Albany,n.y.

You can take the player out of Cincinnati, but you can't take the Bengals out of the player.

Nobody complained when Chuck Knox brought in just about every ex-Ram he could get to come to Buffalo and turned the team around. So Jauron kept a guy who performed for him in the past in favor of a guy who never played a regular season game and the best he could do was land on TB's practice squad, when 3 other guys were claimed off waivers. I give Jauron the benefit of the doubt on this one.

I wonder if Wendell Hunter declined a spot. I thought they were high enough on him to at least have a spot on the PS for him.

9-7. I have Indy winning it all over Carolina in the Super Bowl. Worst teams: Tennessee & Cleveland. Edit: here's my entire NFL: AFC NFC NE 13-3 PHI 13-3 MIA 12-4 NYG 10-6 BUF 9-7 DAL 8-8 NYJ 6-10 WAS 5-11 CIN 11-5 CHI 13-3 BAL 10-6 DET 4-12 PIT 10-6 MIN 4-12 CLE 1-15 GB 4-12 IND 14-2 CAR 13-3 JAC 7-9 ATL 10-6 HOU 4-12 TB 9-7 TEN 1-15 NO 3-13 DEN 11-5 SEA 12-4 SD 8-8 STL 7-9 KC 7-9 ARI 6-10 OAK 3-13 SF 5-11 PLAYOFFS: AFC: CIN OVER MIA NFC: PHIL OVER NYG DEN OVER BAL SEA OVER ATL CIN OVER NE CHI OVER SEA IND OVER DEN CAR OVER PHIL IND OVER CIN CAR OVER CHI SUPER BOWL: INDIANAPOLIS 30 CAROLINA 24

If a team wants him a 3 or 4 is reasonable. If they don't pony up, they don't get him-it's that simple. I see a 6th is ahead in the poll-I'd keep him rather than take a 6th. When Houston drafted Henson, Casserly said 6th rounders only hit 10% of the time (looks like Drew H joined the 90%). I don't think you trade Holcomb for a 10% likelihood you get a player.

Moorman was a street free agent via NFL Europe, not an undrafted from college free agent. He spent 2 camps with Seattle & played 2 years in NFL Europe prior to signing with the Bills.

You can tell the really bad teams by the number of guys thet pick up on waivers. Good teams may claim a player now & then, but when you see multiple waiver pickups this time of year, you've got major problems. It's a better sign that teams are picking up our castoffs than the other way around. I remember in the mid 80s when we'd pick up a guy from the waiver wire & be plugging him right into the starting lineup. That's what 2-14 teams do. Tennessee will be among the 5 worst teams in the league this season.

That should say he PRACTICED in that offense for five years, under Saunders

I don't think it was $ related, although I still view Ralph as a cheapskate. I think what happened is that Mularkey realized he was being played by Marv. Everyone knew Mularkey would be toast with Marv, MM included. Marv wanted to coach again and saw a mid season Mularkey firing as his best way in. When Mularkey read the writing on the wall, he quit. Now Ralph Wilson stepped in, and told Marv -you're not coaching this team. So Marv & Ralph now have to hire a new coach. Imagine what happened when Marv interviewed Dick Jauron. It was like looking in a mirror, 25 years ago. Jauron has to be the one guy in the entire NFL who is most like Marv. How could Marv resist hiring the closest thing to himself? How could Ralph resist hiring a man who could end up being the next Marv Levy? Jauron reminds me so much of Marv as a coach it is scary. I really hope we get similar results with Jauron as we did with Levy, but lets win that February game at least once, please.

I've never bought into the TD hired weak coaches to control them theory. I think it's more likely 3 things: 1) Ralph didn't want to pay huge $ for a head coach 2) TD got burned by Marvin Lewis, partially due to reason #1. Lewis lost interest when he found out what Ralph was willing to pay for a rookie head coach. On top of that, Lewis was under the (wrong) assumption that he was going to get the Cleveland job and was really jolted when Cleveland hired Butch Davis. As a result, Lewis basically blew off the Bills, leaving TD to choose between John Fox and Gregg Williams-remember, we were late to hire because we were waiting on Lewis. Now once again this is my theory, but I believe Fox had no chance with Ralph, because even though they are technically rivals, Ralph & Al Davis are pretty tight. Ralph even bailed Davis out & helped save the Raiders in the early AFL days. John Fox pulled a John Rauch when he was D coach of the Raiders-he quit Al Davis in training camp because he got tired of his meddling. Ralph wanted no part of a guy who quit on Al Davis. So the Bills were left with Gregg Williams as the "Last Coach Standing" and coach disaster #1 took place. 3) When it was TD's turn to hire another head coach, he went the rookie route again because his ego still drove him to prove that he could find the next great head coach, plus he was limited by Ralph's rookie HC budget. However, this time he was fighting internal demons since his last choice bombed. So even though he was looking for greatness, he tempered his selection to avoid hiring someone he didn't know-like he'd done with Gregg. He chose old Pittsburgh croney Mike Mularkey and really believed he would straighten out Drew Bledsoe, but also hedged his bet by drafting a young QB for Mularkey and staff to work with if Bledsoe tanked. The problem here was Mularkey was just about as bad as Gregg Williams, and in the locker room wasn't even as good as Williams-who had his players' support right to the end. The Mularkey hiring doomed TD. This is why I don't buy into the weak coach theory and I never will.

The same way they resist putting waiver claims on the other 723 players recently released.

We still have to pay him an additional $875,000, using the data above. Why give him the money?

There are teams that run offenses that Holcomb is familiar with from prior seasons. Also, teams bring veteran QBs in (after injuries) who weren't with them before all the time. It's not necessarily the starter who goes down. If a team loses #2 and has a cheap #3, they'll be looking for a veteran backup.

When teams get injuries during the season, they're willing to give up picks. A few years ago (1998) we got a 4th from GB for Darrick Holmes when he was on the last year of his contract. Unfortunately we used it on Bobby Collins a TE that Mel Kiper Jr. loved and most other draft experts had as Free Agent at best-Kiper and the Bills were wrong.

There are at least 53 guys on that list who need a change. Let's cut our whole roster and pick 53 guys up on waivers, make that 53 guys we've heard of.

They were both injured in Europe. What is their status with the 53 man roster announced and they're not there, and the cut list announced and they're not there either. Is there a special place for injured Europe players? Are they both PUP'd? Where are these guys? They were still on the roster as "NFL Europe" before today. They are not on any prior cuts: http://www.buffalobills.com/team/Transactions.html

He might still get traded during the season if Nall continues to show (in practice) that he can handle being #2 QB and a team is willing to give us a #3 or conditional 3 or 4 if they lose a QB to injury. If Nall or Losman get hurt Holcomb lasts the season.

Here are the rules. Anyone who was active for 9 or more games is not eligible: Section 4. Eligibility: The practice squad shall consist of the following players, provided that they have not served more than one previous season on a Practice Squad: (i) players who do not have an Accrued Season of NFL experience; and (ii) free agent players who were on the Active List for fewer than nine regular season games during their only Accrued Season(s). No player may be a practice squad player for more than two seasons. (b) A player shall be deemed to have served on a Practice Squad in a season if he has passed the club’s physical and has been a member of a club’s Practice Squad for at least three regular season or post-season games (a bye week counts as a game provided that the player is not terminated until after the regular season or post-season weekend in question).

Why does everyone think Gates will end up in Miami? Mularkey was the one who had him on the inactives just about every week last year, I doubt he thinks much of him.

Carolina took an interesting approach: They had 2 young QBs they found tough to separate in camp so they cut them both figuring they both wouldn't get claimed & will end up with 1 or both on their PS while carrying 2 veteran QBs. In other cuts: I expect Marcus Vick to be on Miami's practice squad, eventually in jail, or both.

Ross Tucker cut by Cleveland

I found an interesting cut to be Adrian McPherson by NO, Fla State QB who got tossed for gambling, went to Arenaball, drafted day 2 last year and most recently run over by a mascot.

I said it was coaching a while ago. http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showt...68entry734968

Dumbest politician had to be the guy who knocked on my door campaigning on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of a Bills' game, when I lived in Kenmore. WNY politicians should know better than interrupting Bills' games-it almost guarantees a vote for their opponent.

I thought the warning was going to be 10 people on this board will want us to sign him because they've heard of him.