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Rex encouraging Aaron Williams to wear the #22 in practice today showed he has class. He was also clearly gritting his teeth to take the company line on letting Fred go, but anyone with the slightest common sense could read between the lines. He did what he had to do on a comparatively smaller issue, and took a stand where he needed to starting Tyrod over Whaley's pet. The sting of Fred not being here is going to way on all fans, but we'll move on just like Fred himself will. Still, a piece of our heart will always have a spot for Fred, and if our season becomes a special one there will be a tiny residue of bitterness that it didn't include our Freddy. Anyway, it is what it is.

Way to ignore the substance of what I said again, darling. You crusade to stop me from commenting and then fall back on a baseless comment entirely unrelated to my comment. Consider yourself blocked. Any further obsessions you have with me will go on deaf ears.

Actually, honey, we can let the mods decide. You are obsessed in a creepy way with me because you can't stand my criticism. You offer nothing, zero, zilch, in any thread I've seen, except personal attacks against me to stop criticizing Whaley. You are by definition a troll. You offer nothing. Zero. Not a single opinion or comment of substance beyond crusading to stop me from criticizing Whaley. Keep it up. Please keep it up.

The crusade is you, sweetheart. Back off. You troll my every post with the same drivel. Either contribute constructively or I report you. Capice?

As I have been saying all along, Whaley is a piece of **** wholly and entirely driven by his ego...to the detriment of everything else, including the team. Bucky Gleason ‏@TBNbucky @Fred22Jackson on GM Doug Whaley: "There’s only one person in that organization that I haven’t gotten honesty from, and that was him.”

Genius. Pure genius.

Top 5 1. Jim Kelly 2. Fred Jackson 3. Steve Tasker 4. Darryl Talley 5. Kent Hull

Truth. I think this comes from having a young and insecure GM. Hopefully, he'll mature over time.

This is a bigger benefit than many people realize. Buffalo can be a pretty defeatist environment, and having that Super Bling experience, even as a backup, will be a big positive to combat that issue.

Exactly. A high character guy who can still play is invaluable for a top team. A guy who can keep the stars aligned and a locker room together. They dump Harvin for poor character, we pick him up, then send them Freddy Jackson gift wrapped and ready for a championship run.

In other words, they want a high character guy who can still ball to provide leadership on and off the field. Certainly nothing we could use.

I'm lying? So, an opinion that isn't goose stepping with the regime is considered lying? Wake up, boy. We have an injured 5th rd draft pick and two bums backing up McCoy. Ask yourself this: If BOOBY or BRYCE were waived you think Pete Carroll is flying them out to Seattle on the next flight out to sign? Not a chance in hell.

I don't know...he only led the team in rushing and receptions last season, is one of the best blocking backs in the NFL, highest character, top leadership skills, and was the team captain. Oh, and none of the other backup RBs on our roster have done jack sh*t in this league. You think Seattle signed him because he's a washed up old hag? Wake up.

Certainly makes one question the motives of the decision makers.

Since Freddy obviously wasn't good enough to compete with a blue chip stud like Bryce Brown, it's nice to see a bottom feeder organization like Seattle is able to make use of a guy so old, so over-the-hill, so worn out, so done, so shot, and everything else so many of the brilliant posters of TBD pointed out to us after he was cut.

There really is no debate. Everyone knows it was a horrible decision to cut him. Everyone knows it wasn't a football decision. Everyone os pissed off. And everyone is resigned to these facts and prepared to move on as fans accordingly. Those trying to hijack the majority with snark are message board trolls, or plants with agendas. We all know it. Not much left to say. On to the football with a carryover of bitterness for the injustice done to Fred. That's it. Done.

The one on the crusade here is you, sweet cheeks. This is only the 2nd thread I've started today, and taking a yes/no poll on Fred getting cut is hardly out of bounds.

Straight up/down, do you agree with the decision to cut Freddy Jackson? I'll start. Don't let my opinion sway you. !@#$ NO!!

Yeah, how dare the mods permit a theead with opinions differing from yours.

Freddy did not fumble games away, and the body of work for Fred is way beyond Bryce. Way beyond. The ability to run a faster 40 doesn't mean crap. Fred is a better running back. Fred breaks tackles, fred makes big plays, Fred has vision, great hands, great blocking, high football IQ, clutch play, a powerful leader, plays hurt, and has done it all over time. He has proven himself to be all the things you want in a back. Bryce Brown? WTF has he ever done but suck. He couldn't even make the active roster last year until we were decimated with injuries...because he sucked. CJ Spiller was faster and more explosive than Bryce Brown, and Freddy beat him out. You simply don't understand football.

You do realize that Freddy is 100x better than Brown in every facet of the game, and his career proves it in spades, right? You have watched football at some point in your life, right? The real question is why I bother responding to you, junior. I don't intend to moving forward.

It's nearly impossible to believe that Whaley trading for Brown had nothing to do with healthy Freddy being cut and injured, fumbling, soft, lost Brown being kept. Considering Rex has done nothing but bash Brown and say positive things about Freddy, it doesn't require a tinfoil hat to do the math here.

Um, not the ones who suck.

The next time Bryce Brown is able to see the field and find a hole will be the first time. He's a bum. A stiff, and does not belong in the NFL.

Correct. Fred is not too slow. How many running backs in the league would have outrun a secondary that had an angle? He almost did, barely getting tripped as he was diving for the goal line. I don't accept the argument that Fred was done, and Fred is still better on his worst day than Bryce Brown on his best. I repeat: The decision to release Fred may have been a lot of things, but one thing it absolutely was not is a football decision.