I have been defending the Bills poor play this year. I screamed out, \u201cinjuries and no depth!\u201d I extolled the virtues of patience and that we knew that they never were really built to do much this year anyways. I did like the moxy this team had, even when they were losing. But every year, there is a game where you just hate the team. All the excuses go flying out the window, and you are mad at the coaches, the players, other fans, the NFL as a whole, fans of other teams, etc. And while you nitpick why you hate all the facets of the team, you realize like Bruce Willis realizing he\u2019s been dead the whole time. \u201cThat damn Ralph Wilson. BAH!\u201d<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t even watch this entire game. I was at brunch with friends. They said, \u201cWant to do brunch at 12:30?\u201d And in my head I said, \u201cWould I like to eat a meal that I\u2019ll like or should I watch my favorite team bore me with new and inventive ways of sucking?\u201d I chose brunch.<\/p>\n
I knew the Bills would lose this game. Afterall, when we have scant playoff hopes and the Titans are in town, guess which team will win? Remember the last time they were in town? A rookie Vince Young ran 50 yards untouched, and Robert Royal forgot to put two feet in bounds. It effectively squashed whatever tiny chance we had of getting to the playoffs.<\/p>\n
I definitely thought about epic collapse during the heady days of 5-2. But I thought it would either take an incredible amount of organizational ineptness or a spiteful\/hateful god. I\u2019ll cover the organization, but you have to wonder about the gods. Seriously, 2 epic collapses in 4 years\u2026to a team without a playoff appearance in 10 years? Hey Football gods, I\u2019ve worn the same clothes, stood in the same spots, not gone to the bathroom\u2026all in the name to appease you. Guess what? Go eff, yourself! Show me something I can believe in, or simply tell us why you hate us so much. I think we\u2019ve all earned it. If it\u2019s some grudge you have with Ralph, here is how you handle that. Let him win the Super Bowl, and then bankrupt the team the following year. We, the fans who have nothing to do with your $25,000 deal in the 50\u2019s, get a Super Bowl, and you get to ruin the man you seemingly hate so much.<\/p>\n
I did make it home for the end of the 3rd<\/sup> quarter and found an online stream. At the end of the game, I just felt like saying, \u201cYou win Ralph. You win. Take the team. Move it. Your legacy that you seemingly love so much is crap. Keeping this crappy version of football in town is worse than having just moved in it in 2002. We are all collectively screaming uncle.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s hilarious to me that the guy who seems so intent on making\/saving money even employs this scouting department. He can spend X millions of dollars to come up with a crappy team, or he could charge the fans a fee to make draft picks, tally the votes and select players for free agency and the draft. Literally all Ralph would need is an app maker and an iPhone 4S. \u201cSiri, tally the fan votes.\u201d \u201cOne minute ralph\u2026the fans select a strong armed quarterback for the winters in their hometown.\u201d How much would you pay to have your vote counted? $500? If he sold out a stadium\u2019s worth at $500 a fan, he\u2019d have another $32MM\u2026.and a team no worse than what we already have.<\/p>\n We\u2019d have drafted Orakpo instead of Maybin, Ngata instead of Whitner. You can\u2019t tell me that they team would be worse under this approach, can you?<\/p>\n I don\u2019t question Ralph\u2019s desire to win. I\u2019m sure he wants to win. I also want to own property on all seven continents and a Ferrari for all 18 garage spaces. I have no idea how to go about getting that. Ralph has no idea how to win. If he did, he wouldn\u2019t fire one of the brightest GM\u2019s in football for over 30 years. And then after making that mistake he wouldn\u2019t be stupid enough to fire the rest of the brain trust that helped Bill Polian.<\/p>\n Ralph Wilson is the Wizard of OZ. The man needs a brain, a heart, and some courage. Fire the scouts. That takes courage. Start getting into Free Agency to help fortify your team. There is no reason we should have gigantic DE playing outside LB. This takes a brain to know which players to get. And if the man had a heart, he wouldn\u2019t be doing this to the fans. Sadly, he\u2019s also the Wizard. He\u2019s the only one who knows what the heck is going on behind the curtains. The rest of us are just munchkins and monkeys on sticks.<\/p>\n DVD Extras<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 win Chan<\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0Does chan only have 5 decent games in him a year? This year he won all five, but last year, some of his best games were still losses. I don\u2019t see a win coming in the next 4 weeks, do you?<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over\/Under on play wrist band \u2013 <\/strong>How many years away are we from Qb\u2019s having an ipad like touch screen on their arm bands? I\u2019m think 3.<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dear 1990 Bills \u2013 <\/strong>I think the Detroit Lions are in need of your guidance, They strike me as an uber talented team with too much bravado. The Lions seem like the 1988-89 Bills. So much talent, totally unregulated. Jim Schwarz needs help getting those guys in line. <\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And you thought 0-8 was hard \u2013 <\/strong>0-9 is going to happen and it somehow is making 2008 a bareable experience.<\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bills hate play action \u2013 <\/strong>Even when Fred Jackson was running amok, the Bills seemed so anti-playaction. You can\u2019t tell me at the start of the 3rd<\/sup> quarter, that a biting play action wouldn\u2019t have helped loosen the stacked box against the bills. <\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The real victory \u2013<\/strong> is that no one went on IR this week. Must mean the wins are coming soon. <\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fitz\u2019s contract \u2013<\/strong> I still thinking having Fitz in the organization for a long term is the right thing to do. I would have waited to sign a contract, but that\u2019s me. The Bills do have to start looking at his turnover percentage in these losses. One or two bad games is ok, but 12-13 TO in 5 games from one player? That\u2019s hard to ignore. Fitz is Rick James. When he\u2019s good, he\u2019s great. And when he\u2019s off, he\u2019s terrible. 16 games over 4 months to have a guy who\u2019s like Russian roulette, its too much. The Bills need to talk to him and let him start next year, but they need to get him ready to start grooming his heir. And they should offer him some sort of transition job into QB coach when he wants to officially hang them up. Having a QB that can win you 5 games is fantastic for a backup. It\u2019s not enough for a starter. I really like Fitz, and it hurts to come to this conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stevie Johnson \u2013<\/strong> If they choose to let him go and not sign him, I\u2019m handing in my fan card. Surely, the guy has room to grow, but he is part of the puzzle. He is a lethal #2 and an aspiring #1. He has big drops, he can be immature, but the man has done what no other team has done. He has faced the best CB in football and had fantastic stats\u2026Twice! I don\u2019t recall Randy Moss ever having that kind of game against Revis. The Bills seem obsessed to either get a superstar or start over from scratch. The Bills will never be good enough and are committed to this pathetic policy of hoping everyone is a star or they can be replaced if they let Stevie walk.<\/strong><\/p>\n