Morning Joe! When did it all go so wrong?

Well I feel the same way. This was the turning point for our beloved franchise. Considering that we have not made the playoffs since this game; cursed it seems we are.

I can’t agree with you enough, docktor44. I don’t know if anyone else has seen me comment on other posts, but I bring this up at least once a week!

I believe I have the solution, though. I proposed this in another thread a few weeks back. In order to appease the football gods and break the Flutie Curse, the Buffalo Bills need to bring him back to the 2012 Home Opener, honor him either before the game or during half time, an publicly apologize to him for the decision to bench him in the playoffs. Until that happens, the Buffalo Bills will carry the curse forever… until the team can’t field enough money to stay viable and they move to another city.

I will always take pride wearing my Bills or Sabres hat around San Diego, or anywhere for that matter. I don’t care what people say or think when I talk to them. These are my teams and I will root for them through thick and thin. I may always take an optimistic stance when rooting for my teams, but that’s what I choose to believe and how I will go about my business. I believe you can’t be bad forever, I truly don’t. I could be proven wrong, and my teams will never win a championship in my life, but that’s fine and I will accept that. One day, the Bills and Sabres will be good, and on that day I will walk with pride down the street wearing my hat and say to all the haters, “I told you so.” I’ll never be called a band wagon fan and it will make winning that much more meaningful and satisfying.

And that people is called KARMA. You dont bench a guy who brought you there. I don’t normally call people names but I make an exception for that moment. It was nothing short of STUPID.

I’ve also had to endure the “Rob Johnson won the game” defense of that move for too long. Its not the point if he put us in position to win. We didn’t.

I think it was more the firing of Butler and Wade. It was an overreaction.

We had a 3-4 defense that was tops in the league and an offense that needed some tweaking.

Then Butler and Wade was gone and the whole team just got blown up.

You blow a team up and start over when you have a losing record.

It’s stupid to do it when you have a team that makes the playoffs and just needs some tweaks here and there to get better.

“Never before, in the history of the modern NFL, had a team chosen to bench a healthy starting quarterback in favor of a backup to open the playoffs.”

That is what pissed off the football gods, and that is why the Bills are doomed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Johnson_%28American_football%29

when Russ Brandon decided to “create” a whiteout, since we weren’t likely to have one otherwise…. I called it then… and I stand by it now. We coulda worn the whites in Toronto. Wear home jerseys at home. What are you thinking? yeah yeah, we were gonna wear the homes when we went to Miami…. SO? They are new, right? Show em off! Those all white unis are lame. I wanna see the blue pants as an addition to the Nike uniforms. I won’t get it… but that is stupid too. I don’t see why we wouldn’t have an all blue uniform, or be able to wear the white tops with blue bottoms like back in the day too. Nothing like keeping it bland, and like high school jerseys in the NFL. Lame.

I said this on my first ever BR comment: the biggest problem of the Bills is their lack of a master plan. Great teams follow a road map. Players come and go but the plan remains generally the same (at least for 8-10 years). Buffalo has changed coaches and GMs too many times to have cohesion. The previous regime’s players don’t fit the next one’s plans. Add to this loss of talents like Pat Williams, London Fletcher, Antoine Winfield, Jason Peters, Travis Henry, et al., and it adds up to mediocrity.
The most important move of the entire Superbowl era, IMO, was our signing Cornelius Bennett; not because he was the best Bill (though he was awesome), but because we added a mega-talent. WE added the mega-talent.

the reason is this, u ever go out drinking so much then wake up hung over so bad it seems to last all day maybe even the next day after that.. well our demise is a gruesome 4 straight super bowl losses hangover were just now starting to shake. if im not mistaken we started rob johnson in that tenessee game cause flutie was short and they had really tough d line to throw over

and firing hall of fame gm bill polian does not help either

After that, the Bills have been to the playoffs once – Bills used to have great scouting department, with AJ Smith who built the Chargers into playoff caliber team.

Polian left and took Panthers to the NFC Championship, then went to Colts and wallah – Super Bowl champs.

Nothing more is obvious!

Living out of state during the Bills rise to stardom, to watch them fall to mediocraty at best is disturbing. I have caught more flack about it then i care to admit. But thankfully, the Redskins, Dophins, and Panther fans have had there own hard luck, so it has been tempored. But, outside of the laughter, you might be right. Benching Flutie for Johnson was a bad move. I think it was OBD’s terrible drafts that contributed more to us falling from grace then anything else.