Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

Yeah but I still can't get locals in HD. If I'm going to pay the money for DTV, I don't want ot have ot deal with antennas and other things for locals. I want it all coming off the dish. I'm not to far from you BTW, I'm in Wilmington.

I'd keep Mitchell and cut Kelsey. Agreed don't see 4 TE on the roster. I also would give Hardy one more year. He really hardly played last year due ot injury and again preseason. Maybe that's his problem, he can't stay healthy enough to get gain experience, but would give it one more shot. I think Brown is on PS and Fitz may also stay. Teams seem to like extra LB's as good special teams roles for them too.

The NFL doesn't seem to police the online streaming for pre-seaosn gamses as much as regular. (guess they're in pre-season training themselves??) The key is getting a site for regular season games. That was very irregular and getting tougher each year. There were some weeks with a good quality feed, other weeks, was like desribed above, a guy aiming a camara at a TV. All of a sudden it owuld become " unavailable" Can't figure out, does the NFL contact the ISP mid game for them to take the feed down. How do they find the people to contact on a Sunday afternoon? Is frustrating, but can't see spending over $300 for Sunday Ticket. Plus where I live no locals in HD on DTV yet.

I recall there was one season where there were two bye weeks for some reason?? Like had to do with when Super Bowl was scheduled and when they wanted the first week. It use to be the first week of the seaosn often was on Labor Day weekend. The league has totally eliminated thta now and always starts a week later. With the extra playoff round and extra bye, likely would have to start last weekeknd in Augst to end with SB being the 1st weekend in Feb. I have one of those sport fact's of the day ripoff calendars. Always funny when you read how mack in 196X something the NFL championship game was held on Dec 29th or so. I'm old enough to recal lthe 1967 Ice Bowl being played over Christmas vacation. May have to also increase roster sizes becasue even if not playing a game the extra week, there still could be injuries in practices. One suggestion I've seen is make the 53 man roster the actual active roster and expand practice squard to 10.

The Bills have followed the model of the Steelers, Pats, and Ravens, build through the draft and sign key free agents either for backups at low cost or the occasional starter. The difference is these other teams have got the selections right the majority of the time where as the Bills have failed on most of their picks. Three teams that have gone the other route spend as much as fiscally possible are the Redskins, Cowboys and Raiders. One has been a total failure, one middle of the road and one has done well, but not as well as Pats, Steelers or Ravens. You also don't know what will happen next year with repsect to a salary cap. Considering the owners tore up the old aggrement due to spending too much, I'd be very surprised if there isn't another salary cap. How will it be handled? Will teams be given a two year window to get things back under cost since there was no cap this season, or will the free spenders be out of luck? No one knows, and that's why many teams tended to spend rather low this year due to uncertainty.

So he's asked a question. Would you have preferred: A He ignores the person asking the question? B He states that he has no idea how good a coach he'll be?

The Bills have an off day on Sunday, so they can likely stay out late tonight. Where will Lynch go? The East End?? Make sure the doors are all locked tonight!

My comments were geared more towards the OP mentioning about how they bash the Bill's not so much that they don't even talk sports. I totally agree they are terrible, but I can understand why they'd promote the Sabres at the expense of the Bill's. That's just smart business. I don't live in wester nNY anymore so don't need ot listen to them. But when I did, I thought thye were lowsy. Now I get ot listen to Prime Time with the Packman. (hosted by Billy Packers son if you remember Billy)

while I do think they are both idiots, and no one thinks more highly of Shoup than himself, you do need to put things in perspective. Buffalo is hard pressed to fully support two non winning sports teams. Their jobs depend on the Sabre's not the Bill's. If the Sabres left town, WGR would be gone with them as they'd have nothing left. I'm sure much of their advertising $$ come from Sabre related programming. So if you're deciding do I go to a Bills or Sabre game, well the Bills are doing poor anyway, run by a bunch of morons (that's where they come in to convince you of that) you put your money on the Sabre's.

He could have reported, got his $20 mil and still got a new contract. aybe it would have taken longer, but for the most part teams do reward players who show up to camp as opposed to the Jason Peters model. One is not exclusive of the other!

Got to feel sorry for the person on the other end of that conversation. I wonder what erroneous information that person received??

I think the true lies somewhere between him seeing many others do similar things to get out of all the mini camps, OTA, part of regular trainging camp, etc, (see Brett) and if the Bills' feel he isn't ready, then he gets cut as described below. I ofte nliste nto Mike & Mike and Golic always talks about how he hated al lthe off seaso nstuff, that was why he retired, if it was just Sundays, he'd still be playing if he could. Personally it really doesn't bother me all that much, as a veteren with his experience, he'll likely pick up things quickly. It's the trend of the future, proves how worthless training camp somewhat is. Certain positions like QB and WR need alot of reps to get timing down. A defensive end, all he needs to figure out is the quickest route to the QB. Is that over stating things, yeah, but I think its' closer to the truth than many people here want to make it out to be. Does it smell, yeah, but I don't consider it much of a bad smell, just a smell.

There was one article I read that stated that Levitre if left at guard could be one of the best in football, that sounded much better than just "OK" That was kind of the core of the article, dismissing the idea of moving him to tackle as if left at guard could be great.

I agree, I think you have two strong, likely to become above average guards, maybe even top 10 within 2 seasons. You have a center who can hold his own and I'll give Nix the benefit of the doubt in the right tackle he signed. Likely he will be serviceable and do OK. That leaves LT. Hopefully between Wang, Bell, and Meredith, one of them can prove to be better than average. It may be Wang, but not likely this year. Meredith seems better suited for the right side but may be OK on the left. If the tight end position also improves at blocking, another potential improvement there too. While LT is typically the most important spot on the line, if your other 4 spots all produce above average results, you can live with one position a bit weaker than you'd like.

I would alter that statement a bit as follows: Gailey is a guy with a proven history of taking chicken crap and turning it into chicken salad but to date has not been able to turn it into Chicken Marsala. He's working on the recipe and given the time, he may succeed. The problem he's had to date is most of the customers don't want to give the time to perfect it. Persoanlly I prefer a good steak!

Born NYC area 1955 Moved to Rochester 1976 Moved to Wilmington NC 2008

Well yeah, as in the what was it maybe 8 games last year he was with the Bill's he got to play in one. That's all he's ever started. Some coming in mid season with a conservative coach and a totally screwed up offense, he wasn't given much of a chance. I'm not saying BB is the guy, but he certainly is the least known of what you may or may not have. Yes he can be worse or he could be better. But you're assuming the glass is half empty based on nothing you or anyone has seen of him. So as a rookie he wasn't able to beat out Rogers whom in hindsight has turned out much better than ever thought. At the time I'm sure the reason GB picked Brohm was they weren't all that confident in Rogers yet otherwise why use another high draft pick on a QB. But Rogers proved him wrong, so BB got demoted. Well apparently he didn't handle his demotion very well and that caused him to fall all the way to #3 QB. OK you can fault him for that, but at the end of the day does it matter as unless you're number 1 you're not going to play anyway unless someone is hurt. So other than seeing him in a little bit of pre-season games, there isn't anyone who knows anything about what he can or can't do. And Gary Marangi certainly didn't have the "pedigree" coming into the NFL that BB has. Granted you have to live up to it but if he plays we'll all find out. It's easy to say he won't work out as there are many more failures than sucesses for NFL QB's. But anyone who claims to know he doesn't have "IT" in truth knows nothing as if you really were as smart as you think, you wouldn't be posting on some message board.

The entire NFL was wrong about him to begin with as most thought fairly high about him. So he got beat out by the 3rd stringer, then sounds like kind of sulked and went downhill. Stranger things have happened. The NFL hasn't seen enough of him to decide. It's not to say that other teams also didn't want him. A tthe time he stated, he was interested in going to the Bills becasue he felt he had a good shot at playing. Maybe Indy or NO wanted him, if so he likely would have said no thanks will stay on the Pakcers practice squard. Then along comes Buffalo and he bolts. At this point no idea who does or doesan't think much about him.

OH, Based on the title, I thought this trhead was about the England-USA world cup game Go USA!!

If you're 50, you ain't recovering from that type of injury in 5 minutes! If you are, I want to meet your trainer.

Johnson's a keeper. Then we'll have a Wang on offense and a Johnson a defense. You can never have too many pricks on a team!

As you age, you'll find it takes longer to recover from these types of "injuries"

Is it my imagination or are the Bills signing their picks earlier this year. June 4th and two already signed?? Seems betterthan lately. I'd assume RB is heavily involved in that part, maybe because he's not doing other things, he has more time to work on getting the picks signed.

You may not have bought into it, but history says very few repeat. Maybe the year after they get back to SB once they realize they need to drain their fat heads.

In any of the four Super Bowls if you switched coaches I think the Bills would have won. That being said, I do think Marv's much more laid back "Club Marv" allowed them to come back every year. JJ or BP would have burnt everyone out once thye won the first. I'd even go as far to say if the Bills had won the first agaisnt the Giants, they never would have repeated. It's always tough to repeat as hard to keep the players focused. Marv allowed the players freedom, but if they had won it all the extra jolt of publicity would have been too much to overcome. There'd be player sightings reported every night at 2:00am in the bars, etc. and Marv likely would have more allowed that.