GRHater69
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I really lost it for ESPN when they cannonized Brushi on the Sunday game against the Bills after he came back from a stroke. At one point they showed a graphic that had him making more hits than the actual number of plays that had been run. Even Paul Maguire who was in the booth that night couldn't hold back commenting on how silly that was.
We have to face facts, it;s all about ratings and nobody is going to punish them when they screw up.
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Wonder how safe things are for Jason Garret in Dallas these days. Only posting this now because I'm watching the Cowboys implode...yet again as I type. There's always a lot of hype and expectations down there and that team has come nowhere near matching either.
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He was a true throwback...hated astro turf, said that domed stadiums were a communist plot. Loved him as a player, wish his career didn't end the way it did, and greatly respected him for his support of his wife Stephanie.
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Dan was a victim of the John Rauch era. Remember he's the genius head coach who wanted to use OJ as a decoy.
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But they'll let former Bill Steve Freeman do Bills games......
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That won't be happening this year, at least in Buffalo. WGR is the only station broadcasting the games, no simulcasts on other radio so if it you're TV is out of sync there's not much you can do about it. I used to love being able to do that between 97 Rock and the Edge, plus FM just sounds way better than AM. Sports on AM should be thing of the past IMHO.
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Hate the idea of blue on blue at home....keep the white pants with the blue jerseys. Now blue pants with the road unis? I wouldn't mind that, with this current helmet design it would be almost like the Lou Saban/Chuck Knox era. The blue pants were introduced in the '73 season (Saban's 2nd year back), the team still had the red standing Buffalo for its logo. Then they switched to all white after the '86 preseason (Kelly's first year).
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After seeing both the Jets & Bills for three games I agree with a lot of what you've said. My gut feeling was that this would be an ugly low-scoring game as well. The Jets are at home which may or may not be an advantage if they start slow...New York fans could turn on them quite quickly. On the other hand if it is a tight, down to the wire type game, the home field advantage, coupled with the fact that the Jets D is more experienced in areas we are not (linebackers especially) could swing things in their favor.
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Yet another "writer"/blogger using the weather as an excuse to bash the area....and I know for a fact that I don't talk like a midwesterner.
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Amen to that bopper2....I really REALLY get annoyed with statements like "Go to war" or "Do battle" especially with our troops overseas. Some of these people need to be reminded that this is a game, a violent game, but not anything like war.
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Here's all I have to say about the Skipper.
Flashback to 1996 after Buffalo beat Indy in OT to win their 2nd in a row under a backup QB. Skip Bayless went on an on about how this QB was "the real deal" ....the player in question??? Todd Collins.
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Was that the game when, as the Bills were just getting settled into their defensive set after arguing that call and were still distracted, Don Nottingham took a handoff and went up the middle for a long TD run, sealing the game for the 'phins?
He didn't score a TD, but set them up for an easy score by getting down to the redzone. I was 11 when that happened and still can't believe it. We were behind, but the score was close, a turnover and a TD would have put us ahead. We also had momentum on our side so there's no telling what would have happened. Ralph was beyond livid over that one. So much so that the Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom offered to pay his fine when it came down stating that bad officiating had cost his team some games as well!
The real upshot was that $%^** so and so Bergman sending pictures of the supposed penalty to the Currier Express a year later with a snarky letter trying to defend the call.
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Nice article....hard to believe he's 68! I remember when he took over for Bruce Jarvis in '73, the O Line didn't miss a beat. The only factoid worth disputing is that Saban was not fired in '76, he quit.
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Thanks for starting this topic. I started following the Bills in '72, Saban's first year back, the last year of the Rockpile, and the beginning of OJ Simpson becoming a standout running back in the NFL. Every Monday after a game I would read Larry's column in the Buffalo Evening News with his commentary on the previous day's game, back when the News was an evening publication only. He covered this team through some very rough times and through it's glory years. His was an opinion I always respected because he based it on fact and not some of the snarky negativity you get today (Jerry Sullivan). I always enjoyed his show with John Murphy on WBEN as well and used to call them from time to time to discuss sports.
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Not to get off topic but what amazes me is how much better some of the athletes of that era could have been had they had the equipment, medical care, and most importantly the training that today's athletes have. Guys would finish the football season and start working part time jobs, not training or doing off season stuff, that was almost unheard of back then.
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I remember Greg Cook, it was shoulder injury that did him in, he seemed to have a bright future. Wonder how the AFL/AFC would have been different if the Bengals had a real QB back then. I find it ironic that Namath only hoped to play 4 years of pro football when he was signed. If you look at his career, that's about what he got before the injuries started to take their toll. If his knee was treated properly in college, he might have had a better back end to his career. It was sad as a fan back in the 70s seeing him wind up in LA and be forced into retirement. I enjoyed the special, but I love anything that has old film and video of the AFL.
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Let's be more exact with that game shall we? The Bills were driving for a score that would have iced the game for them but Kelly threw a pick to Jack Del Rio who was the Vikings MLB at the time. The D couldn't stop Warren Moon on the ensuing drive (which was problem for them all season). After that series is when Kelly got hurt.....game over/season over even though they had a few games left.
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I would have to agree, they were old & tired. I remember an interview with Thurman Thomas where he stated if you totaled all the playoff & Superbowl games since the '88 season the core of the team had essentially played 16 extra games in that span. That's an extra full season wedged into that time frame. They also had O-line issues, after losing Howard Ballard and essentially trying to replace him with Jerry Crafts....big mistake. It meant a lot of shuffling of players on that front. On defense Jeff Wright was hurt a lot and eventually retired, but the whole defensive philosophy needed a change, thus the dismissal of Walt Corey. I remember they actually ran a base 4-3 in the last game of the season against the Colts their run D was so bad that year.
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I posted the link in another thread. It would seem that their first-time GM has his own plans for things. It's also the first time they've had a true GM calling the shots there. Still have to wonder if that will help or hurt them in attracting a big name HC, also the new GM has no first round pick in 2012 thanks to the Carson Palmer trade.
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It wouldn't surprise me if this was a way for the two of them to get Donahoe's name out there now that there are some vacancies for GMs in the NFL.
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Derrick Burroughs was a good pick whose career was cut short by an injury, Parella went on to have a good career in San Diego as a 4-3 lineman not a 3-4 NT. Fina and Jones were good players who were drafted toward the end of the first round as were most of the players during the 90s, it's the price you pay for finishing high in the standings. You want to talk about bad drafts? How 'bout the Pats who gave up on their entire 2007 draft class.
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It's the calls that swing games that have me suspecting the integrity of officials. Ed Hoculi in the Denver San Diego game a few years ago blew it big time and cost a game at the end. How about Phil Lucket screwing up the coin toss on Thanksgiving. Or, as mentioned up thread, the "Just give it to him" fiasco in New England....don't even get me started on the tuck rule...did you know the ref of that game didn't officiate another Raiders game for several YEARS. Then there was the Browns/Jaguars game where the official reviewed a play AFTER the ball had been snapped.
If you want to go back a few years, anyone remember Jerry Bergman when he flagged Pat Toomay for unsportsmanlike conduct while he was trying to get to a loose ball? That call ruined a Bills comeback effort against Miami and that little arrogant SOB Bergman had the nerve to send in pictures of the so called "penalty" to the Currier Express......actually I'm kinda sorry I found this topic, my blood is boiling.
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I think Gruden has been correct this season in openly questioning some of the officiating calls. There have been a few that were just plain bad. And there were times he was wrong as well, and Tirico had to correct him, but I think most of us can agree, blowhard or not, that NFL officiating has gotten progressively worse over the last several seasons.
Good read on ESPN
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Bills hating is probably a trend that somone found popular. You can alos blame a lot of that on the fact that Donahoe did some work for ESPN between his jobs with the Steelers and the Bills and some of the people on staff there (Mort) were buds with him.