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Shawn Jefferson. Believe you're correct about Coleman, though. And yes, by beating the Pats, the Bills would have finished a game ahead of Miami for the top wild-card seed.

He's not impressed with either Miami or the Jets. Says the Bills could make a little noise if "the five strangers on the offensive line" get acquainted with each other, and they find some semblance of a pass rush. Can't beat the receivers, and he also likes their RBs. Also says that much depends on Jauron not having an in-game braincramp. Skeptical about DJ. He'd rather have a guy with fire -- not necessarily Hank Bullough fire, but at least some passion -- and "you can never tell that with Jauron." Good listen. Thank you, gentlemen.

Thanks for that. Think you can also get there through http://www.bradriter.com I also assume Brad will archive this on his site when he gets a chance.

Good story about "Big Ses," Tom Sestak. He was a college TE (who got Bear Bryant's Texas A+M team put on probation for illegally recruiting him, btw); when the Bills switched him to DT, Lou Saban put him up against Billy Shaw every day in practice. According to Larry, former Packers prez/GM Ron Wolf -- who could himself end up enshrined in Canton someday -- says No. 70 absolutely belongs there. On a related note, at last year's Pro Football Researchers Association gathering, I was honored to meet T.J. Troup. A member of the committee that Steve Sabol consulted for the "America's Game" series, he was also the technical advisor for George Clooney's movie "Leatherheads." And when he saw that both KRC and I were sporting Bills gear, the first thing he said to us was, "Big Ses -- one of the greatest players I've ever seen. It's a disgrace that he's not in the Hall of Fame."

That would have led the team last season, ahead of Mitchell's and Denney's 4.0.

Which would make him even LESS likely to file a false report, one would think.

Larry just mentioned it. No number, but Wilson loaned the Pats a significant amount of money. I have a copy of the book; I'll see if it's in there when I get a chance.

Ralph's share of the Raiders was actually close to 30 percent, something Felser discovered while researching his book about the merger, The Birth of the New NFL. More: He says that even veteran Hall voters like Peter King and Rick Gosselin didn't know a lot of the AFL history. Taking calls at 716-783-9325, or e-mail to BRADonWECK (at) gmail.com.

http://lightningstream.surfernetwork.com/M...n%201230%20WECK In studio until 5. Talking about Ralph right now. "The AFL would have gone down the drain" without his contributions, both in signing the new TV deal and bailing out the Raiders and Pats.

We can, and do. Barking up the wrong tree there, Ramius.

We weren't shown very many replays in the stadium, but didn't the guy go to the facemask?

These two replies seem to go together. Coming to the opener, Josef?

This it? http://wjz.com/wireapsportsmd/Bills.unsign....2.1123874.html (Add: I assume you'll insert the actual quote on a writethru?)

No, but he is someone who spent several years as a working journalist. And K-Gun's post violates our TOS: "You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by TBD. " I hadn't seen this until now. I'll take care of it. (Edit: oops, originally quoted the wrong post. My bad, cincy.)

Brandon was in Canton, and I believe he was also at every practice I've attended so far this summer.

I disliked the home-state Steelers long before I became a Bills fan. In fact, I grew up a Raiders fan in large part because they managed to beat Pittsburgh on a regular basis, temporarily shutting up all the bandwagoneers around here. (That, and their cool silver-and-black uniforms.) Didn't even bother walking up to the Lombardi displayed at the Hall yesterday.

Okay, fairer comparison.

You're not seriously comparing an Air Raid QB to a guy who went undrafted because NFL teams still thought a black man couldn't play the position, are you?

Great. Another "reliable source" heard from. Of course, since the Bills were in Pittsford, getting ready to head out to Canton, I'm not quite sure what good a visit to Buffalo would have done Vick anyway.

When Jauron mentioned that it wasn't necessary to practice the huddle, I remembered all the needless delay/procedure penalties the Bills take every season and thought to myself, Are you sure about that?

Since when do you need security screeners to deplane, or to board a connecting domestic flight after you've already gone through the process before the first leg of the trip? Complete bullpucky. I normally use Continental out of Buffalo, and yes, I've been on those ExpressJets. I may need to rethink my choice of airlines.

zzzzzzzzzzz ... wha? Sorry, I must have dozed off for a moment there.

I have a weak spot for big, shiny silver trophies you can drink beer from.

I assume that when John used the word "reporters," he was referring to himself and the others involved in the standard postgame session with Owens. And since they would have been on their way to the locker room, they wouldn't have seen the TV interview.

Yeah, my bad on that.