Web Rumblings: Buffalo Bills News, 9/30
by MattRichWarren on Sep 30, 2011 6:22 AM EDT
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Bills' 'Goon squad' keeping things loose - BuffaloBills.com
"The name came up in the normal kind of kidding conversation that young NFL prospects often have with one another. Joking around often eases the stress of trying to scrape and claw one's way onto an NFL roster when you're an undrafted rookie, which was the case for Bills receivers Donald Jones, David Nelson and Naaman Roosevelt."
FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | Week 3 Quick Reads
Fred Jackson is the most valuable running back in the league. Ryan Fitzpatrick is fifth on the QB list.
NFL free agency's winners and losers - FOX Sports
Alex Marvez of FOXSports.com looks at NFL free agency's winners and losers. The Bills are winners.
Fitzpatrick named AFC Offensive Player of the Month - BuffaloBills.com
"The way he manages the game and the accuracy he's throwing with right now... he's done an amazing job," said Bills head coach Chan Gailey. "The highest compliment you can pay a quarterback is that he wins. It doesn't matter whether we're up or down or what, he keeps playing well. He's a winner, obviously."
Bills strike new training camp pact with St. John Fisher - BuffaloBills.com
"Having this new agreement that keeps our Training Camp at St. John Fisher College is tremendous," said Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. "Everyone at the school does such a great job during our time there and it’s a first-class operation all the way. I talk to a number of players around the league and I’m thoroughly convinced that we have one of the best, if not the best, training camp in the NFL."
Bills Focus: Underrated Defense Awaits in Cincy - BuffaloBills.com
The Bills' offense might be facing their biggest test this week when they played the Bengals defense.
Inside The Bills | A play for prime time?
"We’re just trying to get ourselves some Monday night games so we’re keeping the games exciting and keeping them close," Florence deadpanned.
Inside The Bills | Only 3 Bills QBs AFC Plyr of Mo.
"The only other offensive player in the history of the Bills to have won an AFC Offensive Player of the Month award besides these three quarterbacks is Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas."
Inside The Bills | Last yr in Cincy was 1st big comeback
"I remember Stevie asking me if I had ever come back from a deficit that big and I was just kind of talking to him about my first NFL game, the first one I got into, I said, ‘Yeah,’" said Fitzpatrick. "I told him about it at halftime and he said, ‘OK, let’s go do it.’ And that’s what we did."
The Concordia Sentinel: Daye hits right notes for Bills
"Ferriday native Daryl Daye was promoted to linebackers and special teams coach before the season with the Buffalo Bills. He never knew songwriter would be added to those titles. The Bills unveiled the song, "Red, White and Blue" at their home football game against New England Sunday."
Bills TV Ratings Are High, But Should Go Higher - WNYMedia.net
"The audience for the victory that broke the Pats 15-game mastery of the Bills peaked to almost a Super Bowl-like rating in the 40s in the final 45 minutes, ending with a 44.5 before Rian Lindell’s winning field goal."
Sightings: Russert sports intense Buffalo Bills outfit | Washington Examiner
Luke Russert headed to the White House decked out in his Bills garb to celebrate earlier this week.
Lacking balance, the Chicago Bears' offense is wobbling - ESPN
"David Nelson was correct: The Buffalo Bills' streak of 15 losses to the New England Patriots ended on Sunday, just as he had told me it would."
ProFootballWeekly.com - Scout's Notebook: Bills TE Scott Chandler
"A very long-limbed, rangy, dependable pass-catcher, Chandler competes as a blocker, but noticeably struggles in protection (too tall and underpowered) and is at his best in the short-to-intermediate receiving game, where he has proven to be very reliable running option routes."
9/29 David Nelson On The Howard Simon Show - WGR 550
"The Bills WR talks about his success in the Bills offense and hanging with Bills fans in Buffalo."
Buffalo Bills say lack of sacks has a context | Democrat and Chronicle
"We saw two of the top running offenses in the league from last year and you're in a little different mindset," said linebacker Shawne Merriman, who was supposed to improve Buffalo's rush, but has been rather invisible in the three games. "We have to go out there and do what we have to do to win. If you go out looking for sacks against teams that run the ball and you get upfield, you can get hurt by that."
Bills camp to stay at St. John Fisher - The Buffalo News
Catching up with all the news from yesterday.
Bills must learn to deal with success - The Buffalo News
"I'm talking a lot to these guys about handling all this stuff and making sure they don't get away from what got us to where we are," Gailey said as the Bills prepared to travel to play at Cincinnati on Sunday.
Buffalo Bills, St. John Fisher reach new camp deal | Democrat and Chronicle
"The relationship will continue for at least five more years after the two parties announced an extension of their agreement on Thursday."
AFC East Week 4 X Factors - AFC East Blog - ESPN
Can Leodis McKelvin make an impact this week against the Bengals?
Will Bills' Spiller, Smith find niche? - AFC East Blog - ESPN
"Former 2010 first-round pick C.J. Spiller and free-agent signing Brad Smith haven't made much impact so far in Buffalo. The surprising, first-place Bills (3-0) are undefeated thanks to a variety of less-touted, overlooked players on offense. Buffalo spent a combined $40 million in contracts on Spiller and Smith. But their roles on the team remain undefined."
Brady, Fitzpatrick No. 1-2 in QBR - AFC East Blog - ESPN
"New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (85.3) and Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick (83.7) have the league's best QBRs through three weeks. They have combined for 2,168 yards, 20 touchdowns and eight interceptions."
Stevie Returns To Bills Practice, Urbik Out - WGR 550
Joe Buscaglia updates all the injuries from Bills practice.
ProFootballWeekly.com - Wilson helps lead young Bills into new territory
"The saying goes: Winning is contagious. And the opposite end of the spectrum is, too - so is losing. We had to look back and reflect on what put us in that 0-8 hole a year ago," Wilson told PFW this week. "It was a lot of mistakes -penalties, mental errors, missed tackles, turnovers, giving up big plays, things of that nature."
Fantasy Football 2011: Week 4 IDP Rankings - FakeTeams
Nick Barnett and George Wilson are highly-ranked on the Individual Player Rankings.
'Lights Out' In Cincinnati? Bills' Merriman Hunts For Sack No. 1 - WGR 550
"I'm going to always be my biggest critic," Merriman asserted. "I don't think anybody can bring any more pressure on me than I bring on myself, in order to go back there and make some big plays in the backfield."
Cincinnati Bengals And Buffalo Bills Connections - Cincy Jungle
"Every week we try to push out a weekly feature that digs into the connection between the Bengals and their opponent that week. It's informational, only. How many Bengals players are from the Buffalo region? How many Bills players are from the state of Ohio, or the Cincinnati region (which includes areas in Kentucky). How many players played together or coaches coaching together?"
Another group deserves respect - Times Union
Jennifer Gish published a column questioning Bills fans last week. This week, she published the hate mail she received.
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Everything aroound that Gish piece and the responses are ugly.
The original piece that she wrote was pretty arrogant basically slamming the entire Bills fanbase in a untasteful manner. But even so, people sending ridiculously ugly responses like that is very uncalled for and disgusting. However, I also bet that she received some well thought out and articulate responses and she refused to published those because that didn’t paint the artificial picture that she wanted to present with this new article.
Its just all-around ugly.
Does she think she's the only one?
It’s not just her and other female writers that get this kind of mail. Every major sports writer gets this mail. Ever look at the comments section for Chris Chase on yahoo? It’s borderline hysterical how relentlessly they attack him.
Did I mention the tank is a tank?
I was accused of being a racist for questioning whether Ryan Kerrigan could play outside linebacker in the NFL. I didn’t even say he couldn’t; I just questioned whether he could. Ergo, me is a racist.
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by Brian Galliford on Sep 30, 2011 8:35 AM EDT up reply actions
It was the plan all along
It must have been. She wrote snarky ugly piece attacking the entire region, then when inevitable blow back occurs, she cherry picks the ugliest responses to get sympathy.
Holly cow is she mean.
He’s got a high-motor.
"It’s like I’ve always said, don’t tell me about the labor pains, just show me the baby."
- Buddy Nix
"How can a guy with a name like Melo be such a pain in the ass?"
- George Lopez
by dnvrBillsfan on Sep 30, 2011 9:03 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, the original article was obviously an attempt to solicit a response from a passionate fan base and it sure did. It’s unfortunate that people took the bait because they make everyone look pretty sad… I can’t justify any of the responses she put out there (and yes, it’s obvious she hand picked the responses) but I don’t have any sympathy for her. What did she expect?
"It’s like I’ve always said, don’t tell me about the labor pains, just show me the baby."
- Buddy Nix
"How can a guy with a name like Melo be such a pain in the ass?"
- George Lopez
by dnvrBillsfan on Sep 30, 2011 9:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
There’s a reason we have comment moderators. :-) And we bring the hammer.
by MattRichWarren on Sep 30, 2011 10:14 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Our favorite SB Nation “writer” (definitely not a researcher) takes a rip at the Bills because of those comments that a very small portion of the fanbase left.
http:/sbnation.com/nfl/2011/9/30/2458871/nfl-picks-week-4-predictions
"WE PROTECT AND LIVE FOR THE HONOR OF RIDING IN THE WAGON BLASTER" -abayarde
by BuffaloBlueBlood on Sep 30, 2011 11:07 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Just read the Gish pieces
Those comments were totally out of bounds, but I agree w/u Blitzboy – not sure what she expected. Her tone is almost over-the-top condescending. And that wide right comment served no function in the article other than to goat bills fans by bringing up a painful memory. You hit people where it hurts, they are going say whatever they can that they think will hurt you right back. I would guess many of those people don’t actually feel that way about female sports reporters but I could be wrong.
You wrote a mean-spirited, nasty article. Check. You attacked the very nature of being a fan, specifically, a Bills fan. And you were surprised by the response? I do not condone the nature of the responses. They were also mean-spirited and nasty. This would have happened in any city for any team or if you had replaced the team name with the New York Giants or New York Jets. It also would have happened whether or not you were a woman. Of course, the misogynistic nature of the comments would have changed BUT the tenor of the comments would have been similar. It is laughable that you turn this whole episode into a misogyny in sports piece. The explanation is simple, when you write trash that makes people angry and insults the very nature of who they are then people will seek any way to insult you and hurt them the same way they were hurt. If the writer was black I’m sure (unfortunately) the n word would have been used multiple times. Does that mean the writer should start to see racism everywhere in sports?
I think the sad thing is that what you will take away from this experience is that sports fans (football) are misogynistic. Instead, you should examine the nature of your piece and recognize how mean-spirited and insulting it was. Silly jokes like Buffalo being part of Canada for example. Your article has too many to mention. I hope you take the time between now and your next column to reflect on yourself rather than only looking at the responses.
by Mindbender14 on Sep 30, 2011 9:22 AM EDT reply actions 7 recs
Gish article
I just read the article and the response. Seems a bit sophomoric to me, her writing that first article (which really included no points about actual sports, just one-liners in response to fan optimism? is she a comedian?), and then, her publishing a few responses that are really misogynistic (no doubt) with, again, no real response or thoughtfulness in reply. She doesn’t actually write much, she cuts and pastes… kind of a boring writer.
That said, those “little girls” waiting to become sports writers should be encouraged, and there are a lot of good female sports journalists out there (she could have written about them to show little girls that they need to ignore the negative comments, but she didn’t…)
A bit of self-pity on public display. Feh.
by JjR in TO on Sep 30, 2011 9:49 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
That said, those "little girls" waiting to become sports writers should be encouraged, and there are a lot of good female sports journalists out there
If those little girls want to learn anything about sports journalism, they need to avoid any advice from Jen Gish.
She says “it was like any ribbing you get in any sports bar.” Well, Jen Gish, now I know how you view your job, and your paper. Last time I checked, bar talk and newspaper copy were held to different standards. But congratulations on your bar-talk newspaper hybrid. Why even go to a sports bar?
I wanna live here
The Gish article was mean.
And I mean the original. I’m not condoning the responses she got. They were tasteless, too. But (and I’m saying this AS a woman) if she thinks for one second that the reason that she got the response she did is just because a woman’s opinion isn’t allowed in sports, she’s flat out wrong. (And for the record boys, I’ve never, ever gotten that opinion from any of you around here.) Let’s take a few snippets from her original article, shall we?
“Help me help you, Bills fans.” (sorry, block quote doesn’t like me today.) Great way to start out. We need her help, clearly. We’re THAT bad off. Thanks. Way to set the tone, lady.
“And Buffalo is practically in Canada….Are they even America’s team?” Way to insult a whole city. Buffalo is so irrelevant, we’re giving you away to Canada. We deserve no respect, since we’re barely even American!! I’m pretty sure that she’s not giving the Texans or the Cowboys over to Mexico, though.
“Unfortunately, kids, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tom Brady won’t be taking the GREs on Sunday…And maybe Fitzpatrick will end up at the Hall of Fame one day. To watch Brady’s induction.” Really? She called us “kids?” The only reason to do that is to suggest that we’re in need of her “insturction.” It’s put there to make you feel like less than her. And she knows it. Because in the next paragraph, it’s not kids it’s the even more condescending “Bless you,” something usually reseved for either the very young (and therefore naiive,) the very old (who are usually so “adorable” because they’re so forgetful and frail!!) or church.
The response was angry, and she’s surprised? It was one of the most condescending, arrogant pieces I’ve ever read. A lot of the national media at least TRIES to hide their disdain for Buffalo and all in it. She didn’t. It’s blatant. It’s intentional. And it has absolutely nothint to do with her being a woman. Which makes the fools who blamed it on that, thus giving her some ability to play the victim card, even more foolish. She’s no one’s victim on this one.
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by bflogrl on Sep 30, 2011 10:27 AM EDT reply actions 8 recs
I agree with everything you said and may I add that posting your number on the internet is best idea. specially when You do an article like she did.
"This is a chance to shine some light on the city, They say it’s too cold. I’m going to bring some warmth to it." Marcell Dareus
by matthew62 on Sep 30, 2011 12:29 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That should be not the best idea.
"This is a chance to shine some light on the city, They say it’s too cold. I’m going to bring some warmth to it." Marcell Dareus
by matthew62 on Sep 30, 2011 12:29 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Gish
She doesn’t want fans to “rush her blindside?” Improperly using sports phrases to make your point does nothing for the author’s cause.
Writing such a condescending article to a fanbase STARVED for some success while they get a rare reward for loyalty is OPENING UP YOUR BLINDSIDE.
That’s why you don’t try to throw a 50 yard bomb with no blockers…which is a pretty good analogy for that first article.
So whine about your blindside all you want. But I suggest getting some protection or retire early.
I wanna live here
Read through some of the comments @ T-U…this says it efficiently:
Last week the TU insulted Bills fans, this week they brand them all as sexist, foul-mouthed pigs.
It’s a lousy defense. So, you wrote a jerky piece, and some bigger jerks let you have it, and so you are off the hook? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The stuff people wrote is revolting, but using it to wriggle out of taking responsibility while playing the poor beleaguered woman card is just pathetic.
Editors might be loving the number of page views but I wish they would Squish Gish.
Comment by Elizabeth — September 29th, 2011 @ 6:03 pm
I wanna live here
Did anyone notice...
She’s a parenting writer? I thought that was rather peculiar that they allow a “parenting correspondent” create a scathing diatribe about the Bills fanbase. Hmph.
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by Jonathan Thompson on Sep 30, 2011 4:16 PM EDT reply actions
Her piece was terrible, to be sure, but it’s very sad to see the level of disrespect people have shown her. Those are Bills fans? I’m sorry, but that is juvenile to the nth degree. Some of that hate mail is down right disgusting, and I’m ashamed that people who call themselves Bills fans were responsible. Seriously, it’s sad to me, and there is no excuse. I don’t care if it was just a few out of thousands of responses, it is a horrible representation of us as a fan base.
"Slowly all the roles we act out become our identity. And in the end we are what we pretend to be." - Jerry Cantrell.
Well, there are trouble makers in every bunch. I’m sure she handpicked the most embarrassing emails to put in that article just to make herself look like a victim. I agree they said some terrible and nonsensical things. But its amazing the paper let her post all of that. Screwy. I think that paper lost major credibility over this whole fiasco.
"WE PROTECT AND LIVE FOR THE HONOR OF RIDING IN THE WAGON BLASTER" -abayarde
by BuffaloBlueBlood on Sep 30, 2011 6:25 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
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