Offside Number 76

A lot of the points, yards, completions, etc. came in "garbage time."

Maybe he wants to wait for a west coast team or large market team to bottom out, rather than be drafted by a certain team. There have been players who have refused to report to certain teams (Manning, Elway come to mind) when selected first overall. Staying in school would help him avoid that controversy, if he doesn't want to go to the team that is likely to select him. Also, if there is a new CBA in place, it very likely will have a rookie cap. He might wait a year for that cap to go up. Finally, it's been said elsewhere on this board that he takes his studies seriously and that his family doesn't exactly need the money. I think (and hope) he'll declare, but there are some reasons why he wouldn't.

Not at QB, he didn't. But your point is well-taken anyway.

Not if he stays in school, he won't. Same goes for Luck. I'm not sure I would spend an early first-round pick on either Ponder or Locker. I think that if they were the best available, I'd rather grab a stud lineman, and see if one or the other is available in the second. If not, it's Luck or Mallett in 2012. I'm willing to wait 2 years if all of the pieces are going to come together, rather than rush the job and have eight more years of 7-9.

The stats are inflated by garbage-time drives (look at where the bulk of passing yardage came against Jax, for example), but as above, Fitz is far from the Bills' biggest problem. (No, that does NOT mean that I want him starting next year, or that the Bills shouldn't take Luck or Mallett if available.)

Yeah, and anyone dealing for Lynch would have to keep in mind that he's a minor transgression away from sitting out a season. That's not the case w/ Branch.

Amen. Kelsay got an extension (which I didn't like), so now no one else can call a meeting? Seems like a stupid conclusion.

If they have it, and Luck stays at Stanford, and the Bills take Carimi first and Mallett or Locker 33d, the whole fan base will come right back. Not saying that's the right move, but the whole fan base will love it.

Doesn't matter; apparently, they are able to fit a hundred dollars' worth of bottles (that's 2000 bottles!) into each. Or at least according to the philanthropists here.

Look at the history since the merger. More busts than Hall of Famers, and the Bills got two Hall of Famers out of four no. 1 picks. Not bad at all. (Add the Cousineau-for-14th-pick in '83 trade, and the Bills got three Hall of Famers.)

At least historically, the Bills have done ok with the first overall pick. Patulski didn't work out, but Simpson and Smith sure did. And even Cousineau led to Jim Kelly.

Oh, I'm not assuming anything about Green Bay. It just makes no sense that a lot of teams were interested, but none had someone pick up the phone and make a call. Why am I starting to seem like a Bills' PR person? Because I'm questioning a news article that is, in fact, questionable?

He was mine for a while. I've switched, and I'm hoping for Luck now.

Luck > Mallett > Locker.

I have a problem with the first item, but that's about it. I doubt the people in front of you were "covered" in cheese and beer (if they were, they should have talked to an usher), and I know that much more than half of the stadium is not near section 108 (and I don't really care about two girls who were stupid enough to get into a fight, either). And that was not all you were asking; you were asking for the game to be the perfect environment for your nieces. It will not be the perfect environment for your nieces.

Look, I'm not one of the drunken idiots, but I don't understand why people think it's a God-given right to take their children everywhere. Sport is good; so is music. Kids enjoy both. But NFL games and rock concerts are places where grown-ups go to blow off some steam. It's our turf. (By our, I mean grown-up, not drunk.) Take the kids to a Bandits game or a UB game instead, or understand that you are bringing your children into a grown-up environment where they will hear foul language, and unfortunately, encounter drunken idiots. whateverdude, cmmon sense doesn't need to be printed on tickets, and the mission statement comment is just stupid. Look, I agree with your stance on the garbage, but with all the rest of the complaints, it sounds like an NFL game is not the place for you to be; 72,000 people are not going to change their behaviors to suit you. (Or me, which is one reason why I don't go to many games.)

NFL games are not for children. Just because a sport is involved doesn't mean that it has to be a kid-friendly environment.

Not off of the cans, they didn't.

40,000 cans and bottles? NO way. I'll bet that the most ambitious/creative of them make in the $200 range (that's still 4,000 cans and bottles--over 160 cases--to transport), though.

I doubt it too. Makes no sense at all.

He could be eighteen or twenty. Honestly, who the hell understands/watches football before the age of eight, or nine, or ten, other than kids who play little loop? My first REAL Bills memories are of the 1983 and 1984 teams (so ugly, I know), and I was 11 and 12 then.

Wow. I didn't know that part. But it checks out.

It was Snyder who tried to move the team in the first instance, not Brown (to this day, I try not to spend a dime in Snyder's Hyatt on Main St.), and I believe it was to Florida, not San Diego, to which he first tried to move the team. Interestingly, the Braves played a series of games in Toronto to try to broaden the fan base before moving. Brown then got control and actually ADDED talent (Malone) before giving up. And of course, in effect, he didn't move the existing Braves team to San Diego (and then LA); he moved the Celtics. He swapped the entire Braves team for the entire Celts team before the move. I do not think, though, that this is what Wilson is up to. He may not care if the team stays (personally, I think he would prefer that it does stay), but he definitely doesn't care if it goes--he's not doing anything to try to help a move.

Wasn't the cheats' strategy for a while to avoid first-round picks and to stockpile second-round picks? I seem to remember this. Maybe the memory is flawed.