VJ91

After the pictures of hot women, (and we can never get enough of those, especially us old married guys out here) I rate your avatar as number one. Hillarious! As for your post, I agree 100%. Any "vet" on this horrible football team should be open season for trades.

I could not have phrased it better! You know what's even funnier? Every time Guy signs one of these practice scraps, some draft geek comes on this board and posts about how great that scrap was in college, and how much of a "steal" Guy made by signing him off the other teams' scrap heap! Like that OL from Green Bay that more then one poster out here talked up. Where the hell is that kid, while the Bills' OL is most likely the worst in the NFL since the early 1900's. How has this "steal" not worked his way into this lineup yet? And just how stupid is Nic Harris? He had what looked like a terrific preseason making tackles all over the place, and now he can't even beat out career special teamer Jon Corto on the depth chart? In fact, Perry Fool gave up on switching him to linebacker completely, and put him back at safety, the only defensive position where the Bills already have plenty of depth?? Finally, since Roscoe Parrish is losing football games while demanding to be traded, here's an idea for our genius of an NFL Vice Pres of scouting, John Guy: find a team that needs a punt returner and may be intrigued with using Parrish on offense behind their varsity O-Line and with their real NFL QB, that is not afraid to stand in and throw the ball to the speedster. Make them trade one of their back up linebackers with some NFL game experience under his belt, instead of the 7th round draft pick the Bills always settle for in their trades.

Sadly, yes they do. Brandon knows how to do just enough to keep the stadium sold out most weeks. At his age, it's also painfully obvious that Wilson has no intention of handing control over to a "Shottenheimer-Gruden-Shannahan-Cowher type of high profile expensive successful coach as his head coach or perhaps GM. This is not to say he won't fire Jauron and all of his coaches by the end of this sorry season - he will. But I don't believe he will blow up his management team or get rid of Russ Brandon at all. There's always a chance the inner circle jerks can strike gold with a young unproven coordinator from the NFL or head coach out of college that fits into the Bills' budget and figures out how to win right away with the players he's given. But I'm afraid that's the very best we can expect from our Buffalo Bills as we now know them, until Ralph loses his mental capacities or dies. And then who knows if we'll even have a prayer of having the Buffalo Bills to cheer for at all?

Sorry. You must be too young to remember 1984 and 1985. Or not even alive to experience the "joy" of 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1976 or 1977. I hope your're not too young to "remember" 1997, 2001 or 2005, are you? As this season progresses, it can make it's way towards the top of our "12 seasons of hell" list. However, the Bills have already had one (1) win season, at least (2) two win seasons and the rest were filled with laughable horrible football and no more then 4 or 5 wins amoung them. So WOW, some of we older posters out here have seen even worse Bills' teams then this one. At least so far...four games into 2009, anyway!

Wow, I've heard of staying optimistic and wearing "rose colored glasses" while drinking out of a glass that's half full, but please send me a bottle the "happy juice" you are drinking out of your half full glass! 1-15-0 is a very real possiblity for this football team this season. Best case? The best record this team can possibly fight it's way up to in my humble opinion, would be about 4-12-0, 3 games worse then Dick's usual 7-9-0 finishes. As always, I hope you are right by some miracle and the awsome game Chad Henne had last night in leading his Dolphins over the favored Jets allows the Bills to sneak back into the AFC East race. But reality bites, doesn't it? The Bills should give the number one pick in next April's draft a real go of it this season.

I'm not even going to waste my time looking up and showing this board the free agent linebackers with NFL experience that are available to sign today, that would love the opportunity to continue their careers. And if anyone brings up how the Bills will or should bring in Derrick Brooks, he or she should get flamed all the way to Toronto. By Thursday, John Guy will most likely have another rookie or second year kid signed from another team's practice squad for "back up" insurance at linebacker. Hey, maybe even two practice squad linebackers from other teams will be brought in, the Bills can't seem to get enough of those kids these days. I'm not a "conspiracy guy", but after they sign their practice squad linebackers this week, (and they will) and ignore any linebacker who has played NFL games, I'm going to be absolutely convinced that Ralph Wilson has given marching orders to his inner circle jerks to save every penny they can in every way they can, losing in the process be damned. Please call me out if somehow logic rears it's attractive head and the Bills sign a veteran linebacker this week. I'll be happier then the first poster who flames this Tuesday morning opinion of mine. But I think we all know its just not going to happen. Instead, the agents for every linebacker on the other 31 practice sqauds are speed dialing One Bills Drive as I type, and I'm sure John Guy is drooling over the "potential" (and cheap cost) of them alll!

Yeah, and then he followed that 9-7-0 winning season up with a wonderful 5-11-0 clunker. It was the reason Wilson fired TD, (good move), but re-hired himself as team President (amazingly stupid move), and brought his friend Marv Levy in as team cheer leader (pathetically stupid move.) Marv convinced Wilson to hire Dick Jauron (stupidest move of all), and the rest as they say, is history.

The Buffalo syndrome, according to Mort, must mean sucking as a first time head coach. You know who else suffered from Mort's "Buffalo syndrome"? The coaching guru himself, Bill Belicheck. Ask the die hard fans from Cleveland how "smart" he was in the early 90's when he took over the Browns for his first time as a head coach. I would call it the Tom Donahoe syndrome myself. Donahoe had so many better coaches to choose from looking back, that to hire two idiots like Gregggg Williams and Mike Mularkey back to back was almost impossible, but not for TD. I suppose both men could be better the second time around. I don't see it, but you won't find a Browns' fan who was sorry to see Belicheck fired or quit, whatever happened with him in Cleveland, and just look at him now!

Here is my opinion, based on being a Bills fan for over 40 years, growing up in Buffalo and watching and listening to Ralph Wilson all those years: Either you, Mr. Brinkworth and/or your "highly reliable" DWI attoney are full of sh..! Ralph Wilson is not negotiating with Industry of California, Tom Golisano, Jim Kelly or Skooby. The man is 91 freakin' years old. He has told us his plan flat out, and that is to own the Bills until he dies. Then his heirs will sell the team to whoever they want to. End of story. I believe the guy. You can believe whatever you want. It seems insane for the guy to wait until this point in his long life to screw the fans behind their backs and sell the team out of town while he's still breathing. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it until someone proves otherwise.

One thing I'll say for ol' Buddy Ryan's boys, they don't waste much time in the weight room with their players, do they? Bob looks like he's wearing a "Fat Bastard" - like rubber blubber suit under that Browns' tee shirt! Unfortunately for him, unless he can borrow his brothers' defense Sunday, his Browns will most likely play about as well as his Raiders did last year. Not that thats a bad thing for him, since if I remember correctly, Lindell needed to make a field goal as time ran out for the Bills to beat the Raiders.

Here is what the "new uniforms" were supposed to look like the year Bledsoe first modeled them in the preseason. Scroll down to about the middle of the page to see Bledsoe being hit. Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=tmq/020820 Somewhere down the line, a year or two after that, the home uniforms changed to blue on blue.

Those are nice. Good take! But does anybody remember that "magical" day when Drew Bledsoe and London Fletcher ran out to showcase the Bills new uni's years ago? They wore them correctly that day, with the blue jerseys and white pants for the homes, and I think white jerseys and blue pants for the aways. I thought they looked pretty sharp, and the width of the stripes along the sides matched up perfectly too. Somewhere along the line, some idiots decided to match up the blue jerseys with the dark blue pants because that seemed to be the in thing that year, and they have never changed. And for the roads, the Bills now wear their away white jerseys with their home white pants. Again, you can see with both looks, that the stripes on the sides of the jerseys and pants are different widths, because they were never meant to be worn that way. All the geniuses have to do to get that nice look that LA. Tech has, is to simply wear the uniforms the way they were meant to be worn. And then you will have your classic yet modern look.

"Some current Rams players and fans are upset...." Oh Boo Hoo. Rush Limbaugh is a right wing conservative, and its' way more "popular" to be on the left these days. Who cares when it comes to owning an NFL sports franchise? Does any fan of any other team - or even players from any other team - even know enough about their current owners to know where they stand politically?? I have heard a ton of negative things said about our Bills owner Ralph Wilson. But not once have I ever heard any fan or player get upset with his views on the war or health care!

Read the link I inserted to Leo Roth's article this morning. You have a point that with the injury depleted inexperienced O-Line the Bills lined up last week, many of those same plays would have failed with a huddle. However, some of those 3rd down plays that failed to keep drives alive and the "11-Gap Cover-0" bend and break defense on the sidelines a few extra minutes may have succeeded if the Bills would have huddled and there was better communication. I agree with Leo on that point. Even funnier was Van Pelt bragging that his no huddle was faster then Peyton Manning's no huddle in Indy. Really, I'm not making that up - Fat Van Pelt really said that. Of course the only reason Manning might take a few seconds longer is because he is looking out at the defense, confidently deciding how to exploit them before he snaps the ball. Trent on the other hand, is manically trying to digest the call going from Fat up in the booth, down to Fitzy on the sidelines and then finally called into Trent's helmet from Fitzy. By the time they get that done, Edwards has no time to really look out at the defense and confidently decide how to exploit them. In fact, most of the time when I watch Edwards seem to be audibling out of a play call, he ends up handing the ball off for no gain anyway.

Perry Fool doesn't think Harris is ready to over-persue and run through the wrong gaps as well as his starting linebackers do game in and game out yet. He needs more practice, being a rookie and all. Besides, last I heard Harris has only been able to memorize up to page 990 of his 2,000 page defensive playbook. Remember, Perry Fool always has his defenders in the correct calls, it's just that they keep making all of those darned mistakes.

Link: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/articl...r+Buffalo+Bills Don't most NFL head coaches bar their assistants (including their coordinators) from speaking to the media? Of course they do, thats why Dick allows his assistant coaches to open their stupid mouths. Dick needs everyone in his life to like him. How stupid of me. First this past week we have Perry Fool, Mr. "11-Gap Cover-0" himself, bragging to the media that he had his defenders in the proper calls to stop the run. They made mistakes. Nice leadership Perry. In today's episode of "Sports Talk With Bills' Asssistant Coaches" Perry's counterpart from the Bills high powered offense, Fat Van Pelt, when asked if it's time to scrap the No Points....er I mean the No Huddle offense, had these "team-first" words of wisdom to offer: "I wouldn't want to do that Ilove the no huddle." Nice. 4 games into his career as an offensive coodinator, and Fat has become just as arrogant as every other OC the Bills have suffered under since Ted Marchibroda left a hundred years ago. Well, bring on the Browns, I'm sure Fat and Perry have some orginal gameplans in store for them!

Yeah, maybe. The Jets? That's funny you pick out the team with the new coach that is everything good that Dick is not. The only way the Bills finish within two TD's of the Jets in their two games this season is if the Jets come into them suffering major injuries to important starters. I love fat Rex Ryan - the guy exudes confidence, and challanges his players to play with a swagger and an edge. Not to mention the fact he has transformed the Jets defense into one of the best in the NFL over the first month of the season. But the Bills, despite two definite losses there, may still win 6 more games for their Dick and "earn" him his 4th straight 7-9-0 season. In todays' NFL where teams annually go from worst to first in their division, and sometimes even first to worst, that would be almost as amazing as the 4 straight SB seasons. Only in Buffalo, folks. Only in Buffalo. I think 7-9-0 or worse should convince RW to finally end this suffering and eat the last two years of Dick's extension. (I guess I should say I hope it would.) But it looks like another 0-6-0 AFC East finish for the Bills again this season, realistically.

Perry Fool...er Fewell, is another egotistical coordinator in a league stock full of them. He is married to his 2-gap cover 2 "system" and nothing or no one will make him change. Mark Kelso is a pain to listen to, if you know anything at all about the game, because he treats every play by both teams like it's a freakin' football 101 lecture. I really wish the Bills or the radio station would dump the guy. But at least he knows the game (painfully so), and he is certainly correct when he points out that Fool does not adjust to anything on game day.... ...But back to Kelso for a minute: he does not get excited as much as most other local radio "color" guys in the NFL, instead he just forces his in depth knowlege of the plays down our throats ad nauseum. Who needs that? If Derek Fine drops a 3rd and 6 pass forcing the Bills to go 3 and out I'm too pissed off to give a crap about the route Fine ran and the type of coverage the defense had or the type of blocking scheme the Bills had on the damn play. I would rather hear him talk about how much that drop killed the momentum and hurts the defense! But Kelso is consistent on the good plays (however few of them there are to call these days). I never hear him get excited or raise his voice or go "all right" when the Bills score a TD. Instead yet again, he starts rambling on about how the TD was executed, the blocking for the run play or the pass pattern vs. the defense on the passing play. If Mark Kelso wants to coach or teach a class on football, great. But I say bring in more of a personality to work color on the radio - no other team needs some personality describing their boring play more then the Bills. Kelso takes the Bills' boring bad play, and then describes to us the technical reasons why it is boring and bad. Lucky us, huh?

My prediction is that the Bills will rise up and blow the Brownies right back across the Lake. And that will suck, because every game the Bills win, keeping them on their inevitable 6-10-0 to 8-8-0 pace under Dick, will be another excuse for Wilson not to eat his contract and fire him. You should not get depressed if the Browns upset the Bills Sunday. Every loss will be one game closer to the end of the Jauron "error" , er "era."

OK Mr. NFL Wizard, since you have all the answers on how things work in the NFL, why doesn't Brandon use some of the salary he saved cutting Walker to sign a better veteran OL to back up his two young tackles that are both already injured?? And you're right, not many teams keep 5 Million dollar back ups. I'm sure only the good ones do, since they know that sometimes younger players beat out the higher paid vets, but they also realize they need the higher paid vets for at least the rest of the season as solid depth. Do you really think Langston Walker would have played as badly on either side then those two scrap heap tackles played against Miami? He was already on the team and his salary was already counted against the cap. It would not have hurt the Bills salary - wise one dollar to keep Walker on the team the rest of this season. And you defend the decision to cut him, after you watched those two clowns made a former star on his last leg and a CFL free agent both look like Bruce Smith Sunday?? Now who doesn't have a clue??

Really?? The last I checked the Seahawks went to their one and only SB with Holmgren as coach and GM a few years ago. Very competitive game too. The Seahawks would have beaten Cowher's Steelers if not for a very questionable offensive interference penalty called on a Seattle TD. In my "If I was owner fantasy", Holmgren would be GM only. No man in today's NFL can possibly handle both jobs. But I think Holmgren would be a terrific GM. And I also believe some team will be bringing him back to the NFL next season, so who knows, maybe Ralph will give him a shot here in Buffalo?? We can dream, right?

Wow. What the f... did Scott think he did during the first three and a half quarters, play well? He only wants to take the blame for "late in the fourth quarter?" What happened then, other then the score going from 31-3 to 38-3? What next, are we going to here that Scott graded out as the best lineman after he and Kugler "broke down the film"?

Here's my 2 cents worth if I owned the Buffalo Bills as a billionaire at my current age considerably younger then 91: First: Hire Mike Holmgren to run the entire football operation as GM & Vice President, the day after this 4th straight losing season under Jauron and the inner circle jerks comes to a merciful end. (I would offer Brandon his old job back as marketing director, but I doubt his ego would accept the demotion, so he could go live in Toronto and work for Rogers for all care.) Second: Give Holmggren total control over hiring scouts, his own staff and of course our new head coach. If Holmgren thinks it best to bring in a proven NFL winning coach he thinks he can work with, then I would spend the money to sign him. Or he can bring in a young guy he thinks will be the next Mike Tomlin, the choice would be completely his. Third: Get the hell out of the way and let big Mike and his new staff re-build my Bills to the championship level they once were from 1988 to 1993, only this time, building them just a little better until they actually win a SB Championship. Fouth: Say thank you and goodbye to Toronto. My biggest job from inside my luxury suite, aside from staying out of Holmgren's way, would be to create better marketing campaigns that enable the Bills to stay home in Orchard Park for every preseason and regular season football game, for the next 50 years.

Cutting Walker had nothing to do with Jauron's pride. It had everything to do with saving money. To get him back now, Brandon and the boys would have to get him to agree to some kind of lesser contract. Isn't it painfully obvious to you by now that Wilson has decided to stop spending any more money this season??

The only thing "beating all 32 teams" means is that Farvre played for more then one team in his "30 year career". Why is that an accomplishment, especially in the age of total free agency? Takeo Spikes played his first 5 years as one of the best linebackers in football for the Bengals. Donahoe snagged him at his peak and made one of his very very few excellent free agent signings by stealing him away from Cinti at his peak. He came in and played lights out, but then that damn injury made him (stupidly on the Bills part) expendable. Long story short, he's now on his second team since the Bills traded him out of Buffalo. So Spikes has now played for 4 different teams in his 10 year career. It seems to me he should have an excellent chance of "beating all 32 teams" during his career, in fact he already may have, accept that nobody cares if TKO has "beaten them all"!! p.s. speaking of TKO, anybody think he might be a "slight" improvement over Keith freakin' Ellison, even at his advanced age? He certainly seems to be playing at a high level and looks like the same imposing speciman for demading Mike Singletary out in SF these days. He was even seen sprinting up and down the hill Singeltary had put in during this past off season right on the practice field. p.s.p.s please tell me how awesome Favre is from weeks 12 - 16 this season, when the Vikings will need him the most as the playoff race is raging. The Jets thought he was awesome at this point last season too, remember??