Take a look at this email

[T-Long]

Well, a few days ago I wrote an email to bb.com writer Chris Brown. He kept posting stuff about two of the Bills were hunting together and all this other stuff not related to the GM search or OC search. He just wrote me back today. Here is what I wrote, then under it is his response:

From: Terrence Long [mailto:terrenceglong@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 7:02 PM
To: AskChris
Subject: come on!

Give us some news we really care about like the GM search and OC search!!! We're dying out here!!!!! Come on!!! I'm sure you know SOMETHING!!!

Thanks and Go Bills!

Terry
San Jose, CA


Terrence,
I respect your need to know. Please understand I'm forced to operate under team guidelines, which prohibits me from providing certain information that I've gathered until it's "official." Believe me when I tell you it's as frustrating for me as it is for you. I want to get you everything I gather as fast as I get it. But the powers that be prevent me from doing that. Trust me when I tell you that I've explained time and again to those above me that fans want to get this info from us, but I have been unsuccessful in convincing them. Sit tight and I'll keep fighting the fight.

[YardRat]

Re: Take a look at this email

He's a yes-man.

[hydro]

Re: Take a look at this email

He's a yes-man.

And if he wasn't he wouldn't have a job and they would just bring in another one. Don't shoot the messenger.

[streetkings01]

Re: Take a look at this email

He's a yes-man.

And he's basically all we have when it comes to whats going on inside 1 Bills Drive!

[YardRat]

Re: Take a look at this email

Was there a negative tone taken from my post? Just stating a fact, not being judgemental.

[Nighthawk]

Re: Take a look at this email

His opinions are useless and you might as well be listening to Ralphy talk when he posts his crap.

[TigerJ]

Re: Take a look at this email

I can appreciate Brown's position. He really does have access to far more information than a typical reporter might. The Bills grant him that access on the condition that he keeps it buttoned when they tell him to stay quiet. If he broke a story that the Bills wanted to keep quiet, I'm sure he'd be gone instantly.

[superbills]

Re: Take a look at this email

His opinions are useless and you might as well be listening to Ralphy talk when he posts his crap.

Would you want his job?

[Nighthawk]

Re: Take a look at this email

Would you want his job?

Nope...but it doesn't change the fact that his opinions are useless because of the restrictions put on him.

[superbills]

Re: Take a look at this email

So ignore his opinions and focus on the facts. There are times that he gives us some insight on what's going on behind the scenes and information that we would have to wait for if it were coming from sources outside of the organization. It doesn't make him useless, just not as useful as we'd all like. Give the guy a break.

[LifetimeBillsFan]

Re: Take a look at this email

I can appreciate Brown's position. He really does have access to far more information than a typical reporter might. The Bills grant him that access on the condition that he keeps it buttoned when they tell him to stay quiet. If he broke a story that the Bills wanted to keep quiet, I'm sure he'd be gone instantly.

Absolutely.

With anything that comes from an "inside" source like this, you have to read between the lines of what Chris Brown writes. He'll drop little tidbits of information here and there that are useful if you want to get an impression of what is going on inside OBD. But, his hands are tied a lot.

When it comes to some things, like the draft, I sometimes get the impression that he gets fed a lot of false information to obscure what the team is really planning to do. He did mention that the Bills had a good interview with Whitner at the Combine a couple of years ago and that Lynch was a possibility last year, but he also threw out a lot of information about other players and played up their interest in a couple of the players who were possible alternatives to the one that they ended up taking on both occasions.

[camelcowboy]

Re: Take a look at this email

Was there a negative tone taken from my post? Just stating a fact, not being judgemental.

here allow me to add the negative tone, he's a puppet.

[Michael82]

Re: Take a look at this email

Well, a few days ago I wrote an email to bb.com writer Chris Brown. He kept posting stuff about two of the Bills were hunting together and all this other stuff not related to the GM search or OC search. He just wrote me back today. Here is what I wrote, then under it is his response:

From: Terrence Long [mailto:terrenceglong@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 7:02 PM
To: AskChris
Subject: come on!

Give us some news we really care about like the GM search and OC search!!! We're dying out here!!!!! Come on!!! I'm sure you know SOMETHING!!!

Thanks and Go Bills!

Terry
San Jose, CA


Terrence,
I respect your need to know. Please understand I'm forced to operate under team guidelines, which prohibits me from providing certain information that I've gathered until it's "official." Believe me when I tell you it's as frustrating for me as it is for you. I want to get you everything I gather as fast as I get it. But the powers that be prevent me from doing that. Trust me when I tell you that I've explained time and again to those above me that fans want to get this info from us, but I have been unsuccessful in convincing them. Sit tight and I'll keep fighting the fight.

It's like I have always thought....Chris Brown is nothing but a puppet. He speaks when they tell him to and keeps his mouth shut other times.

[Jeff1220]

Re: Take a look at this email

Brown does what he can within the confines of his position. He seems to try to offer insights as he sees it, he just isn't allowed to break certain stories until he gets the official go-ahead.

[Romes]

Re: Take a look at this email

He is a yes-man but if he was not we would have even less information about the inner-workings of the Bills.