Wing Man

Conti gets sex change from Jackson.

Game ball: Doug Marrone, Manuel, Woods, Kyle Williams, Graham, Overcame all the criticism and pressure and won a huge road game against a strong offense. Just when it looked like the team was exploding, they go out and pull a W. EJ played within himself and made some nice throws downfield as well. Williams and Graham were animals on D.

This makes little sense to me. At least sign him to the practice team but don't expect him to stick around with his talent.

Wk 1 SEP 7 at Chicago L Wk 2 SEP 14 MIAMI W Wk 3 SEP 21 SAN DIEGO W Wk 4 SEP 28 at Houston W Wk 5 OCT 5 at Detroit L Wk 6 OCT 12 NEW ENGLAND L Wk 7 OCT 19 MINNESOTA W Wk 8 OCT 26 at New York Jets L Wk 9 Bye Wk 10 NOV 9 KANSAS CITY L Wk 11 NOV 13 at Miami W Wk 12 NOV 23 NEW YORK JETS W Wk 13 NOV 30 CLEVELAND W Wk 14 DEC 7 at Denver L Wk 15 DEC 14 GREEN BAY W Wk 16 DEC 21 at Oakland W Wk 17 DEC 28 at New England W 10-6, 2d in division, Wild Card

Presbyterian bounce pass to Jackson, pass to Watkins for the TD.

Looks well thought out. The Pats draft was unimpressive. At some point you expect them to bust apart but Brady keeps playing them back into games. +1

The move took me a bit by surprise at the time but after seeing the analytics it was a smart decision.

It's a novel idea but a stupid one. Buffalo is 294mi from NYC as the crow flies. New York businesses gain nothing from marketing to Buffalo and the aforementioned Buffalo Bills of New York is as loopy as anything I've ever heard. There are a hundred ways to grow a company's valuation, this isn't even on the list.

While I prefer the red, the blue is pretty fantastic too. The white is cool from a throwback perspective, but this is the NFL and coolness factor counts. Look at the Browns helmet and tell me that it's cool.

I really like Olbermann and we haven't exactly provided much material to deflect that sort of cynicism in the past 15 years.

He's fired...

We are taught from youth to embrace the consumption driven society. We are ill prepared for wealth as there are no courses you take in high school to prepare one for success. Nationwide, we are plagued with millions with 401k's that are unsatisfactorily filled to meet the demands of retirement. As a part of this consumption lifestyle, certain expectations that are drilled into young college players preparing for the pro game, and also to the rest of us who are exposed suddenly to great wealth. These same expectations lead to rapid ruin and the appearance of irresponsibility and recklessness but is an outgrowth of societal norms run amuck. These include, in no particular order: 1. Every pro player requires a fast car and a big mansion that may create car and mortgage payments that cannot be met once the player's career is over. Even with a college degree, most everyone is incapable of starting a career that will rival the money they receive from a pro football career. But, they've been handed everything else in their lives up until now due to football, why would that change? 2. Pro players are expected to be the life of a never ending party. As they are the person in the group of friends and entourage with the money capable of keeping up with this lifestyle, it is almost always their treat. 3. What money they do invest is at higher risk. Half of all doctors, for example have their investment portfolio balance zeroed out at some point in their lifetime by reckless financial advisors. 4. Players who grew up in poverty are expected to purchase houses and amenities for their families. This is a drag on their wealth. 5. Anyone coming into the league fresh from college suffers from what we all suffer from at that age: a sense of invincibility. They know the stars in the league like every one of us and expect to follow their success playing for six to twelve years and amassing a king's ransom for it. Careers cut short by injury or incapacity to cut it in the NFL are inconceivable to the young mind. The difference between contract money and guaranteed money is lost on them. They expect to be on the gravy train indefinitely. They're kids, they're young, they're naive, they don't understand the value of a dollar, and they only know the societal expectations of being rich. I once had a niece who when she was young told me she wanted to be a millionaire when she grew up so she could buy anything she wanted. I reminded her that to be a millionaire, she had to save one million dollars. She was less enthusiastic at that moment.

+1

Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Coach Chuck Noll died Friday night at the age of 82. He won four Super Bowl rings for the Rooney family in the 1970s. He was a brilliant game strategist and tactician and brought championship football to a small market town much like Marv Levy did for Buffalo.

1. Having the Toronto Blue Jays and the now defunct Montreal Expos in baseball did nothing to affect baseball's monopoly status. No impact. 2. The NFL owners, for all their talk about being against a move from Buffalo, had no difficulty with leaving the football mad Cleveland Browns fans in the dust so long as they got their moving fee millions from Art Modell. The owners talk a good game but it's all about the money. No wonder they liked Bon Jovi. 3. I'm conflicted with Trump. He's one of the best hopes for Buffalo to remain in WNY. But at what point will he make additional demands to the city, county, and state or he'll move the team? He's a shrewd negotiator and the team will be instant leverage. You could probably say that about any owner taking over the Bills, but the risk seems higher with Trump. 4. This may be the real issue. There are a lot of luxury boxes already at the Ralph and it's hard for demand to keep up with supply here. Having more of them at a steeper price in a new stadium may be really tough to fill. 5. The Toronto idea may be dead. The Canadian government doesn't go out of its way to support greedy owners who come to them hat in hand looking for free financial assistance to build stadiums. Across the border, politicians are quick to hand out vast sums for these projects. If you're someone looking to move the team to Canada, you are likely looking at an additional $750M to $1B for a new stadium in addition to those pesky moving fees to all of the other owners. You could likely make an argument that the increase in the team's valuation would rise from the move to Toronto, but it's a future value computation with all of the costs up front. That would leave virtually any large TV market in the US (San Antonio, Las Vegas, Los Angeles) and London (Wembley Stadium) as likely alternatives. If Jacksonville were to move out to LA, it wouldn't be a sure thing that we wouldn't move somewhere as well.

tie: Schwartz/Watkins

Trent Edwards finished third overall in the NFL in QB rating his final season with the Bills. Quod erat demonstratum.

Rich/Ralph Wilson Stadium Carrier Dome Nile Kinnick Stadium (Ohio State v. Iowa) Comiskey Park (Brewers v. White Sox, Royals v. White Sox) Atlanta Fulton County Stadium (Braves) - 2 different NLCS Game 6 v. St. Louis Turner Field Chase Field (Arizona Diamondbacks) US Air Arena (Phoenix Suns) Watkins Glen - Indy Racing Rochester War Memorial/Blue Cross Arena - Hockey, Boxing, St. Bonaventure Basketball Reilly Center (St. Bona) Silver Stadium - Rochester Red Wings Frontier Field - Rochester Red Wings/Rhinos Holleder Stadium - Rochester Lancers (NASL) - last game ever v. Washington Darts Rochester Dome Arena - Boxing (Michalerya v Fratto - near riot), Rochester Zeniths Basketball Syracuse War Memorial - Boxing, WBA Light-Middleweight Championship Fight (Fratto v. Mihara)

They better start writing resumes when the L reaches 8.

I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the media, but in this case, I'm all in. Winning solves these problems, but the ESPN's crack smokers, and this year in particular, CBSSports, have it in for Buffalo and every move they make. Sammy Watkins' career is forever tainted by being selected by the Bills and his failure will be a powerful object lesson in how not to be drafted by a NFL team. For God's sake, don't be great in college because Buffalo could select you and it will somehow be a quick path to football oblivion. No one is aware that there is a franchise in Buffalo to begin with, aren't they some sort of arena league team? So when a college player is stunned to learn they have been selected in the draft by an NFL team that has been in the league since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, earlier than the Bucs, Panthers, Jaguars, Texans, Ravens (moved from Cleveland), Colts (moved from Baltimore), Rams (moved from LA), Cardinals (moved from St. Louis), Titans (moved from Houston), the second coming of the Cleveland Browns, and the DEFENDING SUPER BOWL CHAMPION Seahawks, well it's time to break out the crying towels. And the seventh angel will descend in the form of Mel Kiper and execute his wrath upon all Western New York, and there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. An under appreciated and rabid fan base will inexplicably be draped in sackcloth and ashes. All will bow down to Kiper and McShay and despair. We drafted a Hall of Fame running back the last year we didn't have a first or fourth round pick in the draft. Cornelius Bennett was the second overall pick in the 1987 NFL Draft by the Indianapolis Colts. He never played a down for them and was dealt to the Bills for Greg Bell (to the LA Rams), two first round draft picks and a second rounder in 1988. This supremely expensive three way trade including the LA Rams (the Rams sent fumble machine Eric Dickerson to the Colts as part of the deal) was manufactured by nobody GM Bill Polian. Bennett played in five Super Bowls, four with the Bills and one with Atlanta. That was a genius trade then but would be classified as an insane exchange today. How do you give away the store for a player that isn't a quarterback? What do you do the next year without a first round pick? Gee, I don't know, how about draft Thurman Thomas? The Bills would surely be crippled for a decade by a deal like that. Nevermind the four Super Bowls, that's got to be the worst trade ever followed by the worst draft ever because Bills. Watkins has every bit as much, if not more potential as Biscuit did then. They are clearly setup for major improvements along the offensive line and stole a terrific DB in Ross Cochrane. The Whaley-Marrone strategy looks to be molding together. Will it work? Who can say. But it's going to be a whole lot more interesting than drafting Odell Beckham, Jr. or Eric Ebron and trying to stop Sammy Watkins when we play the Lions this year. Hey ESPN, CBS, bite me.

He's waiting for a real offer from a team out there which doesn't seem to be forthcoming. It would be great to have him back and perhaps at a discount as well.

Delete.

Everything depends on everything. But it's Whaley's butt on the line. Go bold or go home.

nevergiveup in disguise!