Albany,n.y.

1 Sep 14 BUF @ NE L 0-1 2 Sep 20 TB @ BUF W 1-1 3 Sep 27 NO @ BUF W 2-1 4 Oct 04 BUF @ MIA W 3-1 5 Oct 11 CLE @ BUF W 4-1 6 Oct 18 BUF @ NYJ W 5-1 (yep, just like last year after 6 games) 7 Oct 25 BUF @ CAR L 5-2 8 Nov 01 HOU @ BUF W 6-2 9 Bye 10 Nov 15 BUF @ TEN L 6-3 11 Nov 22 BUF @ JAC W 7-3 12 Nov 29 MIA @ BUF W 8-3 13 Dec 03 NYJ @ BUF W 9-3 14 Dec 13 BUF @ KC W 10-3 15 Dec 20 NE @ BUF L 10-4 16 Dec 27 BUF @ ATL W 11-4 17 Jan 03 IND @ BUF W 12-4 18 Jan 17 SD @ BUF W Advance to AFC Championship game 19 Jan 24 @ NE W AFC Champions 20 Feb 7 vs Atl @ Miami W-Super Bowl Champions

Anything other than an NFL Network game & I'm guaranteed of seeing Bills-Jets on home TV in high def. Now I can't watch the game at home unless I want to see a blurry computer feed. Thanks NFL! I'll be at a bar with a bunch of drunk Jets' fans, what a wonderful thought. PS: I don't want to hear any of that get Direct TV s##t, I go to the home games & NFL ticket ain't worth it for at most 7 friggin games since we get the Monday night game & the @Jets game will be on, as well as one or two others.

Jacksonville for Quinn.

That's like saying XXXXX will be dead by Friday. One of these Fridays XXXXX will be dead. It may be 50 years from now, but eventually you'll be right.

I doubt we'll see a triple crown winner because the two top horses (IMO) are lightly raced and very close in talent that I can't see one of them winning all 3. My top 2 are the 1-2 finishers of the Florida Derby-Quality Road and Dunkirk. I think Quality Road is the better of the two because he's got more tactical speed and can get the jump on Dunkirk, just like Sunday Silence used to do to Easy Goer and Affirmed used to do to Alydar. One unknown is if Dunkirk can get into the Derby due to graded stakes earnings rules. I think he'll make it, but if he doesn't & Quality Road wins the Kentucky Derby without Dunkirk in there, he'll have to face a rested Dunkirk when the two meet again in the Preakness or Belmont-another factor to deny the triple crown. Now after yesterday, a lot of folks are all ga-ga over the Gotham & Wood winner I Want Revenge-I'm just not that into I Want Revenge. I think he's peaked too soon & I'm still not impressed by any of the horses he has beaten. Remember, in California he was just a second rate horse to Santa Anita Derby winner Pioneerof the Nile (POTN). Also his trainer Jeff Mullins, has done this sort of stuff before, had a horse who won the last major Derby prep. From 2003-5 Mullins trained the winners of the Santa Anita Derby with horses who did nothing in Kentucky. Just because he shipped this act to NY this year, doesn't make I Want Revenge a horse who will be a threat to my top 2. POTN has good credentials over stynthetic surfaces, but is untested on dirt & his speed #s in California are similar to last year's California darling-Colonel John-who didn't hit the board in Kentucky last year. I don't see much coming out of next week's races, though Old Fashioned can get back some of his lost luster with a convincing win in the Arkansas Derby & a wide open Blue Grass can produce a contender, although the best possible result of the Blue Grass would be the English horse who has automatically qualified for a spot in the Derby to run so poorly that his owners are too embarrassed to run him in the Derby & block a much better candidate like Dunkirk. The best horse in the Bluegrass is probably Charitable Man, who hasn't been out since a 7 furlong sprint last September at Belmont. He's never been further than 7f, never raced on polytrack, but has a ton of talent, already beating Louisiana's horse Friesan Fire. It would be asking a lot to send him to the Derby, but a likely win in the Bluegrass might give his connections Derby Fever. Speaking of Friesan Fire, he is going to try to win the Derby with no mile & one eight prep & off a 7 week layoff-I doubt he'll get it done. I expect Theregoesjojo to run well in either the Bluegrass or the Lexington and have enough $ to get into the gate in Louisville, but all his better performance will do is validate my top two horses. Quality Road & Dunkirk will prove to be the cream of this 3 year old crop.

The perfect record of Soprano remains intact: Soprano & the 2008 Detroit Lions, achieving (reverse) perfection one game (or post) at a time.

Spoiler Alert-only go down to the bottom if you don't have it taped, dvr'd etc. I hated the ending. All the characters are astronauts in the future (2035 I think) and they were in these pods where they each chose a different virtual reality while the flight was on its way to land on Mars. Sam chose to be a cop. It turns out his real father, who is also an astronaut is Harvey Keitel. Annie is the leader on the spaceship & the guy from the last season of Homicide is their leader on Earth. Obama's daughter is now President. They land on Mars & go out to its surface.

The best part of the story was Jimmy Johnson actually called someone to get more info on the guy & was not amused.

The real answer to the Why the 49ers won't draft Stafford is because he will be long gone before the 49ers pick. How about this for Stafford's reaction: Some shrink representing a team that has no shot of drafting me is asking me some pretty personal questions. Now if he was the Lions or Rams shrink, I might be more inclined to put up with this s**t, but the niners, give me a break.

What is the availabilty & price of high def on DTV?

Let's see: Bill Pollian has won 4 conference championships & 1 Super Bowl. In Buffalo he was instrumental in drafting Bruce Smith as the focus of his defense. In Indianapolis he drafted Dwight Freeney. I rest my case.

No trades, no signings, no moves up or down in the draft. Around here that is thinking outside the box. In the Bills front office it's called business as usual.

For a team with no QB into the future, I think a team would be willing to acquire the #1 pick to take Stafford. The most logical team to take Stafford at #1: DETROIT I think Detroit is crazy to not take a QB inthe 1st round.

Great, another article by a stat boy who probably has never seen Edwards or Cutler play in a game on the field. Cutler=stat boy's wet dream.

I hope all you people excited at the prospect of the trade realize that the friend who e-mailed Astrobot is not Martin Mayhew & Mayhew & the Lions may not be thinking the same as one of their fans is. Also, if Stafford ever fell to pick 8, I'd be shocked. The 1st QB in the draft hasn't been 8th or below since the 2000 draft when Chad Pennington was the 1st QB at pick 18.

RL's post is as stupid a post as the time someone on another Bills board used some QB statistics to show that JP Losman was better than Jim Kelly at the same stage of their careers. Jay Cutler couldn't hold Elway's jock. The one thing that Elway didn't do that Cutler does is make critical mistakes. Until Cutler cuts down on his errors, such as throwing the INT that cost Denver a chance to win against the Bills, or the fumble against SD that the refs bailed him out on, he won't be a championship caliber QB. The reason that Denver was interested in trading Cutler for Cassel was because McDaniels watched the films of his new team & realized that Cassel doesn't make the critical errors that Cutler makes which costs Denver wins.

I would guess that after the year Hardy had wearing #81, he'd want to get as far away from that number as possible.

Here's his reply: Quote 1: What I wrote was "the likes of Trent Edwards and J.P. Losman," meaning the type of QBs the BIlls have had lately, as compared to "the likes of" Jim Kelly. Admittedly, I should have made the analogy clearer. Quote 2: I've known Jerry for years. He "loves" the acquisition of T.O. because, for the first time in some years, there's finally going to be something exciting to write about the Bills. Jim D.

The article from the Providence Journal on the front page was a hatchet job, here's what I e-mailed the author. The hatchet job you did in your column about Terrell Owens going to Buffalo cannot go without me providing you some feedback. I'm a Bills fan, living in Albany, N.Y. who cannot believe your lack of professionalism or ethics. Lets examine your indiscretions. Quote 1) "Still, it seems T.O.never gets the ball thrown to him often enough, as he often points out. It's always all about T.O. Considering that he complained about talented quarterbacks Donovan McNabb in Philadelphia and Tony Romo in Dallas, how long will it be before he becomes frustrated with the likes of Trent Edwards and J.P. Losman in Buffalo?" J.P. Losman is no longer on the Bills, he has been replaced by Ryan Fitzpatrick. A professional would check his facts and know who was on a team before he wrote about that team. The fact that you didn't shows your lack of professionalism. Quote 2) Joy is not exactly flowing in the streets of Buffalo over T.O.'s arrival. As Jerry Sullivan, the Rogers High of Newport grad who’s a columnist for the Buffalo News, wrote last week of Owens' signing: "This is a desperate move, a sure sign that (coach Dick) Jauron, the embattled head coach, needs to win this year and will do anything necessary to get there." Why did you take this out of context to fit your agenda that implied Mr Sullivan was not happy with the move. You knew very well that the paragraph indicated Jerry Sullivan loved the move, hardly equal to your "Joy is not exactly flowing..." statement. Just to refresh your memory here's what the part of his column you convieniently edited to fit your agenda, you even started the statement in mid-sentence. "You know what, though? I love it. Once I recovered from the initial shock, I realized it was the most interesting thing to happen to the Bills since they acquired Drew Bledsoe in 2002. All right, so that didn't turn out so well in the long run. And yes, this is a desperate move, a sure sign that Jauron, the embattled head coach, needs to win this year and will do anything necessary to get there. But what the heck. At least they're willing to try something bold and daring. " The readers of your paper deserve better.

We got Larry Fitzgerald too? He's the most talented WR in the league. Owens was the most talented WR available, and no matter what anyone else thinks, we needed a 2nd talented receiver to get the offense moving. I'd say Trent is a lock to be playing in the Pro-Bowl now, but since the Super Bowl teams' players won't be playing in the Pro Bowl, he's only a lock to be selected.

He probably spent last night at the Canadian Ballet.

I was listening to ESPN radio last night right after the Owens signing & I think they were going to talk with Bentley. Right when the interview was about to begin, the local station switched to a hockey game. Did anyone hear him on ESPN radio last night?

Midway through the Super Bowl when we are up by 14 points & Lee Evans has all the receiving TDs.

NM

The reason I feel optimistic is because I feel we have a decent enough team with a few more additions like another offensive lineman (G or C) and TE, as long as we get production from our QB. I believe Trent Edwards will be a special QB who has all the intangibles to be a great one. I think he really suffered after the concussion and basically wasn't right the rest of the season, even though he still had flashes of brilliance like the SD, Denver & KC games post concussion. If I'm right about Edwards, we will be a contender next year. Basically, I'm believing the Bills management is right puting all the eggs in the Edwards basket. If they're wrong, then the pessimists on this board will be totally right, because a team goes as its QB goes. This season will really tell whether Edwards will be the great QB that both the Bills & I expect him to be, or the injury prone loser that his detractors on this board claim about him. If the detractors are proven right, then we will truly suck & have no thoughts of being a contender for at least 2-3 years. If, on the other hand, I'm right, we'll be in the playoffs this season. Since I think I'm right, I'm very optimistic on this team's future.