Albany,n.y.

Good. Allen needs to insult you after all the insults you've thrown at him.

But he'll finish the Super Bowl in victory formation in 2-3 years.

The only thing other than his name that I want to hear Allen called is Super Bowl Champion.

Keep all 3 this year. Start Allen in the 2nd half of the season & evaluate after the season is over. If Allen plays well enough to be the unquestioned starter, then you trade 1 of the 2 , 2nd stringers, but only for something of value. If you can't get something decent, keep all three in 2019. If Allen hasn't earned the starters job by the end of this season, nobody gets traded.

I've done plenty of games alone. I'm going to my 3rd game in Baltimore alone on opening day. Most of the road games I go to I'm alone. I've also done road games alone in Philadelphia (2) and New England (a few, some I've gone with others, some alone). I've been to 6 Super Bowls, 2 of them I was alone at. ( XXV in Tampa & the Denver/Seattle game in NJ where I drove down the day of the game). The more expensive the game/trip, the more likely I can't get anyone to go with me. I gave up my seasons a few years ago because I couldn't get Petrino to go to more than 2-3 games a year & I didn't like being alone for more than half the home games, but a road game once in a while is still OK.

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.