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Who needs Freeman? Just put TJ Graham in at QB. He looked better than Tuel.

Who do they cut to make room for the new kicker if they sign one? (assuming they don't put him on IR).

Ok, that's just wrong.

Strength of victory tiebreaker. Green Bay's opponents are 10-15 (40% win percentage) and Detroit's opponents are 10-14 (41.7% win percentage) Same reason the Bills would be top seed in the AFC over the Chargers

Here's what the playoffs would look like if the season ended today (instead of someone's projection): NFL.com Week 6 Playoff Picture

That score definitely isn't possible in OT, even with the new rules. If the first team with the ball scores a touchdown, then it's game over. Both teams only get a chance to posess if the first team with the ball scores a field goal. If that happens, the second team gets a chance. If the second team scores a touchdown, then it's game over. If the second team scores a field goal, then regular sudden death rules ensue.

Untrue. The defenition of "defenseless receiver" was updated in May. A receiver who has not clearly become a runner even if both feet are on the ground is now considered defenseless. Still don't agree with the call.

Why limit yourself? Look who is atop the AFC right now...

In Orlando, they switched to the Bills game right after the Jags game was done. They stayed with it until it was totally done...and then went to the scheduled Dolphins game. I'm willing to bet some Dolphins fans weren't too happy about that.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to have to disagree with your line of reasoning and still consider him money-grubbing, however, because people on message boards should never admit when they're wrong.

Pal, I'm not talking about the $2M roster bonus. I'm talking about the signing bonus he got when he inked this contract extension that he's not going to honor now. If you're telling me that he didn't get that, then I will happily stop thinking of him as money-grubbing. I'm sticking with selfish, however.

Well, he's certainly being selfish in the way he's going about it. If you're going to retire, then just retire. Instead, he's just not going to show up? And until he pays back some of his bonus money, I'll classify him as money-grubbing.

I just received a reply from one of the NCAA records staff: Andrey-- Thanks for the note. It looks like it's just an oversight on our part and it's never been brought to our attention before this. I'm saving your e-mail and will use it to remind me to update the record on page 20 when I am editing that section. Thanks for your help and please let me know if you need anything else from our staff. Sincerely, Jeff Williams Assistant Director of Statistics National Collegiate Athletic Association P.O. Box 6222 Indianapolis, IN 46206-6222 jswilliams@ncaa.org

I don't know what the discrepancy is, either. From McKelvin's bio on the Bills website: "COLLEGE: ...Held the NCAA record with 3,817 total kick return yards before being broken by Kevin Robinson of Utah (3,829)..." According to the stats here (McKelvin), here (Tate), and here (Robinson), Tate is behind both McKelvin and Robinson for total combined yards from punt and kickoff returns. Edit: Also, in the same 2009 record book referenced by SEPatsFan (here), on page 58, Kevin Robinson is listed as 16th for career all purpose yards. If you total the entries for punt returns and kickoff returns on that line, it adds up to 3829 yards, clearly more than Brandon Tate. I've sent an email to the NCAA asking them to explain the discrepancy.

Kevin Robinson (Utah State) has them both beat with 3829.

Yeah, we know how well all that training worked out for him since that video is from last year.

So Butler signed an $8.8M, three year contract extension for 2010-2012 and won't play any of it. That $8.8M included a $3.8M signing bonus. Does he get to keep it?

Blu-Ray discs authored in BD-Java cannot resume playback when stopped. It's a limitation of the format itself, and not the player.

He's pretty good with the target. Maybe we can sign it to replace T.O.

...should subscribe to ESPN insider to see the rest.

Yes, very amaturish of him.

They don't even acknowledge Van Pelt as the Offensive Coordinator on the Bills website. They've updated Fewell to "Interim Head Coach/Defensive Coordinator", but they still only list Van Pelt as "Quarterbacks Coach". Bills Coaches

Steely Dan's examples help emphasize the fact that people who solely coach special teams don't tend to move directly into offensive/defensive coordinator positions. It's certainly possible for them to move up the coaching ladder, but most tend to move into positional coaching jobs before moving up to an offensive/defensive coordinator position. Levy stands out as someone who went directly from coaching special teams to being a head coach without anything in between.

Of the current offensive and defensive coordinators in the NFL, there are 7 that were previously special teams coaches. 2 of those (Brian VanGorder and Pat Shurmur) only coached special teams in college. 4 of those (Dick Lebeau, Frank Bush, John Marshall, and Greg Williams) went from coaching special teams to being positional coaches (defensive backfield for Lebeau, linebackers for the other three) before becoming coordinators. Only 1 (Mike Nolan) went directly from special teams coach to a coordinator (defensive) position. Although it should be noted that he was also the linebackers coach while he was the special teams coach.

It's just that no person in their right mind would want to coach the Bills. So he didn't even bother mentioning them.