CodeMonkey

You are all ignoring the best reason Nelson should be on the Bills. His wife/girlfriend is in Buffalo so we could have the first gorgeous Jill! http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/09/the-hottest-wags-of-the-2012-nfl-season/kelsi-reich

But this is the offseason. The time when Bills fans still have hope! I personally find these types of threads hilarious. For the reasons you stated plus you have all these "I love this guy!" and "culture change" posts because he won't talk to the other NFL coaches/scouts about the super talented Syracuse players in the draft this year . This is good stuff!

It's simple. Brandon obviously loves football. This is the only football activity going on at the moment. Pretty much every like minded professional football person on the planet will be there. It's party time, NFL style.

Brandon is neither the head coach nor the GM so whoever asked that question has **** for brains. The only logical response from Brandon was no response.

The main problem with the Sabres in my opinion has been Regier. He lucked into the perfect storm for the 98-99 season, then proceeded to decimate the team by allowing Briere and Drury, then Campbell to walk (without even an offer being made according to Briere and Drury). His philosophy has been to get a good goalie, surround him with average skaters, and hope he steals a bunch of games and/or one of the average players goes on a tear like Vanek did at the beginning of this season. You can make a case that Vanek isn't average and you could be right. But he is certainly not in the elite category. But try and name a Sabre other than Miller and Vanek that is above average. As a matter of fact, it might be a bit of a stretch to call most of the Sabres defense even average this season. In hockey, like football, it's all about the players on the roster. And it is the GMs job to get and keep quality players on the roster. Regier, in my opinion, has failed miserably.

That actually is another really good reason (maybe the best reason) season ticket sales will always be fairly strong in Buffalo.

Because some moron built an open air stadium in Buffalo NY.

Easy. New coaching staff top to bottom takes care of that. Remember, Bills fans are looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, to renew their seasons. They don't need much of one and a new coaching staff is more than sufficient.

I would say improbable but not impossible.

After looking at this list of superbowl QBs I think anyone can see that with some exceptions, having a very good QB has been necessary in recent history to make it to the big show. http://football.about.com/cs/superbowl/a/sbquarterbacks.htm

I believe he did not need to sit out the entire season to avoid the pick moving up to the 6th round. He could have dressed at some point, but Gailey and/or Nix decided not to.

Can't say I disagree with that except maybe the "boy killing". Maybe change the first two to "male-mutilating".

You also need to make sure the percentages referenced are per capita. For example, bicycling at 8.1% being higher makes sense when talking about raw percentages because far far far more people ride bikes far more often than those that play football. I suspect the numbers listed above are raw and not per capita.

That cheating bastard! I knew there was a reason Nix hired Gailey and gave Fitz the big contract! Well played Mr. BellyCheat ... well played.

No one here cares about cash savings. Just cap hit.

At the risk of making you physically ill ... if the Bills draft a QB there is a good chance that Fitz (assuming they get some kind of restructure of his contract done) will be the Bills best option at QB for the upcoming season while the rookie learns. The first half of the season anyway. Like it or not, keeping Fitz at the right price this season does make sense.

Well the practice squad needs a QB too I suppose.

Backup plan for it they don't get a QB they like, or if they draft one he is not ready to go this season. Plus lights a fire under Fitz to restructure. Probably a smart move.

I don't know if they ever passed it or not, but at one time NYS or the Feds were talking about limiting the size of fountain soft drinks that you could buy. I think all of those kinds of things should not be legislated. You can't mandate common sense, it just doesn't work. About the nerds and sweettarts and soft drinks ... not legislate. Yet another common sense issue. If all that sugar makes you do is drop dead earlier then fine. But if it makes you diabetic or worse by 30 and raises my health insurance costs while they keep you alive for the next 30 years then maybe your Mother should have exercised some parental control back then. But parental control, not legislation. Football is silly compared to brain injuries in kids. I don't think there should be a law forbidding kids to play tackle football. It should be up to the parents. But I can see why some would want to legislate it. Personally I don't let my kids play for the obvious reasons, but I also feel that this is one of the common sense areas that should not be legislated. If some choose to let their kids take that risk then so be it. Their decision does not affect my kids so it is none of my concern (unless their kids become a burden on the health care system I suppose).

They kinda already are. Gym class in school. But you aren't really comparing flossing to getting concussions from playing a silly game are you?

Some, like many doctors for example, would say that a 5 year olds body (head particularly) can't handle wearing a football helmet and pads and letting them play tackle football.

You raise an interesting point. If a parent allows a kid to drink alcohol to the point of physical damage and they can be arrested for that, could the same case be made for a kid that suffers a brain injury (concussion) from playing tackle football with parental consent? Could child protective laws already on the books come into play here as well?

I was going to make a point of the state prohibiting consumption of alcohol by a minor to protect the kids. But it seems these states allow under age drinking in non alcohol-selling premises with parental consent. Note that NY is among them so if NY won't protect kids from alcohol damage if the parents think it's OK why would they for football. Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming

I see where they are coming from. They are trying to protect kids from their parents boneheaded decisions. Parents should know better but they do not. Government cannot legislate every common sense issue and at some point have to allow parents to be parents, right or wrong. What is really a shame is the fact that doctors (plural, not just one) who are the experts say it's a bad thing to allow head contact at a young age. But the parents need to live vicariously through their kids to the point of risking their kids future.

Yeah ole Buddy really screwed the pooch with that Fitz contract.