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That Tavaris Jackson "situation" was one of the more bizzare things I've seen the Bills do. I don't know if it's a pro or con it was that odd. I would offer that a "pro" of Whaley is that he is not risk averse. He's shown he'll move for boom/busts like Hughes, Chris/Mike Williams, gambles like the draft with Watkins, and lottery tickets like Moeaki and Lewis.

I thought they wrote good parts for Grammer, Banderas and Gibson. The weakest link in the movie IMO was Schwarzenegger. They really didn't give him much to do. I too could not recall a Kelsey Grammer action flick and thought WTH when his casting was announced. Pleasantly surprised.

Guardians and Expendables 3 exceeded my expectations. I'd go as far to say that E3 was the best of the series to date. Then again, I am in a minority opinion that Die Hard With a Vengence was the most complete, best Die Hard movie in that series.

The confusing thing about preseason is that you don't want to roll out your *real* plays and you pray that nobody gets injured but... you would like to see some better execution in the red zone even if the plays have a vanilla flavor to them to give everyone from players to coaches to fans the confidence that they can get it done when it counts. I admit that I'm one of those fans that's been highly annoyed with Hackett's playcalling - especially last year. We were often settling for Dan Carpenter heroics because of the play calling. I'm hoping that with a year of experience under his belt, the calls will be better.

Sanborn has one of the best jobs in the NFL. I don't think it's crazy to see fans wearing long snapper jerseys out there. I've seen a few Patrick Mannelly jerseys in my time.

What about Bryce Paup? I think he needs to be in the conversation. He had one hell of a dominant 1995 season. Arguably the best free agent the Bills have ever signed. I think he's in the top 5 of the 90s.

Probably because I'm not a billionaire, I don't see why the Wilson family is dicking around with the bids and "process". What's $1.3 billion versus $1 billion to them? It's still a billion dollars of found money. Just get on with it already.

The organization's overreaction to the events of January 8, 2000 set the team back a decade. That one game is more influential than any other game in the team's history.

I'll disregard your rudeness and give you a link to look at. I suppose the Iranians don't care about the $19.4 billion that moved through HSBC. http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/07/16/hsbc-helped-terrorists-iran-mexican-drug-cartels-launder-money-senate-report-says/ And FWIW, the Mexican Sinaloa cartel wired $881 million into the US through HSBC five years ago but got caught. Want to know how much the bank made on cartel wire transfers before they got caught? $2.6 billion.

The West refuses to eliminate the true leadership of groups like al-Qaeda, Hamas, FARC, cartels, etc and that's the bankers that hide in plain sight. These groups use a network of banks. It's not like they pile cash in a big warehouse somewhere. The only reason FARC for example has remained so strong decade after decade because you have western banks complicit in funneling, storing and laundering their money. Sure, we'll kill or capture the foot soliders all day long but the real bad guys are the ones that hide in the suits and the nice innocouous contries like Switzerland that launder all the proceeds. You start knocking off bank leadership and the financiers and these groups disappear. But that means the west would be killing a whole lot of westerners that look like you and I.

Weak. This isn't going to win any Capture the Flag or Neighborhood wars. Where is the multi-tube potato gun? You can only crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women with the subtlly of combustion-launched produce.

I know of a restaurant that is Bills friendly (place is packed around Andre Reed HOF announcements) in these parts along with the Wegmans. Anytime I go there, I'll get asked if I'm from Rochester or Buffalo. I was at that restaurant once and somebody said that it looked like the Justice League of Obscure Football Fandom (for PA, mind you) as you had Bills, Chargers, Seahawks and Chiefs fans all at the bar.

I don't understand how football players are not in *enough* shape to pass the basic conditioning test. You know exactly when camp starts. You know the requirements of the conditioning test and know you'll have to take it. You know your livlihood depends on the condition of your body. And for Marcel, you've already irritated your employer enough in the off-season.

Whenever I think of the Rockford Files, I'm always reminded not only of Garner's acting ability but the genius of Stephen Cannell.

I've watched this show from the beginning. I'm interested in it. It's got just enough science fiction and hot women to drown out the useless family drama of the Masons. This season they've gotten creative with the guest stars. They pulled Mira Sorvino out from somewhere and found Ally McBeal's boyfriend and the guy who worked in the hanger of the Battlestar Galactica.

No. That has to be the most flattering picture ever taken of her. Her personality screams "I'm an annoying mess to coexist with on a daily basis."

I'll be a Bills fan as long as they are in Buffalo. Should they be moved to Toronto, I'm opting out of my contract for free agency.

All of the foreign policy headaches worldwide today all started in Yalta in 1945. Generations have been paying the price ever since.

+1 for Boondock Saints. My nominations: Hard Target (Easily JCVD's best movie and Woo's first and finest North American movie.) Siege of Firebase Gloria

The Cavs a playoff contender? Sure. The East is horrible. However, LeBron's career will always be tied to the San Antonio Spurs dynasty and how they have systematically dismantled LBJ and his teams 2 out of the 3 times they've faced them in the Finals. He's only a Ray Allen shot away from being 0-3 against them.

If I were President, and I'm clearly not, on the 366th day of "house arrest" in Qatar, those five guys we just released would just so happen to be the "victims" of a wayward drone strike. I'd never let those guys live out their lives.

You know what's disappointing? That it's considered a "major" prank. God, we're so lame these days.

Trades are cool, especially when you treat the draft like one giant Moroccan bazzar.

I think it's the win-now era for every team. Talk about building and dynasties is for the NFL pre-1993 where you could build and maintain a criticial mass. Haven't had repeat Super Bowl champs or repeat Super Bowl teams since 2005. Any given year can be any given team. Why not the Bills? When the Pirates made the playoffs in MLB last year for the first time since 1992, it was captivating television nationwide.

That'd be my song. Fan of professional wrestling or not, the Hulk Hogan intro was an event itself. Very cool pick. (I'd do the flag, pyrotechnics and pose too.)