Albany,n.y.

No, Acorsi & Coughlin both had a hand in drafting Manning & had seen enough of him to name him the starter. My criteria is that if a new coach & GM determine that a guy who was drafted high by a prior coach & GM is a bust, they have no vested interest in keeping him around. How many times was TD accused of keeping players around just to prove he was right? On the other hand, they have no business cutting a guy with talent just because they didn't draft him. That's why Clements was franchised. M. Williams would have been cut regardless, because his time ran out.

The Bills current management has no ties to any player brought in by Donahoe. Therefore, no matter where TD drafted him, if Marv/Jauron don't think a guy can play-he's gone. Marv cut Parella, a 2nd round pick after 1 season & 1 camp to keep undrafted Ed Philion (bad mistake but...), he's not afraid of bad PR for cutting a Donahoe pick.

Players are cut in training camp every year with a lot less opportunities than JP has already received in 2+ years in Buffalo. Does that mean that every guy cut is a mistake? JP has been here long enough for Dick Jauron & Marv Levy to at least be able to form some kind of opinion on him from film, talking with him & talking with his teammates. If after pre season ends & Jauron decides he's seen enough to let JP go, nobody should be saying he didn't get a fair shot. 27 players will get cut, many of them with a lot less data than the Bills have on JP. I hope it doesn't come to this, but if JP is cut, and Jauron & Marv agree, it won't be because of an evaluation that was too abrupt. Sometimes, it's easy to spot a bust. If JP is cut, I can guarantee that he'll never be a quality starter in the NFL.

GB may have had the greatest group of QBs ever assembled at one time. In the early 1990s they had Favre, Brunell, Warner & Detmer in the same camp. Two Super Bowl winning QBs, a solid starter for years and a good backup who won the Heisman. I can't think of 4 QBs together who had better cumulative careers.

Mularkey put the game plan together for the fish.

They put new software in at work & while I can get to the TBD home page, The Stadium Wall comes up "access denied". I don't know if this affects Petrino, since he's now working in Newburgh. That's right, John Petrino has been promoted & has transferred to our Newburgh office, so when he moves, he will no longer be PIA.

I have to believe the column was written & sent in before the Reed signing.

I never said use a 1st, 2nd & 5th to draft him. We were suppose to trade down, get extra picks and draft him around pick 20.

They still need a proven QB. As a Bills fan you should know how bad QB play can turn a potential playoff team into a 5-11 team.

Even if #8 pick turns out better than #3, the guys available at 3 will be coveted a lot more than those at 8. So those 5 spots the Cincy game cost us might have cost us a chance at a trade that would eventually have made us a Super Bowl winner. Now because of Meathead's actions, we're not getting any boatload of picks for #3, and Meathead is golden if Culpepper returns to pre injury and pre 2005 form. I hate Mularkey more & more every day!

Toyota has been known to run over defenses, better than Willis.

The guy was traded for a 5th rounder last year, then he was placed on waivers in the middle of the season, nobody picked him up & later he re-signed with NE. That's not exactly the resume that gets you a multi year contract. I still don't understand why we gave him $500,000 to sign.

I think the cancer in the locker room was Mike Mularkey, not Sam Adams, Eric Moulds or any other veteran that spoke out against MM's decisions.

Especially when the Bills never had any interest in signing him. Only the fans, who don't have to fit his contract into a salary cap.

What is to prevent a team from signing a bunch of veterans to 2 year contracts with big $ guaranteed for 2007? They play this year at a normal salary, next year at an inflated salary, then the contract expires & if they still have anything left, they can market themselves as UFAs. The Cowboys & Redskins could have $1 billion payrolls in 2007 and seriously upgrade the team this season. The future is now! Why not us? Get it done Marv!

Actually I am, I have an old shoe of his I use as a chair.

Choosing to go to a team that is a Super Bowl contender in 2006 instead of rebuilding with the Bills is going to be a real headache.

Face it, this is 2001 all over again. New GM & coach, salary cap purge. Best thing to do is go with JP & if he bombs draft the top QB, because we're almost certain to have a top 5 pick next year if JP bombs & a top 10 pick if Holcomb is the starter. If JP plays well, then at least the season isn't a total waste of time and we could actually have a semi-decent team. Unless Marv goes wild in free agency, we're in for a long year.

Williams had one major red flag that people totally ignored. He always had weight problems. He was 375 at the combine. Taking a player that big is just asking for trouble. When the Bills drafted him, they said he's just naturally big, that was total BS. The guy had a weight problem & TD drafted him @ #4. Add that to the fact that he never played LT in college and that Bryant McKinnie, who was 40 lbs lighter & had played LT and Roy Williams, an impact safety (when we needed one-this was pre-Milloy signing) were both on the board and it was a stupid pick. No matter what you think of McKinnie overall, there's no doubt he's on the Vikings roster today & MW isn't on the Bills' roster.

Pyrite Gal is no lady. There's only one person on this board who can type that much, do the math.

The only way Marv is helping him out is by eliminating one cold weather city that Marcus will be going to. Odds increase that he'll play in warmer weather. What part of Marv's talent without character talk don't you get? Marv is old enough not to believe a kid who suddenly acts the part a few days out of 365.

Since the event took place in the afternoon & most people know the results by now, I doubt there will be much of an audience. Too bad they can't show the events live-how do they expect people to watch events that took place 6 hours earlier? Gone predictions: Stevie Scott, Brenna Gethers (Middle America hates that NYC attitude stuff) , Bobby Bennett & Jose "Sway" Penala. Gone Savers: Becky O'Donohue (best looking-but can't sing-looks probably get her a week reprieve), David Radford (if the public bought that awful falcetto that "Swish", I mean "Sway" was selling)

Dolphins | Police & Courts: Damion McIntosh Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:36:45 -0800 CBS4.com reports Miami Dolphins OLT Damion McIntosh was reportedly arrested in Davie, Fla., by police on a domestic violence charge involving his wife. According to the arrest report, McIntosh pushed his wife to the floor, where she hit her head. When police responded to a call, McIntosh's wife was unresponsive. Paramedics treated her on the scene and then transported her to a local clinic. Police say McIntosh's wife attempted to call police from the bathroom, but she was incoherent.

DC=EMK

Nobody was complaining when we replaced him with Mike Hollis and Hollis had a good season after a season of uncertainty with rookie kickers. The problem was after Hollis' one Bills season he wanted too much money, signed with the Giants, hurt his back & never played in the NFL again. When we let Graham go, Hollis was a much better kicker than him & there was no sense bringing him into camp.