Albany,n.y.

I just looked up the schedule for Sunday on WRGB's website. The game is on at 4, local programming at 1. They learned their lesson.

Sorry-You're wrong. I was at the game & I saw the play from the endzone that the ball was thrown towards. I saw the pushoff & as soon as the flag was thrown I told Petrino that it's on Evans. I also watched the replays on the scoreboard-the same ones you saw on your tv. Whoever was manning the cameras missed the play. The timing and angles occurred AFTER Evans had pushed off. So if you're at the stadium and you're watching Evans, you see the entire play. If you're just watching the replay, the replay starts too late for you to see the obvious push off that gained Evans the separation. I had to explain to the people around me who weren't paying close attention to the full play, that the camera didn't show the pushoff. Clearly the conclusion you drew from the replay was the correct conclusion from what was shown. However what was shown didn't include the infraction. So please don't say being at the game counts less-we see more than you do, see what you do on the scoreboard replay & don't have to rely on a late camera to draw a conclusion.

Will someone from the "he can't play in bad weather" crowd please explain why 1) He performed so well against Miami in bad weather last December & 2) When Fairchild finally took the handcuffs off in the blizzard in Cleveland he was crisp & accurate in his downfield passing on the drive in the final minute. You continue to ignore these facts and just keep up your rant, it's time to show some guts & address this. (I won't be here to see your response until Monday because some of us have a game to attend, where we can judge the weather far better than someone with a stat sheet)

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I've seen this article here a while ago, but since we play the Raiders, it's worth repeating. The Bills were afraid that the Saints would trade up to pick 91 (New England's) & draft Edwards. Then the Raiders stepped in & traded up to draft (backup) OT Mario Henderson with pick . http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=4770

I was confident enough on August 17th (after the Pittsburgh game) to spend $107 that locks me into 2 Super Bowl tickets at face value after the $107, if the Bills get in, otherwise I lose the $107. I was also confident enough so that when Whitner guaranteed playoffs & a guy at work was mocking Whitner, I bet him & another guy who was around at the time he was mocking Whitner $10 each that the Bills would make the playoffs.

He wasn't outplayed in the Miami romp-In Bad Weather, so you're wrong, he didn't lose them all. Also the 2 ridiculous weather games you site were against better TEAMS. One of them was the Super Bowl Champion. You have no basis other than parroting some idiots on WGR who start this garbage. The Super Bowl Manning won wasn't in a blizzard or a monsoon, so get some facts, will you. I'm sure the weather against Miami was worse than Manning's Super Bowl, but you forget that game because it doesn't fit your theory. Similar to forgetting JP's W/L record in ALL WEATHER.

That's because you are a fan who has to look for negatives when they don't exist. Anyone who says he can't play in poor weather has no real data to back it up. Just look at the QB stats on the other side of those games and realize there are certain conditions that NO QB can play well in. According to your logic Ben Roethlisberger can't play in bad weather because last week the Steelers couldn't score more than 10 points because it was rainy & windy. I remember another night game, 11/26/07 when nobody scored until 1:19 when Pittsburgh beat Miami 3-0. Therefore you should be all over the Roethlisberger can't play in bad weather bandwagon. By the way 2 weeks later, the Bills, led by Trent Edwards, beat Miami 38-17 with Trent Edwards throwing 4 TD passes-IN POOR WEATHER!

Even if I don't think he's very good, JP with 30 NFL starts is a much better fit to beat teams like the Browns, Chiefs, 49ers, Dolphins & Jets, the teams we play in weeks 11-15, than Hamdan who has never started an NFL game. JP is an insurance policy worth more than a 2nd day pick-the best he would yield. If Brett Favre's trade started at a conditional 4, nobody is giving the Bills a 3rd for about 80% of one season of JP. If JP was signed for 3 more years, then they'd have a better shot at your pipe dream.

When someone said "It's the economy, stupid." Sarah Palin said "You talkin' to me?"

Another reason stats are so meaningless. Elway was a lifetime 56.87% passer. JP Losman is a career 59.14 % passer. So according to your logic, JP Losman is better than a 1st ballot Hall of Famer-GTFO.

But will you be here on Sunday night, or just disappear into the wind after you get your behind kicked. The Raiders would love to play the Jills, they might even have a chance to win. Unfortunately the Raiders will have to play the Bills and watch the best QB of the class of 2007 widen the gap between him and the guy the Raiders thought was the best QB-JaMarcus Russell-the guy who will be driving Trent's limo in a few years.

Albany is Giants country. I've been here over 20 years & I never expect the Bills to be shown when the Giants are on the same network & time. You can go to a bar, or go to the game. If not, you still have 103.9 FM. Or you can try the internet feed that the guy who posts on the Zone provides.

Simms is on Tennessee. Culpepper announced his retirement because his knee never fully recovered. So yes, Frerotte is their best hope.

Looking back, Mularkey may have been a lot smarter than we thought. It's not mismanagement when a coach recognizes a guy is a bust & that player is hurting the team's chances of winning games. The Vikings can win more games with Frerotte and to a coach who is not entrenched, that's what matters. Funny thing about bad play-calling. When you have a QB who is a bust, the OC gets a lot of heat. First Gilbride was an idiot when JP couldn't cut it (yet he went on to become the OC of the Super Bowl Champs), then Fairchild was hated in Buffalo. Now Turk Schonert is a genius because JP is on the bench. If the Vikings had Edwards instead of Jackson nobody would be questioning the OC in Minnesota. I hope you were kidding when you bagged on the Vikings OC.

Henne was looking good in preseason, and Ratliff was the best QB behind Favre-he was tons better than Clemens (with two Es). If the Jets hadn't acquired Favre, Ratliff would have been their best QB, not Pennington, Clemens, or Ainge. Albany had the Jets preseason games on TV and Ratliff was lighting it up.

That's not true. Miami drafted Chad Henne in the 2nd round and is developing him to be their QB of the future. In fact, if Miami doesn't start winning, Henne will be starting very soon. The Jets don't have the guy they planned to replace Pennington working out, because Clemens is a bust (to JP fans that means "he just needs more time for the light to come on & the Jets will regret letting him go"). But, they may have found a gem in an undrafted FA from last year who made their roster after spending last season on their practice squad, Brett Ratliff. Also, the Jets have 2008 draftee Erik Ainge.

They don't even suspend players who can pass a drug test after being arrested for coke. Matt Jones wouldn't be playing if the NFL was suspending guys who just get arrested.

As long as we're ranked #1 on February 2nd, I don't care if they rank us 32nd today.

Years ago, before IR became a season ender, teams would stash guys on IR who they didn't want to waive but weren't ready to play at the beginning of their rookie years. The inactives were part of a compromise that ended player stashing since if you put a guy on IR, his season ends and unless you're the Patriots, he's prohibited from practicing. The Polian Bills were masters of this art. they put late round guys like Carlton Bailey & Keith McKeller on IR while they got them NFL ready by mid-season. McKeller played in strike games while on IR. One time the move bit them. They stashed CB Martin Mayhew on IR for the entire season & Washington scooped him up on plan B. Polian was livid according to the news stories when washington "stole" Mayhew.

I hope this satisfies all the stat boys who have expressed skepticism about him because his rookie #s , in spite of 2 of his games last year being played in once in a decade weather storms, didn't meet their standards.

Last year after week 2, I was one of the fans in favor of a QB change. So I turn on WGR that Thursday and I hear Clayton say that if the Bills put Edwards in, it will set the franchise back by three years. Clayton has backed off big time from that statement, which was made before Trent's 1st regular season NFL pass, but I called it the dumbest thing he has ever said, and I believe it still is. In a decade where two 2nd year QBs have won the Super Bowl, it's impossible to set a team back 3 years by inserting a rookie QB in. Just look at the Dolphins-last year they inserted a rookie in, they got enough data to know he wasn't the answer & moved on, drafting another QB & signing a stopgap. Even that didn't set the Dolphins back by three years. Obviously he was thinking that the Bills had invested over 3 years in JP at the time and it would take Edwards just as long to reach the level JP was already at, but he ignored the progress that good QBs make by year 2, let alone year 3.

I would guess the play was: if a receiver is open, hit him, otherwise take the sack. The clock always stops on a change of possession.

When Trent Edwards started getting noticed in camp last year, my first reaction was (after thinking about players like Brady & Montana) maybe it's finally our turn.

The original post is insane. You ALWAYS try to go up by 4 when you're ahead by 1. It makes the other team's task more difficult plus a fieldgoal DOESN'T BEAT YOU! The Patriots were up by 9-no friggin comparison! Even a Jets' TD doesn't beat them.