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Bell's agent is probably like" "No Demetrius, you can't just go back to Buffalo just because they signed Mario, signed Mark, and re-signed Stevie and Bryan. No- f-you. I need my larger commission and you need to find a place with better money. What? No, I don't care. Be a man and I'll show you the money."

I am waiting for Kraft to say how bad of a move this is for the Bills.

How does the suspension work? Is the coach completely cut off from any team activities at all, or just game days?

The good news is that we have another 150 pages of this Mario thread to look forward to. The saga and entertainment continues tonight and at least tomorrow morning!

Lv-Bills, I have a non-Mario question for you. Do you make it up to all of the Bills home games from Virginia? I live just outside of DC and over the years I've really seriously considered getting tickets to support the team and head up there, but I know that I would not be able to make it to even half the home games with the driving distance and work the next day. If you can't make it to a game, do you use a broker or stubhub or something and is it hard to find buyers? Just curious. If anyone else out there is from out of town, would welcome your thoughts on this too and how you manage the ticket situation. Thanks! (and this also helps me focus on something other than Mario so that I can deal with the Mario situation- LOL!).

Damn you F5. Must.... step..... away..... from..... keyboard....

OK. Yeah, Shanahan is having a great time in Washington, isn't he? And Cowher, is he coaching again? And if you think that a player doesn't use other teams as leverage to get the most he can, you are fooling yourself. Again, I fault them for 15 years of ineptitude. But you have to start somewhere. What is YOUR solution? What would you have them do differently than what they already are?

Seriously, the woe is me stuff on the board is tiresome. The Bills are trying to change a perception and they are doing everything they can. What more do you expect? And for g-sakes, it isn't like they've lost Mario. They are having meetings this morning and those will continue today. If they don't wind up signing him, that's life. They are trying their best and putting their money toward the goal of signing him. They tried with Meachem, it didn't work out, move on and stop beating the team up over it. We can certainly fault them for getting into this mess over 15+ years of ineptitude, but don't fault them now for doing what I believe to be some really good moves/strategies this time around. And yes, they should get him drunk at lunch today. Contracts go much quicker when that happens.

I never post here (much less post an entirely new topic). And am only getting around to it now that I am back home in Virginia. I took my son (10) and two brothers to the game last weekend. It was my son's first Bills game and we had a blast! Parked at Hammer's Lot (he gave us the $5 discount even though we only had a "verbal" Twobillsdrive). Among other festivities was Pinto Ron- my son asked for his autograph, which I guess was a "first." The best part was playing catch with my son right next to the lot in some wide open space. Lot's of space to "go long." I know the game did not mean much at all standings wise. But it meant a lot to me to spend time with my son and sibblings and we could not have asked for a better day. Thanks to all the TBD'ers I met there and to Hammer and Pinto Ron for everything! A tradition in the making as it was the first time we've parked there. Maybe next year we'll head up when it's warmer and hang out at the TBD tailgate.

+1. I like taking the immortal Kent Hull's view of the matter: "In the locker room in Tampa Stadium after losing to the Giants in Super Bowl 25, Hull watched as Scott Norwood, still in his uniform, patiently answered every question and blamed no one but himself. As he was about to leave, Hull went over to Norwood and told him that if everyone, including himself, had done their jobs just a little better, that field-goal attempt would’ve been from a lot closer than 47 yards. Hull then waited for Norwood to shower and dress and, finally, the two teammates walked out together, into the night." http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/remembering-kent-hull-a-bills-mainstay/

+1. I was at a sportsbar in Northern VA and a few others agree with you as well. What a great win. F-you Brady!

The only positive for me is that I am still alive in LABillz's "Dinner is on me, Smartass" competition. But the negative is that I picked the Bills to win 8-- I have no idea what I was smoking back then, but it sure must have been good.

Feeling sorry for TE, Misi pulls a switch and becomes another Bills lineman. ... but it isn't enough.

Who really gives a warm crap what these media (or media-ish in the case of M&M) say? I stopped listening to them years ago. I'm just happy football season is back-- it was a long offseason. I'm not expecting much from the Bills but I really don't need some jack-off pundit at ESPN to tell me that.

Week 1 Buffalo vs. Miami LOSS Week 2 Buffalo vs. Green Bay LOSS Week 3 Buffalo vs. New England Patriots* LOSS Week 4 Buffalo vs. NY Jets WIN Week 5 Buffalo vs. Jacksonville Jaguars WIN Week 6 BYE Week 7 Buffalo vs. Baltimore Ravens LOSS Week 8 Buffalo vs. Kansas City Chiefs WIN Week 9 Buffalo vs. Chicago Bears WIN Week 10 Buffalo vs. Detroit Lions WIN Week 11 Buffalo vs. Cincinnati Bengals WIN Week 12 Buffalo vs. Pittsburgh Steelers LOSS Week 13 Buffalo vs. Minnesota Vikings LOSS Week 14 Buffalo vs. Cleveland Browns WIN Week 15 Buffalo vs. Miami Dolphins WIN Week 16 Buffalo vs. New England Patriots* LOSS Week 17 Buffalo vs. NY Jets LOSS

+1.

I think there is backlash because (i) Bills fired Jauron early and trumped up significant changes were on horizon; (ii) Bills went on marketing mode to pitch the possibility of Cowher, Shanahan, etc and a bunch of other big names; and (iii) in the ultimate let down, they chose a guy that fell far short of what they were marketing. Kind of like saying you'll buy your girl friend a Ferrari and ultimately buying her a Pinto instead. It's the Bills fault for promoting the promise of a new day with big names that ultimately didn't want to come here and the possibility of a GM that would change the culture. Not sure if they accomplished either of those promises. But I am going to support Nix and Gailey come what may and hope for the best (Pintos did have a good 10 year run back in the day).

+1

Considering how you basically got pwned, I would not expect anything less. And by the way, it is "moot," not "mute." (not to argue any moot points or anything...). Good luck!

I am a lawyer. I'd advise that you shut your trap before you do yourself more damage.

Maybe Bud can pay Wilson to put toward the "Fix the Front Office and Coaching Staff" Fund. It would at least defray the cost of terminating Dick's contract early.

Wow, so Titan's owner flips off the Bills. That's like a tortoise flipping off a turtle after passing him down the highway. A comment from a Titan's fan that I agree with: "Until the Titans actually win something, its unclear what Bud Adams is proving. Other than the obvious, which is money and class are often mutually exclusive or that even the richest man in Tennessee is still white trash. For goodness sakes, Bud, you beat the Bills."

It's a travesty of justice. Maybe players on the other teams are the culprits. Trying to trick 'ole Ralph by giving DJ a "vote of confidence"...

Where are the vote options for Brandon, Modrak, Guy, et al? I want to vote no on them too, and if I could vote 1,000 times no for Dick, I would.

Ryan is in no position to call out Edwards because his defenses last year and this year suck. T.E. is in no position to defend himself because what Ryan says is true. What a sorry state of affairs.