Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

We got a 4th rounder for him becasue that's his value now, doesn't matter where he was drafted. With time, some players value increases from where they were originally selected some drop. There was another whole post the other day trying to explain how since both Lynch and Spiller were both #9 picks overall, so somehow that meant we traded a 1st rounder for a 4th round pick?? It's what the player is worth now. Using the logic that value of picks never change over the life of the player, the Bill's must have looked incredibly smart in getting a 1st round pick for Peters who was originally a FA (and even a second pick thrown in). That should go down as one of the most amazing deals in the history of the NFL. But at the time I recall many claiming the Bill's didn't get enough that time too, even though it was FA for a 1st rounder. Seems according to many here know matter what the Bill's do it's somehow wrong!

The game is becoming too fast for many players, particually QB's. They just can't figure things out fast enough when going up against the size and speed of the defenders. There's about ten very good QB's in the league of 32 teams. IF every team had a good QB, play would improve all over and would make fans much happier. So how's this effected by a potential strike? How do things improve?? There's been rumors of replacement players, but that didn't work out too well the last time. I've heard from a reliable NFL source that the league has an entire stable of "Stepford Players" ready to fill out every team. Every player is 6'-5", can run sub 4.0 40's, the QB's are all 6-8 so they can see over the lineman with a cannon of an arm. They can audibllize faster than you can move your mouse. None of them drink, own guns ,or chase women either. (well unless you want them too) One GM was heard to have stated, "If the players strike, we'll have these teams fielded by October. It will be the last you've ever heard of TO and Ocho and Brady. No one will want them back after they see these guys play." So that will be the NFL 2012! Move over Madden!

When the NHL canceled their season, they hada weighted lottery. I thought I read someplace that the Sabres lost out to Pitt on what eventually became Sid Crosby i nthe weighted scheme??

I buy into the concept that there is a plan. Many in the press have written how there's no plan mainly due ot RW not stating anything. I think there is a plan, Kelly talks like it involves him, but as part of the plan he's agreed to make very limited statements about it as long as RW is alive. If RW or his estate only cared about maximizing the sale price he could have sold or moved a long time ago. The difference betwen $800 vrs $600 million at that point doesn't matter that much any way.

I don't have a problem with your suggestions, but doubt you'll get anywhere near a #2. But would take whatever you can in trade. I also would consider trading down to get multiple picks. But again you need to find a team wanting to move up. I agree, but the problem is there's a better change at drafting a Ryan Leaf than a Sam Bradford. The odds are in Leafs favor.

One thing I thought about recently with regards to those two. IF the rumors of Kelly buying the team some day after RW is gone are true, you'd have to believe Kelly has nothing but comtempt for those two from dealing he (through his agents) had in his years doing contracts in Buffalo. The final straw may have been the alleged handshake deal he had with RW in his final year. I'd have to believe if Kelly were to buy the Bills, those two would be fired before RW's body is even in the ground. That would be the first order of business. I hope RW remembers them two in his will and leaves them enough to retire on as I doubt they'd be getting anymore jobs in the NFL.

I was going to suggest the same. I wonder if RW has the Sunday Ticket? Makes me also wonder does the NFL make owners buy it?? I suppose whereever you can make a buck.

And nothing to gain. So you answered one question for me, if it was a 51 yarder (which BTW he did make) mean the LOS was around the 34 yard line. Tha makes the odds at scoring a TD in less than 28 seconds from that distance with no timeouts left. even less.

I'd agree with building through the draft with everything excpet QB. Nothing worng there with building through the draft, but QB more than any position seems ot be more failures than sucesses. So having said that, I'd be fine with bringing in some established guy there. It's been proven you can win with a Trent Dilfer and an exceptional team around him. Does that mean I think Fitz can be that guy? Maybe, but would prefer someone with a bit stronger arm and you build an exceptional team. I wouldn't be too upset if the Bills drafted a LT, OLB and DE next year and signed a mid level QB instead of taking chance on drafting one. I think you could improve quicker that way. Drafting QB's is very risky. I also can't imagine RW being willing to pay the going rate for a 1st round QB. All 1st rounders are expensive, but for QB's the price goes up. Maybe a rookie wage scale by next year will solve that issue?

You need to add in: "if we would have went for it on 4th and 1 with 28 seconds left" To me that was a big difference. Assume we did make it, likely would be a running play. By the time things are unpiled assuming you make it, there's maybe 25 seconds left. I believe we had one time out left which we'd have to call then. You're still around the 20 yard line I believe plus or minus? With no timeouts left after that, you have two choices, throw it into the endzone maybe three times, then kick it if unsucessful. You're talking about a 25 to 30 yard throw including distance back pedeling. Fitz doesn't have the strongest arm, so wouldn't give a high degree chance of sucess. It's alot easier to defend too when the DB's don't have to worry about someone going deep so assuming no ints. likely would have kicked anyway. The other option would be to throw underneath, but if you did that, by the time he gets tackled and get everyone back to line to snap it, you'd be under 10 seconds. So now you'd have one shot at most at the endzone and if somehow that play ends on the field of play (sack, etc), would never have a shot at kicking it. So with only 28 seconds left, I thought kicking it was the right move. Granted in hindsight, did leave too much time for Brady, but you'd have to assume we could have done a little better job stopping them than we did.

Mort would sound more believable if he'd quit bringing up TD. TD started out ok, but then became paranoid, that began his downfall. Everyone keeps pointing the finger at Ralph for al lthe problems. Maybe it really isn't him making the bad decisions, but has been Littman and Overdolf. Granted RW has hired them, but would be interesting to know if that is where the problem really is.

What I can't imagine is having a credit card with a limit high enough to charge the bill!!

OK, so lets assume they go for it and do get the first down. Did they still have a time out, left I don't recall. Likely the play would have been a running play so you then would have to call a time out, assuming hey still had one, that may have been their last. So now you have maybe 23 seconds left to try and do something. Any play that end on the field, you're in serious trouble of even being able to get the field goal team out in time. If there was over a minute left, I'd tend to agree but with 28 seconds and likely counting down, the field goal was the best choice as little time let to do much of anything anyway.

Like who, the next Mangini?? I'd be shocked if anyone has been with BB for the past ten years in NE except fo BB himself. So while the assistants come and go, NE is still very good, what's the one common threead? The key in NE isn't the staff, it's BB himself. My opinion he makes his staff look good as he's the one who figures everything out. He may be a jerk, but technically I thin he's the smartest coach in the league. It seems he lets others think his staff is so great, so they hire these guys away, they do nothing, but BB reloads and keeps winning. BTW, I'm not a BB fan, but the guys does amaze me from a pure X's and O's standpoint. Since the days in Cleveland, he's figured out enough to be able to handle the rest of the job without imploding.

I recall another guy with similar "intrique" I believe his name was Rob Johnson!

I wonder how the likelihood of no football in 2011 will effect players going into the draft early? Will juniors and sophmores stick around an extra year in school. You still risk injury, but if there's no 2011 season, you then likey would end up with two years of rookie draft pick in 2012, competing for the same limited positions. So would a player be better playing another year of college to improve and still be in better game shape. Would he have a better chance of beating out the hot shot drafted in April 2011 who sat out a year waiting for the NFL to resume. There'd be no incentive from teams for these guys to sign contracts, so technically they wouldn't even be represented by the NFLPA. They never would have had a chance to make any money. At least in college he can still accept the customary cash!

Then what type of defensive players do you sign/draft? Guys who can still play 4-3? Then next season you're in same spot. If Bills were a playoff team I'd agree, but I think it's better to take your lumps now and as was pointed out, defensively really only a couple good LB's away. Regardless how good/bad you play,switching now also gives a year of experience to the current players.

A friend of mine who's a Steelers fan but doesn't live in their area, sent his father a "HAVA box" The father connects an output from his cable box to the HAVA, then outputs that to his router. My buddy can then watch it on the computer where he lives as long as his dad tunes to that channel on the cable box which he would as he's a Steelers fan anyway. And if he doesn't he can remotely change the channel on his dads cable box just to mess with him. For those who still have friends or relatives in the western NY area, that's a cheap alternative, seems to work. The only catch is whereever you have the HAVA box, you have to have decent upload speeds.

Yeah, but whats your homeowners insurance?? I also moved form Rochester where taxes were up to around $5500 when I left. Now have a house in Wilmington NC about the same value, taxes about $200 more than you , but my homeowners went from around $400 a year in Rochester to around $2500 now including flood insuracnce. Love the beach here, but living on the coast does have some drawbacks.

Myexperience with it was somewhere between Pease and Gringo, not perfect, but pretty good. I did have issues though trying to view other games. I'd get a message something like "Stream not available" Wasn't overly concerned, was just kind of playing aorund. I went to a DTV forum and a DTV spokesperson admitted they were working on some of these "bugs" Maybe game that were in higher demand, were running out of bandwidth or something?? For those out of the area wanting to view games here's another concept. A friend of mine is a Steeler fan but doesn't live in the Pitt TV zone. So he bought this thing called a "Hava" box for $150, configured it, then mailed it to his father who still lives in Pitt. His dad hooked it into output of his cable box then to his router/network, My friend then would access the output of this through IP address and could watch games on his computer where he lives and plans to next use his X-Box to view through TV. He can actually remotely change channels using an IR blaster. Just to mess around with his father who's not that computer savy he'll change his channels. Eventually the father figured out what was going on, but initially thought his TV was haunted. I'm not enough of a techno geek to explain the in's and out's but I'm sure many people here understand the gory details of it. That's why they cal lit "SUNDAY" Ticket

I find it interesting the part about Ralph giving the gree nlight, not necessarily waiting until he dies

No you're not. You're a fan who's passing out grades based on emotion. I didn't see any other grades by writers as low as yours. So that means since your grades are "realistic, they must all be dumb and you're the smart one. As was stated, the defense played well toi give the linebackers nd "F" is plain stupid. Special teams was better thna a "C". The one good drive TE had is worth more than an overall "F" and the O-line helped out there too so again worth better than an "F".

Rarely does a team change QB's no matter how bad they look when the game is still within reach. The Bills were behind 10-3 at the half, so one TD while it looked difficult to happen ties it up. If they were behind 28-3, then it may have happend. Plus with it being the 1st week of season, also less likely to change things. You don't want to take away any confidence TE may have.

One question. Exactly how do you know that the people who TM was recommending were the ones we selected. Scouts typically grade out players. It doesn't mean the Bills selected those he gave the highest grades too. From everything that's been written it seems DJ had a much larger part of whom the Bill's picked than TM did. TM was never the general manager, he was the scout. The choice of whom to select rarly goes to the scout. The Bills were in a rather unique situation as they didn't have a true typical type of GM, but that's where it seemed they gave DJ a much larger role in who to select.. I have no proof of this as obviously there's no proof that I'm wrong either other than the little bits written to suggest DJ had a larger than normal role in the selection process. The fact hat Nix kept him on but dumped John Guy does suggest he didn't hold TM at fault too much. Yuo could argue that he kept him becasue they are friends, but it could be they're friends becasue they share many common opinions on how to select players and Nix agrees with TM.

Actually the question was did you ever have DTV at your current address. When I had DTV was back when I lived in Rochester, so I correctly answered No!