/south, great. That'll mean the O-line started to figure it out, and we have a chance to go 8-8.
Despite assertions that my posts are "rah-rah," I am NOT a bandwagon-jumping, starry-eyed Bills fanatic. Like some of you, I have been a fan for a long time--40 years, actually--and have seen Bills football far worse than this.
I'm sticking with my original assertion: the Bills need to throw more.
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From USA Today:
"It's tough, but I understand that J.P. is young and he's going to have his bumps on the road," Moulds said. "It's frustrating that you get open sometimes and sometimes the ball doesn't come, but like I told coach Mularkey, I'm going to be patient with it. I know eventually he's going to get it and make some plays for us.
"All we have to do is keep trying to get open and hopefully he finds us and a light switch comes on for him. We hope it comes on soon."
I've got a light switch for you: open up the game plan and let Losman throw the ball. I want to see him put up numbers like 33 for 52, 290 yards, 2 TDs and 3 INTs. That will tell me that they are giving the kid the chance to use his arm. While the opposing Ds are putting 8 and 9 guys in the box to stop #21, that means that Moulds or Evans or Reed or SOMEONE has one-on-one coverage. If JP needs to throw the ball to a spot and let the receiver make the play, so be it. Check down and throw to Campbell or McGahee.
Hell, run the no huddle and put the opposing defenses back on their heels. Let the kid play football.
I am not saying we should be reckless and throw games away, but the only way JP Losman is going to learn to read defenses is to be put into a situation in which he has to read defenses. He has confidence, a strong arm and running ability. Let's start using them.
A couple games with numbers like I mentioned above, and the league starts thinking that the Bills are balancing their attack. They start loading up on double-covers on the wideouts and BOOM, McGahee starts having 150 yard and 2 TD games. Hell, if the O-line opens up enough of a lane, Losman can go for 6-7 yards a pop.
We'll have a few ugly games, but Losman will make a quantum leap in his confidence and ability. By the end of the season, opponents won't know what to do with the Bills. We might miss the playoffs, but we'll start 2006 en fuego.
It will also fill seats, Messrs. Donahoe and Wilson. For a while, it might be a "you never know what you're going to get" football, but it will be exciting, interesting to watch, and you are going to see if JP can live up to his potential.
Enough with the cautious playcalling. Open it up.
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"I do not think JP can pass this team to a winning record, but i do think he can augment a productive run attack with the same skills which saw him start the last game 6/7 or the same skills which saw him respond to the benching by going 5/5 (or something like that) at one point. "
Let's hope that it never gets to the point where we are relying on Losman or any other QB for a winning record. By definition, we won't go far. There has to be D, and to get beyond a winning record to a wildcard, division and conference title, there has to be a running game.
There are too many people making too many projections based on a 2nd year rookie quarterback's performance. Give the guy a chance to get into a rhythm and get some experience, then judge.
If Bledsoe would have been under center last Sunday, the result wouldn't have been much different. He would have gotten his ass sacked, Willis wouldn't have the holes, and the D would have still been run over by Williams.
At the end of the day, defense wins championships. Period.
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That's actually true. Bill B. and his staff are very businesslike, and you don't really hear Patriots players trash talking about the opposition. Maybe the coaching staff should have a seminar for Pats fans at Gillette Stadium.
Pats fans are bottom-feeders at best.
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Honestly, I didn't have a problem with them until I actually moved to New England. With very few exceptions, I am not impressed.
New England Patriots. They're the new Miami Dolphins.
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When they're infants, it's just cool to dress them in the colors. If you go to the Bills Backers photo section on the Bills site, you'll see the little dude wearing Bills sweatpants.
But there is another, more important reason Sean is going to be raised a Bills fan--and its not just because Dad is a life-long fan (and NH-based uncle and grandfather are Pats fans).
He is going to learn sportsmanship: how to win graciously; and how to accept defeat the same way. He is going to understand what it means to be part of a team. He is going to learn why its not good to jump on a bandwagon, because when they unhitch the horses, you're left stuck in the middle of the road.
When he was born, I told my brother-in-law and father-in-law not to bother buying the little sprat Patriots gear because it would either get tossed or sit in a drawer. At first, they kind of laughed and said "whatever," but now they get it. They like to taunt about the Patriots doing so well and the Bills...well, take a look at last week and you can imagine what they were like.
I just smile and say, "It's all cyclical, guys, and there are dark days coming for you."
In my 20 years being in New England, my observation is that Patriots fans--more than most other teams' fans--are the most obnoxious, disrespectful and downright annoying people when it comes to fans of other teams. That goes for in the stadium, in the parking lot, in the office and wherever.
When they were losing year after year, these fans were invisible. But when the Pats started winning, they fell over each other to get jerseys, bumper stickers, etc. and then turned their years of frustration on whomever was supporting another team.
Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't scream your head off at the other team at the game or in a sports bar. I'm also not suggesting that you shouldn't engage in a little good-natured (or even heated) banter with fans of other teams. As long as it ends with a laugh, a handshake and a beer, no harm no foul. That's what makes this so entertaining.
But the fans around here have taken it to another level--right down to the guy at our sports bar who, even when the room had 20 Steelers fans and eight Bills fans and nobody else--insisted on keeping the Pats-Carolina game on a big screen with no sound. (The Steeler fans got the other big screen with sound, and we watched a smaller monitor.)
In my experience (living in Buffalo for the first 23 years of my life) Bills fans are different, on the whole. Maybe it's because we have had an up and down history, or maybe we learned some humility when we lost four Super Bowls in a row. Whatever the reason, there is an air of class around Bills fans, win or lose.
Are there exceptions? Absolutely. There are some Bills fans who are a-holes about the whole thing, just like there are Pats fans who have celebrated their successes and endured their bad years just like we do. I'm talking in generalities, but if you took a group of 100 random Bills fans from outside of the Buffalo area, and a group of 100 random Pats fans, you would see the difference when you started talking to them.
My son is too young to appreciate any of this now. But when he is a little older, he is going to experience the Bills having winning seasons, and after that, see them slide back into mediocrity again. And so on, and so on.
What he will get from me, from folks at Ralph Wilson Stadium, and from being a Bills fan is an understanding of what it means to be a FAN. If he grew up a Patriots fan, he'd never learn that lesson. There aren't a lot of good role models around here.
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Bottom line: in a season during there will be plays that feature the o-line performing better than others, McGahee HAS to hit the line. If the o-line flubs their assignments and goes for no gain, so be it.
But on that one play where everything clicks and a hole opens up--no matter how brief--McGahee's natural talent will kick in and he will be off to the races.
I like Mularkey more and more, too.
One other point: with all the hype about JP Losman just needing to "not make mistakes" and the Bills needing to "establish the running game to take pressure off the new QB," don't you think that got into #21's head a bit?
The dancing we saw could have been Willis trying to put the game on HIS shoulders and make the big play and get the Bills out of a bind--especially if he saw his QB struggling. That's what team players do, good or bad.
What Mularkey should have done was instructed McGahee to run north and south, pound into the line, and exploit the smallest seams. Sooner or later, the dam would break and he'd be free.
Criticize the play calling all you want. When McGahee starts hitting the line, the entire tone of the offense will change.
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Imagine you knew little about NFL football and the Bills.
If you read these message boards over the past few days, you'd think the sky was falling, the practice facilty was in flames, coaches were throwing themselves off the upper deck of The Ralph, and fans were tearing apart their Officially Licensed Bills Gear.
We in Bills Nation have vented, fumed, wrung our hands and analyzed everything but the soil chemistry during the Buccaneers game Sunday. But even the most vicious critics of the game strategy and personnel last week will be at The Ralph; in rec rooms and home theaters; and in sports bars all over the U.S. this Sunday hoping against hope that the Bills will prevail. (A dozen or so of us will be sitting in a small sports bar in Manchester, NH--in the heart of "Patriots Nation." More on that later.)
We are unique among NFL fans. Very few teams have fans with the same passion; Cleveland and Pittsburgh come to mind.
I've been a fan since 1965. Some of you have been fans since the beginning of the franchise, and some of you came on board in the past few years. What we all share is a willingness to believe (billieve) that some way, somehow we will prevail and will see that Lombardi Trophy at Ralph Wilson Stadium soon.
That's why, even in the darkest seasons during the past 40 years, Ralph Wilson knew that there's always be a contingent of faithful fans sitting in seats at home games. Our attendance fell off, to be sure, but we were still there.
I'll close with some perspective on our AFC East rivals, the Patriots' fans.
I have watched "Patriots Nation" with a great deal of amusement over the past twenty years. Back in '85, when I moved to New Hampshire, I was able to walk up to Foxboro Stadium on game days and get great seats to a Bills-Pats game. The Bills would usually prevail, and Foxboro would be half-empty by the end of the 3rd.
You might see the occasional Grogan jersey around town, but the fans around here pretty much abandoned their team for years. When they started winning, you could hear the "fans" pounding nails into the bandwagon they were building. Now, it's practically lwritten into the law that you have to wear Patriots anything around here, and even Dunkin Donuts has the Official Breakfast Sandwich of the New England Patriots.
They are a great team. Their fans, on the other hand, are the most capricious, mercurial, fair-weather group in the NFL. On opening night, when Robert Kraft pronounced that they are the "greatest fans in the world," I had to laugh. Kraft didn't own the team when the stadium was half-empty back in the day, but he will in a few years when the Pats start to decline and the Bills rise to the top team in the AFC again. He can have all the pre-game fireworks and rock concerts he wants, but that won't fill seats.
That's why I have never been prouder to be a Bills fan: I know, deep down, that even if the Bills lose some games this season in horrendous fashion, there will still be a core of loyal fans prepared to back this team.
Go Bills!
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If there'd been tailgating going on when they shot the photo, you'd have been able to see the sausages and steak tips on the grills! Hit this link to see the photo
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1+Bills+Driv...07308&t=k&hl=en
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Bills Fans in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and northern Massachusetts:
The Granite State Bills Backers need you to come out for the Bills-Texans tilt on opening day. Billy's Sports Bar is hosting us this year, but we need a strong showing. The more people we have, the more screens they'll give us. (They are willing to give us a separate room if we come with enough people on a given week.) Check the previous post for a Google map to the location.
Western/northern NH Bills Backers (Keene, Lebanon, Orford, Lisbon, etc.)--if you want to carpool to the game, contact me. Park and Ride at Exit 2 on I-89 will be this week's meeting point. nhbillsbackers@yahoo.com
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Billy's Sports Bar, Manchester NH
12:30 pm
Go Bills!
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NH, VT and northern MA Bill Fans: Join Us!
The Granite State Bills Backers (founded late 2004) is 43 members strong and growing.
We meet at Billy's Sports Bar in Manchester, NH on gamedays.
Register at www.buffalobills.com, then join our our Yahoo! group granitestatebillsbackers for discussion and more information. If you have any friends or relatives in the above areas who are Bills fans, have them get in contact with Mike Quinn at nhbillsbackers@yahoo.com
Go Bills!
Mike Quinn
Granite State Bills Backers
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You Know You Make Me Wanna...
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That's why I added the tongue-in-cheek qualifier to my post.
I have been a Bills fan since '65, and with the exception of a few brief, shining moments (comparitively speaking) during the early Nineties, the Bills franchise has become synonymous with the phrase, "It's a building year."
I share your frustration.
It is perfectly acceptable to be a loyal fan and be sick of questionable moves and neglected priorities--especially in areas like the o-line. What I was reacting to was mainly the people who, a day after the heart of our defensive unit goes down for the season, are hollering "Bench Losman!" and "We want to win now! Put Holcomb in!"
I am sorry, but I cannot STAND when a franchise makes a knee-jerk decision about yanking a new, developing QB and drops a so-so veteran in its place.
Take Drew in Dallas, for example. Sure, the Cowboys are winning games now and DB is tossing TDs like they're effortless. Where are they going to be in two years?
I'm tired of the sky-is-falling-bunch. This team has big problems. Losman may be the lightning rod because he's the QB, but the issues run a lot deeper.
We will win again. It's just a rebuilding year. (Yes, I am kidding.)