StHustle Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) An interesting article on exactly how it went down and what led up to that day... https://es.pn/303G7A5 Edited September 18, 2019 by StHustle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RU5781 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 WTF is this??? But those closest to him had reservations. "I absolutely wanted to stay away from Buffalo," Megan says. "The organization just didn't have a great reputation. When you're in the league, you hear things, and records show things." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, StHustle said: An interesting article on exactly how I went down and what led up to that day... https://es.pn/303G7A5 Wait, are you saying you're Vontae? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dablitzkrieg Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Really nothing new here. Just an avenue for him to have his own LAMP. Screw him 9 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BuffaloBillies Posted September 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 18, 2019 I started to read it but quit halfway through. 11 30 8 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, RU5781 said: WTF is this??? But those closest to him had reservations. "I absolutely wanted to stay away from Buffalo," Megan says. "The organization just didn't have a great reputation. When you're in the league, you hear things, and records show things." Well, they didn't prior to Beane/McDermott 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) If you're done, you at least finish the game with the team. If you can't play, fine. But at least say goodbye to your teammates. He couldn't stay for another 90-120 minutes? Edited September 18, 2019 by Royale with Cheese 9 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StHustle Posted September 18, 2019 Author Share Posted September 18, 2019 5 minutes ago, BuffaloHokie13 said: Wait, are you saying you're Vontae? Awesome man. I fixed it. You ever consider a career in proofreading? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Quote He didn't know cameras were tucked inside the room, capturing his intimate moment that would become a viral sensation. "There's this perception that there's brotherhood in the NFL and we're all fighting for each other and the same things," Megan says. "And then you embarrass one of your first-round draft picks on national television without him knowing there's a camera in the room?" So much for the idea that Hard Knocks and all the cameras are a "major distraction". Dude didnt even know they were there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 The guy is a mental patient 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloHokie13 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, StHustle said: Awesome man. I fixed it. You ever consider a career in proofreading? I hadn't before. How's the pay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, LeGOATski said: Well, they didn't prior to Beane/McDermott Agreed. Ever since Ralph fired Polian over hurt feelings or whatever that situation was, Buffalo was a rudderless ship. Beane and McDermott, at long last, makes me feel like the Bills have their &^%$ wired tight and are a professional organization again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 11 minutes ago, RU5781 said: WTF is this??? But those closest to him had reservations. "I absolutely wanted to stay away from Buffalo," Megan says. "The organization just didn't have a great reputation. When you're in the league, you hear things, and records show things." What a crock of Vontae. The Bills had just come off a playoff season under a new regime. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDawkinstein Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 3 minutes ago, Gavin in Va Beach said: Agreed. Ever since Ralph fired Polian over hurt feelings or whatever that situation was, Buffalo was a rudderless ship. Beane and McDermott, at long last, makes me feel like the Bills have their &^%$ wired tight and are a professional organization again. Buffalo's FO bad rap started long before that with the treatment of Lou Saban and Chuck Knox. Ralph got lucky with Polian, and managed to ruin that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Doc said: What a crock of Vontae. The Bills had just come off a playoff season under a new regime. That's his wife saying that. She's not too keen on the actual happenings in the league. The Bills had one good season just prior to that. I don't blame her at all for her impressions of the Bills. The new regime is still trying to solidify the org's new reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) I can't believe I'm even posting in this thread. I don't care one bit about Vontae Davis and regardless of what he says now, he quit on his teammates and coaches that day -- not because "he was tired" but because he saw the Bills were going to be a bad football team and didn't want to put in the effort for another full season. If you believe anything else you're a fool. This "full scoop" is full of "full poop." Edited September 18, 2019 by eball 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wppete Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Something seriously wrong with Vontae. He should be evaluated ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris from Rochester Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 That article is really, really, really long. I was looking for something to be mad about and then I remembered how much better our defense was when he retired and stopped 3 2 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Doc said: What a crock of Vontae. The Bills had just come off a playoff season under a new regime. 1. That was his wife being quoted. 2. We kinda stumbled into the playoffs, and lost a winnable game to Jacksonville. 3. The culture of the team/organization had only just begun to change using McDermott's 'process'. There were still a lot of less-than-professional players on the team. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripple Creek Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Is he still a limp richard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffaloflash Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: If you're done, you at least finish the game with the team. If you can't play, fine. But at least said goodbye to your teammates. He couldn't stay for another 90-120 minutes? Agreed,But it sounded to me like he may have had a anxiety and panic attack and needed to distance himself immediately.Nothing else to me makes sense. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Hammersticks Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Screw Vontae and everybody that looks like Vontae. Who cares about his loser story about being a classless, loser quitter anyway? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 24 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: If you're done, you at least finish the game with the team. If you can't play, fine. But at least said goodbye to your teammates. He couldn't stay for another 90-120 minutes? He wasn't bought in to the team and hadn't engrained himself into the culture. No close relationships with the rest of the guys. He signed a one-year deal with the Bills simply because they paid the most money and already had a good DB group. He sounds like an over-emotional, heart on his sleeve, prideful guy who had a mini-breakdown in the game, so he ran. It's kind of funny and certainly unprofessional from other points of view. It seems as if from his point of view, football was like a lowly 9-5 office job. It's normal for people to get tired of that BS and quit mid-shift. To me, it's a funny story, but it's not that impactful. It would be much different if someone like Kyle Williams or Lorax did it, or even one of the highly touted young guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimeAFLGuy Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 21 minutes ago, Helpmenow said: The guy is a mental patient ...perfect fit as AB's agent..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warcodered Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) Best part is when he describes reading a business book that says CEOs avoid the spotlight in the ESPN article he volunteered for. Also he apparently forgot all about that commercial he did for FanDuel or fantasy football something in which he made a joke about his quitting on the team. Edited September 18, 2019 by Warcodered 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 14 minutes ago, Buffaloflash said: Agreed,But it sounded to me like he may have had a anxiety and panic attack and needed to distance himself immediately.Nothing else to me makes sense. At some point you have to suck it up. You had 45 other guys on the sideline/locker room that were counting on you. Take some time at for the rest of the 2nd quarter and half time then rejoin your teammates. Then you can retire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfan_34 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 So retiring at the 1/2 made things all better? What a loser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) he might be the inspiration that lots of Jets and FIsh and Lions suck the pipe in the same fashion Edited September 18, 2019 by row_33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProcessAccepted Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 18 minutes ago, Doc said: What a crock of Vontae. The Bills had just come off a playoff season under a new regime. I don't think that she's wrong. Sure we just made it to the playoffs but we were not that far removed from the craziness of Marrone walking out, the Ryan brothers, Doug Whaley and Russ Brandon. We might have turned a corner but from the outside looking in we were still the team that had a top 3(?) defense but fired Jim Schwartz and changed scheme and were terrible. All that said Vontae is a B!+(# We are so much better off without him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris heff Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 What a difference a year makes, last year at this time the Bills were the train wreck. The coach and GM had made bad QB decisions, a defense that was supposed to be good looked bad and a player quit at halftime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WideNine Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Well well... as a wise man once said, "You are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem". The way things are going history may very well pin-point the moment the Bills franchise started to turn the ship around and become more successful as the moment Vonte walked off the team. So whatever... not really interested in what he has to say; there is a right way and a wrong way to do things when you are on a team and we all know where Vonte lands on that score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royale with Cheese Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 8 minutes ago, LeGOATski said: He wasn't bought in to the team and hadn't engrained himself into the culture. No close relationships with the rest of the guys. He signed a one-year deal with the Bills simply because they paid the most money and already had a good DB group. He sounds like an over-emotional, heart on his sleeve, prideful guy who had a mini-breakdown in the game, so he ran. It's kind of funny and certainly unprofessional from other points of view. It seems as if from his point of view, football was like a lowly 9-5 office job. It's normal for people to get tired of that BS and quit mid-shift. To me, it's a funny story, but it's not that impactful. It would be much different if someone like Kyle Williams or Lorax did it, or even one of the highly touted young guys. He spent a few weeks with these guys at training camp. They are together all day. I didn't play at the pro level but at the college level. You get to know these guys pretty quickly. Within a few weeks with new guys coming in...you become friends quickly. We had a guy that quit after a few games in. He was in a bad spot financially so he needed to focus on that. He finished the game and then went into the coaches office after. Explained his situation and that was it. He said goodbye to everyone and then was the last time I saw him. I just hate what Vontae did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 40 minutes ago, RU5781 said: WTF is this??? But those closest to him had reservations. "I absolutely wanted to stay away from Buffalo," Megan says. "The organization just didn't have a great reputation. When you're in the league, you hear things, and records show things." No WTF soever. That rep was well deserved. It will take consistent winning and word of mouth about what kind of organization McBeane have built to change that impression... 41 minutes ago, Dablitzkrieg said: Really nothing new here. Just an avenue for him to have his own LAMP. Screw him smh Talk about LAMPs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauronimo Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 23 minutes ago, eball said: I can't believe I'm even posting in this thread. I don't care one bit about Vontae Davis and regardless of what he says now, he quit on his teammates and coaches that day -- not because "he was tired" but because he saw the Bills were going to be a bad football team and didn't want to put in the effort for another full season. If you believe anything else you're a fool. This "full scoop" is full of "full poop." He was also toast. It was time for him to hang em up. He got burnt in preseason. Healthy scratch week 1. Pretty sure the article omits that he also got burnt once or twice in week 2 when he made it on the field. Didn't he get replaced for Taron before he walked off the field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trogdor Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 40 minutes ago, LeGOATski said: Well, they didn't prior to Beane/McDermott They still don't. People on this board might think otherwise, but Beane/McD have done nothing to change that image yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffaloflash Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 1 minute ago, Royale with Cheese said: At some point you have to suck it up. You had 45 other guys on the sideline/locker room that were counting on you. Take some time at for the rest of the 2nd quarter and half time then rejoin your teammates. Then you can retire. Oh sure I agree,I would have told the coach don't put me in, I not right.Then after the game do what I have to do. What he did wasn't normal nor logical,and therefor I think something else was going on! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 29 minutes ago, eball said: full of "full poop." Yes, that's a fair assessment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teef Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 ***** that guy right in the ear. you think you're done and want to retire...fine. doing it during the halftime of a game? ***** you. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin in Va Beach Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 4 minutes ago, WideNine said: Well well... as a wise man once said, "You are either part of the solution, or you are part of the problem". The way things are going history may very well pin-point the moment the Bills franchise started to turn the ship around and become more successful as the moment Vonte walked off the team. So whatever... not really interested in what he has to say; there is a right way and a wrong way to do things when you are on a team and we all know where Vonte lands on that score. That and when they traded Dareus. That showed that they were not willing to tolerate a player who didn't have his head right and play up to their potential. Still makes me sad though, Dareus has the skills to be a HOF defensive tackle, but he's too much of a chucklehead with no inner hunger to be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 2 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said: He spent a few weeks with these guys at training camp. They are together all day. I didn't play at the pro level but at the college level. You get to know these guys pretty quickly. Within a few weeks with new guys coming in...you become friends quickly. We had a guy that quit after a few games in. He was in a bad spot financially so he needed to focus on that. He finished the game and then went into the coaches office after. Explained his situation and that was it. He said goodbye to everyone and then was the last time I saw him. I just hate what Vontae did. Yeah, that's normal. I'm saying Vontae wasn't normal. He didn't have that normal connection to the team. Probably a personality flaw. Also, he was maybe a little ashamed and couldn't face the other players in that moment, after what sounds like a bit of a mini-breakdown. I would hate it more if it was a player who was engrained in the organization, but Vontae was just a guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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