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Excellent! I hope TD reads it. I don't think drafting Nugent in the 2nd (where we would have to draft him) is as improbable as some think. The case is strong that if you are trying to win a championship you do it with a kicker who can win you the Super Bowl. Imagine if we had had Christie 2 years earlier. What would NE's SB record be without Vinatieri. I think TD knows this & will either draft Nugent or has already scouted a later round kicker to replace Lindell. I'd be shocked if Lindell is our kicker next season.

Your link matches the order I came up with Sunday & does not match NFL.com's order. It has the non playoff teams up to pick 20, the Bills' pick at 18 due to strength of schedule & says if the team is not on the list it's in the playoffs. So now it's even more confusing. NFL says Bills pick is below playoff teams, CBS says playoff teams are below Bills' pick.

Brees does not have the arm strength to play in Buffalo's winds. Brick one from the foundation just crumbled.

here's what they have on NFL.com: In all past drafts the teams out of playoffs drafted ahead of playoff teams. They have Min & Stl drafting ahead of Buffalo. What happened? Did NFL.com mess up or are the rules different this year. They didn't show NE, Pit or Phil 2005 NFL FIRST-ROUND DRAFT ORDER No. Club Win Loss Tie Percent Strength of Schedule Opp. Record 1. San Francisco 2 14 0 .125 .488 125-131-0 2. Miami 4 12 0 .250 .555 142-114-0 3. Cleveland 4 12 0 .250 .590 151-105-0 4. Chicago 5 11 0 .313 .465 119-137-0 5. Tampa Bay 5 11 0 .313 .477 122-134-0 6. Tennessee 5 11 0 .313 .512 131-125-0 7. Oakland 5 11 0 .313 .570 146-110-0 8. Arizona 6 10 0 .375 .461 118-138-0 9. Washington 6 10 0 .375 .477 122-134-0 10. Detroit 6 10 0 .375 .496 127-129-0 11. Dallas # 6 10 0 .375 .516 132-124-0 12. N.Y. Giants (to San Diego) 6 10 0 .375 .516 132-124-0 13. Houston 7 9 0 .438 .504 129-127-0 14. Carolina 7 9 0 .438 .508 130-126-0 15. Kansas City 7 9 0 .438 .551 141-115-0 16. New Orleans 8 8 0 .500 .465 119-137-0 17. Cincinnati 8 8 0 .500 .543 139-117-0 18. Minnesota * 8 8 0 .500 .480 123-133-0 19. St. Louis * 8 8 0 .500 .488 125-131-0 20. Buffalo (to Dallas) 9 7 0 .563 .512 131-125-0 21. Jacksonville 9 7 0 .563 .527 135-121-0 22. Baltimore 9 7 0 .563 .551 141-115-0 23. Seattle * 9 7 0 .563 .445 114-142-0 24. Green Bay * 10 6 0 .625 .457 117-139-0 25. Denver * 10 6 0 .625 .484 124-132-0 26. N.Y. Jets * 10 6 0 .625 .523 134-122-0 27. Atlanta * 11 5 0 .688 .434 111-145-0 28. San Diego * 12 4 0 .750 .477 122-134-0 29. Indianapolis * 12 4 0 .750 .500 128-128-0 * Subject to Playoffs # Dallas selects before N.Y. Giants due to division tiebreaker (Giants led in head-to-head, defeating Cowboys twice).

I vote for LINDELL. Drew does not play well without TEs in his offense. He played like LINDELL ever since Campbell & Euhus went down. LINDELL, even Luke McCown would have looked good against SF.

Someone else posted we move up ahead of 2 Balt & Jax but they rotate, so we're double screwed because Dallas gets the benefit & we rotate down in round 2. 1 San Francisco 2 Miami 3 Cleveland 4 Chicago 5 Tampa Bay 6 Tennessee 7 Oakland 8 Arizona 9 Washington 10 Detroit 11 or 12 Dallas 11 or 12 NY Giants to SD 13 Houston 14 Carolina 15 Kansas City 16 New Orleans 17 Cincinnati 18 Buffalo to Dallas 19 Jacksonville 20 Baltimore 21 Minnesota 22 St. Louis 23 Seattle 24 Green Bay 25 Denver 26 NY Jets 27 Atlanta 28 San Diego 29 Indianapolis 30 New England 31 Philadelphia 32 Pittsburgh

See you at the game. I better get off the computer & head to WNY.

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I just found out that WHAM will also have the Indy-Den game on too. I can listen to it on the way home

Look for someone who is stuck with an extra ticket holding up one near the entrances to the stadium. Most of the time it's a middle aged guy with kids or family near by just trying to get his money back because his brother couldn't make it. If you can't find one go to the professional scalpers who will be charging higher. If it's raining heavily the price will come down. Hunt for the bargains around 12 from the stuck guy, wait until after 12:30 to go to the pro scalpers.

The Jets-Rams game will be broadcast on WHAM 1180 from Rochester. With a good radio, you can get it in at the Ralph. Does anyone know if the game will be on a Buffalo radio station?

Why don't you tell us.

Time Warner cut off Empire yesterday, but today I was able to pull in Empire's sound. Nothing Bills' related is really left besides Eric Moulds Show & Empire Sports Report so I guess I'm not really missing much if I can still hear them. I hope that if they have draft day coverage that I can catch the stream. Eric Moulds Show is on right now.

I want to re-sign Jonas for O-line continuity. Pace & Jones are too expensive.

I like his take no prisoners approach to a game. If he has a chance to put the game away, he goes for it. We don't sit on a small lead, he tries to take the game over when we can, instead of having the game come to him he goes after the game. In the future, if he has a situation like the Patriots successfully did against the Rams in SB XXXVI, I don't expect to see him playing for overtime when he can win it in regulation. He is not afraid of being 2nd guessed like 3/4 of the NFL coaches are. Buddy Ryan said it years ago when named coach of Arizona, but I think it's more applicable to Mularchy : You've got a winner in town

Those bastages all picked the Jets & Denver to win and said we will win but not make the playoffs. I can't wait until Sunday when the Rams are winning & they're putting the score up on the scoreboard every 10 minutes. With us winning on the field and the Jets losing on the scoreboard, the Ralph will be rocking like it was during those 3 AFC championship games in the 90s.

Interview with Chris Carter

I'd feel a lot more comfortable about advancing deep into the playoffs if we had just 1 NFL caliber TE left on the active roster. I still think we're a notch below NE, Pitts, & Indy with our available roster. If we get SD then we'd have a shot of winning one playoff game. If we had home games we might make it. We're a long shot this year & I'll be happy to win 1 playoff game this year. Next year, nothing except a Super Bowl Championship will be acceptable.

When Jacksonville lost was the 1st time I thought we could actually make the playoffs. I never saw us worse than 7-9, even when we were 0-4, because the schedule still had Miami twice, Cleve, SF, Ariz, and the Rams-who are a horrible team off their ping pong table. I figured we'd pick up one more game from the rest to get to 7, but I never expected the 6 game winning streak.

Long term there's nothing wrong with Pennington. He is not a head case-Parcells has treated the NY media far worse than Pennington & nobody ever called Parcells a head case. Short term, Pennington has a sore arm that needs rest. He didn't have the strongest arm to begin with & the injury negates his cerebral approach to the game because what he could get away with at full strength he just can't physically do no matter how smart he is (and whether you want to admit it or not, he's damn smart). So short term, right now I'd take Bledsoe. But if this was the offseason & both were free agents, priced the same & the same amount of years on the contract, I'd take Pennington.

Same network. Bills game on in WNY. If the Rams were @ Jets it would have been FOX. VISITING team's network shows the game

My birthday was on November 21st , they won that day & haven't lost since.

From the NFC North: GBs Bubba Franks, Minns Jermaine Wiggins

We need a #1 TE. Eventually Euhus could develop, but I want someone further along next year. Campbell is a good complimentary TE, but shouldn't be the main guy. Losing both TEs is going to hurt us against playoff caliber teams if we make it to next week. I don't think Neufeld, Peters, Trafford or Banta belong on NFL rosters as TEs. Peters will be around next year as a backup OL (or maybe even DL) & special teams monster, the rest will be gone by opening day 2005.

Like Gregg Williams?