Cotton Fitzsimmons

Cooper is a really good player and this deal should help us a lot… but something is off. YE OLE took some flack for saying this when the trade was announced, but McDermott’s comments about him at the time were very strange. He went out of his way to indicate he didn’t know about him being a good leader and a lot of times these moves don’t work out. McDermott’s comments now about him still seem to slant negatively. He usually has a way of talking up players while acknowledging they can also improve… but that is never the case with Cooper. Personally, it seems like McDermott never wanted this guy here. Again, YE OLE likes McDermott (perhaps more than most) and Amari Cooper. This should be a great move for this team… but YE has to call the balls and strikes wherever they may be and this situation is bizarre.

McFadden once said ”Got that WOOOOD right here baby!” So too will Keon

RIP @John from Riverside You were one of the best. You will truly be missed.

Josh Allen is THE WHIP, FACT!

This Cooper fellow looked like THE WHIP when Flacco was chucking rainbows down the field to him last season.

McDermott didn’t sound too thrilled when talking about the Cooper trade today. It’s understandable that you might not go overboard with praise for a guy who hasn’t played a snap with the team yet, but McDermott seemed to go out of his way to talk about how guys coming in like this might not work out. He was then asked about Cooper being a leader and he made a point to say he doesn’t know anything about that. It sounded like he was a little pissed off that he is being added to the team. Anyone else get that vibe from his presser? It was odd.

Really starting to feel like one of those 6-3 drought era type games against the Browns. This game is hot garbage, gents. Josh needs to get us in the end zone here and just get this behind us.

Terribly officiated game… terribly coaches game… we are all worse for having to watch this.

Even by the modern standards of the NFL and player safety, those were unbelievably phantom calls. Unreal.

Ethan, my good fellow, YE OLE was speaking in terms of the comparison that Josh would demand out a la Stafford in Detroit. That comparison seems off base, because outside of KC (obviously Josh is not getting traded there), there isn’t another team that has had more success over the last 4 years. Whereas Stafford looked around and saw half the league as giving him a better chance to win than Detroit at that point in time. Now, you could argue that you would trade a few losing seasons to get one SB. Personally, I would rather take a shot at a dynasty than a one off championship, but I certainly understand those who differ in that sentiment.

In Stafford’s 12 seasons with Detroit, the Lions only made the playoffs 3 times, losing all three wildcard games they played in. The Lions record over that time was 79-112-1. This comparison isn’t even close. We are all frustrated that we haven’t gotten back to the SB with Josh leading the way, and certainly not happy with the last couple weeks, but the team has been wildly successful. There’s every reason to believe that will continue.

This Carter fellow might be THE WHIP, gents!

You are spot on, per usual, Firebaugh Kid! During the 91 season, the Bills were 5-0 going into Arrowhead on a Monday night and lost 33-6. Thurman tells the story, that on the plane back to Buffalo it was silent. Then all of a sudden someone broke the silence by chanting and doing the Chiefs tomahawk chop which they had heard ad nauseum that night as they got pummeled. As Thurman recants this tale, gents, the plane erupted with laughter and they went home and thumped the Colts 42-6 the following week. Later that season, they beat the same Chiefs team 37-14 in the divisional round en route to getting back to the Super Bowl. Sometimes teams, no matter how great they are, just aren't ready to play on a given night. It happened to us last night. I think we will find that we are still contenders as the season goes on.

I am, my good fellow. But most folks just call me YE OLE.

[In the voice of Dusty Rhodes] Let me tell ya somethin’, baby, when you talk about hard times, you talk about them Buffalo Bills, and you talk about Brandon Beane puttin’ hard times on that wide receiver corps! Hard times is when ya got that superstar quarterback, Josh Allen, throwin’ those deep balls, but MVS—Marquez Valdes-Scantling, baby—he’s out there droppin’ passes like they’re hot potatoes in the fourth quarter! That’s hard times, daddy! And don’t get me started on Mack Hollins! Oh, Mack Hollins, he’s out there tryin’ to be the man, but instead of catchin’ passes, he’s out here runnin’ barefoot and eating spaghetti with his hands instead of gettin in the end zone, daddy! You can’t win games doin that, baby; you gotta catch that ball! Brandon Beane, he’s in the trenches, tryin’ to piece together this receiver corps, tryin’ to find that magic that’ll take them Bills to the promised land. But right now, they’re walkin’ through the valley of hard times, baby, where every drop, every misstep, every flex that don’t end in a touchdown—it’s all adding to them hard times! But lemme tell ya, the American Dream knows about hard times, and he knows they don’t last forever! Brandon Beane’s out there workin’ hard, scratchin’ and clawin’ to turn them hard times into high times, baby! The Bills Mafia’s standin’ tall, and we know, just like Dusty Rhodes, the Bills are gonna rise again, stronger, tougher, and ready to lay the smackdown on those hard times! If you will, daddy!