Pass the Pipe
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Modrak is the biggest fraud in the organization!
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Hypothetically of course, if he comes out for the draft and is available, do we draft him? He reminds me of Jim Kelly in some aspects. He is a leader and just has that "it" quality about him. The guy just plays hard and finds a way to win.
His Arm isn't the best and he would get killed with his running style. I like better the kid from Texas.
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Give me a break, the product sucks and has sucked for a long time.
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It seems to me the quintessential play of the year was Duke Preston snapping the ball directly up his own ass. CLASSIC! When the Bills are selling season tickets next season, here's hoping they have that wonderful symbol of hope (picture of snap) on billboards all over town!
Genius! I really wonder what a Singletary or Sparono would have done seeing one of their player's pull that sh*t? Sparono almost killed his kicker over the squib-kick.
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I know damn well that Tim Russert was probably getting dizzy from rolling over so fast in his grave today. Thanks Ralph for showing your support to all the Bills fans that have supported and been so loyal your ancient ass for so many years.
You're right, bless his soul.
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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!
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Because as I've tried to cooperate in the past my point is unheard, so I enjoy my period of being a pest in anyomity.
Are you offended at what a fellow fan of your preferred football team says in an online message board in a fit of rage after one of the worst losses in franchise history? Or were you joking?
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.
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Come on - some true believer out there has had to run the numbers and regression analysis through the Bill-ieve model to generate what the opportunity to make the playoffs is right? There must be someone still on that red white and blue bandwagon keeping the seats warm for next year's season ticket push....
Maybe not at this point...On a serious note - I sincerely hope we put our best foot forward to focus on what players should be kept and who should be cut loose or traded. I know it is a dead horse, but this team needs the Parcells treatment - complete overhaul...again.
If anyone really believes this is a playoff team - please - raise your hands and be heard!
Greatest line I have read today, the "Bill-ieve" model! "Yes we can!!! "Obama!"
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So someone can find you, track you down, and drag you into a mental hospital where you belong.
Why offend all the time?
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Everyone gets the blame in these losses. The D, even though they held an NFL team to 10. Oline, QB's, coaches, owner,...everyone.
Why doesn't either QB throw the ball deep? I find myself screaming at the TV,"Throw the ball downfield...Do something..Anything!!!" Are our receivers that bad that they can't get open on any play in any situation?
Hardy- sucks, I know he's a rookie so I give him a pass.
Reed-on the fence about him and he's been doing enough for me not to hate him.
Evans-he has got to do more if he's the #1.
Do we even have any others?
The Bill's losses have been so all encompassing, but the only group that is left that hasn't taken enough heat, I think, is the receivers. They blow!
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.
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Today.
Not tomorrow.
Right now.
This season is gone anyways. Get the next coach in here and give him some extra time to acclimate to the players and let them get used to him. Give him a first hand look at practices, sidelines, facilities, filmrooms, personell, staff, etc.
The Bills gain nothing by waiting around for the inevitable firing of Jauron; try and salvage something by getting a little jump start on next year.
Please?
Pretty f'ing please?
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.
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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.
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this team played a lot better last year with a lot less talent...they never really played scared except in the 2 new englnd games, but at least NE had their full complement of weapons....today NE had a flat tire and broken steering wheel and still drove circles around us....
these coaches have a lot to answer for....as in how can you get so little out of much more talent?
I totally agree.
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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
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Plane....plane dammit. It's an airport. Stay on point here would you.
Temptation Island! The boat is 150 ft. Viking stocked with Pyrate Rum and served by Jessica Alba look a likes that aim to please.
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Teams with the best football minds in the front office more often than not produce the best teams on the field. We haven't had a great executive football mind since Polian left in 92. The remnants of his work remained competitive until 99, but since their departure, it's no coincidence the on-field Bills have suffered. Like him or hate him, Parcells knows what it takes to win. And he's doing it with less talent than Buffalo has along with a rookie HC.
To me, the Bills begin and end with Mr. Wilson. I believe Ralph still has immense control over this team and being directly involved with DJ's extension proves this. Unfortunately, he only makes a move when it's affecting business. After 2005, he needed something to get the fans excited again. He reached back for the old hand in Levy, and masterfully got people interested with that PR move. It didn't matter who Levy hired as HC, the memories of the late 80s and early 90s were back. Now we're seeing that PR moves don't necessarily translate into wins and it's actually having better football minds that win games. Less than 3 years later, we're left with the re-upped DJ who is showing what got him fired in Chicago 5 seasons ago. Combined with a quasi GM minus personnel experience, we're left wondering why those players with big contracts aren't winning. Maybe, just maybe, they're not the right ones.
The prospect of nine seasons without a playoff appearance in the salary cap era is dumbfounding. I love the Bills, but it's hard to get excited when confronted with inept coaching and lackluster effort each week.
Well said
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I really do not understand these posts. Being a fan of a sports team isn't a decision you make. It's something you grow up with, it's something you have passion for, it's in your !@#$in blood. And like many others have pointed out, if you are ready to give up, there is no way you were a fan in the first place. What makes the situation that much more ridiculous is that you find time in your day to waste time on a message board. If you're such a wishy-washy joke of a fan in the first place, go find something else to do in your free time for Christ's sake.
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?
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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.
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Crap.
I don't think Scott will be much of a dropoff, maybe in the postgame interview room?
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That'll never happen.
Didn't he retire last year?
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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.
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simple as that........
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.
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we will only begin winnining when Ralph leaves
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!
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It's especially tough when comparing it with last year's top three, all of whom produced immediately (Poz played well before he got hurt). It's still to early to tell, but it's safe to say that bad drafts happen to every team once in a while.
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?
Boycott the Patriots Game
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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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!