VJ91

Tom Donahoe's "gift" to the Buffalo Bills organization. Great job TD, you sure were the "silver fox" all right.

Levitre gets benched after a bad showing in his first preseason NFL game as a rookie? Let's calm down here a little. Jason Peters was a 4th string undrafted tight end during his first preseason in the NFL. The Bills actually cut him, no other team picked him up, so they brought him back to the practice squad. Please check how much money the Eagles paid him 4 years later to be their starting left tackle. If the Bills can give Peters the second chance on the practice squad, then have the patience to convert him into a right tackle, and then to a left tackle, why can't they give Levitre at least one more preseason game before they banish him to the bench??

Chris Collingsworth had the funniest line of the night during the game last night. Towards the end of the game, he hoped that someday he might be compared to John Madden. I know that some people loved Madden and some people hated him. But if Chris wants to be compared to him, he might want to get excited when a young kid like 2nd year linebacker Bowen, coming off a serious knee injury that ended his rookie season last year, makes a one on one hit on a Titans back in the backfield that drops him for a 4 yard loss and gets a huge cheer from the crowd. But even more importantly, he should at least be watching the game, instead of kissing up to Tony Dungy like a star crossed teenager, gushing over how Dungy is helping the NFL's favorite felon back into the NFL.

It doesn't matter. Jauron struggles with the simplest questions regarding the Buffalo Bills. The man takes a paragraph to answer one-word questions. Example, "So Dick, will you start Jackson or Rhodes Sunday night against the Titans?" Expected Answer: "Jackson." Dick's answer: "Both guys have been running real hard and catching real hard and blocking real hard. So it's real hard for me to say that either one is the 1 or 1A. In fact, have I ever mentioned that it is really hard to win in the NFL? Well, it is. Even in the preseason. It's hard to win a game. So both guys will certainly play as long as they will play in relation to our situation regarding the fact that it is a preseason game and we have a lot of guys to take a look at this Sunday against the Titans....Any more questions?"

Interesting. This is the first time I've seen a "shared team" concept floated for after Ralph passes away. I don't buy it. The Rogers Group won't want to share the franchise with Buffalo. They will be bidding for a team in Toronto, period. And as far as I'm concerned, the Bills can play some games in Toronto, or they can build a new stadium in Niagara Falls, or they can play the games on top of the Peace Bridge. As long as they are called the Buffalo Bills, I'll root for them. Once they change the name to appease Toronto or Canada, or once the franchise leaves altogether, I'm done as a Bills fan. Buffalo is my home town, and the Buffalo Bills are my only team, ever. Unless of course Buffalo figures out how to lure an expansion team back in after the Bills leave, like St. Louis, Cleveland and Houston did. Then I would be willing to start over with the new team and root for them. Of course, we all know that won't be happening any time soon, , so for now we might as well enjoy our Bills for our 7 (or less) home games a season.

You mean kicking it old ignorance , don't you? I stopped listening to "The Coach" about 12 years ago. Now Felser is "old school", and he has forgotten more about the NFL then Dickerson ever knew in the first place.

It's very simple. Those $800,000.00 per year suites that Jerry Jones is trying to sell? That is considered UNSHARED REVENUE for NFL teams. Even if Jones only sold 5 out of 15 he may have to sell, that $4 Million dollars is money he does not have to share with the other NFL teams. Consequently, he could use that $4 Million dollars that Ralph Wilson has no way of earning himself, as a signing bonus for a free agent and there would be nothing Ralph could do to "compete" with that.

Right now Toronto is leasing the Buffalo Bills for one regular season game per year, for 4 more years. Even if the Bills agree to play two regular season games there - or even four per season for that matter - they are still the Buffalo Bills, playing in Toronto to expand their fan base and increase their profits. Ralph Wilson won't be changing the name of his team while he is still alive. If he was that desperate for the money, he would have simply taken the Bills to one of the cities that was clamoring for a team back in the late 90's. So then we move on to after Ralph dies. Unless Jimbo and his mystery group of investors outbids the other cities that will be vying for the Bills, the "Bills" name will die with Wilson. Who the hell would pay almost a billion dollars for an NFL franchise, and then keep the name "Bills" in their new NFL city, when "Bills" only made sense for the city of Buffalo?

Now that seems to be the "Harvard" of sports communications in the USA, so good luck and I hope you end up getting your masters there!! We will look for you on SportsCenter in a few years.

The article said he would presumambly continue practicing, and the language will be worked out between the team and agent. It was most likely because Segal was the first agent to put in the new "felony approval clause" in Harvin's contract. Since Goodell has decided there is no felony worthy of banning NFL players, I heard that Segal tried to save the player and league time by getting the Vikings to OK suggested suspensions for various felonies Harvin is most likely to committ during his first contract in the NFL. Of course the Vikings agreed to them immediately, but the NFL thought the suggested suspensions might be too harsh, and wanted the parties to come up with lessor penalties. In the meantime, Goodell held to his 3 game suspension for Lynch, who was just sitting in his car, with a licensed gun in the glove compartment, doing absolutely nothing wrong. (Accept for the alleged pot-smell, which I have not heard that Lynch failed a drug test or that he was even forced to take a drug test by police or the NFL.) Goodell was later quoted as saying; "Lynch was easy for us to be tough with. If he would have been convicted of a more serious charge including jail time, the NFL would have been much more supportive of him and most likely given him only a 4 or 6 game suspension at most." Of course, I just made that Goodell quote up, but really, what the hell kind of message is the NFL sending to jaded rookies like Harvin, that would give him any incentive at all to clean up his act for the Vikings??

There is nothing wrong with you wishing ex Bills to suck and your ex girlfriends unhappy lives. When you start reveling in ex-Bills getting injured, that's when you become a bad person.

Dude, you can't read, can you? Where did I say I was a Jason Peters fan? All I said was that it was pathetic to say any injury of any player in the NFL is "hilarious." For the record, I hope Peters sucks for the Eagles this year, (although I doubt that he will), while Eric Wood and Andy Levitre combine to make the Bills line tougher then it's been in 15 years. I'm especially rooting for Wood, since the Bills drafted him with one of the picks they got from Philly in the Peters' trade. But I don't want the guy to get injured. I don't wish injuries on any NFL players. If that makes me a "fool", then fine by me.

Harrington, because he was a top 5 pick, and Lost-man was a late 1st rounder.

Vick has "paid his debt to society" and deserves another chance to play in the NFL....right? So of course he needs an agent. Plus, some perfectly legal and ethical lawyers defended Vick, and represent Vick in his bankruptcy case, so why should Joel Segal be singled out for representing him as his agent? And Percy Harvin hasn't even signed his first contract in the NFL yet, so who knows what kind of a person he will end up being? In short, I would like to see Joel Segal's entire client list before I call him real trash. Maybin seems to be a young man of very high character, and I'm sure when Overdorf and Segal get him properly "slotted", he will sign a very fair rookie contract and get to work, regardless of whether Segal can ever find a team to give Vick a shot or not.

Did you know that for T.O. to "generate $30 Million for the Bills", they would need to sell an additional 150 luxury suites for $200,000.00 each? The Bills might earn enough residual money to perhaps get their $6.5 Million dollars back for their one year investment if they sell enough jerseys, and if they win conisistently while Owens continues to perform at a high level, they might be able to sell some of their empty premium seats and/or suites on a weekly basis. But $30 Million from T.O. alone? Sorry, not in Buffalo, and not with this young untested O-Line blocking for young Edwards who needs to get the ball to T.O. for anything to happen at all.

I wish the man good health. I never want to see any pro football player get hurt. That said, I could not care less how well or badly Lost-man plays for any other team. I expect him to be picked up after the season is over for Las Vegas, since there will be QB injuries in the NFL by then. And when he does get picked up, I don't care if he plays well, or if he ever plays one down in the NFL again. I cannot ever see Lost-man being a bonified starter in the NFL - ever. Since nobody cares about back-ups until their starters go down a few games, I don't see any reason to talk about him anymore.

Why doesn't the NFL put a firm deadline on all rookie contract signings? The draft is in April, so they could set the deadline date for July 15th of that year. Why not? There are already deadline dates set and kept by both the teams and the players agreed to by the all-powerful players union. Everyone abides by the date of March 1st for being able to sign UFA's. Everyone abides by the last day of being able to make a trade-sometime in October. When a players contract is up, both the player and team abide by that date, knowing when it is and planning for it by either extending it or allowing the player to test the FA waters. In addition, "holding out" by players under contract should be banned by the NFL as well. Just make it a rule. Tell the union to accept it or walk. I cannot imagine too much sympathy for the players if they get pissed off in today's economy. Look at it like this; beginning January 2010, if a player and his agent agree to a contract from a team, they must honor it for as long as the contract is valid. Period. Every contract offers "guaranteed money" in the NFL today. That is enough motivation for the players to play for as long as that contract says they have to. Make the rule state that any player who decides to try and "hold out" moving forward, will not be allowed to play again that season, and he will be liable to pay back the team his entire pay, and the salary of the player that ends up replacing him for the rest of that season. That should end the selfish practice of holding out for good.

It should be good news. Unless Maybin's agent waits until the number 10 and number 12 picks are signed first. I'm not sure the same postition is the only or even the biggest comparison factor these agents and owners use for this absolutely stupid system. I really think the "slotting" is all about what the players just before, just after, and exactly the same from last year's draft get paid.

Chryan Kelsenny - Outstanding! I agree with almost everything. The only thing you cannot expect is for Ellis to make the "appropriate" 2nd year jump, since he was injured for his entire first year, wasn't he?

No wonder Lost-man signed with Las Vegas. They will be nic-named the "Locos". It seems to me this pathetic 4 team experiment was the brain-child of somebody "Mucho Loco"!

Who cares? Training camps have become easier now for about the past 15 years, since the dawning of free agency and the salary cap. Even crazy Coughlin had to change his military type camps before he finally won a SB with his Giants two years ago. Now we have crazy Mike Singletary making his guys run extra sprints when even one player screws up. Fine. Let's see how that works out for him. Today's athletes have made football an 11 month a year job. They may take a month off, but the other 11 they are working out with trainers and each other and nutrionistis. They come into camp basically ready to go. The only thing I might suggest to Fewell, is to have his defense run some extra sprints and work on their conditioning harder going into this particular regular season when the offense plans on using the no-huddle quite a bit. Unless Edwards stands at the line and calls out 6 audibles per play, like Manning, those 3-and-outs using the no-huddle will come a lot quicker then if they were huddling.

'Thurman#1' : Read the article, and I'll also highlight it for you. VJ91: Right! 'Thurman#1' : Could be a worrisome. VJ91: Yeah. 'Thurman#1' : Walker should not be so negative about this? VJ91: Right! VJ91: Hey Thurman#1, now we can write our own article in the D&C. How insightful. Were Roth and Maiorana stone drunk when they put this crap together??

Ok, so you're a cop, or a firefighter, or a truck driver, or maybe even the grim reaper, for all I know. But why don't you track down Kevin Everett and ask him if he thinks he used to risk his life playing football in the NFL? Look, I can't even remember one single NFL football player dying out on the field, so obviously my statement is over-the-top. But my only point is that the Bills suffer more then their share of injuries, season - ending injuries - year in and year out. It sucks, and it is frustrating. I don't take any satisfaction in other teams' players going down with injuries either. It might help the Bills win a game if their opponents key players are injured, and of course I'll take a Bills win any way they can get it. But I don't think its' "hillarious" when it happens, that's for sure.

As Ed McMahon used to say to Johnny on the only Tonight Show that counted; "You are RIGHT sir!" That coldest game in Rich Stadium history was a regular season Raiders game in 1988. It took me a week to warm up after sitting through that one.

Jason Peters got injured, just like Marcus Stroud did during his first stretching excercise of training camp this year. Just like our brand new star rookie safety Byrd did, and nobody even knows how he got hurt. Just like Stevie Johnson did in the third practice of training camp. It is pretty lame and pathetic to get happy about an injury for any player in the NFL. These guys literally risk their lives every time they step on the practice field or game turf. I'm sure there are some idiot Cowboys fans who would love to see T.O. go down with a quad injury too. Talk about a case of sour grapes on roids. Please grow up and wait until at least the end of the season to see if you can celebrate Peters' sucking for the Eagles fair and square, healthy but not being as good as they thought.