In the past five years of watching Buffalo Bills football and writing for Bills Daily I’ve seen some pretty ugly things. I’ve been treated to many games I thought were the low point of the season only to be proved wrong in a subsequent week. It’s getting really hard to write new and/or witty things about the performance of the Bills, both on and off the field. Perhaps I take it harder than other writers - after all, I am merely a fan voicing his opinion for free, not some salaried and credentialed journalist whose job it is to write.
In any event, I have nothing left to say, and no witty way to say it. It is time to vent; time to write what I really want to shout from an open window; time to get some things off my chest in the hopes I will feel even a little bit better.
1. I am tired of watching the Bills lose
2. I am tired of losing close, heartbreaking games in the final seconds
3. I am tired of being dominated by other teams from start to finish
4. I am tired of losing to teams we should beat
5. I am tired of watching the Bills find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory each and every week
6. I am tired of watching a team with the killer instinct of a Teletubby
7. I am tired of watching an offensive line that can’t run block
8. I am tired of watching an offensive line that can’t pass block
9. I am tired of having rotating band of underachievers and rejects serve as our offensive line season after season
10. I am tired of continually shuffling the personnel and positions on the offensive line every few weeks to maximize the “talent” we have
11. I am tired of thinking about what a bust Mike Williams is
12. I am tired of always having our tight end stay in to block and still having a terrible line (when was the last time a tight end caught a pass?)
13. I am tired of going 3 and out
14. I am tired of coming out of the red zone empty handed
15. I am tired of having an inconsistent field goal kicker
16. I am tired of penalties
17. I am tired of drafting great college receivers who can’t play in the NFL
18. I am tired of inaccurate throws and one-hoppers
19. I am tired of dropped balls
20. I am tired of having a 2.0 yards per carry average
21. I am tired of running backs who think they are light years better than they actually are
22. I am tired game plans that give our running back single digit carries
23. I am tired of always having our third down back on the field in every third down situation because, well, it’s third down!
24. I am tired of throwing the ball when we should be running it
25. I am tired of running the ball when we should be throwing it
26. I am tired of gadget plays
27. I am tired of the coaching staff over thinking the game plan
28. I am tired of the coaching staff trying to out think coaches much better than themselves
29. I am tired of our coaching staff being in way over their heads
30. I am tired of a coaching staff that never makes any halftime adjustments
31. I am tired of the coaching staff having no common sense on who to play and who to sit
32. I am tired of game plans that don’t take into account the strengths and weaknesses of our opponents
33. I am tired of the coaching staff having no control of the team
34. I am tired of the coaching staff
35. I am tired of the hearing about the “#2 defense” but watching the #26 defense actually play
36. I am tired of watching the defense continually give up third down conversions, no matter the yardage needed
37. I am tired of giving up plays more than 15 yards
38. I am tired of the Bills making average players look like first ballot hall of famers
39. I am tired of being unable to stop the run
40. I am tired of unending blitzes that don’t get to the quarterback
41. I am tired of seeing Sam Adams on the bench in key situations
42. I am tired of hearing what a lock down corner Nate Clemments is
43. I am tired of hearing what a playmaker Nate Clemments is
44. I am tired of hearing Nate Clemments talk about how he deserves top corner money
45. I am tired of thinking about who the Bills thought was going to take the place of Pat Williams
46. I am tired of drafting mediocre defensive linemen
47. I am tired of waiting for Jeff Posey to become the impact linebacker Tom Donahoe obtained mere minutes after he hit the market (good thing nobody beat us to signing him)
48. I am tired of paying big money to big name guys who aren’t nearly what they used to be
49. I am tired of watching former Bills, released because they were no longer in their prime, have good success for other team
50. I am tired of listening to how it was all Bledsoe’s fault
51. I am tired of hiring inexperienced coaches because they interview well and will work cheap
52. I am tired of mediocre safety play
53. I am tired of listening to Tom Donahoe spin weekly losses to the fans and the media
54. I am tired of hearing how “disappointed” the Bills are in the current situation (if this is “disappointment” I don’t even want to see how bad things get before we see “despair”)
55. I am tired of the word “execution” in the context of “successfully conducting” rather than in the context of “to put to death”
56. I am tired of waiting for Tom Donahoe and Mike Mularkey to be fired
57. I am tired of the poor talent evaluation the Bills have had for the last few years
58. I am tired of listening to a coach without passion
59. I am tired of watching Bills players smile and joke after a devastating loss
60. I am tired of waiting for the Bills to play with some heart and fire
61. I am tired of watching other NFL teams, even the Bengals, hire good coaches, draft some good players and become good teams
62. I am tired of not making the playoffs
63. I am tired of being told that the Bills are close to being a playoff team
64. I am tired of thinking about how much rebuilding the Bills need to do to be successful
65. I am tired of the manner in which the Bills part ways with their great players from previous years
66. I am tired of thinking about how much dead cap money the Bills will have next season
67. I am tired of waiting for the 2006 NFL draft
68. I am tired of worrying about which complete bust the Bills will draft and pay highly for next year
69. I am tired of thinking about hell Drew Rosenhaus will create before next season on behalf of his client, Willis McGahee
70. I am tired of thinking of the last time the Bills were a good team – OVER A DECADE AGO
71. I am tired of living amongst patronizing Pats fans
72. I am tired of looking like an idiot for supporting the Bills and wearing Bills clothes
73. I am tired of caring about a team that doesn’t care about me
74. I am tired of writing this list
75. I am tired of the Buffalo Bills