Orlando Bills Fan

Love the optimism, but I just don't see it. We played well enough to win against a mediocre team yesterday and still lost the game. That doesn't exactly fill me with your optimism.

No. I'm not glad we "competed". I want victories. Yes, they played better today, and I'm happy for that, but winning is an art that this team hasn't, and may NEVER seem to master with any real consistency. Oh...BTW. If you're going to celebrate like a retard early in a football game, you might want to make sure you hold on to the GAME WINNING TOUCHDOWN PASS, YOU MORON!

.500? You're talking about .500!? .500? I just hope we finish 6-10!

Schmuck.

He's a winner thus far, but no matter how much he keeps winning, he will be fighting the ghost of the second string quarterback. What he's doing is creating another "Flutie-Mania" kinda thing. I love the kid because he's a former Gator, but I feel sorry for him because if he keeps up like this, he'll still be proving himself all the way until he retires. In all seriousness, though, as much as I love the guy, he's GOT to work on throwing the ball..you know...only the most basic fundamental skill of a quarterback. Then again, another quarterback in Denver started out like this, and only became a good pocket passer (and two time Super Bowl champion) later in his career. The difference being, however, that Elway ALWAYS had a gun. I think he scrambled around a lot because he wasn't sure what to do with the ball, and well, he COULD scramble. Later in his career, he no longer COULD.

Thanks for reposting. It confirmed that you're an idiot.

So, your stance is that a player just isn't good if he's not on a winning team? Poz is doing just fine here in Florida, and Whitner seems to be doing well out on the Left Coast. Maybin is excelling in a scheme that is suitable to his skills. I hate the stinkin' Jets, but they know how to coach 'em up on defense over there. Offense is a different story with them. I agree that winning counts, but does that mean that the Bills shouldn't take a look at signing, say, Cameron Wake because he plays for a crappy team? You wouldn't want to examine the possibility of a Sam Bradford? I'm not suggesting these guys are even available, but I am pointing out what I think is some absurdity in your thinking.

All those things are very possible...but the other factor you need in that scenario is for the Bills to take care of their own business. I'm having a tough time looking at this team right now and thinking they can. The last two losses notwithstanding, it's a matter of injury, depth, and matchups...pretty much what a lot of folks here are saying. I don't trust the Bills at this point to win games like they did earlier in the season.

And they can take Drayton Florence with them.

You're nuts if you think Donte is the primary reason they are 7-1.

Seriously? Have you ever attended football games at other stadiums? At full price, the Bills are still the best price of pretty much anyone! To be able to get it at 12% off is a STEAL!

If you're a fan of good defense, how exactly was that a snoozefest? You can't have it both ways. I, too, love good defense, and this was a great game to watch to me! Only fitting that it would go into overtime like it did. Oh, and those of you who think these two teams have snooze offenses, ask everyone else either team played this year if they think that. Their offenses are both pretty good...it's just that their defenses are OUTSTANDING, and they both collided last night.

I expect 11 men, most of the time, anyway, to line up on the field for the Bills, and 11 men to line up on the field for the Jets. There will be a pigskin covered oblong ball involved in this game, I guarantee it! Jokes aside, your analysis seems as good as any I've heard thus far.

Hike! Love it, even though I'm a big Gator fan and Tebow supporter! Byron Leftwhich says Tebow has a slow delivery! And seriously? Why is it that every time Tebow comes up, a complete thread has to be dedicated to religion? I SO wish Tebow would just do a sex video with Kim Kardashian or something so that people can MOVE ON from this topic! Seriously...if Ryan Fitzpatrick throws for 300 yards a game, he can set up a shrine on the 50 yard line to Jesus, Allah, Jobu...I don't CARE!

Yeah, you don't want to create any bulletin board material for the fans.

That would be about the mentality of the average Jacksonville fan. About the best thing for me to look forward to from week to week is knowing that their game is probably going to be blacked out here, ever increasing my chances of catching a Bills game at home. Hasn't happened, yet, but I can keep hoping!

Yes, they did. On the upper left front of the hip. Or...so I'm told. Ahem.

Agreed. He had some decent plays in the last game, I thought. They are using him as a WR/RB. I'm not completely against that. Forget for a minute that he was a first rounder, and that he might possibly be a bust. What's the best way to use him NOW? I think they (the Bills) are doing it right.

Truly one of the greats, and that doesn't even compare to the lives he touched off the field. I remember when I used to subscribe to the old "Shout" magazine (pre-dating internet access), I read an article where Kent Hull was asked to compare the Bills to his stable of horses that he dreamed of owning (or already owned...can't remember now). What he said isn't really important to this topic, but it was just something I enjoyed reading at the time, and I remember thinking that Kent Hull made this offense go. If Jim Kelly was the field general, Kent Hull was his Colonel.

Man, I could go for a good Beef on Weck right now! I just got hungry!

I've been to Bills games in Buffalo, Miami, and Kansas City. Buffalo does tailgating the best, but I'll have to say, if Buffalo is number one, Kansas City is 1a. At Bills games, I can't tell you how many times I've wound up eating some stranger's food, drinking some stranger's beer, and playing football in the lot with a bunch of people I've never met...and that's just standard order of procedure at a Bills game. What's even more cool about this is that I've attended several games in Buffalo where I'm hanging out with people in the lot that I've never seen before and we all share beer and brats, then I go into the game and sit next to different folks that I've never seen before, high five and chest bump and buying and accepting rounds from THOSE people, and then after the game, in the lot, hanging out with MORE people that I've never met before. I've never left a Bills game, win or lose, unhappy. There is always fun to be had.

I don't consider it a slam, either. Honestly, he probably has no idea who Marv Levy even IS, much less that that's what Marv used to say.

Ugh. Come on, guys. Yes, the number of yards the Bills give up is alarming, and certainly would have been a lot more alarming 15 years ago. But, the NFL has changed. It is no longer the "run the ball and stop the run" league. It is truly, all over the league, a pass happy, scoring league. By no means do I think the Bills should start preparing their wardrobes for Super Bowl interviews, but this team is simply falling into line with what the NFL has become. Personally, my hat is off to Chan Gailey for adapting from his "old school" mentality to this "New-Fangled" NFL. And, let's also take into consideration that three of the four games they have won have come against top ten, if not top five offenses. But in today's NFL, it's not about the old grind out the yards and clock stuff...the object is to pair gun slingers against gun slingers and last man standing wins. Personally, I like it.

Orlando Ale House. Eat some lunch, watch a Bills game sans wife and kids. Call it a three and a half hour vacation from everyday life!