Utah John

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. There has to be a reason he wasn't heavily recruited or drafted. Lack of speed? Not strong enough? Who knows. Talent and determination can't be measured with stop watches and strength tests. Wallace can PLAY.

Ask not what your team can do for you during May, ask what you can do for your team all year long. The younger players need to become familiar with him, and he with them. Tom Brady, a far better player than OBJ, welcomes every Patriot player and makes them feel good about being his teammate. (Josh Allen is doing that too, and good for him.) OBJ wants his teammates to be in awe of him.

The biggest handicap of our O last year was the O line. The offense won't be good until and unless the line gets better. We had one good player and four stiffs last year. We're up to two good players now, possibly three if Ford steps up quickly, but until I see the evidence that the new set of guys is better than the old set, I'm a skeptic. If the line can deliver above-average run blocking and simply average pass blocking, we'll have Shady and Gore back to their old selves and Allen getting his groove on. But those are some pretty big ifs. I have my fingers crossed but that's it for now. So Daboll, good luck, I hope your offense clicks and turns into a scoring machine. I am not convinced you have all the pieces in place yet.

The biggest drawback to Ron McDole is that he got traded to Washington and got more attention there. I'm pretty sure it was the disastrous John Rauch who sent McDole away. He was a great player and a great Bill. I'd like to see him on the Wall just to lay some claim to him as a Bill. Most people around the country only know him as a Redskin. I'm always amazed that Cornelius Bennett isn't given more props. Someone said earlier that adding him was what turned the good Bills defense into a great defense, and that was right. He got moved to middle linebacker, which was a waste of his natural talent and speed. I don't understand why Hansen is there if Schobel isn't. Schobel was a much better player. Gilchrist is there because he was just so dominating. I think he was the second best RB in Bills history, behind only OJ. He was a PITA and so he got traded but it wasn't for a lack of talent or production. Finally, my top choice is Fred Jackson. The Wall isn't a watered-down HOF, it's for the players who had the most impact on the Bills and the community. Jackson won't ever make the HOF but I have never seen any Bill play with more heart and passion.

The DBs were excellent last year and they're not really old but they're not youngsters either. If anything someone back there might lose a step. Maybe this won't happen and this is just looking for problems where there aren't really any.

I think the Bills are trying to win the all-apostrophe team.

Would that be Cyndi Lauper?

It wasn't Manuel's fault the Bills drafted him way too high. It wasn't Manuel's fault the Bills never acquired a decent QB after the Flutie-Johnson fiasco burned out. It wasn't his fault he didn't have a stable coaching situation. It wasn't his fault he was drafted by the Bills in one of their looooong periods of mediocrity in between bursts of competence. He is a smart man who has an intact body and a small (not that small) fortune in the bank. The only thing that might change if he stuck around for another year would be that his body might be broken. Why not leave now? Good luck in your future, EJ..

If that's his regular throwing motion, I think I see the problem right off the bat.

I think of Incognito as a talented but troubled person. I hope he does whatever will help him prepare for the rest of his life, to be a good person in society. He has some work to do and I hope he does it. He might have been a little crazy when he was with the Bills the second time, but he was a great player and a great teammate.

Leonard Williams is in the fifth year of his rookie contract. He'll be much more expensive than Q next year, and will have five years of wear and tear on his body. This draft pick looks to me like the Jets are just planning ahead, wanting to keep at least one great D lineman in place at all times. Two is better of course but the budget doesn't allow that in all cases.

In 1972 or 1973, our West Seneca East high school band went on a band exchange with a school from Maryland. Aside from concerts we gave at both locations, that Maryland school's band got a day at Niagara Falls and we got a day in DC. A group of 6 or 7 of us boys found our way to Congressman Kemp's office. The secretary squeezed us into his schedule for 15 minutes. The other guys were just in awe, looking at the pictures of Kemp playing football. (I remember one where Kemp had just released a pass, and enormous Ernie Ladd of the Chiefs was in the air above him, on his way down to land on him. A good choice of photos for a politician.) I started talking to Kemp about China, and I took the position that the people in China were going to be better off under the communists. Wow, did that Republican not agree. We debated in a very cordial way for 45 minutes until his secretary insisted he stop talking. I am impressed to this day that he took so much time to listen and communicate with a high school student.

Low draft picks who make the team are cheap labor. Trading a low pick for an established player costs a lot. Better to take a shot on a draft pick than trade that pick for an older guy who would want a big contract.

Beane had to have a clear understanding of what the teams ahead of the Bills were going to do. There must have been a temptation to give something up to move up a few spaces, but he didn't do that. "Genius" is probably too strong, but "well-prepared" and "nerves of steel" apply.

SOMEONE'S got to push the wheelchairs for our ancient RBs. Just kidding, just kidding.

Sorry if anyone has posted this already. I went through the Bills schedule comparing the rest the Bills had each week vs the rest their opponent had. This was easy because except for the Thanksgiving game the Bills games are all at 1 pm. I scored 1 point if the other team had a 4:25 pm game the previous Sunday, 2 pts if the other team had SNF game, 3 pts if one team had a Thursday night game (10 days rest) and 4 pts for a team coming off a bye. The Bills have only one game against a team with more rest: the Skins who have a Thursday night game the previous week (-3 pts) The Bills play 5 games where the other team played the 4:25 pm game the previous week (1 pt each) The Bills play 1 game against a team that played the 8:20 pm game the previous week (Eagles) (2 pts) The Bills play 1 game against a team after the Bills play a Thursday night game the previous week (Ravens) (3 pts) The Bills come off their bye playing the Dolphins who had a game the previous week (4 pts) Total +11. I'm not going to figure this score for the other teams in the league, but this has to be one of the best scores in the league. Plus the farthest west they have to travel all season is Dallas. The have no 3 game road trips. I see 6-2 at home (losses to Patriots and Ravens) and 4-4 on the road (losses to Titans, Browns, Steelers, and Patriots). 10-6, wildcard, Browns in the SB.

This whole topic is so off-season. No one would pay any attention to this any other time of year.

Filled a lot of known holes with unknown (to me) talent. Mostly guys who couldn't start somewhere else. I hope most of them work out as planned. If most them turn out OK, the season should be successful, barring injuries.

He was a good player who got into the league only because the Bills gave him a chance. He made a business decision to move to the Patriots, and it worked out for him. He did much better there than he would have here -- what receiver wouldn't do better catching Brady darts? Hogan's game meshed well with the Patriots' offense, too.

Get back to me when some RB breaks 2000 in 14 games.

Middle capability RBs are replaceable. Getting a guy in the last year of a rookie contract means his price goes up a lot next year or we let him go and turn a 2019 draft pick where we get 4 years of cheap production, into a one year rental. Pass,

Which one's going to play Doug Flutie in this play, and which one's going to play Rob Johnson?

Steelers fans should be thinking about their own situation, not bashing another team and city. No Brown, no Bell, aging Ben (though still playing well) -- not a bright future it seems to me. Turns out denial is actually a river after all, but in Pittsburgh and not Egypt. No sense in getting into a peeing contest about which city is better or worse. Both have nice places and not so nice places. I like the culture in Buffalo better than the hillbillies in SE PA, but that's just my two cents.

A team builds a 10 point lead, the other team scores a TD with 20 seconds left, has a 4th and 15 and tries a pass play where there's a BS pass interference or defensive holding, followed by a hail mary. 59 plus minutes of winning overshadowed by some foolishness. OK, you say, don't let PI or DH calls change things. Suddenly it's fair game for the defense to do whatever it wants to, if it's necessary to stop the 4th and 15. This will be a total mess. No thanks. If you're losing at the end of the game, it isn't the end that's to blame, it's the other 59 minutes.

Looks like we're gonna need another option then.