Erik

I disagree with us. If any authority figure on the Bills has any knowledge of what happened and what anyone is trying to hide, I'd say it was the head coach...and Dick Jauron's name doesn't appear here. This is grandtanding at it's worse and as a public servant, when a fellow public servant tries to use people to gain fame than I take it seriosuly and I have a problem with that. I'm sorry. I can tell you one thing though, handing Ralph Wilson a subpoena will likely do nothing more than get the DA's name on ESPN and CNN.

That's true. And for the record should Marshawn warrant a suspension and is given it I would support the commissioner's decision but I would route for the Bills and hope that they have made enough personnel moves (ie Freddie Jackson and/or Omon) that they would be able to overcome but you bet once Marshawn is in the lineup that I will root for him to succeed with the team every minute he is in there. I will root for Hardy too because the truth is these kids are in the early 20's and have not come close to eaching their point of full maturity. Plenty of people have made it out after living tough lives and making some tough choices in the earlier years, so I'll stick with them and hope that they live and learn.

Fair enough. I'm just growing weary of all of the personal attacks we've been seeing on the board. It's obvious that mostly everyone on the board does not condone the actions of Lynch, whatever thay may be, but it seems like people have to prove that they are smarter, classier, etc. and it is really growing tiresome. Also being a Bills fan in New England I can tell you it's going to take a lot more than being classier to handle getting pummeled 56-10 by the Pats. I mean sure I can respect other teams more than the Pats or Bengals but at the end of the day we have failed to achieve our ultimate goal and another team succeeded regardless of how classy they are collectively. And when we've gone so many years without making the playoffs (and having some very classy players and teams as a whole during that period) you just want to win.

Alright since you decided to call me our for supposedly having no class, let me respond since you don't even know me. The point I was trying to make is that this whole post is idiotic...so what if the Jets have more class than anyone else in the division? The Patriots will likely win the division again, class or no class. They cheated for the past 7 years, showing a lack of class, and won three championships in the process. I'm not condoning it, it's jsut the facts. So regardless if you dislike the fact that we have people Marshawn Lynch or James Hardy on our team or that the Jets are a bunch of nice, classy guys that should be rewarded on the field it just doesn't matter. In our culture athletes are given millions of dollars at the age of 20, 21 and are glorified by their fan base. Stuff like this happens to every single sports franchise at one point or another in the history at this day and age. To think that when a few players get into legal trouble for the same franchise that it means that they will a) perform poorly and b) don't deserve to put on the uniform is both naive and ignorant. Randy Moss ran over a traffic cop a few years ago and smiled the whole time he was doing it. Last year he was hailed as a hero for the Patriots and played on a team that went 16-0. The Patriots, by the way, have had more arrests than we have this offseason. And where will they likely be next year? Probably either playing for the Super Bowl or even winning it. So again I say - Who caes about class? Does it even matter? Seems pretty clear to me that the answer is no. And those two statements do not reflect negative on me and those two statements do not "scream volumes to you." Again, if you don't like it these kids getting in trouble with the law, stop buying the tickets and the jerseys and feeding the franchises to allow them to dish out millions to kids who might have not have even finished college. I'll agree all day and night that leaving the scene of a hit and run lacks all class but the point is it won't matter on the football field. And that was the point of the original post which, in my opinion, is dead wrong.

Who cares about class? Honestly it doesn't matter. The team with the least amount of class in the division will win the most amount of games, as they did last year and the year before, etc. etc. So really what is the point?

First of all, who said that I was perpetuating the celebrity culture? And second of all, the point is that from where I sit, this is being handled incorrectly by the police and DA. I'm sorry if I take public service seriously and do not like it when public servants try to go out of their realm for presumed fame or whatever it is that they're looking for, etc. Based on what we've heard the route that has most likely been taken is that Marshawn is a suspect in the hit and run, he is having his lawyer talk to police and the lawyer has advised him not to say anything. The police getting frustrated with a lack of solid leads, threatens Marshawn and other Bills players and witnesses now to step up. Which is fine by me so long as they tell that to their lawyers, not news cameras. Marshawn can go to jail for ten years for all I care, I'm just saying this is not how a situation should be handled.

Yes but why continue to go out to the media and say things like Marshawn is being uncooperative? What they do that if it was me doing the same exact thing? You want to talk about a double standard...like I said something just seems off...and that's the problem. Once a couple guys try to play hero you blur the line. Say Marshawn came right up and confessed...what would it be, $1000 fine and community service, etc.? Assuming that he is using the proper legal channels right now then you would expect the punishment not to change right? So why the hero mission all of a sudden by the DA and Police? Just do your job, it's not really helping anyone by coming out and talking about the case is it? That's my problem with it all.

The whole problem I have is WHY DON'T THEY JUST GO TALK TO LYNCH??? I am not trying to give Lynch the benefit of the doubt or anything or make light of what he did but the police have known where he's been for the past week. Are you telling me that if I was driving and hit someone and run and there was all of this evidence against me I could just go to work all week like nothing and the police wouldn't come to question me, they would just politely ask me to come talk to them? I think there are two situations here. A) What Marshawn allegedly did which is seperate from B) how the police/DA are handling it. I think that is the part that is confusing me...why not just take care of it. You're the police. Why make everything public, threaten otehr Bills players, etc. I'm not questioning whether Marshawn did was right or wrong (if he did in fact do it) but I am certainly questioning the way this is being handled by the authorities...something is just off...

You'd have a pretty weak high school squad if you pass on guys who started for NCAA division 1 teams...

He didn't lie per say...that is how the Bills are really like in his fantasy land, where he is the best RB in the league.

Long time lurker, 1st time poster here. Perusing through Chris Brown's article on Kiwaukee's re-signing, I found this quote on the bottom. "This is probably one of the best teams I've been around," Thomas said. "The players, the coaches… everybody keeps working and that's good. Just the camaraderie and what we started building leaves an imprint on your heart. This is home for me. I love these guys." I think that quote speaks volumes about the culture that the Bills are trying to build here. That kind of attitude breeds winning. Now I don't think we're going to go out and win the Super Bowl or anything. But honestly, when was the last time you saw a quote like that from a Bill?