Albany,n.y.

Locker didn't come out because the NFL didn't even rate him as going in the 1st round. Your premise that someone has to be crazy to want to go another year with Fitz & Brohm is 100% correct, you didn't need to add fiction to support it.

No QB drafted as high as Brohm, in the modern NFL history has ever been cut this early or even a little later in his career with no playing time, sailed through waivers & amounted to anything. In fact, just about QB drafted early, even guys with starts on their resumes, who has been let go by his original drafting team has busted out of the NFL without ever being a quality starter. Since guys drafted this high are so well scrutinized before & after they get to the NFL, getting waived that soon, or even later, is a career death sentence. The only QB who I've seen ever to come back from getting released early was Kerry Collins, who had a drinking problem at the time of his release-and his resume already included getting his team to the conference championship game in his 2nd year in the league. So, why would anyone who knows the history of failed QBs ever expect Brohm to basically be the exception-because Brandon & Guy were such geniuses in signing him?

The FG gave the Bills the lead. If they don't make it they go into the locker room behind, Gailey wanted to be ahead at halftime and build on it. Unfortunately our team couldn't stop the Patriots with less than half a minute on the clock. At halftime some guys were in the bathroom, obviously having left the stands after the Bills' FG. They thought the Bills were ahead and one Bills fan, who was verbally sparring with a Patriots fan asked "What's the score" assuming he had the upper hand. Funniest thing I've seen at an opposing stadium in quite a while.

If you read the comments: Luke sounds just like one of the Brohm fans in Buffalo. New QB will thrive in new setting even though all evidence says otherwise.

During the darker periods of the 70s & 80s you had 50-60,000 empty seats at Rich Stadium by the end of the season. In 1985, the second season of back to back 2-14 records, with the exception being the Miami game, the final 4 of 5 games had crowds in the 20 thousands. You'll never see crowds that low again for half the schedule. In 1977 I lived about a mile & 1/2 from the stadium. Money was a lot tighter for me then, I went to the 1st 2 home games & gave up, choosing to listen the games on the radio. I used to do my laundry at a laundromat in Hamburg while listening and would drive right by the stadium on gamedays. There was no traffic and I could see how empty the stadium was. One of the lowest points, even though the team was on the upswing with Knox as head coach was in 1979 when the Bills lost the top pick in the entire NFL draft to the CFL. Can you imagine if we had the #1 pick next year & he signed with the CFL?This board would explode. This period is nothing compared to the stuff that went on at One Bills Drive (and the Rockpile before that) before the great teams of the 1990s. I laugh when I see the younger fans talking about how low the franchise has sunk. We old guys know that the mid 1960s and the 1990s were the abberations. Also, for those who think Ralph has lost it, he was pulling the same stuff 30-40 years ago, so there's nothing wrong with him, he's just reverted to Same Old Ralph.

I don't think he had a shot at #2. Look at Nelson, he was doing great in preseason & is nowhere near #2. I think he was on the same level talent wise as what Nelson showed, but got hurt. If he had remained healthy then he would have beaten out either Nelson or Jones. He's on injured reserve.

First round pick? Marshall Faulk in his prime couldn't get a 1st round pick from St. Louis to Indy.

I don't believe it. Why don't you just start a thread every day titled "Ralph is Cheap" because posts like your's are doing exactly that. I think posts like your's are total BS. Brohm is not playing because everyone at OBD thinks that Fitzpatrick gives them a better chance to win at this time. Once the season is mathematically sunk, then you'll see Brohm. It's about winning, not money-something people like you will never see because all you ever think is Ralph is cheap. So keep posting all your Ralph is cheap BS and ignore the realities that Chan Gailey wants to win, because if he puts Brohm in before his time & he goes 0-16, no matter how much rope you think he has, at some point a bad enough record will get him fired. Now you won't believe it because you think Ralph is too cheap to fire him. Chan doesn't believe that & that's one reason he's trying to win as many games as possible, even if it's only 2 because the talent isn't there. Once Chan quits on the team by not putting who he feels are the best guys, he'll be toast.

But the weather in that dome was terrible that day.

So every QB who has never been a starter has the potential to start & if we think he's a failure even after he sailed through waivers it's just plain stupid, WOW! Levi Brown is your next great hope. It's not stupid, uneducated BS when I can cite the fact that no player drafted as high or higher than Brohm has ever turned into a viable starter in the modern (post merger) history of the NFL who got waived on his rookie contract. You may still think it's BS, but it certainly isn't uneducated BS. I have the league history to back up my assumption, you have a pipedream that Brohm will be the 1st to do something. If anything is uneducated BS, it's assuming something that you HOPE will happen will happen even though it would be the 1st time EVER.

In a year or 2 they'll be dangling Wang looking for trade offers.

In my day I got an 1132 and 1140 and I scored 672 and 660 on math, so I know that it couldn't be out of 1000. I thought your Trent Edwards joke was pretty funny, but I'm originally from NYC, so maybe that's why I got it.

23 points gets us to 70. Do you think our D can hold the Jets under 23 points?

When the Bills are up by 20 on the Jets, the smart move would be to take Andrew Luck out & put in Fitzpatrick for the rest of the 4th quarter. If Fitzpatrick has a chance at a TD pass up by 20, let him take it because it might be the only chance that season.

66% of the fans here had Brohm starting opening day this offseason. When you pick up another team's trash QB, the new fans want him to start because they haven't seen the reason he was cut. They look at the guy they know and think anyone can play better until they see him in real games and the fantasy goes away. Around here, rooting for the unknown guy to start is a disease known as Marangi Syndrome.

Even though he was a backup, Frank Reich qualifies.

I've said it before, but if we get the top pick & a QB who the team thinks is worth it is there (Luck looks like the surest thing right now but might stay)you take him. That's because 6 of the 18 QBs taken #1 have won the Super Bowl as the starter at least once. 4 of them are multiple Super Bowl winners. Drew Bledsoe was on the bench when NE won in 2002, so technically 7 of 18 have Super Bowl rings. If you game me a 33% or better chance of winning a Super Bowl just by drafting the right player, compared with the 0% we currently have, I'm going to take that gamble. Now considering there are 5 more #1s who can still win a Super Bowl, although I have my doubts about Alex Smith, that 33% may end up being a low figure.

The whole premise is ridiculous, starting with the 1st paragraph conjectures. All you had to do was listen to Chan yesterday to know Brohm will get his chance this year. They're not going into the draft, never playing Brohm and not drafting a QB. It goes against everything getting rid of Edwards was all about. Do you really think 5 teams will have worse records than the Bills? Name them-but before you do, take a look at their schedules the rest of the year. Our's is very tough.

Rob Johnson's problem was always hanging onto the ball too long, which sooner or later results in injuries. The longer you hold onto the ball, the more you get hit. The week we acquired him I was originally against it because I noticed in his scouting reports & in his stats that he took way too many sacks, in fact, that week I started a post and titled it "Rob Johnson, the sacked man" Unfortunately I bought what Butler said & supported him. It turned out my original assessment was accurate. JP Losman's problems were he never had a feel for the game, couldn't read defenses and made too many stupid mistakes. Even when he played in the UFL against inferior competition, the same mental mistakes occurred. In the UFL he could hide them better because the game wasn't quite NFL speed. The fact he has now been jettisoned by 2 more NFL teams, confirms that he never had the ability to be a long term starter in the NFL. Trent Edwards just didn't have the courage to play QB in the NFL. I don't know whether it was from too many hits in college and the pros, which like Rob resulted in far too many injuries, or whether it was the concussion(s) that made him too fearful to be an NFL QB. It was obvious by the end of last season that, at best, Edwards was only a major reclamation project. I gave up on him last year when he replaced Fitzpatrick in his 2009 final appearance & immediately got injured again. Then once again with the preseason I gained hope, but I really knew he was just one of 3 backup QBs and it soon became apparent that Fitzpatrick is better than him. I think the major problem was scouting, not coaching. Good QBs don't get ruined by mediocre coaches. The Bills scouts liked QBs with major flaws in their games. It doesn't help a guy playing for different coordinators & QB coaches, but at the same time, it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as people think. If that was the case, then when JP was working with Fassel, Fassel would have saved him. In the end it was the same old JP, not damaged by Mularkey & Jauron, but just not good enough to begin with. Rob Johnson had some good coaching in Jacksonville before he came here and he still wasn't any good. You could tell Edwards anything you wanted on the sidelines & practice, but no coach could coach out the fear years of getting hit instilled in him.

McCargo-inactive every week, totally useless.

I'm thinking of taking my Edwards jersey & changing the name from Edwards to NEXT. I got it for free, wore it 2 times. 1st time I wore it Trent got benched before the next home game & I threw it in the back of the closet. 2nd time was opening day, benched & cut before the next home game. I better not wear it again.

Another Ralph is cheap post. The Bills have to pay Edwards for the whole season if he isn't claimed.

Sure looks like he won't be the unknown factor for much longer. Sink or swim time within a few weeks-my guess-the week after the bye if we don't beat Jacksonville.

The only team that I ever recall bringing 3 franchise QBs into camp was the Packers who had Favre, Brunell & Warner in the same camp along with Detmer who was far ahead of Warner on the depth chart. Every team would like a 2nd stringer who can win games when the starter goes down. Fitzpatrick proved last year & in prior years he can do that. You don't cut your backup just because he isn't franchise material. Come back next year when Fitzpatrick is the only QB still with the team.

A lot of them were from the Ralph is cheap crowd who figured that the team wouldn't pay a guy the going rate for a backup QB. They thought his play on the field wasn't pretty enough to suit their tastes. They ignored the fact that he was the only one who was around for all but one of last season's victories because they just couldn't shake the Ralph is cheap stuff from their heads. Most of us knew Fitzpatrick, the only one of the top 3 QBs signed past this season, wasn't going anywhere.