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He didn't produce when healthy for Tampa Bay. The Bills front office would have been burnt to the ground if Bowers had that sort of production in a Bills uniform. Where the Bucs picked him....it's less of a tragedy.

Love the idea, hate the theoretical execution of the idea. One year wonders in the Big Ten from a mediocre program in a top ten draft pick....we've seen that movie before. Outside of Aaron Maybin, Mercilus reminds me a lot of the hype surrounding Bowers last year. He finished his rookie season with 25 tackles, 1.5 sacks. Now, that may be alright where the Bucs picked him, but at one time, Bowers was being discussed as a Top 5 pick. Bills need a plug and play defensive player with an established record of production.

I don't think you can cater to everyone....that's why the vote by the public works. I have no idea who they were catering to with Madonna and a menagerie of modern acts that really didn't fit well together. To really make it awkward, they should have brought Toby Keith down from the rafters and Tone Loc from a seat in the crowd, to the background music of whoever's left of KC and the Sunshine Band. If you are going to start a grease fire, be glorious. Don't do it halfway as you did the last two years, NFL.

Get rid of the Pro Bowl and replace it with a 32 team bracket of "fan" team playoff games. Each NFL team picks 11 fans (through tryout and by season ticket holders or some litmus test) to play flag football. Rules being you can't have played any college or pro ball or moonlighting in some forgotten Arena league. Just your average, marginally in shape guys that are fans of the game. Coached by NFL coaches and or players of the select team, i.e the Buffalo fans are coached by Bills players or coaches. Each game would have open betting. Winning bets go to the charity of team choice. If you're a good team, your charity would be making a lot of money as you climb the brackets. Winning fan team gets free Super Bowl tickets, winning NFL coaches/players get some cash. Winning "conference" team gets the coin toss in the Super Bowl.

In the case of the Bills, what would Orchard Park do with an empty stadium and acres of stadium parking? Would they ever realistically find a use for the site absent a cost prohibitive demolition of the stadium? The way I see it, should the Bills leave in theory, the state would end up pumping untold millions right back to OP and the County to do something with the underutilized site. It's akin to the difficulty of trying to develop an abandoned military base.

The Bills had their shots in the 4th quarter of that Jacksonville game. The MSM was just a sudden, devastating ending to a football game post SB years like I hadn't seen before or since that fateful day.

Music City Miracle was a shotgun blast to the chest. I don't even remember that Jacksonville game.

Good point.

I wish they'd let the public vote on the halftime show. NFL gives 10 or so acts to choose from in a bracket format. Public votes. Boom. A show the majority wants to watch.

I think the Super Bowl proved that what we saw last night was the beginning of the end for the Patriots empire. With a lot to do in free agency, age, a slew of unspectacular drafts and a bunch of AFC teams getting stronger, the Patriots will struggle to get back to the big game.

Its existence is probably tied to the CBA.

He has a point about the rookie experience. That was invaluable and couldn't have gone better considering the lockout took away a bunch of prep and practice time. Give them a full camp and these guys will be even better. I also agree that Wannstedt as DC probably adds a win or two. Replacing Edwards made the offseason a win already in my eyes.

Haha at the Chris Doleman vote. Nobody outside Vikings football would remember him. A good player on a lot of eh Vikings teams. Kevin Greene had a better career.

Goes to show the utter lack of trust in Thigpen by the coaching staff.

Pass rusher or not. It still came down to the kicker.

The NFL doesn't need 34 teams. Hell, you could cut a couple and have an even better league. Same goes for the NBA, NHL and especially MLB. Too many teams as it is.

I live in the "Lehigh Valley" which includes the Bangor School District where this teacher was previously employed. This teacher, is the latest in a line of female child predators locally. They just sentenced another female teacher to five years in state prison for having sex with a 17 year old on prom night. The defense tried using the fact that said minor was only a week shy of his 18th birthday and "it only happened once". I don't know about other states, but judges in Pennsylvania are starting to give equally harsh sentences to female teachers that commit these crimes. They get pretty significant jail time and a Megans Law listing.

Tom Brady best watch it. He's setting himself up for the last two years of his career in a Bills uniform and forever subjected to the NFL Films shows about NFL legends who finished their career with "other" teams. And those two years will have record snowfall for nearly all home games. Beginning as early as it possibly could. Of course those two Bills teams will not only make the Super Bowl but win it, forever casting Brady in a Bills uniform and not in a Patriots uniform. That'd be pretty ironically awesome.

...and that's why I think he won't do it. He jeopardizes his future career in broadcasting, television and/or coaching by running off and playing for another team. If I'm Manning I retire and make more money doing what I was born to do. Commercials and SNL. The man is hilarious.

I don't think New Orleans will let him go either unless they run into some serious money issues with resigning Brees and Sedrick Ellis and doing something with Carl Nicks. They also in theory would be in the hunt for big names to help out the defense so they don't have endless amount of money to spend.

I give credit to Gailey, Wannstedt and Nix for adjusting to the personnel they got and what's out there in the draft and free agency. I thought the 3-4 was the way to go. It wasn't. Glad they stopped doing what they weren't doing well.

I would like a team to go undefeated before all the 1972 Dolphins players pass away so they can STHU. Further, I hope the team that does it isn't a "classic" powerhouse. It's just lightning in a bottle, one of a kind season that comes out of nowhere.

Thatcher is a former Pitt Panther that played for DW.

Humans are the most lethal killing machines on the planet. We even beat the Predator.

The Pro Bowl is an embarrassment. I think the entire Super Bowl week is overdone. Just get on with it. This year's halftime show is going to be dreadful.