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I would really like Nelson on this defense. I mean, that would be a bold move to make that a killer secondary.

If these guys can stay healthy, that is one hell of a WR corps.

Eagles helmet in the background? Screw him. Just kidding, he's a good one. Will be missed.

Wow, I didn't know anyone else here knew where Chillicothe, IL was. I'll be in Peoria next month, probably drive right through Chillicothe. My mother-in-law is from there. And yes, I will be wearing Bills gear.

Great video, thanks!!

Point taken, though the fact remains that many TEs looked great against us, yet it doesn't necessarily mean they're great TEs.

Then again, practically every TE in the league who played against us looked like an all-star. It was one of the biggest weaknesses of this defense last year.

I've mentioned this here sometime in the past, but this is the thread for it, so here goes. Bear with me. Few years back the mother-in-law from Illlinois was fishing for ideas for a holiday gift for me, so I decided a Bills t-shirt would be a decent option. So I went to the Bills shop online and picked out three different options for her. I emailed her the choices, numbered #1 through #3 with the URL links, and told her if she couldn't decide on one then I thought the second one, #2, would be my top choice. Seemed like a reasonable plan. Fast forward to the gift exchange evening. By this point I had long forgotten about that email. It's my turn to open up a gift, so I grab the one from her. I rip it open, open up the box, and here I am looking at a Bills jersey. A nice one, too. So I lift it out of the box and I begin to see it's an authentic Bills blue home jersey with the number 2 on it, and the name Carpenter across the back. She got me a real Dan Carpenter jersey. So I'm looking at this thing trying to comprehend not only why she got me a Bills jersey, but why I'm staring at an authentic Dan Carpenter jersey. I mean, it was a really nice jersey of course, and I always thought Dan seemed pretty cool and was a good kicker, but let's face it, it was a Dan Carpenter the kicker jersey. This is a woman who's from Illinois, knows almost nothing about football, even less about the Bills, and certainly had never even heard the name Dan Carpenter in her entire life to this point. It was just so puzzling I didn't know what to say at first. I didn't have the heart to ask her about it, but my best guess is that she somehow interpreted my email to mean that I wanted a #2 Bills jersey, not the #2 option of Bills t-shirts that I had sent her. How she made that leap I'll never know, but for quite some time that evening I was absolutely perplexed. In any case, I wore it to a couple of Bills games, and it was pretty funny. I figure I'm the only person outside of Dan's family to have one of those.

@corta765, great job as always. Some great moments in there, but man that was painful to relive. Except the Green Bay game, that was so awesome. It’s amazing how I remember all of those moments so clearly, like they happened yesterday.

It's the only Bills jersey I have.

Awesome, thanks @Chandler#81! My all-time favorite Bill as well. Loved pretending to be him as a kid, catching tip-toe passes on the sidelines. I hadn't realized he had caught passes from so many great QBs. Really cool to see him catch one from Pastorini, another of my favorites growing up, though for reasons I'm not sure. Maybe I just liked his name? Probably one of my favorites of his as well. It was featured on the opening of a weekly show, was it Inside the NFL? I was really hoping they'd have that one in there.

I still cannot fathom that wasn't the call. What was their explanation, again??

Someday we're gonna see an interview with Beane where he'll be asked why the Ertz deal never happened, and he'll reveal that there was never any interest in him at all, it was all just a media creation.

Well said. Same age, same memories. 1975 was a tough year indeed. Damn, though, OJ was really good. Never an end zone dance, either. There was some incredible O-line blocking in that video as well. On one play in there against the Steelers, Braxton and McKenzie both violently took out Steelers defenders and opened up a huge hole for OJ.

Still can't believe my original thread got locked just to see this one pop up again. Where's the justice in this world?

Would you rather see Ertz come to Buffalo in a trade, or the Bills grab one of the remaining FAs like Ingram or Sherman? I concur.

Agreed!

I know this is about Facenda (the greatest), but this just reminds me of one of the greatest albums I had as a kid... The Music from NFL Films (Vol. 1)

What, none of you are eager to see this Van Gogh make a return to the spotlight?

Great guy to have on the team. Love the dude.

That's true, maybe I should have specified: Ertz or a high-profile vet CB like Nelson? I don't think they could do both.

I agree, but do you think the Bills are better off using the remaining cap space on Ertz, or on a vet CB?

I'm sure I'm missing something, but I could see both teams going for that one, as long as GB has the cap space. I think GB would prefer to trade Rodgers out of the NFC, but all in all that's not a bad exchange.

I haven’t read all of the pages in this thread, but has anyone mentioned this one? Sorry if I missed it. Bills at home against the Pats**** in 2004? Late 4th quarter, Bills down 7 but driving inside their 20. 4th down and 3, Bills decide to call Drew Bledsoe to run a naked ***** bootleg. The worlds slowest QB is asked to run a naked bootleg against the undefeated Pats**** with the game on the line. Sack, fumble, ran back for a touchdown, game over. Horrible call in clutch time, horrible execution. Just an embarrassment all around.

Bingo. So many plays in that Super Bowl...Lofton not scoring a TD on the long pass from Kelly early in the game (Bills settled for a FG), Reed dropping a critical 3rd down pass over the middle with the Bills ahead and driving after the safety, Thurman getting barely tripped up from behind on the final drive when he could have gone for big yards, etc....... Yep, I didn't see this posted and put it up there myself as well. Very underrated in the annals of bad Bills plays. A conversion there would probably have led to points and quite possibly a different outcome. Ugh.