Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

So because Dareus yesterday said yesterday he doesn't want Suh money this is a lie?? So if he ends up with like $1mil less in your eyes does that makes Dareus's statement correct? I guess if the Bills were to offer him close to the same he'd turn it down as doesn't want to be paid that much? Not trying to defend Sully too much, but Sully is constantly ripped basically because he's not a homer and doesn't always paint a rosy picture, like any person will distort things to his liking to paint the picture he wants painted. In fact I didn't agree with most of this latest Sully article, but trying to point out this as blatant lies, well quite frankly you're no better than Sully with distorting facts to your liking, just that you like many here all hate Sully so you'll be viewed as a hero for telling it like it is. Only problem is you're telling it to a room full of people mostly all wearing the same rose colored glasses that you are wearing and they will all agree with you. The pettiness and hatred in sports fans does amaze me! Fanhood is like a holy war.

Well called DTV today again for around the 4th time in past two months. Last call I made I canceled ST, maybe that helps getting better offer the next time or maybe the closer to the season, you get better offers, or just got luckier today?? I was given two offers, ST free with a one year contract, or ST Max for half off. I countered with that I'd take the one year contract if they'd give me the max free, but she told me that offer isn't available today. Does make me wonder how much leeway these agents do truly have. Do they have different offers every day, is it like buying airline tickets where if they made their sales quota for the day, you'll likely only be offered poorer deals? So I took the max for half off, after which she then offered me a one time $50 credit, so basically got ST Max for $117, not too bad, I'm happy with it. Certainly not as good of an offer as some folks have got, but not too bad either. While I have some negotiating leverage as not under contract, I also don't have any add-on's other than the DVR, and have only been with DTV for a little over three years now, not like otehrs who've been customers for 10 plus years. My whole bill is a little under $100, still have a couple of monthly discounts if I had zero discounts the total would be around $115, whereas I believe many of the people whom get the better offers may also have HBO, Center Ice, etc. which generate higher total bills I figured no contract is better as I'm not currently under any contract, so I could completely dump DTV in Jan once the football season is over. If I dump them in Jan by August the "come back to DTV" offers should be arriving every week. One of these days, I do think I'll cut the cord, two biggest reasons not to is we record almost everything we watch on the DVR (I have a 5 tuner Genie and 2 tuner HD DVR) and wouldn't want to have to start watching commercials, and where I live the local CBS station is very difficult to get without a roof antenna. I figure this winter when it cools off I may go up on roof and play with an outside antenna to see what I can get, I know some people cane get it, but takes some playing and may only be on one TV in the house. All the other stations come in great with a small attic antenna. There are two home DVRS that I'm keeping an eye on Tablo and HD Homerun. Maybe by next year I'll get the outside antenna working and try one of the DVRS' only downside is I'll spend a fair amount of money to buy all the required hardware, and it may never work all that well to want to stick with long term, so will see. Just curious, does anyone know if CBS All Access is commercial free or not? Is the Hulu premium package commercial free?

I'm not so sure anymore, I think Thompson has earned a spot so it comes down to Hogan or Easley. While Hogan has struggled this summer, he was reliable in regular season games so then doing the numbers if you keep Hogan, you likely end up letting Easley go. Can Thompson play ST? If so, makes it easier to cut Easley.

As for your negatives, I wouldn't be so worried about the backup O-line unless we have many injuries and they all have to play at the same time. Having two starters next to three backups, can make those back up's look much better very quickly. I'm beginning to wonder if the odd man out at WR will end up being Easley? I think Goodwin and Thompson have done enough to make the team so comes down to Hogan and Easley. While Easley has been great on ST, Hogan tended to always made the catches in the clutch.

I think there was a reason EJ only played the past two games with the 2's and 3's. Going all the way back to mini camp his play from everything that's been written just wasn't as good. I think he's played better than past years, but still has enough bad plays that puts him behind. I actually think if you compare top 50% plays made by each, EJ may be i nthe lead, but whe nhe screws up, he tends to do a better job of it than the other two, and seems ot be at the worst times. I'm not an EJ hater either, I tended to defend him in the past, if they started him in the upcoming game I'd be fine with it, but this idea that they need to start him to be fair is laughable. I've heard two idea's as to why he played the entire 2nd half last night, one to try and generate trade value, and second, and this is kind of my thought to see if he's good enough for the #2 spot, and if so will dump Cassels $4.5 mil to be a #3 They know what they have in Cassel, would there be much of a drop off to EJ, if not then cut Cassel.

Just ofr the fans sake? I'm pretty convinced that it did start as a fair 3-way competition, at this point, the coaches have an idea what the pecking order is. They are were given shots @ #1, now the goal is to prepare the team as best it can for the regular season, not to worry about somebody, particually the fans crying that EJ didn't get a fair shake. Maybe EJ will start, don't know, but I do know whether he does or doesn't, it has nothing to do with it not being fair. It's everything about what makes the team best.

Your disapointed in a what was he, a 6th round draft pick?? I think O'leary inherited the legend of Kiko crowd, he had some flashes in mini camp everyone jumped on the bandwagon, but he was a 6th rounder for a reason!

My theory as to why they played EJ was, they aren't to happy with Cassel, he's safe, won't make mistakes, but that's about it. Taylor will be the starter, so they played EJ last night to see if he's a good enough #2, if so they dump Cassels $4.5 mil contract, then use that money to make Darius happy again. Did EJ make the Bills' think they could dump Cassel, not so sure about that. EJ had some good plays, but still pelnty of EJ of old plays too. But does he give you as much as Cassel gives you, maybe??

I don't know, I'm wondering if Cassel not playing tonight could be a case of lets see if EJ is good enough as the #2, if so we drop Cassel and save $4mil. Maybe what they've seen of Cassel, particularly in practice, they just aren't sure he is worth keeping as not much of a difference between him and EJ??

I live on the other end of the state, but wil lsay, that's a bit of a trek from Greensboro to Charlotte!

With all these guys being out a couple of weeks, could make it eaven harder to decide whom to keep and who to cut. Ideally the next two pre-seaso ngames would have helped, but now none will play.

You worry about him getting hurt, but seemed like in the game he never got hit either. He may be one of these guys who's figured out how to avoid the contact.

I agree about Williams, but I think it could be Fred Jackson's career that could be in jeopardy. Brown looked good, granted was against backups, but if he can stop fumbling, I think you should keep him and let Fred go. Only question I'd have is do you have another RB that can block as well as Fred, is it Dixon? Maybe it ends up coming down to deciding between Fred and Boobie?? Probably all the Freddy lovers will burn me at the steak for suggesting this, but Fred's about had it it seems.

I doubt he was encouraged, but good chance he was told he'd need to make changes to his staff, get rid of Hackert, now O-line coach, maybe weren't willing to extend the contracts of his staff, etc. Add to that it sounds like he had a rather frosty relationship with Whaley, gave him 4 million reasons to leave.

Was this a quote by Roger about the NFLPA?? If not just as easily could have been! I think it will be very interesting to see when the next CBA is up for negotiation, how hard the players push to have this changed, and how far will they go to get it changed. I mean if everything else is agreed upon other than this, say big increases in the cap, better medical, etc, but little change in the entire discipline punishment area, in the end will the players accept it? Or will they go the mats on this one. My suspicion is the extent of the changes the owners will agree to is that Roger is no longer judge, jury and executioner. Maybe he takes on more of a DA role?? "He has so much power and he hires independent investigators who come in and are obviously not independent. They come in with an agenda and they come in looking to find facts to back up their argument. All the facts are slanted in their favor.

I think it's the opposite. Now everyone is a franchise QB until they play the college season. By Feb they are down to around 3 or 4, by draft day, well........ see Geno Smith

OK, so six weeks is a bit more than 10% of a 52 week year, so then that would mean he's making around $1mil a year. Financially missing six weeks is much easier for a coach then than a player

Seems every year, there's always talk how next years QB class will be great. Then these guys go out and play the college season and everyone realizes that half of them also suck. At the same time there will be a handful of teams who appear to be set at QB, but by the end of the season realize they need to start over at QB. What if Bradford has a season ending injury, considering his history would Philly give him another year. Chicago could be looking, SF, Az with another injury to Palmer, If Eli throws another 20 int will the Giants be looking, Washington, Jets, Cleveland, Jax, Texans, Raiders. Not saying the Bills won't be looking next year, but this whole idea that next year will a deep QB class with few buyers is completely absurd.

Saw Richie I commented that John Miller is a tough kid. Glad to her that, else the option may have been for Richie to toughen him up. We all know how that went the last time it was tried!

Thought I had read that his salary was $1mil, but it said they were potentially going to donate his salary of $127,000 to charity?? Which is it??

ReaLly, Can you give some examples to back that up? GM's typcially last quite awhile and really can't recall any getting fired over having an issue with one position. Granted it is most important, but if he's making good moves everywhere else, he's not going anywhere, He's tried plenty, have they worked out very well so far, probably not too well, but if finding a QB was as easy as you make it sound, every team would have good ones.

He and Brady can hang out and watch the game together!

Kromer may be talking to Greg Hardy about how to get the kids to not show up for the court date.

35 replies so far and no one has ripped the Bills yet for not disclosing the injury. I guess we're becoming a more mature fan base?? I heard he has whatever Glenn had last year BTW

It's possible they could try and show case Brown in pre-season to try and raise up some trade value in him. Even if only gets a6th or 7th rounder, still worth something.