Albany,n.y.

Bring back Josh Johnson? Just imagine Johnson to Phillips, we'd have the best minor league duo in the NFL. Cardale's MVP dream is dying in LA. I hope nobody here bet DC and gave the points.

I'm just glad that JP Losman isn't in the XFL lighting things up like he did when he led Las Vegas to the UFL championship. The calls to bring him back would crash the site.

Bring him back as a valet parker.

The Buffalo News says Ch 10 in Albany is part of the agreement. Games have been on Ch 23, but since it's the same management I'm guessing they'll stay on Ch 23.

My point is that no matter what your age, rooting against your team on a given down or even a game now and then will not divide your loyalty. Fans can multitask & still love their team just as much as the blind loyalist who feels the need to root for the team on every single down regardless of any other circumstances. I don't buy the idea that some kid, who isn't even eligible to play fantasy football, will lose his love of a team by not rooting for the team on every play. Do you know what the best way to kill a kid's interest in the home team is? I'll tell you-it's having a losing team for almost every year the kid is growing up. Fantasy football & betting won't make a kid find a different team than dad's, losing will. There have been numerous times in my 50 +/- years as a Bills fan that I have rooted against the team for one reason or another and it has not reduced my love of the team one iota. Examples are: I bet against them in a game I know they are not giving their best effort, like this past season's finale, December games where the game means nothing & the team will benefit with a higher draft choice, and games where a key player or coaching change will happen with a loss and that change, IMO, will greatly benefit the team in the long run. The best example would be in 1986 vs Tampa where an incompetent coach's job was on the line if the Bills lost. They lost & Hank Bullough was replaced by Marv Levy. I had no problem with the team losing if it meant Bullough, who I thought should have been fired immediately after the 1985 season ended, would get fired.

As a gambler, I can't agree. This year in the Bills regular season finale I saw a golden opportunity to bet against the Bills because I knew they were resting their key players. I bet the Jets on the money line & cashed the bet. Yes, I was rooting against the Bills 2nd stringers, but it didn't effectively reduce my long term love of the team.

You are underestimating how legalized sports betting will greatly expand further NFL growth. As gambling on the NFL continues to grow there won't be a peak until all states have it for years. Also, once gambling availability comes within walking distance of the stadiums, or even in the stadiums themselves, your theory of empty stadiums dies. Right now there is a sports book in the Meadowlands complex. You can walk to the Meadowlands race track from your parking spot & they even have shuttle buses to get you there. That is the future of the NFL: Go to the game, bet the game at either the stadium or a short distance away and root on your bet. The time of peak football isn't even close to the present.

Chan Gailey-screwing up teams wherever he goes. I heard on WGR this week when Armando Salguero was on from Miami that Chan Gailey was OC in Miami and told them not to draft Drew Brees because Brees was too short to succeed as a NFL QB.

Why would anyone ask a question about a lockout when the current CBA runs through next season & reports are the new agreement will be done within a month?

We waived him twice, including the year we had the worst group of WRs in the NFL. That ship has already sailed and sunk.

The fans at that stadium in Carson seem to be a lot more into rooting for the home team (Wildcats) than at any of the Chargers home games in that stadium. Biggest name in the XFL: Willie Mays. Nobody seems to care that he's not the former Giants HOF baseball player.

Not if there was a blizzard. The good news is UBs stadium would require a lot fewer people to clear the seats than New Era, the bad news is they never have to worry about clearing snow in LA.

The facts are he has never said "bigly". He is actually using the term "big league".

Raiders. I went to a game in Oakland & saw him play.

McGloin just threw his OC & HC under the bus. When asked what NY needs to do he said change the entire offensive game plan. He'll probably be replaced within a couple of weeks talking like that. If there's a post game presser, I wouldn't be surprised if Gilbride says : We need to change the entire QB depth chart.

Real Sports had a segment that recommended every football team at all levels have an ice tub available for when a player collapses with heat exhaustion. They save lives.

He's only 68, there have been assistant coaches in their 70s. Head coaches too, he's only 1 year older than Belichick. He was an assistant coach for 19 years in the NBA. If he can translate his NBA experience to the NFL, why not give him a chance?

Here's why it can't be done. Wipes out too many parking spaces. Also, the stadium is too close to Abbott rd. They would have to close the road permanently and the people trying to go south on Abbott would have to re-route like they have to do on gamedays all the time instead of around 10 times a year.

It was the joke of a duo of Nix/Gailey who traded Lynch, not because Ralph didn't want to pay him, but because the duo didn't like his off the field stuff. So, instead of building his trade value up, they tore it down by drafting another RB in the 1st round, then demoralizing Lynch making him unwelcome & taking snaps away from him. So after that Lynch was glad to get away from a team that (yes, through Ralph's "contribution") had become a place where nobody wanted to come to and had no chance of winning for the foreseeable future. That's how we got Gailey in the 1st place since the situation was so bad, Nix had to hire a coach whose last NFL stop was getting fired as an OC in preseason because no self respecting coach would come here. I still don't get the love Gailey gets around here-he sucked as a HC, exemplified by the time he lost a game by punting from his opponent's 34 yard line because he didn't trust his kicker to try a 51 yard FG or trust his offense to get a 1st down.

Kelly was drafted in 1983. Polian didn't join the Bills until August 2, 1984 when he was hired as director of pro personnel. Polian was GM when Kelly signed his 1st Bills contract after the USFL let the players go to the NFL in 1986 before officially folding.

In this century the Bills have been bad when trading 1st round picks, up or down. 2002- Traded 2003 1st rounder for Bledsoe 2004-Traded back into the 1st round for JP Losman giving 2005 #1 to Dallas as part of the deal. 2013-Traded down & used the lower 1st rounder on EJ Manuel 2014-Traded up trading their 2014 & 2015 1st rounder in the Sammy Watkins trade 2017-Traded down giving KC the best young QB in the NFL 2018-The jury is out but it may be that Beane has stopped the bad 1st round trades of the 2000s. We'll be able to better evaluate those trade ups when Allen & Edmunds go for their 2nd contracts.

Polian had nothing to do with drafting Jim Kelly.

Here's my Jim Everett story. Years ago I got into the habit of bringing a little Sony Watchman TV with me to games, mainly because the Bills didn't have a replay scoreboard. One time a group of us went to NE to see the Bills play the Patriots. On the way home we went to a rest stop on I-90 in Massachusetts. I turned on the Jets/Rams game while we ate at Sbarro. On one play the Jets intercepted Everett & I yelled very loudly "you suck" at the TV. Several people turned in my direction & thought I was fighting with someone at our table. I had to explain to them I was yelling at Jim Everett on my little TV and we were all getting along at our table.

Never left. I was with a friend who wanted to leave but I couldn't even if I wanted to (which I didn't since I learned never to leave a game after I left the famous Joe Ferguson comeback game & heard the cheers in the parking lot). When he suggested we leave I told him not only no way, but my friend who I was driving back to Albany was in another part of the stadium & I wasn't going to go down to his seats & suggest he leave early. Finally I told my friend next to me if he wanted to, I'd give him my car keys & he could sit in my car until the game ended. He declined the offer & every time the Bills scored I waved the car keys at him & asked him "do you want to leave now?" Finally after I did it a few times he called it "The key to victory".

I remember the back page of the NY Post the day after the Colts sent Elway to Denver. The headline said GRAND THEFT ELWAY