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John, Cool idea. Sorry I won't be able to make the drive. Maybe next year.

It's not even close between Kent Dorfman and him.

It's possible he makes the team, but right now I'm not expecting it. I'd like to see Hogan and Easley both get some work w/ the 1's against the Skins (even though it'll be Kolb rather than EJ looking for them) to see if they can get open against the 1's. If they can only do it against the 2's-4's, I'd expect Rogers chances go up. If they get the chance and look reasonable, Rogers is probably toast. Perhaps his physical potential will get him onto this squad. Unless Easley or Hogan falter these last 2, I expect he'll have to show more from here than he has to date.

He definitely seemed 'Trentative' out there. Hopefully that's just a case of him not facing real action for ~10 months. If not, his tenure backing up EJ will be short. He'll get a lot of action against the Skins. For his sake, he'd better make the most of that one.

I'd be surprised if Rogers makes this squad. If he clears waivers, which he probably won't, then I'd expect him on the PS. Paul Hamilton was saying on GR that he'd miss reps in practice because he wasn't paying attention. Maybe he's slow to mature, maybe he's just slow, but either way, if he can't focus well enough to take his reps in practice and he doesn't get reps in games, I don't see him fitting into their scheme at present and possibly ever. Maybe he'll be a star in the league some day, I don't see it in this scheme. This looks like a really talented bunch of receivers - the Bills haven't had that in ~10 years. I don't see them keeping a true project on the active roster when they've got the opportunity to keep several other guys that could potentially step up as a reasonable starter this year and have potential to be true #2 quality guys next season.

Unfortunately I am out.

That would be amazing. Right now, I'd be extremely happy with Tuel continuing to look good when he plays garbage minutes in preseason games the next 2-3 years getting a chance to play in A real game over that same time period and then dumping him like the FLA teams dumped Mitchell and Johnson. Tuel looked good in 1 appearance. Keep giving him opportunities to look good in garbage time this preseason; builds his confidence and maybe long run builds his trade value. Maybe he even becomes a useful #2 for the Bills down the line. All of it's good, none of it's a given. Give EJ the bulk of the #1 reps and get him ready for the opener. If they can't get him ready to start the opener, which would be somewhat surprising the way he looked in the 1st outing, then throw Kolb to the wolves. Right now the odds are strongly indicating that EJ's the QB of the future. Why screw around with that by giving the guy that was only supposed to be camp fodder #1 reps?

The HD feed on 13 definitely had issues. I've still got a TV hooked up to an SD box and that feed wasn't effected by whatever was going on.

Now that the game will no longer be live, IF it shows up again on NFL Network, then it won't be blacked out. So you might still be able to get their take on it.

Because Channel 13 broadcast the game. When the local station has exclusive broadcast rights in the market, the other channels get blacked out. It's the same way w/ Sabres games and CI. You cannot get the other team's feed in Buffalo / Ra-cha-cha.

Bills win coin toss. Brad Smith brings opening kickoff back for a TD. Marrone and Crossman reward him w/ a wildcat snap on extra point and he runs it in. Bills up 8-0.

NG, good luck to you, your son, and your family. Ill pray that he finds the strength to beat his demons. Hopefully, he's at a place in his life and has the right support that this is the time he wins.

I should be able to be there, but will probably be 15-20 minutes late.

Granted it's unlikely, but how will it end up going over if a guy ends up giving his regular season teammate a 'season-ending' sort of injury? Not that I'd wish injury on anyone, but in a schadenfreude sort of way it might be entertaining to see a Cheatriot* break another Cheatriot*. Though with Buffalo's luck, it'll be the 1st time in forever that the Bills end up with multiple Pro Bowlers and then Gilmore breaks Stevie's collar bone.

Makes sense. They've already had 12 years of Mayor Butthead.

Though what you bolded is what the race-baiters want you to believe, that is not what this case was about. Though there are some (many?) that wish to believe that GZ 'stalked' TM, the evidence doesn't support that. The evidence actually suggests that TM could easily have gotten into the house he was heading towards without confronting GZ at all. Both men made several bad choices that night; and now 1 of them is dead. That is tragic. That GZ now essentially has a fatwa out against him is also tragic.

Unfortunately for those wishing to have seen GZ get convicted, all GZ needed to get acquitted was 1 of those 'plenty of possibilities' to be plausible. The state had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the alternatives all weren't plausible. They did not do that in the minds of the jurors.

Except there is no proof that he started the fight. (It was his word against the DA's and a lot of the DA's witnesses and evidence supported GZ's contention that he didn't start the fight. At least enough for reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors.) And, it seems that you are heading towards bringing the 'stand your ground' law into the matter; it wasn't brought up by the defense, so stand your ground wasn't an issue in this case.

Except, in Florida (and most everywhere else in this country) killing someone in and of itself isn't a crime. Someone, 3rd?, posted the conditions that have to be met in Florida for 2nd Degree Murder (and the lesser charges). The DA had to prove all the conditions were met to bring the killing to the level of a criminal offense. 6 jurors determined the state did not prove it's case. It is still innocent until proven guilty in this country. And the jurors determined that because he was acting in self defense, that GZ wasn't guilty of the crimes he was accused of having committed.

Nooooo, in THIS country, in criminal trials, the defendant has a presumption of innocence. The prosecution has to PROVE the defendant is guilty; not the other way around.

All sorts of police OT when the riots begin a couple of hours after the verdict is read.

Well, all Physicists are Mathemeticians but not all Mathemeticians are Physicists.

What Physicist isn't?

When the AFC moved from NBC to CBS they rechecked the broadcast areas for each of the municipalities and found that a VERY small sliver of the Syracuse TV market fell w/in 75 miles of Rich Stadium. The sliver was on 1 of the Finger Lakes and at the time had all of 8 houses and 1 closed restaurant. Because of that sliver, the blackout was on for Syracuse. (Side note: Baton Rouge fell victim to NO's blackout that same year for essentially the same reason. Don't know if that one's been lifted or not.) The next year, that sliver of land was reclassified to the Ra-cha-cha market but Ralph and the Bills wouldn't budge on pulling Syracuse out of the blackout zone. This really stunk for me as I could get the Syracuse stations over the air though I'm in the Ra-cha-cha market. As for Ralph not caring about the blackout; that's BS. He'd extend the range of the blackout if he could (as he's done in the past).

Roast chicken w/ wing sauce injected cooked in oil-less fryer along w/ salt potatoes and Cajun potatoes.