The Senator

All fine & well - who wouldn't be in favor of dumping non-performers and dead wood, but isn't that what the OTAs, training camp, and preseason was supposed to reveal?

Just imagine the frustration on TBD when the Patriots* draft Ryan Mallett with Oakland's first round pick, then trade him to a team other than the Bills for another half-dozen draft picks.

Please wait until after Sunday before telling me how to act; if we lose to J-Ville, we come back from the bye week 0-5 to face - Baltimore (3-1, atop AFC North) KC Chiefs (3-0, atop AFC West) Chi Bears (3-1, atop NFC Central) Things could get even uglier very quickly - let's see if Chan Gailey 'dresses down' any fans when he's 0-8.

That about says it all. Good luck Marshawn - please don't 'torch us' when we play you guys in 2012.

I look at simply as 'we traded Marshawn Lynch for a 4th round pick, with a conditional 7th round pick that may turn into a 6th rounder. So for our 1st round pick on 2007 - a 24 year old Pro Bowl RB who was the 12th overall pick - we may get, say, a MARCUS EASLEY (currently on IR) IN 2011, ALONG WITH A LEVI BROWN (released outright, then re-signed as 3rd string QB) OR A KYLE CALLOWAY (released outright and gone from professional football) IN 2012. Doesn't seem like all that great a deal, for Buffalo at least. BUT...depending on the 'conditional' triggers, it could turn into LYNCH FOR A MARCUS EASLEY-type AND AN ARTHUR MOATS (injured, played a down or two, now re-injured) OR A DANNY BATTEN (on IR). Now you can maybe begin to see a little of Buddy Nix's genius with this trade, yes? A terrible trade for the Bills, but a good one for the Seahawks and Lynch... Seahawks Acquire Marshawn Lynch in Trade with Bills A Lynch-pin addition There's a nice townhouse available in Sawgrass, if anyone's interested.

I'm glad you pointed out that yours is 'an educated post' - otherwise, no one would have known.

excuse me for what i'm about to do... FOR THE LAST FREAKIN' TIME, THE GUY WAS SIGNED THRU 2011!!!! (actually, thru 2012 - but the last year was a 'voidable' year) (sorry, i'm just so sick and tired of all the, 'it was either trade him, or get nothing when he walks at the end of the season' posts) If our season if basically 'down the drain' - and maybe it is, or maybe Gailey already thinks it is - then I can understand wanting to get draft picks, but we should have gotten more than a 4th for Marshawn Lynch. Good trade for him, though - gets him out of a town that doesn't like him very much and gets him back on the left coast, a bit closer to home. I always liked Marshawn. (Note to all you Lynch-bashers - better keep quiet when he 'lites it up' for the Seahawks.)

Great - maybe Buddy can get another Marcus Easley next April for the Pro Bowl RB and #12 overall pick in the draft 3 years ago This is an absolutely TERRIBLE trade. (And I'm a Nix supporter.) Expect the boo-birds to be out on Sunday (those of you who are out of town and have NFL ticket, that is - game will be blacked out locally).

My recollection is that Marty S.expressly stated that he had no interest in the coaching job with the Bills. Certainly Nix would have a relatioship with him from the Chargers, and Ralph from Marty's days as a Bills linebacker. I think some of the regular TSW whiners are either misinformed, completely uninformed, or trying to rewrite the facts.

"I think that a guy who plays football gets enough attention. It's "a bunch of narcissists that want to sit and type stuff about themselves all the time. We'll put mirrors in some of their lockers if that's necessary but they don't have to Twitter." - Mike Leach

Points 3 & 4 contain a modicum of truth; points 1,2, & 5 are simply sheer, utter ignorance and not worthy of a rebuttal.

If you were a season ticket holder: 1) You'd realize that the security delays getting thru the turnstiles already cut into your viewing time - getting to your seats 2 minutes into the game is doing pretty damned good; 2) You wouldn't suggest stupid empty gestures like this, having paid good money for your seats.

What you said. Agree completely. I like Fitz a lot, and he played a gritty game yesterday - one of the 4 or 5 Bills that showed up - but he also overthrew Evans a couple of times, and his accuracy in general just wasn't that great. I actually had Fitz pegged as our #3 QB behind Brohm and Brown prior to the season. After J-ville (who beat the Colts 31-28 yesterday), Gailey will likely be thinking about putting Brohm in to get a look at what we've got in B2. He'll have 2 two weeks to prepare for B-more, and essentially the comfort of 3 straight road games (Ravens, Chief, then Bears in Toronto) so won't have to worry about a potentially angry (rightly so) Ralph Wilson Stadium crowd. I really didn't realize things were this bad, but hey, we've been thru this before... 'It's always darkest before the dawn...' GO BILLSSS!!!! 15 and 4, we'll lose no more!!!!!

Not to worry - we've seen and heard the last of Ron Mexico... Vick Injured As Eagles Stumble To McNabb, Redskins 17-12 (I believe the great Jason Peters also had another of his stellar, penalty-filled games )

What are their interests? I'll assume they're ambulatory, but won't suggest anything like walking Forest Lawn of climbing to the top of City Hall. If they are at all interested in architecture, Buffalo has a shocking 5 Frank Llyod Wright homes (the most outside of Chicago), as well as a FLW-designed mausoleum at Forest Lawn, and a FLW-boat house that houses the West Side rowing club. The jewel in the crown is - Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House Complex (Jewitt Parkway near the Zoo) The cool thing about the Darwin Martin tour is that you get a lot of Buffalo history - Darwin Martin was president of the Larkin Soap Company, one of the largest mail-order companies in the US in the early 20th century, and one of FLW's most loyal patrons. You learn all about John Larkin (the huge mansions on Lincoln Parkway between Forest Ave and the Delaware Park rose garden were all part of a complex know as 'Lark-Land'), and the young salesman, Darwin Martin, that rose thru the ranks. At Martin's request, Wright also designed the Larkin Building - a visionary corporate HQ office building that was demolished in 1950 to make room for a parking lot ('the mindless destruction of a masterpiece') - which will be discussed on the tour, as well as a summer 'cottage' - for Martin's wife Isabelle... Graycliff ...on the Lake Erie shore in nearby Derby, NY (a gorgeous 30-40 minute drive along the lake from downtown, right down Route 5 and Old Lakeshore Road) - also well worth the trip. Combine those two with the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site... National Park Service - Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural (Delaware Avenue) ...where you're learn all about the Pan American Exhibition of 1901, the assassination of President William McKinley, and stand in the very study where Vice President Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office. TR was one of one of only 5 presidents to be sworn-in somewhere other than Washington DC. (I often wonder how many people pass by The Wilcox Mansion on Delware Ave. every day, without knowing or giving a thought to the tragic and historic events that took place inside it and around it in early September of 1901.) If they do the Wright thing (sorry, bad pun) and the TR site, they'll know more about the history of Buffalo than most folks who've lived here all their lives! And - if they have time for one more and your dad likes old cars - most people don't know that, before Henry Ford pioneered mass production in Detroit, BuffTown was was of the centers of automobile production. The Thomas Motor Company (1900-1919) was the largest producer in the world of single-cylinder air-cooled engines and, in 1908, won the only 'round-the-world' automobile race ever held with their 'Thomas Flyer'... 1908 New York to Paris Race Piece-Arrow was one the the finest hand-built automobiles in the world and had as their factory and headquarters, a humongous facility on Elmwood Ave. near Hertel (still standing). You can learn all about the history of automobile manufacturing in Buffalo (and see some beautiful collectors cars of many makes) at The Buffalo Transportation/Pierce-Arrow Museum (Downtown - Michigan Ave. & Seneca St. - near the ballpark) Don't know if that kind of stuff floats their boat of not - there's also a fair amount of Underground Railroad stuff here in WNY, as this was the last stop before crossing the river to Canada and freedom. But the Wright stuff (another bad pun, sorry) and the car stuff are both really cool.

Huge game in 3 hours, and there are a bunch of knuckleheads on TSW arguing about what QB to draft next April! Looks like a good day to keep the ball on the ground let Freddie, C.J., and Marshawn pound it out, and hopefully Beast Mode will punish a few Jets with his 'weapon of mass destruction'... Time for The Senator to go get wet... GO BILLSSS!!!! PosLUSNYny!!!!!

The Bills might not need a QB - they are still in the process of evaluating Brian Brohm. That aside, if Ryan Mallett's gone when the Bills pick, whomever Buddy Nix chooses (it WON'T be Luck or Locker) is just fine with me... After a successful college football coaching career with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mocs, which included the recruitment of Terrell Owens, Nix was a regional scout under John Butler from 1993 to 2000 for the Buffalo Bills, specializing in the southeast. Nix left Buffalo with John Butler and A. J. Smith after the 2000 season. He was initially the Director of Pro Player Personnel (2000–2001), but after Butler died, Smith was promoted to General Manager, and Nix to Assistant General Manager. Nix's job with the Chargers was to oversee both pro and college scouting and to be one of the main decision makers in each NFL Draft. Nix was a major reason the Chargers turned around from a losing football team to a rebuilt, winning team. In 2004, three players Nix drafted were selected to the 2005 Pro Bowl. In 2005, six players Nix drafted were selected to the 2006 Pro Bowl. In 2006, eleven players Nix drafted were selected to the 2007 Pro Bowl. In 2007, eight players Nix drafted were selected to the 2008 Pro Bowl. The Chargers won four out of the last five AFC West titles with Nix as Assistant GM and Director of Player Personnel, in charge of college scouting and instrumental to the decision making process of their NFL drafts. Nix was hired as a National Scout for the Buffalo Bills on January 26, 2009. He was named General Manager of the Buffalo Bills on December 31, 2009, after Russ Brandon was promoted to CEO. If Brohm doesn't shine, but Nix & Gailey deem Fitz & Brohm at least 'serviceable' in the short term, then they probably continue quietly building a stong o-line (as they're doing now) and wait for Oklahoma's Landry Jones - who absolutely dissected the best pass defense (Texas) in the country yesterday - to come out in 2012 or 2013.

And, in the very beginning, there was... ENIAC With almost twenty thousand vacuum tubes, you could heat the building with it - and today we have more computing power in our cell fones.

Excellent point - and there's is nothing that a little fine wine cannot ameliorate!

And they may very well be the best choice, based on how Brohm plays, at what position the Bills draft, and who's 'on the board' at that time - but I doubt Nix will have your # on speed dial come draft day! I do hope the Bills blow the Jets outa the stadium today - maybe there'll be an opportunity to have Brohm run a series or two.

I'd probably watch a lot more college ball, and root for the NFL teams closest to where I leave - if I live in The BuffTown, then the Browns & the Steelers are my teams. If I lived on the left coast, it'd be the Chargers or 49ers. The ONLY exception to that is if I lived in Boston* - no freakin' way could I EVER root for the Cheatriettes* - it'd have to be whatever team was being coached by... Mike Leach

Nix will get input from multiple scouting and coaching staff, but trust me - unless the decision is made on anything but a players ability to succeed in the NFL, the final decision will be entirely Nix's... After a successful college football coaching career with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mocs, which included the recruitment of Terrell Owens, Nix was a regional scout under John Butler from 1993 to 2000 for the Buffalo Bills, specializing in the southeast. Nix left Buffalo with John Butler and A. J. Smith after the 2000 season. He was initially the Director of Pro Player Personnel (2000–2001), but after Butler died, Smith was promoted to General Manager, and Nix to Assistant General Manager. Nix's job with the Chargers was to oversee both pro and college scouting and to be one of the main decision makers in each NFL Draft. Nix was a major reason the Chargers turned around from a losing football team to a rebuilt, winning team. In 2004, three players Nix drafted were selected to the 2005 Pro Bowl. In 2005, six players Nix drafted were selected to the 2006 Pro Bowl. In 2006, eleven players Nix drafted were selected to the 2007 Pro Bowl. In 2007, eight players Nix drafted were selected to the 2008 Pro Bowl. The Chargers won four out of the last five AFC West titles with Nix as Assistant GM and Director of Player Personnel, in charge of college scouting and instrumental to the decision making process of their NFL drafts. Nix was hired as a National Scout for the Buffalo Bills on January 26, 2009. He was named General Manager of the Buffalo Bills on December 31, 2009, after Russ Brandon was promoted to CEO.

Being drafted.

Buddy Nix won't. He's on record regarding what he looks for in a college QB; at least 3 years experience, 30-35 starts, and lots of BIG game experience. Luck meets none of those criteria. But I'm sure he has a bright future - he's got size, smarts, athleticism, and comes from a great football pedigree. He just needs more experience - and I'm sure he knows that.

He's a junior academically, Promo, but a red-shirt sophomore QB. Tonite was his 13th game at starting QB in the PAC 10, and there are some folks who have pronounced him an NFL HOFer. Personally, I think we should go after that St. Joe's Collegiate Institute junior quarterback Chad Kelly, who threw for two touchdowns and ran for two scores, as SJCI pounded Canisius this weekend, 50-26 - he feels the game, and is gonna be a stud in the NFL (after he finishes high school and college, that is)