Albany,n.y.

I heard this on the radio a couple of days ago- In the NFL the most important ability is availability. Carter was unavailable way too often to be counted on. Injured in back to back preseasons.

He probably had a bad day at the races. The guy's a bigger horse racing degenerate than I am.

The Bills may have hit on both 7th rounders. Top teams hit on lower round picks.

The only McDermott the Bills are firing is Conor.

The biggest thing the NFL people have over anyone writing about the draft is that they've actually interviewed the guy in depth. I would say just about every top 10 QB spent significant time with team management before the draft. We know the Bills were on the phone with Allen for a long time the day of the draft talking about his teen nonsense. These writers, especially ones like the author here who looks like he lives in his parents' basement, have never spoken with any of these guys except maybe to ask for an autograph or selfie. They know nothing about the minds of these guys. Murray will never play in the CFL. He'll go back to baseball.

The fact that the writer was surprised Allen was picked 7th shows how little he knows. Almost every mock draft had Allen higher. The only surprise was that he lasted to 7th.

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We are the only team besides the Giants who have their preseason games on local TV.

I looked at the schedule & it looks like we'll get at least 8 games on home TV in Albany in addition to every preseason game we get this year. Also all playoff games through the Super Bowl will be on home TV. Games on home TV 9/8 @ NY Jets 9/15 @ NY Giants 9/29 New England 10/20 Miami 11/3 Washington 11/10 @ Cleveland 11/28 @ Dallas 12/29 @ NY Jets Unknown-@ New England-game time/day TBD after week 8. No TV 9/22 Cincinnati 10/6 @ Tennessee 10/27 Philadelphia 11/17 @ Miami 11/24 Denver 12/8 Baltimore 12/15 @ Pittsburgh

He hasn't been in the league since 2013.

I would say most, if not all of us, who have been to a large number of games at some point used published data to get to the W-L totals. I doubt anyone starts off with a log after their 1st game. I knew what games I was at because I've either gone to 1 or 2 games in some seasons & those are easy to remember, or like many years, I went to every home game. With a record like that it's pretty easy to go to a published source to get each game's score. I finally converted my hand written log to a spreadsheet. The replies to the question helped motivate me.

The reason I think the guys who were never on practice squads are irrelevant to the topic is because there's one important element about getting on a practice squad that the non-practice squad players don't have. In order to be placed on a practice squad, a player has to be waived & clear waivers. Now, as someone mentioned earlier, a lot of GMs are guessing when they draft/sign a college QB, that is not the case once the player is in camp & you see what you've got. Since QBs are treated like gold, if a QB shows potential in camp/preseason a team will be too afraid of losing that player by exposing him to waivers & the rest of the league. It was no accident that NE kept 4 QBs in Brady's rookie year. They saw enough that they weren't going to take any chance that someone would put in a waiver claim. The same is true with most rookie late round or UFA QBs-if they show enough potential so that the team is afraid of losing them to another team, they won't get cut-hence, they'll never be on a practice squad. That's why a guy like Romo, who was an undrafted FA is not a viable answer to the original question. Nor are all the other undrafteds mentioned.

I have a problem with the accepted Moon story that racism & nobody willing to take a shot on a black QB is why he went to Canada. My evidence against him is that the same year Warren Moon came out of college, Doug Williams, a black QB out of Grambling, was drafted in the 1st round of the NFL draft. Moon signed with the CFL before the NFL draft was held. Moon never gave any NFL team a chance to take a shot on him.

You're right Warner was never on the Rams practice squad (or any other teams)

And neither ever spent a day on a practice squad. The question wasn't about undrafted QBs, it was about practice squad QBs. Also anyone who answered Romo is wrong too. I found 2 more legitimate answers to the question besides Matt Hasselbeck. Both Jake Delhomme and Marc Bulger spent time on practice squads early in their careers.

No way. Moon was in Canada and signed with Houston as a coveted free agent & Krieg was 3rd string as a rookie. I wish people wouldn't just start throwing names out there without looking it up before they post. A real QB who was on a practice squad who had a decent career is Matt Hasselbeck who cleared waivers & started the 1998 season on the Packers practice squad.

Josh won't be waiting until his contract is up. It's a 4 year deal plus a 5th year option. If he wins Super Bowl MVP before year 4 the Bills will have to pay him in his 4th season. He will be Super Bowl LV MVP.

The 3rd that was traded to Baltimore in the Edmunds trade was the 3rd they got from Cleveland for Tyrod Taylor. The Edmunds trade has nothing to do with the Darby trade. The Philly pick was used to draft Harrison Phillips.

They can move an offensive lineman there, that will fatten them up at CB.

I already groaned your similar post on a different board where you call yourself Mr. Bluto. What I see is an immature loser posting similar messages on multiple boards under different names.

They called it Gazoo, not Gizmo. It was nicknamed after the Great Gazoo character in The Flintstones:

I lived about a mile & a half away from the stadium (Lakeview Ave off Abbott Rd) and walked to & from that game. I got home & everything was soaked. I went to the next home game, a loss to the Jets and never went to another game the rest of that season.

It says streaming is only available in Indianapolis: We'll also stream the game on FOX59.com and the FOX59 app (streaming available in the Indianapolis market only).

Not Rainman-even with the log I messed up my streak, it ended in 2007 not 2008. I edited my post & corrected it, it was 147 straight games & I even have a note in the log about the end of the streak. If I didn't start compiling the log in the years I went to every home game, I could never do it from memory, especially now that I'm considered a senior citizen. I barely remember the details of most of the games with the exception of some playoffs &, the Super Bowls, my 1st game in 1973, the 1980 opener-my 1st & only time on the field while some people were tearing down the goalposts on opening day-only in Buffalo, a 1985 game in Philly where the Bills were up 17-0 going into the 4th quarter & lost 21-17, of course the comeback game & the 1990 AFC Championship 51-3. Most of the other games are pretty much a blur so I'm glad I wrote the scores down. I used media guides for scores when I started the log.

I only went to a few games in the 1970's, 7 total, so it was pretty easy to remember each game & yes, I kept programs & stubs. in 1980 I moved back to the Buffalo area and stayed until 1982, I saw all the home games in 1980 & only missed 2 games in 1981. I only saw 1 game in 1982 due to surgery in August , the strike and moving in December. Unfortunately I sold 19 of my programs in a garage sale at my parents house in the early 1980s-I kept only my 1st game from 1973, the Miami streak ender from the 1980 opener & my finale as a WNY resident 11/21/82. From late1982-late 1987 I lived in Long Island and only went to 9 games, from 1985 on I kept every program except 1 that was stolen during a game. Around 1999 or 2000 I compiled all my data & started keeping a log. I fill it in every time I go to a game and the score. I had seasons from 1990-2011 and rarely missed a home game (I only have been to 1 preseason game 8/8/97 vs Minnesota-I did not include it in my total). I went from October 21, 1990-November 4, 2007 (oops, I originally had this as 11/17/2008) without missing a game (regular season & playoffs) all while living in the Albany area. The 1st game I missed was because they flexed the NE game Thanksgiving week to Sunday night & my father ended up in the hospital & I had to take my mother for eye surgery that Monday in Long Island. As it turned out it was both of their last Thanksgivings, so ending the streak was for even a better cause than I realized at the time. I've slowed down to 2-3 games a year since I gave up my seasons after the 2011 season. Usually only 1 game in Buffalo and a road game or 2 . It's been pretty easy for me to keep track with all the programs, ticket stubs, and now the log. I'm thinking of converting it to an Excel file, but I've been pretty lazy doing it.