Former Bills Where Are They Now. Episode 1: Jeff Tuel

[RangerDave]

6 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

t's been like this since Marrone and Rex era's.

It's been that way since the 1966 season when the Chiefs beat us in the AFL Championship and went to Super Bowl I instead of us!

[RobbRiddick]

28 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Haha. It is always my ice breaker for corportate away days.... two truths and a lie type games... I scored a winning goal in an FA Cup tie. 

 

It's true. It was just the Extra-Preliminary round in August, 3 months before professional teams enter and 8 months before the final. 

Even so, that's still pretty cool. 

[blacklabel]

12 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said:

It's always the goddamn Chiefs...

 

 

 

 

I haven't watched the show Sirens but I did see the clip where they say eff the Chiefs and that gives the whole series five stars in my book. 

[aristocrat]

Ran into his grandpa at the jags game. His grandpa went to duke and said he actually wanted Thad Lewis to play lol. 

[Mr. WEO]

"autonomy based fertilizer"?

[Miyagi-Do Karate]

15 hours ago, The Firebaugh Kid said:

I’m sure lots of us remember that Chiefs game. That was a terrible interception.

Tuel actually played a pretty good game until that pick.
 

That interception was dumb luck by the chiefs. I can’t recall now, but I think someone fell down or the defender screwed up and was basically out of position, and sort of lucked into it.

[BADOLBILZ]

7 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Bryce Brown's fumble and then Jamal Charles touchdown from 4th and 1 at midfield. That was the worst game for me. 2014. Win that game and Marrone almost certainly ends the drought. And the Bills were better than KC that day. Beat themselves.

 

Yeah that was probably the worst of the bunch.  Manny Lawson lost contain on that Charles TD.   Those losses all stung though.   They were quintessential "culture" losses and really hurt the Bills for AFC record tie-breakers.   There wasn't a big difference talent-wise between the Bills and Chiefs teams.  The Bills might have had deeper rosters in all of those losses.   But the Chiefs won THOSE game and they've always been a step ahead ever since because the Bills tore it down to re-set the culture and KC hasn't done the volume of stupid things that NE did to allow the Bills to catch up to them.  

[BADOLBILZ]

3 hours ago, RangerDave said:

It's been that way since the 1966 season when the Chiefs beat us in the AFL Championship and went to Super Bowl I instead of us!

 

 

The table turned completely during the Kelly era.   Bills destroyed them in the AFC playoffs in 1991 and 1993.  The Chiefs weren't really a road block again until Reid got there.

[Coach Tuesday]

IIRC Tuel was a Marrone satellite state in his cold war against Whaley and the EJ Manuel pick...

Edited 21 hours ago by Coach Tuesday

[Gugny]

17 hours ago, Rico said:

Better than EJ too!

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!’

[Utah John]

18 hours ago, TheyCallMeAndy said:

Better than Peterman!

So am I.  So are you.

[RiotAct]

3 hours ago, Mr. WEO said:

"autonomy based fertilizer"?

fertilizer has rights too!!!

[L Ron Burgundy]

9 hours ago, RobbRiddick said:

I do find it fascinating that someone like Tuel who is still a young man is now in this very corporate job, going to an office, wearing a suit, and he can sit there and say he started an NFL game. A great ice breaker for team building days.

This is true, and he's probably a pretty big guy standing beside someone that's average.   Seeing him on TV playing football he seemed tiny though. 

[Steptide]

I remember him doing an interview here in Rochester during training camp. He was a stand up guy. While the kc game he started didn't go how we all wanted it, he did pretty good for his first start. Amazing this dude is a salesman and Peterman is still in the nfl 

[frostbitmic]

Onto a different player ... I just found out yesterday that former Buffalo Bill Willis McGahee has a son, Willis McGahee IV who was a Freshman LB at Nebraska this past year.

[SoMAn]

On 5/28/2025 at 6:00 PM, RobbRiddick said:

Who can forget the day it was Tuel Time in Buffalo! Undrafted in 2013, Jeff was quickly signed by the Bills, predominantly on the recommendation of Chris Brown who was intrigued by the large number of possible Tuel-related puns he would be able to use during his Bills reports.

 

 

Clever observation.

Even though it's unlikely Brown had a hand in the signing,  I don't doubt he was giddy over it and spent a few late nights in his office crafting witty puns. 🙃