Albany,n.y.

We still have the Henry pick, so Marv still has the chance to make a great pick with that selection.

Kiper is never wrong, remember how he blasted us for taking Fina in the 1st round in the same year his #2 & #3 ranked OTs were Eugene Chung & Siupeli Malamala. Since Chung was picked earlier, Kiper would have applauded the pick if he was available & we took him in the Fina spot. He probably would have cheered Malamala if Polian had picked him over Fina. For the record, whether you liked him or not, Fina had a much better career than Mel's #2-3 rated tackles in 1992. WGR has been the voice of reason today, stating repeatedly that guys like Kiper, who Marv's critics are using as their basis to blast our picks, are never held accountable for their opinions after the draft ends. For the record, a lot of "experts" had McCargo going exactly where the Bills picked him.

Russ Lande has McCargo #2 rated DT between Ngata (1) & Bunkley (3). Not that bad a pick.

I have no problem with Houston passing on Reggie Bush. They have a RB (D.Davis) who recently signed a long term deal and Bush would have been a luxury on a team with a lot of needs. However, since there appears to be a whole lot of teams coveting Bush, why sign Mario Williams before pursuing all trade offers? New Orleans is asking a ton for the rights to trade up for Bush, Houston should not have given up the trade option until at least 14:50 of their clock time.

I never got much of a chance to look at this year's draft, past the QBs. I was out of town (working in Buffalo) 2 weeks ago, got sick & never got around to doing the needed research. As a result my only opinions are on the QBs-something we won't be taking. I believe there's been a tremendous amount of overanalysis on this year's QBs. Matt Leinart is the only sure thing in this draft among the QBs. He fits a criteria I will always stand behind that hits almost 100% in predicting QB success: If a QB would have been a 1st round pick as a junior, stays in school & then maintains 1st round status he's a virtual certainty to be anywhere from a solid starter to a superstar. He definitely won't be a bust. The next 2 QBs slated to go in the first round are huge question marks. I never want to spend a 1st rounder on a QB who can best be said to "Have Potential" That's the case with Young, who comes out early-a big danger sign- no matter what Roethlisberger does, most underclass QBs have busted. Add to that he has poor mechanics & lack of an NFL compatible game & he is a major project-never good when projecting a franchise player. Jay Cutler is "fast rising" off arm strength, mobility & a good Senior Bowl week. Let's face it, before senior bowl week, he was not considered 1st round material by a lot of teams. He is erratic & is a major fumbler. The rest you can toss in the air & hope for the best. The guy most likely to go after the top 3 is Kellen Clemens, who is less than 6' 2" and is coming off a broken ankle. Brodie Croyle is college's version of Rob Johnson with all the injuries. I think Reggie McNeal has just as good a shot as Vince Young to be a successful NFL QB, and half the draftnics want to switch him away from QB. Overall, this could be the weakest QB class in years. One caveat: the last time I felt this way was when I saw only Chad Pennington as making it and there were a lot of early QB busts before two guys, Tom Brady & Mark Bulger were picked in the 6th round. I thought both of them would bust. I'm not sold on either Bunkley-underacheiver until his last year & Ngata-one buffet away from Mike Williams weight territory. Outside of D'Brickashaw, the other OTs are flawed. Winstion Justice is a RT who protected a lefty QB-sorry-been there, done that. The other Winston, Eric, may end up at G. Overall, this draft is kind of depressing me. Big ?s at the most important areas of Bills' team needs. If somehow AJ Hawk is available at 8 just draft him. He's probably the best player in the draft.

I don't know what he did at the combine, but his 1st Wonderlic was a 15, so if he scored a 31, he did it by studying for it before the combine. I prefer a non "coached up" Wonderlic: Campus: 4.92 in the 40-yard dash...1.76 in the 10-yard dash...4.7 20-yard shuttle...365-pound bench press...365-pound squat...277-pound power clean...28-inch vertical jump...33 ¾-inch arm length...9 7/8-inch hands...Right-handed...15/24 Wonderlic score.

When I first started driving gas was 27 cents a gallon and we liked it!

The same people who have been on the death watch for Ralph Wilson the past 15 years or so will start a death watch for Golisano. He's already 64 and he might be a lot older by the time Ralph sells or is gone.

That only works if you're in the market for a new car. As with every other tax break, you have to spend 3-4 times what you get back. Since my car is all paid for, has 63,000 miles & has features that none of the hybrids have I can't get a hybrid for at least a few more years.

I drove by the local Mobil station on the way to the supermarket at 2:00 today. The price was 3.13.9 for premium. About a half hour I'm driving home & it was 3.24.9. This is insane!

The last Christmas Eve home game was in 1995 against Houston (now Tennessee). Todd Collins started his 1st game & the Stadium was clearing out by halftime. During the 2nd half the stadium got so empty that Petrino & I were able to move down to the 1st row of the club level (before they were premium seats) at the 50 yard line. Based on how fast the stadium emptied, a Christmas Eve game was not viewed as the December Place To Be in Buffalo.

I should have said 1st 3, you were the 1st to get it's about ticket sales, the whole point of Felser's article. Petrino plans on about 6 games this year, he'll be lucky if he makes 4-that extra hour really makes a difference. When I lived downstate (LI) I was lucky to make 1 game a year.

Jets & Tennessee if both want Matt Leinart, a trade has nothing to do with Mario Williams

The 1st few posters don't get it. People are less inclined to go to games towards the end of the season due to the uncertainty of the weather. Add that fact to the Bills attempt to be a regional franchise & it multiplies multi-fold because now it's not just the cold but the gameday travel conditions for out of town fans like me. I haven't missed a home game in over 15 years & with this schedule, I see no way I'll make all the games, especially with the final game of 4 games in 5 weeks taking place on Christmas Eve. It may be a nice schedule for the "TV Fans", but for the "Stadium Fans" especially the ones who travel to get to the games, it's real bad news.

The dumbest thing about this post is that you usually cannot buy an extra season ticket next to the seats you have. So what does Buffalobillsfootball think we should do with the extra seat-have someone sit alone? Or does he/she think everyone should change their seats. Based on the illogical reasoning, I doubt he/she ever has purchased season tickets, otherwise the logic would have been there. Speaking of season tickets, I hate this year's schedule-4 friggin games after Thanksgiving including 4 of 5 games in late Nov/early Dec. I have a streak of not missing a home game since 1990 that will probably go down the drain this season.

As I've said before: Mock Drafts make a mockery of the draft. If Leinart is on the board, I guarantee NO trades the pick. They can get Tennessee & NYJ in a bidding war & still get just about any player they want in the draft. If they deal with Tennessee they gain extra picks & lose nothing-they are still guaranteed of getting the player they want. Poof, I doubt that. Trade, I guarantee it.

I'll take a stab at what they'll sing next week: Ace: Somebody To Love Bucky: Crazy Little Thing Called Love Chris: I Want It All Elliott: Who Wants To Live Forever Katherine: Friends Will Be Friends Kellie: You're My Best Friend Paris: Play The Game Taylor: Radio Ga Ga, although I'd like to see him go totally spazz singing I'm Going Slightly Mad

...and when it snows, he'll be hiding under the bench

I was talking about 2007 dead space if he's cut or traded after 2006. Since he's traded now, the dead space takes place in what is basically a "no win" season. If we're going for it all in 2007, we've freed up more space

The biggest problem I had with benching JP (from starting the game) the first time was that it was done at a time we were about to play what, at that time (before Miami got good the 2nd half of the season) were the two easiest games on our entire schedule. So Holcomb wins those 2, proving nothing, and now we had to wait until Holcomb got injured until JP can return. Now after JP is thrown to the wolves without Moulds and gets hurt, Mularkey benches him for the rest of the season without any regard to the future of the team. After the Cincy game, the best thing that could happen did-Holcomb stunk up the joint in the Jets loss and Marv came in knowing Holcomb is nothing but a backup. Any positive feeling Marv had towards Holcomb disappeared with the Jets game-I got this impression listening to Marv talk after the Jets game on WGR, before he was named GM. The battle for starting QB is between Nall & Losman. These guys would both have to outright stink in order for Holcomb to merge as the starting QB. If Holcomb wins the job, Marv will be drafting a QB in the first round in 2007 or pulling off a major trade for QB for 2007. Marv knows we're going nowhere with Holcomb-the Jets loss in the season finale proved this to Marv.

Good, but my car pool buddy is now living as close to you as me. Petrino moves to Wappingers Falls this Friday.

Because he's traded, all dead cap space is in 2006. So if you're freeing up cap space for 2007, there's no better way to do it than trading Moulds now. Also saves 5 million cap $ over keeping him this year. Win win-especially if we can do what we did in 1985 & find a great WR in the 4th round

We're not drafting a QB & we're not trading JP. If you still think we are trading JP, Gaughan's column today is a must read-too many cap $ with no viable return. Now, we have 5 guys in camp counting the 2 in Europe. Where would the reps for a rookie QB come from. Any draft discussion that includes the Bills taking a QB is ridiculous. 99.99% of mock drafts make a mockery of the draft.

I agree with most except the great coach part about Mularkey. I think that Mularkey is the worst head coach in the history of this franchise. Yes-worse than Gregg Williams, Hank Bullough, Kay Stephenson, Jim Ringo, Harvey Johnson and John Rauch (who also quit abruptly). Here's why-he basically did everything a head coach can do to screw this team. Among the things he did was almost single handedly try to destroy the career of JP Losman by jerking him around so much, taking away Moulds in a game where he was needed the most-a home game against NE where JP got banged up because there was only 1 receiving threat. Then benching him for the season. He didn't treat Holcomb much better, starting Mike Williams at G after a week of practice which resulted in Holcomb getting a cxoncussion. Showing zero respect for veteran players who were here before he arrived. Telling Sam Adams that the team had a better chance to win with Bannan & Sape than him and making Sam a healthy deactivation, which PO'd him to the point that he left before the start of a game. Wanting to suspend Moulds for the season. Any time the owner has to come in to talk to a player and overrule the coach on a suspension shows the coach is out of control. Even when he left, he was bad at doing it. He fires almost half his assistants, then he stays, then he goes. Then he gets a job with the most hated team in Buffalo, the Dolphins. Some coaches may have had worse records, but they didn't leave a trail of damage to the team like Mularkey did. That's why not only isn't he a great coach, he's the worst coach in Bills' history-and that is really saying a lot considering the losers that preceeded him here.

Is he joining the cast of "Prison Break" after he gets waived?