Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Disbelief...Well Not Really

For 31 of the 32 NFL teams, a loss like yesterdays would have been shocking and unforgivable and it would have been a loss that the franchise would have never experienced before. It would be a loss in which someone would be sure to lose their job either the next day or maybe even that night. But for the Bills, it is another loss on a laundry list of ridiculous losses and to be honest, it wasn't even surprising. I told my dad with 8 minutes left that we were going to lose 25-24 fully expecting a TD, missed 2 point conversion, and then a game winning field goal. It was just to be expected. I had no idea at the time how it would actually happen. Even worse, right before Greer made a all pro play to break up the 2 point conversion attempt to Owens, I received the final word of the Indians 6-4 win to beat the Yankees. This was supposed to be the best sports moment of my life. It wasn't.

FIRE DICK JAURON HOLY CHRIST HOW IS THIS DUDE STILL EMPLOYED OMG THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT and here is why...like I need to remind everyone...Here is the top 3 dumbest moves by Jauron yesterday which cost us the game...

3. With 6 minutes left and a rookie quarterback and 3rd and 8 from the 11 up by 8 RUN THE FOOTBALL, KICK THE FIELD GOAL, GET AN 11 POINT LEAD. YOU DO THAT THE GAME IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!! It IS SIMPLE. EVERYONE IN THE STADIUM KNEW HE SHOULD RUN IT, EXCEPT HE DIDN'T. I am not sure if Fairchild was at fault or Jauron but Fairchild is Jauron's guy so ultimately it is Jauron.

2. Good call going for the 54 yard field goal with like 30 seconds left in the first half. OUR KICKER IS RYAN F#*$&$& LINDELL. His chances of making a 54 yarder are like 10 percent. Why would you risk giving them the ball back at the 44 yard line so they could get a field goal and cut the lead to 7 at half time. Punt the ball or GO FOR IT. JESUS DON'T KICK A FIELD GOAL!!!!

1. Cover the FUCKING sidelines. Holy shit!!!!! THERE WAS 7 SECONDS LEFT AND THEY HAD NO TIMEOUTS. 73,000 FANS KNEW WHAT PLAY DALLAS WAS RUNNING. JAURON DIDN'T!!!! It is common sense. When seeing the replay, THERE WAS NOONE IN THE SCREEN TO COVER CRAYTON. MCGEE WAS GIVING HIM A 15 YARD CUSHION. THEY CALLED A DEEP COVERAGE TO PROTECT AGAINST THE HAIL MARY THAT EVERYONE KNEW THEY WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO CALL.

We had an 11 point lead in the 4th quarter. This is the 2nd time this season we had a double digit lead in the 4th quarter and lost. This is the 2nd time this year we didn't trail at all during the game until the 4th quarter clock said 0.00. Both of these games were at home. How do Bills fans show up at the stadium? I don't know why I do. 2 out of 3 games this season have ended with complete heartbreak. How much more of this can the fans of the Bills actually take. Just think about what Bills fans had to go through the last 6 minutes of this game...
  • Lynch 15 yard run, Bills inside the Cowboys 15 up 8...We are about to ice this game and upset an undefeated team on prime time televison.
  • Edwards interception, Terrance Neumann returns it 70 yards...you can't be serious, are we really about to blow this, did we really just call a pass?
  • Romo intercepted for the FIFTH time by John DiGiorgio...wow the Bills D comes up huge to save this one for us
  • Bills 3 and out as usual...somehow this game isn't over.
  • Dallas marches and scores with 20 seconds left...you have got to be absolutely kidding me.
  • Jabari Greer makes a great play on Owens, the stadium erupts, the game is over all they have to do is recover an onside kick and the Bills are 2-3 and have possibly turned their season around.
  • Onside kick, Whitner cramps, Dallas recovers at the Bills 48. Utter shock. a 22 yard onside kick. All they need is about 10 yards to give themselves a chance.
  • Romo completes pass to Owens inside the 30 and spikes the ball with 1 second left...we officially blew it...BUT the play was reviewed and pass was incomplete, we got new life.
  • Barber catches a pass over the middle and easily runs out of bounds for 4 yards, 7 seconds left, Bills didn't cover the sidelines but they surely will on this play.
  • Crayton is somehow wide open on a 7 yard out. No Bill within 10 yards. 2 seconds left, Dallas in field goal range. I wanted to stab myself.
  • Some D bag rookie kicker drills a 53 yarder BUT Dick Jauron busted out the D bag time out move, they gotta re kick wow we still have a chance.
  • Kick 2, dead center, the Bills lose. The Bills fucking lose. 5 takeaways, 2 defensive touchdowns, a 103 yard kick return touchdown, a fumble recovery, +5 turnover differential AND WE LOST. HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED? NO, never in NFL history has this happened but for the Bills it seems normal.
I wish I wasn't serious when I say this, but it has gotten so bad that I wish this team would move so I don't have to put myself through this every week. In 2 weeks the Bills play Baltimore. They will lose, but I can't wait to see how. No possible way of losing that can be drawn up is out of the realm of possibility for this team.

Music City Miracle
Losing to 3rd stringers
Broncos running their field goal unit on
Complete disarray on 4th down vs the Titans
2 score leads blown at New England in the 2nd half back to back years
Losing 12 of 13 to New England
Dick Jauron, Gregg Williams, Mike Mularkey
Earnest Wilford last second catch
Drafting Mike Williams 4th overall
Drafting Willis McGahee
ZERO playoff appearances
One winning season
3-13, 6-10, 5-11 seasons
Losing 9 players for season ending injuries by week 4
And now the first MNF game in 3 years and this is what happens...it is cruel and there is more I just can't think about it anymore cause I feel sick

Leave a comment if you have a suggestion for a name for the Bills curse...
The Red Sox had the curse of the Bambino
The Cubs have the Billy Goat...
We are cursed

5 comments:

  1. it would have been worse, the bills were offside on the winning field goal.. if he missed he would have had a 47 yarder to win.. even worse coaching

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  2. the curse of the suburban open air stadium?

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  3. I go with Curse of Bruce DeHaven...one of the better special teams coaches in the NFL, we lose the Music City Miracle, he gets canned (specifically for that play - if I remember correctly, our special teams had been solid all year). Since he got canned, we have 1 (maybe 2, idk) over .500 season and no playoff appearances since. Btw, after you get a bunch of these possible curses, you should make it into a poll.

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  4. Curse of Levy? Levy was the last bills coach to coach more than three seasons? Somehow Jauron makes Williams look like a genius

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  5. Just thought of another curse...the Curse of Leon Czolgosz.
    He was the guy who assassinated President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901.
    Why a curse named after this dude whose name is impossible to pronounce? First off, he killed the president in Buffalo. That kinda speaks for itself. At the time, Buffalo was a thriving industrial city with a lot of trade along the Erie Canal and Lake Erie. It was one of the most populous cities in the country. With the Pan-Am Expo in 1901, Buffalo was at its absolute peak. Since McKinley's assassination, it has been all downhill. The Czolgosz Curse undoubtedly explains the closing of the Bethlehem Steel plant, the Blizzard of '77, O.J. Simpson stabbing 2 people, Timothy McVeigh bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City (McVeigh was an anarchist, just like Czolgosz), people moving out of the city like the plague is around, and of course the innumerable sports collapses.
    I know nobody has heard of Leon Czolgosz and I had to google "McKinley assassination" just to figure out his name, but when it comes down to it, every mishap that has occurred in Buffalo over the last 106 years can all be traced back to Leo. I mean, has anything good happened in Buffalo since 1901?
    Special thanks to Wikipedia.

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