Offside Number 76

PTR--are you sure? Doesn't GR advertise that Sabres games are available through its (very crappy) app? To OP: I've had a lot of success using the TuneIn Radio app for iPhone/iPad. I don't know whether they have a version for traditional computers or over the web (but I don't see why not).

They are an AHL team right now.

"Damn the sun! How long will it torment us?" -- Guglielmo Marconi I think it's easier for AM waves to travel at night. PTR will know a lot more about this than I, though.

Thanks for adding this. I had forgotten that there was a point several years ago where the station and the team were at odds with each other. But for a number of years now, it's been pretty straight reporting and commentary, IMO. I think people will like the change. Unlike 97 Rock, WGR is able to handle a lot of weekly Bills-related programming.

His attitude towards the Bills shouldn't change until the team changes. I haven't agreed with every criticism he's articulated over the years, but the team certainly is easy to criticize.

They talk about the Bills ALL THE TIME. People get pissy when the folks at the station talk hockey. I can't imagine what they'd do in a market with four--or seven!--pro sports teams plus major college sports. People also get pissy when they do things like a country draft or Thanksgiving dinner Survivor (you'd have to listen to understand; you wrote that you don't). I can understand a little more about the frustration with that, even if I think it's entertaining. It certainly isn't sports talk. But they do treat the Bills very seriously. Negatively, which is deserved, but seriously. They had a great ten-minute interview with SJ the day after the benching. 97 Rock didn't. Schopp and the Bulldog make snarky remarks about drunk callers, not so much about the Bills. Frankly, listening to the drunk caller beat-down is usually more entertaining than listening to the coack explain a loss, but I'll certainly admit that Sunday, I was tuned in to 97 to hear Gailey explain the SJ situation. That lasted a minute, and then I was back to GR to hear a decent dialogue instead of just an interview.

Are people really critical that GR isn't positive about the Bills? Has there been much to be positive about? During just two short stretches since I moved back here seven years ago, the team has been worth talking about in a positive manner: FIrst five weeks of 2008 and first five weeks of 2011. Do you really want the radio opinion folks to talk up a crappy team? Is that useful? If so, to what end?

Did you miss the "penalty" against Flo? Brady looked like a soccer player on that one.

You graduated?

Wow. 9 pages. I'll bet everything that needed to be said is in the first 2-3.

Gailey: team policy established earlier in the season was any penalty for demonstration would result in bench for rest of game.

Don't put a rookie Q out there at all. That's been one of the problems with this team. I'm not going to argue the qualities of Losman and Edwards, but I will say that putting a true rook at Q usually doesn't work well. YES, there are exceptions. Please (not necessarily you, Dr.D.) don't come back with Brady this or Manning that. A good QB sits for two years and develops, most of the time. There are more Rodgerses (yeah, that's the correct plural despite the B-Lo tendency to add an apostrophe when not needed), Kellys (don't think for a second that the USFL didn't help him develop, and don't forget his record in '86), and Breeses (see Rodgers on the plural) than there are Mannings or Bradys. A good Q needs time, a good line, and a good coach. I think the BIlls have a decent, but not great, line; I also think that Gailey, while not a SB coach, might be the guy to develop a young Q.

The Bills will not have a pick around #10. It will be around #15 after they beat New England on Sunday.

I'd rather listen to a rerun of the postgame show than an NBA game. Or the NASCAR hour they had while I was driving, between 6 and 7.

Mine was between six and ten wins.

Bill has a horsewhip.

One is an average (or maybe just above) QB who might succeed as a game manager. (Flacco) The other is a below-average QB whose team might succeed in spite of him. (Sanchez) Both rely upon their defenses, to varying degrees of success (from season to season). I pretty much agree w/ you and I don't want either one in red, white and blue two years from now.

Upbeat: I'm rooting for them to break the broncs and then sweep the postmen. Is there any other acceptable outlook for a fan? I'm looking for the team to send a message that despite injuries and an idiot DC (until today), they're for real. That message is more important than a few spots up in draft order. A LOT more important.

It will happen at some point; it is inevitable. Likely in the NHL/NBA first, then the NFL. And about a decade after the NFL does it, MLB eventually will cave, just as it did with ads on the walls.

Unfortunately, I'm in my office, and the site is blocked. Dammit. Have fun.

Fez, please allow me to bump this up for you...

Absolutely.

This is the one, in my mind.

Interesting that the no. 5 entry doesn't include Manning in the listing, but does include him in the paragraph following it. Is it limited to players who dressed for a game during the season or something?

Where's this theory coming from lately? Last I knew, PTR IS a media type!