I was away from my computor all day yesterday, so imagine my surprise when i turn on Buffalo Rumblings this morning to find that TO is a Bill. I just can’t believe it. TO in Buffalo. It’s just unreal! Everyone wanted for the Bills to make a splash on the market, well this is a titlewave by Bills standards. I’m still having trouble saying it, Terrell Owens is a Bill. I LOVE IT!

Now I know that A LOT of people will disagree with me, but I’ve been a deffender of TO since his time in Philly. I just like the guy, and I love what he brings to the table. He will make the Bills Offence dinamic and exciting again. Watch Trent have his breakout year.

And I will admit that he is a drama queen, and can be a problem in the locker room, but I also think that the media has greatly exagerated some of the stories. I’m willing to give him a shot, as long as he can keep himself in line off the field. On the field, I don’t care what he does because I know he will make this offence a lot better.

He will make everyone better. Lee Evans wont be double covered every play, Trent will have two great WR’s to throw to. This is great!

Let’s hope that TO keeps himself in line. Go TO and Go Bills!

Just watched ESPN Sports Reporters for the first time in awhile. When did Bob Ryan turn into Micky Rourke?

can hardly believe it. Seeing T.O. in Bills attire only seems like something I have seen when I sign him in Madden on my Bills Franchise. I can’t wait for OTA’s, training camp and the 2009 season. This should be a fun ride. Now I just hope we continue to add the key veteran FA’s and do our homework on the draft, so this team can really be stockpiled with talent to compete with New England in 2009

but he’s right. I’ve thought for some time now that this team might just need an attitude change. Owens can feed the blood to that change.

I hate the person not the player. I must admit that I was blown away last night when I got in, WOW – I didn’t see this one coming. But after reflecting on it for a while, I came to the conclusion that it will be a good thing. The key here is that it is only a 1 year contract..
1) Nobody can deny that TO is a playmaker and Evans should have a monster year as a result of this signing
2) TO normally keeps fairly quiet the first year, so there is very little risk to the fabric of our team
3) TO will definitely bring relevancy to our team. Signing him prior to the official schedule is great, we might actually get a few more prime time games
4) It’s a great plan “B” should Marshawn be out for more than 2 games
5) Before the signing only Jauron was on a hot seat and now Edwards is on it too. He now has no excuses, he will need to deliver or the project might be over.

I just hope that after the 1 year, that Johnson & Hardy develop enough to be able to walk away from TO and let him leave town. Let’s take it for what it is, temporary relief nothing more and nothing less. Let’s no let this guy try to convince us otherwise. He’s been a good soldier the first year everywhere that he’s been and then the poison comes out, let’s not get sucked in.

If I’m allowed to be greedy and optimistic, please let me suggest the following:

A. Extend Peters
B. Sign Peterson
C. Trade Parrish and low round pick to KC for Waters
D. Trade down a few spots in the first
E. Draft Maybin or Maualuga
F. Draft best C/OG

Is this too much wishful thinking?

“They have an outstanding receiving corps with Lee Evans and Roscoe Parrish.”

No love for Josh Reed?

The only thing I would like to hear Kelsay says is: Good bye Bills !

1. Rochester will be hopping come training camp.
2. It’s to bad they couldn’t resign Greer to teach Owens how to avoid the jam at the line. He owned Owens in that MNF game.
3. Related – my biggest concern with Owens is that he doesn’t seem to recognize his weaknesses. He also appeared to struggle getting separation last season. Let’s hope he sees Buffalo as a last bastion of classic football hope and plays his heart out.
4. I can imagine he’ll be pumped to outpace Moss for divisional bragging rights.
5. This is Owens’ first stint in the AFC – he should be extra pumped to help them succeed.
6. He’s the Brett Favre of the QB position.

talking about T.O. duh

Very, very apt.

Owens wasn’t a problem in the first year of his contract in San Fran or Philly or Dallas. We can’t simply assume that he won’t cause problems because he’s always been fine for the initial season because those were all multi-year contracts. This time around Owens is in the last year of his contract before OTAs begin. Owens wasn’t very well behaved as he neared the end of his contracts in San Fran or Philly or Dallas.

And, yes, the glass is half empty.

…is seeing in full force just how much the national media loves to denigrate and belittle the Buffalo area out of sheer habit. They’ve been doing it for so long they don’t know how not to. I wonder if it is part of the curriculum for getting a sports journalism degree in this country.

Seeing how TO reacts to that is going to be very interesting.

Excited about the possibilities next year can bring. I normally get excited during the free agency and draft periods because of the potential a few new players can bring to the team, but now I realize that that was all false hope. False hope generated by being a Bills fan. This time it’s genuine. Cutting Dock & Royal, actually getting a good lineman in here. Signing T.O. It’s like the FO actually logged on to Rumblings and read the community needs list and using it as a plan for free agency. Now they still need to get that LB (I want Peterson myself), a 3rd RB, line depth. I guess the pass rush will come in the draft. I almost feel as if after a decade of suck, they finally get “it”. Just win Baby.

Depressed because I now fully realize how conditioned we are as Bills fans. It’s almost like we didn’t deserve a player of T.O.’s caliber because we are Buffalo. I get the “culture of losing” thing. We just signed a 35 year old receiver on the down turn of his career who has had nothing but “issues” no matter where he has played. For one year. How bad did we trash the Jets for bringing in Farve last year, yet we turn around and do the same thing with Owens? How often do we criticize other teams for doing what we just did?

All and all, I do have my popcorn ready and the kool-aid to wash it down with…

SIDE NOTE: I hope Prisco is right:

PETE PRISCO, CBS SPORTS
“I think the Jauron-Owens relationship should be fine. Jauron won’t be pushed around, but he also won’t play the I-am-king role that Bills Parcells played. Somewhere between the dictatorship of Parcells and the easy approach of Wade Phillips rests a coaching style that would be good in terms of handling Owens, which Jauron might be.”

Why wasn’t Jauron at the T.O. Press Conference? I wonder what Jauron’s real feelings are on this? Geronimo?

TO has never been able to develop more than a one note song: me me me me me me me me me me….

And now he’s apparently going to wear #1. Yes, the Bills Store has it in stock and ready to go already. For a mere $80 plus shipping you can be the first in your neighborhood to have one.

Half of these guys didn’t watch a single Bills game over the last 3 years. They don’t know how anemic our offense has been. They are just talking out their *sses. If it goes bad Dicky is gone. If it goes good we can all dance in the streets.

but i guess its to be expected….cant complain about the limelight when your just happy its finally on buffalo

Yup…and the haterade is coming from the national media. And their hate is targeted not just at the team but at US…the people who live here.

If Judge had written the same article and New York or Boston or Chicago had been the city, he’d already be out on his ass looking for work. Since he wrote it about Buffalo, it is miraculously ok.

…is that the signing of TO will boost Buffalo’s pathetic attendance figures.

Now, let me see if I understand this argument correctly. The Bills have not made the playoffs in ten years. Despite all of that, they were ranked 9th in league attendance in 2007 and despite the fiasco in Toronto which drew a paltry 52,000 they made it to 7th in attendance last season.

Now how in the world can a team that is still in the top-ten in the league in attendance despite not having made the playoffs in a decade be having “bad attendance”? Where do the Bills have to rank before the national media will consider saying that they have good attendance? First? Probably not even then.

In case anybody missed them, Larry Felser had numerous memorable comments about the signing of Owens:

Impact on team chemistry:

Will it upset team chemistry?Who cares? After what the ticket buyers have been watching since the turn of the century, they were tired of team chemistry that remained as placid as instant pudding.

Impact on Jauron:

Maybe Jauron needs a more difficult coaching life. It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if T. O. screamed at the skipper when he goes into his Hamlet number instead of throwing his red-challenge flag.

Impact on Evans:

For too long Lee Evans has been the only offensive impact player on the Bills. That’s like winning the Miss Antarctica beauty contest….Besides, even though he was Buffalo’s No. 1 target, for weeks at a time he was in the witness protection program.

All humor aside, his comments—like Jerry Sullivan’s—are spot on.