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Toledo Bill

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  1. I have followed the Bills since their inception. I still watch all their games and follow them as a fan. I used to watch all other possible games (1:00, 4:00, 8:00, Monday night but no more.

    Maturity, more time with family, other interests... I could care less about other teams. I will generally watch the playoffs and Super Bowl but a lot of times only a half or so.

    Why... spoiled athletes, other interests... I don't have a great explanation,  maybe when you get in your sixties you find there is more to life than the NFL.

    I have had a similar experience with all major professional sports. I lived for the NBA (old Celtic/Lakers rivalries, then Magic versus Bird, but then team play went away and I cant remember the last time I watched an NBA game.

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  2. 2 hours ago, Shaw66 said:

    Wouldn't you love to see what's going on at OBD today?   I would.   Just walk up and down the halls, asking people what they're doing.

     

    Like Brian Daboll.  What's he doing today.   Some part of his work is reviewing scouting reports, on college agents, on guys who are potential free agents, on guys the Bills have on the roster.   He's reviewing film.   He's giving his views about players to McDermott, Beane and the scouting team.  He's asking questions about these guys.   But he's probably also studying film and designing his offense.   Where does he start doing that?   He's managing his team of assistant coaches, giving them assignments.    Maybe he's doing some preliminary plans for workouts when the team starts to get together for spring workouts.    He's planning the preliminary installation of the offense.    He probably has a worklist, a to-do list.   McDermott has tasked him with things to do, and he's doing those things.  

     

    That's happening up and down the halls.  Everyone has a job to do this morning, this afternoon, and this evening.   They're working hard.   

     

    Beane is talking to coaches in the building.  He's on the phone to scouts, telling them what new information they need to dig up.   He's talking with cap people about how they could manage the cap to acquire players he's interested in.  He's working on big decisions, like do they want Cousins, and if he's already answered that he's moved onto other decisions.   He's talking to other GMs about what's happening in the league, thoughts about players, possible trades, interest in moving up or down in the draft.   He's collecting information. 

     

    Some other people are trying to figure out how to sell more tickets.  

     

    We're sitting around yakking about some sports witer's latest tweet, but those guys in Orchard Park are working all day long, working to implement plans and directives, all designed to get ready for (1) the beginning of free agency, (2) spring workouts, (3) the draft, (4) training camp.   

     

    I'd love to see it.  

     

    Russ keeps sticking his head in their offices offering "opinions"...

     

  3. 6 hours ago, The Poojer said:

    might not be the first, but the first i went to 'by myself'.  In the early 70's i loved Fran Tarkenton....Minnesota came to Buffalo for a snow game(Chuck Foreman hurdled over a snowball that was thrown).  I was in 7th Grade at AV Zogg MS in Liverpool.  My folks let me leave school early, put me on a greyhound, made me sit directly behind the bus driver.  Took the bus to buffalo, my Aunt and Uncle picked me up.  We went to the game in their season tickets, and there i was in my Purple and Gold toque.  I loved the Bills, but Tark was my man!  One of my fondest memories

     

    Was that the game a fan hit Foreman in the face with a snowball, also?

     

    http://www.twincities.com/2014/10/15/vikings-chuck-foreman-still-struck-by-75-snowball-fiasco/

     

  4. 1 hour ago, st pete gogolak said:

    Hey, this gives Hue Jackson a shot at obliterating Harvey Johnson's record as worst head coach of all time.  Harvey was 2-23-1 in two interim stints with the Bills and if my math is right Jackson is a scintillating 1-27 with the Browns. 

    And some of our younger fans think this stretch of poor play is tough. The Harvey Johnson era was really "special"...

  5. 8 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

    He threw two balls up for grabs off his back foot while not even trying to elude the rush. Not ready for prime time and may never be. The team is alive for the playoffs, so Taylor starts

    After these 3 performances how in the world can you say this team is alive for the playoffs? Mathematically, of course, but come on...

  6. 55 minutes ago, RyanC883 said:

     

    Shady quit?  Any evidence that they quit.  Did Benjamin "quit" by deciding to hyper-extend his knee?   it's called a lack of talent, not quitting.  

    And who is responsible for the lack of talent? Sure, some players don't quit but based on these three performances it is not just lack of talent.

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