Buffalo Bills: Things we know this week
Note: This special “Things we know this week” commentary is written by the so-called “Negative Stanley”. Returning next week will be the regular host and he and the readers of this piece attempt to recover from the negative nature of ole Stanley. Reader discretion is advised.
Nie boję się mówić, jak to jest. Organizacja Buffalo Bills jest w ciąży i nie ma żadnego usprawiedliwienia, by usprawiedliwić straszliwą i żenującą szynę, jaką miały w tym stuleciu. Powinni byli przez przypadek popełniać przypadkowe wypadki w tych wszystkich latach nieszczęśliwych.
I am very much aware that the populace refers to me as “Negative Stanley”. ‘The Negative One’ Surprised? Shocked? You don’t haul a name like that for as many miles and decades as I have without becoming aware of what people call you behind your back. They eventually quaff voluminous highballs and spill the beans when intoxicated. I am aware.
I am also self aware. I tell it like it is being exactly why some people choose to like me. They may claim not to like me, but they adore me as will you. They know where they stand, where I stand and never get blindsided. They may get hit hard with reality or possibly verbally assaulted. It’s a free country, well kind of, and I am allowed to express myself. I guess maybe possibly one or two folks out there choose not to like me so much.
I can’t imagine not caring for my blunt intelligent personality. We won’t even get into my charm and good looks. Lots of MOJO at One Stanley Drive. I did something right to make it to this age which the exact number is none of your business. I had a fantastic wife who left this world much too early, but had suffered enough. I know Scott would say she suffered for all of those years being married to me or left to get far away from me and how much further could she get than the afterlife?
I would actually give him “knucks” for that one. He is harmless. He got me this great shirt I am wearing right now. Oh yeah, you can’t see it. Too bad. I digress. Ok ok… it says “Just One Before I die” next to the Stanley Cup. What a great name for a trophy. I also have one saying the same exact thing with the Lombardi trophy on it. However, it does not look like the Pegulas’ are going to see to it that my shirt’s request become a reality.
I have two grown kids who did well for themselves giving me five wonderful grandchildren. I worked many years at the Steel Plant until they devastated the region. I served my country in the army over in the Vietnam War protecting our freedoms. Conflict… my bad. Guess what that means? I can say what the heck I want to say…and when I want to say it. Freedom of speech applies to my brutal honesty. Ha ha. You walked right into that one.
For those of you who know some polish, you are many steps ahead of everyone else. I will share what I wrote with you in English in my opening sentence soon. Forgive me if I am a bit slower at making my point, but I obviously got my ‘Dingus’ on last week here in Buffalo being that Dingus Day was Monday and Buffalo is the ‘Dingus’ capital of the world.
That being said old timer Polish Buffalo Americans such as I party Dingus style all week long. I recover slower than a few years back. That said, you aren’t going to get the mushy ‘love is in the air’ view on the Bills like you do from Mr. Scott. Beam me up Scotty. I love saying that interrupting him when he is talking making him forget what he was going to say.
Some weeks you would think he was on The Bills payroll. Not this guy here. This is what I was making clear to start things off. OK, what the first opening paragraph said for those boring un-cultured clueless readers who don’t know polish.
“I am not afraid to speak as it is. The Buffalo Bills organization sucks and has no excuse to justify the horrible and embarrassing drought that they have been in for this century. They should have made the playoffs by accident one time in all of these miserable years of existence.”
Here comes the fun where some people will be cursing me.
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Things we know About the Buffalo Bills and why they suck this week (and every week)
414-475-8 is the franchise record overall for the Buffalo Bills, dating back to when I used to go watch them play at the “Rock pile” War Memorial Stadium before moving out to Orchard Park into Rich Stadium in 1973. That record is pretty darn bad if you think about it.
That is almost four full seasons of losses below .500 and I was generous basing a season on 16 games when for a portion of the Bills existence a season was 14 games. Considering they did some winning in the 60’s with Jack Kemp and Cookie Gilchrist, the 70’s with O.J, the Chuck Knox coached teams of the very early 80’s and of course the “Almost A Dynasty” Hall of Fame loaded team of the late 80’s and 90’s. With that amount of winning teams come 475 losses. That is a lot of freaking losses to gather up any way you look at it.
For all of the good and great players the Bills have drafted over the years, rarely do you hear about the amount of picks they really missed on. Some the biggest busts start out with when the team selected Mike Williams at number four overall. Aaron Maybin at 11 also ranks right up there with him not even wearing a uniform for that many games in Buffalo.
Tom Cousineau was selected number one overall and chose to play for Montreal in the CFL. That really says your franchise sucks if you ask me. JP Losman was a first rounder who played himself right out of the NFL and to the UFL. James Hardy ended his NFL career with less than 200 yards receiving. I will stop there and not get in to Erik Flowers and James McCargo. Ouch. Okay, I shall stop.
Keep in mind the Bills have also drafted successful running backs high in the draft when they already had a very good one in place multiple times. In my view they could have changed their fortunes by taking a player needed elsewhere instead of running a good running back out of town making room for the new one. In my mind, Fred Jackson who was undrafted was better than the number one picks they used throughout the stretch in this millennium. They have also missed on a number of coaches as well. I digress….
On air image coach/consultant Gerry Matalan has been hired to work with the Buffalo Bills head coach. That is absolutely pathetic that they bring in a talent coach instead of just bringing in talent and a coach and win some games. Doug Whaley has been pretty much locked in his office after he just crashed and burned, embarrassing himself and the organization at a press conference.
The last several coaches have just put a foot in their mouth on far too many occasions in a town where fans are used to well spoken, great team ambassadors’ like Marv Levy, Bill Polian and John Butler who had the advantage of winning to help the image, but usually were great representatives.
It is humorous that I include the man that told the media and fans to “get out of town”, Bill Polian, on the list of role model examples on public image. He won a lot of games with several teams and is in the Hall of Fame. Winning solves everything after all. Teach your kids the right way. Winning is not everything.. it is the only thing. Not winning the Super Bowl. Not the division or even the conference.
Just win enough to get a wild card position for postseason play and you just really made things much better in all areas of the organization. If they start making the playoffs as a wild card team every year and exiting in the first game for multiple years in a row and become the playoff choking team as opposed to the team with the longest active playoff drought, let’s deal with that problem when that actually happens. Pathetic is the only word I can think of and I am only talking about one of Pegula’s teams at the moment.
Todd Collins, Billy Joe Hobert, Alex Van Pelt, Rob Johnson, Doug Flutie, Drew Bledsoe, J.P. Losman, Kelly Holcomb, Brian Brohm, Trent Edwards, Ryan Fitzpatrick, E.J. Manuel, Kyle Orton, Tyrod Taylor. These are some names of the team’s embarrassing attempt to find the franchise guy. Some of them had a good part of a season like Flutie and Drew Bledsoe with each earning a Pro Bowl appearance. Tyrod Taylor was an alternate twice in two years, but that was based on his combination of his rushing yards and his big play ability as well as his success not turning the ball over.
That still hasn’t been enough to make him move the chains in all areas of the field or to lead big drives when needed at urgent times. He definitely is not to be mistaken for the “comeback kid”. Please do not read Scott’s article from the fall of 2015 where I am quoted. I really put Tyrod way up higher ranking than I should have. Scott was really making me out to be the story there like silent Bob was in Kevin Smith’s movies.
Did I mention Jeff Tuel?
Enough said. Names like these abetted reaching 475 losses. Names like these, decisions like these are indictable in a 17 year (and still going) playoff drought.
Names like these support my statement that the Bills organization just really sucks! I’m too fired up to write anymore. I don’t’ know how Scotty does this every week. I actually really wonder WHY Scott does this every week. Scott always is playing a song by some British band Depeche Mode who he offered to go see with me if I treated in Warsaw. That’s fair… said no Buffalo Polish American EVER. The song is’ Walking in my shoes.’ Scott, if you read this, I do not wish to walk in your shoes. I do not like your shoes very much. Or the Buffalo Bills currently. Beam me up Scotty. Stosh is out.
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