We’re 0 - 3, and probably destined to lose to the Jets on Sunday.
And if that wasn’t bad enough (since other teams are also winless so far), the worst part of it is the Chargers, to whom we traded Doug Flutie, are 3 - 0.
Can you say, “Short-sighted, bone-headed move?” I knew you could.
Why couldn’t they see Johnson is not NFL material?
[sub]I swear, it’s enough to make me a freakin’ Dolphins fan[/sub]
Not to laugh at another fan’s misfortunes, but
[sup][sub]he he he he[/sub][/sup] he he he he ha ha bwah-ha-ha-ha!!! I’m sorry, I just couldn’t help it.
::wipes tears from eyes::
Your management seriously fargled this one, my friend! On the bright side you may be able to look forward to high draft picks for a few years yet.
Yeah, and we’ll probably manage to injure/maim/trade-off or otherwise lose all the brightest prospects, keeping Rob “Surfer-Boy” Johnson farting through silk for the rest of his life.
Any bets on how soon he’s going to get a separated shoulder and how long he’s going to be out? Back-up QBs may be our only chance of not going 0 - 16 this season.
Well, in your honor I just picked them to upset the Jets in my confidence league. I figure if the Patsies can beat the juggernaut Colts at home then why can’t the Bills beat the stumblenaut Jets at home?
So they will probably lose again this week, I apologise in advance.
To laugh at another fan’s misfortune:
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
What were you thinking, becoming a Bills fan in the first place? Here, why don’t you come over here… We have some cookies over here to make you feel better… Here’s an orange and turquoise plate to put them on. Now isn’t that nice? Oh look! The cookies are in the shapes of cute little fishies… Or maybe they’re not fish at all? Say it with me… that’s right…
MIAMI DOLPHINS 2002 SUPER BOWL CHAMPS
Aacck!!! ::spit cough spit::
What the hell is in those cookies!!
Does anyone know what the worse loss suffered by a super bowl winner is during the regular season? I Wonder if it is greater than a 32 point margin?
Go Rams!
I’m with ya, Dave!
:looks around:
Are we really the only Bills fans on the boards?
I remember all the hype about the Quarterback Controversy. WTH was the issue? Go with the guy who can play! Geez louise, how the heck did they decide to go with Rob “Deer in the Headlights” Johnson?
At this point, some fellow fans and I are actually taking a grotesque pleasure in cheering the Bills on to a perfect season. What else is there to do?
And lord knows I love Alex Van Pelt (second string QB), but I have to be honest, I mostly love him because he was always such a good sport about the radio station that used to do a “Game Day with Alex Van Pelt” feature every Sunday, which would ask him questions like “What’s the most comfortable way to sit on that bench for three hours?”
Thank the lord that one of my best friends is a Lions fan, because I feel I’ve learned a lot about putting on a stoic face and all that over the years.
Have you seen any of the interviews with Coach Williams? Do you ever understand what he’s talking about? Granted, there’s not much to say beyond “we seem to have sucked today” but what’s with the “This game is a game played on the field. And in the mind. It’s a game on the field and in the mind. We need to win on the field, and in the mind” banter? Dude, I’d settle for winning in on the field, because I’m not sure what the heck is going on in your mind.
So far the only good thing to come out of this season is that Mr. Johnson seems to have lost his Claire’s Boutique hairband. It was creepy to see a grown man, much less a grown man in a Bills uniform, wearing that.
Yeah I know, ok, I was exaggerating. Hyperbolating, right. I was a little caught up in the moment. But I can tell you this, my 'fins will win the East. I’m taking a lot of pleasure in how weak the division is this year, after years of being the toughest in the NFL. Miami and Indy are gonna coast riiiight into the postseason.
GreatKingRat: Yeah, let’s see your guys beat the Titans AT Adelphia Coliseum and then defeat Oakland. Rams got nothin. Well, ok, they got somethin. A good ass offense. But… uh… I lost my point…
Oh yeah. Bills suck! ho ho ho.
As I told my friend last week, one more injury or problem on the Buffalo O-Line and I’ll be getting desperate phone calls from RJ “protect me!!”
Sorry to seem so spiteful, but I’m real bitter from years of being ground under the Bills’ bootheel. We never got any sympathy when we could never beat yall back then, so I got nothin for you now but scorn. But keep your head up… there’s always next year.
I hear Jim Kelly ain’t too busy. Ya never know…
(Gotta love the Bills with those Superbowl losses and all. Lord know, I feel your pain.)
… who is very quiet regarding his Buffalo origins when everyone else in the cul-de-sac is wearing orange and turquoise.
As a Charger fan, I have to say that while I feel your pain… you are all welcome to join the bandwagon of Bills-West! (HEY YOU! GET BACK HERE WITH FLUTIE!)
I especially feel the quarterback pain. I hate it when coaches get so enamored by ability that they forget they need people with ability that can play the game as well. I read somewhere that the Bills now have a quarterback who can throw the tightest, best practice ball in the league. Where you see RJ, I see Leaf. Unfortunately RJ won’t be in the league much longer if he keeps taking a pounding week after week.
(HEY-- DAMMIT BUTLER’S HERE NOW. DON’T YOU GO GIVING HIM ANY OF THOSE BUFFALO WINGS TO LURE HIM BACK!)
Anyway… Good luck! Like I said to the Washington fans in the suckwagon… you’re taking it with the right attitude. Might as well revel in your suckiness! At least the games aren’t all close so you feel like your constantly just about to win a game like us last year. That’s harsh, because then you can’t even revel in suckdom. You’re just a mediocre team that can’t win.
I’m not sure why, but NFL coaches and general managers seem to get a hard-on whenever they see a guy who’s over 6 foot 4. It doesn’t matter if you can throw, it doesn’t matter if you can read a defense, it doesn’t matter if you have the IQ of a newt! So long as you’re 6 foot 4, some coach is going to fall in love with you, and some general manager is going to shower money on you.
I’m not exaggerating… much. But here’s a true story: some years ago, the Giants wasted a first round draft pick to take Dave Brown of Duke in the supplemental draft. Now, like most fans, I had NEVER heard of Dave Brown, and I KNOW he’d NEVER accomplished a damn thing in college. So, I was mighty skeptical of the pick.
Still, I tried to be fair. After all, we Giants fans were equally flummoxed when Phil Simms was drafted, and HE turned out pretty darn well, right?
So, when a Giants executive was a guest on a phone-in sports radio show, I had to call and ask, “Listen, I was just wondering, what have you seen in Dave Brown that leads you to believe he’ll be a great quarterback? What do you like about him?”
I SWEAR, the executive’s first words were, “Well, we really like his height.” In the next 60 seconds, he mentioned Brown’s height 3 times! Of course, to be fair, he also mentioned that Brown was very intelligent (very true, and a genuine asset), and that he was a local boy from New JErsey (true but ridiculously irrelevant).
I DON’T mean to ridicule Dave Brown, who seemed like a decent guy and an adequate backup quarterback. And I DON’T completely dismiss the value of height in a quarterback. But over the past twenty years, I’ve seen WAY too many guys who were drafted in the first round and showered with big bucks for no other reason than that they fit a certain mold: 6’4, 225 pounds, immobile, with a cannon for an arm. Anybody remember Dan McGwire, Jack Thompson, Heath Shuler, Ryan Leaf? I could names loads more, but you get the idea.
A few years ago, when Kurt Warner was leading the Rams to the Super Bowl, Doug Flutie was delighted. He told ESPN magazine, “I LOVE seeing a guy come out of arena ball and setting records, because it proves what I’ve known for years. NFL coaches and scouts don’t know what they’re doing. They take us to combines, they weigh us, they measure us, they make us stand around in our underwear, they give us IQ and personality teats, and they think all that stuff MEANS something! But it doesn’t tell you the one thing that really matters- can this guy play football?”
Doug Flutie is just one guy who’s been shafted because he didn’t fit a mold. In 1979, can you believe that scouts DROOLED over Jack Thompson, but dismissed Joe Montana as “too short,” and questioned his arm strength?
I will say ONE bad thing about Flutie: I HATED the way he handled himself in the Bills’ locker room. Even though I fully agreed that he should be the starter, Flutie handled himself abomninably. He became a venomous, cancerous presence on the Bills, and that was uncalled for. I understand why he wanted out, but he had no business behaving like a petuant brat after ROb Johnson was given the starting job.
Well, Johnson shouldn’t have been given the starting job with Flutie right there. The record should have spoken for itself.
Well, now that RJ is sidelined indefinitely as a result of a dirty hit, we get to see how bad they suck without him.
I think I’m going to take delphica’s advice and root for them to have a perfect 0 - 16 run this year.
I get spared the details of all this because I live in the NYC area, and can’t actually watch a Bills game normally. I only get halftime updates (which, curiously, never have actual footage. They show footage of nearly every other game, but the Bills never get their mugs on TV. Howcum?)
It’s gonna be a long season.