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waiting for Easley = waiting for Godot

I spent all of last season moaning over Wanny's ineptitude and wondering "What if...?" We'll find out the "What if" this season, though with a slightly different cast of characters. So far, we've lost more defensive players than we've gained. If Pettine gets more from this D than Wanny - and I expect he will - we'll know Wanny deserves the expletives cast his way.

I wore my Bills gear to a Bills-Dolphins game in Miami - the Bills last playoff win. There were 10,000 or more Bills fans there and we were heckled and booed and flipped off a lot. Great fun! I also wore Bills gear to a couple 49er games where I was mostly ignored. We won one of those games handily and as 49er fans left in disgust in the 4th quarter, I could proudly see more blue in the stands than red.

Mostly agree. Trading down might make sense to the Bills but trading up needs to make sense to someone else. Most draft gurus seem to think the top of the draft class just isn't that special this year. So, generally speaking, teams won't offer a lot to trade up. We need to hope some GM has his heart set on someone still available at #8.

I don't necessarily disagree but here's what scares me. Even first round QBs only have maybe a 50-50 probability of becoming franchise QBs. The odds for QBs - as all positions - fall as you go deeper in the draft. Normally, your best starters are found in the first 3 rounds. We'll take a QB with one of those picks and more than likely pick the wrong one. So one of our top 3 picks will be wasted, leaving us with only two solid (hopefully) picks in the first three rounds. We have more than 2 needs to fill in the draft and the later picks just aren't likely to give us much.

I get where you're coming from, but completing less than a quarter of his 15+ yard passes is scary.

We already got better on D by firing Wanny and hiring Pettine.

At #8, we ought to find a future HOFer or near HOFer. I'd rather get a HOF guard than swing and miss at a QB. I'd rather go with probabilities than position.

+1 Rankings go up and down a lot among the sports media folks as they talk to more scouts and watch more game tape.

Good article for me because I didn't watch a lot of games after seeing the first five. Losing is painful to watch so I started spending most Fall Sundays with the family instead of glued to the TV in anguish. Nice to know Gilmore came on like that.

From Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback... THIS SAYS IT ALL. "Quick comment about Nassib. In Hindi language - Nassib means Luck. Do I need to say more ?" -- Ram, Delhi, India KING: Bills fans, take note. Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130409/brian-banks-atlanta-falcons/#ixzz2Q4l8CCV6

If I was a NFL QB, I'd rather have two short, fast, sneaky WRs who got open than tall WRs who I could 'throw open.' I get why people say we need a big WR who can go get the ball but if we focus on that, we end up picking guys like James Hardy and passing over guys like DeSean Jackson.

Yeah, I agree. What did we get for Lynch? A 4th or 5th rounder? At his age, Freddy would bring even less. And there aren't many 7th rounders who would mean as much to this club as Freddy does.

Forgetting about Walker and the AFC Blog... 3 million guaranteed for Kolb this year plus another 2.5 mil for TJax... Given the possibility of success each of them brings (both at times seemed to flash potential of being better than their historical numbers), the relatively low cost of these guys is a reasonable expense. We can't depend on the draft to produce our starter. If Kolb earns the starting job and is actually productive, he'll make more than the base of 3 mill and that won't be a bad thing. This is a bad year to need a QB. I think OBD did about the best they could do so far. Now let's see who they draft.

I saw on the Howard University Athletics Facebook site that someone posted something like "We need to stop using the Buffalo Bills logo" but that doesn't prove anything either. I couldn't find a Howard Charging Bison photo prior to 2002 but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I suppose there's the possibility that Howard U and Stevens Wright both independently came up with similar logos. But they are so similar, that would be hard to believe. So for now I believe Ralph purchased a design that originated from the hand of Stevens Wright. What Wright's inspiration was, we may never know. Sorry Beerball.

Because it's not true.

This photo of the 1996 Howard U football team shows a very, very different logo on the helmets. #32 is Aray Williams of Howard. http://www.washingto...ry.html#photo=4 It seems the Wright family was telling the truth after all. My condolences to Stevens Wright.

I always thought Sonny Sixkiller was a great name for a QB. Naturally, he wore #6.

As far as I can find on the internet, they've been using it only since 2002. Before that was an entirely different logo - though still a bison. If Ralph stole the logo from Howard, then shame on Ralph. But I can't see any evidence of that and am inclined to believe the family in California that says their dad designed the logo for Buffalo.

I think it was '75 when the Fergy/OJ offense was really rolling. Averaged 30 points per game that season. Compares well with the Super Bowl Bills offenses.

According to different sources, Howard adopted the charging bison logo only in 2002. Before that, according to a fan comment on another site: "They used to have a great logo, which was a blue buffalo head dressed in cavalry gear." (http://www.sportslog...logos/view/6899) My guess is that the article cited in the first place is correct and that some guy from CA designed the charging buffalo for us back in 1974. Then Howard, already nicknamed the Bisons, decided to copy the design to update their old logo.

The Howard logo was designed in 2002. http://www.sportslog...1/Howard_Bison/ http://www.sportslogos.net/logos/view/6899 Not sure what it looked like before that.

I'll let someone else look up the stats but here's my recollection. At first, I viewed him as a good caretaker QB who was eminently qualified to hand the ball to OJ. But as Fergy's skills matured over the years, he became an above-average QB who could win a game or two with his arm.

If Kolb is made of glass, TJax will come in and we'll be no worse than when Fitz was here. This is assuming we keep 3 QBs (Kolb, Jackson, Rookie). I'm not expecting miracles from Kolb - Philly and Arizona expected great things from him only to be disappointed. But I am happier with our QBs this year than last. Fitz doomed us to mediocrity. At least now there's some hope.

I think this is good, not bad for Buffalo. Only one university in the state will be named for the state - New York University. And it won't be in New York City or anywhere else. It will be in Buffalo. Seems to me like a coup for Buffalo.