Bills Fan since '64

Nassib would be Marrone's Tashard Choice

Forget about the Bills making you want to SHOUT - they make me want to SCREAM

Here's the deal: the Bills are going to wear the BLUE PANTS again in week 17!

Defender made a great grab on a really hot ball. Too bad - none of the Bills' receivers could have handled it.

My prediction: Buddy trades for Sanchez. It would be par for the course.

A reminder: since their 5 winning seasons in the first 7 years of the franchise's existence, the Bills since 1967 have had only 15 winning seasons, but they've had almost as many (14) seasons of 4 or fewer wins. Take out the Polian years and it's even more of a train wreck. What exactly does Nix think needs to be continued? And by the way, Ralph wasn't 94 all that time. He was a bad owner all along. After all, he was the one who fired Polian. Older fans will remember him antagonizing Joe Cribbs when he was the best player on the team, and how stars like Tom Cousineau and a whole bunch of good coaches wanted nothing to do with the franchise. "Parity" and "on any given Sunday" don't seem to apply to Buffalo. Continuity = hopelessness. I, for one, am willing to forgo continuity in favor of hope.

A reminder: since their 5 winning seasons in the first 7 years of the franchise's existence, the Bills since 1967 have had only 15 winning seasons, but they've had almost as many (14) seasons of 4 or fewer wins. Take out the Polian years and it's even more of a train wreck. What exactly does Nix think needs to be continued? And by the way, Ralph wasn't 94 all that time. He was a bad owner all along. After all, he was the one who fired Polian. Older fans will remember him antagonizing Joe Cribbs when he was the best player on the team, and how stars like Tom Cousineau and a whole bunch of good coaches wanted nothing to do with the franchise. "Parity" and "on any given Sunday" don't seem to apply to Buffalo. Continuity = hopelessness. I, for one, am willing to forgo continuity in favor of hope.

100% correct

I don't need the Bills to be a 10. At 3:30AM, a 5.7 does just fine. Especially if she has her own car.

News flash: WE are not playing anything. For the PLAYERS and COACHES, this is true. But we're fans, and we're entitled to enjoy an entertaining season even if we don't win a championship. That's why 60,000+ show up for a nearly-meaningless December game in the cold and rain. Personally, I enjoyed the 4 Super Bowl seasons tremendously (except the Super Bowls themselves) and in my view it was the Golden Age of Bills fandom (and I go back to 1965 with them). And I'd like to enjoy a competitive 10 or 11 win season. It gives us hope of future championships, but as we all know, hope is not a necessary element of Bills fandom.

Every year about this time, I enjoy watching this movie. For now and for the foreseeable future, it's all we'll have. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194342/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1a

Brilliant! They already made the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097815/

We all know what a Bills playoff game would look like. If we lost ugly games against Tennessee and St. Louis, what would a playoff game against a 3 seed look like? Think Patriots game, 49ers game. I'm happier not making the playoffs than squeaking in with a bad team. When we have a decent team, the playoffs would be great fun. But with this team?

Time for us to stop taking other teams' sloppy seconds. Rob Johnson, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Chan Gailey, Drew Bledsoe, Vince Ferragamo, Lawyer Malloy, Shawne Merriman. Just to name a few of the many many many. We need a first class coach/GM/QB and of course owner. Buffalo Bills are a AAA team playing a major league schedule. Let's not just grab everyone who has managed to fail elsewhere.

We Bills fans are such losers that we routinely look at other teams' failing quarterbacks and dream that in a Bills uniform they would be magically transformed into stars. Ryan Fitzpatrick was one. Rob Johnson was another. Even Drew Bledsoe, who had a decent run in Buffalo, was on the downslide and didn't produce a playoff team. Only Doug Flutie worked out. Rivers was in the same class as Roethlisberger and Losman. I was disappointed that we didn't get one of them but as it turns out, whoever we got we'd probably have ruined him.

Does anyone know why exactly we picked up Tarvaris Jackson at the end of August? He has no chance of helping the team this year (I don't think he's been active for a single game) so all it means is that we might have him as a backup to Fitz next year. Or maybe not even. Hardly worth a draft pick, even a 7th rounder.

Why would they play Nick Foles when they have Trent Edwards on the roster?

AMEN

That was a playoff game, the topic here is regular season games.

Remember back in the day, all we had to do was fire Tom Donahoe and everything would be ok? Well, that Mike Mullarkey team was the best Bills team of the decade. We didn't know how good we had it. It seems that it's always a GM that needs to be fired, or Greg Williams or Dick Jauron or whoever the current lousy coach is, or the DC or the OC or both of them. Last year we all thought that we just needed to fire the DC and promote Wanny, then get a couple of good players and we'd be "there" at least on defense. Guess what? That's exactly what was done and we continue to stink. I wonder if it isn't something bigger than any one of those pieces. Is there an atmosphere throughout Ralphland that makes guys think that mediocre is good enough? How is it possible that other franchises can turn it around when they're bad and we can't? If you don't count the Kelly years, how many years has Buffalo fielded a competitive team in its 50+ years? Very few. We're a minor league franchise, and our entire season consists of the winnable games against the other minor league teams like the Titans and the Browns. If once in several years we beat one of the major league teams, it's like a miracle. I still feel the afterglow of last year's victory over the Patriots. How pathetic is that?

Bills Monday night loss to Dallas for sure ranks up there too. Also McKelvin's fumble against the Patriots. There were a couple of losses to Cleveland that shouldn't have happened. The 8-0 in the snow comes to mind, but it seems to me that Phil Dawson killed us another time too.

For me, as a veteran Bills fan (47 years), this ranks as one of the worst regular season losses ever. Blowouts are blowouts, but when you actually have a game you should win and don't, it's much harder to take. I rank the Tennessee loss right up there with the losses to the Jaguars in week 1 of 2004 (Nate Clements tried to intercept a 4th down pass that he only needed to knock down, and it fell into the hands of the receiver on a last minute game-winning Jags drive) and the loss to Pittsburgh's third stringers in the last game of that same season (where a win by Buffalo would have given them a 10-6 record and a playoff berth). We didn't know how good we had it back then. According to Football Outsiders, who has tracked every play in the NFL since the early 1990s, the 2004 Bills are statistically the best NFL team (in their record-keeping history) to have failed to qualify for the playoffs. When was the last time anyone feared the Bills when they got the ball late in the game? Why do we care about making the playoffs when we know that a Bills playoff game would be another 45-3 laugher for some lucky team?

And I thought they had solved all of our problems by getting a new team punter!

I counted 7 runs of 10+ yards in the second half alone. Best defensive line that money can buy!

I think someone needs to explain to this team that "quit while you're ahead" is just an expression, and it doesn't mean to quit playing when you're up 21-7. I'd like to think that this team is just poorly coached, but think of all the "worse" coaches we've had than the ones we have now. How many of them went elsewhere and became perfectly good coaches? Does anyone know the name of the two coordinators on last year's Super Bowl champions? Kevin Gilbride and Perry Fewell. Remember them? The coaches in Buffalo always stink. And the GMs do too. And the players do too. Then they go elsewhere and they're perfectly fine. I've watched Buffalo teams quit, fold or fall apart for about half a century. Even the good ones - they came that close, had an epic loss, then turned into pushovers. Wide right? Three straight nuclear explosions in Super Bowls. That's because they were a GOOD team. Our mediocre teams - after the Music City Miracle/Debacle, a decade of miserable losing, and counting (well into the second decade). Buffalo is toxic. We should all get out before we get permanently infected by the Buffalo Bills Stink. Once you get it you can never get rid of it.