Albany,n.y.

This thread is not complete until Bennie Anderson is included. The Bills could assemble an entire O-line of bad free agent choices.

I drive about 8 miles to the Clubhouse Race Book in Albany. I pay $1 to get in & get my own TV. Some times I bet the horses as well while I'm there so at times I get paid & also get to watch the Bills game & other times the game can get very expensive.

Yes

Practice Squad Peterman

The 3 best Bills QBs of all time had names that all started with a J. So the best shot is with one of the Joshs

Flip was Trumaine's teammate in the late 80's. Filmel was in the 90s.

Albany just got an Arena Football League franchise. I'm looking forward to seeing Peterman when he joins the Albany Empire in 2019.

The main reason why I prefer trading up to trading down is when a team trades up it is for a specific player who their scouts have graded high enough to make the trade. When a team trades down, they have no idea who will be in the spot they traded into unless it's only 1 or 2 picks down. The best trade up that I remember is when SF traded up with NE & drafted Jerry Rice. Just 2 years ago the Rams & Eagles traded up for QBs and they both helped turn around each of the 2 franchises. If you want a specific player ALWAYS trade up if you can. Especially if the player is a QB not named JP.

Unfortunately, I've had some rough times physically the last 2 months and won't be there. I'm hoping to be better in a couple of months and make the next one.

The only way I'd feel better with Peterman starting is if he's starting for the new Arenaball team in Albany.

Here's a funny story from when he a a first year free agent after spending his rookie year on the 49ers practice squad: At the beginning of the 1991 season my friend Petrino was making jokes about a white guy being named Odell. I had no idea what he was talking about since i knew Odell Haggins is black. On one trip back to Albany from a Bills game I asked him what he was talking about. He then described the guy he though was Odell Haggins. At the next Thruway rest stop I went to the trunk & pulled out my Gameday program and showed him what Odell Haggins looked like, then he looked at the other pictures of the 1991 Bills in the program. It turned out he had seen a video interview with Phil Hansen on TV and the station had erroneously put Odell Haggins name in the captioning of Hansen's interview. The entire time Petrino thought Phil Hansen was Odell Haggins. Another thing I remember about Haggins' time with the Bills was a story from camp that appeared in a newspaper story I read. Odell and another player got into a fight. The reporter wrote that it was over someone taking his pudding. To this day I don't know if that was a joke because the 2 guys involved were big men, or whether the reporter was being serious and he really got into a fight over pudding.

I'm going to the Raiders game Sunday, so I'll see both Lynch's this week. Was at the Peterman disaster last Sunday-maybe P. Lynch will be worse.

Yep. But I didn't have LAX as a choice because my friends who I'm going to the game with live in Orange County & picked me up at the airport. The Bills didn't have any friends pick them up at LAX.

They had an easier trip than I did. Started in Albany on a 10:50 AM flight, land in Baltimore, stay on the plane, land in Chicago, stay on the plane, land in Las Vegas get off the plane, wait almost 3 hours in Las Vegas for flight to John Wayne airport in Orange County, arrive at airport around 9PM PST. 13+ hours traveling. Next stop: bandbox stadium Sunday.

I'll be there in Sec 125 row X with a college friend & his wife who live in Orange County. I'll be missing the Albany area lunch on Friday because I'll be on the plane to So Cal. Can't make the tailgate.

They also passed on Trubisky, who may also end up a special QB. The 1st responsibility of any GM is to get a good to franchise QB. This is especially true if you have 2 straight years with top 2 picks and other 1st round picks and wait until the 2nd & 3rd rounds to draft QBs when top guys are staring you in the face. It looks like the decision makers in Cleveland went to the Buddy Nix school of management: when a quality QB is available, pass on him & hope for the best.

Relocation-except if they moved to Albany,then I'd get seasons.

He's 41 years old, he's been working his way up. You make it sound like it was when we hired 70 year old Buddy Nix for his 1st GM job. There's a huge difference between a 41 year old 1st time GM & a 70 year old 1st time GM. Same strange reasoning about our 43 year old head coach. If we had hired 34 year old Beane & 36 year old McDermott the year we hired 70 year old Nix as GM & 58 year old Gailey you would have called Ralph senile for hiring kids.

If you demanded a #1 for a guy with an injury history, on the final year of his contract, and on record as wanting to be paid mega-bucks on his next contract, anyone on the other end of the phone would have laughed at you & then told you to get lost. Here were the Bills options after they decided, before Beane got here, not to pick up the 5th season making Sammy an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season: 1) Keep Watkins for 1 more year & lose him for nothing, because in all probability they know they'll be in the same spot they are as this year-signing too many free agents in 2018 to be eligible for comp picks. So getting a 2nd rounder and a starting CB for a year who will be a lot easier to sign than Sammy made the deal pretty good. 2) Keep Watkins for this season, franchise him & either pay him a huge 2018 salary to have him for 1 more year, or try to trade him, in which case the trading partner will either have him for 1 year or have to re-sign him to a mega bucks contract. Considering any team trading for him would be faced with the same restrictions teams faced this year, you'd be lucky to get what Beane got this year. 3) Trade Watkins before the season and get what we got for him, which appears to be the best option. 4) Trade Watkins and get significantly less than E.J Gaines and a #2 pick in 2018. 5) Demand a #1 pick for Watkins and become the laughingstock of the league. Then, when you're stuck with Watkins, see other options 1 & 2,

If you're really old school, then Peterman shouldn't start for another 4 years.

One of the reasons the Chargers aren't filling the stadium is because they made no effort to sell individual game tickets. Up until August 31st, the Chargers were only selling season tickets. It was only when they had a few scattered seats left did they make any attempt to sell the individual games. After buying the Bills game through Stubhub! last spring, I received an e-mail from the Chargers on 8/31 telling me the team was just releasing individual game tickets. Worse yet, most of the tickets left were priced higher than the season tickets, which means that you can usually find comparable seats cheaper on the secondary market than directly from the team through Ticketmaster. The Chargers average ticket price is almost double what the Rams are charging. There's no way fans are going to see the 0-4 Chargers at double the price of the 3-1 Rams. It looks like most of the season ticket holders are selling their tickets on the secondary market and the buyers are more often fans of the opponent.

Intercepted, what a surprise.

One of my Facebook friends is on the far-right. He is calling for a boycott of the NFL. He posted a video of a guy burning a team uniform & hat. I looked closely at the video & noticed it was Ravens gear... So I replied that I could fully understand why, after the embarrassing 44-7 defeat by Jacksonville in London, a Baltimore fan would set fire to his Ravens gear.

The over/under should be 9 points.

Not including the 2017 draft: Total QBs drafted between 1967 & 2016: 565 #1 QB picks in the draft since the Super Bowl 22, number of other QB drafted during the past 51 years who were not the 1st pick-543 (565-22). Super Bowl winning #1 QB pick 6 (all of them multiple winners) 6/22 =27.27%, # of Super Bowls 51 Number won by #1 overall QB pick 14. 14/51 =27.45%. Number of QBs drafted since 1967 : 565. Number of Super Bowls won by one of these or an undrafted QB 37. 37/543= 6.81% . The real math shows the #1 pick who was a QB who has gone on to win the Super Bowl 27% (rounded down), The percentage of QBs not drafted #1 who have gone on to win a Super Bowl 7% (rounded up). If you want to see all the QBs drafted here they are: http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?type=position