Albany,n.y.

I think you should send a copy of you salary cap stuff to Ralph Wilson before he hires his next GM. If guys can go from the broadcast booth to manager & coaching jobs, why can't we get a GM off the internet.

It's been said in many places that TD tried to trade up ahead of Pittsburgh to draft Roethlisberger & got turned down because the guys those teams wanted were still on the board & they were afraid they wouldn't be there at 13. So-he did recognize his talent but was unable to trade up for him. Donahoe basically said as much the day of the draft. By the way, to answer another post here, Mike Williams is not a good example that the draft is a crapshoot-A crapshoot is choosing a guy at pick 4 with a weight problem & trying to justify it to the media by saying he's naturally big. Any college player over 350 pounds should never be a top 5 pick. TD didn't pay attention to his weight & the fact that anyone that big at that young an age usually has some sort of motivational problem-otherwise he would weigh less. It was a pick that a GM with more common sense wouldn't have made.

He's talking Bills. If you have any problems, you may need to download the latest version of Windows Media Player. When I first put it on, it didn't connect me unti I did the new download. http://www.wham1180.com/main.html

How ironic. The Jets lost the 1st one 31-21 to Cleveland.

In 2003 the 4-7 Bills won consecutive home games against the NYG & the NYJ, boosting their record to 6-7 in a futile effort to save a coaching staff before losing their final 3 games to finish 6-10. If the Bills had just lost 1 of those 2 NY games they would have finished 5-11. The 1 game cost the Bills at least 2 positions in the draft. That year, the difference was that had the Bills lost just one more game, they would have drafted Ben Roethlisberger and we wouldn't have the QB controversy that will exist into next season, and we might be a team on the rise, close to Super Bowl contention. So as we celebrate the win against the Bengals, lets just hope we don't rue the day we beat the Bengals (and probably the Jets this Sunday) years from now. Because that one extra win in 2003 altered this team's history for a few years at best.

Lets say this guy has the JP situation totally right, and the current coaches, including Wyche have concluded JP doesn't have the ability to play in the NFL. If that's the case, and they are back next year then they should just go ahead and cut JP. Don't even let him go to minicamp-what's the use, all he will be is a distraction. Once you've decided the young guy doesn't have it, you've got to get rid of him ASAP & start the search for the next QB of the future. Now if they haven't decided that JP is a bust, then what the hell is he doing on the bench! The other possibility is this staff has totally mishandled JP & he has a great future, either with the Bills if this bunch gets fired, or with a team that sees something in him that this staff is missing. Only time will tell.

I'm getting tired of the Mularkey apologists saying he deserves another chance because he's still learning. I didn't hear anyone say that John Fox was still learning on the job when he led the Panthers to the Super Bowl in his 2nd year. I don't hear anything from Chicago that Lovie Smith needs more time to learn to be a good NFL coach. Why is it that the 2 guys TD hired were learning on the job during their entire friggin tenure, but other teams hire coordinators for their 1st coaching job and they don't need to matriculate like our guys do.

Palmer was just about as bad as JP in his 1st 4 starts last year, Lewis kept him in and the benefits are obvious this season. Pulling JP after 4 games & letting him sit now, especially with the record we have is sheer stupidity by a coach who is morphing into a combination of Hank Bullough and Wade Phillips. Terrance McGee won the game for the Bills on Sunday. If JP had started, there's a good chance we would have won and maybe today we'd be comparing JP to Boller as 2 QBs that the light went on for. In JP's last game the team took away Eric Moulds and made JP's failure against NE a lot easier. If Mularkey was sent here by another team to wreck JP's career, he couldn't be doing a better job.

Wade's last game as Head Coach was a 42-23 victory on the road (Seattle) with a veteran QB back at the helm after a California native was injured in a prior game. Wade still got fired.

I thought the most interesting part of the column was this (A possible Bills GM?): Great drafting has set the Bears' foundation. Nine of their defensive starters have come in the draft the past six years, including five Pro Bowlers - Brian Urlacher, Tommie Harris, Mike Brown, Lance Briggs and Nathan Vasher. The Bears' director of college scouting is Buffalo native Greg Gabriel, a Bishop Neumann High and Canisius College graduate.

I was just watching Ch 6 and they just ran an ad saying Bills-Bengals tommorrow at 1. Finally a road game on home TV!

The rumor I heard was that Flutie & Johnson both were brought in to interview. Flutie basically said he'd run the offense that GW was installing, but if it didn't work he was going to do what he usually does & not stick with GW's offense. GW couldn't have a QB who would question his authority if his O was less than successful & the team chose Johnson as a result.

KC got him in 2002 for a conditional pick, which turned out to be pick 78 in the 2003 draft. Meanwhile, our brilliant GM thought it was better to draft Mike Williams and pay him Willie Roaf money when he could have drafted ROY Williams and would not have had to overpay Lawyer Miloy. I'd rather have Roaf, and Roy Williams and have given KC a better offer for Roaf (the 3rd rd pick in 2002 that we used with our 4th to trade up for Denney would have done it). But of course, TD was right and we're so much better with Mike Williams, Ryan Denney & Lawyer Milloy than Willie Roaf & Roy Williams. That's why he's such a great GM. TD fiddled while our OL burned

I've been saying for years that Ralph Wilson probably wanted nothing to do with John Fox because he quit on his buddy Al Davis in training camp when he was the Raiders D coach and couldn't stand Davis anymore. This is what Mort said today (copied from another string) Chris Mortensen: (12:05 PM ET ) Donhoe was the only guy who waited to interview Fox and Lewis, who was tired and not enthused about the job. A league source said Ralph Wilson didn't want Fox.

IMHO I think you have it backwards on Willis. A team that is a playoff contender drafts for today, a team that is in a rebuild can better afford to wait a year for a potential superstar because they are not in win now mode. The more holes you have, the more you need to fill them with best available player. The Bills knew Travis was a toke away from suspension when they drafted Willis for the long run over a fumbler who also had legal & character problems. At that point in the draft, Willis made the most sense, despite what some in the media have said.

This answer makes no sense. Since he traded for Henson before the draft, Losman was not a factor in the Henson trade. He could not have predicted that Losman would or would not be available where he drafted, he had a chance at Henson who he knew at the time of the trade he was getting and took it. With Henson on the roster, he couldn't take another QB of the future when JP was there at his pick. The only conclusion that can be drawn is at the time of the trade for Henson, before the draft, Dallas though Henson was talented enough to groom for the future.

That was when Mularkey started to lose me. Just like our prior two coaches, he started showing signs of indecisiveness-something that will doom any HC in the NFL.

Unless Joe DeLamielleure is named GM. Joe D loves Hank Bullough & even mentioned him during his HOF speech.

I heard a week ago that the Bears have no injuries to their D. "Hello Rusty Jones, goodbye injuries"

The media guide says the guy you're thinking of is Jason Bostic.

But our GM acts a lot like Cliff...and has the fans ready to jump over one.

It's too bad the home season ended. A great idea for the future-have disgruntled fans in two cities make a pact. For example: Thousands of Bills' fans bring in Fire Millen signs to the Ralph & thousands of Lions' fans bring in Fire Donahoe signs to the Ford.

You fire a coach as soon as you realize he is incompetent. Mularkey has proven this with his poor handling of his players. At various times this year he's lost Adams (left the stadium after Mularkey insulted him & deactivated him, his agent even saying "He Hate Me"-well not really, but close enough); Moulds-everyone knows, no need to rehash; Losman -Do you think when he said he was angry, he wasn't referring to Mularkey?; and most important-Willis "It's chaos"McGahee-first he called him out in public early in the season. We're now seeing the effects of a player with no respect for the coaches, Willis will be great next year, unless his coach is Mularkey. I don't know how many other players he's PO'd that we just haven't heard about. But he's proven he's got to go. In the past the Bills have waited too long to pull the plug. Gregg Williams shold not have been given year 3, Hank Bullough should have been fired after the 2005 season ended-it was obvious he didn't have it after replacing Kay, Kay Stephenson should have been fired after 2004. Even keeping Jim Ringo for the entire 1977 season may have been a few games too many. We've had a lot of duds as head coaches & Mularkey will soon join that list.

I'm hoping there are no delays. My train is scheduled to arrive in Depew around 5:30. Petrino is picking me up there and his friend is driving us to the game. Is anyone else going to be on that train?

He has Fred Smerlas on 2 times a week and Freddie has been filling Matthews head with "Haslett has always wanted to coach the Bills" for years. Maybe he's just brainwashed.