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I agree with you to a point, but rather than another allegation, it simply makes me question the validity of his source. It is obvious Moran believes his source, but does anyone else at this point? I certainly don't.

Straight from the article: "Regardless of anything else, I’m sorry to Merriman for causing him unnecessary grief, forcing major media outlets to investigate him further and causing anyone to question his character due to an inaccurate report. He’s worked hard to get ready for this season and deserves the unwavering support of all Bills fans.... For what it’s worth, I also apologize to the Buffalo fans.... Lastly and most importantly to me, I want to apologize to media members and some Bills players themselves that I know were let down." They were near the bottom of the article and I count 3 apologies in there.

Yea, great, just state the correction and write that he "regrets" the mistake/situation like every other reputable publication trying to avoid responsibility. I know nothing of Pat Moran except from this article. He's really bad as a writer (as others have pointed out) but I have to give him credit for at least trying to be accountable/responsible for his mistakes. It is at least refreshing to see, regardless of his motives.

I wish Evans would do an interview and man-up about whether he requested the trade. If he did, who can truly blame him given the sad state of this franchise? Admitting such would settle down the fans and players who were outraged when Lee got dealt. If he didn't make the request then it would only increase the uproar and bring some solid pressure onto management, and IMO that can't be a bad thing at this point. Either way it would help this team move forward.

Good points, but let's see if these contracts actually get completed. I do believe Ralph wanted to build a winner when he brought Nix and Gailey in, but if his health has gotten significantly worse over the last month it may have induced a change in philosophy for the franchise. In my 41+ years on this planet I have learned that it's not what you have to say but rather how you say it that matters most.

John Wawrow has always seemed to me to be very good about reporting what he has direct quotes or proof to report. I think he also tries to fit his writing style to the reality of the situation when he has no direct proof that would allow him to include it in his article. My impression from his article was that Buddy was not on board with the Lee Evans trade. I think Ralph Wilson is getting pretty close to the end of the road, so it wouldn't be surprising that the bean counters are cleaning house. Be interesting to see if Buddy resigns at some point this year.

I don't agree, I'd take Quinn over Tebow any day. I saw Quinn's last few games in Cleveland and he seemed to have figured out how to execute decisions in an NFL offense. His accuracy was a bit off but he also seemed to be rushing his throws. IMO he's much closer to being a consistent starter than Tebow. If we could get him for next to nothing, even better.

I don't really agree with Chan's approach right now. If we were a consistent playoff team, I would agree. If we had actually managed to score a touchdown with our first team offense I might feel better about this approach. Are we going to play a strict base offense during the regular season? Wouldn't you want to try and evaluate how well your team would execute complex plays in the regular season rather than sticking to base formations? I realize you don't want to show too much in preseason, but you also want to put in enough to build confidence heading in to the regular season. Especially with this team. Hopefully these guys have a strong next game.

Totally agree with that.

Watched the Browns' scrimmage last Saturday, Jauron's defense was on the field first. First play call for Dick? Time out. I just laughed and told all my friends to expect plenty of prevent defense this year.

That's funny, I was wondering the same thing and thinking that's why they switched him to offense in college. But I think it's better to play a guy where he wants to be rather than forcing a switch. He definitely needs a lot of work on technique, we'll see where he is at the end of preseason but for now I think you leave him be. At least he didn't get pushed around out there like Wang and Urbik.

That's funny. Did Buddy even bother to fill that position after Modrak left?

I agree that situations similar to the hypothetical Maybin scenario came up, but IMO don't think it explains 10 years of high round futility. Definitely agree it was time to turn the page and would just add that Buddy seemed to regard Modrak highly when he became GM then fired him about a year later.

I look at Modrak's role this way: there has been a history of poor early round drafting for a decade or so. No matter who's making the choice it's being pulled from Modrak's draft rankings/talent evaluation. You could argue that the draft decision maker ignored Modrak's board, but every damn year? You could argue that Modrak disagreed with each poor draft decision in the early rounds but the bust that got picked had to have been top-ranked by Modrak at their position most of the time. Would Ralph consistently spend first/early round money on guys that could be drafted later for less $? Mr. Wilson's inability to judge front-office talent forces him to blindly latch on to people hired from successful organizations, that's why it takes so long to root out their incompetence.

I was hoping the Bills would put some effort into signing Matt Roth as an OLB. He's a beast. Powerful hitter and also got great pressure on quarterbacks last year, seemed very mobile given his 275 lb weight. I thought he had a great year for the Browns last season and could really help our team. I know he's listed as a DE but I have an indirect connection to the Browns and know he'd rather be a OLB in a 3-4 than go back to DE. That's supposedly a big part of the reason he isn't back with the Browns. I'm unsure how good he is covering TE's because I didn't pay attention to it last year, but he really seems to be a good player that could help us. I'm interested to hear others thoughts/comments.

Haven't seen a good link to the terms of the contract, Bengals website estimates his contract @ $4 mil/year

I certainly understand your concern with the author but I do not believe the author is connected to the published paper in any way. Am I wrong? I am no climatology expert but the paper seems to do a good job of explaining their methodologies in detail, something I haven't seen from the pro-manmade global warming scientists. The paper demonstrates a large discrepancy in radiative feedback (planetary heat loss) compared to the standard computer models. Their methodologies are solid enough that the global warming scientists have to address the discrepancy if they expect to maintain any credibility. Thanks for posting this /dev/null. Interesting paper.

Lebron also wanted another superstar to play alongside with and that wasn't happening in Cleveland. Pretty much all the other players on his Cleveland teams were within the range of average. Cavalier offense during the playoffs often involved everyone standing around letting Lebron do everything. At the root of his decision was a desire to win a championship and he was unsure that Cleveland would get in the extra talent to do that. There's also the fact that Lebron was 25, a superstar who had spent his entire life in Cleveland/Akron. Can't blame him for wanting to get out and experience life somewhere else. My point is that I think Hplarrm's insight is closer to reality than this goalie coach. There's a diversity of influences and motivators for every athelete and for some it's simple and others it's much more complex. And while Drury and Briere may have come to Buffalo wanting to get out as quickly as possible they may have found reason to stay in their time here but things didn't work out. Jim Kelly's the best example of changing his mind about Buffalo.

First off, I definitely think Buffalo offered substantially more than Atl for Clabo but that doesn't mean they're going to give Burnett an equally inflated offer. And unless you're a gadget player on offense, I agree with you that most players probably don't want to come here especially considering all the crappy teams we've fielded the past 10 years so you're going to have to overpay to some degree. But the Bills may simply not want Burnett as badly as they wanted Clabo and aren't willing to overpay to Burnett's satisfaction. If you think that's BS, well good for you.

Agree. Sounds like the Bills aren't offering him anywhere near enough. Is he really going to come back to let the Bills counter-offer if he finds a better one? Not.

Sorry if this has been posted already (I don't feel like trying to get through 21 pages) but Poz leaving is probably for the best. He sounds like he really wants to be in the 4-3 D and we're supposed to be a 3-4. It's never a good thing to have an injury-prone middle linebacker who's uncomfortable with his role in the defense. He's never done that much here anyways and it sounded like the Bills never made much effort to sign him before the lockout, so hey, best of luck to you Poz. I hope the injuries go away and you have a good career (speaking as a Penn St. fan). Once again the Maybin bust makes our LB situation all the more painful.

Agree with you completely, except I'm not that upset because this is how the NFLPA leadership has behaved all along. Often, it's more about posturing for them, and this is part of the reason I lean towards the owners. I certainly support the players' right to take some time and look things over, we all know how stupid the owners were not to do this last time. But they could have communicated this less abrasively. I think they will approve the contract, but will probably put up some kind of stink about some minor issue(s) just to try and flex their muscles. Hopefully it'll be signed within a week, but with unions who knows? They may have decided to delay this thing long enough to cancel the first full preseason games and teach those owners a lesson.

Nope, as I mentioned there were the court depositions and his entire history of quotes and press releases. Leach is pretty consistent. Much like yourself, so I realize this is all too difficult for you to comprehend.

Pathetic. Court recordings from the depositions refute his claims. In fact his lawyers were using the school's own investigation to undermine Adam James' credibility. Leach is just trying to make some money but dug himself a bigger hole to get out of before he coaches at another FBS school. Completely sad that this guy is a talented coach but his huge ego and paranoia have absolutely killed his career.

Keep in mind one other factor: http://www.headinjury.com/sports.htm " ...during the minutes to few days after concussion injury, brain cells that are not irreversibly destroyed remain alive but exist in a vulnerable state. This concept of injury-induced vulnerability has been put forth to describe the fact that patients suffering from head injury are extremely vulnerable to the consequences of even minor changes in cerebral blood flow and/or increases in intracranial pressure and apnea...." Evidence is mounting that a large part of long term brain injury is due to subsequent head traumas before the person has recovered from the initial concussion, not simply repeated blows to the head. On the other hand if a person is diagnosed with concussion and fully allowed to recover, it may avoid long term brain injury even if the person experiences more concussion(s). If true, this puts the onus on the NFL to have the best diagnosis and treatment criteria available to avoid repeated injury. This also sets up future lawsuits if the NFL does not take sufficient responsibility given the scientific evidence. This is why the NFL is coming down hard on the head-to-head contact and why they are being much more cautious if a player is suspected of having a head injury. I don't expect the NFL to back down on the hitting/concussion issues and I even wonder if the league will expand its 53 man roster to help account for all the players that will be sitting out with any form of concussion. We'll see but I don't expect the NFL to go back on all this.