Albany,n.y.

The pick we got from Houston was used to draft Kyle Williams.

I really expected a Peter Pan link. When EJ Manuel announced his plan where one could buy stock in his career, that's what I said.

In the early days of internet radio broadcasts I didn't have a computer yet, so I got WebTV so that when I got home I could listen to The Coach's daily show on WGR. During his time on the radio the Bills went from an AFC dynasty to a non-playoff team. I thought he was pretty funny & a catharsis for the bad play on the field. He's much funnier to listen to when the team is in decline than when (hopefully) they are on the rise. If you're going to propose a podcast with Dickerson, might as well go all the way & have Jerry Sullivan join him. Back in the day, I used to go to every Bills home game. One time I was driving back to Albany with Petrino & we called Coach up after a late season game (I think it was Donahoe's last home game) where it had snowed & I had security come down because right below our seats was the roof of the indoor seats & I wrote "Fire Mularkey" in the snow and they made me erase it. Coach asked if I had written it in yellow. Another memory of the Coach is when a caller said something he really liked, he adopted it as if he was the originator. After a Bills loss a caller phoned in & called a play "4th & stupid". Soon afterwards the Coach used that phrase often, as if he was the one who originally said it.

They trained together with Jordan Palmer and became good friends. They are the future of the AFC East, Brady will be just a memory as the Patriots take their rightful place in the AFC East cellar for the next decade after Brady hangs them up.

They like him enough to keep him on the practice squad. He may be on the opening day roster, but don't be surprised if Derek Anderson shows up in Buffalo around 9/10 or shortly thereafter when they can sign a veteran & not guarantee the contract.

I still have a yellowed copy of the final paper the Courier Express ever printed on 9/19/1982, since I was living in Buffalo then. When I was in school at Fredonia the Courier would come in around 2 AM at the all night donut place at the D&F plaza. I often waited to get the paper there. I also remember the days in NYC when I could get a Daily News next day edition early in the evening before headed back to LI on the Long Island Railroad. Now I wake up to the morning edition of the Albany Times Union delivered to my computer. Newspapers are going to be on-line only eventually. Why get a hard copy for $2/day when I can get the same thing subscribing on-line for $1/week. The paper saves printing & delivery costs & I save over $50/month reading it on-line.

The future isn't now.

There's a good chance that none of the 4 QBs taken in the top 10 will be starting on opening day. I wouldn't be inclined to write any of them off that soon.

This is like when I looked at the assessment roll and one house near mine was owned by someone who had the same name as a former NBA player. I drove by his house one day & instead of seeing a 6'8" black guy in the yard, there was a little old white guy. Before seeing the owner, I thought at least it could be the ex-player's son & I could eventually meet the player, but that was never going to happen.

I'll be there. 6/23 is a Saturday, but the 518 Lunch Club says it's Friday 6/22. I assume the correct day is Friday 6/22. Hey, if the food is really good maybe we'll just stay there & never leave until Saturday.

Baltimore. Best place to fly in & out of on gameday. Public transportation from the airport to downtown. Rich's tailgate party at the Bills bar & then the game, can't beat it.

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