Albany,n.y.

I have relatives in the Bay area who wouldn't have recognized a basketball if it hit them in the face before 2014. Now all talk about is "The Dubs"

I've been to baseball & football games at the O.co Coliseum and never saw anything that I was afraid of (except maybe the dump of a stadium falling down) . Now I didn't go there wearing the opponents gear, either. I did go to a Nets/Warriors game a few years ago & openly rooted for the Nets without any problems, but the Warriors were winning and nobody cared if I was rooting for the Nets. .

7 & 9 can sometimes go together on message boards. When fans call other fans losers because we are rooting for a 4 or 5 win team not to win game 5 or 6 in December, I feel like I have to keep reminding them that they are not part of the team. Only the team's players & management have to try to win every game, even when the games don't matter & it's better to lose & get a higher pick. As a fan, I'm rooting for anything that will bring a championship to my team. If losing one extra game for an out of the playoffs team gives the Bills a shot at a better player I'm all for it. To those who say it doesn't matter where you draft, but who you draft, remember the next time you complain that the Bills gave up too much draft capital to move up for a player they want, that if they hadn't won that 5th game in December, they might have been drafting high enough that there was no need to trade up. Obviously this wasn't the case in 2017 since they were trying to make the playoffs & you don't root against a team in playoff contention, but some really lousy Bills teams have won one extra meaningless game in an otherwise dreadful season and the win set the team back for years.

The Bills think so highly of Peterman that they did everything they could to move up in the draft to get a QB of the future who isn't named Nathan Peterman. Last year I went to 1 road game-in LA vs the Chargers. Peterman ruined that game for me. This year my 1 road game is in Baltimore. The last thing I need to see is Peterman starting & ruining another road game for me.

If Allen plays like a top 10 pick should play, I see no reason the Bills can't be competing for a championship in 2019 or 2020 at the latest. We're going to have a ton of cap space in 2019 & can fill a lot of holes before the 2019 season. I expect Allen to be playing by November or December at the latest (I'm hoping a lot sooner) this year & show up ready to start from day 1 in 2019.

Sure they can, they can go 0-32 the next 2 seasons. But the only way they can do that is by not firing Hugh Jackson if he goes 0-16 again.

I used to go to the old Albany Firebirds games during the years 1990 to 2000, I had season tickets for a year or 2 during the Bills Super Bowl years. I went to all 4 Super Bowls & my next game would be an Arena game. I saw the Buffalo Destroyers play twice in Albany. I have no intention of seeing any Albany Empire games. The league is currently a shell of its former self. My 1st Arena game was in 6/23/1988 in Madison Square Garden the NY Knights were playing. I was in NYC that day on business & stayed to watch the Arenaball game out of curiosity. The best part of that game was there was an old guy with a young wife sitting in front of a bunch of college age guys. The college age guys were cursing & the old guy told them to stop cursing in front of his wife. Things got heated and the younger guys finally had enough of some old guy trying to look tough in front of his trophy wife & they cursed at him and then threw their beer at him & left. He went chasing after them, which was kind of ridiculous since they were younger & stronger than him & he eventually returned to his seat. I have no idea if he ever caught up with them, but since he came back & wasn't bleeding, my guess is he didn't. What I also remember about that day was it was the day Billy Martin got fired for the last time as Yankee manager. When the Knights were doing poorly, I yelled out they should fire their coach & hire Billy Martin, since he had just become available.

He wasn't fired. He quit with 1 year left on his 6 year contract & moved on because he was fed up with Ralph's cheapness. It was during his 2nd season as coach that the Bills became the 1st team to ever lose the #1 overall pick to the CFL. Knox was pretty PO'd that Ralph wouldn't pay Cousineau and that was the beginning of the end even though he stayed until one year before his 6 year contract expired. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/26/sports/knox-quits-as-bills-coach-over-contract.html Tension reportedly grew between Wilson and Knox when top players were not signed. One was the linebacker Tom Cousineau, who went to the Candian League out of college in 1979, then was signed by the Cleveland Browns when he came to the N.F.L. last year. The wide receiver Jerry Butler and the running back Joe Cribbs held out unsuccessfully in training camp last summer in an attempt to force new contracts.

He was wrong on practically every QB. I wish he had an undraftable grade on Allen but I'll take a 3rd rd grade from this Anti-Nostradamus. Since he was off so much on the class of 2016, I'm expecting Allen to be Super Bowl MVP within 3 years.

I have faith he can get us a very high draft pick.

It reminds me of Kelly over Marino. Rosen will pass for more yards because he's playing in a climate controlled stadium & only has 1 potential bad weather game within his division, while Allen will have to play home & road in NE and NY as well as home games in OP where even in September it can get pretty windy. So I expect Rosen to look better on paper, but as Kelly did compared with Marino, Allen will win a lot more postseason games. When I used to talk Kelly/Marino at work I used to say Marino played in one Super Bowl before Kelly got to the NFL and then after Kelly arrived every time Marino tried to get back to the Super Bowl, Kelly slammed the door in his face & as I said the word slammed, I'd take my palm and slam it on the desk top to make the sound of Kelly slamming the door shut on Marino.

Allen is about 1,000 times smarter & a much harder worker than JP. Instead of picking up garbage, Josh will be working with his WRs. Allen didn't have to retake the Wonderlic a 2nd time after spending time being coached up like JP. There is no valid comparison.

The best line was when he called the Eagles world champions and then said the last time Dallas was in the Super Bowl the players in this draft weren't born yet.

Thurman had a famous statue. How easily people forget...http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=4556941

I thought the 2 concussions were the scariest thing on his resume. If anything could lead to an early retirement, it would be too many concussions.

If drafting Manuel & Watkins weren't panic moves, they were definitely stupid moves. 1) Drafted Manuel in the 1st in a draft that could clearly be seen before the draft to be one of the worst QB classes in years. Well before that draft (on another board) I compared that QB class to the most recent worst ones & said the class could end up with no QBs who would play well in the NFL. If I could see it, why couldn't Buddy Nix, it was pretty obvious that it was a bad year to draft a QB. The smart move would have been to keep Fitzpatrick another season & hold off on drafting a QB. The problem was stupid Nix got caught disparaging Fitz in that hacked phone call. Instead of cutting Fitz, I would have fired Buddy on the spot & told Whaley not to draft a QB. 2) Whaley, who was in on the Manuel fiasco, felt a need to double down & in a draft loaded with quality WRs, overspent to move up & draft Watkins. Maybe not a panic move, but definitely a dumb one. In his GM obit, the Watkins trade was mentioned by all who wrote one as the beginning of the end for Whaley.

This article should be a lesson for anyone who likes to quote QB stats. I've always said stats don't tell the story and if stats were the end-all, the players would be handed a stat sheet at team meetings and told not to bother watching films. Anyone who watched Flutie & Johnson play, knows that Flutie was a much better QB than Johnson. I must admit that 20 years ago I was in the Johnson camp, but I was proven wrong.

If Cleveland takes Darnold, I wait & trade to pick 4 or 5 & take Rosen, since there's no need to move to #2. If the Jets take Rosen, Mayfield is there & if they want him trade to #4. If Cleveland takes Allen, then I do everything to get to #2 for Darnold, even if it means trading Shady so the Giants don't need to take Barkley, because without that incentive, the Giants will take Barkley.

Boldin part II, no thanks.

I just got my flight & ticket to the game. Same as last time-flying in & out the same day. For anyone interested, the Ravens/Ticketmaster have single game seats on sale. I paid regular price & I'm close to midfield, 9 rows up. Sec 127 row 9 seat 15. I looked at the resale sites & they're almost double what I paid from the team, so check the Ravens' site 1st before you buy from the resale places.

Herm Edwards was wrong. You play to win championships and do whatever it takes to get there. This year involves trading a bunch to move up & try to get the franchise QB who will get you there. Other years could involve tanking, but this season isn't going to be a tank year. Herm is out of the NFL because he lost sight of the big picture.

Who is the guy you think is the greatest QB? The best QB I know of who was a 6th round pick won the Super Bowl in his 2nd season, after being on the bench his rookie year and very beginning of his 2nd year.

Points are worthless when a potential franchise QB is available. A team trading up will always pay more than the point total for a high 1st round QB.

One of the main reasons that Peterman was put in there was because of Tyrod's reluctance to throw the ball. So why would a coach then handcuff his replacement? At the time starting a rookie in that spot made sense. Where else on the schedule would the rookie get a road game in a small stadium with a much larger than average number of Bills fans in attendance to keep the noise down from the offense and at the same time not have any pressure of having his 1st start come before a 75k home crowd? McDermott couldn't have found a better stadium for a rookie's 1st start. What was he supposed to do, wait until a team on the schedule with tons of injuries to their pass rushers suddenly showed up at a neutral site? Any NFL team (except Cleveland?) in any stadium would have had a field day against Peterman, who shouldn't have started a game in his rookie year, shouldn't start one in his sophomore year (if there is one) and whose next start needs to be either in the CFL, Arenaball or in his back yard with the family.

I was the opposite. Every time someone made a similar statement after we signed Brohm, I would state that Brohm couldn't be the answer because he had cleared waivers before his soph. season & in order for the Brohm supporters to be right, the Bills would have had to outsmarted 31 other GMs and it was inconceivable that Brandon and possibly Nix could have outsmarted some of the best GMs in the league. I got a lot of responses that asked why I hated Brohm, but it was just a case where I understood how poorly the Bills management was compared with other NFL teams & then GM Brandon wasn't going to be outsmarting anyone.