Bills players you disliked

[Draconator]

Tom Cousineau

[Buftex]

I never truly hated any Bills player.  Flutie, Richie Incognito, Fred Smerlas were all major a-holes, but I can't say they didn't give us some great moments, and did all they could to help the Bills win...can't hate them for that.  But, not guys I would want to sit and drink beers with.

 

I have a hard time hating guys who under-achieve, or don't live up to their draft hype... most of them want to achieve, and live up to expectations but don't for whatever reason. A lot of those reasons are things that are out of their control.  

[thenorthremembers]

Sammy Watkins and Captain Dareus are two of my least favorite Bills of all time.  I couldnt stand Maybin either, but part of that blame goes to the Bills for overdrafting an entitled jerk who really wasn't a talented football player.   Watkins and Dareus make the list above him because they were entitled jerks who had all the talent in the world and wasted it.

[DrDawkinstein]

1 minute ago, Buftex said:

I never truly hated any Bills player.  Flutie, Richie Incognito, Fred Smerlas were all major a-holes, but I can't say they didn't give us some great moments, and did all they could to help the Bills win...can't hate them for that.  But, not guys I would want to sit and drink beers with.

 

I have a hard time hating guys who under-achieve, or don't live up to their draft hype... most of them want to achieve, and live up to expectations but don't for whatever reason. A lot of those reasons are things that are out of their control.  

 

Yeah, this is a great question by @Royale with Cheese, but one I'm having a hard time answering.

 

I guess Maybin and McGahee were the closest to guys I didnt like while they were here.

 

Most of our other villains, I gave a pass because it wasnt their fault most were 1. over-drafted and 2. to a horribly managed organization.

[Buffalo03]

43 minutes ago, junior12thman92 said:

 

Wish we still had the confused reaction emoji for comments like this.

 

Dude was the epitome of "process." Worked his way up from 7th rounder to WR1, all the while having a personality and having fun. I'm willing to bet you're in the minority of Bills fans that find him to be a loser. 

He always seemed to be one of the few WRs in the league that actually gave Darrelle Revis fits. I can remember a few big games he had against him

[Bob Chandler's Hands]

1 hour ago, Jauronimo said:

Trent Edwards was perhaps the most gutless player to ever don a Bills jersey.   

 

Kyle Orton begs to differ

[GunnerBill]

17 minutes ago, HappyDays said:

Zay Jones and his weird family. I was excited to see them go. He never put up a fight on the field and his mom's antics on Twitter were a distraction. He also has the distinction of being the only Bills player that has shown me his naked butt. Thanks for that Zay.

 

Agreed. It was his redeeming feature.

[Victory Formation]

Willis McGahee. I was a sophomore in high school when we drafted him. Thought he was going to be great but it was clear he didn’t like Buffalo and I guess in retrospect I couldn’t blame him. Ralph wasn’t serious one bit about winning so maybe he was right after all. 
 

Stephon Gilmore. I hated the pick when we made it, I thought he was a soft player. Looked like milli vanilli, like the guy spent hours in front of the mirror grooming himself every morning. When he went to New England my hate intensified.

 

Other than that, there’s not too many guys I disliked a whole lot.

[JohnBonhamRocks]

My first thought was Aaron "Mayhem" Maybin. Didn't like the "football player" or the *ahem* "rapper"...

 

My second thought was Vontae Davis. "Who?" Exactly.

 

 

[Big Turk]

Lil Dontae gets the big gas face....

[thenorthremembers]

8 minutes ago, Bob Chandler's Hands said:

 

Kyle Orton begs to differ

He was just trying to "slide" on by.

[Rico]

#1 and #2 on my all-time list.

 

Actually, that’s #2 and #1 left-to-right

Edited April 8, 2021 by Rico

[Jauronimo]

Just now, Bob Chandler's Hands said:

 

Kyle Orton begs to differ

Orton attempted the forward pass on occasion and stood in the pocket. 

 

Edwards last play as a Bill was running out of bounds 7 yards short of the marker on 4th down.  Didn't even try and throw it.  Wouldn't risk being touched in the field of play. 

[Alphadawg7]

Trentative Edwards, no doubt.  What a wuss, and the TSW delusion around here that he was ever good at any point was beyond ridiculous.  I dont know what was worse...watching him play or watching people foolishly try and make excuses for him and argue hes good...which at no point was he ever "good" on the field. 

 

Nathan Pickerman was a very close 2nd with similar delusion around here about him. 

 

Zay Jones would be my third.  I didn't have as much disdain for him as I did the others, but man I hated his pathetic on field effort and weak play.  He was soooooo soft on the field and mentally weak.  

 

Kelvin Benjamin would be my fourth choice.  He was so entitled, lazy, soft, and played with no heart.  I went from excited about him on the trade to counting the days until his fat behind was off this roster.  

[Jpsredemption]

Lynch

Edited April 8, 2021 by Jpsredemption

[Dukestreetking]

I actually liked Flutie...and hated Rob Johnson.

 

Or did I hate Pretty Boy so much that it made me like Flutie...in some twisted way? I don't know.

 

In my defense: I lived in CA at the time, so didn't have a feel for the true Flutie ambience.

[MrSarcasm]

Paul Pozluzny. The dude was garbage. He would constantly jump in a pile to' make a tackle'. 

[Brandon]

Doug Flutie.  I couldn't stand his attitude and I definitely enjoyed watching what a winner he was in San Diego without the Bills D carrying him.

 

Aaron Maybin. As someone said earlier,  this isn't entirely fair,  as it's not his fault that the Bills picked him where they did and ahead of Orakpo. 

Edited April 8, 2021 by Brandon

[maddenboy]

Jairus Byrd.  Quitter with the fake plantar fasciitis phantom undiagnosable injury, and thinking he was bigger than Buffalo anyway.   Got the impression that he wasnt signing here no matter how much $$

 

Keith McKeller (Tight End).  Personal.  Had relations with a female that I would have preferred he didnt.  Plus he sucked as a TE.  I was kinda like "of all the Bills you coulda picked, why THAT scrub?"

 

Jason Peters.  Dood, we raised you from an inept Tight End into a Pro-Bowl LT, and it was so obvious you wanted out, out, out.  I have never rooted for him since, and dont even like to see him.

 

Any Bills player who ever played for Miami after playing for us.  Thurman kinda gets a pass because of body of work, lifetime service, and hard to hate a man for trying to get a last paycheck to feather the retirement nest.  But that had better have been his ONLY offer.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

Justin Rogers.  I've never had a player induce as much rage as he did in that stretch of 2013 when gilmore and brooks were out and he was getting shredded by legit any QB/WR with a pulse. They cut him after gilmore came back with the club, but i hated that guy.  

[BADOLBILZ]

1 hour ago, junior12thman92 said:

 

Wish we still had the confused reaction emoji for comments like this.

 

Dude was the epitome of "process." Worked his way up from 7th rounder to WR1, all the while having a personality and having fun. I'm willing to bet you're in the minority of Bills fans that find him to be a loser. 

 

 

Here is all you need to know about what kind of guy Stevie Johnson was:

 

Chan Gailey made him into an important player............he fed him the ball and gave him the freedom to do almost whatever he wanted on the field........something that nobody else would have given him.

 

He owed his brief success to Gailey giving him a chance and putting him in position to succeed with his horizontal passing offense.

 

But when Gailey pleaded with him to stop with the totally unnecessary and embarrassingly immature unsportsmanlike conduct penalties..........he refused........spiting Gailey just days later in a game against the most hated division rival.    He basically challenged Gailey to bench him.........so Gailey had to.........and they then blew a big lead and lost.

 

Loser.

 

If you think Sean McDermott would have tolerated his bullish*t you are sadly mistaken.  

 

 

Edited April 8, 2021 by BADOLBILZ

[PromoTheRobot]

Can't recall disliking any Bills player while they played, but I have a healthy dislike for Fred Smerlas for the crap he talks about the team and the city on Boston radio.

Edited April 13, 2021 by PromoTheRobot

[John from Riverside]

This might get a battery thrown at my head by some of you......but....young Jim Kelly

 

Back in my John from Cape Cod days when I was stationed up on Otis Air National Guard Base I had a friend (a pretty trustworthy guy he, I, and a young lady were out having beers one night and they told me of the day when Jim Kelly asked for a girls number in front of them (The woman was married)

 

It wasnt that Jim asked for the number....maybe he didnt know she was married?  It was his reaction to being rejected was he threw a drink in her face for rejecting him......she wasnt even being B about it just said no.   They were stunned. And Jim Kelly was asked to leave the establishment.

 

Didnt like him after I heard that.  Now to his credit it looks like Jim has grown up over the years and he has been threw his own trials along with victory's which I respect.

[machine gun kelly]

McGahee by far.  Talk about an ungrateful bastage.  He was taken in the first round when most people wouldn’t have drafted him at all with that catastrophic knee injury.  Happy he healed, but to go out the way he did was disgusting and then bashing the city on his way out.

[Warcodered]

2018 O-Line.

[Rico]

2 hours ago, The Jokeman said:

Jim Kelly, bad experience at an autograph session I had when first came to town. The bad moment didn't happen to me but rubbed me the wrong way.

 

Doug Flutie, I co-created a Flutie Haters website when he signed here as he had a horrible past and it turns it's ugly head here in Buffalo too. 

 

Mike Williams, as never liked the idea that switching a RT to LT was smart toss in McKinnie was a much better prospect.

 

Antoine Winfield, let me preface that I did like him but didn't like the way some fans over valued him as to me Nate Clements was a much better player.

 

Aaron Maybin, when was passed on Brian Orakapo on draft day I was screaming at the top of my lungs. 

 

Yes, Lil Antoine was a hero to vertically challenged Bills fans, but he was no Nate Clements.

[Brennan Huff]

John Fina

[Rico]

2 hours ago, KCNC said:

Anquan Boldin = quitter

Don’t forget Ruben Brown and Eric Moulds.

[itaos]

The word Maybin gives me an instant feeling of disgust. Not necessarily his fault.

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, itaos said:

The word Maybin gives me an instant feeling of disgust. Not necessarily his fault.

 

Yeah, I can’t hate a guy for being over-drafted. It has to be about the person, for me. Maybe he was a jerk, maybe he wasn’t, I don’t know. His play was CERTAINLY disappointing and the regime at the time takes the blame for that. 

 

Plenty of bad guys out there to name. That’s why I’m not a jersey guy....I have no idea who these people really are. Not saying it’s wrong, but it’s a personal choice and I enjoy seeing the crowd bathed in jerseys. If I ever DID get a jersey, it would probably be Kyle Williams. 

[Ethan in Cleveland]

This is more of an issue with me than it is with the player. But I always seem to dislike players that the fan base was overally supportive of when they actually weren't that great.

Talley and Reich are at the top of the list.

And I really dislike Moorman. Not his fault. But he was overly enthusiastic on the field for a punter even if he was the only good player on some terrible teams.  I always graded on me that the team would win 4 games and the fan base would buy Moorman jerseys. 

[BADOLBILZ]

14 minutes ago, Brennan Huff said:

John Fina

 

 

He was definitely not a likable player.       

 

Bringing up some of these guys really makes me appreciate the fact that don't-give-a-sh*t attitudes like his aren't in their sweet spot in Buffalo anymore.

 

 

[Rico]

32 minutes ago, Brennan Huff said:

John Fina

Epic turnstile.

[SoCal Deek]

This will be an odd choice, but Matt Leinart comes to mind. I still remember when he came to Buffalo and played in a single pre-season game it looked he hadn't prepared for even a single minute. I'm betting anyone on this message board could have put in more of an effort. Truly horrible. I still cringe when I see him on TV.

Edited April 8, 2021 by SoCal Deek

[cwater10]

2 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

SJ13

 

That guy was the ultimate anti-process, me-first Buffalo Bill loser.

 

Huh?  This is the polar opposite of how I experienced Stevie.  I remember a 7th round pick that busted his ass to get on the field ahead of some considerably higher drafted guys, becoming the first Bill to post 3 consecutive 1000 yard seasons, and then showed his Buffalo love by signing an extension to stay and to the best of my memory, never once complained about a thing.  Did he like to have his fun?  He did.  Why so serious BadolBilz?  Stevie was fun and good!

Edited April 8, 2021 by cwater10
Because I am a lazy, anti process guy that accidentally typed "OP" instead of "BADOLBILZ"

[Clark Rotary]

2 hours ago, BillsVet said:

Surprised no one has said OJ yet.  Then again, he hadn't, ahem, done anything felonious during his playing career (that I know of).

 

Couldn't stand John McCargo.  Probably had to do with them drafting him, trading up to do so, and his having no gap discipline before being shipped out...then not passing his physical with IND.  Which made him go back to Buffalo.  Just a slug.

Yes good question on OJ, the overall lack of OJ on this site is interesting, seems like we'll talk about anything BUT OJ.   

[BADOLBILZ]

5 minutes ago, cwater10 said:

Huh?  This is the polar opposite of how I experienced Stevie.  I remember a 7th round pick that busted his ass to get on the field ahead of some considerably higher drafted guys, becoming the first Bill to post 3 consecutive 1000 yard seasons, and then showed his Buffalo love by signing an extension to stay and to the best of my memory, never once complained about a thing.  Did he like to have his fun?  He did.  Why so serious OP?  Stevie was fun and good!

 

He was actually the highest drafted player in Gailey's first WR lineup.    The ONLY one actually.    Jones and Nelson were UDFA's.

 

As I said........Gailey made him........he gave him freedoms that really don't otherwise exist in the NFL......because the offense was SO untalented.

 

It was backyard football and he and Fitz put up some bulk numbers........but, I suppose predictably,  it wasn't really effective.........in 2012 he finished 18th in receiving yards but only 160th in catch % in an offense that wasn't exactly pushing it downfield and making high risk throws.

 

In his three 1,000 yard seasons his catch % never got out of the 50's.

 

He wasn't terribly interested in physical training either.........and at the end of his very brief run of success with Gailey he was constantly nagged with soft tissue injuries and that was pretty much it.   Pfft.

 

I know SJ was a hero to the "lost generation" of Bills fans.    Young people who knew only losing and had no real understanding of what to expect of a winning franchise and had come to accept some pretty low standards.    I blame the Bills organization for that.   

 

[njbuff]

You should have asked this question right after the Bills made their first draft selection in 2018 and 3/4 of this board would have said........

 

JOSH ALLEN

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[SirAndrew]

15 minutes ago, njbuff said:

You should have asked this question right after the Bills made their first draft selection in 2018 and 3/4 of this board would have said........

 

JOSH ALLEN

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Also if we drafted Josh Rosen, we’d have a unanimous answer to this question. 

[billsbackto81]

Leodis. Too many memorable gaffes.

 

Poz. Always seemed injured and never became the impact player we would've like.

 

Gilmore. Nuff said.

 

Tyrod. He was not good yet had so much advocacy from players as being mistreated because he was, well, you know.... He got so much misdirected credit for the playoff berth when it was the D that carried that team along with Dalton and Boyd.😆 Any decent QB would have won that game against Jax. He was pathetic.