DrDawkinstein
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i voted Thurman. but my second choice would be Lynch.
How about the Thurman jersey UNDER the Lynch jersey?!?! maybe some of that winning will rub off?
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welp, if the Bills plan is what I think it is... phase 1 complete. mission accomplished.
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I think the Bills front office may have set an example for the rest of the NFL........
didnt you hear that Ralph is too "behind the times" to be that smart?
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still loling
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ralph pwned mickey, obiewan, and bill from nyc!!!!
be fair. bill changed his stance a couple days ago, i think.
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Great point! Some around here are acting as if Crowell is the second coming. Some have even said he's our 'most consistent' defensive player. Nothing could be farther from the truth. His inconsistency is maddening. His lack of discipline is the major cause for that. Yeah, it sucks to lose a starter you were counting on, especially when you were only carrying 5 LBs, but with improved DL play and the additions of Poz and Mitchell his loss won't sting as much as it would have last year. And I laugh at the suggestion that he would have performed at an ALL Pro level because it was his contract year. That is simply an invalid argument not based on anything but wishful thinking. . If he were capable of playing at that level he already would have. He just isn't that good. He's a serviceable starter at best.
GO BILLS!!!
great post.
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no worries, i most often can tell when someone is being disrespectful. I just wanted to know if winning was more impotant then geographical ownership of your favorite team. I think not being good for sooooo long has seriously twisted my logic about this team, I just wanna win at all costs. I dont know how many more seasons i can tolerate this. That being said i think we all want them in Buffalo forever.
and believe me, im coming from the same place. but im not about to jump on the shortbus with the other 10 or so posters here that fly off the handle and find a reason to fault and blame the FO with every problem.
running a company, as part of a billion dollar industry, with most of the power given to the employees... aint that easy.
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understatement of the year.
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Going on IR doesn't hurt Crowell at all except maybe his feelings- LBs have to be great to make big money and Crowell isn't great- unless you have a whole mess of (combine for 10+) sacks, interceptions, forced fumbles, Tackles for losses, or knock outs- you ain't getting big money- so making 1.3 mil now is good because everybody wants money now because they are afraid that there will be no 2010 season
agreed completely. i think anyone looking at the IR placement as something the Bills did to "punish" AC is absolutely ridiculous. this was nothing more than needing a roster spot and not knowing exactly what level AC will even come back at.
Crowell was not a top-tier LB, so you have to imagine that a healthy, OK linebacker will be just as good as a wobbly-kneed AC.
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so would you rather have a league doormat forever, or have a serious shot at a championship for a few years then watch the team move on?
thats the conundrum which we all face. including the FO...
the hope would be that by Ralph setting this example, and the CBA being thrown out, the rest of the league would catch up to his thinking and after a few more hard years we would have both 1. a financially stable team with no threat of leaving and 2. a team built the right way and a shot at a championship.
your time frames show a narrow-minded approach in finding a solution to the problem, when the choices are "bad forever" or "good for a few years".
how about bad for a few years, then good forever? (i know thats a huge reach, im just sayin, theres other ways to look at the goals)
edit: short sighted is not the term i wanted to use. and neither it, nor narrow-minded, is meant as a dig on the quoted poster.
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It's a trend here that the front office is working hard at putting out major fires by one-upping what players have done to the front office, namely Ralph. Both Peters and Crowell made poor decisions. The front office trumped them both, and the Bills are only making matters worse by treating these situations like it was 1968, not 2008. Ralph may be almost 90, but he's still running the show, with Brandon working the PR angle.
that statement is assuming that the way the NFL is currently being ran is the right way to do business. which i dont believe it is. and its obvious ralph doesnt think so either. he didnt agree with the CBA and was laughed at, and now a few years later... who looks like they were right? Ralph.
it's unfortunate for us fans that our particular owner is the only one in the entire business that has the balls to try to run his franchise correctly. the league needs to understand that not every team is owned by Jerry Jones or Bob Kraft or Dan Snyder, who dont really need to care how much cash they throw around. they instituted the new CBA under the guise of bringing "parity" to the league and that has been a joke from day 1. all it has done is given the control of the league to the agents who only deal with the few richest owners. the rats can not steer the ship, the inmates can not run the asylum, and the players shouldnt control the league. feel free to fill in any other cliches here... the tail can not wag the dog, etc.
instead of just throwing money at the problems he is setting standards and rules and living by those rules. for that, i can not fault him. as a die-hard fan who wants nothing more than to just win, it hurts. but at the same time, the fact that the team may be close to moving if it is not financially viable is the other side of the sword.
whenever players act like greedy a-holes, everyone is quick to fall back on the BS line of "hey, its a business". but whenever Ralph does something to protect his franchise everyone screams about him being cheap and out of touch. i am in no way a huge ralph supporter. for the past few years i have been pissed off since he has the fans of Buffalo bent over a barrel like a bunch of drug addicts and he keeps selling us lower and lower quality dope. however, there comes a point in the way this league is doing business where it has to stop.
typical for us buffalonians, we're in a damned if you do - damned if you dont position.
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I think the only way Jauron LOSES his job is if we win less than 7 games.
agreed
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are you asking if the FO should have known exactly how camp and preseason was going to play out?
im pretty sure they did as good of a job as possible working with the info they had at the time.
Crowell was not exactly going to be a high-priced, hard to sign FA
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Crowell and peters texting eachother this afternoon.
Cro: Hey franchise what up
Peters: Chillin like a villan
Cro: what ya doing Sunday?
Peters: Just hanging out at home F---king over the Bills, U?
Cro: Yeah me too, I got em good today
Peters: No sh--, i saw that
Cro: I'll be over to watch some football with you
Peters: k dog, bring a couch I'm too poor for a big couch
Cro: good one man, lol
Peters: I'll save a seat, in case a certain wide receiver decides to stop by
Cro: man you funny...........
It could also be like this:Cro: Hey wuts up
Peters:
Cro: Hey its Crow, whats up man
Peters:
Cro: Dis still ur number
Peters:
Cro: got em good wid surgery, out fer while
Peters: lol nice
Cro: hold up
Peters: k
Cro: aw sh**
Peters: wut
Cro: Im on IR
Peters: lol
im dying here.... Peter's "lol" response got me rofl'ing
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hey, a thread about it!
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Oh no, I agree 100%, Matty. It just makes it look like no one's in the driver's seat with two days to go.
does it? or is it just a complete knee-jerk overreaction by people on the internet?
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Enjoy Doc! Next year I hope to be joining you!
thanks beer-sphere. got my jim kelly "Buffalo Bills Legend" shirt on for the flight home! see ya next year!
I will be driving up after work tonight from Manhattan, hope to make it past Albany tonight, may stop for a garbage plate Friday at noon, then golf Friday afternoon. As long as Hannah doesnt screw things up, Wife and KJ and NH Billfan get in Saturday morning.safe travels!
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when he was on the field, in that horribly ugly uniform, i wanted nothing more than to see Bruce crush him into the turf. i took probably too much joy from watching him cry and scream at his team mates after getting sacked.
but off the field, Marino was always a class act. Ive told the story here before about being out to dinner for my little sister's birthday, the friday before the Fins played in Buffalo. Marino was at the Cloister as well, and when my sister's cake came out, he came over and sang to her (she was turning 4). He signed all of our placemats, and we didnt even ask him to. Great guy, too bad he had to play for miami...
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i hop a flight to buffalo in about 5 hours!! cant wait!!
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Welcome back, Bill!!
Let's go, Buffalo!!
Kudos to our good friend Bill from Gotham City, who knows better than anyone how important is to be true to your word, show up for work, and 'watch the backs' of the guys counting on you to be there.indeed!
GO BILLS!!!
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its like i died and gone to heaven...
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i didnt insult you. i simply made a statement regarding your typical behavior. and then i followed it up with a compliment.
but alas, you need to play the victim in order to give any sort of weight to your position in this joke of a thread.
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mickey, coming through with the typical 100+ words on a thread about nothing...
you would make the ultimate filibuster.
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I wish i had the link for you, but I read an article about retirement age and how long a person lives. Basically it said that the earlier a person retires, the longer he lives....
I would go with the 39 yrs old option, if possible...
id like to retire as early as possible. i think we all would.
however, i think there are many people out there that would disagree with the "earlier retirement = longer life" sentiment. and ive seen it first hand. my grandfather is barely semi-retired at 86. he still goes in and runs his property management company everyday.
he has watched, one by one, each of his friends retire, fall apart, and pass away. there is something to be said for the mind and body having a purpose and a reason to keep going. i personally witnessed 2 of his friends separately retire to florida. they were healthy as could be and kickin when they retired. within a year they started falling apart. within 2, they both were slipping. within 3, they were gone.
Retirement countries
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only problem id have with it is every time you say the name it sounds like "I Love Man"