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He's kind of an interesting guy. When he played for the Browns his teammates knew him as the guy who could get expensive electronics for dirt cheap prices.

I respectfully disagree. From what I saw of Jasper he has a lot of problems using his hands to gain separation and his field awareness wasn't very good. Put him at guard or tackle give him his assignment and let him run people over. That's why they're thinking OT with him, and at this point I agree. BTW, Jasper played OG and NT and Tennessee-Martin and later he was exclusively offense at Bethel. He did a couple interviews after being drafted and sounded like he preferred D-line over offense so that's where the Bills coaches put him. Figure the Bills coaches put him where he wanted to be, Jasper wasn't good enough and now they can give him a new appreciation of the offensive side. I'd be interested to hear why you think he's so much better suited for NT over OL? When I saw his style of play the first thing I thought of was OL, especially with his athletic ability. Keep in mind even his final college coach felt he was better suited to OL.

I always thought the charging buffalo stands out much better on the white helmets. Love the standing buffalo best of all and I am over 35 (41) also...

I'm with you except I think they'll actually begin serious negotiations after the season starts. Fitzy's in a unique situation of a career backup just being given the starter's job so I think right now it's difficult to set the value of his contract and it makes sense to me to give him 4-8 games to see how he does this year. I'm just praying the O-line plays decently so that Fitz gets enough time to show what he's worth. It also seems to me that most players take it as an insult if they don't get a new contract offer before their old one runs out, so I don't think they wait until after the season. We'll see. Got my fingers crossed for Ryan.

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.