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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
That last post reminded me....there's no way this can be Buffalo's worst move ever though....that move came when they went with Rob Johnson over Doug Flutie.
I'll never understand why nobody wanted Flutie....all the guy did was win football games. Just because he didn't fit the mold of what someone thought a QB should be, he got dissed.
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oh lots of people were behind Flutie - probably more than who were behind Rob Johnson - it was a civil war between Bills fans, never seen anything like it and it happened just as the Net was getting popular, i was a big part of the Flutie/Johnson flamefest on newsgroups and I was right - the Flutie/Johnson war spilled over into New England because of Flutie's New England roots.
the last time the Bills made the playoffs it was Flutie's doing - then the incredible happened, they started Rob Johnson. Time proved how wrong they were about Rob Johnson, completely out of the league not long after his time in Buffalo. He was horrible, another QB stiff out of USC. Leinhart(sp?) won't be much better. And this kid Sanchez who gets drafted this year - same thing.
While this whole Flutie/Johnson thing was going down I was the voice of reason - I wanted them to play Flutie, he was exciting in his sandlot type game way plus he managed to win games even when he was getting balls batted down and not driving the offense that well - he was just a winner. I kept posting before the 2001 Draft that the Bills had two first round picks - one of them should be used to pick Drew Brees - if only they had listened. Flutie could have played a couple of more years and tutored Brees.
Instead it's been almost 10 years of mediocrity and worse at times.