Albany,n.y.

Look at what we've done since we had the team of Kelly & Reich and a logical conclusion is that our scouts at both the college and pro level are not getting the job done when it comes to evaluating QBs. Here are the guys someone has recommended over the recent years. 1995: Spend a 2nd on Todd Collins 1997: Spend a 3rd on Billy Joe Hobert 1998: Spend a 1 & 4 on Rob Johnson Got lucky that A.J. Smith pushed so hard for Flutie. Plus we had Ryan Leaf rated above Peyton Manning-I base this on conversations that John Butler had with the media where he was on record as saying if he had the #1 pick, it would be Leaf. 2002: Spent a 2003 1st on Drew Bledsoe. This was after Detroit "saved" us from picking Joey Harrington with the pick we busted on Mike Williams with. 2004: Spent a 1st on J.P. Losman (giving up 3 picks in order to get that 1st-a 2, 5 and the following year's 1) 2005: Spent $ to bring in Kelly Holcomb 2006: Spent $ to bring in Craig Nall This is too many wasted $ & draft choices. At 1st glance it appears that someone is looking too much at arm strength without regards to the intangibles that are needed to succeed at the QB position. For years under the direction of Ron Wolf, Green Bay was almost a QB factory. In recent years the Packers have had Brett Favre, Kurt Warner, Ty Detmer, and Mark Brunell all in the same camp and drafted Matt Hasselbeck in the 6th round. It's either our scouts or the directions they are given when evaluating QBs. We have to find a new way of rating QBs, because whatever methods are being used at One Bills Drive are not working. It doesn't seem to matter if it's Butler, Donahoe or so far, Marv.

The Bills don't owe 50+ players anything other than their paycheck and the chance to show they are worthy of playing on a chapionship team. The Bills management owes their fans and owner a chance at a championship. That means finding out which players among the 53 are best qualified to stick around and be members of a champion. Marv is quite familiar with the process, he came in in 1986 & kept a core of winners & dumped the rest. That's what he's doing now. He already knows that Holcomb & Nall cannot be the QB on that champion. He's giving JP time, because JP might be the guy & if he proves otherwise, Marv doesn't have to waste any more time before looking for a new QB. The answer could have been known by now if last years management had the guts to NOT DO what you're suggesting. The losers who will soon be gone are owed nothing on any given Sunday when it comes to squeezing out a 6-10 season instead of a 4-12 one.

As we get closer to election day, all you hear every day are lies & more lies from these people trying to get themselves or their cronies elected. Even when they tell the truth, they do so in a manner that takes a true fact and twists it into a false conclusion. If these clowns really wanted to tell the truth it would be quite simple. Make it a law that any office holder, or person running for office who lies to the public be subject to perjury charges. Penalty if convicted: A stiff fine, community service and a permanent ban from ever seeking office again. In the case of a person in office-impeachment & removal from office plus the above penalties. I'm just so sick of the ads that are running. You can often find articles in print or tv, radio etc that expose the statements as outright lies. An example of truth being twisted is one I received in the mail just the other day. Claiming his opponent was a tax raiser, a politician included a statement saying his opponent helped raise assessments up to 90%. As someone very familiar with the field, all I can say is that if you have a revaluation, assessments will go up. Depending on what year the assessments are based on, assessments can go up many times. For example, when Nassau county went from 1939 based assessments to more current market value assessments a $400,000 house may have been assessed less than $10,000, got raised over 4000% and may or may not have had a tax increase. Politicians will always tell you the half truth to fit their agenda. They are lower than pond scum! Throw them all out of office & for the worst-into a jail cell. Edit: Here's a story about how far the NRCC will go, using a staff member's incorrect dialing of a number to smear a foe: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/ne...t_id=1003286540

That's last week's standings. We're # 7 (with a bullet) if those win % are similar.

I'm amazed that nobody recommends the stadium lots, especially considering HN is concerned about possibly having to leave the game early. If you plan on leaving early, the stadium lot, drive 5 is the best for heading east. Take a right out of there, go on 20 to Milestrip that takes you to 219 & then the Thruway. When I leave when the game ends, I leave from drive 5, right on to 20 & stay staight. In a lot of traffic, I avoid the Thruway in Buffalo metro & get on in Depew -Transit Road Rt 78 (20 becomes 78 if you stay on it).

Never, because the premise is totally moronic! The guy was drafted at 10, do you really think if he was picked at 8 he would have had any leverage to hold out and be traded to a west coast team? What team? The Raiders had already passed on him, the Chargers had Rivers, the 49ers had the guy just taken #1 in the draft the year before! Seattle had just played in the Super Bowl, Denver had just spent a #1 pick on a QB! That leaves Arizona, and he was just about the last guy signed while negotiating with them. When will you "Leinart wouldn't have signed with Buffalo if picked 8th" wake up & just admit your argument has absolutely no foundation whatsoever!

It's nice to see Felser coming around to my thinking, here's what I said after the draft: should have drafted Albany,n.y. Posted on: May 1 2006, 04:33 PM Veteran Group: Members Posts: 3,248 Joined: 5-September 01 From: Delmar, N.Y. Member No.: 770 I know exactly what I'm saying-With the 8th pick in the 2006 draft, the Buffalo Bills should have selected Matt Leinart. His arm strength is not any different than Tom Brady's, and the last time I looked, Brady is doing ok with the weather in NE. I have only one question: In 5 years who will be the best of these three QBs-Leinart, Losman, Nall? My answer is Leinart, if you don't answer Leinart, then you can justify not drafting him. But if your answer is Leinart, the Bills should have drafted him because no matter what anyone says, your most important player is your quarterback. I base my judgement on Leinart on the one pattern I've found that pinpoints success in drafting QBs-if a QB would have been a 1st round pick in his jr year, stayed in school and maintained his 1st round status, his success rate is most likely 100%. Look it up & find me a 1st round bust who qualifies-there aren't any! In the Q&A with Dwight Adams, he stated you build a team around the QB-I agree with Mr. Adams. The Bills should have drafted Matt Leinart. Can you honestly say you believe, with great confidence that this team can be built around, JP Losman, Craig Nall or Kelly Holcomb? I can't. That's what I'm saying-and I know what I'm saying!

Larry Felser is on WHAM & just jumped on the pile. He's been comparing JP to Rob and said Rob had better games than JP has had so far. The discussion turned to Leinart because host Bob Matthews has advocated since the day of the draft that the Bills blew it not drafting Leinart. Felser, who has always disagreed with Matthews on this one has started to turn towards Matthews opinion and says Leinart has been very impressive.

49ers | Nolan frustrated with Jennings' lack of playing Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:26:01 -0700 Matt Maiocco, of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, reports San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Nolan has become frustrated with OL Jonas Jennings (wrist) due to his nagging injuries that are keeping him off the field. Nolan has said OL Adam Snyder is competing for playing time at both starting tackle positions, including the one currently held by Jennings. "I've got to get the best guys on the field," Nolan said. "I think competition makes you better."

Turn on WHAM, there are no written links when Marv speaks on the radio.

He said that the reason he left was that he had a sick kid & had a blowup with one of the coaches when he came back. Judging by the amount of patience Jauron & staff have shown Youboty, I don't think they view leaving to see a sick kid as a character flaw.

We had a guy like that here for 9 HOF years. He may not have always been happy, but he was considered a God around Buffalo...until he killed 2 people.

If Clements gets hurt we can't trade him tommorrow or Tuesday, that's why. There's no reason at 2-4 & rebuilding to keep Clements here any longer knowing he's gone for nothing after another 10 games.

He got the penalty for holding on and picking him up off the ground by his hair after they were out of bounds. I just saw the replay.

He wasn't in there most of the 2nd half.

Next time it snows, or if the snow hasn't melted yet, take a look around and see which streets are plowed and which ones aren't. The priority is about the same for electricity repairs. Just think of when it snows a couple of days before a game & the Bills put out a call for citizens to help shovel the Ralph for some small $. Try to get some of those same people over to someone's house to help him get his car out of the driveway & see how many people show up. NFL football has priority over just about every homeowner, tenant etc who lives in WNY when it comes time for cleanup or electric repair. Some people may not like it, but when you can generate $ in revenue because 70,000+ people are showing up at your place, all you have to do is snap your fingers & stuff gets done.

Don't be surprised if Nick Saban bolts from the Dolphins and ends up at the U. I just hope that if that happens, the Dolphins promote their offensive coordinator to head coach.

Last week was the 1st week there were no Yankee games (when I've been home)when the Bills are on at the same time. I tuned in 1300 AM WTMM & found no pregame show. Then at 1, the NE Patriots came on & I found the Bills at 103.9 FM WQBK. I just checked the radio listings in the Sunday paper and they list the Bills game on 103.5 & 103.9 today. They show that 1300 is now broadcasting the national games: 1-Cincy @ TB & 4:15-KC @ Pit. Also I don't think there are any pre or post game shows on the FM stations. Support for the Bills is slipping in the Albany media. Just 2 weeks ago, they showed the Ten-Dal game instead of Min-Bills on the Fox station. Now we're moved to the radio network station's backups. Fortunately, the Bills are on local TV today & we can watch the game without having to go to a bar. Petrino is coming up & we're going to a friend's house who has a 50" tv. I'm just glad I only have 8 games a year to put up with this stuff. If I didn't attend half the games, it would be making me even crazier than I am now. Plus today, I assume because of the storm, I can't get WGR or 97rock on the stream for the pregame stuff.

You can't be serious. There's no way the stadium would be without power a week from now. There's a thing called prioritizing and guess what-if there was a game tommorrow, there would be power at the stadium by tommorrow, because an event like a Bills game has enough clout to get the National Grid, NYSEG or whoever has the power franchise out there to make damn sure there's power.

I saw a lot of Braves games during the 1971-2 season and a handfull thereafter. The last Braves game I saw was in 1978 when the Braves played Portland sometime around February. The Braves also had their camp at Fredonia 2 of the 4 years I was in college & we saw them come into the gym & their practices. I remember Dave Wohl sucking up to Ramsey & trying to hang with Ernie D. Freddie Hilton was the odd man out, he was not a Ramsey favorite. A friend and I asked Freddie if he was going to make it (the year he got cut) and Freddie just gave us an I don't know answer even though it was bleak.

You and all the other Negative Nancys who don't understand that Detroit is in no medical condition to win this game. Take a look at Miami's O-line and now think that Detroit wishes they had Miami's O-line. Now take away Detroit's best receiver. Are you starting to get the picture? Or do I have to fill your half empty glass?

No impeachment hearing will be held on GWB until Cheney is booted a la Spiro Agnew. Therefore the premise of this poll is retarded.

Baker played huge for the Bills when we beat the Vikings

I have that game on tape somewhere in a drawer. Funny thing was I had it on 4 hr mode with pregame, the game went into overtime & I had rewind and tape the ending over the pregame show. The best sign there was "Play like you'll never play again" since it was already announced this was the last strike game.

I heard Paul Hamilton say McCargo was on crutches yesterday. I then found a post on another board saying thje Buffalo News said he hurt his ankle & was on crutches after the game. I hope this isn't a long term injury.