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I was thinking the same thing.

On a far smaller scale, it reminds me of the Kelvin Benjamin "experiment". That didn't take very long, either.

And this - right here - is the thought of the day. I can't stop laughing. Thank God WE were the team that ended up with the real QB.

"You f*cked up. You trusted us!"

No, this is the part where you bring up the "Naughty Nurse" trope...

AFCE may have just gotten weaker with Wilson's knee situation. I realize that's picking nits.

Remember how Joe Montana's career ended. There's a chance...just sayin'...

Man, that's perfect. Welcome back to my Saturday mornings. Lance Link. Secret Chimp. A Stadium Wall FIRST.

Word has it that A.J. McCarron is available. The Alabama Trio of Doom.

Not a player, but a coach. George Siefert. He should have just hung it up after San Francisco, and headed straight for Canton. But he made a detour at Carolina...

I know I'll get sucked into the hype vortex like I do every year. But I'm going to try to fight it until about Week 6-7. That Steelers opener just shot the horse out underneath me last year. I was REALLY pumped, and actually started giving non-Bills fans a little sh!t. Nope. I feel good about them, but I'm keeping my mouth shut.

Thought experiment (yeah, it's the off-season). Looking at the picture of Wilson and his ex-girlfriend. Those two kids somehow get married and have children. Jesus. The teeth.

That was a sink? Wow. I only thought that happened in movies.

I believe there's a lot of truth to this. Obviously, I wasn't a fly on the wall at OBD during the time, but I remember a LOT of buzz about Rodgers. That he'd pulled a fast one on ol' Ralph, Bills fans would still support the team in Toronto, etc. And then *poof* - the younger man passed away first. Weird.

That Thanksgiving game against the Cowboys was a turning point, so I'll list THAT one. We all knew there were sparks of promise that season, and the fan base was grateful for the exposure (yes, especially coupled with family, food and booze). But - you know - the Bills were supposed to get their collective asses handed to them on national TV, right? Those plucky Bills fans would - typically - get a few reasons to cheer, and then they would - typically - wipe the sh!t off their collective faces and go back to being Bills fans. You know the script. I know the script. We ALL know the script. And then "F*ck you." Man, that game felt GREAT.

It can be any throwback uniform they want so long as it's not that tire fire from ~2000-2010.

In fairness, friend, you have to keep in mind the time of season. We're in the dead zone between OTAs and Training Camp, there's nothing to talk about, and - I grant you - people get pissy. But if the collective response to THIS thread bothers you, do yourself a big favor and stay off the board after a loss. Particularly the afternoon/evening of the loss while people are still out of their minds on booze. The elbows get pretty sharp...

Yeah, there's that. I think the part of my brain that experienced the Aaron Maybin phenomenon ate itself, and doesn't allow me to remember much about it.

I know. Gotta find SOMETHING to worry about. If we're picking nits over the #3 WR or punt returner, things are pretty good. Think Trey Teague, Bennie Anderson, Zay Jones, Brian Brohm, Torrel Troupe, John McCargo, Kelvin Benjamin... Feel better now?

My gut call as well (speaking, of course, as just another knucklehead on a fan board). Imagine this thought experiment: 1) Araiza loses the punt battle and the team tries to stash him on the practice squad. 2) Araiza lasts about 34 minutes on the practice squad before he's signed elsewhere. 3) Haack shanks a punt in the first game. 4) This board collectively goes to the closet to get out the pitchforks and torches.

I was just saying this in another thread. Most of us watch these guys blabbering into the microphone and think "I could do that". Not as easy as it looks if you're trying to stay interesting. Because he wasn't.

Wait. I thought the Bills got two Thanksgiving games. I heard it around here someplace. Honest.

I remember when NBC snagged Joe Montana to be their top analyst following his retirement. That was a BIG deal for them (they handled the AFC games back then). LOTS of hype and pre-selling. I don't know if he lacked the talent, or his heart wasn't in it, but that gig was over in a heartbeat. I'd have to Google it, but it seemed to be done in a single season; maybe it was two. The point is that there's no guarantee that stardom on the field translates into the broadcast booth. For what it's worth, I remember Jim Kelly being brought aboard ESPN (?) as an in-studio analyst. That's another one that lasted a season, maybe two. Not to go too far off-topic, but I'm not sold on Drew Brees at this point. I know he's trying really hard, but at this point he seems to just spew out "athlete-isms". There's nothing incisive there yet. Not saying it can't happen, but right now it seems like "fake-it-until-you-make-it". Long story short - let's see how Brady actually does behind the microphone. He might not last as long as Fox thinks. Because he might suck at it. Others have.

I'd been buying into this line of reasoning for awhile, because it's...well, a line of "reasoning", as opposed to "I've had another Labatt's, so let me tell you what's going to happen." But here's my admittedly stupid counterargument: I don't think the NFL could give a rat's hairy @$$ about ANY of that. Why do I say that? Because I've watched the NFL stake out Thanksgiving, and then warily watch the NBA stake out Christmas Day as "NBA Day". All's fair in love and ratings, right? And they let 20 (?) years go by, and they watched the ratings, and they watched the ratings, and PRESTO. We started getting NFL games on Christmas. Simply by "the luck of the draw; you know...it's just the way the calendar worked out, Christmas was on a Saturday....". And now nobody or their great aunt watches the NBA on Christmas unless they have ZERO life. Certainly not when paired off against the NFL. Hell, the Jets at Jaguars would CRUSH pretty much NBA game. So would Northern Ohio at East Midwestern Arkansas State. So the NFL really doesn't give two good g@ddamns about what NBA games are rolling in the same time slot. That's big. Think about it - this is the NFL versus the NBA. Lots of munny munny munny at stake. Someone's going to win, someone's going to lose. The ratings are the the blood splotches on the floor. So what makes us think they're going to give two limp ***** about the viewership of any MLB game happens to be going on when they come to town?

Pretty sure that was the description attributed to Kyle Williams, actually. I'm still kind of in PTSD with those teams.