Originally Posted by
trapezeus
in this day and age of technology and fans that follow simply because of fantasy player stars (ie. how many jerseys do you see of random players on no name teams because they are a great talent?) the bills path to building fanbase is pathetic. they are literally stealing pennies by putting out a mediocre team and threatening to move. it's lazy.
you put a winning product out there, and make them good for a period of time, you have people across the globe buying gear and thumping their chest that they were with the team on day 1. (see: patriots, new england).
I'm not saying the bills could rocket past teams in value because they still are in a small market, but if they could actually make you want to buy bills gear, and actually attend a game wher eyou know the crowd is with you, that's excellent. also how many kids under 15 have never known the bills to be good. how are we as the older generation going to hand bills football down to our kids when it bores the crap out of them. how many of these 7-9 seasons have the games been so boring you literally couldn't stand it anymore?
under the description above, brandon is a terrible marketer. and yes, he does get himself involved heavily with players and personell since his GM stint. And they have been atrocious ever since. If i am the CEO and hire a guy myself (Buddy) to sign players, and the players suck for 3 years straight, and his coach can't use his superstar RB, i would fire buddy. "my bad, lets get it right. let's learn something." Instead he's letting buddy ride out one more draft, handing it over to Whaley, who hasn't been able to steer his boss in the right direction. and found another no name coach from college ranks.
The guy sucks at what a senior executive should be doing. I agree, he can't get the benefit of the doubt anymore and he is essentially a shyster until the results change. But i look at the 2012 bills as a team that had some promise if there was a strong minded coach and a QB. and when it fell apart, he blew the whole thing up. Which now puts us in full rebuild. free agents don't want to come here because frankly they see its three years until relevance at best.
I've never felt so hopeless rooting for the bills. and i've felt hopeless plenty of times. he needs to be shamed out of his job and a full re-evaluation of the org needs to happen. but they won't do that, and we'll be stuck with these morons while we have this 7 year lease. We are wasting precious time in getting a winner to buffalo.