I often say the wrong thing when I get emotional. Many of you may know how this goes. You've had a bad day at work, and once you walk in the door at home the slightest annoyance can set you off.
For me, when I'm at work and people are listening to me when I'm talking, this trait can be problematic. Like on Wednesday, when Bulldog and I started talking about the Bills at 5 p.m.
The only point I set out to make was that for a team in the Bills that most outsiders thought needed a house-cleaning, there's been barely a dusting. Cleveland, another team without a star quarterback, seems to be moving on from Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn, who both offer more of a reason for another chance than any current Bills option. Anderson became a star in 2007, but then fizzled. Quinn was a first-round pick that same year. New Browns boss Mike Holmgren already has released Anderson and reportedly has considered moving Quinn as well.
What makes Ryan Fitzpatrick and Trent Edwards any more deserving of a starting position in the NFL than Anderson or Quinn? In my opinion, nothing.
Anyway, merely laying this out on Wednesday's show frustrated me. I didn't think listeners particularly wanted to hear us talk about the Bills at that point, but the story of a potential Quinn trade broke and it felt right to get into it. Twenty minutes later, hardly anyone had called to react and I'd run out of ways to make this point and the next thing you know I'm saying some dumb thing about how I'd rather be talking about the dirt on my shoes than the Bills. I exaggerate.
It's just a little challenging when your biggest sports team is town consistently disappoints. The dilemma is to offer up Bills discussions for consumption but not so often that your audience becomes depressed, angry, or -- worst of all -- bored. The Bills are boring. That's the worst part of it. When you read a book or watch a movie and think you know how it's going to end, you lose interest. The Bills stopped being interesting about four years ago.
I think it's pretty sad when quarterbacks that don't cut it for Cleveland seem like upgrades.
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