Pass the Pipe

After reviewing the carnage on this website tonight, for the first time, I believe the core fans of this organization have had their collective backs broken! Being the core fans of the team, I think it would be balls move to organize a boycott of the last home game against the Patriots. Collect money and put a one page add in the Buffalo News; a message needs to be sent to our pathetic owner once and for all!

Modrak is the biggest fraud in the organization!

His Arm isn't the best and he would get killed with his running style. I like better the kid from Texas.

Give me a break, the product sucks and has sucked for a long time.

You're right, bless his soul.

To be brutally honest, today's game symbolized to me a funeral procession for the once mighty Bills organization. Reflecting on those great December Kelly vs. Marino games of times past and seeing what was essentially an away game in front of novice bipartisan fans was too much to take. I have a funny feeling Chris Berman can't sleep tonight as well. I actually felt sorry for the 53 players and coaches today, Pennington's snap count came across the tv set as clear as a whistle, some home game? Which takes me to the sad truth: this organization is finished. The Bills define the "have-nots" in today's NFL. The team looks and feels like a squad that has the lowest payroll, a "blue-light" special coaching staff, and a non-for-profit front office. The incompetency of the player personnel people, coaching staff, and general front office couldn't be more evident than in the last two weeks. Rich Gannon's commit about our half-a*s attempt at the "Wild Cat" was right on point. No imagination from the coaches and bush league players attempting to execute is what we've had in Buffalo the last 10 years and it’s not going to change. Hell, the good players that we draft are history once their rookie contracts expire (Winfield, Clemens, and, yes, I am going to add Crowell to that list as well), how is any organization going to win like that? Wilson is the problem, has always been the problem, and will continue to be the problem until he expires. So continue to dream about Cowher and Shottenheimer signings, a Julus Pepper FA acquisition, and collegiate studs in the April draft because I am totally convinced this sh*t isn't going to change. I hope I am wrong, but I have a funny feeling that I am not, this thing is toast! By the way, this year's rookie class is by far the worst I can remember in modern time, did Modrak buy the Sporting News a week before the draft? Where did he find James Hardy, holy cow does that guy suck!

Buddy, Kiper and I have been reading the tea leaves for many years. I haven't agreed with the direction of this team for 8 or 9 years now and I have been attacked on this site for that. The True Believers and the 50,000 season ticket holders got a "Pulp Fiction (Marculus Wallace)" today if you know what I mean.

Greatest line I have read today, the "Bill-ieve" model! "Yes we can!!! "Obama!"

Why offend all the time?

You are largely correct, these receivers can't beat anyone and Fox's Tony B. was all over that today. But he also did show a situation deap in the red zone, the 4th down play, where Evans clearly separated but Losman was way too slow to recognize the play. This is honestly the worst WR group in the league and I don't feel Evans is a true number 1, I don't ever recall him making a "run after the catch" play. He can sure beat people on stop and goes and fly patterns, but the rest of his game is average. Add Hardy to a long list of early round draft failures, the guy has nothing.

This would be the best hire we could make. A very solid football coach that would put this team in the right direction on day one. In addition, he has ties to the organization. He has had some bad luck in his days, but his teams are always competitive.

I am really tired of the insecurity of Buffaloians. The city is what it is, it is a great place with outstanding food, people, and natural resources (Lake etc.), but it is not a South Beach, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Sunset Strip, Rush Street, and Buckhead. I have been to all these places and the chicks, money, clubs, scene are all off the charts. I live in LA, and the women at the SkyBar or ViperRoom are second to none. But we are talking about a handful of cities in the world that can offer this type of entertainment for rich young men. Buffalo has nothing to be ashamed of, but it can't compare to the places I mentioned above, facts are facts.

I totally agree.

That was the most listless effort I have seen from a Bills team in a long time. Last year’s team played with more emotion than this group. Say what you want about the pizza boy and Cromwell, but passion and effort wasn’t their short coming. I am not Whitner fan, but his emotion was sorely missed. This team has taken the personality of their pathetic coach. Missing the challenge on the Pats first touchdown drive should be enough fire this joke, but unfortunately the organization’s signal caller doesn’t have a clue and hasn’t had one for a long time. Until the guy drops dead the team can forget about competing for championships. Please give Edwards and Lynch a break as well; no offense can operate behind that o-line. This board should forget about drafts and free agency because until we clean house in the front office, scouting/personnel, and the coaching staff we don’t stand a chance of improving. The people currently in charge don't have the competency level to fix these problems. The only answer would be a Bill Cowher or Marty Schottemhiemer signing giving them lots of decision making authority, anything else would be more of the same

Temptation Island! The boat is 150 ft. Viking stocked with Pyrate Rum and served by Jessica Alba look a likes that aim to please.

Well said

Evans, I can't disagree with what you are saying, but the level of frustration is off the charts. I spend afternoons watching these guys, money flying to games, money buying the NFL package, and not to mention emotional currency. I don't think anybody can argue, the problem with this organization, like any other, starts at the very top and when is this guy going to wake up?? If you think this organization is in the right direction then lets hear your case?

As many of you, I noticed a post by one of us bidding farewell to this fan base and its organization, the individual conveniently hit the eject button over a warm tropical island with a stocked tiki bar and loads of naked women otherwise known as the Tennessee Titans. In all honesty, I am having a hard time disagreeing with this decisive action. I mean, how much more can anybody take of this organization? Frankly, there are better ideas on this website about personnel and coaching then what regularly streams out of One Bills Drive. We are going on nine years of no playoff appearances and the probability of this streak ending anytime soon is slim and none. I hear cries that Ralph is cheap, no he is not cheap, he is ignorant in terms of building winning football programs (milking fans is another story)! He just gave a coach that is completely void of creativity and leadership a three year, probably 10+ million, extension for accomplishing next to nothing, not too dissimilar from what he did with Donahoe. The definition of ignorance is making the same mistake over and over again, which seems to fit Ralph like a fine pair of OJ Simpson driving gloves. If he was cheap he would nulify the contract and settle in arbitration for an amount well inside the terms of that contract. That said, what can this team do with its current roster? Blitz more with our lock-down corners and deep center field safeties; turn small, slow, powerless defensive ends into sack artists; send Ellison in off the edge; run counters and traps with fat un-athletic linemen; move defenses out of the box and safeties out deeper with guys like Hardy, Royal, and Parrish; Christ, I am reading desperate pleas for Schobel and Yabouty to return, doesn’t that say everything? From my survey of the situation we might as well being asking for a parting of Lake Erie; and a couple thousand of us are questioning the sanity of our friend that left for greener pastures? Come to think of it, he is the one that should be doing the questioning! Like any other sport, one wins with talent and the people making decisions on talent haven’t done their job in One Bills Drive for quite some time now. Coaching is also very important in the NFL, which is somewhat confirmed when we consider what Moose McNaully did last year with this pathetic offensive line. Probably his greatest feat before riding off into retirement. It is simply amazing how teams in this league can go from putrid records one season to playoffs the next, yet the Bills continue to flounder in mediocrity for such extended periods of time.

I don't think Scott will be much of a dropoff, maybe in the postgame interview room?

Didn't he retire last year?

He was right, Stroud is washed up! He sure as hell didn't look like Kris Jenkins, but then again, Stroud doesn't have the luxary of facing Preston and Whittle on Sundays.

He is a victim, the players around him suck! Jenkins completely destroyed Preston and Whittle. And Ralph Wilson's idea of getting help for Lee Evans is a joke by the name of Hardy. Believe me, Lynch can't possibly do more with this group.

Thank you very much! I have been saying this for years. This guy has done everything on the cheap and the end product is what it is. The talent evaluation on this team is nothing short of horrible, do we even have college scouts? We reach for average free agent talent because we don't want to make the block buster deal to get a real difference maker. We overpay for average talent, people like Kelsey and Schobel, but we let studs like Winfield, Williams, and Clements walk. The vicious circle will repeat itself when we let Greer go and plug the position with some less than average talent. Our front office is a freakin joke; nothing but a bunch of low grade NFL hacks!

Once in a while? We haven't been to the playoffs in 8 years and how many Pro Bowlers have we had in this decade?