Oppressive Buffalo Media.  Why?

I usually like Sully, but coupled with him Dicesare on Wednesdays BUffalo News article, they just seem to say the team is bad no matter what because that has better odds of making them right.
The WGR guys to me just don’t count. They only like hockey and are the worst radio guys I have ever heard

Not afraid to say so and i’ll probably get lambasted here for it.

I thought Sullivan was pretty spot-on the other day. He sounded to me like a fan, not an observer. He let it get the best of him, and it (to me) was okay at the time.

I think this organization is giving fans the impression that they’re lost. It may not be the case, but it doesn’t look too far from the truth. Paying good money for average talent; keeping guys around because they’re too big a hit to release otherwise (speculating here); drafting for need, not for talent (though, that seems to be changing).

I think for writers, it’s getting difficult to publish the same things – to ask the same questions every day, each week. The irony in all of it is that it’s harder to write when there’s nothing wrong and they’re doing well.

Sullivan addressed his perceived cantankerousness. He’s not blind. I think he wants change and no more smoke and mirrors.

The only team I can truly compare the Bills to are the Houston Texans – just giving glimpses of hope to reel you in season after season. Then just showcasing how much they have to learn to “get it right.” The Texans are an expansion team. The Bills are original members of the AFL.

I like Bulldog (he’s a bit like Chris Farley as a Bills fan), Schope is just someone earning a paycheck.

because I don’t listen to the media very often. why? because they just talk about what keeps peoples attention and not necessarily what’s important. I’ve always just formed my own opinions.

really though – who gives a sh** what other people think? they have no idea how the Bills are going to do and neither do we. wait and see people….wait and see

Great fanpost. And great email to Sullivan.

To me, it does seem like a lot of the local media is jaded. This is a mediocre team and organization. But a national laughing stock? I’ve said this before, but I’ll throw it out there again. The Raiders have averaged 4 wins per season over the last 5 or 6 years. That’s literal, add up their wins and divide by the number of seasons and you get exactly 4 wins per year. They are a joke. Detroit didn’t win a game last year. 0-16. That is a laughingstock. How often do you see the national media taking shots at Juaron? Making fun of Ralph Wilson? Saying the Bills might end up with the top pick? The answer is rarely, if ever. The jokes we get are about snow, beer and chicken wings which happen to be three things I’m pretty proud about.

Guys like Jerry Sullivan (who I typically enjoy reading) are the only people turning this team into a national joke. Mediocre year after mediocre year have led me to think this team might be due for some major changes, but let’s be real, we aren’t the Raiders.

let’s be honest, Don Henley’s song Dirty Laundry sums it up best….“it’s interesting when people die….. give us dirty laundry”.

I have been an ardent Bill backer all my life, my Dad had season tickets at the Rockpile, moved to section J1 at Rich and upgraded to section 135 when they redid the seating, I’ve been going to games since my very early teens (until I moved to Jacksonville for personal and mostly economic reasons), my family has had close ties with folks within the organization for years (not quite as informative as Geronimo’s contacts but ties non the less) and one thing has been constant and shall remain constant….. the Buffalo Media talk to hear themselves talk…….

Sullivan, DiCesare (with whom I have had a personal relationship for over 20 years), Schopp and the rest of the clowns fancy themselves big time media types and feel an incessant need to accentuate the negative because it’s what sells papers and allows them to have validation of a lackluster life in small market journalism.

Honestly, without the Bills and Sabres to constantly bash, these guys would reduced to calling out the underachieving linbacker play in the Frontier Central v. Gowanda JV game or, more accurate than that, be unemployed pedaling their drivel in some other small market town….. take it from someone who personally knows how these “columnists” think, it’s all about the negative because that’s what keeps them employed……

sad part is, there are many fans who are swayed by their “opinions” and write the Bills off before they have even had the opportunity to play a meaningful game. Come on folks….. why don’t we let the losses pile up before counting on the first pick in the draft before the season even starts because some empty talking (or writing) head needs to qualify for a column next week…. here’s hoping the Bills are competitive on MNF (and the rest of the season), provide some wins and, should they really do well, I shall relish watching these “sports writers” backpedal and eat crow.

I live in North Carolina and when I go home to Buffalo, they have to have the worst talk show for sports of any I have ever heard. All they can talk about is the Sabres and Bills 24×7. And the Bulldog is so articulate with all of his “you-knows”, while Schlempy or whatever his name is should be doing the traffic in some copter in Los Angeles. Everybody needs satellite radio in that town.

“OK, but your team is a dysfunctional mess and a national joke. ===”

The main part of that statement that sticks out to me is this: “your team”…he is obviously not a Bills fan, and as all die-hard Bills fans here know, unless you are a die-hard Bills fan, you don’t know crap about the team. The only people who do know anything about the team either get paid to know such as scouts and rumor agents such, Glazer, Schefter, LaConfora, etc or they bleed blue and red and live and die with every game. The guy is an idiot, how can someone live so close to the team, yet exhibit so little knowledge of the league and its guiding principles and realities like free agent acquisition success rates, draft pick success rates, coach hiring success rates, and “moneyball” to borrow a phrase from baseball, that helps determine future success and how much drop off their is between a starting player and his backup using sabermetrics, although the term is used primarily for baseball, the statistical analysis can be used for football (this is in reference to his complete misunderstanding of the Walker release). To get paid to do his job, then you should be doing your best to understand the players, the coaches, and most importantly, the game.

I’m from Winnipeg and I hear way too much negativity with our local sports. The local paper is so negative its ridiculous. It starts getting contagous. We had a local NHL team, and like the Bills had some real tough years . The local media always had negative things to say about the Jets. Nothing positve at all. A long story short, we lost the Jets! When they left the media and the local writers and haters (many whom are still around) talk about how they miss the Jets. One writer in particular always talks about how he hopes another NHL team will comeback, which i can’t stand because he was the biggest basher when they were around.

No matter how bad it gets these guys writing have jobs because of teams like the Bills. So start writing some better articles.

That guy is a wet fart. You hear him and he sounds good and loud, but you realize he feels lousy.

That response is out of line. When I call up, the two times I have called, I say something like “are they worse off without these guys?” Then I get run off the show. The last time I called was when they were talking about putting Kelsay on the trading block and I said that.

These guys say we deserve better than a below average football team. We deserve better than a below average media. If the Bills win Monday get everyone you know to email Sully with recipes for crow.

They aren’t Mike Francesa, so don’t complain!

You can’t get mad at Anne Coulter for being Anne Coulter. You can’t get mad at Janeane Garofalo for being Janeane Garofalo. And you shouldn’t get mad at the WNY sports media for being the WNY sports media. This isn’t new. I drive into Buffalo during the holidays every year and there has been one constant: I know I am getting close as soon as I can get WGR (around Erie) and I know I am nearly at Ferdonia when I have to turn that crap off.

It’s not that I am mad at the commentators or the beat writers. It’s that they spout obnoxious (noxious) gas seemingly no matter what is happening, and its old and played out. But they get people chattering. I am not going to fall for it.