At the beginning of May MattRichWarren presented us with his Buffalo Bills 2000s All-Decade Team series. And for about a month we voted on a series of poles to determine who was worthy of being on that team. But more often than not we also ended up complaining over the limited sometimes horrible talent that we had to pick from for any given position. So it was about at the TE position that I thought "hey why don't we also vote on the worst players that played for this team over the last decade?" And so here we are.
Now just like MattRichWarren's series I have a few criteria for players to be eligible for this team. They had to have played in at least a full season's worth of games in this decade to be eligible. Starting is not requirement, but you do have to have played significant amounts of snaps in those games. That means that, for example, the Bills 3rd receiver might make the list, but a 4th or 5th stringer wont be considered. That means that we wont end up voting for 7th rounders that ended up playing 2 snaps. These are going to be real players that played real roles on this team over the last ten years. And just because a player ended up on the All-Decade team does not mean that you can't also be on the worst-decade team.
Well this the end (finally) of the worst team series. I've got to say i really enjoyed putting on this (excessively) long series for you readers. Although I have to admit it brought back more bad memories than I cared for, I also hope that it can help us look to the future for a hopefully better decade of football. We might not be off to the best start, but the Colts didn't get to draft Payton Manning by being good either.
Anyways on to the recap.
Bills Worst-Decade Team |
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Position |
Player |
% of votes |
Margin of "victory" |
Opening Date Of Poll |
Mike Williams (2002-2005) |
55% |
35% (35 votes) |
09/24/2010 |
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Offense |
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Rob Johnson (2000-2001) |
55% |
24% (177 votes) |
06/14/2010 |
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Shawn Bryson (2000-2002) |
38% |
8% (19 votes) |
06/17/2010 |
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Damian Shelton (2004-2006) |
39% |
4% (7votes) |
06/22/2010 |
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Roscoe Parrish (2005-2010) |
32% |
11% (27 votes) |
06/24/2010 |
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Sam Aiken (2003-2007) |
30% |
1% (2 votes) |
06/26/2010 |
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Robert Royal (2006-2008) |
74% |
55% (94 votes) |
06/30/2010 |
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Mike Williams (2002-2005) |
88% |
85% (165 votes) |
07/05/2010 |
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Derrick Dockery (2006-2007) |
52% |
32% (34 votes) |
07/10/2010 |
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Melvin Fowler (2006-2008) |
47% |
5% (7 votes) |
07/14/2010 |
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Marques Sullivan (2001-2003) |
45% |
9% (8 votes) |
07/12/2010 |
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Mike Gandy (2005-2006) |
54% |
36% (55 votes) |
07/06/2010 |
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Defence |
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Erik Flowers (2000-2001) |
76% |
68% (113 votes) |
07/26/2010 |
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John McCargo (2006-2010) |
69% |
53% (140 votes) |
07/19/2010 |
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Larry Tripplett (2006-2008) |
47% |
8% (10 votes) |
07/22/2010 |
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Chidi Ahanotu (2002) |
38% |
9% (11 votes) |
07/29/2010 |
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Eddie Robinson (2002) |
33% |
14% (20 votes) |
08/02/2010 |
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Brandon Spoon (2001) |
81% |
70% (106 votes) |
08/07/2010 |
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Jay Foreman (2000-2001) |
31% |
8% (8 votes) |
08/04/2010 |
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Chris Watson (2000-2002) |
42% |
23% (34 votes) |
08/08/2010 |
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Travares Tillman (2000-2001) |
44% |
16% (18 votes) |
08/13/2010 |
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Coy Wire (2002-2007) |
46% |
8% (11 votes) |
08/15/2010 |
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Ashton Youboty (2006-2010) |
53% |
26% (27 votes) |
08/10/2010 |
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Special Teams |
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Chris Mohr (2000) |
By default |
07/17/2010 |
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Jake Arians (2001) |
82% |
73% (84 votes) |
07/17/2010 |
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Chris Watson (2000-2002) |
56% |
43% (33 votes) |
08/19/2010 |
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Head Coach and Front Office |
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Dick Jauron (2006-2009) |
70% |
52% (90 votes) |
08/20/2010 |
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Tom Donahoe (2001-2005) |
38% |
14% (13 votes) |
09/09/2010 |
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Worst Team Moves/Decisions |
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Wade Philips: Playing Rob Johnson Over Doug Flutie |
42% |
12% (62 votes) |
08/24/2010 |
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Releasing Pat Williams |
32% |
4% (7 votes) |
08/26/2010 |
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Derick Dockery |
66% |
53% (70 votes) |
08/31/2010 |
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2000 (Erik Flowers, Travares Tillman, Corey Moore & Avion Black) |
79% |
68% (111 votes) |
09/04/2010 |
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Mike Williams |
69% |
52% (55 votes) |
09/06/2010 |
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Bad Memories |
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Willis McGahee |
32% |
5% (6 votes) |
09/11/2010 |
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Music City Forward Pass |
42% |
15% (12 votes) |
09/20/2010 |
The Biggest margin of victory? Mike Williams by 85% and 165 votes.
The closest race? Sam Aiken over Jeremy McDaniel by 2 votes.
So there you have it folks, an amalgamation of some of the worst "pro" football players the NFL has ever seen. A team so bad that I doubt they could even beat the 2008 Detroit Lions. This would quite possibly be the worst team in football history if they ever actually had to play a game together.
Hope you guys enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Now on to a (hopefully) better decade of football!
Oh and one last poll just for kicks.