Albany,n.y.

I finally bit the bullet & paid $35.88 for a year's worth of Bills stories. For less than $3/month, I thought it was worth it.

They're going to say it was Coleman's weed in Callaway's car ?

Coleman trade next week.

5 janitorial jobs, 1 sewer job & a job at the racetrack cleaning out the stalls.

There's another one: Back in the 1980s the Bills were the laughingstock of the league, having lost 1st rounder Jim Kelly to the USFL & losing Joe Cribbs to the USFL and coming off a 2-14 season. The Bills had the top pick in the supplemental draft in 1985 & traded it to Cleveland. Amazingly, back in those days, Bernie Kosar was able to maneuver his way to the supplemental draft BEFORE the NFL draft was held, so the Bills/Cleveland deal was made almost 3 weeks before the regular NFL draft. One part of the deal was LB Chip Banks, who refused to go to the Bills. When Banks refused to report, Cleveland shipped their 1st rounder in 1985 (their 1986 1st rounder had already been included in the deal) to the Bills instead. The Bills then traded it (pick 7) to Green Bay for GB's 1st (pick 14) and 2nd. The Bills took Derrick Burroughs & Chris Burkett with the 2 picks from GB.

GB waived Brian Brohm at the end of preseason of his sophomore year***. A few years ago some team cut their 2nd round pick as a rookie. One year, Minnesota cut their 1st round rookie because they realized he was a mental case in preseason. EDIT: Here's what I saw on a message board after a search: Dimitrius Underwood selected in the first round (29th) of the 1999 NFL Draft by the Vikings. Sad / bizarre story from Wiki: He signed a five-year, $5.3 million contract on August 1, 1999, and walked out of training camp the next day after the first practice and never returned. He forfeited a $1.75 million bonus saying he could not resolve the conflict between playing football and serving his Christian faith. Although he eventually returned, he was released later that month. He was claimed on waivers by the Miami Dolphins as 23 teams passed on him. ... Multiple times during team meetings, Underwood was found not taking notes, but instead writing about the apocalypse. He only played one preseason game for the Dolphins before getting injured.[3] In September 1999, Underwood was arrested by police for failure to pay child support. Within 24 hours, he attempted to commit suicide by slashing his own neck with a cutlass before repeatedly yelling "I'm not worthy of God". ... Underwood later spent two months in protective care and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After he escaped from a psychiatric care facility, he was released from the Dolphins on December 17, 1999.[6] On March 10, 2000, he signed a two-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys... In January 2001, he tried to kill himself for the second time by running into traffic twice on a busy suburban highway. The Cowboys released him later that month after he missed practice. ***-I still can't believe there were fans around here who thought we stole Brohm off GB's practice squad and that he would be our long term answer at QB-especially considering who was running the team at the time compared with the other 30 GMs who made no attempt to pick up Brohm off waivers in September.

He's a lock to still be employed by the Bills. If he's struggling I could see the team stashing him away for a while on IR.

The NCAA just revoked all future college eligibility.

He picked off Peterman & ran it back for a TD on the 1st play of practice.

The preseason game is on channel 23 live next Thursday. With the next 2 games live on NFL Network & Fox, if they show the 8/30 game on ch 23 it will be the 1st time that I know of where all 4 Bills preseason games will be available on live TV in Albany.

Retired-I've been a bum for 8 years now.

It's not idiotic if the 3rd stringer is on the practice squad. Peterman is an ideal candidate for that. It also isn't idiotic if your 3rd guy in camp isn't good enough to ever trust in a real game. If you find out in camp you only have 2 NFL caliber QBs on your team, you don't keep the 3rd guy.

I'll be there.

Kizer was never very good & never will be. He was starting because he was on a team that was horrible and didn't have a viable NFL starting QB on the roster, so they threw him in knowing if he was really bad they would be able to draft another QB in a QB rich draft and if by some miracle, he vastly exceeded expectations, they would be set at QB. He didn't and was bad enough that he was jettisoned for a low pick without even considering keeping him and developing him further as a backup. Nobody ruined Kizer because there was nothing to ruin.

I've never believed you can ruin a QB by playing him. The exceptions are guys whose careers are altered by injury. However, what is a team supposed to do, wait until they find a way to make it impossible to get injured? If he's the best QB you have, or is close to the best, you play him. As I see this roster, there's no way Peterman or McCarron are a lot better than Allen. The Bills are not winning more than a game or 2 extra keeping Allen on the bench. Play Allen and let him learn on the job so that the Bills can contend for a championship in 2019. They have a much better chance to win it all with Allen having a year of on field experience under his belt than having him sit in 2018 and still have growing pains in 2019 when a game he loses due to growing pains keeps the Bills from a division title or getting an extra home playoff game. Look at the next season's records of the teams that started a highly rated rookie QB, there are a lot of leaps forward in his 2nd season with the rookie year on the field out of the way.

You're right, it's delusional to think that the best a rookie QB would do is go 10-6. Let's look at the 2008 Baltimore Ravens. The previous year they were 5-11. In the off season, they lost Jonathan Ogden from the O line. They had a rookie 1st round QB they traded up for, but he was from a small school (Delaware) and was never expected to start when camp opened. Well, there were some injuries and Joe Flacco ended up starting from opening day one. The team didn't go 10-6, they went 11-5 with the small school rookie QB & made it all the way to the AFC Championship game. Simply put, compared with Peterman & McCarron, Allen gives us the best chance of winning, rookie or not.

The Cleveland game on 8/17 is live on NFL Network.

Last year I used mobile tickets for the 1st time. I had to use a mobile ticket after I bought the Chargers game tickets on StubHub!, I put it into my phone using a PDF file. PDF was the easiest way to put it on my phone. If you're having any problems with other methods, StubHub! will send you the tickets in a PDF file. I wonder what this new policy is doing to bus companies that provide a bus & ticket. I went to the website of an Albany area bus company that does bus trips to sporting events & noticed that they were not offering any trips to Bills home games for the 1st time in many years. The company gives you your printed ticket as you board the bus. I'm guessing it wasn't worth the company's time to try to get tickets to fans via cell phones.

Murph & Tasker are talking about the problems & are not happy with the problems. Fortunately, it's working fine right now, but yesterday worked at the beginning of the show before problems started. Josh Allen will be on at around 12:25.

I have a great story from that game. I was in the upper deck pretty close to where the FG attempt was taking place. Back then, I used to bring a little TV with me to the games because there weren't any replays on the scoreboard. Right before the FG attempt I said to my friend next to me "They have to block it & run it back for a touchdown". Then right before the interception I said something like "time for an interception" . After both plays happened the guy sitting in front of us asked me if my TV was showing the future. There was also an incident when the Bills were losing in the game, I got so frustrated and yelled out at the top of my lungs "Where's the f'n defense" I got a lot of angry looks from the fans in my section & had to apologize.

1) 1st off, the Bills kept Nick Mike-Mayer, not Herrera. Mike-Mayer kicked in the 1st 2 games of the season & got cut. Herrera was signed after Mike-Mayer was cut. Also, back in those days it was pretty easy to stash players on IR. If the team wanted to play hardball they could have put him on IR instead of cutting him. 2) It was the Bills who drafted CJ Spiller while Lynch was still on the team-this devalued his trade value. Even though he now takes the high road & says it was mutual, the Bills fired the 1st salvo drafting Spiller & in effect, telling Lynch he was no longer wanted. 4) What is usually overlooked is that when the Bills drafted Kelly, Joe Ferguson was still entrenched as the starter. Back in those days, rookie QBs were redshirted. Kelly wanted to play, not sit on the bench. At the time Kelly signed with the USFL, it was A) For a lot more money & B) Before anyone knew that Fergy's play would fall off the face of the earth in 1983. 5) It wasn't the cold as much as money. Cribbs had a great rookie year & was disgruntled by his pay. When the opportunity came around he jumped to the USFL. Now, when he came back, he was a real jerk. I remember him taking tape & making it like prison bars on his locker to symbolize that he was a prisoner in Buffalo. The Bills traded him to SF because he was too much of a locker room distraction. 6) This was a classic example of Ralph being a cheapskate. Nobody in the history of the NFL draft ever lost the #1 overall pick to the CFL. This was the beginning of the end for Chuck Knox, who was quite angry at Ralph for his cheap ways. 8 The Bills wanted a quality player in Bennett. Yes, I've heard rumors that Bell was hated, so really, it was addition by subtraction, and the next year they drafted Thurman Thomas. 9) Reggie was traded because he didn't fit into the Bills plans with the new coaching staff. He did not abandon the Bills. The Bills made the decision and Knox saw him as still valuable when the Bills didn't. 10) Knox left because Ralph wouldn't pay him or his players. He should not be listed as a traitor. How can anybody talk traitors & not include Mike Mularkey, who quit as coach before Marrone, or John Rauch, who on July 11, 1971 went on the radio & trashed former Bills players Paul Maguire & Ron McDole, then as camp began quit as coach because he couldn't get along with Ralph after Ralph told him he was going to publicly defend the 2 ex-Bills Rauch had trashed 9 days earlier.

It was always known as the Super Bowl. Read the attached front page of the Courier Express the day after the game. It says Chiefs Romp 31-7 Kansas City Team Gains Super Bowl

I'm 64. Now all you kids-get off my lawn!

So that's why Jones got benched at Ohio St. and then fell to the 4th round & we couldn't get anything more than a late rounder for him a year later. Jones fell all the way to pick 139, last pick of the 4th round, while Allen was pick 7 of the draft, all because one was black & one was white-yeah, right. You forgot to mention one guy was 2nd string in college & one was a starter.