At Least I'm Not a Bills Fan

Bills QB Trent Edwards

ESPN  -  Buffalo Bills coach Chan Gailey won't put up with fans criticizing his players during training camp, and he has let them know it.

Immediately after practice ended Tuesday morning, Gailey marched to a group of teenagers standing near the field, and told them off for heckling players. Gailey said if "you dog one of us, you dog all of us."

Gailey then told them that Bills players would not go to that section of the stands to sign autographs.

A couple of members of the group spent part of practice focusing much of their criticism on quarterback Trent Edwards, who's attempting to reclaim the starting job he lost last season.



Can you even imagine a fan heckling the Patriots players at a practice? If I'm not mistaken, most Pats fans would probably give their right arm to spend time up close and personal with some of the players. And the Bills can't even get through practice without scolding teenagers for heckling them. It's about as low as it gets for Buffalo. They're almost assuredly going to be in the basement of the NFL standings once again, and they can't even do it with the love and support of their fans. They need to do something here. I don't know if it's a uniform change, personnel change, style change -- could be anything. I like the excitement that CJ Spiller might bring, but he's just about the only thing I'd be getting excited for if I was a Bills fan. And apparently the actual Bills fans are thinking the same way, since they're heckling Trent Edwards off the field before the third preseason game has even kicked off. It's time to go back to the drawing board in Buffalo.