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And when will Coughlin start letting assistant coaches talk to the media?

I know we need upgrades, but just asking for opinions: Can Stroud play the nose? Can Poz play ILB in a 3-4? By "can play" I also mean to ask "how well"?

Okay, I'D punch your sister n the face to get Suh. Just trying to help.

You are absoluetly right about all the USC players who won the Heisman. Plus Terry Baker at Oregon, Jim Plunkett at Stanford, Gary Beban at UCLA . . . And jeez I would love to get Suh for the Bills.

I'm trying to think of the last time a top 3 team was as overrated as Texas out of a conference as overrated as this year's Big 12. Alabama is a pretty good team (not an alltime juggernaut) but will nonetheless just waste Texas.

Are the Bills and Jets wearing throwbacks tonight?

Well, that would explain why he tried to off himself on a fire hydrant. And I wouldn't want to talk about it either.

On behalf of people here who aren't a$$h's and don't live in their mothers' basements, thanks.

I can honestly tell you I have no idea today who any of these guys are, what positions they [think they] play (unless they're all DBs), whether they're worth a second look in the next training camp, and what they stand to contribute to the Bills. Does anyone know the first thing about any of them? Wasn't Alvin Bowen supposed to be a big help this year after IR'ing in '08?

To think the best player in that draft was Sammy Morris . . .

Nick Saban. Bobby Petrino.

What scares me -- and I've posted this before -- is that except for Harvey Johnson, who didn't want it, every interim coach Ralph has ever hired has been given at least another full year. Look at the chart in today's BNews story.

This opening provides a great opportunity for Ralph to bury the hatchet once and for all with Lou Saban.

Not exactly the same thing, but add Gregg Easterbrook (TMQB) and maybe even Tim Russert.

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Not happening. Ralph's always planned to have his estate sell the team because it's the best way to raise the cash for his daughters to pay the inheritance tax. Why would he -- or anyone in the NFL -- consider donating a nine-figure asset to a not-for-profit? And don't bring up the Packers. The franchise wasn't worth much in the 50's when it went semi-public.

He was a Fox analyst before he went to Detroit, and that's exactly how he got the job: he impressed Bill Ford when he talked about the game.

. . . and I thought this was going to be Dom Capers vs. Marty Schottenheimer. Seriously.

And FWIW: Jax used our #1 pick for Fred Taylor.

It wasn't hiring Donahoe. The guy had the resume at the time. And it wasn't firing Donahoe. He had clearly failed by then. It was deciding after firing Donahoe that the Bills didn't need a real football executive to run the show. Thus we get Marv just to calm everyone down and eventually Brandon. If Ralph hires a real GM who wants to be a GM and has the background to BE a GM, everything turns out differently after Donahoe leaves.

Why did Ralph fire Polian?

"Shed your blocker, and THEN tackle the ballcarrier? Yeah, that's a good idea too. Thanks for thinking of it."

Is that the Mike McMahon from Rutgers who played for the Eagles? How old is he by now? Is THAT the kind of QB this league plays?

Actually he thought he was doing that with John Rauch in '67, but that didn't work either.

Bingo. What this team needs is a management overhaul to run the housecleaning. When Wayne Huizenga got fed up with mediocrity (Dave Wannstedt, Cam Cameron and his 1-15) he brought in Parcells and aced out Blank in Atlanta in the process. When Hunt (Lamar's son) got fed up in KC he brought in Scott Paoli. Those owners recognized they need real professionals to compete. Once -- ONCE -- in Bills history, Ralph thought it was time to bring in an outsider with a strong resume to retool the whole organization. That was Tom Donahoe. (Hard to remember, but at the time Bills fans thought it was a great move.) I worry that Ralph felt so burned by the Donahoe experience that he'll never bring in a legitimate football man.