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For the Bills to trade back into the 1st round to get a 2nd tier QB is as absurd as when we did that to draft Losman, with Matt Schaub just sitting there when we would have picked 2nd. Don't trade back into round 1 to get a project-we did that in 2004, don't do it again. It's better to see who is available when we draft in the 2nd round and not pull another Losman (or McCargo). Here's another reason to avoid a 1st round QB-Are you willing to tell Fitzpatrick that 2011 is his last season in Buffalo? That's what selecting a QB at #3 or trading back into the 1st round does. There's no way you're paying 1st round money & then re-signing Fitz unless he's willing to play & get paid as the backup.

Fina had just finished his rookie year & was drafted #1 to start, not sit on the bench. They didn't plan on him being average. As far as your statement on Fina & free agency-you're wrong-you have revised history. When Fina's 1st contract ended, the Bills had to put the franchise tag on him for fear of losing him-the Jets are at least 1 team that wanted him. He ended up playing 10 seasons for the Bills, then when he was released after 10 seasons, hardly a disgrace, he signed with Arizona. If he "didn't get a sniff" how did he end up with Arizona?

Kiper had Maybin rated as the 11th best player in the draft & the 2nd rated DE behind Orakpo, who he had rated as #6 overall. In the mock draft in his 2009 book, he had Maybin going #10 to SF-If only he had been right on that, we'd have been saved from drafting the biggest bust in Bills history.

It also means an end to posting every internet site's lastest mock draft-you know those guesses by "experts" that are NEVER right. Also, all the latest internet rumors about what the Bills are thinking, most of which any Bills fan should realize are ridiculous, will end. We need more inside information from the Nevergiveups and less from the Sopranos.

Luck has stated he stayed to get his degree and he will graduate academically next year-That's why everyone thinks he will eschew his last year of eligibility-he's practically declared for next year's draft. Also, there (hopefully) won't be a labor dispute to cloud his rookie season next year.

Sam Bradford & Matt Ryan were light years ahead of either Newton or Gabbert as prospects. Both started from day 1. There's a big difference between taking a likely success at pick 3 & acting like a drunk sailor at a casino with pick 3. Selecting Newton, is like a guy throwing a dart with a blindfold & hoping to get a bullseye. He has so many red flags it's not even funny. Here's the top 2: 1 year wonder-which Buddy Nix disavowed when he was named GM. Character issues which got him out of Florida for theft & cheating. While Gabbert is a safer pick, he has no business being a top 10 pick, let alone a top 3 pick. In 1987 Trent Edwards was a better pick than Jamarcus Russell. It didn't do the Bills much good that they got a better QB in the 3rd round than Al Davis got with the top pick. One is out of the league and the other isn't far behind. Why would the Bills take a QB at 3 when they can get just as good a prospect in the 2nd or 3rd round? The risk is too high on any of them to take in the 1st round, especially with the 3rd pick.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. In case you need an interpretation, that means if you're going to criticize someone about their inability to write to your satisfaction, you better write it in perfect English, which you haven't done.

If they could all get to hit a QB dummy that was standing still, Aaron Maybin would be a star. I wonder how he did on that drill & did it convince Jauron to draft him instead of looking at him chasing moving players.

If you take the Bills now & there's no game, do you win because the Bills didn't lose by 7 or more?

The Bills aren't trying to find someone a boyfriend-they're trying to find a QB. His name & hair are irrelevant.

I already factored that in. Unless a scheduled night game gets flexed to Sunday afternoon, the only day that is possible is 9/25, which I've already conceded to the Jets 4:05 game. It's close to par, but it's great because with the exception of 1 game, all the road games, including the Toronto one, will be on home TV.

The Patriots still had something to play for in week 16. It was the Jets in week 17 who had nothing to play for & still beat us like a drum.

This is the way I see the Albany home tv schedule, based on competition with the Jets, Giants & Patriots: 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 It looks like we'll get 10 or 11 games on home TV. Better yet, if you go to the home games like I do, the only sure road game that won't be on home TV is the last game @ NE. Obviously this is subject to change due to any lockout effects & flexing off of night games by the competition.

Talking a player up makes no sense. The only way to accomplish a trade up for a player is to start a rumor that the team 1 pick below you wants the player and they can trade for him with you. If they think you like him, they're going to trade with the team ahead of you, not you, because if you truly like the player, you're not going to trade away the right to draft him. So taking up a player to entice a team to trade for him accomplishes nothing positive for your team, unless there's someone on your board that you're afraid will be drafted a pick above you & by getting another team to trade up for Newton, that player falls to you. .

There's going to be a season. At worst it will start a little late. There's still a chance the mediator will order one to start on time. This talk of no season is absurd. The NFL isn't hockey.

What's wrong with that? The Bills had already determined that Trent Green wasn't the future, otherwise they would have signed him.

When I started reading this, I thought you were serious. Then I looked over saw it was your "first" post & knew this was a joke. You put just enough good info in there to throw some off the track, but the false parody of those of us who don't want to win meaningless games AFTER the season is down the drain is evident.

Great analysis! The only thing I can disagree on is that 2 #1 picks helps to get Luck. Unless Luck totally collapses this year, no team with the #1 pick would trade his rights away. The only way to get Luck is to have the #1 pick when the 2011 season ends.

In recent times, most Presidents are in over their heads when they get in. The only Presidents who weren't were the last two who served as VPs-GHW Bush & Nixon. People hate the guy, but Nixon was one of the most qualified Presidents going into office. Once one gets into the oval office, their whole perspective changes. They are given information that as a candidate, they never could have dreamed of. Anyone who votes for a President without the realization that he cannot change things as much as he's saying he will is being very naive.

You're so far off base here, you're not even in the stadium. Trump is acting like a fool because he thinks he's smarter than anyone else & believes the Republican primary voters are dumb-so he's taking on an issue that too many of them falsely believe in. First to address your 1st statement. The story is a non story because his step grandmother was interviewed through a translator and later in the interview KEPT TELLING THE INTERVIEWER THAT THE INTERPRETER GOT IT WRONG AND HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII. She repeated this multiple times, but Trump prefers to use the "edited version" of the interview rather than the entire interview-a common practice among dishonest politicians. http://blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?blog_id=200413&cid=10 I don't know how old you are, but in most cases, you can't get an original copy of your birth certificate if it was long ago. I, like Trump, was born in NYC. When I was a teenager, my parents gave me a copy that looks just like the one Trump produced of his own with signatures etc. However, back in the 1950s they didn't have official stamps on the birth certificates & last year I was worried whether it was good enough for official things. So I sent away to NYC to get one that I thought would be more official looking & guess what- they sent me one that looks nothing like the original. it looks a lot like the one that Obama has produced. The birthers don't understand the fact that there are so many people born, that the original documents just aren't available, they have long ago transferred files to computers & will only give you what Obama has produced. Trump is being totally ignorant-not everyone has a copy of their original birth certificate. The more broken up your family is and the more they move, the less likely your parents will give you a copy. Good for Donald he came from a complete family-many Americans can't say the same thing & never were given their birth certificate. Trump outright lies about there being no serial # on the birth certificate Obama has produced, it is just redacted in the version presented. Finally, the birthers ignore the fact that Obama's Hawaiian birth was reported in a local paper based on hospital records. Since Obama would be a citizen even if he was born outside the USA, the only possible reason why anyone would falsely put a birth announcement, with the hospital's consent, in the newspaper is that the week of his birth, they decided he would need to falsify his birth place to be eligible for the presidency. This is ridiculous thinking & has to be in the tinfoil hat category. Trump is a snakeoil salesman with this birther stuff & to even give his talk any credibility mean you're at least considering buying some snake oil-WAKE UP!

Soprano

Andy Rooney is 92 and still has all his marbles http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Andy-Rooney-at-92-Why-would-I-retire-1329726.php

They should have never used the save on Casey, it was needed tonight.

I can't see the Bills gambling on either Newton or Gabbert. They just have too many question marks to draft at #3. It looks like defense with a slight possibility of o-line if they trade down. If they draft a QB at #3, they're nuts.

Ralph is fine, he can afford to have a doctor in his house like the old man in Being There. You can't compare a multi-millionaire of the same age with an average guy.