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Cantore? Talk about harbingers of doom. We'll think kind thoughts for your hometown, Joey. Be safe. Live feed: http://www.wwltv.com/video/?nvid=57429&live=yes

Very risky. That's why I picked Kenny Watson in our FFL draft a couple of hours ago.

Not uncommon, and I shouldn't criticize -- after all, I can guarantee that some of the stuff we've printed this summer isn't typo-free. And that paper was put through the Singleton wringer before its recent sale, so there may not be anyone left to proofread the stories ...

Not much to report, I'm afraid. 10 - Dan Darragh, Spike Jones, Leo Hart, Davis Mays, David Humm, Matt Kofler, Mark Miller, Rick Tuten, Alex Van Pelt, Kelly Holcomb A 13th-round selection in the 1968 draft, Darragh was thrown to the wolves after Jack Kemp blew his knee out in a training-camp scrimmage. Career stats (all with Buffalo, 1968-70): 127-296, 42.9 %, 1353 yds, 4 TDs, 22 INTs, 30.4 passer rating. Yikes. Jones was a punter. The next five were all backup QBs in Buffalo (Miller during the 1987 replacement games), with varying -- but minimal -- degrees of success. During his single season here (1972), Hart was the only one of the group ever to start a game for Buffalo, a 35-7 loss to the Colts the week after normal starter Dennis Shaw was knocked cold. (I should probably note here that David Humm does own Super Bowl rings from stints with the first two Raiders championship teams.) Tuten punted for the Bills' first Super Bowl team, but was jettisoned in favor of Chris Mohr. AVP and Holcomb, you should remember ... and they've probably had the most success of anyone wearing the perfect 10.

Like the sentiment, even if the guy could use a good copy editor ...

Bowen was placed on IR on Aug. 7. Don't forget, there are three more openings ...

RB Bruce Hall WR Felton Higgins OL Dustin Dickerson LB Marcus Buggs DL Corey Mace

All right, folks, save the insults and PPP talk for PPP. Thanks.

This, of course, assumes that the team wouldn't offer a package discount if the preseason games weren't included. My Kids' Day tickets weren't discounted. I ended up eating them. Using your logic, that mean my seven regular-season games will now cost me $80 each, instead of the single-game price of $77. But hey, I got my parking coupons. Woohoo.

Seconded.

Correct. Once a player is placed on the active roster on or after the first day of training camp, even if it's just for a single practice, he is no longer eligible for the reserve/PUP list. As for Dwayne Wright, I knew he was doomed as soon as he chose #31. Obscure trivia time: supposedly because the player in the original AFL Bills logo wore number 31, that jersey was never issued during the first nine seasons of the team's existence. Backup running back Preston Ridlehuber was the first to wear it, in 1969. He does have one claim to fame, throwing a game-winning halfback-option touchdown pass to Haven Moses against the Patriots, but he was gone after that year. Ever since then, just two players -- cornerbacks J.D. Williams (1990-92, before switching to #29) and Ray Jackson (1996-98) -- have managed to stay on the roster for more than one season after donning the 31 jersey. Lennox Gordon? Lance Brown? Charlie Rogers? Sammy Morris, who switched to 31 before the 2003 season when Sam Gash came back to reclaim his 33? One-and-done, every one of them. Now, you can apparently add Wright's name to that list. I suppose I probably shouldn't mention the history (Booth Lusteg, the kicker who was beaten up by Bills fans) of the jersey (Vince Ferragamo: 9 games, 5 TD passes, 17 INTs) currently being worn (Cole Ford, last seen shooting at Siegfried and Roy's house) by Trent Edwards ...

Correct. That's where Kenny was at 8 a.m. on Thursday.

Pssst - if you've got a computer with a speaker, they're webcasting it on WECK. Some dude named Riter doing pre/postgames. Or, as Promo mentioned, LVL is now part of the Brad Riter Radio Network ...

Bowling Green 27, No. 25 Pitt 17 Running tally: MAC 1, Big East 0. You were saying?

See you in two weeks ...

With Scott gone and both Saturday and Lilja out, that means a gimpy Manning -- if he's ready for the opener -- will have three new offensive linemen in front of him.

So you scoured the intarwebs looking for data ... but managed to miss a story on the very same site, listed directly underneath the first one in the index. Sure, I believe that. God, I'll be glad when this crusade ends. "Hack retard fan"? You may want to rethink that. Dunne may still be in college (Syracuse J-school), but he's been a working sportswriter for at least four years: Olean Times Herald, May 20, 2005: Contracts mean little these days Of course, Tyler may want to rethink his current position, if he re-reads this column he once wrote for the TH ...

Todd Wade? Really? He might be near the end ... Also, from the Falcons' list, Kynan Forney was their starting right guard for several seasons.

He had the top two rushing seasons in Bengals history -- 361 carries-1,454 yards in '04, 337-1,458 in '05. For the record, Thurman Thomas was the last Bills back to record a 1,450-yard season, in 1992. Last one to do it back-to-back? O.J. Simpson with 1,817 in 1975 and 1,503 in 1976. Did Rudi benefit from the Palmer-to-Johnson connection? Undoubtedly ... but he didn't exactly suck, either. Is he done? Could be. 1,039 carries in three seasons (2004-06) is an awful lot of pounding to take.

That's the way I'm leaning, as well. (Not so much Wright, but keeping that spot open for somebody.) And to expand on VOR's post about Fine, he's correct -- PUP is not an option once the player has participated in training camp.

Might want to hit up Tim's blog for leaguewide cuts: ESPN: NFL Nation

Gonna need one of them on the active roster next Sunday, because otherwise, Royal will be the only healthy TE. No way, nohow the Bills do that.

Holy sh--. is right. Damn. Williams is a great guy, too. Class act -- as mentioned in Jemele's story, he actually served as a Cincy city councilman for a while.

That "article" was an op-ed piece, and it was meant to be part of a point-counterpoint. Interesting that only one side was referenced by the thread starter. Here's the opposing take: http://buf.scout.com/2/772622.html And no, since Buffalo Football Report is a pay-to-play Scout.com site, most of Tyler's stuff doesn't get linked here. That's a shame, because I like his work -- been reading him ever since he started stringing games for the Times Herald in high school.