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  • BLeonard
    BoB Sabermetrician
    • Jan 2003
    • 4625
    #1

    Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

    http://wgr550.com/pages/8669316.php?pid=67946


    While my sentiment was similar this summer I encountered less resistance this year than ever before. Fatigued fans, desperate to see the Bills just be competitive some year, either stayed quiet or joined the chorus of angry birds.

    This summer's fashionable complaint? That the team has stopped trying to win. In the past we've had shaky (being nice) draft picks and other assorted questionable (also nice) moves. This year, a feeling piqued by the Lee Evans trade, fans have asked if Ralph Wilson even cares anymore.

    Wilson owning the team and running it this way has fan morale at an all-time low. I was at a Bisons game last night that might have had more fans in attendance than the Bills' preseason finale -- and that's with tens of thousands of Bills tickets paid for not being used. Think about that. Moreover, people at the ballpark actually seemed happy. Who would have felt good leaving the stadium last night?
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  • mrbojanglezs
    Registered User
    • Jan 2010
    • 1465
    #2
    Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

    same story different year, schopp doesn't bring anything new to the table
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    • better days
      Registered User
      • Jan 2010
      • 22028
      #3
      Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

      Originally posted by mrbojanglezs
      same story different year, schopp doesn't bring anything new to the table
      Maybe so, but that quote was spot on.

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      • Beebe's Kid
        Registered User
        • Nov 2009
        • 3134
        #4
        Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

        It is right on if you had an attachment to Lee Evans. I was a huge Lee fan, but after last year it became apparent that he was not going to be a big part of the future. He dropped passes, alligator armed others, and was a non factor all season.

        It is hard that the same people that slam the team for "not wanting to win" do not want them to get rid of high priced players that don't produce. That seems like not wanting to win from a different angle, doesn't it? "I don't care if he is not a good player, and he makes a nice sized salary that could be distributed elsewhere; he is a nice guy."

        I felt we should have gotten more for Lee, but it is not the seller's price that get's the deal done.

        Schopp is just like the rest of the media in Buffalo; bitter because they can't get access. Really, there is not a lot separating any of them from any of us, is there? They just get paid to piss and moan. Their reporting is as much the fact that they all have bruised egos and an axe to grind as it is anything else.

        It is a shame that they get an audience that encourages their perpetuation of negativity, but there isn't a real alternative, is there?

        Maybe a little winning would help us out.

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        • YardRat
          Well, lookie here...
          • Dec 2004
          • 86296
          #5
          Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

          Schopp is a dick-****. He and Sully take terms beating off to each others comments.
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          • Novacane
            Registered User
            • Jul 2002
            • 42371
            #6
            Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

            Those GR morons spent the first hr of their show Fri afternoon talking about how small the crowd was Thursday and how that shows fans are starting to not support the Bills. Why would anyone want to go to a game where the scrubs play the entire game? Duh!!!! WGR sucks nuts.
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            • more cowbell
              Registered User
              • Apr 2006
              • 1489
              #7
              Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

              I would rather have bullets in both of my ears than listen to Mike Schopp speak.
              The last time the Bills made the playoffs was 1999.
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              • zone
                No, look. I do mind. The Dude minds.
                • Oct 2003
                • 2535
                #8
                Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                Originally posted by Novacane
                Those GR morons spent the first hr of their show Fri afternoon talking about how small the crowd was Thursday and how that shows fans are starting to not support the Bills. Why would anyone want to go to a game where the scrubs play the entire game? Duh!!!! WGR sucks nuts.
                Not to mention that it was at 6:30 on work night.
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                • mrbojanglezs
                  Registered User
                  • Jan 2010
                  • 1465
                  #9
                  Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                  Originally posted by Novacane
                  Those GR morons spent the first hr of their show Fri afternoon talking about how small the crowd was Thursday and how that shows fans are starting to not support the Bills. Why would anyone want to go to a game where the scrubs play the entire game? Duh!!!! WGR sucks nuts.
                  well to be fair to them, they were making a point. Their main point was the bills announced that there was like 40,xxx tickets sold for that preseason game, so that means that season ticket sales is at a MAX that number, likely less. That is the point they were making

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                  • PromoTheRobot
                    Registered User
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 2311
                    #10
                    Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                    The only smell is coming from Schopp's drawers.

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                    • OpIv37
                      Acid Douching Asswipe
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 101313
                      #11
                      Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                      Originally posted by Beebe's Kid
                      It is right on if you had an attachment to Lee Evans. I was a huge Lee fan, but after last year it became apparent that he was not going to be a big part of the future. He dropped passes, alligator armed others, and was a non factor all season.

                      It is hard that the same people that slam the team for "not wanting to win" do not want them to get rid of high priced players that don't produce. That seems like not wanting to win from a different angle, doesn't it? "I don't care if he is not a good player, and he makes a nice sized salary that could be distributed elsewhere; he is a nice guy."
                      Here's the problem: do we have a player that's equal to or better than Lee? No. Did we take the money we saved on Lee, or any of the rest of our cap space, and somehow use it to make the team better? No.

                      That's why people say we are not trying to win.

                      Lee's not productive? He's not part of the future? Fine. Use the money on someone who is. But don't cut the only proven WR on this team when we have a bad OL and a mediocre QB, pocket the cash, and hide behind some BS about the future.

                      This team has been selling us a better future that never arrives for 10 years now. It's surprising that some people can't see it.
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                      • Novacane
                        Registered User
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 42371
                        #12
                        Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                        Originally posted by mrbojanglezs
                        well to be fair to them, they were making a point. Their main point was the bills announced that there was like 40,xxx tickets sold for that preseason game, so that means that season ticket sales is at a MAX that number, likely less. That is the point they were making

                        OK Mike

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                        • Meathead
                          Insufferable ***** and perpetual crybaby
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 21349
                          #13
                          Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                          oh i smell something all right. smells like schopp
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                          • Jan Reimers
                            Thank You, Terry and Kim, for Saving the Bills. Now, Work on the Sabres.
                            • May 2003
                            • 17353
                            #14
                            Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                            Schopp is absolutely right. Why butcher the guy for "telling it like it is?"

                            We trade Lee for nothing, and then do nothing to improve our O-line, which is probably the worst in the league.
                            Should have known, way back in 1960 when we drafted Richie Lucas Number 1, that this would be a long, hard ride. But who could have known it would be THIS bad?
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                            • Night Train
                              Retired - On Several Levels
                              • Jul 2005
                              • 33117
                              #15
                              Re: Schopp: Anyone else smell a sale?

                              Excessive cost savings will make anyone speculate on an alterior motive.

                              They were able to score some bargains at LB (Barnett, Morrison) but bargains on the OL (with actual talent) don't exist.

                              Ralph always reacts adversly to failure. He handed the entire team over to TD a few years back and he sank it. He then put the beancounters back in control. Same with overpaying for Dockery & Walker. Now everyone on the OL must be drafted ( low first contract ) or signed off the street.

                              Cash to cap means no future debt and a smooth sale. I sure some groups have actually contacted the Bills behind the scenes, just to let their group be known down the road. He may have heard something but it makes ratings for talk radio.

                              Take it at face value.
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