Albany,n.y.

Giving a guy a workout because your team is looking at QBs to fill the 3rd string spot, does not mean Polian "thinks Losman has a chance" A chance at what? In the end Polian chose first to sign Shane Boyd to his practice squad & then replaced him with Drew Willy. Teams work out players all the time. Outside of Jeff Garcia, who would command bigger $ than the Colts want to pay him to probably never play, JP & Brooks Bollinger are the best QBs available, who are in game shape. So when does giving him a look when your roster has been weakened at his position and then not signing him become an endorsement of the guy?

Rewind to 2007-8 and you'll probably find the same things said about JP, who was a total waste of space in 2008. You can keep an older veteran who used to be the starter on a team but you can't do that with a guy you've had since his rookie year, was your chosen starter at some point & then lost the job, will be a FA & leave after the next season. It doesn't work, they have to let Trent go at the end of the season. The only way Trent stays is if the new coach thinks he's starter material & if the new guy really thinks Trent can lead the Bills to glory, I'll post the 1st "Fire xxxxxxx" post as soon as he announces Edwards as the starter.

Not with the QBs on this roster.

You have to rank the positions we need the most & see if the best player at these positions are close to the best player left on the board. 2 holes at 2 of the most important positions stand out. QB is the most important position on a team. If you have a franchise grade on a QB and one is available at your spot, you have to draft him. If there's no franchise QB, but there is a franchise LT, then you draft him. One thing you can't do is lose the franchise QB you targeted & then take the next guy on your board as the QB of the future like Donahoe did in 2004 after Pittsburgh took the player he coveted, Ben Roethlisberger. If your top rated player is a RB or WR, you don't pick him, because your glaring needs are elsewhere and you can get away with a journeyman RB or WR a lot easier than a journeyman QB or LT.

When a player is gone from the Bills, or on the verge of going, he becomes irrelevant to most Bills fans. There are some who irrationally hold onto the dream a failed player is much better than he is & will make excuses. Most of them, no matter how irrational, can still spell the word the.

Since he doesn't get to NY very often the trip enables Ingram to visit his father in the slammer.

A conditional 2011 pick somewhere in the 5th to 7th range. With only a year left & no body of work to sign him to an extension he doesn't have much value to any team trading for him. I don't think a new coach wants a guy who used to start being a distraction, especially if he drafts a rookie in the 1st 2 rounds. Trent isn't going to come back for his final year because there are too many other players on the team that don't think much of him as a player. Once the new coach reads the quotes after the switch to Fitzpatrick, he'll be sending Trent on the Jauron express out of town. Also, anyone left only has to remember how useless JP was in 2008 in his last contract year to not repeat that mistake with Edwards. I wouldn't be surprised if Trent asks for & receives his release.

To introduce the new unis Ralph will be wearing his #18 with the name Manning on the back & proclaim that he wants to look like a winner.

The only thing that is suspicious is that the 1st reports were he was going to be out for the season and then they kept him on the 53 man roster without IRing him. If anything it looks like the reports were correct, but the Bills, who after the initial reports changed the prognosis to 2 weeks were wrong the 2nd time.

I believe we cut him in preseason, mainly due to his back problems.

Unless they bring in a HC & GM who are absolutely in love with Edwards, he will be gone before the draft. There will be a rookie QB on the roster next year. Brohm & Fitzpatrick will be the other 2 QBs. It all depends on the round the rookie QB is drafted whether Brohm ever gets a chance to be the starter. If it's a #1, Fitz & the rookie will be competing for starter, Brohm for #2 only. If he's a 6th he'll compete for #3 only & may get cut. They'll be 4 QBs in camp, Edwards won't be one of them.

Jay Gruden, OC Florida. When he was an Arenaball head coach, he would moonlight helping his brother in Tampa Bay. Probably the most likely UFL assistant to someday get a real head coaching job. If we absolutely had to take a UFL coach, he'd be my pick.

I met his father in Hartford at the UFL game.

Translation: No team in their right mind would use a 1st round pick on Tim Tebow, but the Jags, in one last desperate attempt to get fans in Florida to come to their games, will waste their 1st round pick on Tebow. PFT might as well start some wild rumor of collusion than tell the real story, because when the Jags take Tebow, they can say-"we were the 1st to tell you".

It's the other way around. No teams are named for the final Sunday night game, they wait to determine the game with the best storyline. One year they thought it was Favre's last game & picked that one. Worse than just the night game, they can flex any 1:00 game to 4:00 if they want. In 2006 our last game (I started to say regular season, but with this team, this decade, that's redundant) was scheduled for 1:00 in Baltimore. I booked the last flight out of Baltimore, around 8-9 pm, giving me plenty of time to get from the stadium to the airport and through the gate after the game. They flexed it to 4:00, making my window of opportunity very tight to get to the airport. I ended up leaving with a few minutes left to assure I made my flight. So I know firsthand about final week flex scheduling.

I wouldn't take any of these bums, Fewell is no worse than any one of them. Haslett-did an overall poor job in New Orleans after a very promising rookie year-the only year he made the playoffs, 46-52 overall. 6 years there were: 10-6 then 1-1 in playoffs; 7-9; 9-7; 8-8; 8-8; 3-13. Then as interim coach of St. Louis 2-10, for a total NFL career coaching mark of 48-62, a .436 win %. Can you say Dick Jauron? Just like Jauron, he was not retained after an interim job. A career loser in the NFL who made the playoffs once in 6 3/4 seasons. Jauron's record is 40-56. Do you really want someone with a career record of 6 more wins & 4 fewer losses than Jauron? Haslett is not acceptable. Fassell-60-56-1 overall with the Giants, take away his best season (12-4 +2-1 postseason) and his Giants record is sub .500-once again overall very Jauron like-one good season among a bunch of mediocre ones. I did a whole breakdown of Fassel in a prior post & I see no need to be repetitive here on Fassell. Green-couldn't even compile a winning record in the UFL, finishing with a .333 winning %, only beating the New York Sentinals-one of the worst teams top to bottom ever assembled. Had a long run in Minnesota, where, unlike the other UFL bum coaches he actually had a decent record (101-70 overall). Then he ruined any legacy he had by compiling a 16-32 record in 3 Arizona seasons. The guy has batted .333 in his last 2 gigs. Give me a break! Cottell-Never an NFL coach, had the worst team in the UFL going 0-6. A guy who is 0 for his head coaching career, yeah, that's the ticket. In the game I went to, out Jauroned Jauron. Punted on 4th & 1, down 18 points with less than 6 minutes to go in the game. In the short UFL season sufferred more blowouts than a guy driving into a set of tire spikes. Hell NO!

Admit it, you miss those quit nights alone with JP, in front of the fireplace. That's the only possible reason anyone would want JP back in Buffalo, you're afraid JP will find someone else in Vegas.

I seriously doubt we gave him $2 million a year.

If Indy is 15-0, the Jan 3rd game may get flexed.

As is just about every trade this Bill for that guy trade thread. Unless there is talk of one team's interest in another team's player-which doesn't happen due to tampering rules, trades that fans dream up usually are ridiculous. However, if you think this board is bad, listen to WFAN NY sometime and the trade calls are basically something like "Let's trade Kellen Clemens to da Bills faw Lee Evans. Dey need a QB & we need a receiva."

Well, it wasn't quite that simple. The Patriots signed Welker to a ridiculous contract that they never planned on honoring. The Dolphins were stuck between a rock & a hard place-If they matched the contract, they'd be overpaying Welker. If they didn't match, they'd lose him for no compensation since Welker was originally a free agent (actually an undrafted free agent who signed with SD & got cut in preseason then signed with the Dolphins). So the Dolphins felt the only thing to do was negotiate a trade so they'd get something rather than nothing for Welker when he went to the Pats. Since the trade was made, the Dolphins had no more rights to Welker. The patriots, who now owned Welker, tore up the ridiculous contract & signed him to a more reasonable one. It is one of those loopholes within the rules that the Patriots found a way around.

You give results in the minors way too much weight. Gibran Hamdan was MVP of NFL Europe and it didn't prove he was "ready to step in and take over the starting role after a preseason of preparation". You live in a JP fantasy land.

Miami went from 1-15 in 2007 to 11-5 and a division crown in 2008 after a change in management. I will always have hope for next season no matter how bad this season goes. With free agency & bold thinking, with an open checkbook, anything is possible.

Whoever is left in the Bills front office, and whoever comes in will just have to look at last season to realize why Trent has to be let go (trade or waivers) before April. Watching a totally disinterested JP on the sidelines last year, and thinking of what a totally disinterested Trent next year will be like is enough data to get rid of him ASAP. Last year's lesson shows that you don't keep your failed ex-starting QB on the roster just because he has one year left on his contract. Besides, the Bills already have next year's #2 in Fitzpatrick. They're not keeping Edwards around in 2010.

I was one of Trent's biggest boosters his 1st 2 + seasons, but he has played his way off the team in his 3rd season. The real test he has failed-he lost his team. Just listen to the other players the minute Fitzpatrick does anything positive-they praise Fitzpatrick while reading between the lines, they're putting down Edwards. Hate to say it, but it looks like a lot of players on this team just don't think too much of the guy. They're the guys who know him-live with him every day in practice, the locker room & gameday, and they have voted NO. The coaches agree with that assessment. One of the telling signs is Trent's reaction to adversity. The guy doesn't hold himself accountable nor does he seem to have the fire in his belly that leaders, which a QB must be, have. His personality is very much like Rob Johnson's. Just compare the players' reaction when Flutie replaced Johnson to when Fitzpatrick replaced Edwards and it's remarkably similar. A very telling remark was when Edwards said he is a Bills player, not a fan. Just think of Jim Kelly on the sidelines when he was hurt, or today as a retired player-Kelly was & is a fan because he loves football-something you just don't see in Trent Edwards. QBs who don't love football, beyond just about anything else, don't succeed.