Straight Hucklebuck

I haven’t watched the last four Super Bowls. Patriots dominance is a reason, the hype is a reason, the rule changes are a reason, and frustration turning to indifference on why the Bills can’t field a competitive team year after year is a reason.

The Bills? Based on nothing but blind hope. The team with the longest Super Bowl odds for next year will have something to say about the AFC?

Laughable. Jordan was done by 34. Brady is 41. In a sport with 10 other teammates he has dominated for nearly 20 years. 1/2 of the time he ends up in the Championship Game, 1/3 of the time he wins, 3/4 he’s playing for his conference title. And his Playoff resume dwarfs everyone at all other positions.

I agree. We need to stop pretending it’s 1991 still. The old legends constantly hover around waiting for their yearly nostalgia halftime dedication.

Because the Bills have been selling hope since Tom Donahoe was hired. Culture, continuity, promote from within, analytics, cash to cap, build the bully, study the tape, we’ve heard all the phrases. When do we get good?

Continuity was a big buzz word at OBD in Ralph Wilson’s waning days and through Doug Whaley. Let’s see if it matters in 2019. Let’s see some results Terry, Brandon and Sean. Not when Coach doubles down and starts Nate Peterman again to disasterous results yet again.

The Bills haven’t been able to replace Mills for three years. I agree with your post.

If the Bills GMs have been so strategic over the years, then who do none of them have any Playoff success outside of Polian? Fans literally have drafted better than the Bills over the years.

Even though the Bills traded their 1st Round pick in 2017 for the Chiefs 27th pick and 2018 1st Rounder. Then they traded Glenn to position themselves. So he can claim the board just lined up, but the Bills were taking a QB according to a plan for over a year.

Even though Haloti Ngata was on the board, the 2005 Bills finished 31st against the run after letting Pat Williams go, and they could already see Tim Anderson 3rd Round 2005 was a bust.

So what is the point here? To pitch to everyone that Allen is going to work? That he will be our Playoff winning QB? Or is to make the statement that he was good in 2018?

The Seahawks got really good when they strung together three really good drafts in a row from 2010 to 2012. This is where they got thd the bulk of their difference makers - Okung, Thomas, Tate, Chancellor, KJ Wright, Richard Sherman, Wilson, Wagner, Irvin. The key is drafting good NFL players. Largely from the start of The Drought on, the Bills have Draft classes that yield one or two average starters.

I turn on WGR at 7:15 am and Jeremy White is complaining about the OT coin toss. Get over it.

That’s a comprehensive list man, great memory and well done. I’m ready to finally win something.

Bulldog has picked up right where Howard Simon left off. Crying about rules changes. It’s psychotic, we spend 45 minutes a game in the booth watching reviews as it is right now. Let’s add 15 more minutes arguing whether holding occurred, and institute an OT system where you score a Touchdown and you still don’t win. Bills fans should stop crying because their team has been irrelevant for 27 years.

WGR is whining a lot today about this. I don’t want to see a change unless it’s a full 15 minute standard play extra session. Otherwise Chiefs, hold the Pats to a FG and you have a chance. Too bad.

Agree, that’s Bills PR trying to buy patience with McDermott/Beane by making it seem that 15-17 is a miracle. You always have to lower the bar in Buffalo. Not anymore, they have their culture, their QB, the money. Get results Bills.

I don’t have a problem with OT. It use to be sudden death, they made it so you had to score a TD, that’s fine. The Chiefs couldn’t stop them from scoring a TD.

We’ll see. For some fans 8-8 will be enough improvement, whereas I would like to see 10-6 and a solid Playoff birth.

We were 6-10 this year, Josh was 5-6 overall, 0-3 against Playoff teams. So we can pump the brakes. I’m as hungry as anyone for the Bills to get some players and for Allen to get better, he did display game changing athleticism, but in the end Bills PR and fans are trying to spin a losing season as great things to come. We’ve been doing that since Trent Edwards.

I’m not part of the Pom-Pom squad, defending mediocrity.

A specific Gailey game was 2011, Bills against Bengals. Coming off a 3-0 start the Bills went to Cincinnati with a chance to go 4-0 for the first time since 2008. They led 17-0 or something to that at the end of the first half. Then then relaxed in the second half and the Bengals came back and won. I remember the postgame where Bills players said that the Bengals had “folded” every other time the Bills played them, so they expected that again. I hated that game because it showed the Bills were no different. That 3-0 start and beating the Patriots was the peak. Sure enough the decline happened quickly after the Bills blew that game in New York later that season. The Dolphins game later that year where they lost 37-8 or something in which the media said that Bills players were having their helmets blown off their heads comes to mind. Mentally weak. Fitzpatrick commented after the year that the Bills didn’t handle success well. At 5-2 they thought they had arrived.

With Jauron it had to be the roll-out pass they tried on 4th-1 against the Jets with JP Losman trying to throw a pass to a rarely used Fullback that got sacked, stripped, and returned by Shaun Ellis.

In 2013 Doug Marrone punted from the Pittsburgh 36 yard line on 4th-2 down by two scores in the 4th Quarter with a 3-6 record and defended it in the postgame by citing field position.

This is right out of the Bills PR-Playbook. Don’t have any results to sell, so you start selling hype. Somehow I think they’ll just omit any “highlights” from Green Bay and New England.