Never NEVER Give-up

There will always be smaller market teams. Get rid of the Bills & Bengals, then there will be 2 other teams at the bottom. When would it end? It wouldn't. The league has prospered since the mid-sixties because of the all-for-one mentality. THAT needs to continue. There will always be issues because the richest teams want more for themselves and the small market teams don't want to be forgotten and need to be able to compete financially. They have to be able to agree amongst themselves before they consider the players. This may be the biggest hurdle if the original poster is correct. I wish I had answers, heck, I wish I had suggestions!! Ralph & Mike (Brown) are the sanest ones in the room - but no one listens to them because they represent the small market teams. They were right about the last CBA and were derided when they stood alone. Then when they all voided the CBA, there was no mention about Ralph & Mike being right all along. The League could do worse than to listen to these 2 - especially Ralph - who has been there for all of this - hopefully he has shared his vision with his lieutenants who can speak for him as he's not as young as he used to be. Here's hoping training camp opens in July as usual and the season starts the week after Labor Day!!!

The joke is the thrill ride will be more exciting than the Bills - so keep the ride in the stadium & let the Bills play in the parking lot. Carolina or Cincy & maybe Detroit would be just as solid as the punchline team. Point to correct - Jacksonville is the only NFL team that was & has been allowed to cover some seats with a tarp to reduce the home stadium capacity. Buffalo has never done this. Due to construction of luxury seating, the Bills stadium has seen it's capacity reduced from 80,020 to its current level of 76-78,000 (not sure of the actual current capacity). They have never been allowed to just reduce the capacity to eliminate blackouts. Fortunately, there have been many local benefactors who have generously bought up remaining tickets for games so the blackout could be lifted - but the stadium capacity number was never lowered to eliminate the blackout. We had 1-2 blackouts this year & had 1-2 other games where someone bought-out the remaining seats so the blackout could be lifted.

Why are most of DiCesare's question rhetorical? Is he in Florida for the winter? Why not ask someone at OBD or at the Senior Bowl those questions - they ARE valid, but to ask rhetorically and answer them yourself based on how you feel about the team is a joke. His answers were negative based on guesses and supposition - the article was a joke!! He should have kept those questions in a notebook somewhere and when he was able to ask a person-in-the-know, do it and THEN write the story.!! The bflo News is a rag - but the only one we have. (I wish the Courier Express was the one that succeeded.)

By rule, Cleveland (with Jauron as DC) should be forced to trade their 1st or 2nd round pick for Maybin!!!! Jauron picked him - he should be forced to live with him!!

IF they do wipe out the season & play no football games, then will we draft 3rd again - 2 Aprils in a row???

The Bills have the indoor facility, a grass practice field and the stadium's synthetic surface to practice on. Their facilities were considered state of the art when the indoor facility was built. I am not sure if that is still the assessment.

I was cheering and screaming my heart out for about 30 seconds before I realized that the giants fans sorrounding me were cheering too... wide right. I was 7. It is one of my most vivid memories from my youth and has shaped the person I am today. . . . sweetjones geeze - NO child should have to see that - you must be scarred for life!

All points relevant, I'm just saying it's his team & he's gonna run it as best he can - he just flipped the front office & coaches last year. He will meet with the "inner circle" at his FLA reesidence shortly - all in an effort to run his team the best he can. You ask, how's that working for him - it hasn't recently - he knows it and is sick about it - he feels Donahoe (thanks for the reminder) screwed the team on a long term basis. He brought in Marv because of his team building and collegial style - not becaue of his drafting accumen. That ate up 2 years and they made the mistake thinking Brandon could be GM - but the realization was they need a Football guy - so Nix is it now. Brandon is still there and probably doing everything he did before - just not handling football duties, rather the business side of things. Frankly (at least for 2 more years) the front office & coaches are set - the proof will be in the drafting. Then the players gotta play.

Look, it's Ralph's team. He loves them - yes, probably even more than we do. He's the #1 fan and because he owns then, he can insinuate himself into anything going on at OBD - and rightly so. Mary Wilson gave Marv Levy this tip when Marv first joined the Bills as coach - talk to Ralph! So Marv set-up a weekly call with Ralph (I think it was Wednesdays), and a friendship was born. If Chan is doing omething similar - good for him - he's being smart about it. Maybe the arrogance of Mularkey & Williams is what did them in. Jauron was liked by Wilson, probably because he talked to Ralph - that's why it was so hard for Ralph to put him out of his misery. Bottom line: His team, his way!!

Cowher would never dis a fellow coach. He has no list if there isn't a vacancy. If he is looking for work this year (unlike last year when his wife was gravely ill), he will interview for most vacancies if invited to do so.

You may be right. I have faith in Chan - mostly when it comes to QB's. If he liked Smith when he came out, then it might be worth a chance. I have always felt there are more great QB's that never made it because they were mishandled - another reason to like Chan - he handles them correctly! I always liked Kyle Orton in college - but he was mishandled for years in Chi-town. Then he goes to Denver and lights it up early. However since then I am not sure what happened. Was it more mishandling (lack of coaching)? Or is he not that good? I don't know . . . but a guy like Chad would - so I put my QB-faith in him to do right by us.

. . . not enough evidence???? They got a picture - do a line-up!!

Polian's a homebody - he would have stayed. He is not related to Lou Saban who was always looking for the next best thing. Polian likes to turn his current situation into the next best thing. It's too bad he couldn't live with Littman & vice-versa. There was a greater good they could not come to agree on - egos got in the way. Truely sad. He is a very special football man - I'll always be pulling for him!!

Please no, to Pryor. Although I couldn't care less about accepting $$/gifts. Some of these kids' families are really bad off - a pretty easy decision if you are in that situation. Just don't do it if you cannot afford to get caught. Wait until you are ready for the NFL, then you can take the $$ and run to the Draft. Someone asked "What does "fits Chan Galiey's offense" mean, exaclty?" Stong armed & mobile, not just a pocket passer. Likes fearless gunslingers too. That's why he likes Fitz so much and why he may be content to wait on picking a QB until the right one comes along. Instead of Pryor, I think he will like Newton more. Bottom line, THEY have to analyze all the options and players and their character, the THEY have to make the choice. If they draft Wally Cox from Daemen - we all need to pull for little Wally to be great!! Regardless of who we pick, we need him to pay dividends - immediate dividends if at all possible!!

No battle at the top. They need a franchise QB, OL, DL & LB. Frankly, same as last year. Last year, when the Bills' turn came, every decent QB, OL & DL player was gone and anyone they chose at those positions in that slot would have been a reach. (I would have preferred a trade.) So they looked at the best player on the board and took Spiller. It was as simple as that. As long as we lose Sunday we will be choosing 2-3 or 4th. If we win, we could slide to 10th because our strength of schedule is the toughest in the league. (I know there's a formula to determine opponents, but how does a team like Buffalo get a SOS at .575 and the PAT's get .400-something, but I digress.) If we pick in the top 4 - we should get a value player at a position of need, QB, DE, OT or LB. If we pick 10th, we might take that CB, Safety or WR. I love when we win, but for the sake of the future, Sunday is meaningless outside of reps to add to experience, so I actually hope we lose with dignity to avoid sliding 6 draft slots!! If we win I will be happy, but I will look at the draft slotting with my fingers crossed hoping that big of a slide doesn't occur.

I vaguely remember a story about him & his sister but I don't want to mention details if I am confusing him with someone else. Can someone explain who he is, what's his situation, what was the problem he had that's causing everyone to avoid him like the plague?

I'd rather add Wade Phillips as DC, make him asst HC too - but be very clear he would never be the head man. Too bad that bridge has been burned, then washed out by the water over the dam, then down the creek without a paddle!!

At this point in the year & no playoffs to shoot for, this is a GREAT way to get more guys you want to evaluate onto your roster. Then you will have better competition for positions in the spring.

Welllllll . . . we'se still 2-1 with him !!!!

Agree on all points!!! Running w/5 seconds left was a slap at our run defense and they thought they'd score - and it was worth the gamble because they were up by 14. His forward progress WAS stopped with 1 tick on the clock, but he was still in the process of falling . . . so we are all to believe that someone, somewhere was standing on top of a referee calling a timeout whilst the runner was stopped, but still falling to the ground???? I hope to hear more on this from Gailey during the post game press conferences. All that said, this happens to losing clubs, until they play well enough to overcome this crap - like we did today. Congrats to Chan & the team. As a point of reference, see our late fumble at Baltimore . . . Detroit's Johnson catching a late TD against the Bears, getting 2 feet down, then his hand, but when his hand w/the ball hit the turf - incomplete pass. BS!!! But it's what happens to losers until they overcome it. Maybe we're on our way!!

I agree w/SilverMike . . .whomever has a chance to draft a franchise QB will - especially Jerry Jones and Carolina too. Who doesn't want a franchise QB to lead his team for 10-15 years?!?!?!?!?

Let's bring him back as DC - it's what he was meant to do!! Just too darn nice to be HC.

Missed the game yesterday - debating whether to watch it tonight . . . hmmmm. That said, I haven't had a problem with Fred this year - he has been fine. His number of touches are down because he isn't the primary receiver for our QB like he was for #5!! Not to mention, we have been passing a little too much so he AND Spiller haven't received the carries we'd like to see. As for the Bear's game - I haven't seen it, maybe his play wasn't up to par yesterday - but he's been fine through the 1st 7 games when given the opportunity to play.

That's the real question . . . . whay hasn't anyone from the local media reached out to him - directly? Through his agent or the Chargers. I realize it may not be easy as he has to move across the country, but not even a peep?

Really?!?!?!?! I ONLY watched the NFL Network and Rich Eisen asked Jay Glazer what he thought about Merriman to Buffalo. Glazer said that Merriman must be thinking "What in my life have I done to deserve this?" Glazer went on to say the move made no sense - reasoning that he would be gone at the end of the year. I can't help but wonder, if say, the Fish or TB were to have picked him up . . . a genius move no doubt! The Bills will continue to be panned until we turn it around, luckily you found the media types who don't believe in kicking a guy when he's down, I guess