Albany,n.y.

The perfect fit is in Oakland. Crazy Mike & Crazy Al together-just throw the ball deep down the field baby!

It really depends on what the coaches are seeing in practice-something we don't have enough information on. If he's not yet grasping the offense, or the guy is showing he's nothing better than a practice squad talent, they really can't throw him in there just to see what they have. Like it or not, the head coach is doing everything he can to field the best team he can, because he is looking at making himself look good to his next employer. If he can field a competitive team he can have that on his resume for the future. He's still thinking he can have a miracle finish and be a head coach here or elsewhere in the future. If he knows that Brohm isn't ready and the team is going to look worse with him in there, and possibly face a veteran revolt, he's not going to send Brohm in. Unfortunately, Perry cannot treat this team like he's in the 1st year of a 5 year contract & look to the future. For Perry Fewell, the future is now & the QB that he feels gives him the best chance of winning is Fitzpatrick.

Anyone seriously thinking of Martz should just take a timeout and think about it... Sorry, you can't, Mike used them all up in the 1st quarter. One of the worst clock managers ever to be an NFL head coach.

How can you have any credibility when you have no clue what you're talking about? Here's what you think you know, but you don't know: Kurt Warner never sat on the bench in Green Bay. Warner was a QB in camp among the greatest group of QBs ever assembled in one camp: Favre, Brunell, T. Detmer and a raw kid from a small school-Warner. Warner got cut pretty early in camp because 1) He was a project who admits that he was totally overwhelmed by his first exposure to the NFL 2) He was an undrafted kid buried on that depth chart. He never was on the Packers regular season roster , so he never sat on the bench in Green Bay. When was Warner "great in L.A."? There are no teams in L.A. The Rams were in St. Louis when Warner played with them. He didn't "suck in N.Y".-the Giants traded for Eli Manning and signed Warner to start until Manning was ready. In the middle of the season, with the Giants 5-4 and still in the playoff hunt, Tom Coughlin decided that he was going to his plan of getting Eli Manning experience in his rookie year and started Manning the rest of the season. The team went 1-6 the rest of the way. Considering they were 5-4 with Warner, he hardly "sucked". Steve Young was a top rated QB coming out of college & Tampa Bay was poorly managed. This is the same team that got nothing for drafting Bo Jackson #1. Instead of hanging onto Young, they got enamored with Vinny Testaverde, chose him #1 & traded Young to the SF 49ers who groomed his as Montana's successor. Tampa didn't cut him and he didn't ever enter the open market.

I hope you realize there were a lot fewer teams in the 1950s and that comparing the NFL of the 50s and the opportunities available to players back then to now is ridiculous. There was a reason the AFL was able to come into existance & thrive. A lot of good football players had nowhere to go on a depth chart. There was no unrestricted free agency in the NFL.

Fewell may not be the answer but your reasons are to use your words, dumb. I'd say the ones I bolded sound like they've been written by a 10 year old, but that would be insulting 10 year olds. For the record: Byrd is injured, the substitution was most likely to relieve a hurting player. There are plenty of DEs worse than Kelsay, some on our team. Langster is an unproven rookie, who is lucky anytime he gets on the field. Poz is not the worst starting LB in the league, once again there are worse on our team. GROW UP!

Don't you realize that it's much easier to play in the minors? JP is the same flawed player as he was here, just the level of competition slowed things down. Fassel is the same lousy coach that got fired by the Giants & his only chance to come back to the NFL is to beg Al Davis for a job nobody in his right mind, or somebody with no other options, would take-and he still might not get it. If somehow Fassel does get the Raiders gig & brings JP to Oakland with him, Davis will soon be pining away for the days of Cable & Russell.

Dick Jauron had the same deal with Detroit. Doesn't just about every coach replace a fired one?

Great coach? Get real! Talk to some Giants fans & then come back here & tell us if you still want Fassel. Very mediocre coach. Got lucky one year when the NFC had nothing & got into the Super Bowl. His record was nothing special: 1997 10-5-1, playoffs 0-1 1998 8-8 1999 7-9 2000 12-4 playoffs 2-0 Super Bowl 0-1 2001 7-9 2002 10-6 playoffs 0-1 2003 4-12 After Giants' firing: Fired as OC of Ravens, went to minor leagues to coach.

It reminded me more of when Kelly Holcomb replaced JP Losman & the team was winning more games. Basically a decent career backup who can start a few games now & then who stepped in when the annointed starter bombed out. Fitzpatrick has a lot more of the right stuff than Edwards has shown, but don't get carried away-We still need to draft a QB.

Ch 6 carries the Jets & Ch 13 carries the Giants-but that is the preseason NY feed. Some of the Jets games get moved to the CW (ch 45). During the regular season it's all based on network assignments. If it's on NFL Network, Time Warner isn't showing it, only the cities of the two teams that are playing get the NFL Network feed on a local channel. It might be the same for Monday Night Football on ESPN. I didn't hear anyone say the Giants game last Thursday was on.

Perry could be the next Jeff Fisher. Fisher was interim once, has been their coach for a long run. If Perry shows he's the guy in the next 5 games, then he gets the job & Ralph spends his millions on the front office & players.

I don't like listening to random locker room interviews, so I switched to WGR during that segment of the 97 Rock postgame show. After a few minutes of them calling the Bills out for unsportsmanlike behavior for running up the score instead of taking a knee, I had enough & went back to 97 Rock. WGR was at its absolute worst after the game. If the Dolphins didn't want the Bills to score more THEY could have done two things-stop the run or stop completing passes to our guys and run the time out themselves. If Miami was willing to keep playing, and by passing they obviously were, then the Bills had every right to keep playing as well.

If you hadn't stopped watching, you probably wouldn't have written what you did. The offense with Fitzpatrick, who has been the QB the last two weeks, isn't much different than what the Bills would have with JP. He throws the long bombs, hits on a few and misses most, just like JP. Fitzpatrick is a little better than JP because he's smarter, gets rid of the ball quicker, avoiding the Losman-type sacks and fumbles less. Fitzpatrick isn't NFL starting material, but he's better than JP or Trent & will be on next year's team as the 2nd stringer unless Brohm shows he can handle the #2 QB job, then Fitz will join Edwards on a plane out of Buffalo. The last NFL quality starter we had starting was Flutie, and we better be drafting a QB in the 1st round, or trading for one, because we're in big trouble with the current group. Heck, Brohm has never even played in a real NFL game & people are calling for him to start after being plucked off another team's practice squad-that's how low our QB situation has sunk. Someone gave me an Edwards jersey a few weeks ago & now I'd be ashamed to even wear it at the Ralph tomorrow. I'm going back to my XXL tee shirt over my winter coat for Miami.

Time Warner Cable has a message on the front page of Roadrunner that talks about Networks raising the costs of cable. They have two arrows for you to click 1)Roll Over 2)Get Tough. When you hit the Get Tough page, they ask you to send a message. I guess they plan on forwarding these angry messages to the stations they're negotiating with. I decided to turn the tables on them, since they won't give us NFL Network. Anyone else who wants the NFL Network should let them know and respond to their Get Tough invitation. Here is what I wrote: There are tons of stations currently on my cable that I'm paying for that I never watch. Meanwhile you put out things like this, yet refuse to give me the option of watching the one network I want the most, the NFL Network. You have NBA, MLB & NHL-a league that I never watch, but you won't give me my football. Well, you made it through this season with me as a customer, but my patience is wearing thin. I might not be a customer by the next NFL season unless you give me the NFL network. I don't want to hear all your excuses. You're charging me for things I'd never watch, while failing to get me what I do want. It's about time for NFL fans to stop rolling over for Time Warner Cable. Your time to fix this without losing us is running out.

My answer is any Bills player who, barring injury, has been permanently benched and has already played his last game in a Bills uniform. That's Trent Edwards situation now. Fitzpatrick will be the backup next year unless Brohm beats him out, in which case he'll be waived. The starter isn't on the roster. There's no room for Trent Edwards on this team. For past players who were still on the team until the season ended see Melvin Fowler 2008, I stopped supporting him the day he quit on the team and was banned from the lineup. I think we all stopped supporting Rob Johnson before he hit the waiver wire.

I'm not bashing JP, I'm bashing you for moronic statements about him.

How do you rue the day you replaced one failure with another? Just another moronic JP will haunt us post-give it up already!

The game had a justice ending. Florida won the toss & Bollinger cost them the game with an interception deep in his own territory. Between Bollinger's fumble for a TD and pick for the winning FG, and JP's sacks & sailing it over the heads of receivers when he aired it out, neither looked like he belongs in the NFL any time soon. Have you seen these guys play throughout the season? Bollinger looked great in the beginning then came back to earth. JP played like....JP-lots of sacks and balls flying over receivers heads on most of his deep passes, with an occasional home run.

Leaving the off field stuff out of it, 3 years of virtual inactivity have killed his game. You're not getting Michael Vick of 2006 and earlier, you'd be getting 2010 Michael Vick, a guy who sat out the 2007 and 2008 seasons and languished on the bench in 2009. That's not rust, it's almost mummification. There are much better options than hoping Vick can return to the player he was 4 or more years earlier.

You've been told wrong. Best evidence: 3 teams games are on the radio, Giants, Jets and BILLS. The Patriots are not broadcast on any local radio station. If there was enough of a demand, someone would be broadcasting Patriots' games. The Jets get broadcast 1st, then the Bills. I can't remember many, or more than a handful of NE games that have ever been shown over Bills games in the 22 years I've been here. In fact, years ago, when NBC had the AFC, they used to hold votes between the Bills & Jets via telephone to pick the games. The Bills won most of these. NE wasn't even given as a choice. The voting stopped when CBS got the AFC, but whenever a Bills game is on the air, and they're not in competition with the Jets, the station knows that they have to show the Bills or get hit with a ton of calls. Last year they tried to show a different game & we bugged the station so much they caved & put on the Bills. We broadcast only to parts of western New England that are far from Foxborough.

1st round QBs have won a much higher percentage of Super Bowls than any other round, even though there have been 6 to 11+ more rounds in drafts. 21 of 43 Super Bowls have been won with a 1st round QB. On a statistical basis, your best chance of winning a Super Bowl, by round selected is clearly the 1st round, where almost half the winners have come from. In order for your statement to be valid, the Super Bowl winning QBs would be equally spaced over all rounds, that simply isn't the case. A more reasonable conclusion would be: 1st round QBs are a gamble, only about half succeed. However, the success rate drops as the round of the draft drops, so your best chance of getting a QB who is going to lead you to a championship is still the 1st round.

Your response really doesn't make a lot of sense. What does "Did you feel the same way when the other QB got roasted ?" mean? Did I feel both QBs lost their job due to their own inabilities to play in the NFL-absolutely. I wasn't commenting on either's "roasting". I was pointing out that the excuses made for JP's inability to play in the NFL won't be repeated with Edwards. Why? Because somehow JP fans were in love with JP, so much that he's not even in the league and they're warning us he's coming back to haunt us. When Edwards is off the team & possibly out of the league, I don't expect any warnings he'll be back to make us rue the day we let him go. The reality-both were failures in Buffalo and neither one will ever do anything to make us miss him with another NFL team. When each lost his starting job, it was based on how poorly he played. So I guess I did feel the same way-I felt JP lost his starting job on merit as did Trent. I'm a Bills fan, I'm moving on. JP fans haven't moved on , even a year later.

Our line this Sunday will feature two players waived this season (one re-signed by the Bills); a player waived last season before the start of his team's 0-16 season; a rookie, who is the best offensive lineman left on the team & a lunchpail journeyman. When (if ever) was the last time we picked a guy up who had been waived earlier in the month & put him right into the starting lineup on the O-line? The last guy I remember this happening with is in 1986 when we picked up LB George Cumby on waivers & he was promptly named a starter. Next year we might be able to say-remember the game where we started 3 guys on the offensive line who are out of the league now? I hope we never see this bad on O-line again, it took 50 years to get this bad a bunch together.

Miami @ Bills is on in Albany this week, they've been advertising it on the Oak-Dal broadcast on Ch 6.