What about Raheem getting some love?
BTW, re: Bills. Hopefully we can chalk up a "W" for our Bills game next season. Might be the easiest game on the Bucs' 2013 opponent schedule.
I hope so. I go to college in Western NY, the heart of Bills territory. The Bills never registered on my radar until I went out there to school. The Bills did their thing and I did my own thing. Not anymore. Now almost everyone I know at school loves the damn Bills. And I don't mean like my love for the Bucs, which is realistic. These people are delusional.
Most of you all are familiar with SEC football. Which school expects an SEC title without getting one in decades or ever? Is it Arkansas? Tennessee? Mississippi State? Whichever is the most unrealistic is the Bills Mafia. They seriously thought the Bills were going to the playoffs. Like, it was a shock that they were out of it in November, as usual.
And yet, they have the AUDACITY to make fun of the Bucs to me. Yeah, I have no connection to FL. The only Bucs game I've been to was in 2001, when we beat the Packers. That's when I became a fan. Hey, I was 9 and I thought the pirate ship was awesome and we beat Brett Favre. They don't comprehend that the NFL has hundreds of thousands of fans of teams that don't live in their team's market.
Fortunately, all I gotta do is tell them to kiss the ring, point to 5 playoff appearances in the 21st century and a 10-win season in 2010. In case you didn't know, the Bills are the only team in the NFL to not make the playoffs in this millennium. I love saying it like that to them. They haven't hit 10 wins since 1999. Our claim to fame is a Super Bowl and one of the best defenses of all-time. Their claim to fame? Scott Norwood and a great comeback in the Wild Card round, which was avenged by the same franchise 7 years later.
The only fanbase I've met that is more insufferable is the Jets. And I'm in CT, where most people are Pats or Giants fans. At least those teams have earned the right to have yearly expectations of Super Bowls. The Bucs haven't earned that. I had 0% expectation of a playoff berth this year.
Me and a couple Bills fans may be flying down to RayJay for this game depending on when it is. We HAVE to win this game. We can't lose to the **CENSORED**ing Bills.
Oh, and we have to steal Jairus Byrd from them. I'd love that. He's their only other good player other than CJ Spiller and maybe Stevie "Praise You 24/7" Johnson.
I haven't done extensive research, but I am probably the Bucs fan who hates the Bills the most. The Douggernaut will crush them.
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All that aside, Marrone is an ok hire. He needs talented coordinators and a lot of depth to succeed. As a UConn fan, I saw him turn a bottom 5 in FBS Cuse program into a slightly above average program. He has some potential, but he has a ceiling. Not the transcendent coach they needed.
