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Whatever talent he has left is not worth the step backwards the overall character of the team will take.

You're hoping that a "douche" will now be an effective leader? For a team which has become known for its never give up, stick up for each other mentality, is there a worse person on the planet to add to the mix? this is a joke, no?

All good points, as well as the OP. What I really came away with from this game is, once again, how hard Fred Jackson runs. He simply REFUSES to allow the first tackler to take him down, even if he looks totally wrapped up. Plays look dead in the backfield and Freddy will fight like a beast to get a few yards out of it.

At the start of a critical drive by the Bills, I handed Kevin Harlan a note stating "Tyler Thigpen is in the game." A little levity to break the tension...

No square wheels on the Bills' train this year and the Amish Rifle ain't a water gun that shoots jelly...

i was similarly worried, or perhaps conditioned by decades of Bills' fandom. I also thought Merriman was tackled in the backfield by the Raiders' line on the Hail Mary.

I believe "Hoya Saxa" translates to "What Rocks!" in latin. Supposedly some historical figure was sailing the potomac and was remarking about the size of the rocks along the river's edge. At least that's what i heard about a zillion times when I lived in DC from Georgetown students who will talk about how awesome their school is to no end... I always thought "fear the beard" was a bad idea for a team from San Fran..

Each one of the crushing defeats sucks in its own unique way...hard to quantify which one was actually the worst, although the monday night opener vs the Pats seems to sting the most. Maybe because I just KNEW it was going to happen and it did. Each of the SB losses followed a quality season so there was cause for optimism. The Pats loss reinforced the futility of seasons past and seasons to come. Working from the personal lowest moment angle, I was at a party for SB XXVIII where there were an overwhelming number or Cowboys fans. One of the "fans" (actually a bandwagoner who claimed to be a fan of 5-6 different NFL teams) was particularly loud and obnoxious in the 4th quarter. There was a deli plate nearby and I picked up a tomato and totally Nolan Ryan'ed one at his head, splattering his face and knocking his glasses off. A pretty ugly food fight ensued. Hmm...upon further review, that mighta been one of my best moments...

some factors to consider on why the Buffalo WNY media may be skewed (if indeed they are) ... 1) Conditioning from covering the team over the past decade. Easy to build bias when you get into a pattern of writing the same type of story (bad personnel decisions, bad coaching, questions at key positions) over and over. 2) Collective thinking. Someone alluded to this earlier...media types key in on what other regional reporters are saying and follow suit. 3) Over-compensation to not appear to be homers. Reporters want to maintain credibility and nobody will want to go out on a limb and declare a team to be of quality until they're fairly comfortable that it's merited. You don't look nearly as bad for being overly-critical of a team that ends up being a decent squad as you do for declaring the team you regularly cover to be playoff-bound. Calling the Bills a bad team early on is pretty low-risk. 4) The same "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality pervasive in all of journalism. Reporters, and the public, gravitate to bad news stories.

AMEN BRUTHA!!! I could not give a rat's arse about what sorta love the Bills get from any media person...whether it's national media or the Honeoye Falls Gazette. It's too early to do anything but enjoy the noticable improvements and make our own assessments of where the team is headed. We won a game convincingly. It should just feel daaaaaaaamn good. I read news stories to get information or other perspectives which I can agree or disagree with. But we shouldn't take to heart any of what these guys have to say about the Bills.

Watched them at home for free on NFL Sunday Ticket,thanks to the free promo week. If this rest of you will chip in and buy it for me, we should go undefeated...

"..KC fans...in the unlikely event of a Bills blowout...please find your nearest exits, located here, here, and here..."

marauderswr80 and others in need of a lift, i hope this game is serving its purpose! and is a sign of good things to come....

Red zone TD passes to a tight end?!?!?! Who are these guys and what have they done with the Bills....LOVE IT!!!

7 songs that give you the most value for your money when getting a lapdance.... 7) Layla 6) Hey Jude 5) Freebird 4) Nights in White Satin 3) Do You Feel Like We Feel 2) In a-Gadda-Da-Vida 1) Alice's Restaurant

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Me thinks that someone who so readily throws around accusations of racism and then follows it with a smiley emoticon, really doesn't appreciate the significance of such a claim and probably has a hair-trigger....or actually, it was, racism, ageism, elitism...want to throw in sexism, sinophobia, chauvinism, handedness, or anything else you can throw at the wall and make stick? The play's the thing, brother...

Indeed, it MUST be racism, ageism, or elitism! Not that it was genuinely difficult to read in any way? There's a difference between making an honest grammatical or spelling mistake in a posting vs. forcing a certain vernacular into an ongoing discussion. Everyone has the right to share his or her opinion on a message board and not be nitpicked for reasons unrelated to the content of the message. But it's certainly constructive advice to recommend that someone express themselves in a manner that doesn't draw attention away from what it was he or she was attempting to convey. It takes just as much effort to write "from" as it does to write "frum." If I chose to write all my posts in pig Latin, it must make the rest of you racists or elitists for not appreciating it. Ogay Ills-Bay!!

I think all the main points have been covered to death re: Kelsay. He's ok and could be a decent cog in a good system with better players around him. He sure ain't Bryce Paup but he doesn't flat out suck either. I think he's got more of a bullseye on him because the front office made it such a priority to retain him and sign him to such a lucrative deal. On a team with all the pressing needs the Bills had, he seemed a bit more expendable at the time of the signing. Unfortunately, the fact that he's still hanging around makes him the poster boy for multiple front office epic fails....

When I picture Fitz heading towards the goal line with the ball, it always makes me laugh. Ryan Fitzpatrick... who crawled through a river of sh*tty linemen and came out clean on the other side. Ryan Fitzpatrick... headed for the endzone....

Amazing how these "how many games do you think the bills will win" threads play out...at some point people get labeled with various behavioral pathologies or their fandom gets questioned... Ron Burgundy:"Boy, that escalated quickly... I mean, that really got out of hand fast." Champ Kind:"It jumped up a notch." Ron Burgundy:"It did, didn't it?" Brick Tamland:"Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart." Ron Burgundy:"I saw that! Brick killed a guy! Did you throw a trident?" Brick Tamland:"Yeah, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident" i think they'll be better than last year. how much better remains to be seen. enjoy!

who cares about professional opinions when it comes to football? this isn't a science. hell, skip bayless is a "professional" no need to turn your nose up at a little optimism in august... lighten up, francis!

Fitz-hat-trick. Cuz we're gonna get 3 wins this season.

The Bills' issues are systemic in nature. A vicious cycle of underperformance, poor organizational and personnel decisions, bad coaching and game management, etc. No single player can offset the recent malaise. Hoping for the Bills to start goldbricking so some 22 year old can join a troupe of confirmed losers and single-handedly turn them around is ludicrous. I want to see a system emerge that addresses all of the above issues and have management plug in the right personnel to apply this system every Sunday. Reooting for your team to reap the benefits of being an embarrassment is pathetic. We're better than that. Win some games, build the muscle memory associated with winning, and let's focus on the big picture.

moral victories are neither moral nor a victory. i hate this feeling.