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I want to trust Beane, but this is a disaster. We had to beat any offer.

People here in Cincinnati know this, but perhaps Bills fans don’t. Mike Brown, who makes every player/personnel decision for the Bengals, is incredibly change averse. He kept Marvin Lewis even after two terrible seasons. He keeps resigning middling players like Russel Bodine because, and I (almost) quote, “we know what we have.” He refuses to upgrade at the QB position because he knows and likes Andy Dalton. People here in Cincinnati have been screaming that AJ should be given a shot to win the job. Based on training camp and preseason he has won the job the past two years. The Bengals, not the Brown or Jets, are currently the worst-run franchise in the NFL. Their personnel decisions should not enter into your assessment of a player. I watch the Bengals almost as much as I watch the Bills. I would rather have AJ than Dalton.

The rumor here in Cincinnati is that they agreed to it but didn’t get the trade in before the deadline passed. Remember, the Bengals don’t have a GM.

I think that A.J.'s agent is spreading these rumors in an attempt to create a market.

I once had a student at Indiana University write on an H105 (American history) exam "Washington was lucky to have such well endowed advisors as Hamilton and Jefferson." I wrote as a comment "a reference book that contains that information for historical world leaders would explain a lot." To be fair, I didn't deduct points because you can technically be endowed with great intelligence or leadership, but...

I live in Cincinnati, and the Bengals fans only like this because they did something. Remember, the Bengals don't have a GM and the owner likes to maintain relationships even if that means keeping marginal talent well past the the expiration date or keeping problem players even when the distraction overcomes their usefulness on the field. The Bengals have needed a complete roster turnover and a culture change (not to mention a coaching change) for a while now and the fans see this a baby steps in that direction. As for me, I love the trade. I like that the Bills are swinging for the fences for the first time in a long time. It might not work out, but I won't hold it against them because at least they are trying.

Right after he took that picture, Giselle came in and yelled at him for putting his feet on her coffee table books which she paid an interior designer $100,000 to place just right on the giant ottoman. Also, I wonder what he uses those tissues for?

Why can't I get excited? I'm excited about the Bills whipping the Colts. I'm beyond excited about that throw Tyrod made to Percy. I'm excited about Mariota. I'm excited about the Cowboys comeback against the Giants. I'm excited about the two games tonight. Football's back and the Bills don't suck! You know what I'm not too excited about? My 3:00 meeting with general council to discuss ADA compliance of vendor systems. If you can't get excited and irrational about sports, why watch them?

It kills me to hear Gronk, with that thick Buffalo accent, playing for the Pats.

Could it be that the willingness to do what it takes to win at all costs that caused that Belichick to flip from the Jets to the Pats?

That is one of the funniest auto corrects that I have seen in a while. The jokes write themselves, and none of them are SFW.

I haven't lived in Buffalo for a long time. Every time someone talks about all the clubs on Chippewa as if they have always been there I do a double take. When I was in school, people used to say "I saw your mama kicking a can down Chippewa St. singing Home Sweet Home." There were no clubs, only hookers and crack heads.

The NFL draft is not a sporting event. It's reality TV for dudes. Watching the disappointment on players faces as they are not picked is just as much a part of the TV show as Mel Kiper's hair and Todd McShay's incorrect analysis. They invite enough players so that they get that "entertainment."

Wife: "How can you watch men talking about men's bodies for three straight days?" 9 year old Son: "When will they start playing?"

Is he negotiating his deal himself? Doesn't the agent usually do that?

Yeah, and all this after complaining about the "ivy league eggheads" for years and years. In essence, they wanted a meathead with a northern accent who's horse from screaming all day. And just to put a cherry on top of all of this, people tell me that my Buffalo accent makes me sound unintelligent here in Cincinnati where they speak with a Kentucky accent of sorts. Its all relative.

I always find conversing with Buffaloians on sports message boards to be a strange experience because they always use hockey as the point of comparison. I have to defend my love of hockey to midwesterners because they find it about as relevant as many of you find soccer. I would like to make a case for basketball here. When you learn the details of the game, there is as much of a chess match as in football with double screens, planned plays, motion, double teams, defensive rotation, etc... But the ball keeps moving and downtown is at a minimum. As someone who grew up in Buffalo, I never gave basketball much thought. It seemed as foreign as soccer. But spending 8 years in Bloomington, Indiana made me appreciate the game a lot.

First of all, I'm going to ignore the insult. And I never said that he was the answer. I believe that no coach would have been the answer. Unless that coach can block and/or read a defense, the Bills would continue to lose. Vince Lombardi could have maybe coached this team to 8-8.

First of all, that was far from their prime, but rather at the end of their careers. Secondly, if you are searching for a coach that can win without talent, you are not going to find one. You can lose with talent, but you cannot win without it. We all want to believe that hiring a name coach would solve the problems because that should have been easier than getting a major talent infusion. Should be easier after all to hire one person than replace multiple players. But it would not have made much of a difference. No coach could win many more than 6 games with this team as it now stands.

They'll lose tonight because it is that kind of a day for Buffalo sports. Also, remember last year when they sucked and everyone wanted "Linda" and Creamsicle fired?

The same thing that Vince Lombardi would do, lose. Luckily, the Bills don't have the worst roster in football. That honor belongs to the the Detroit Lions. Hey look at that, it can always be worse.

Well then call me an idiot. I'm not thrilled, but he has had some good seasons as OC and HC. Now, Cam Cameron would have made be really angry. But this has me more confused than anything.

We would have to wait a week or three and the negative press from that would kill Russ.

Every city has the disgruntled sports columnist. You should read Bob Kravitz's columns about the Colts in the Indianapolis Star. You would think that they were having a losing season. And when these guys get an actual losing team, they go to town. One time Kravitz actually admitted that he does not really watch pacers' games, but he still uses them as fodder for his columns all the time. The point is that his job is not to report, but rather to stir the pot. And the Bills pot right now is ripe for Sullivan's stirring. It almost stirs itself.

I think that the closest corollary to this situation (or at least the closest one that I can I think of) is Rick Pitino. After failure at the Knicks, goes on to UK where he has one of the best college jobs in the country. Then, gets the call from the Celtics and takes the job. All he did was to reconfirm the fact that he was a terrible NBA coach/GM. So you don't even have to speculate about him pulling a Calipari, ego would be enough to explain the move.