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I'll take Fitzpatrick. I admit that I was not a Fitzpatrick guy at the beginning of the season, but I've loved the way he's played. For a while there, he was the only man on the team that showed up to play, especially the Jets game. As a fan I admire that. I think his absolutely lethal timing for throwing an INT can be corrected. I think it takes time, coaching and mental adjustment to fully move from backup to starting QB. Besides, the more you play, the more you learn. He's only had 29 starts in his career (six seasons), including yesterday.

I think he "saw the light" with the prison stint. Prison destroyed that cloak of invincibility he thought he had. I think he is truly grateful for not A) being in prison and B) getting a second shot in the NFL. Without it, he'd not only be flat broke, owing millions of dollars to creditors, but have no means to ever pay it back.

Does anybody know *why* Alex Carrington is always inactive? You'd think he'd be good against the run.

His show is unwatchable. It should be, due to the smoking hot co-host. But it isn't.

So it's cold. Wussbag. His kids must be proud, seeing dad B word about "weather".

You know the minute Luck proclaims he's coming out of college next year, the streak will begin. It's like an ancient doomsday machine winding up. We go from sure fire #1 pick to somewhere in the 20s. We'll even pull out a miraculous win in Tennessee during the playoffs just for spite.

Glazer is wrong. Buffalo is the perfect destination for a guy like Merriman. He needs a low key, zero expectations sort of place to play well to get that last big contract. He can get healthy here, get the big numbers and get straightened out. Lastly, I wouldn't be shocked should he perform, that Buffalo would give him the big contract. One less hole to fill via draft. This team has had an excellent track record in signing quality free agent linebackers, and I'd like to believe that team's confidence in him would be rewarded.

The worst that happens is that he bombs magnificently in Buffalo and goes away at the end of the season.

I would put my money on the riot happening. I wouldn't mind Merriman for the remainder of the year. If I were him, Buffalo would be the low key, low expectation place to prove I deserve another big contract.

After I sign Ngata *and* David Harris in free agency, I go with the meanest, largest man that can get to the quarterback. If Luck is there, yeah, you'd have to take him.

Wade will finish out the season. He won't be back for the next football season, as Jerry Jones will throw bags of money at A) Bill Cowher or B) Jon Gruden).

Who does the o-line analysis, where they break down the number of plays, etc.? I think it's in a poster's blog. That's the take I'd enjoy reading.

I was wrong about Fitzpatrick. Really was. Yesterday really opened my eyes relative to how he can play, along with his leadership. I will grow a Fitzbeard in support.

I told you guys earlier in the week...this is the day that Fitzpatrick throws for 301 yards on our way to our usual 7-9. :-)

I'd keep the guys we've got (with exception of Modrak) and see if they can build a winner from my embarrassingly large amount of money I'd have as owner and willing to put into the franchise. Oh, and have at least one Fan Appreciation Day a year, where all seats and parking cost $1 a piece. Build new fans, and reward those who have persevered.

After watching last night's game, +1 for Buddy Nix.

He will never be healthy again. He's never going to give you close to 16 games of performance at this point in his career. Sure he's young, but the massive amount of steroids he did in such a short time...tacked on a few chemical years of wear and tear on the joints in his body. It amuses me that those that want Merriman badly do not want Burgess or Thomas.

On Saturday, Andrew Luck will declare he'll be in the 2011 draft. On Sunday, the Bills will start their impressive seven game winning streak with a win against Baltimore. Fitzpatrick throws for 301 yards. Just because.

He'll never be healthy again. Those constant, nagging injuries to the joints and ligaments is the price you pay for steroid use.

There have been plenty of one and done coaches, but in most cases, the owners felt that the team had more talent than the record reflected, and the coach got the ax. Not the case in Buffalo, where Wilson admits the team is short on talent. Gailey, at minimum, gets next year.

These articles are usually just the tip of a very big iceberg, sadly. Freakin' Kiper.

FWIW, if you watch tape of Maybin while he was at PSU, he's in the 4 point stance. However, he's lined up quite a ways off the OT in everything I watched, so that when the ball is snapped, he does not have to take on the OT face to face, where the OT can use his size and strength but at the angle, which benefits Maybin's speed.

I agree 100%. The four point stance completely eliminates his speed. This is why I think the defense problem is more on the coaching and not the players. Anybody can see Maybin's too light to be lining up like that against a monster OT. I have no idea why the "creep* defense isn't used instead of this nonsense of switching between 4-3. 4-2-5 and sometimes, just maybe, a real 3-4.

That drive-kill statistic is all I need to know about Cornell Green. I'd rather take my chances with Howard until he starts killing drives too. I love the in-depth analysis of line play. You don't see that anywhere too often.

It wouldn't surprise me at all that when this finally plays out, it'll come out there was some grand plan all along. Which will surely fill all of us fans with elation and irritation, as is customary with the team.