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Smart on his part? Absolutely Not! Critical to his Draft Position? Minor at the Most. Cost him Millions? Nope but he will have to endure some extra behavioral clauses probably. As someone else mentioned, if he was a QB, it would be a Huge deal. I think the NFL is a bit more tolerant nowadays as opposed to 10-15 years or so ago. Look at Ricky Wiiliams as someone else mentioned or even sommersalt Jerome Simpson who had pounds of weed delivered to his house and hasn't been disciplined yet. As long as this guy can produce Clean Urine at drug test time, he will have a pretty decent career.

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I don't care if they run the 6-2 stack monster, as long as they can friggin stop someone once in a while. We can't stop the run and when we do, we can't stop the pass. We were trully a defense void of talent and without direction. Whatever Edwards was doing for 14 of the 16 games this year didn't work and he didn't put the putrid talent in a position to do well even if they sucked. It was a complete lose/lose situation on defense. Hopefully the stache will be able to utilize what little talent we have more efficiently. If Ralph opens the wallet like Buddy says, hopefully they will be able to land a couple of Free Agents to shore up a very weak front 7.

I would guess he gets taken right after Luck

They Suck

He should be fired because he actually thought Trent Edwards should have been the starter last year coming out of camp and I am sure he gave some sort of endorsement of Fitzpatrick. I seriously question his ability to assess a QB's abilities in this league. I think he thinks he is such an offensive guru that he can just plug anyone in that position and things will work. It is obvious that the QB position is a gaping hole on this team and Gailey is directly responsible for that and should be canned because of it.

Why didn't Miami make the list? For us long time Bills fans, I personally think they are still the most despised team.

Our first 5 picks in the draft should include a QB, 3 OLB's and a CB. If there is a QB worthy when we pick in the 1st, take him, then concentrate on OLB's. Other than Merriman, we don't have any other OLB's on our roster that played that position in college. The current depth chart at OLB consists of a Division 1 DE, a D1 DT, a D2 DE and two D3 DE's. This is a glaring weakness and a huge hole that needs to be addressed early and often next April. We have a lot of needs but the OLB position is clearly the biggest.

Gotta go with Smith on this one. I will give Ehrhoff a pass because hockey does take a little more time to develope chemistry.

Even before today, someone needed to be held accountable for the lack of depth and quality throughout the team. After today, someones head at One Bills Drive needs to roll. That display is totally unacceptable from a fans perspective. Fire someone, Cut someone, I don't care but things NEED to change because this level of play is completely unacceptable in the NFL week after week.

What about Hairston?

I agree wholeheartedly. The refereeing in the NFL seems to have gone downhill over the last decade. I don't know if it's because they are relying to much on instant replay or that they are just getting older without much turnover. Either way, with the amount of mistakes, blown calls and non-calls throughout the league, it might be time to revisit the system in general. I am sure there is some sort of referee union that has a stranglehold on the NFL but after watching that ridiculous call in the Philly/Dallas game, something needs to change. The call was so blatantly missed that everyone not wearing stripes seemed utterly stunned at the call.

I don't know where he is on his current contract but this guy is about as automatic as they get. Sure he has a miss every now and then but if you look around the league, the pickens are pretty slim for someone with Lindell's ability to kick in any condition. This guy should be in the top 3-5 players that will be getting a new contract sometime after the season. Not ridiculous money but something decent with a nice signing bonus to keep him in Buffalo as long as his leg is still attached. I checked and his contract is up at the end of this year. This should be a no-brainer considering the amount of stiffs out there like Olindo Mare, who more or less cost Carolina a game yesterday on what would be a Lindell chip shot.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Video-Refs-in-Philly-make-worst-on-field-ruling?urn=nfl-wp10761 Could have used these Refs in Nashville a few years back.

Thanks for the info, I will pass it along

I have a friend of mine that's going to be in Vegas for work till early next year and is looking for a Bills fans gathering spot. Does anyone know of a good one somewhere in the vicinity of UNLV? Thanks

I am pretty sure we will see a bunch of 2 TE sets with Lee next to Levitre often helping out

This Too. Security is definitely a problem. They are basically mostly mall cops at football games. There are some that might actually be undercover police but for the most part, they are no more than some punk with an attitute wearing a flourescent windbreaker. Couple that with giving any idiot with a phone the ability to screw with someone at a football game and you have some very serious issues with innocent people getting treated unfairly.

Here is the Catch22 of this whole texting thing at the stadiums now. Any idiot with a phone and not to hammered to use it has the ability to screw anyone in the stands by texting security and having them removed. If you are sitting next to a big fat guy/girl and they are infringing on your space, you can text anything to security about them and if you do it enough, you can have them removed and have more space for yourself. The whole texting security thing is wrong and should be banned. If you have an issue, go get security, have them see with their own eyes and let a judgement be made from that. Otherwise, it's all heresay and probably more often then not, an innocent person gets the short end of the stick.

Thanks everyone for their input. I had a feeling the ATT guy was full of shite and just trying to make a sale using the Sunday Ticket as leverage. I have had DirecTv since 1996, when I moved from Buffalo here to Central Florida. It was my only way to be able to follow my Bills. I have both the Sunday Ticket and NHL Center Ice and probably could not survive without at least the Ticket. Glad to hear that DTV is keeping the Ticket for at least 3 more years and I don't ever see them giving it up unless the government steps in with some sort of lawsuit against them. The Ticket is their bread and butter and without it, they would just be another Dish Network. Go Bills !!!

I know Fezmid is our local DirecTV answer guy but I have a question for anyone that has information regarding the Sunday Ticket. I had a guy come to my house in Central Florida the other day trying to get me to change over my service to ATT U-Verse. I explained that I have Directv because of the Ticket (among other things) and he proceeded to tell me that after this year, Directv no longer has the rights to the Ticket. He also informed me that ATT was taking over exclusive rights and that I should sign up now so I can have it for next year. When he pushed the signing now, I felt that he was just a salesman playing on a weakness. I had heard something similar a few years ago from a salesman from Time Warner. So the question is, will Directv lose the Ticket next year or is there still negotiating going on with all parties involved? I will have to jump ship if someone else has the Ticket but I hope that ATT doesn't get it. I have heard a couple good things and mostly bad things about U-Verse so I really hope I don't have to think about switching to ATT.

Great story. It isn't everyday that people like us are lucky enough to find wives that are more than supportive of our football endeavors. My anniversary is also on 10-9-93. Met my wife at a Patriots/Bills game in 1989 and the rest is history. It's alot more fun to scream and shout watching a game when your wife is doing the same thing louder than you sometimes. Congrats and have fun.

I will say that the Bills have some talent on defense, I just think that they are being utilized all wrong. I am going to hijack your thread a little and push make this the FIRE GEORGE EDWARDS THREAD. Edwards was horrible last year and outright sucks this year as a coordinator. There is no way that a D coordinator would allow little 5'9" players to run all over the field and catch for 250 yards against them or let a rookie QB pick apart his defense in the last couple of minutes of a game. Last week, the Brady/Welker show can be chalked up to Brady being a pretty good QB but that debacle yesterday was absolutely uncalled for and someones head should be on display at One Bills Drive and Abbott today. That defensive showing in the 2nd half yesterday was attrocious!

I HATE HIM

Should the Raider safety that went helmet to helmet on Stevie on Sunday be fined? He did get penalized 15 yards and the shot he gave Stevie was clearly a blow to the head. It might be the first offense by that guy, I don't know, but the Raiders were definitely throwing some cheap shots around out there.