Stanley Lombardi

I can remember when the primary position in the NFL was running back. Running backs are now paid on a par with kickers and punters. Over time, the game became so QB-centric that a five-game starter in San Francisco becomes the league's richest player, until (weeks later) a QB with more career losses than wins becomes the league's richest player, until (a few months later) teams are scrambling to give away years of first round picks for any of four or five unproven college quarterbacks. Could there/will there be a visionary (or a visionary coach/GM/owner troika) who envision a new way -- to draft, pay, trade and play the game on the field -- in such a way that leverages the a$$ets now devoted to QB into a competitively superior team with a totally different approach to the game? I invite comments from any free thinkers out there who know way more about this game than I do, and who are sick of reading about hand size and how many years of first round draft picks it will cost us to see if Joe Schmoe from Kokomo State will ever pan out. The game is over-due for a revolution.

As long as we've got a Dave 'n Buster's, we're good to go.

James "Howitzer" Harris of the Buffalo Bills. (O.K., he was never called "Howitzer," but he should have been!) He was the first black QB to ever start a season (1969) opener in the NFL. He was the first QB I ever saw who 'flicked' the ball, effortlessly.

Rosen's snooty "I don't want to play in Cleveland" rhymes with Hillary Clinton's "deplorable." Losers, both.

Thanks. I don't quite know why, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post.

We're pulling for you and praying for you, Isaiah.

Godspeed, Tyrod Taylor. You were always a warrior, brave and true.

Godspeed, Tyrod. You are a warrior and a winner and we will remember you.

Moving, in order, from the sublime to the abominable... Murph is great for the Bills and for Buffalo at large. Kelso is sometimes interesting and always authoritative, but his technical chalk-talks leave me cold. Schopp hates his customers almost as much as he hates himself. What a miserable experience the post-game show has become.

They've managed to politicize a frickin football game. I give as much of a s*it what the left guard of the New Orleans Saints thinks about politics as the left guard of the New Orleans Saints gives about what I think of politics. It 'tain't fun anymore.

I'm still in the process of processing The Process, but I know progress when I see it and I saw it in Atlanta.

This guy has all the macho bona fides. Does he get a plaque or a ribbon, or something?

Actually, I believe in the therapeutic power of a good cry. But as for crying over the Bills, the next time will be the first time.

These are my favorite posts of every year. Astrobot is the poster-child of posters.

Buffalo Bills 22, NY Giants 20

Does this mean my warning points have been forgiven?

I'm sorry for your great loss. I will pray for you and your family.

Is he crazy for trying, Or crazy for crying, Or crazy for loving you?

People are often surprised to hear that he majored in Dialectic Philosophy, with a minor in Mime.

Glad for ya.

I listened to the portion about Marrone. Was it supposed to be interesting? Graham took 15 minutes to tell a story that warranted 25 seconds, at best.

You missed the point of my post. I merely mentioned Jeff Tuel's worst moment as a standard of comparison for what we saw EJ do yesterday. But love is blind, as they say.

Were the insane asylum inmates forced to post in this thread? Was it some sort of assignment? Two years ago, in Kansas City, a Buffalo backup QB (Tuel, a rookie at the time) threw a pick-six and for that he was reviled and mocked mercilessly until he was released a year or so later. Now EJ, in his third year, doubles then TRIPLES down on that mistake, and the same people who lived to ridicule Tuel are back to tell us that EJ should start. What accounts for such blind maniacal madness?

Full Nelson.

Nice!