Buftex

Not sure you can really fairly gauge Campbell from his time in Cleveland... he has a pretty decent stretch of about 3.5 seasons on his resume... nobody is saying he is a superstar, but he was without a doubt the best QB on the Redskins and Raiders squads during his time there... Redskins didn't want to pay him, and the Raiders were distracted, as is their way, by the shiny new things...he lost his job there after six games, because he was injured...he had been having a pretty respectable season. I just think you can do a lot worse for a backup. Given the Bills injury problems at the position, is it necessarily wise to head into another season, where you hope to make some strides, with your hopes dashed if your young QB goes down, again? The guy has started about 80 NFL games... that doesn't make him great, but there must be something to work with there. From three of the most inept franchises in the NFL. The Bills may be in their class, but as Bills fans, (most of us) are assuming that will not be the case in the future.

Most of these injuries can just as easily happen in training camp as they can an exhibition game....don't lose sleep.

Guilt mostly. He said that we should be happy that things of such high quality are made for us to enjoy, and everytime he reads comments, like mine, it reminds him of the "suggestions" he gets anytime he turns in a screenplay...sometimes the points are valid, and useful, but more often it comes off as somebody missing the point you were trying to make, or take your vision, and change it to match your own. I may not be explaining his point correctly, but I felt it. I know it is a frustrating profession, being a screenwriter...for every success, there can be 100 failures.

I kind of, respectfully, disagaree...there are plenty of action shows that have stronger character development. Don't want to be a prick, but I just think the writiing for this show has always been too erratic. I know they had writer issues the first few seasons. It is ambitious to have so many characters, but it can be done. If people don't care about the characters, there is a fairly good chance they are going to lose interest before too long..zombie kills are cool, but you can't sustain a whole show with them....

I guess I am falling for the Patriots/Belichik hype...if he agreed to trade Wilfork to us, i would back out of that deal so fast...

I'm no coach either...but I don't think so!

Nineteen...it took 19 posts....shame on you jboyst!

You are absolutely right... I feel bad for beig overly critical about the finale. I was just kind of chastized by a screenwrtier friend of mine, for sharing my opinion of the finale... he made me "see the light" a little more brightly.

I think this has been the best season, by far. I honestly was pretty close to scratching this from my short list of shows I have to see every week. I know I said it earlier, but the show was so lacking in character development up til this season, I was losing interest... I really think the best episodes, throughout the history of the show, have been the ones that isolate one or two characters... Incidentally, what we have been seeing in the last 4 weeks is actually the second part of season four, so we are actually 10 or 11 episodes in to the season, with 3 more left. Kind of the new standard for cable series.

Oy vey!

Seriously, if you don't want to head into the season with Lewis and Tuel as your backups, who are better options than Campbell? Michael Vick? Matt Schaub? There isn't a lot out there. If you look at more than just career stats, and go inside the numbers, you will see that Campbell had very good years from 2008-2011. Started 54 games in those 4 years, posting QB ratings of 84.3, 86.4, 84.5, 84.2...a 52/33 td/int rate...then he lost his job to injury in Oakland, a move most any Raiders fan will tell you was nuts... if the Bills were to sign him, he would be far and away, their most accomplished QB. Yeah, it is pretty silly...

I realize Campbell isn't an exciting pick as a backup, but he has up some pretty decent numbers over the years, on some of the NFL's worst/most dysfunctional teams. It is fun to just say "no thanks"...but people saying this are the same ones who will complain about how much Lewis and Tuel suck.

You are probably right, but I can't find anywhere how many games Tuel was on the active roster. I think the rule is that a player with one accrued NFL season can go on the PS, if he has been active in no more than 8 games. I am fairly certain he was active game day up through, at leats, week 10. He would have been EJ, and then Lewis back-up...after that he would have only been in-active for the handful of games that EJ and Lewis were both healthy at the same time. So I am betting he was active for at least 12 games.

I have to say, I keep hearing Shaun Hill mentioned in connection to the Bills, and I understand why, with the connection to our new QB coach...but why is it that I can't remember a seeing this guy take a single snap in the NFL? I know he did, mostly from 2008-10 with the 49ers and Lions...career 85.9 QB rating...but what is his style? Is he mobile? Arm strength?

I haven't yet been able to find the silver lining in this... Unfortunatley, when you are pushing 50 and single, everyone assumes you are gay, creepy, or both.

Maybe I have been grown too accustomed to watching ****ty QB play, but I really think Lewis was not that bad, considering all the extenuating circumstances last year... he definitely has to protect the ball better, but he made some plays... not as sold on Tuel, but I think the Bills still like him. Take away the bad pick-six in the Chiefs game, and he wasn't all bad.

I don't know... I think we could do worse, but I kind of like Lewis. I believe Tuel is still practice squad eligible? If so, put him on the PS, sign Campbell, and keep Lewis too?

I remember when you used to have a pretty good sense of humor... http://www.theguardi...e-traffic-boost

Sorry, what is "Vikings"? What channel? Never heard of it. Kind of curious about the new show coming up on AMC called "Turn". It is about "America's first spies" during the Revolutionary War. It's right up my alley, as long as they don't take huge liberties with history. I know there will be some...looks intriguing. I loved the first six episodes...the last two were a little disappointing for me. It was so much better than most things on tv, but in the end, just took the easy way out, in my book. I still enjoyed it, but was underwhelmed by the finale. Great acting til the end... beautiful to see, but such a trite ending to something that was, dare I say, masterfully constructed. I actually got a chill down my spine from the last scene of episode 6, where 2012 Rust and Marty finally encounter each-other. Show had me in the palm of its' hands right there...but then the story just went down like something I feel like I have seen a million times, complete with Steven Spielberg "deep" ending. Not to take anything away from the production, the acting... or Nic Pizzolato...in the end, it just seemed like his bite was bigger than his belly.

I had the same excuse the last 12 years....not so anymore... Now I am just an utterless ship!

Is Radice's still open for business?

I don't know... maybe I am just a working class schlub, and big numbers are beyond my comprehenison...but 4 years at 13.5 million, 5.5 million guranteed doesn't sound like a whole lot for a 6 year vetran starting linemen. Does it?

I don't go to the web-site, but I watch the daily "Pro Football Talk" show on tv, as often as I can. I like it. I like Florio too. When speaking of impending free-agency, Florio seemed, to me at least, to be pretty much on the side of the Bills in regards to the Byrd situation... I think it is my favorite football info show on tv... I think they all do that. I heard our own Takeo Spikes on John Murphys show last night...saying all kinds of nice things about the Bills organization, his time in Buffalo, the fans.... but just a week or two ago, on NFLN, when previewing free agency he chimed in with the tried and (not so) true addage that "Buffalo doesn't like to pay people"

Right...it just took the Bills coaching staff about 6 games to realize that. Go back and watch the last six minutes or so of the season opener against New England. I won't say that it caused them to lose, but it certainly decreased their chances of winning. I normally watch the games at a bar, so at times, I miss things like this...when I was re-watching that game though, in my own home, no distractions, it was killing me how little moxy the Bills were showing in running out the clock...Dierdorf was going ape-**** over it....and he was right.