Albany,n.y.

It took LJ longer than McGahee to establish himself. Go back to the middle of 2004, when LJ was backing up Priest Holmes. Around the trading deadline, KC thought he was a bust & rumors were rampant that they'd take a mid-2nd day pick (5-6th round) to get Johnson out of there. He was buried on the bench and disgruntled. How soon everyone forgets.

Going back in the time machine: Why would Knox trade up for Perry Tuttle, dumb move. Should have drafted Mike Quick. Matt Kofler in the 2nd round? Give me a break! 3rd round-That Eugene Marv guy has some potential, but the Metzelaars guy Seattle picked in our spot looks like a player. The rest of our draft looks pretty bad, at least Knox got us a kicker to replace Mike-Mayer. That Anderson guy should be entrenched as our kicker for the next decade or two

It all comes down to this on Sunday: Before the game the linebacker coming off an injury who will get all the media attention will be Tedy Bruschi. I hope Takeo will gain added incentive by being slighted by the media. He's the one those pre-game shows should be focusing on, not Bruschi. If Takeo goes wild, having a game big enough to lead the Bills to victory, the legend of Bruschi ends and the legend of Takeo takes its place. Please Takeo, do it for all of us, the world has seen enough of the Patriots & Tedy Bruschi.

They caught Bucky, you can come out now.

Remember when Donahoe put all those clippings in the press room in an attempt to say he was right choosing Mike Williams over Bryant McKinnie? Does TD still live in WNY, or has he crawled back to Pittsburgh? If he's still in the Buffalo are someone should print the link and dump a ton of them on his front lawn. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5948942

Link http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/08/ny.manhunt/index.html

Logic 101: Underdog wins the game underdog covers. If the spread was Patriots-1 the Bills would still cover. The game won't be close, Bills by at least 10!

Bruschi Mania

Mularkey will have 3 extra days to gameplan the offense... Nick Saban will have three extra days to trash Mularkey's offensive game plan & by next Sunday will want to put Mularkey on the Bills plane back to Buffalo.

Elmore Smith

I'll take Jauron's record of never having mass dissent on any team he's coached, coupled with the compliments of former players, to safely predict that he will not lose control of the team. I think Jauron is the perfect coach for this team at this time.

SF beat the St. Louis Rams opening week last year & knocked me out week 1. SF beat Arizona twice the year they went 2-14. Are you nervous yet?

We've got 56 people in our pool, and 26 picked NE. I almost picked the Bills over NE, but went safer & picked NFC Champ Seattle to beat Detroit. Another hot pick in our pool is Arizona. When has Arizona ever been a safe pick in a suicide pool?

If Mularkey had called Ralph & Marv's bluff, I'm almost certain that after a period of re-evaluation, Marv would have fired Mularkey even if he hadn't resigned. I can't see any way that Mularkey could still be coaching this team after what has come out about last year's nonsense. ...and if Miami does well and Mularkey joins Gregg Williams as a hot assistant coach, any team that is even thinking of hiring the guy as a head coach should just read all the quotes and come to their senses. My football fantasy is that Saban gets mad at Huizenga, quits & Mularkey is named head coach of the Dolphins.

When I first moved to Albany in 1988, I took a portable TV out Rt 20 until I got Utica in for the Bears game at 1:00 and then went to the thruway rest stop 60 miles west for a 4:00 game against Seattle-ate at the Burger King at halftime. Then I found out they had games on sattelites in bars.

The good news is that unless they do something really crazy, the Bills-Dolphins game next week will be on in Albany because Jets-NE is the 4:15 game of the CBS doubleheader.

After Sunday you can change Red Sox to Patriots

From his interview on BB.com on TBD front page: Like coach says, we’re not going to come out with crazy stuff, we just have to be smarter and sharper. On the team being different this year Yeah, it’s a lot different. Not to say the last two years were bad. (We have) different types of players. It’s a different team and locker room with a different attitude, you’ve been in there. If things don’t go right, it’s not going to be like last year with guys getting on each other. Verdict: Mike Mularkey guilty of crazy call coaching and coaching a divided locker room.

It's official: Jets @ Tennessee on WRGB. F' them! NFL Football NY Jets @ Tennessee

The last time I looked Nick Saban was Miami's HC, not Mularkey. Mularkey will be kept in check by Saban-he will not have free reign to ruin Miami like he did with the Bills.

In other words: The Patriots are ripe for the picking.

But we're close enough to NE to (hopefully) give the station the option of taking the Bills/NE game. Tennessee & the Jets won't combine for 8 wins this season-it's a horrible game to televise anywhere. Last year the station took a Patriot game or 2 over both the Jets & the Bills, so I have hope for this Sunday.

No news yet on the website: Change the date to Sunday for the latest. http://www.wrgb.com/programming.shtml

I think Pennington will be among the inactives most weeks. I hope his parents don't lose their enthusiasm for watching Bills games during what is basically his redshirt season.

That's because religion and its followers think their brand has a monopoly on morality. I believe that it's perfectly logical to have morality without religion. The deeply religious don't understand this because half of them have bought a bill of goods that tells them people are inherently bad, when a non religious, high moraled person generally believes people are inherently good. Logic says you don't kill or hurt other people. A lot of people think you need a comandment from God to figure that out. I believe you don't.