Buftex

Yes, there are some good analysts out there, just not as many as there are NFL analyst jobs, it seems. I don't get to hear Schein on Sirius, would love to get NFL Radio! I am talking more about the ESPN characters, and, from the limited amount I have seen/heard, quite a few of the NFL Network guys fall into the same category...like, they have to talk football, they know they have to say something about a lower profile team (like the Bills), so they just pull something out of their ass that is either based on something that happened years ago, or is inconsequntial to the current state of the Bills. For some, the Bills stopped existing after losing their fourth Super Bowl...

I agree with you there, too...

You knowm billsfreak, all you say is true, but, for some reason, I like Gailey. Even though they lost more games, I found the effort and game day competance so far above what we had grown accustomed to, under Jauron. Funny, Jauron was always labled as some "great teacher", but I would sum up his tenure the same way they are criticizing Gailey here. I don't think in all the time Jauron was here, any player really improved. I suppose Jason Peters would be the only example. Guys would come in, and show some flashes as a rookie, and then, they never made any real impact, anywhere, except maybe, special teams, if we were lucky. To me Gailey, albeit after only one year, seems like such an improvement. When he talks, he sounds like a football coach, and he sounds confident. His track record may be spotty, or mediocre, but he has pretty much always been in dysfunctional situations. When he was HC in Dallas, his owner was always looking for a bigger name, and he had a hard time getting established vets (namely Aikman) on board with his game plans.

Exactly! Just as many here have a right to love the Buffalo Bills, but to think they are being run by an iferior owner. You don't agree? So what? Bunch of kiss asses!

True, the players got more of what they wanted, last time around...but I am not sure that was so much Upshaws' steely resolve, as it was the fact that Tagliabue had one foot out the door already, and gave his impassioned speech to the owners to settle so he could retire from his job, looking good... it wasn't 48 hours after the ink dried that everyone started predicting this lockout was going to happen.

Yes, the intellectual juggernauts of the TSW time is much better spent on other things...

I beat my twin broter by 45 years, and counting...

The owners could always depend on Upshaw to bend over for them...it's not so easy for them without him in the picture.

Yeah, I think even Paul would find that funny...if it wasn't so insulting.

And the rest of Texas will be pissed off when Rick Perry gets outed....

A claim you could make about almost every thread on the PPP, once it goes past the first page or so...

As an Austinite (what is Austins S.S.R?), while I certainly can understand Cheeseburger's rage, I can assure you Austin wants little-to-nothing to do with the rest of Texas! Cheese...good luck with Lee Leffingwell...

This!

Love Alice Cooper with Colonel Sanders... The Mick Jagger, Madonna & Tony Curtis pic is pretty funny too...Mick looks the third wheel...

If you are bored, just ignore? You seem confused.

I agree with everything you said, other than the highlighted part...if you watch national media types talk about the Bills, it is very clear, more often than not, that most know almost nothing about the current franchise, but base their conclusions and opinions on yesterdays newspapers. It's like when you pick up one of those "NFL preview" mags, and they talk about players that aren't even on the team anymore. We notice when they give inaccurate information about our team, just as I am sure that fans of about 2/3's of the teams in the NFL notice when their team is talked about. That is because, to the national media, there are really only about 8-10 teams that matter, the rest are irrelevant...which leads to the low "intangibles" rating. Many fans analyze the Bills with their hearts, not their heads...but they are fans, that is what they are prone to doing...but I would hazard to guess, there are at least a dozen or so people that post here, that could give a more informative, and honest evaluation of the Buffalo Bills. For me, jury is still out on Buddy Nix as a GM...but I like the coach.

We didn't choose to be Buffalo Bills fans, we were born into it...you get sick of people bagging on the owner, and honestly, I get just as sick of people trying to tell people how they should act if they are really fans...we love the Bills no matter who the owner is...we are from the area, we love the teams, not necessarily the owner. I definitely have major problems with things that Ralph has done over the 40 years I have been following the team, but, at this point, I feel more pity for him than angry. I think he wants to win, wants to leave a positive legacy, but just doesn't know how to do it. The odd "grand periods" of Bills football, in my lifetime (Knox-era, Super Bowl era, Flutie era to a degree) kind of happened in spite of Ralph, rather than because of him...good things just kind of fell into his lap. I keep my fingers crossed that we are on the precipice of another little mini-golden era...I like Gailey, and Nix is growing on me...

I am somewhere in between you and Crayonz on this topic...I do think there are questionable things in the NBA, but I don't think it is as scripted as Crayonz (rather convincingly) portrays...but if Dallas somehow beats Miami, Crayonz is golden as far as I am concerned...

Plus, it makes sense...Ralph is so cheap, he is probably like "we have all this red helmets...we aren't going to waste them..." Just wanted to beat Billsfreak to it! btw- Ralph is cheap! Just flash forward 20 years from now, you wonder if people on TSW will be waxing poetically about the 2002-2010 uniforms? I hope we are all around for that...and by that, I mean us, and the Buffalo Bills.

He meant to say, by inferring it, that Ralph is so cheap, he was hoping he would be able to just unveil the new uniforms, as a piggy back to the new Madden game...he didn't want to have to pay all those people to work extra hours at some "unveiling ceremony"...

It may be an age thing...my earliest memeories as a Bills fan, were the old (throwback) white helmets, with the standing still buffalo...I remember when they changed to the charging buffalo, white hlemet, the year after OJ set the record...people were outraged, but got used to it pretty fast...then, when the team was really bad, they changed to the red helmets, and I don't think anyone really liked them...until the Super Bowl years...I think the red helmets just kind of de-emphasize the buffalo...and they make the logo look like a t-bone steak...if the leaked pictures are accurate, this will be one of the few times, in recent years, IMO, the Bills got something right...lets hope it is the begining of a huge role!

White helmet with charging buffalo > white helmet with still buffalo > red helmet with any buffalo on it!

Cornell, isn't that the highest rank in the military? What has that got do with anything?

Yes, I can confirm...after the Celtics won in 2008, being a Celtics fan, I was predicting another title in 2009, but Crayonz assured me it wouldn't happen, because a prominent Celtic would be injured (Pierce/Allen/Garnett)...as it turned out, Garnett missed a significant portion of the season, as was not effective in the playoffs, as he was never healthy the second half of that season... but that is where I diverge...I just can't imagine a player, like Garnett, being in on some sort of leauge wide conspiracy. Also, the Celtics being an "old" Big Three, it wasn't completely out of the realm that one would be injured...but I have to admitt, the shear volume of correct "guesses" on Crayonz part was pretty impressive... Prior to last season, Crayonz said that the Celtics and Lakers would meet again, in the finals, and they did...not completely unpredictable (though I thought the Celtics wouldn't ever make it that far), but it was assured by Lebron's proverbial kneeling on the ball in the ECF that year, his final in Cleveland. Also, Crayonz said it would be a 7 game series, the final outcome wasn't predicted, just the assurance that it would be 7 games.