Simon

You should try watching the game instead of listening to the announcers to HEAR your opinion.

A thick cut Delmonico bigger than my whole head, cooked until it's about to stop lowing and then passed quickly through a warmish room.

The problem is that in order to do that effectively enough to play straight up with the Pens, they have to exert an obscene amount of energy. And no team can maintain that kind of effort for a full game. The can keep that up for about 20 minutes on any given night but I think they'll get slaughtered if they try to play that kind of game for more than a period.

So when was the last time you talked to Ralph Wilson or somebody else in the Bills front office? Yeah, your insight holds just as much water as Graham's. You will?

No worries; I doubt you'll have to deal with it much longer.

And oddly enough, that might not end up being an entirely bad thing when all is said and done. If it's clarification you seek (which I seriously doubt), here's some: When Tom insults somebody it's generally because they're being an idiot. When you insult someone, it's generally because you're being an idiot.

Wrong again, ad infinitum. I couldn't care less about your "opinion".

One of the undeservedly biggest egos on this board telling somebody else to get over themselves? Oh, the irony. Gee, big surprise. Birds of a feather and all..... Thank you for your significant contribution to that regression.

The next time the Penguins are hard to watch will be the first time.

For the last half hour my wife has kept yelling into the other room "What do you keep laughing at?" I was hoping for an eventual Pitt/Wash series because they hate each other so much but that was absolutely fantastic. I'll even give it a tremendously tremendous.

Are you ever right about anything?

I don't think it's a co-incidence that about a week before the draft Doug Whaley was down in Atlanta scouting out Demaryius Thomas' workout.

This is going to be a young locker room for some time. Do you really want your QB, who is the leader by default, to be a guy who is the last one to arrive and the first one to leave? I don't and am glad the Bills don't either.

This is exactly the reason that the Bills chose not to pursue negotiations with the Stillers for a Roethlisberger trade. It had nothing to do with the incident in Georgia, it was about his complete lack of leadership and commitment. That was not the guy who they wanted to bring into their locker room.

He looks like a HOF'er next to Pominville. I'd make him buy his own ticket home.

I saw a clip of a Spiller kick return where Ford absolutely blows by him to get in front to make the final block. That kid is obscenely fast.

Hopefully he'll spend his entire rookie season running around in the open field with inspiring music in the background. You want to see a real play and not just some silly edited highlight video that makes him look great with no tacklers anywhere near him? Check out this play on 3rd/18 with 5:00 left in a game Clemson trails by 3. Brains and balls Watch his portly coach running down the sidelines during the play and then jacking him up when Spiller converts the 3rd down.

Cal was the only team that seemed to consistently give USC trouble in the PAC10. Lynch looked very, very good in Jeff Tedford's offense so it's no surprise that Carroll has a high opinion of him.

He's probably more dialed in than I am on a regular basis. And I've said as much as I'm comfortable saying as I don't want to betray any trusts or do anything that would bother somebody I respect, not only for doing nice things for me in the past, but also for just being a genuinely decent guy.

This is by no means set in stone but of all the many scenarios on the Bills completed draft board, this is the one most likely to occur: 1) Bills open the draft taking a Tackle. It will be an Offensive Tackle as they don't seem to like Dan Williams quite as much as some other people do. Not saying he's definitely out, but he is probably a real longshot. 2) Bills then may well trade back up into the first round for another Offensive player they like. There's a distinct possibility that it will be Demaryius Thomas. 3) Marshawn will not likely be moved tonight, unless they stumble across in insane sucker. But make no mistake, he's hanging by a thread in Buffalo and may very well be on another roster before the weekend is out. They are not locked into a particular strategy and are leaving lots of room for maneuvering depending on how the draft progresses.

Don't get your hopes up.

The reason the Bills decided not to pursue trade talks with the Stillers had nothing to do with off-field allegations and everything to do with FOOTBALL.

This is very accurate.

Don't kid yourself; he's very available.

FWIW, the teams did talk, regardless of what Nix is feeding to the press. But somebody chose not to advance the talks further; not because of the off-field issues, but because of serious questions about Ben's commitment to his team.