Jerry Jabber

The Bills already have solid return men on the team that they didn't need to overpay: Spiller, Rogers & Easley. That money they used to overpay McKelvin could have been used on the many holes that the Bills have.

The Bills aren't the worst team in the NFL? They just gave a below average CB a 4 year 20 mil contract. Before that, they gave a below average DE [Kelsay] a 4 year 24 mil extension, and a below average QB a 6 year 59 mil extension...Only in Buffalo!!

Nah, they're not the worst, but consistently the most below average team in the league over the past 13 years.

When the Bills have a new owner.

http://www.baltimorebeatdown.com/2013/3/2/4057804/flaccos-low-2013-cap-hit-opens-doors-for-ravens Not so fast on Ellerbe: "Well, seems as if, as usual with all things Ravens, everyone was wrong again. With Flacco making a huge, blockbuster deal and becoming, in theory until Monday, the highest paid player in the game with a six year 120 million dollar plus deal of which 60 million is guaranteed, the team still found a way to keep him at a low cap number over the next season or two so they can survive another player purge for the moment. We already know that Ray Lewis and Matt Birk are retiring so we are saving at least 5-6 million more from them. So, hopefully the team is sitting pretty and ready to spend this newly acquired fortune. Their next main priority should be Dannell Ellerbe considering he is a beast and they are thin at inside linebacker. Ed Reed sticking around for another season or two has just become much more a possibility. Heck the Ravens might even be able to take a stab at signing another one of their own players or bringing in some free agent talent. The Baltimore Ravens still might need to tweak a few things with the contracts of Anquan Boldin and Jacoby Jones in hopes that they could be released and re-sign with the team under more "cap-friendly" deals but at least now they have the option of keeping one or both of them if neither of the two will work with them. Paul Kruger and Cary Williams will most likely still be gone as Kruger is rumored to be looking for somewhere around 10 million a year and Williams wants to be paid as a number one corner which he is not and the Ravens have already paid Lardarius Webb for that. I could be wrong but at least the team has some room to work with this season so, if they don't strike it rich in the draft with young talent at all the positions they need, they can still search the free agent market for guys who have not gotten the contracts they had hoped.. Players that would welcome the idea of coming to the reigning world champions for a bit less money than they were hoping." The Ravens could still resign Ellerbe given Flacco's low hit against the salary cap this season.

So, anyone that has any type of complaints about the Bills is a blubbering four year in walmart?! So, we've just got to keep "Billeving" right, even though the same management that brought us a crap team for the past 3 years is still in place? We're just suppose to think because Brandon says "the Bills brand has been tarnished" and "we've got to get back to the playoffs" that the Bills are actually going to be a better team? If bringing the Bills back to respectability and just making the playoffs is equivalent to a Superbowl for you, then that's great, whatever floats your boat pal. Considering we've been a loyal fan base for how many years, I feel we should see a high quality team that goes on a successful run like the current Baltimore Ravens or how the Steelers have been under Roethlisberger, not just being like the Detroit Lions (one playoff appearance after 10+ years of losing teams). Do you buy Bills merchandise? Do you go to the games? Where were you when the Bills got destroyed 56-10 by the Patriots in 2007? Did you watch the game comfortably from home, or were you in stands wondering why you wasted you hard earned money to watch such as terrible team?! Keep drinking the kool-aid, Ralph & Russ need blind sheep like you that will follow them no matter what. Who's the next free-agent the mayor is going to give the key to the city to? Talk about lowering your standards!!

I already stated that I feel Brandon & a lot of fans have lowered their standards about what the Bills should strive for. I feel we've been a very loyal fan base and deserve so much more than what we've been getting from the organization. But if that bothers you, then deal with it.

That's nice I don't think I'm off base, it was a legitimate question. Yes, sports fans will cry no matter how good or bad things are. I've given the Bills the benefit of doubt for so many years, but I need to see results before I start believing they are headed in the right direction. I really hope Marrone has the same success with the Bills as the Harbaugh Bros are having with their teams. Only time will tell if that will happen.

Good question. The article didn't say.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/01/andy-levitre-in-limbo-hasnt-heard-anything-from-bills/ “I’m in limbo right now,” Levitre said. “I don’t know what their plan is. “Now that Jairus got his franchise tag, there’s a week and a half for them to work a deal out with me. But I haven’t been offered anything yet. We’re waiting around to see if something will pop up.”

So you mean to tell me that if you paid for a product or service and wasn't happy with it's performance, that you wouldn't voice your opinion about it? You would just keep your frustration to yourself? I guarantee you if RWS did not sell out as many games and there were tens of thousands of empty seats that ownership/management would make some drastic changes.

If more pissed off fans (like myself) quit buying merchandise and stop going to the games, then that will make an impact. Look at how empty the stadium was during the Kay Stephenson/Hank Bullough era. But hey, if you don't see a problem and are happy with the status quo of the Bills, then good for you...Russ & Ralph are counting on you!

:thumbsup: Well said! This is the same as politics. If you don't voice your opinion or do anything at all to make the situation better, then nothing will change.

:thumbsup: Brandon's words are all bark and no bite. I get tired of hearing the Bills don't have enough talent and the team is rebuilding. The Bills have been rebuilding since 2000.

+1

You're not getting the point, and it's not having the Ricky Bobby attitude either. Yes, who wouldn't love to see the Bills back in the playoffs? Expecting a championship every year is unrealistic. I'm saying just becoming relevant & making it back to the playoffs should not be the only goals, but many on here, as well as Brandon seem to think that will be good enough.

To me it seems most people have lowered their standards because it's been so long since we've been a regular playoff contender. So, are people in Buffalo going to throw a parade for the Bills the year they finally make the playoffs? The Bills have a very loyal fan base, and after giving us a very crappy product over the past 13 years, I feel the Bills organization owes it to us fans to give us a great team, not just an average or an above average team.

Gailey said all the right things, but where did that get the Bills: 4-12, 6-10 & 6-10. It's time to hold these guys accountable. By holding these guys accountable is by quit going to the games, quit buying merchandise, etc... Once The Ralph is half full and the team is making a lot less money, that is when some action takes place. The Bills organization should feel very lucky to have us as a fan base. I don't know of anywhere else in the country that fans would have been this loyal to an organzation that has been inept for such a long time. I agree, it's time to put up! :thumbsup: I agree 100%

I know we've been over this topic before. This was just posted by Tim Graham and I wanted to comment on it. I'm no longer giving this organziation the benefit of doubt, it's time to see results. We can go on about all the stuff that's wrong with the Bills and where they failed over the past 13 years, but that horse has been beaten into oblivion. We all know the Bills aren't going anywhere without a real Franchise QB. The way this draft class is looking at the QB position, it doesn't look like our savior is there. So maybe there will be a franchise QB in the 2014 draft. I put what Brandon said just above Jauron's famous quote of "It's hard to win in the NFL."

http://blogs.buffalonews.com/press-coverage/2013/02/russ-brandon-bills-havent-been-relevant-far-way-too-long.html "I'm not going to look back on the last 13 years," Bills President Russ Brandon told reporters at the NFL scouting combine, "but it's certainly on the minds of a lot of people and understandably so. "We've got to get back to the playoffs, and we've got to start making some dents into being significant and being relevant in this league. We haven't been relevant for way too long. So it's time to change that, time to change the culture." So that's it, just getting back to the playoffs is enough for Brandon? What good is it to make the playoffs just to get bounced in the first or second round?! I think after 13 years of terrible football, the Bills organziation owes it to us fans to make this team into a Superbowl winner.

http://www.nfl.com/n...ngland-patriots Great radio interview from Terrell Suggs as he discusses the special treatment Tom Brady & the Patriots get vice the rest of the league. Suggs asks why the rule of hitting the QB below the knees came into effect after Brady was injured by the Chiefs but not after any other QB or player before?

Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville...and welcome to JACKASS!!!

Not trying to be a "negative nancy," but if this is true, then it's just the same old typical Bills (drafting the wrong players). We all wanted Ngata, but got Whitner; Jauron & Levy wanted Revis, but Ralph wanted Lynch; fans wanted Orakpo/Matthews/Oher, instead we got Maybin. So add Kaepernick to that list. Not trying to be a "negative nancy," but if this is true, then it's just the same old typical Bills (drafting the wrong players). We all wanted Ngata, but got Whitner; Jauron & Levy wanted Revis, but Ralph wanted Lynch; fans wanted Orakpo/Matthews/Oher, instead we got Maybin. So add Kaepernick to that list.

:thumbsup: Yep, that 25-25 record sure does give you some confidence

We have a winner!!!