Open letter to the Buffalo Bills

[Thurman#1]

......AND

 

 

for the record.... Cleveland's all time winning percentage is 51.3% to Buffalo's 46.1%

 

So... we really have no place to make fun. AND... that's not taking into account the Raven's seasons at all. If you take out 1988 - 1993, which looks like an anomaly to this(Bills) franchise's history, their all time percentage drops to 42.8%

 

Keep on keepin' on!!

 

When it's too tough for them, there's no fight in us!

 

 

 

Wait, you cherry-pick out the good years and the percentage drops? Wow, never would've figured that.

 

What happens if you take out the worst years instead? No, don't tell me, I'm gonna put new batteries in my calculator and spend a few hours figuring it out.

 

Not that there's not reason for frustration and unhappiness. But the whole idea that if you cherry-pick out bits of the stats, what they tell you will change is neither revolutionary nor useful in any way.

 

 

I didn't say Below average. I said he was atrocious. The Tyrod led offense is a lot better then the Broncos offense. The Bills defense of 2014 is not as good as that 2015 Broncos defense but again they were very good.

 

That 2014 defense with this offense would be a playoff team. No question.

 

 

 

Four 4th quarter comebacks for Peyton last year. Four game winning drives. Not as atrocious as you're remembering, though he had a few bad games and didn't have much arm strength. Still had the brains and experience to get a lot done.

Edited December 15, 2016 by Thurman#1

[Gordio]

 

 

 

Wait, you cherry-pick out the good years and the percentage drops? Wow, never would've figured that.

 

What happens if you take out the worst years instead? No, don't tell me, I'm gonna put new batteries in my calculator and spend a few hours figuring it out.

 

Not that there's not reason for frustration and unhappiness. But the whole idea that if you cherry-pick out bits of the stats, what they tell you will change is neither revolutionary nor useful in any way.

 

 

 

 

 

Four 4th quarter comebacks for Peyton last year. Four game winning drives. Not as atrocious as you're remembering, though he had a few bad games and didn't have much arm strength. Still had the brains and experience to get a lot done.

 

 

Agreed, PM wasn't the train wreck everybody made him out to be last year. Was he putting up good numbers, no, but he wasn't costing the Broncos games either. He was smart enough to control the clock & let game be played by the defense. He wasn't EJ Manuel bad against Jacksonville where he flat out lost the game for us.

[metzelaars_lives]

......AND

 

 

for the record.... Cleveland's all time winning percentage is 51.3% to Buffalo's 46.1%

 

So... we really have no place to make fun. AND... that's not taking into account the Raven's seasons at all. If you take out 1988 - 1993, which looks like an anomaly to this(Bills) franchise's history, their all time percentage drops to 42.8%

 

Keep on keepin' on!!

 

When it's too tough for them, there's no fight in us!

What is the Browns' winning percentage if you take out the Otto Graham years?

[Homey D. Clown]

What is the Browns' winning percentage if you take out the Otto Graham years?

 

I don't know exactly when his era was, but it spanned more than a decade if i remember correctly, and I am not certain, but I do think they won a championship with a different QB/era. I'll have to dig on that... very interesting....

[rockpile]

Hmmmm. I like watching us play, this team is fun for me. Tyrod's slippery runs, Shady and Mike great tandem, Sammy is back. We average 24 or so points a game which is above average.

 

You know there is no chance of winning a championship without a stud qb right? Maybe you thought there was a way it could be done since Baltimore did it once like 20 years ago, but I never did. That's whats making you so frustrated, you're forgetting the big flaw in the NFL is that we can go several years without college football producing a single elite qb for the pro game.

 

So until you get lucky in the draft with a qb, you need to just enjoy watching the ACTUAL GAME of football and the x's and o's of the battle and stop worrying about a championship because its not happening with some free agent qb.

 

Football is like life, its about the RIDE man. Im laughing at all these people dumping tickets for $20 right now just because we aren't going to the playoffs. Gonna miss a really fun home game showing by the boys. Too bad you can't enjoy it.

 

I always plan on watching the Bills play. They are my team. I sometimes wish I could make myself like a better team and forget them, but that will never happen.

 

The AFL, Rockpile, Best Street, South Buffalo, Blizzards, Skyway Bridge, Lackawana/Blasdell/Hamburg - these are all in my DNA.

 

I ike watching them, even when I do not like what I see. I REALLY hated watching them in person at the home opener against the Jets. It s frustrating that the Bills are so inconsistent. Next year I may go to the home opener tailgate and then leave for a pub. Why drop $300 for a couple of tickets and a motel room?

 

Do not get me wrong, I survive by expecting nothing from them Bills, except that they will show up for the game.

 

I enjoy a good scramble or a bomb and really like when Shady breaks a long run. I wanted more than anything for Tyrod to be the man. I cannot help but feel a little cheated when I see two very good teams play football. They have game plans, adjust to their opposition, execute plays, and manage the clock. When someone is hurt there is a backup plan.They play every down. Yes, they make mistakes but for most of the game they LOOK like they know what they are doing. They have coaches and leaders.

 

That is not the Bills. IF they had slipped into the last wild card spot it would have been embarrassing.

I will watch every game until the season is over.

 

Then it is "Wait until next year, one more time".

 

I am done handing them my money for a 50% chance to see a good football game. I will always tailgate.