8-8 Forever?

We may be able to get both Fairley and Mallett, Mallett will fall that far.

He won't be back. the team as much told him that.. not to worry

why?

well that didnt take long.. second quarter and game over already

+1. not going to get there. Pats clinching homefield by pasting the Bills will be all over the TV tonight... depressing to think about it. Bills get national exposure again by being punching bag for Pats. But we can hope....

That hit and bounce off he made in Miami was terrible. Nice hit Donte, must have felt good.. now tackle the guy to the ground. Oooops. Do that this Sunday and its 6 points. Big mistake bringing your gripes out in the open. Evans and Kelsay played it right. Play hard, keep your mouth shut be a good team guy and you get paid. You may not deserve it based on your play, but you will get the cash.

NO way , let him walk. We have plenty of guys waiting to take his place. He is pulling a NateClements on us. Let him either take the 5mil or walk. He's no Reed or Troy P. not even close.

Its all about TV ratings. No one cares about the bills except people from WNY, and that is a very very very small audience. Why spend all the money to broadcast a Bills game when 10 times as many people will watch the Jets or the Cowboys (and the advertising that goes with them)? Answer, you wouldn't . This is simple economics. The NFL is a business, doing sound business. I love the original poster who wants to "gloat" to free agents about WNY via a national TV game. WNY unfortunately has very little to gloat about and is about as irrelevant to the national scene as any city/area in the league. If the NFL started all over again today, Buffalo would be one of the last places a new owner would pay $700m to put a team in. WNYers, just be glad you still have a franchise, no gloating.

I have come to the conclusion the Bills are not moving: 1) Ralph is going to live to be at least 95. Saw him in person a few years ago and he looks great for a guy so old. 2) When Ralph goes, the hurdles to buying the Bills at a premium price and moving them are probably too high; must build a $1B stadium as no municipality can afford to even if they wanted to , must get 3/4 of owners to approve a move; must attract a fan base to a perennial laughingstock (think LA Clippers) team and get them to pay $100 per seat \\ $15/beer to see them play in the new, very expensive stadium. I think the bidding for the Bills post-Ralph will be low relative to what was paid for the Redskins, etc. Just too financially risky to (1) pay a premium price for the privilege to build a $1B stadium and hope to make it work financially and also too risky to (2) pay a premium price for the team and keep them in the Ralph, where ticket prices have to stay among the lowest in the league and the suite and merchandise revenue will stay by definition among the lowest in the league. I think the sale of the Bills will be to a local group at a relatively low price and that will be that. The other owners will have no choice but to approve the sale to a local group at a low-ish price as no credible "buy-and-move-the-team" bidder will likely appear.

They mean absolutely nothing. Lets hope not, but the Bills will in all likelihood be at 25 by Sunday night and 28 by next Sunday night and this will all go away.

We are so going to get blasted by the Pats Sunday. People will unfortunately be brought crashing back to earth. The fans will be calling for Kelsay, Poz, Whitner, and McKelvin's heads by 6pm

Exactly. NFL rock stars, coaches and players alike, avoid WNY like the plague. Crappy place to live and the whole thing gets blown up again when Ralph dies. Too much uncertainty for the best players and coaches, who can go wherever they want. Until long term ownership and team direction is in place, that is the way it will be. This team will be made up of draft choices and 2nd tier free agents for as far as the eye can see. With good drafting, good coaching and good team health, that can be pretty good, as we are seeing the second half of this year. No Super Bowl runs to be sure, but most WNYers are just happy to have a team to tailgate around anyway, so all good. Right?

Ralph has been crystal clear that after his death, his estate will sell the team to the highest bidder. Period. No legal battles, no court fights. His relatives do not want the team. Nice and simple. The party who shows up with the most cash gets the team. No negotiation. Remember, Ralph is gone at that point, his wishes are clear and the trustee of the estate has little leeway. Now, if a buyer wants to move the team, the other owners have to approve it. Plus a new owner must have or have a plan for an NFL calibre stadium. So, if someone wants to move the team, they have hoops to jump through in addition to outbidding everyone else for the team. WNY has a loyal fan base and an existing stadium. Those are plusses. The minuses include the lowest ticket prices in the league, empty or low priced "luxury" suites, old worn out facilities and relative poor merchandise and other sales. So who knows how it will turn out. Maybe New York the Nanny State will come in and pay for the team and cut unemployment benefits and state services to pay for it, or raise the sales tax to 15% to pay for it.

45 -20 Pats. Unless the weather is terrible, then 31 - 17 Pats. We have no answers for what they are good at. Welker, their tight ends + Brady will destroy our 2nd rate LBs and Whitner. this will be as frustrating as it always is. I never even watched the first game. Men among boys.

Yep. Bill B. knows his team has 10 or 15 ways to exploit the weaknesses of the Bills on Sunday. He's just going through the game week motions. Make nice, make nice, crush the opponent, then make nice, make nice. This game will be very hard on the home town fans to watch. Likely a bloodbath of points. Two teams in different leagues. Pats 45, Bills 20 or something similar. Tom Brady is not Jake Delhomme or Chad Henne. He will likely shred the Bills' bad defense like no one has to this point. If he can put up 40+ on the Bears in the worst weather, bad weather at the Ralph on Sunday won't matter either.

Unfortunately, Pats will likely hammer Bills Sunday at the Ralph. Hard to imagine it going any other way, barring an injury to Brady, horrible weather and/or a bunch of turnovers going our way.

Without the Evans deep threat, other teams will shut stevie down eventually. With No speed receievers, you end up with 8 in the box and wonder "what happened to Stevie?" Evans isn't going anywhere soon. Evans deserves a medal for quietly/professionally sticking with this screwed up organization for as long as he has.

This could happen. Bills/Cowboys would have no ratings/national distribution at all if played on Sunday in regular season. So from an advertising/ratings standpoint, forcing an enormous national/international audience to watch the Bills when they otherwise would not would be a no brainer. This could actually happen. And the Bills get to extent their streak of getting killed/embarrassed on National TV, further solidifying the national impression that the Bills and Buffalo are a bunch of losers... just perfect I would rather build this team in obscurity rather than bring them out b4 they are ready.

I for one am very glad we passed on all the QBs in the last draft. They all look like Brady Quinn. Nice guys, try hard, but just don't have it. I've seen plenty of Clausen and he is nothing special. Nice guy, tries hard, just not very good. Tebow, robotic, tries hard, not good enough, period. Bradford's a baller, he's about it. no one else close.

That was a textbook catch he made for the TD. Trailing hand behind the front tip of the ball to control the fastball that it was, the whole bit. Not a lot of guys make that catch. That thing was really pitched in there hard. I think that was Fitz was thinking.. drill it in there because no LB is going to catch it///. Only my guy has the hands to get that ball.

its an NFC problem. the NFC sucks. I don't care. the rules are what they are. The Rams and Cards will be fine next year and win 9-10 games. just let it go for this year as an abberation. the rivalries are very important in the NFL and although the NFC West rivalries are the worst in football, they do exist and need to mean something..

he is like haynesworth.. plays up just before his contract expires. give him a big contract and then watch him play like Nate clements in SF

His best WRs are gone. The O line is a bit messed up. Three division teams in a row. Bills will have a very hard time running the ball in all three games. So, my criteria is this: pass for more than 200 yards per game with no more than 2 INTS across all three games. He does that, he's my guy. Win lose or draw.

exactly.

Agreed. Whitner is like Vincent Jackson, looking to make a big contract but the owners are looking at the CBA and saying, lets wait until we know what the salary cap is and we will go from there. No one is going to pay Whitner what he wants. Bills will have a bottom 5 defense this year. Whitners bargaining power will be very small.