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There's no chance Thigpen gets cut & Brown stays. None at all. Gailey isn't cutting a guy he brought in as an experienced backup, who he coached before, over a guy he didn't even want on the practice squad last year. Do you really think if there was any real competition that Gailey would have played Brown more in preseason instead of just going through the motions with this guy before his eventual release? You do understand that we see only a small fraction in the exhibition games of what the coaches see every day. We don't see these guys in practice. It's obvious that Gailey prefers Thigpen over Brown by the amount of playing time each has received in preseason. Gailey has seen enough of Thigpen & Brown behind closed doors to make his decision and he has already chosen Thigpen. Brown's mop up duty at the end of yesterday's game will not change his mind. Gailey said guys could lose jobs in the 2nd half, more than win them. Brown has never been in position to beat out Thigpen & couldn't win a job yesterday. What is interesting about yesterday's game involved the other team. Detroit has 4 QBs and the odd man out will get picked up by someone. If Gailey really likes what he saw in the odd man out, that guy could replace Thigpen if Chan is unhappy. But Levi Brown, NO. Odds are another team, not the Bills, will pick up the guy cut by Detroit.

Stands are empty

The way Gailey was talking, Eddins is going to make the team. There's no way they would rave about a player & then try to sneak him onto the practice squad. At least, a competent organization wouldn't do this. If they try, they're going to lose him on waivers.

Just to prove the point, the Bills are going to re-sign Parrish, stop payment on his signing bonus, and cut him before the season starts.

They're definitely hurting. Down to 4 teams with Hartford suspending operation. That 2 year big money TV deal which was signed before the league played a game expired after last season. However, I think the only reason they planned on starting the season in August was to fill the lockout void and be the only game going. Once the lockout ended, the undrafted free agents had a place to go & it was easier for the UFL to do their standard start, waiting for NFL cuts to beef up their rosters.

Signed with the UFL's Las Vegas Locos http://www.ufl-football.com/news/locomotives-add-ex-louisville-star-nfl-vet-brohm-qb-mix If all goes well, maybe he'll sign with the Raiders after the UFL, following in the footsteps of Rob Johnson, J P Losman & Trent Edwards who all put on a Raiders uniform after their days with the Bills ended.

2-3 after 5 games.

Buddy Nix will retire at the end of the season Chan Gailey won't be back in 2012 The Bills will make the playoffs in the 2012-13 season with their new head coach & GM.

As long as he's willing to do the time and is strong enough to overpower Vick, yes.

After having the other team's announcers the 1st 2 games via the NFL feed, I was happy to get the Bills broadcast, including interviews with Bills instead of Bears & Broncos. The NFL doesn't play the local commercials, so I can't comment on that.

This wouldn't end up good. If we signed Gurode, Albert Haynesworth would get 2 chances a season to stomp on his face again.

I'll go with a McKelvin trade for a mid round pick.

Why do some people try to say we're paying full price for exhibition games? We're not. My tickets are $55 per game. 9 x $55 =$495. I paid $436 which includes a service fee. Therefore, if I count the regular season games at $55, I'm paying $51 total for the 2 preseason games. Any way you look at it, we are either getting a discount on all games or we are paying less than 50% of the full price for the exhibition games, but season ticket holders are not paying full price for the games. One way or another, we are getting a break. BTW, since I live close to 300 miles away, I just give away my seat and eat the extra $51 because it costs me more than $100 just to get to the stadium and I'm not paying over $100 to see an exhibition game, especially when I am able to pay less than $20 for the entire preseason and watch it in high def on my computer.

You may be right. Everyone who is all upset over Thigpen's preseason needs to remember that he had no pre-preseason with the Bills due to the lockout. He's only been with the team a few weeks. Also, they should go back to the late 1980s before Frank Reich played in a real game. He looked horrible in preseason & was so bad the Bills left him unprotected in Plan B free agency before the 1989 season & nobody wanted to sign him. Until the backup QB plays with & against starters, his performance in preseason games can't properly be evaluated by fans. Fortunately, the coaches see these guys every day and have a lot more information in evaluating players. That's one reason that you can't use preseason performances to latch onto a guy or write him off because there's so much more going on that we never will see.

When was the last time the Bills cut anybody who did anything significant in the league? Parella? The only guys who left the Bills who did anything in recent years were unrestricted free agents who left on their own accord. Every year someone is afraid of cutting the wrong guy, but on a team whose 53 man roster will have about 10 guys nobody else would want, there is no danger of the Bills ever cutting a guy who will become a star on another team.

Jasper looks like an over-stuffed blue perogi when he's on the field. In that medium you'll be emulating him.

Considering I analyzed the entire schedule for conflicts when the schedule came out, I know I'm correct. Here's my analysis & I guarantee its accuracy: 9/11 @Kansas City: Yes! No competition 9/18 Oakland: No, Jets will be televised 9/25 New England: No, Ch 6 has 1 game & they'll take the Jets @4:05 10/2 @ Cincinnati: Yes! No competition 10/9 Philadelphia: No, Giants will be televised 10/16@Giants: Yes! 10/30 Washington (Toronto): Yes! No competition 11/6 Jets: Yes! 11/13 @Dallas: Yes! No competition 11/20 @Miami: Yes! No competition 11/27 @ Jets: Yes! 12/4 Tenessee: No, Jets will be televised 12/11 @ San Diego: Yes! No competition 12/18 @ Miami: Yes! No competition 12/24 Denver: Maybe, only competition is NE/Mia 1/1 @ New England: No, Jets will be televised

Fitzpatrick has no beard. The upper deck looks pretty empty, especially at the ends.

That would make more sense if Trent & the Oakland Raiders were in Buffalo instead of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The Bills should be on home TV 10 or 11 games this season, including all road games except the season finale at New England. I wouldn't call that limited coverage. I'll only have to go to a local place that has Sunday Ticket once this whole season.

I checked the website & they have only 4 teams this year: Las Vegas, Omaha, Sacramento & Virginia. Gone are Florida & Hartford. Click on Hartford & it says suspended operation. http://www.ufl-football.com/

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/08/25/2011-08-25_yankees_captain_derek_jeter_charlies_angels_star_minka_kelly_split_after_three_y.html

We're losing too many players to injury because Ralph is too cheap to buy good bandages, braces and tape.

0-17-The NFL hates Buffalo & will tack on another loss for spite.

No they won't. When the Bills 1st started here on the radio, they were a team that was contending for championships. In the past few years we've seen them dropped by the most powerful (in terms of distance from the area you could hear it) radio station in the area, demoted from AM to FM, and now dropped entirely. We also lost the pre and post game shows in recent seasons. It was as if they were just going through the motions broadcasting Bills games the past couple of seasons. I think there's a reason many have overlooked. Obviously, we've lost the bandwagon fans of the 1990s, but there's another factor-the availibility of Bills games on TV. A diehard fan can go in 2 directions-1)Get Direct TV and Sunday Ticket, assuring one of seeing all the Bills games at home; 2)Just about anyone who lives in the urban or suburban parts of the area can find a place that has the Sunday Ticket within a mile or 2 from where they live. Since the ability for anyone beyond a casual fan is there to see the games easily enough, the only void left is the person driving around, who won't listen to the entire game anyway.